Blunt (surname)
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Blunt is a common surname of English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

 derivation, meaning "blonde, fair" (Old French blund), or "dull" (Middle English blunt, blont) A variety spelling is Blount.
  • Lady Anne Blunt
    Lady Anne Blunt
    Anne Isabella Noel Blunt, née King-Noel, 15th Baroness Wentworth , known for most of her life as Lady Anne Blunt, was co-founder, with her husband the poet Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, of the Crabbet Arabian Stud. The two married on 8 June 1869...

     (1837-1917), English horsebreeder; wife of Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
  • Anthony Blunt
    Anthony Blunt
    Anthony Frederick Blunt , was a British art historian who was exposed as a Soviet spy late in his life.Blunt was Professor of the History of Art at the University of London, director of the Courtauld Institute of Art, Surveyor of the King's Pictures and London...

     (1907-1983), English art historian and Soviet spy
  • Charles Blunt
    Charles Blunt
    Charles William Blunt Australian politician and businessman, was leader of the National Party of Australia from 1989 to 1990....

     (b.1951), leader of the National Party of Australia
  • Crispin Blunt
    Crispin Blunt
    Crispin Jeremy Rupert Blunt is a British Conservative Party politician. He is the Member of Parliament for the Reigate constituency in Surrey, and since May 2010 he has been the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Prisons and Youth Justice within the Ministry of Justice.He first entered...

     (b.1961), English Conservative MP for Reigate
  • Emily Blunt
    Emily Blunt
    Emily Olivia Leah Blunt is an English actress best known for her roles in The Devil Wears Prada , The Young Victoria , and The Adjustment Bureau . She has been nominated for two Golden Globe Awards, two London Film Critics' Circle Awards, and one BAFTA Award...

     (b.1983), British actress
  • Giles Blunt
    Giles Blunt
    Giles Blunt is a Canadian novelist and screenwriter born in in Windsor, Ontario. His first novel, Cold Eye, was a psychological thriller set in the New York art world, which was made into the French movie Les Couleurs du diable ....

     (b.1952), Canadian author
  • James Blunt
    James Blunt
    James Hillier Blount , better known by his stage name James Blunt, is an English singer-songwriter and musician, and former army officer, whose debut album, Back to Bedlam and single releases, including "You're Beautiful" and "Goodbye My Lover", brought him to fame in 2005...

     (b.1974), British musician
  • James G. Blunt
    James G. Blunt
    James Gillpatrick Blunt was a physician and abolitionist who rose to Union major general during the American Civil War.-Early life & career:...

     (1826-1881), Union General in the American Civil War
  • John Henry Blunt
    John Henry Blunt
    John Henry Blunt was an English divine.Before going to the university of Durham in 1850, he was for some years engaged in business as a manufacturing chemist. He was ordained in 1852 and took his M.A. degree in 1855, publishing in the same year a work on The Atonement...

     (1823-1884), English divine
  • John James Blunt
    John James Blunt
    John James Blunt was an English divine and Anglican priest. His writings included studies of the early Church.-Life:Blunt was born at Newcastle-under-Lyme in Staffordshire. He was educated at St John's College, Cambridge, where he took his degree as fifteenth wrangler in 1816 and obtained a...

    , (1794-1855), English religious scholar
  • Joseph Blunt
    Joseph Blunt
    Joseph Blunt was an American lawyer, author, editor and politician from New York.-Life:...

     (1792-1860), New York County D.A.
  • Matt Blunt
    Matt Blunt
    Matthew Roy Blunt served as the 54th Governor of Missouri from 2005 to 2009. Before his election as governor, Blunt served ten years in the United States Navy, was elected to serve in the Missouri General Assembly in 1998 and as Missouri's Secretary of State in 2000.A Republican, Blunt was elected...

     (b.1970), governor of Missouri
  • N. Bowditch Blunt
    N. Bowditch Blunt
    Nathaniel Bowditch Blunt was an American lawyer and politician from New York.-Life:...

     (1804-1854), New York County D.A.
  • Roy Blunt
    Roy Blunt
    Roy D. Blunt is the junior United States Senator from Missouri. He is a member of the Republican Party. His Senate seat was previously held by Republican Kit Bond, until his retirement....

     (b.1950), U.S. Representative from Missouri, House Majority Whip and interim House Majority Leader
  • Russell Blunt
    Russell Blunt
    Dr. Russell Blunt was an American high school and collegiate track and basketball coach.Blunt's mother moved to Massachusetts from Virginia to work as a domestic...

     (1908-2004), notable North Carolina track and field coach
  • Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
    Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
    Wilfrid Scawen Blunt was an English poet and writer. He was born at Petworth House in Sussex, and served in the Diplomatic Service from 1858 to 1869. His mother was a Catholic convert and he was educated at Twyford School, Stonyhurst and at St Mary's College, Oscott...

     (1840-1922), English poet and writer
  • Wilfrid Jasper Walter Blunt
    Wilfrid Jasper Walter Blunt
    Wilfrid Jasper Walter Blunt was an art teacher, author, artist and curator of the Watts Gallery at Compton, Surrey. He taught art at Haileybury College and Eton College and helped to start a revolution in the hand-writing of British school-children, using the 15th c...

     (1901-1987), English art teacher, artist, author and curator of the Watts Gallery

Fictional characters

  • Alan Blunt, a fictional character from the Alex Rider novel series by Anthony Horowitz
  • Arno Blunt, a fictional character in the book Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code by Eoin Colfer

John L. Blunt (b. 1962) Attorney in Bergen County, New Jersey. Appointed as the youngest Judge, at age 29, in Bergen County, sitting ing in Fairview, Cliffside Park, Fort Lee, Edgewater, Ridgefield, Ridgefield Park, Hackensack, Bergenfield, Alpine, Palisades Inerstate Park, Palisades Park, Northvale, Norwood, Rockleigh, Closter, Englewood, Englewood Cliffs, Saddle River, Paramus,Lodi, South Hackensack, as well as others before being diagnoised with a degenerative blood disorder, known as hymochromatosis & porphyia. After over twelve (12) years on the bench, in a political move by the politicians in Fairview, he was replaced by his former prosecutor, Kieth Roberts, who as a result of his political contributions to the democratic party, replaced Judge Blunt. The judge later retired from public life, losing any support from his wife, politicians and those who discarded him as no longer holding any usefulness as a political or legel source of influence, he became a recluse before the age of fifty (50), and is believed to be surrounded by his immediate family, while fighting this horrific and terminal disease.
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