Graves (surname)
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Graves is a surname
of English origin, and may refer to:
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Surname
A surname is a name added to a given name and is part of a personal name. In many cases, a surname is a family name. Many dictionaries define "surname" as a synonym of "family name"...
of English origin, and may refer to:
- Adam GravesAdam GravesAdam Graves is a former professional hockey player. He is best-known for his ten-year tenure with the New York Rangers. He also played for the Detroit Red Wings, Edmonton Oilers, and San Jose Sharks...
, Canadian ice hockey player - Agent Graves, fictional character from 100 Bullets100 Bullets100 Bullets is an Eisner and Harvey Award-winning comic book written by Brian Azzarello and illustrated by Eduardo Risso. It was published in the USA by DC Comics under its Vertigo imprint and initially ran for one hundred issues...
- Alfred Perceval GravesAlfred Perceval GravesAlfred Perceval Graves , was an Anglo-Irish poet, songwriter, and school inspector . His first marriage to Jane Cooper, eldest daughter of James Cooper of Cooper Hill, Co. Limerick, resulted in five children: the journalist Philip Graves, Mary, Richard, Alfred, and Susan...
, Irish writer - Ben Graves, American drummer
- Bibb GravesBibb GravesDavid Bibb Graves was a Democratic politician and the 38th Governor of Alabama 1927-1931 and 1935–1939, the first Alabama governor to serve two four-year terms.-Early life:...
, American politician - Bill GravesBill GravesWilliam Preston "Bill" Graves , was the 43rd Governor of Kansas from 1995 until 2003.Graves was born in Salina, Kansas in 1953 to parents who owned a trucking firm...
, American politician - Cecil GravesCecil GravesCaptain Sir Cecil George Graves KCMG MC was joint Director-General of the BBC with Robert W. Foot from 26 January 1942 to 6 September 1943.-Early life:The son of Charles L...
, BBC Director-General - Charles H. GravesCharles H. GravesCharles Hinman "C. H." Graves was an American army officer, politician, and diplomat.-Military:Hinman was born in Springfield, Massachusetts. After the outbreak of the Civil War, he joined the Army of the Potomac as a Sergeant...
, American diplomat - Christopher and Kevin GravesChristopher and Kevin GravesChristopher Jordan and Kevin Justin Graves are two American child actors . Their acting career started in 1990, when they played "Lucas Stansbury Jones" on the soap opera General Hospital. During the next 5 years, they had recurring roles on Baby Talk Christopher Jordan and Kevin Justin Graves are...
, American actors - Clare W. GravesClare W. GravesClare W. Graves was a professor of psychology and originator of a theory of adult human development. He was born in New Richmond, Indiana.-Education:...
, American psychologist - Danny GravesDanny GravesDaniel Peter Graves is a former Major League Baseball pitcher. Born to an American serviceman father and a Vietnamese mother, he is the only Vietnam-born player in the history of the major leagues, and one of the few Vietnamese-American players...
, American baseball player - Denyce GravesDenyce GravesDenyce Graves is an American mezzo-soprano opera singer.-Early life:Graves was born on March 7, 1964, to Charles Graves and Dorothy Graves-Kenner. She is the middle of three children and was raised by her mother on Galveston Street, S.W., in the Bellevue section of Washington...
, American mezzo soprano - Dixie Bibb GravesDixie Bibb GravesDixie Bibb Graves was a United States Senator and former First Lady from the state of Alabama. The first woman Senator from Alabama, she was appointed to the Senate by her husband, then Governor Bibb Graves, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Hugo L. Black...
, American politician, wife of Bibb Graves - Ernest Graves (actor), American actor
- Ezra GravesEzra GravesEzra Graves was an American lawyer and politician from New York.-Life:He was First Judge of the Herkimer County Court from 1845 to 1855 and from 1860 to 1863, also Surrogate from 1847 to 1855 and 1860 to 1863.He was delegate to the 1856 Republican National Convention...
(1809–1883), New York judge and politician - Frank Graves, South African writer and film maker
- Graves BrothersGraves BrothersRoosevelt Graves was an American blues guitarist and singer, who recorded both sacred and secular music in the 1920s and 1930s....
, American gospel musicians - Gustav GravesGustav GravesSir Gustav Graves is a fictional character and the main antagonist in the James Bond film Die Another Day, played by Toby Stephens...
, Bond Villain - James E. Graves, Jr.James E. Graves, Jr.James Earl Graves, Jr. is a federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. The Senate confirmed him on February 14, 2011 and he received his commission on February 15, 2011.-Early years:...
, Justice, Mississippi Supreme Court - James Robinson GravesJames Robinson GravesJames Robinson Graves was a US Baptist preacher, publisher, evangelist, debater, author, and editor. He was born in Chester, Vermont, the son of Z. C. Graves, and died in Memphis, Tennessee. His remains are interred in Elmwood Cemetery in Memphis.Though raised in a Congregational background, he...
