Dean (surname)
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Some notable people who have the surname Dean are:
  • Dean (Middlesex cricketer)
    Dean (Middlesex cricketer)
    Dean was an English amateur cricketer who made 7 known appearances in major cricket matches from 1787 to 1790.-Career:He was mainly associated with Middlesex and was a member of the Brentford and Richmond Cricket Club .-External sources:*...

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    Floruit
    Floruit , abbreviated fl. , is a Latin verb meaning "flourished", denoting the period of time during which something was active...

     1787–179), amateur cricketer from Middlesex
  • Anna-Maria Ravnopolska-Dean
    Anna-Maria Ravnopolska-Dean
    Anna-Maria Ravnopolska-Dean is a Bulgarian harpist and composer.-Biography:Anna-Maria Ravnopolska-Dean was born in Sofia. She studied with the Italian Professor and Harpist Liana Pasquali and continued her education in the USA with the pre-eminent Harpist and Professor Susann McDonald, at Indiana...

    , harpist
  • Bashford Dean
    Bashford Dean
    Bashford Dean was an American zoologist, specializing in ichthyology, and at the same time an expert in medieval armor. He is the only person to have held concurrent positions at the American Museum of Natural History and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where he was Honorary Curator of Arms and...

    , American ornithologist
  • Brett Dean
    Brett Dean
    Brett Dean is a contemporary Australian composer, violist and conductor.-Career:Dean studied at the Queensland Conservatorium where he received a Medal of Excellence. From 1985 to 1999, Dean was a violist in the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. In 2000, he decided to pursue a career as a freelance...

     (born 1961), Australian composer
  • Charles Dean
    Charles Dean
    Charles "Charlie" Dean was the brother of Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean, Democracy for America Chairman Jim Dean and political activist Bill Dean. In 1974, Charlie, who had been traveling through southeast Asia at the time, was captured and killed by Pathet Lao guerrillas...

     (died 1974), deceased brother of Howard Dean and Jim Dean
  • Christopher Dean
    Christopher Dean
    Christopher Colin Dean, OBE is a famous British ice dancer who won a gold medal at the 1984 Winter Olympics with his skating partner Jayne Torvill...

    , British figure skater
  • Dixie Dean
    Dixie Dean
    William Ralph Dean , better known as Dixie Dean, was an English football player. Dean originally started his career with Birkenhead based Tranmere Rovers before moving on to Everton, the club he had supported as a child, where he became one of the most prolific goal-scorers in English football...

    , English footballer
  • Dizzy Dean
    Dizzy Dean
    Jay Hanna "Dizzy" Dean was an American Major League Baseball pitcher. He was the last National League pitcher to win 30 games in one season. Dean was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1953....

     (1910–1974), baseball pitcher
  • Eddie Dean, several people
  • Elton Dean
    Elton Dean
    Elton Dean was an English jazz musician who performed on alto saxophone, saxello and occasionally keyboard....

    , jazz musician
  • Gordon Dean
    Gordon Dean
    Gordon Evans Dean was a Seattle-born American lawyer and prosecutor who served as chairman of the US Atomic Energy Commission from 1950 to 1953....

    , chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission
  • Henry Clay Dean
    Henry Clay Dean
    Henry Clay Dean was a Methodist Episcopal preacher, lawyer, orator and author who was a critic of the American Civil War and the Lincoln Administration.-Early life and education:...

    , American orator and author
  • Howard Dean
    Howard Dean
    Howard Brush Dean III is an American politician and physician from Vermont. He served six terms as the 79th Governor of Vermont and ran unsuccessfully for the 2004 Democratic presidential nomination. He was chairman of the Democratic National Committee from 2005 to 2009. Although his U.S...

    , U.S. presidential candidate in 2004 elections
  • James Dean
    James Dean
    James Byron Dean was an American film actor. He is a cultural icon, best embodied in the title of his most celebrated film, Rebel Without a Cause , in which he starred as troubled Los Angeles teenager Jim Stark...

