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Gibbons

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Famous people named Gibbons include:
  • Alan Gibbons
    Alan Gibbons
    Alan Gibbons is an author of children's books and a Blue Peter Book Award. He currently lives in Liverpool, England, where he used to teach in a primary school. His father was a farm laborer, but was hurt in an accident when Alan was eight years old. The family had to move to Crewe, Cheshire where...

     British Author
  • Beth Gibbons
    Beth Gibbons
    Beth Gibbons is an English singer and songwriter, best known as the vocalist for English band Portishead.-Early life:Gibbons was born in 1965 in Exeter and raised on a farm....

     (born 1965), British singer
  • Billy Gibbons
    Billy Gibbons
    Billy F Gibbons , nicknamed the Reverend Willie G, is a musician, actor, hot rod and car customizer and perhaps best known as the lead guitarist for ZZ Top. He is also the lead singer and composer for many of the band's songs...

    , guitarist for ZZ Top
  • Carroll Gibbons
    Carroll Gibbons
    Carroll Gibbons was an American-born musician, bandleader and composer who made his career primarily in Britain. He was born and raised in Clinton, Massachusetts. In his late teens he travelled to London to study at the Royal Academy of Music...

     (1903–1954), American-born British bandleader
  • Cedric Gibbons
    Cedric Gibbons
    Austin Cedric Gibbons was an Irish American art director who was one of the most important and influential in the field in the history of American film. He also made a great impact on motion picture theater architecture through the 1930s to 1950s, the period considered the golden-era of theater...

     (1893–1960), American art director
  • Christopher Gibbons
    Christopher Gibbons
    Christopher Gibbons was an English composer and organist. He was the second son, and first surviving child of the composer Orlando Gibbons.As a child, Gibbons sang in the Chapel Royal under the direction of Nathaniel Giles...

     (1615–1676), English composer, son of Orlando
  • Dave Gibbons
    Dave Gibbons
    Dave Gibbons is a British comic book artist, writer and sometime letterer. He is best known for his collaborations with writer Alan Moore, which include the miniseries Watchmen and the Superman story "For the Man Who Has Everything"...

    , British writer and artist of comics
  • Edward Stanley Gibbons
    Edward Stanley Gibbons
    Edward Stanley Gibbons was an English philatelist and founder of Stanley Gibbons Ltd, publishers of the famous Stanley Gibbons stamp catalogue and other stamp-related books and magazines...

     (1840–1913), philatelist and founder of Stanley Gibbons Ltd.
  • Euell Gibbons
    Euell Gibbons
    Euell Theophilus Gibbons was an outdoorsman and proponent of natural diets, famous during the 1960s.-Biography:...

     (1911–1975), outdoorsman and proponent of natural diets
  • Gary Gibbons
    Gary Gibbons
    Gary William Gibbons , FRS, is a British theoretical physicist. Gibbons studied in Cambridge,where in 1969 he became a research student under the supervision of Dennis Sciama. When Sciama moved to Oxford, he became a student of Stephen Hawking, obtaining his PhD from Cambridge in 1973...

    , British theoretical physicist
  • Gillian Gibbons, British woman arrested for naming a teddybear Muhammad in Sudan
  • Grinling Gibbons
    Grinling Gibbons
    Grinling Gibbons was a Dutch wood carver who became particularly known for his work in St. Paul's Cathedral, Blenheim Palace and Hampton Court Palace, England. He moved to Deptford, England around 1667, and by 1693 had accepted commissions from the royal family and had been appointed as a master...

     (1648–1721), master wood carver
  • James Cardinal Gibbons
    James Cardinal Gibbons
    James Gibbons was an American Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Bishop of Richmond from 1872 to 1877, and as Archbishop of Baltimore from 1877 until his death in 1921...

     (1834–1921), Archbishop of Baltimore, 1877–1921.
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Famous people named Gibbons include:
  • Alan Gibbons
    Alan Gibbons
    Alan Gibbons is an author of children's books and a Blue Peter Book Award. He currently lives in Liverpool, England, where he used to teach in a primary school. His father was a farm laborer, but was hurt in an accident when Alan was eight years old. The family had to move to Crewe, Cheshire where...

     British Author
  • Beth Gibbons
    Beth Gibbons
    Beth Gibbons is an English singer and songwriter, best known as the vocalist for English band Portishead.-Early life:Gibbons was born in 1965 in Exeter and raised on a farm....

     (born 1965), British singer
  • Billy Gibbons
    Billy Gibbons
    Billy F Gibbons , nicknamed the Reverend Willie G, is a musician, actor, hot rod and car customizer and perhaps best known as the lead guitarist for ZZ Top. He is also the lead singer and composer for many of the band's songs...

    , guitarist for ZZ Top
  • Carroll Gibbons
    Carroll Gibbons
    Carroll Gibbons was an American-born musician, bandleader and composer who made his career primarily in Britain. He was born and raised in Clinton, Massachusetts. In his late teens he travelled to London to study at the Royal Academy of Music...

     (1903–1954), American-born British bandleader
  • Cedric Gibbons
    Cedric Gibbons
    Austin Cedric Gibbons was an Irish American art director who was one of the most important and influential in the field in the history of American film. He also made a great impact on motion picture theater architecture through the 1930s to 1950s, the period considered the golden-era of theater...

     (1893–1960), American art director
  • Christopher Gibbons
    Christopher Gibbons
    Christopher Gibbons was an English composer and organist. He was the second son, and first surviving child of the composer Orlando Gibbons.As a child, Gibbons sang in the Chapel Royal under the direction of Nathaniel Giles...