, American Baptist preacher - John George GravesJohn George GravesJohn George Graves was a successful English entrepreneur and public benefactor. He became Sheffield's Lord Mayor and an Alderman in 1926 and he was given Freedom of the City in 1929. He was born in Lincolnshire in 1866 and died in 1945, after having settled in Sheffield.Graves moved to Sheffield...
, British entrepreneur, 1866–1945 - John T. GravesJohn T. GravesJohn Thomas Graves was an Irish jurist and mathematician. He was a friend of William Rowan Hamilton, and is credited both with inspiring Hamilton to discover the quaternions and with personally discovering the octonions, which he called the octaves...
, Irish mathematician - Josh GravesJosh GravesJosh Graves , born Burkett Howard Graves, was an American bluegrass musician. Also known by the nicknames "Buck," and "Uncle Josh," he is credited with introducing the dobro into bluegrass music shortly after joining Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs and the Foggy Mountain Boys in 1955...
, American bluegrass musician - Kersey GravesKersey GravesKersey Graves was a skeptic, atheist, spiritualist, Nontheist Friend, reformist and writer.-Life:Kersey Graves was born in Brownsville, Pennsylvania on 21 November 1813.. His parents were Quakers, and as a young man he followed them in their observance, and then later moved to the Hicksite wing...
, American theological reformist and writer - Leslie GravesLeslie GravesLeslie Marie Graves was an American actress. She died in 1995 from an AIDS-related illness.-Early years:...
, American actress - Lucia GravesLucia GravesLucia Graves is a writer and translator.Born in Devon, England she is the daughter of Robert Graves, and is herself a translator working in English and Spanish/Catalan. Her translations include the worldwide bestsellers The Shadow of the Wind and The Angel's Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafón, and The...
, British novelist and translator - Mercy GravesMercy GravesMercedes "Mercy" Graves is a fictional supervillain who appears in comic books published by DC Comics. She debuted on Superman: The Animated Series as the bodyguard/personal assistant of Superman's archenemy, Lex Luthor...
, DC Comics character - Michael GravesMichael GravesMichael Graves is an American architect. Identified as one of The New York Five, Graves has become a household name with his designs for domestic products sold at Target stores in the United States....
, American architect - Michale GravesMichale GravesMichael Emanuel , better known by his stage name Michale Graves, is an American singer and songwriter, singing for the late 1990s re-incarnation of The Misfits from 1995 to 1998 and again from late 1998 until late 2000. Graves grew up in Dumont, New Jersey...
, American singer/songwriter - Milford GravesMilford GravesMilford Graves is an American jazz drummer and percussionist, most noteworthy for his early avant-garde contributions in the early 1960s with Paul Bley and the New York Art Quartet...
, American-born jazz drummer - Morris GravesMorris GravesMorris Cole Graves was an American expressionist painter. Along with Guy Anderson, Kenneth Callahan, William Cumming, and Mark Tobey, he founded the Northwest School. Graves was also a mystic.-Early years:...
, American artist - Nathan Graves, fictional character, Castlevania: Circle of the MoonCastlevania: Circle of the MoonCastlevania: Circle of the Moon, known simply as Castlevania in the PAL region and as in Japan, is a video game created by Konami only for the Game Boy Advance...
- Nancy GravesNancy GravesNancy Graves was an American sculptor, painter, printmaker, and sometime-filmmaker known for her focus on natural phenomena like camels or maps of the moon...
, American sculptor - Nell Cole GravesNell Cole GravesNell Cole Graves was an American potter, and the first female potter in the Seagrove, North Carolina pottery tradition....
, American potter - Nelson GravesNelson GravesNelson Zwinglius Graves was an American cricketer, active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Graves was one of the Philadelphian cricketers that played from the end of the 19th century through the early years of the next...
, PhiladelphianPhiladelphian cricket teamThe Philadelphian cricket team was a team that represented Philadelphia in first-class cricket between 1878 and 1913. Even with the United States having played the first ever international cricket match against Canada in 1844, the sport began a slow decline in the country. This decline was...
cricketCricketCricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...
er - Peter GravesPeter GravesPeter Graves may refer to:* Peter Graves , American actor* Peter Graves, 8th Baron Graves , English actor and peer* Peter Graves , English cricketer...
disambiguation - Philip GravesPhilip GravesPhilip Perceval Graves was an Irish journalist and writer. While working as a foreign correspondent of The Times in Constantinople, he exposed The Protocols of the Elders of Zion as an antisemitic plagiarism, fraud, and hoax.-Life:Graves, eldest son of the writer Alfred Perceval Graves , was born...
, British journalist - Randal Graves, fictional character, ClerksClerksClerks is a 1994 independent comedy film written and directed by Kevin Smith, who also appears in the film as Silent Bob. Starring Brian O'Halloran as Dante Hicks and Jeff Anderson as Randal Graves, it presents a day in the lives of two store clerks and their acquaintances...
- Ray GravesRay GravesSamuel Ray Graves is a former American college and professional football player and former college football coach. He is a native of Tennessee and an alumnus of the University of Tennessee, where he played college football...
