Batten (surname)
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People named Batten include:
- Adrian BattenAdrian BattenAdrian Batten was an English organist and Anglican church composer. He was active during an important period of English church music, between the Reformation and the Civil War in the 1640s. During this period the liturgical music of the first generations of Anglicans began to diverge significantly...
, English (Anglican) composer. - Ann BattenAnn Batten-Member of Parliament:She was an MP from 1996 to 1999. She was elected to Parliament in the 1996 elections as a New Zealand First list MP. In 1998, when New Zealand First splintered, Batten was one of the eight MPs who left the party. She eventually joined with four other MPs to form the Mauri...
, New Zealand politician. - Billy BattenBilly BattenWilliam "Billy" Batten, was an English rugby league footballer of the early 20th century. He played at , and for Great Britain, England, Hunslet, and Hull, and was one of the new game's first superstars...
, English rugby league footballer. - Charles Lynn BattenCharles Lynn BattenCharles Lynn Batten is an American literary critic and a professor in the department of English at the University of California, Los Angeles. He has won numerous teaching awards throughout his career at UCLA, including the Distinguished Teaching Award in 1981...
, an associate professor at University of California, Los Angeles. - Chris Batten, bassist and a vocalist for the English post-hardcore band Enter Shikari.
- Cyia BattenCyia BattenCyia Batten is an American dancer, model and film/television actress as well as former Pussycat Dolls dance troupe. She has worked as a professional dancer all over the world for various projects including The Pussycat Dolls and Carmen Electra, Teatro Comunale di Firenze and others.She has had...
, an American dancer and actor. - Frank BattenFrank BattenFrank Batten was the founder of the first nationwide, 24-hour cable weather channel, The Weather Channel...
, namesake of the Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy. - Frederick BattenFrederick BattenFrederick Eustace Batten was an English neurologist and pediatrician who has been referred to as the "father of pediatric neurology"....
, an English neurologist and pediatrician. - George BattenGeorge BattenGeorge Batten was a former Ayer employee who opened the George Batten Newspaper Advertising Agency on Park Row in New York City in 1891. Fiercely religious and humorless, he endeavored to make his advertisements 100% accurate...
, a Newspaper Advertising Agency proprietor. - George Burnett BattenGeorge Batten (baseball)George Burnett Batten was an infielder in Major League Baseball.-External links:...
, a baseball player. - Gerard BattenGerard BattenGerard Joseph Batten is a Member of the European Parliament for London for the United Kingdom Independence Party . He was first elected in 2004. He sits as a member of the Independence and Democracy Group....
, member of the European Parliament. - Guin BattenGuin BattenGuin Batten is a British rower . She at the 2000 Summer Olympics in the quadruple scull with her elder sister Miriam Batten, Gillian Lindsay and Katherine Grainger....
, rowing champion, younger sister of Miriam. - James BattenJames BattenJames Knox Batten was an American journalist and publisher. He was chief executive officer of Knight-Ridder publishing. A native of Suffolk, Virginia, he studied chemistry and biology at Davidson College and began working as a journalist for the Charlotte Observer in 1957. He joined...
, chief executive officer of Knight-Ridder publishing. - Jean BattenJean BattenJean Gardner Batten CBE OSC was a New Zealand aviatrix. Born in Rotorua, she became the best-known New Zealander of the 1930s, internationally, by taking a number of record-breaking solo flights across the world....
, was a New Zealand aviator. - John BattenJohn BattenJohn Maxwell Batten was a rugby union fullback who played club rugby for Cambridge University and international rugby for England.-Personal life:...
, English international rugby union player . - John Dickson BattenJohn Dickson BattenJohn Dickson Batten was a British painter of figures in oils, tempera and fresco and a book illustrator and print maker. He was born in Plymouth, Devon. He was an active member of the Society of Painters in Tempera, with his wife Mary Batten, a gilder...
, painter and book illustrator - John H. Batten, see John H. Batten AirportJohn H. Batten AirportJohn H. Batten Airport , also known as Batten International Airport, is a public use airport located two miles northwest of the central business district of Racine, a city in Racine County, Wisconsin, United States. It is privately owned by the Racine Commercial Airport Corporation...
- Jennifer BattenJennifer BattenJennifer Batten is an American guitarist, who has worked as both a session musician and solo artist. She has released three studio albums: her 1992 debut, Above Below and Beyond, was produced by former Stevie Wonder guitarist Michael Sembello. In 1997, she released the worldbeat-influenced Jennifer...
, a guitarist and author. - Joseph BattenJoseph BattenThe Reverend Joseph Hallett Batten DD FRS was principal of the East India Company College....
, English academic administrator. - Karen-Lee BattenKaren-Lee BattenKaren-Lee Batten is a country music singer from British Columbia. She is a three time winner of the BCCMA's "Female Vocalist of the Year" award , and she was also a top 10 finalist in the first season of Canadian Idol.-Canadian Idol:...
, a country music singer. - Kim BattenKim BattenKim Batten is a retired female American 400 meter hurdles champion. She was the 1995 world record holder in the women's 400-meter hurdles....
, retired female American champion hurdler. - Miriam BattenMiriam BattenMiriam Batten is a British rower. She won silver at the 2000 Summer Olympics in the quadruple scull with her younger sister Guin Batten and gold at the 1998 World Rowing Championships in the double scull with Gillian Lindsay....
, winner of gold at the 1998 World Rowing Championships. - Norman BattenNorman BattenNorman Batten was an American racecar driver active in the 1920s. He and fellow driver Earl Devore were lost at sea while sailing aboard the SS Vestris.-Indy 500 results:...
, an American racecar driver. - Peter Batten, British actor and voice-actor.
- Ray BattenRay BattenRay Batten is an English former professional rugby league footballer of the 1960s and '70s, and coach of the 1980s who at representative level has played for Great Britain, and England, and at club level for Leeds, playing at /, i.e...
, English rugby league footballer - Shawn BattenShawn BattenSusan Shawn Batten is an U.S.actress most notably recognized from her role as the second Sara Cummings in NBC's soap opera Sunset Beach and Natalia Carlisle on Spyder Games ....
, an American soap opera actress. - Susan BattenSusan BattenSusan Batten is an American soap opera actress, best known for her role as Luna Moody Holden on One Life to Live, a role she originally played from 1991 to 1995....
, American soap opera actress. - William BattenWilliam BattenSir William Batten was an English naval officer and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1661 to 1667.Batten was the son of Andrew Batten, master in the Royal Navy. In 1625 he was stated to be one of the commanders of two ships sent on a whaling voyage to Spitsbergen by the Yarmouth...
, a British sailor, son of Andrew Batten, a master in the Royal Navy.