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In Canada:- Billings, OntarioBillings, OntarioBillings is a township in the Canadian province of Ontario, as well as the name of a community within that township.Located in the Manitoulin District, the township had a population of 539 in the Canada 2006 Census.-Communities:...
In Germany:
- Billings, HesseBillings, HesseBillings is a village located south of Frankfurt am Main in the southern part of the German state of Hesse. It has been incorporated into the municipality of Fischbachtal in the district of Darmstadt-Dieburg.-Sister cities:Billings, Montana United States...
In Russia:
- Billings, Russia
In the United States:
- Billings, MontanaBillings, MontanaBillings is the largest city in the U.S. state of Montana, and is the principal city of the Billings Metropolitan Area, the largest metropolitan area in over...
- Billings, MissouriBillings, MissouriBillings is a city in Christian County, Missouri, United States. The population was 1,143 at the 2009 census. It is part of the Springfield, Missouri Metropolitan Statistical Area.-Geography:Billings is located at ....
- Billings, New York
- Billings, OklahomaBillings, OklahomaBillings is a town in Noble County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 436 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Billings is located at .According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , all of it land.-Demographics:...
- Billings County, North DakotaBillings County, North Dakota-National protected areas:* Little Missouri National Grassland * Theodore Roosevelt National Park -Demographics:As of the census of 2000, there were 888 people, 366 households, and 255 families residing in the county. The population density was 0.79 people per square mile . There were 529 housing...
- Billings Township, MichiganBillings Township, MichiganBillings Township is a civil township of Gladwin County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2000 census, the township population was 2,715.-Communities:...
People
- Billings Learned Hand (1872–1961), an American judge
- Alan BillingsAlan BillingsCanon Dr Alan Billings is a member of the Youth Justice Board and is a retired Anglican priest. Alan Billings is also the director of the Centre for Ethics and Religion at Lancaster University. He contributes regularly to the programme Thought for the Day on BBC Radio 4. Active in local government,...
, Church of England priest - Alexandra BillingsAlexandra BillingsAlexandra Scott Billings is an American transgender actress. She is the first trans woman to have played a transgender character on television.- Early life :...
(b. 1962), an American transsexual actress - Amanda BillingsAmanda BillingsAmanda Billings is a Canadian figure skater, belonging to Canada's National Team. She had been expected to contend for the 2006 Winter Olympics, but an injury on December 21, 2005 prevented her doing so....
(b. 1986), Canadian figure skater - Braddish BillingsBraddish BillingsBraddish Billings was an early settler in the Ottawa area.He was born in Ware, Massachusetts in 1783, but moved to the Brockville area with his family when he was 9. He later worked cutting down the white pine along the Ottawa River and transporting the logs down river...
(1783-1864), an early settler in the Ottawa, Canada area - Charles E. BillingsCharles E. BillingsCharles Ethan Billings was an American inventor.He was born in Weathersfield, Vermont, the son of Ethan F. and Clarissa M. Billings...
(1835–1920), an American inventor - Dave BillingsDave BillingsDave Billings is a former selector for the Dublin senior football team. He works under the management of Paul Caffrey along with his co-selectors Brian Talty and Paul Clarke. Dave was previously a co-selector along with Paul Caffrey and Paddy Canning when Tommy Lyons was manager of the Dublin...
, selector for the Dublin senior football team - Dick BillingsDick BillingsRichard Arlin Billings is a former American professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball as a catcher, outfielder and third baseman for the Washington Senators/Texas Rangers and St...
(b. 1942), professional baseball player - Dwight BillingsDwight BillingsWilliam Dwight Billings was an American ecologist. Billings was one of the foundational figures in the field of physiological ecology and made major contributions to desert and arctic ecology.Billings served as President of the Ecological Society of America from 1978 to 1979...
(1910-1997), an American ecologist - Earl BillingsEarl BillingsEarl William Billings is an American character actor who may best be known as Rob in the 1976-1977 television series What's Happening!!.-Life and career:Billings was born in Cleveland, Ohio, the son of Willie Mae Billings....
(b. 1945), American actor - Elkanah BillingsElkanah BillingsElkanah Billings is often referred to as Canada's first paleontologist. Billings was born on a farm by the Rideau River outside Bytown, now known as Billings Estate. His parents were named Lamira and Braddish Billings. His family included an older sister named Sabra and an older brother Braddish II...
(1820-1876), Canadian paleontologist - Eric and Brandon Billings (b. 1929) twin American child actors
- Franklin S. BillingsFranklin S. BillingsFranklin Swift Billings was an American politician from Woodstock, Vermont. He served as the 60th Governor of Vermont from 1925 to 1927 and as the 52nd Lieutenant Governor of Vermont from 1923–1925. His parents were Franklin Noble Billings and Nancy Swift Billings. His son, Franklin S....
(1862–1935), an American politician from Woodstock, Vermont, Governor of Vermont (1925-1927) - Franklin S. Billings Jr. (born June 5, 1922), a retired US Federal Judge from Woodstock, Vermont
- Frederick H. BillingsFrederick H. BillingsFrederick Billings was an American lawyer and financier. From 1879 to 1881 he was President of the Northern Pacific Railway....
(1823–1890), an American lawyer and financier from Woodstock, Vermont - Henry Billings BrownHenry Billings BrownHenry Billings Brown was an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from January 5, 1891, to May 28, 1906. He was the author of the opinion for the Court in Plessy v...
(1836-1913), US Supreme Court Justice - Hammatt BillingsHammatt BillingsCharles Howland Hammatt Billings was an artist and architect from Boston, Massachusetts.Among his works are the original illustrations for Uncle Tom's Cabin ,...
