Fawcett (surname)
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Fawcett as a surname may refer to:
- Benjamin FawcettBenjamin FawcettBenjamin Fawcett was one of the finest of English nineteenth century woodblock colour printers. The son of a ship's master, he was apprenticed at age 14 for seven years to William Forth, a Bridlington bookseller and printer...
(1808-1893), English woodblock colour printer - Brian FawcettBrian FawcettBrian Fawcett is a Canadian writer and cultural analyst who currently lives in Toronto, Ontario.He was born and raised in Prince George, in northwest British Columbia, and graduated from Simon Fraser University as a Woodrow Wilson Fellow. Before becoming a full time writer, he worked as an urban...
(born 1944), Canadian poet and novelist - Cesar FawcettCesar FawcettCésar Augusto Fawcett Lébolo is a Colombian Defender who plays for Atlético Junior.He played with the Colombia national under-20 football team at the 2003 FIFA World Youth Championship in UAE, helping Colombia finish 4th by losing to Argentina. He is currently playing as a RB in Junior.-External...
, Colombian footballer - Charles FawcettCharles FawcettSir Charles Fawcett was a British historian. He served in the Indian Civil Service whilst India was a part of the British Empire. He published a number of articles and books related to Indian history and was an expert on the British East India Company...
, British historian - Charles Bungay FawcettCharles Bungay FawcettCharles Bungay Fawcett Charles was born of farming stock in Staindrop, County Durham. He went to school in nearby Gainford village. Then he studied science at University College, Nottingham before a brief spell as a schoolteacher...
. British geographer - Charles Fernley FawcettCharles Fernley FawcettCharles Fernley Fawcett was a wrestler, resistance worker, soldier, airman, film star, film maker, and co-founder of the International Medical Corps...
(1915-2008), U.S. soldier, actor, and co-founder of the International Medical Corps - David FawcettDavid FawcettDavid Julian Fawcett is an Australian politician and member of the Australian Senate. He was elected to the House of Representatives as member for the division of Wakefield in South Australia for the Liberal Party of Australia at the 2004 federal election. Despite an extensive campaign in 2007 he...
(born 1963), Australian politician - Eric FawcettEric FawcettEric Fawcett , was a professor of physics at the University of Toronto for 23 years. He also co-founded Science for Peace.- Academic and Professional Life :...
(1927-2000), British-Canadian physicist - Farrah FawcettFarrah FawcettFarrah Fawcett was an American actress and artist. A multiple Golden Globe and Emmy Award nominee, Fawcett rose to international fame when she first appeared as private investigator Jill Munroe in the first season of the television series Charlie's Angels, in 1976...
(1947-2009), U.S. actress - Henry FawcettHenry FawcettHenry Fawcett PC was a blind British academic, statesman and economist.-Background and education:Fawcett was born in Salisbury, and educated at King's College School and the University of Cambridge: entering Peterhouse in 1852, he migrated to Trinity Hall the following year, and became a fellow...
(1833-1884), British economist and politician - Joan FawcettJoan FawcettJoan M. Fawcett is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. She was a Liberal member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1987 to 1995....
(born 1937), Canadian politician - John FawcettJohn FawcettJohn Fawcett was an English actor and playwright.He was the son of an actor of the same name . At the age of eighteen he ran away from school and appeared at Margate as Courtall in The Belles Stratagem; afterwards he joined Tate Wilkinson's company and turned from tragedy to low comedy parts...
(1768-1837), English actor and playwright - John Fawcett (of Bolton)John Fawcett (of Bolton)John Fawcett began in life as a shoemaker but taught himself to be a musician. In 1825, Fawcett moved to Bolton, in Lancashire, and became an organist, choir leader, and composer.- External links :...
(1789-1867), English composer - Joy Fawcett (born 1968), American soccer player
- Millicent FawcettMillicent FawcettDame Millicent Garrett Fawcett, GBE was an English suffragist and an early feminist....
(1847-1929), British feminist - Norman FawcettNorman FawcettNorman Edward Fawcett was a Canadian politician, who represented the riding of Nickel Belt in the Canadian House of Commons from 1965 to 1968...
(1910-1997), Canadian politician - Percy FawcettPercy FawcettLt. Colonel Percival Harrison Fawcett was a British artillery officer, archaeologist and South American explorer....
(1867-1925?), British archaeologist and explorer - Philippa FawcettPhilippa FawcettPhilippa Garrett Fawcett was an English mathematician and educationalist.She was the daughter of the suffragist Millicent Fawcett and of Henry Fawcett MP, Professor of Political Economy at Cambridge and Postmaster General in Gladstone's government...
(1868-1948), British mathematician and educator - Quinn FawcettQuinn FawcettQuinn Fawcett is the penname of a pair of authors, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro and Bill Fawcett, who also write separately. Among their collaborations are a series of mysteries featuring Victoire Vernet, fictional wife of one of Napoleon's generals, a series featuring Sherlock Holmes's brother Mycroft,...
, pen name of a pair of authors, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro and Bill Fawcett - Ron FawcettRon FawcettRon Fawcett is an English rock climber. He is noted for being amongst the outstanding rock climbers of the 1970s and 1980s, and for being one of the first professional rock climbers....
(born 1955), English rock climber - Ruth FawcettRuth FawcettRuth Fawcett is the daughter of British-Canadian physicist Eric Fawcett, and the sister-in-law of historian Roger Sarty. She is the author of Nuclear Pursuits, the biography of Canadian nuclear-industry pioneer Wilfrid Bennett Lewis.Fawcett currently lives with her family in Ottawa, Canada...
(born 1961), Canadian physicist - Taylor Fawcett (born 1993), British actor
- Theodore FawcettTheodore FawcettTheodore Fawcett was an early settler in colonial Western Australia, and became a Member of the Western Australian Legislative Council.Theodore Fawcett was born at Craven Hill, London, England on 10 February 1832...
(1832-1898), Australian settler and politician - Wilford Hamilton "Captain Billy" Fawcett (1885–1940), American publisher (Fawcett PublicationsFawcett PublicationsFawcett Publications was an American publishing company founded in 1919 in Robbinsdale, Minnesota by Wilford Hamilton "Captain Billy" Fawcett . At the age of 16, Fawcett ran away from home to join the Army, and the Spanish-American War took him to the Philippines. Back in Minnesota, he became a...
, Fawcett ComicsFawcett ComicsFawcett Comics, a division of Fawcett Publications, was one of several successful comic book publishers during the Golden Age of Comic Books in the 1940s...
) - William FawcettWilliam FawcettWilliam Fawcett may refer to:* William Fawcett , former Adjutant-General to the Forces* William Fawcett , British botanist and co-author of the Flora of Jamaica...
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