    , American actor
  • Jim Dean (DFA)
    Jim Dean (DFA)
    James H. "Jim" Dean is chair of Democracy for America , the nation's largest political action committee based in Burlington, Vermont.DFA was founded in 2004 after the presidential campaign of Dean's brother, former Vermont Governor Howard Dean. Jim Dean has raised money, given speeches, and...

    , Chairman of Democracy for America
  • John Dean
    John Dean
    John Wesley Dean III is an American lawyer who served as White House Counsel to United States President Richard Nixon from July 1970 until April 1973. In this position, he became deeply involved in events leading up to the Watergate burglaries and the subsequent Watergate scandal cover-up...

    , White House Counsel to President Richard M. Nixon and central Watergate figure
  • Kevin Dean, several people, including:
    • Kevin Dean (cricketer)
      Kevin Dean (cricketer)
      Kevin James Dean is an English cricketer. He is a left-handed batsman and a left-arm medium-fast bowler.The imposing, 6'5" tall Dean made his club debut for the Derbyshire Phantoms in 1996 and received the Denis Compton Award in 1998...

       (born 1975), English cricketer
    • Kevin Dean (ice hockey)
      Kevin Dean (ice hockey)
      Kevin Charles Dean is a retired American professional ice hockey defenseman.-Career:Kevin Dean was drafted 86th overall in the 1987 NHL Entry Draft by the New Jersey Devils. He then played four years at the University of New Hampshire before transferring to the AHL. In 1994–95 Dean helped the...

       (born 1969), American ice hockey player
  • Lynn Dean
    Lynn Dean
    Lynn B. Dean is a boat manufacturer from St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana, who served from 1996 to 2004 as a Republican member of the Louisiana State Senate from District 1 . The district embraces a portion of the New Orleans suburbs, including the lower southeastern coastal parishes of Plaquemines...

    , Louisiana politician
  • Mark Dean (swimmer)
    Mark Dean (swimmer)
    Mark John Dean is an American swimmer, who won the gold medal in the men's 200 m butterfly event at the 1991 Pan American Games in Havana, Cuba. He was a 1988 Olympian in Seoul, South Korea, where he finished in 9th place in the 200 m butterfly...

    , American swimmer
  • Mike Dean, several people, including:
    • Mike Dean (referee)
      Mike Dean (referee)
      -Coin-throwing incident:On 5 April 2009 in the South Wales derby between Cardiff City and Swansea City, Dean suffered a cut to the forehead resulting from what appeared to be a coin thrown by a Cardiff supporter. He later awarded Cardiff a debatable penalty, which was converted to earn a draw for...

       (born 1968), English football referee
  • Norman Dean
    Norman Dean
    Norman Dean was a professional footballer, who started his professional career at Southampton, before spells at Cardiff City and Barnsley.-Southampton:...

    , footballer
  • Pap Dean
    Pap Dean
    Preston Allen Dean, Jr., known as Pap Dean was an American cartoonist who was employed from 1938 to 1979 as chief illustrator and editorial cartoonist for the Shreveport Times in Shreveport, the largest newspaper in North Louisiana...

    , political cartoonist
  • Paul Dean, several people
  • Roger Dean (artist), album cover designer
  • Simon Dean, one of the stage names of Mike Bucci
    Mike Bucci
    Michael "Mike" Bucci is an American semi-retired professional wrestler. Bucci is probably best known for his appearances in Extreme Championship Wrestling as Nova, Super Nova, and "Hollywood" Nova and World Wrestling Entertainment as Simon Dean...

    , World Wrestling Entertainment wrestler
  • Thomas Dean
    Thomas Dean
    Thomas Arthur Dean was an English cricketer. Dean was a right-handed batsman who bowled leg break googly.Dean made his first-class debut for Hampshire in the 1939 County Championship against Somerset. In the 1939 season, Dean took his first five wicket haul against Yorkshire, with figures of 5/58...

     (1920–2004), English cricketer

See also

  • Dean (name)
    Dean (name)
    Dean is a male given name, sometimes used as a middle name.-People with the given name:* Dean Acheson , American statesman and lawyer* Dean Cain , American actor* Dean Callaway, Australian rugby league football player...

  • Dean (disambiguation)
  • Deane (disambiguation)
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