, American footballer - Richard GravesRichard GravesRichard Graves was an English minister, poet, and novelist.Born at Mickleton Manor, Mickleton, Gloucestershire, to Richard Graves, gentleman, and his wife, Elizabeth, Graves was a student at Abingdon School and Pembroke College, Oxford...
, English poet and novelist - Richard Harry GravesRichard Harry GravesRichard Harry Graves was an Irish-born Australian poet and novelist.In World War II Graves founded and led the Australian Jungle Rescue Detachment of 60 soldiers, which was attached to the Far East American Airforce. These men conducted over 300 rescues, all of which were completed successfully...
, Australian poet and novelist. - Richard P. GravesRichard P. GravesRichard P. Graves was a veteran director of man and women the League of California Cities. He became executive director in 1933. In 1954, he ran for Governor of California against incumbent Goodwin J. Knight. His campaign director was Pierre Salinger, who later served as JFK's press secretary...
, American businessman - Robert GravesRobert GravesRobert von Ranke Graves 24 July 1895 – 7 December 1985 was an English poet, translator and novelist. During his long life he produced more than 140 works...
, British author - Robert Graves (rugby)Robert Graves (rugby)Robert Henderson Graves was a pioneer Australian rugby league and rugby union player and one of his country's first dual-code internationals. He was a versatile forward for the Australia national team. He played in 6 Tests between 1908 and 1909, as captain on 1 occasion.-Rugby union career:Graves...
d. 1958, Australian sportsmen - Robert Edmond Graves, British librarian
- Robert James GravesRobert James GravesRobert James Graves, M.D., F.R.C.S. was an eminent Irish surgeon after whom Graves' disease takes its name. He was President of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland, Fellow of the Royal Society of London and the founder of the Dublin Journal of Medical Science...
, Irish doctor and eponymously named Graves disease - Rupert GravesRupert GravesRupert Graves is an English film, television and theatre actor. He is best known for his role as DI Lestrade in the critically acclaimed television series Sherlock.-Early life:...
, English actor - Sam GravesSam GravesSamuel B. Graves, Jr. is the U.S. Representative for , serving since 2001. He is a member of the Republican Party. The district consists of Northwest Missouri and includes the portion of Kansas City north of the Missouri River and many northern suburbs.-Early life, education and career:Graves is a...
, American politician - Samuel GravesSamuel GravesAdmiral Samuel Graves RN was a British Admiral who is probably best known for his role early in the American War of Independence.-Military career:Graves joined the Royal Navy in 1732...
, British Admiral - Teresa GravesTeresa GravesTeresa Graves was an American actress and singer. As the star of Get Christie Love!, Graves is credited as being the first African American woman to star in her own hour long drama television series....
, African-American actress - Terrence C. GravesTerrence C. GravesSecond Lieutenant Terrence Collinson Graves was a United States Marine who posthumously received the Medal of Honor for "outstanding courage, superb leadership and indomitable fighting spirit" in Vietnam on 16 February 1968...
, American marine - Thomas J. GravesThomas J. GravesThomas J. Graves was a private serving in the United States Army during the Spanish–American War who received the Medal of Honor for bravery.-Biography:...
, American Medal of Honor recipient - Tomás GravesTomás GravesTomás Graves , is a graphic designer, printer, musician and writer. He is the son of poet Robert Graves and Beryl Graves ....
, writer and musician, son of Robert Graves - William S. GravesWilliam S. GravesMajor General William Sidney Graves . The commander of American forces in Siberia during the Allied Intervention in Russia.-Biography:...
, American commander
- Baron GravesBaron GravesLord Graves, Baron of Gravesend, in the County of Londonderry, is a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created in 1794 for the naval commander Admiral Thomas Graves. He was second in command at the Battle of the Glorious First of June in 1794. His son, the second Baron, represented Okehampton,...
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(1725–1802) - Thomas North Graves, 2nd Baron Graves (1775–1830)
- Thomas William Graves, 3rd Baron Graves (1804–1870)
- Clarence Edward Graves, 4th Baron Graves (1847–1904)
- Henry Cyril Percy Graves, 5th Baron Graves (1847–1914)
- Clarence Percy Rivers Graves, 6th Baron Graves (1871–1937)
- Henry Algernon Claude Graves, 7th Baron Graves (1877–1963)
- Peter George Wellesley Graves, 8th Baron Graves (1911–1994)
- Evelyn Paget Graves, 9th Baron GravesEvelyn Paget Graves, 9th Baron GravesEvelyn Paget Graves, 9th Baron Graves , was an Australian farmer and peer.Graves was born in Tasmania, Australia, and worked as a farmer. In 1994 he succeeded his second cousin as ninth Baron Graves. However, as this was an Irish peerage it did not entitle him to a seat in the House of Lords. Lord...
(1926–2002) - Timothy Evelyn Graves, 10th Baron Graves (born 1960)
- Thomas Graves, 1st Baron Graves
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