(1818-1874), born Charles Howland Hammatt Billings, an artist and architect from Boston, Massachusetts - Jill Billings, American politician
- Joel BillingsJoel BillingsJoel Billings is an American computer game designer. He is the founder of the game company SSI. He was also the company's president.-Career:Billings started SSI in 1979 just after finishing college, with a $1000 initial investment. The first product was Computer Bismarck, which he co-wrote...
, American computer game designer - John BillingsJohn BillingsJohn Billings, was an Australian physician who pioneered the natural method of family planning known variously as the Billings Ovulation Method, the Ovulation Method, or the Billings Method....
(1918-2007), an Australian neurologist - John Shaw BillingsJohn Shaw BillingsJohn Shaw Billings was an American librarian and surgeon best known as the modernizer of the Library of the Surgeon General's Office of the Army and as the first director of the New York Public Library.-Biography:...
(1838–1913), American librarian and surgeon, first director of the New York Public Library - Joseph BillingsJoseph BillingsJoseph Billings was an English navigator and explorer who spent the most significant part of his life in Russian service.In 1785, the Russian government of Catherine II commissioned a new expedition in search for the Northeast Passage, led by English officer Joseph Billings, who had previously...
(1758–?), an English explorer - Josh BillingsJosh BillingsJosh Billings was the pen name of 19th century American humorist Henry Wheeler Shaw . He was perhaps the second most famous humor writer and lecturer in the United States in the second half of the 19th century after Mark Twain, although his reputation has not endured so well with later...
(1818-1885), the pen name of American humorist Henry Wheeler Shaw - Josh Billings (baseball)Josh Billings (baseball)John Augustus "Josh" Billings was a backup catcher in Major League Baseball who played for three different teams between the and seasons. Listed at 5' 11", 165 lb., Billings batted and threw right-handed...
(1892-1981), professional baseball player - Katharine Fowler-BillingsKatharine Fowler-BillingsKatharine Fowler Billings was an accomplished naturalist and geologist, married to Marland Pratt Billings.Katharine Fowler Billings died December 17, 1997, in Peterborough, New Hampshire...
(1902–1997), American naturalist and geologist - Lem BillingsLem BillingsKirk LeMoyne "Lem" Billings was a prep school roommate and then lifelong close friend of President John F. Kennedy. Billings took leave from his business career to work on Kennedy's 1960 presidential campaign...
aka Kirk LeMoyne Billings (1916-1981), lifelong close friend of U.S. President John F. Kennedy - Marland P. BillingsMarland P. BillingsMarland Pratt Billings was an American structural geologist who was considered one of the greatest authorities on North American geology. Billings was Professor of Geology at Harvard University for almost his entire career, having joined the faculty in 1930 and retired to emeritus status in 1972...
(1902–1996), American structural geologist - Rhoda BillingsRhoda BillingsRhoda Bryan Billings is an American lawyer and a former justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court.Billings earned her law degree from Wake Forest University School of Law in 1966. She served four years as a state District Court judge . Governor James G...
, American professor of law and former chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court - Robert BillingsRobert BillingsRobert Billings was a Canadian poet and editor.-Biography:Robert Billings was born in Niagara Falls, Ontario. His poems and reviews of Canadian poetry have appeared widely in Canada, Britain, and the United States. He held two Masters degrees in English from Queen's and Windsor. He established...
(1949-1986), Canadian poet and editor - Robert William BillingsRobert William BillingsRobert William Billings was a London-born Victorian era painter and architect. He wrote a book called The Power of Form, in which he showed examples of the use of geometry in architecture. He also illustrated The Baronial and Ecclesiastical Antiquities of Scotland. Many paintings based on his...
(1813-1874), an English Victorian artist and architect - Roger E. BillingsRoger E. BillingsRoger Evan Billings is an American businessman, inventor and developer of high-tech products. Billings is best known for his pioneering work in the computer industry and as a developer of hydrogen energy technologies....
(1948–), an American entrepreneur and developer of high-tech products - Titus BillingsTitus BillingsTitus Billings was an early convert to the Latter Day Saint movement. He served in several positions in the church and was a contemporary of Joseph Smith, and Brigham Young. Billings was a councilor in the first Bishopric of the Church to Edward Partridge. He participated in the Battle of Crooked...
(1793–1866), early member of the Latter Day Saint movement - Warren Billings (1893-1972), American labor leader wrongly convicted of a 1916 bombing in San Francisco
- William BillingsWilliam BillingsWilliam Billings was an American choral composer, and is widely regarded as the father of American choral music...
(1746-1800), an early American composer
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- Billings ovulation methodBillings ovulation methodThe Billings Ovulation Method is a method which women use to monitor their fertility, by identifying when they are fertile and when they are infertile during each menstrual cycle. Users pay attention to the sensation at their vulva, and the appearance of any vaginal discharge...
, a form of natural family planning - Billings-BurnsBillings-BurnsThe Billings-Burns was an English automobile built only in 1900 in Coventry. This voiturette designed by E. D. Billings was powered by a hp De Dion single-cylinder engine mounted in the open at the front of the car. The Burns part of the name came from its intended seller - a Mr. J. Burns...
, English automobile built only in 1900 - Billings BridgeBillings BridgeBillings Bridge is a bridge over the Rideau River in Ottawa. Bank Street passes over the river by way of this bridge. The bridge was named after Braddish Billings, who settled in this area and established a farm nearby in 1812. The first bridge, originally called Farmers Bridge, was built over the...
, a bridge over the Rideau River in Ottawa, Canada, named after Braddish Billings