Beckwith
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Beckwith may refer to
- Beckwith, OntarioBeckwith, OntarioBeckwith is a township in eastern Ontario, Canada, in the County of Lanark on the Mississippi River. It is located within Canada's National Capital Region.-Communities:...
– township in eastern Ontario, Canada - Beckwith, California, former name of Beckwourth, CaliforniaBeckwourth, CaliforniaBeckwourth is a census-designated place in Plumas County, California, United States. Beckwourth is located on the Middle Fork Feather River east of Portola...
- Alan BeckwithAlan BeckwithAlan Beckwith is an American actor born in Tyrone, Pennsylvania on January 2, 1952. Graduated from high school in 1969 & Penn State University in 1972 with a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering. Service in the United States Air Force and the United States Marine Corps. A 1972 graduate of Officer...
, American actor - Byron De La BeckwithByron De La BeckwithByron De La Beckwith, Jr. was an American white supremacist and Klansman from Greenwood, Mississippi who was convicted in the 1994 state trial of assassinating the civil rights leader Medgar Evers on June 12, 1963....
, murderer of Medgar Evers - Charles Alvin Beckwith – Colonel Charles Alvin Beckwith (22 January 1929 – 13 June 1994), career U.S. soldier
- Christopher BeckwithChristopher BeckwithChristopher I. Beckwith is a professor of Central Eurasian Studies at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana.He received his Ph.D. degree from Indiana University in Uralic and Altaic Studies ....
, American Linguist and Historian. Professor of Central Eurasian Studies at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. - Francis J. BeckwithFrancis J. BeckwithFrancis J. "Frank" Beckwith is an American Christian philosopher, scholar, debater, and lecturer. Beckwith advocates in the areas of social ethics, legal philosophy, philosophy of religion, intelligent design and the Christian countercult movement. Currently, he is the associate director of the J.M...
, legal scholar - Holmes BeckwithHolmes BeckwithHolmes Beckwith was an American political scientist and professor of finance and insurance at several universities. He shot and killed Dean J. Herman Wharton and himself at Syracuse University on April 2, 1921.-Education and early employment:...
, American political scientist - James Carroll BeckwithJames Carroll BeckwithJames Carroll Beckwith was an American landscape, portrait and genre painter whose Impressionist style led to his recognition in the late nineteenth century as a prominent figure in American art.-Biography:...
(1852 - 1917), American portrait painter. - James Roswell Beckwith (attorney), US Attorney in New Orleans, prosecuted perpetrators of the Colfax MassacreColfax massacreThe Colfax massacre or Colfax Riot occurred on Easter Sunday, April 13, 1873, in Colfax, Louisiana, the seat of Grant Parish, during Reconstruction, when white militia attacked freedmen at the Colfax courthouse...
(1873) - James BeckwourthJames BeckwourthJames Pierson Beckwourth was an American mountain man, fur trader, and explorer. An African American mulatto born into slavery in Virginia, he later moved to the American West. As a fur trapper, he lived with the Crow for years...
, born as James P. Beckwith (1800−1866), trapper, Indian chief, fur trader, scout - Lillian BeckwithLillian BeckwithLillian Comber, author was born in Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, England, and wrote under the name Lillian Beckwith. Her most notable works are a series of semi-autobiographical books that chronicle her years living in Elgol, Isle of Skye, and later on the nearby and smaller Isle of Soay...
, English author - Michael BeckwithMichael BeckwithMichael Beckwith is a New Thought minister, author, and founder of the Agape International Spiritual Center in Culver City, California, a New Thought church with a congregation estimated in excess of 8,000 members...
, New Thought minister - Reginald BeckwithReginald BeckwithReginald Beckwith was a British film and television actor, who made almost one hundred film and television appearances in his career.-Filmography:* Freedom Radio * Scott of the Antarctic...
, English actor - Steven Beckwith, US astronomer, head of the institute that runs the hubble telescope
- Tamara BeckwithTamara BeckwithTamara Beckwith is an English socialite, noted for her coverage in glossy celebrity magazines such as OK! and Hello! magazine.-Early life:...
, English socialite