Fielding
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Fielding may refer to:
- Fielding (cricket)Fielding (cricket)Fielding in the sport of cricket is the action of fielders in collecting the ball after it is struck by the batsman, in such a way as to either limit the number of runs that the batsman scores or get the batsman out by catching the ball in flight or running the batsman out.Cricket fielding position...
, the action of fielders collecting the ball in cricket - The action of fielders collecting the ball at any of the nine baseball positionsBaseball positionsThere are 9 fielding positions in baseball. Each position conventionally has an associated number which is used to score putouts...
- Fielding, SaskatchewanFielding, SaskatchewanFielding, Saskatchewan is an unincorporated area in the rural municipality of Mayfield No. 406, Saskatchewan, in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. Fielding is located on Saskatchewan Highway 16, the Yellowhead in north western Saskatchewan. Fielding post office first opened in 1905 at the...
, Canada - Fielding, UtahFielding, UtahFielding is a town in Box Elder County, Utah, United States. The population was 455 at the 2010 census.-Geography:Fielding is located at ....
, United States - Fielding Bradford HouseFielding Bradford HouseThe Fielding Bradford House is an historic house built on a tract of land near North Elkhorn and Cane Run Creeks in Scott County, Kentucky. The property was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places on December 4, 1973.-References:...
- Fielding Graduate UniversityFielding Graduate UniversityFielding Graduate University, previously Fielding Graduate Institute, and The Fielding Institute, is an accredited, nonprofit post-graduate institution of higher learning based in Santa Barbara, California, USA....
, a graduate institution in Santa Barbara, California
People
Fielding or Feilding is the surname of:- Alexander Feilding, 12th Earl of DenbighAlexander Feilding, 12th Earl of DenbighAlexander Stephen Rudolph Feilding, 12th Earl of Denbigh, 11th Earl of Desmond , styled Viscount Feilding until 1995, is a member of the British aristocracy and son of William Feilding, 11th Earl of Denbigh.-Marriage:...
- Amanda FeildingAmanda FeildingAmanda Charteris, Countess of Wemyss and March, , is a British artist, scientist and drug policy reformer. She is scientific director and founder of the Beckley Foundation, a charitable trust...
, Countess of Wemyss, artist and scientific director - Charles FieldingCharles FieldingCharles Fielding or Feilding was a British naval officer who gained brief notoriety for his role in the Affair of Fielding and Bylandt in the run-up to the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War...
, British naval officer - Daphne FieldingDaphne FieldingHon. Daphne Winifred Louise Fielding, née Vivian , was a popular British author in the early 20th century....
, English actress - Emma FieldingEmma FieldingEmma Georgina Annalies Fielding is an English actress.-Biography:The lapsed Roman Catholic daughter of a British Army soldier, Fielding spent much of her childhood in Malaysia and Nigeria, and a period in Malvern above her grandparents' betting shop...
, English actress - Helen FieldingHelen FieldingHelen Fielding is an English novelist and screenwriter, best known as the creator of the fictional character Bridget Jones, a sequence of novels and films that chronicle the life of a thirtysomething single woman in London as she tries to make sense of life and love.Her novels Bridget Jones's...
, English author of Bridget Jones's Diary - Henry FieldingHenry FieldingHenry Fielding was an English novelist and dramatist known for his rich earthy humour and satirical prowess, and as the author of the novel Tom Jones....
, English author of Tom Jones - Janet FieldingJanet FieldingJanet Fielding is an Australian actress, known for her role in the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who as Tegan Jovanka, a companion of the Fourth Doctor, played by Tom Baker, and the Fifth Doctor, played by Peter Davison. She was born in Brisbane...
, Australian actress - Sir John FieldingJohn FieldingThis article is about the London magistrate. For the soldier, see John Williams .Sir John Fielding was a notable English magistrate and social reformer of the 18th century. He was also the younger half-brother of novelist, playwright and chief magistrate Henry Fielding...
, 18th century English magistrate, brother of Henry Fielding - Joy FieldingJoy FieldingJoy Fielding is a Canadian novelist and actress. She lives in Toronto, Ontario.-Biography:Born in Toronto, Ontario, she graduated from the University of Toronto in 1966, with a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature...
, Canadian novelist and actress - Keith FieldingKeith FieldingKeith John Fielding is an English former dual-code international rugby union and professional rugby league footballer of the 1960s, '70s and '80s who at representative level has played rugby union for England, and at club level for Moseley Rugby Football Club, playing at Wing, i.e...
, British rugby footballer - Maia Fielding, fictional character in 'Journey to the River Sea'
- Michael FieldingMichael FieldingMichael Fielding, more commonly known as Mike Fielding, is a comedian and actor. He was born 1981 in Westminster, London, England and raised in Mitcham, Surrey.-Career:...
, English comedian and actor - Noel FieldingNoel FieldingNoel Fielding is a British artist, comedian and actor. He is known for his roles as Vince Noir in The Mighty Boosh, which he co-writes with comedy partner Julian Barratt, and as team captain on the music panel show Never Mind the Buzzcocks.-Stand-up comedy:Noel Fielding performed regularly as a...
, English artist, comedian and actor - Roy FieldingRoy FieldingRoy Thomas Fielding is an American computer scientist, one of the principal authors of the HTTP specification, an authority on computer network architecture and co-founder of the Apache HTTP Server project....
, one of the principal authors of the HTTP specification - Sarah FieldingSarah FieldingSarah Fielding was a British author and sister of the novelist Henry Fielding. She was the author of The Governess, or The Little Female Academy , which was the first novel in English written especially for children , and had earlier achieved success with her novel The Adventures of David Simple...
, English novelist - Steve FieldingSteve FieldingSteven "Steve" Fielding , was a Senator representing the state of Victoria and the federal parliamentary leader of the Family First Party in Australia. Elected to the Senate at the 2004 federal election on two percent of the Victorian vote, he failed to gain re-election at the 2010 federal election...
, Australian senator - William Feilding, 1st Earl of DenbighWilliam Feilding, 1st Earl of DenbighWilliam Feilding, 1st Earl of Denbigh was an English naval officer and courtier.William Feilding was the son of Basil Fielding of Newnham Paddox in Warwickshire, , and of Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Walter Aston and his wife, Elizabeth Leveson.The descent of the Feildings from the house of Habsburg,...
, naval officer and courtier - William Fielding (bowls)William Fielding (bowls)William Fielding was a New Zealand bowls player who competed in the 1930 British Empire Games.He was born in Lancashire, England....
, New Zealand lawn bowler - Xan FieldingXan FieldingXan Fielding, born Alexander Wallace Fielding DSO , was a British soldier and writer, noted for his English translations of Planet of the Apes and The Bridge on the River Kwai, both by Pierre Boulle....
, British writer and author
See also
- Fielding percentageFielding percentageIn baseball statistics, fielding percentage, also known as fielding average, is a measure that reflects the percentage of times a defensive player properly handles a batted or thrown ball...
and fielding errorError (baseball)In baseball statistics, an error is the act, in the judgment of the official scorer, of a fielder misplaying a ball in a manner that allows a batter or baserunner to reach one or more additional bases, when such an advance would have been prevented given ordinary effort by the fielder.The term ... - Affair of Fielding and BylandtAffair of Fielding and BylandtThe Affair of Fielding and Bylandt refers to a brief naval engagement off the Isle of Wight on 31 December 1779 between a Royal Navy squadron, commanded by Commodore Charles Fielding, and a naval squadron of the Dutch Republic, commanded by rear-admiral Lodewijk van Bylandt, escorting a Dutch convoy...
- Fielder (disambiguation)