     (1615–1676), English composer, son of Orlando
  • Dave Gibbons
    Dave Gibbons
    Dave Gibbons is a British comic book artist, writer and sometime letterer. He is best known for his collaborations with writer Alan Moore, which include the miniseries Watchmen and the Superman story "For the Man Who Has Everything"...

    , British writer and artist of comics
  • Edward Stanley Gibbons
    Edward Stanley Gibbons
    Edward Stanley Gibbons was an English philatelist and founder of Stanley Gibbons Ltd, publishers of the famous Stanley Gibbons stamp catalogue and other stamp-related books and magazines...

     (1840–1913), philatelist and founder of Stanley Gibbons Ltd.
  • Euell Gibbons
    Euell Gibbons
    Euell Theophilus Gibbons was an outdoorsman and proponent of natural diets, famous during the 1960s.-Biography:...

     (1911–1975), outdoorsman and proponent of natural diets
  • Gary Gibbons
    Gary Gibbons
    Gary William Gibbons , FRS, is a British theoretical physicist. Gibbons studied in Cambridge,where in 1969 he became a research student under the supervision of Dennis Sciama. When Sciama moved to Oxford, he became a student of Stephen Hawking, obtaining his PhD from Cambridge in 1973...

    , British theoretical physicist
  • Gillian Gibbons, British woman arrested for naming a teddybear Muhammad in Sudan
  • Grinling Gibbons
    Grinling Gibbons
    Grinling Gibbons was a Dutch wood carver who became particularly known for his work in St. Paul's Cathedral, Blenheim Palace and Hampton Court Palace, England. He moved to Deptford, England around 1667, and by 1693 had accepted commissions from the royal family and had been appointed as a master...

     (1648–1721), master wood carver
  • James Cardinal Gibbons
    James Cardinal Gibbons
    James Gibbons was an American Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Bishop of Richmond from 1872 to 1877, and as Archbishop of Baltimore from 1877 until his death in 1921...

     (1834–1921), Archbishop of Baltimore, 1877–1921. See also Jim Gibbons (disambiguation) for other "Jim Gibbons".
  • Jay Gibbons
    Jay Gibbons
    Jay Jonathan Gibbons is a Major League Baseball outfielder who spent most of his career playing for the Baltimore Orioles. He retired from baseball in 2009 while playing for the Newark Bears of the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball.Gibbons was a graduate of Mayfair High School in Lakewood,...

    , right fielder for the Baltimore Orioles
  • Jim Gibbons (Irish politician)
    Jim Gibbons (Irish politician)
    James "Jim" Gibbons was a senior Irish Fianna Fáil politician. He was first elected in 1957 as a Teachta Dála for Carlow-Kilkenny. He held his seat until 1982...

  • Jim Gibbons, Jr (Irish politician)
  • Jim Gibbons (United States politician)
    Jim Gibbons (United States politician)
    James Arthur "Jim" Gibbons is the 28th and current governor of the U.S. state of Nevada. A Republican, he is a former member of the United States House of Representatives, having served from 1997 to 2006.-Biography:...

     (born 1951), Governor of Nevada
  • John Gibbons
    John Gibbons
    John Michael Gibbons is the current bench coach for the Kansas City Royals. He was the manager of the Toronto Blue Jays in Major League Baseball from 2004 to 2008...

    , former manager of the Toronto Blue Jays
  • John H. Gibbons
    John H. Gibbons
    John Howard Gibbons is an American scientist. Between 1993 and 1998 he served as the Assistant to the President for Science and Technology and Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.- Biography :...

    , scientist
  • John Joseph Gibbons
    John Joseph Gibbons
    John Joseph Gibbons is a former federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and is currently a partner at the law firm of Gibbons P.C.-Early career:...

    , American lawyer and judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
  • Leeza Gibbons
    Leeza Gibbons
    Leeza Kim Gibbons is an American talk show host. Gibbons is the host of her own radio show, Hollywood Confidential, part of the United Stations radio syndication company.-Early life:...

    , television personality
  • Orlando Gibbons
    Orlando Gibbons
    Orlando Gibbons was an English composer and organist of the late Tudor and early Jacobean periods. He was a leading composer in the England of his day.-Biography:Gibbons was born in Oxford...

     (1583–1625), English composer
  • Paul Gibbons
    Paul Gibbons
    Paul Kendall Gibbons is a retired pole vaulter from New Zealand. He competed for his native country at the 1992 Summer Olympics, where he was eliminated in the qualifying round with no official mark. Gibbons set his personal best in 1992 and equalled it in 1997.-Personal bests:-References:**...

     (born 1971), New Zealand pole vaulter
  • Peter Gibbons (fictional), character from the popular cult movie, Office Space
  • Stella Gibbons
    Stella Gibbons
    Stella Dorothea Gibbons was an English novelist, journalist, poet, and short-story writer.Her first novel, Cold Comfort Farm, won the Femina Vie Heureuse Prize for 1933...

     (1902–1989), author of Cold Comfort Farm
  • Scott Gibbons
    Scott Gibbons
    Scott Gibbons is an American-born composer and performer of electroacoustic music. His work is notable for its rigorous use of single objects as sole instrumentation .- Critical response :"Gibbons' tendency to understatement is extraordinary...

    , American composer
  • Steve Gibbons (musician), from Birmingham
  • Steve Gibbons
    Steve Gibbons
    Stephen William Gibbons , Australian politician, has been an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives since October 1998, representing the Division of Bendigo, Victoria...

    , Australian politician
  • Thomas Gibbons (1757–1852), lawyer, mayor of Savannah, steamboat tycoon, father of William Gibbons (1794–1852) whose home, Mead Hall, was the historic first building on the Drew University campus.