Farr (surname)
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Farr is a surname, and may refer to:
- Bruce FarrBruce FarrBruce K. Farr OBE is a designer of racing and cruising yachts.Farr began building boats at 13 in Warkworth near Auckland,New Zealand.His first boats were plywood hard chine Moth class designs.He later designed and built variants of Cherubs and especially Flying 18s.His early designs were built in...
(b. 1949), New Zealand yacht designer - Diane FarrDiane FarrDiane Farr is an American actress. She is known for her roles as FBI agent Megan Reeves in the CBS television series Numb3rs and Laura Miles on Rescue Me.-Life and career:...
(b. 1969), American actress - Florence FarrFlorence FarrFlorence Beatrice Emery Farr was a British West End leading actress, composer and director. She was also a women's rights activist, journalist, educator, singer, novelist, leader of the occult order, The Golden Dawn and one time mistress of playwright George Bernard Shaw...
(1860–1917), British stage actress and composer - Gareth FarrGareth FarrGareth Vincent Farr ONZM is a New Zealand composer and percussionist. He has released a number of classical CDs and composed a number of works performed by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra and Royal New Zealand Ballet...
(b. 1968), New Zealand composer - Jack FarrJack FarrColonel Jack Farr was a reserve officer, specializing in military intelligence, who was posted to Camp Delta at the US naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba....
, US military intelligence officer - James M. Farr (1874–1947), English language scholar and president of the University of Florida (1927–1928)
- Jamie FarrJamie FarrJamie Farr is an American television, film, and theater actor. He is best known for having played the role of cross-dressing Corporal Maxwell Q. Klinger in the television sitcom M*A*S*H.-Early life:...
(b. 1934), American actor - Jim FarrJim FarrJames Alfred Farr is a former Major League Baseball pitcher who played for the Texas Rangers in . He was 6 ft 1 in, 195 pounds, and he threw and batted right-handed. Farr attended Penn State University....
(b. 1956), former American baseball player - John Farr (disambiguation), several people including :
- John Newton Pharr (1829–1903), Louisiana politician whose father had changed the spelling from "Farr" to "Pharr"
- John Richard FarrJohn Richard FarrJohn Richard Farr was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania....
(1857–1933), American politician
- Judi FarrJudi FarrJudi Farr is an Australian theatre, film and television actor best known for several situation comedy roles on Australian television.She first became known for her role of Rita in the situation comedy My Name's McGooley, What's Yours?...
, Australian actress - Lorin FarrLorin FarrLorin Farr was a Mormon pioneer and the first mayor of Ogden, Utah.Farr was born in Waterford, Vermont. He was a son of Winslow Farr. When he was eleven, Farr joined the Latter Day Saint church after having been taught of it by Orson Pratt and Lyman E. Johnson...
(1820–1909), Mormon pioneer - Mel FarrMel FarrMelvin Farr is a former American football player.-Early life:As a youth, Farr played football, baseball, track and basketball. He graduated from Hebert High School in 1963, where he lettered in football, basketball, baseball, and track...
(b. 1944), former American football player - Miller FarrMiller FarrMiller Farr Jr. was an American football cornerback who played for ten seasons in the AFL and NFL.He attended Wichita State University, lettering in football and track. In his senior year, he led the nation in kickoff and punt returns...
(b. 1943), former American football player - Nick Farr-JonesNick Farr-JonesNicholas Campbell Farr-Jones is a former Australian rugby union footballer. His position was scrum-half. He attended Newington College and St Andrew's College within the University of Sydney...
(b. 1962), former Australian rugby union player - Sam FarrSam FarrSamuel S. "Sam" Farr is the U.S. Representative for , serving since 1993. He is a member of the Democratic Party. He was elected to Congress in a 1993 special election when longtime Democratic Rep...
(b. 1941), American politician - Stephen FarrStephen FarrStephen Farr is a British organist. He studied with Robert Munns and David Sanger in London and Cambridge. He also received tuition from Piet Kee in Haarlem and Hans Fagius in Copenhagen, and as a student was the recipient of grants from the Countess of Munster Musical Trust and the Worshipful...
, British organist - Steve FarrSteve FarrSteven Michael Farr , is a former professional baseball player who pitched primarily as a closer in the Major Leagues from 1984-1994. Farr attended DeMatha High School outside of Washington, D.C. and then American University. He gave up Jim Thome's first home run of his career.-External links:*...
(b. 1956), former American baseball player - Tommy FarrTommy FarrThomas George Farr was one of the most famous Welsh and British boxers of all time. Born in Clydach Vale, Wales and nicknamed "the Tonypandy Terror", he became British and Empire heavyweight champion on 15 March 1937. Prior to 1936, he had boxed in the light heavyweight division in which he was...
(1913–1986), Welsh boxer - Walter 'Snowy' FarrSnowy FarrWalter 'Snowy' Farr MBE was a prominent and colourful charity fundraiser well known to the people of Cambridge, England. A familiar sight in the city's Market Square and Lion Yard/Petty Cury slope over several decades, Snowy Farr collected many thousands of pounds for The Guide Dogs for the Blind...
(1919–2007), English charity fundraiser - Wanda Kirkbride FarrWanda Kirkbride FarrWanda K. Farr is an American botanist known for her discovery of the mechanism by which cellulose is formed in the walls of plant cells.-Early life:...
(1895–1983), American botanist - William FarrWilliam FarrWilliam Farr was a nineteenth-century British epidemiologist, regarded as one of the founders of medical statistics.-Early life:He was born in Kenley, Shropshire, England to poor parents...
(1807–1883), British epidemiologist - William C. FarrWilliam C. FarrWilliam C. Farr was the fifth mayor of Bayonne, New Jersey from 1891 to 1895.Born on March 13, 1844 in Gettenbach, an old , but small village in a large forest Buedinger Wald, former district Kreis Gelnhausen, former province Provinz Hanau, former state Kurhessen, near Frankfurt-am-Main, in...
(1841–1921)