Greenfield (surname)
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Greenfield is a surname
. People with the name include:
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"...
. People with the name include:
- Adam GreenfieldAdam GreenfieldAdam Greenfield is an American writer and designer, and is the founder and managing director of urban-systems design practice Urbanscale, based in New York. From 2008 to 2010 he was Nokia's head of design direction for user interface and services...
, American writer - Chloe GreenfieldChloe GreenfieldChloe Linnea Ayla Greenfield is an American teen actress. Greenfield played Lily, the little sister of rapper Eminem's character Jimmy/'B. Rabbit' in the 2002 film 8 Mile. She appeared on NBC's Emmy Award winning television series ER as "Sarah", John Stamos's character Dr...
, American actress - Dave GreenfieldDave GreenfieldDave Greenfield is the keyboard player with English rock band, The Stranglers.-Biography:He is noted for his trademark style of playing rapid arpeggios...
, British keyboard player of The Stranglers - Elizabeth GreenfieldElizabeth GreenfieldElizabeth Taylor Greenfield , dubbed "The Black Swan", was an African American singer considered the best-known black concert artist of her time. She was noted by James M. Trotter for her "remarkably sweet tones and wide vocal compass".Greenfield was born a slave in Natchez, Mississippi, but was...
, African American singer - Ernest GreenfieldErnest GreenfieldErnest Greenfield was a British archaeologist. He served with the Royal Air Force during the Second World War. During war service he became friends with Philip Rahtz who persuaded Greenfield to take up professional archaeology. His excavations included the Great Witcombe Roman Villa,...
, British archaeologist - Garfield Greenfield, British guitarist
- Holly Elisabeth Greenfield, British singer, daughter of Garfield
- Hana GreenfieldHana GreenfieldHana Greenfield was born in Kolin, Czechoslovakia, from where she was deported to concentration camps in Terezin, Auschwitz and Bergen Belsen.She is the author of Fragments of Memory . Her book is a memoir with a collection of articles written over a period of a few years...
, Czechoslovakian writer - Herbert GreenfieldHerbert GreenfieldHerbert W. Greenfield was a Canadian politician who served as the fourth Premier of Alberta from 1921 until 1925. Born in Winchester, Hampshire, in England, he immigrated to Canada in his late twenties, settling first in Ontario and then in Alberta, where he farmed...
, Canadian politician - Howard GreenfieldHoward GreenfieldHoward Greenfield was an American lyricist and songwriter, who for several years in the 1960s worked out of the famous Brill Building...
, American songwriter - Jeff GreenfieldJeff GreenfieldJeff Greenfield is an American television journalist and author.-Biography:He was born in New York City to parents Benjamin and Helen. He grew up in Manhattan and graduated from the Bronx High School of Science in 1960. He obtained a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in...
, American television journalist and author - Jerry GreenfieldJerry GreenfieldJerry Greenfield is a co-founder of Ben & Jerry's Homemade Holdings, Inc.Throughout his childhood, Greenfield lived in New York, on Long Island. In 1969, he enrolled at Oberlin College, where he followed a pre-med curriculum before graduating in 1973...
, American entrepreneur - John Greenfield (Joannes Groeneveldt), (1648-1716) Dutch physician and surgeon imprisoned in Newgate PrisonNewgate PrisonNewgate Prison was a prison in London, at the corner of Newgate Street and Old Bailey just inside the City of London. It was originally located at the site of a gate in the Roman London Wall. The gate/prison was rebuilt in the 12th century, and demolished in 1777...
1697 for his innovative methods - Lauren GreenfieldLauren GreenfieldLauren Greenfield is an American artist, documentary photographer, and documentary filmmaker. She has published three monographs of her photographic work, directed four documentary films, exhibited her photographic prints in museums throughout the world, and had her work published in a variety of...
, American documentary photographer - Luke GreenfieldLuke GreenfieldLuke Greenfield is an American film director. Greenfield was born in Manhasset, New York and was raised in Westport, Connecticut. He is best known for directing The Animal and The Girl Next Door. In July 2007, he appeared as a guest judge on the filmmaking reality show On the Lot...
, American film director - Matt GreenfieldMatt GreenfieldMatt Greenfield is the American co-founder of the now-defunct ADV Films. Originally an avid fan who ran an anime club in Houston, Texas with John Ledford , he and Ledford founded ADV Films in 1992. ADV Films began as an importer of anime, marketing primarily to the existing network of anime fans...
, American co-founder of ADV Films - Matthew GreenfieldMatthew GreenfieldMatthew Greenfield a producer of independent films. He is senior vice-president of production at Fox Searchlight. He was formerly the associate director of the Sundance Institute Feature Film Program....
, American film producer - Meg GreenfieldMeg GreenfieldMary Ellen Greenfield was a Washington Post and Newsweek editorial writer and a Washington, D.C. insider known for her wit and for being reclusive....
, American journalist - Michael Greenfield (racing driver), American owner-driver in the CART series
- Murray GreenfieldMurray GreenfieldMurray S. Greenfield is an American-born Israeli writer and publisher.In 2010 he published his best known book, which he spent more than a decade researching, The Jews' Secret Fleet, about the participation of North American sailors in Aliyah Bet. He was himself just such a volunteer participant...
, an American-born Israeli writer and publisher - Rich Greenfield, Polish-born stand-up comedian
- Susan GreenfieldSusan GreenfieldSusan Adele Greenfield, Baroness Greenfield, CBE is a British scientist, writer, broadcaster, and member of the House of Lords. Greenfield, whose specialty is the physiology of the brain, has worked to research and bring attention to Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease.Greenfield is...
, British scientist - William GreenfieldWilliam GreenfieldWilliam Greenfield served as both the Lord Chancellor of England and the Archbishop of York. He was also known as William of Greenfield.-Life:...
, the Lord Chancellor of England and the Archbishop of York - Isca Greenfield-SandersIsca Greenfield-Sanders-Life and work:Isca Greenfield-Sanders was born in New York City. In 2000 she received a B.A. in math and a B.A. in visual arts from Brown University. In 2001, she was a visiting artist at the American Academy in Rome. Isca Greenfield-Sanders is married to the artist and musician Sebastian Blanck...
, American artist - Timothy Greenfield-SandersTimothy Greenfield-SandersTimothy Greenfield-Sanders is an American portrait photographer known for his strikingly intimate portraits of world leaders and major cultural figures. The majority of his work is shot in large format, 11x14 inch black-and-white film and 8x10 color film...
, American photographer