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Guinness
Guinness is a popular Irish dry stout that originated in the brewery of Arthur Guinness at St. James's Gate, Dublin. Guinness is directly descended from the porter style that originated in London in the early 18th century and is one of the most successful beer brands worldwide, brewed in almost...

is a popular Irish dry stout.

Guinness may also refer to:
  • Diageo
    Diageo
    Diageo plc is a global alcoholic beverages company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is the world's largest producer of spirits and a major producer of beer and wine....

    , parent company of Guinness (formerly called Guinness plc)
  • St. James's Gate Brewery
    St. James's Gate Brewery
    St. James's Gate Brewery is a brewery founded in 1759 in Dublin, Ireland by Arthur Guinness. The company is now a part of Diageo, a company formed via the merger of Guinness and Grand Metropolitan in 1997. The main product produced at the brewery is Guinness Draft.Leased for 9,000 years in 1759 by...

    , the "Guinness Brewery" in Dublin
  • Guinness World Records
    Guinness World Records
    Guinness World Records, known until 2000 as The Guinness Book of Records , is a reference book published annually, containing a collection of world records, both human achievements and the extremes of the natural world...

    , a book originally published by Guinness in 1955 as "The Guinness Book of Records"
  • Guinness Trust
    Guinness Trust
    The Guinness Trust is the oldest member of the Guinness Partnership, a group of housing associations. It is a UK registered charity providing affordable housing....

    , a housing association and charity in the UK
  • Guinness R.F.C., a Rugby club in Dublin
  • St James Gaels, a Gaelic Athletic Association club formed by an amalgamation of An Caisleán and Guinness GAA Clubs
  • Guinness Premiership
    Guinness Premiership
    The English Premiership, also currently known as the Aviva Premiership because of the league's sponsorship by Aviva, is a professional league competition for rugby union football clubs in the top division of the English rugby system. There are twelve clubs in the Premiership...


People

  • Arthur Guinness
    Arthur Guinness
    Arthur Guinness was an Irish brewer and the founder of the Guinness brewery business and family.He was also an entrepreneur, visionary and philanthropist....

     (1725–1803), founder of Guinness beer
  • Guinness family
    Guinness family
    The Guinness family is an extensive aristocratic Irish Protestant family noted for their accomplishments in brewing, banking, politics and religious ministry...

    , prominent descendants of Arthur Guinness (1725-1803) and his brother Samuel Guinness (1727-1795)
    • Baron Ardilaun
      Baron Ardilaun
      There have been two Baronetcies created for members of the Guinness brewing family, both in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. Both titles are still extant....

      , a title of nobility created for Arthur Guinness, 1st Baron Ardilaun
      Arthur Guinness, 1st Baron Ardilaun
      Arthur Edward Guinness, 1st Baron Ardilaun, 2nd Baronet , known as Sir Arthur Guinness, Bt, between 1868 and 1880, was an Irish businessman, politician, and philanthropist, best known for giving St Stephen's Green to the people of Dublin.-Background and education:Guinness was born at St Anne's,...

    • Baron Moyne
      Baron Moyne
      Baron Moyne, of Bury St Edmund in the County of Suffolk, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1932 for the Conservative politician the Hon. Walter Guinness. A member of the prominent Guinness brewing family, he was the third son of Edward Guinness, 1st Earl of Iveagh,...

      , a title of nobility created for Walter Guinness, 1st Baron Moyne
      Walter Guinness, 1st Baron Moyne
      Walter Edward Guinness, 1st Baron Moyne DSO & Bar PC was a Anglo-Irish politician and businessman. He served as the British minister of state in the Middle East until November 1944, when he was assassinated by the militant Jewish Zionist group Lehi...

    • Earl of Iveagh
      Earl of Iveagh
      Earl of Iveagh is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1919 for the businessman and philanthropist Edward Guinness, 1st Viscount Iveagh. He was the third son of Sir Benjamin Guinness, 1st Baronet, of Ashford, and the great-grandson of Arthur Guinness, the founder of the...

      , a title of nobility created for Edward Guinness, 1st Earl of Iveagh
      Edward Guinness, 1st Earl of Iveagh
      Edward Cecil Guinness, 1st Earl of Iveagh, KP, GCVO, FRS was an Irish philanthropist and businessman.-Public life:...

    • Gwendolen Guinness, Countess of Iveagh
      Gwendolen Guinness, Countess of Iveagh
      Gwendolen Florence Mary Guinness, Countess of Iveagh , was a Conservative politician in the United Kingdom, and, by marriage, a member of the Anglo-Irish Guinness brewing dynasty....

      , British MP

  • Arthur Guinness (New Zealand)
    Arthur Guinness (New Zealand)
    Sir Arthur Robert Guinness was a New Zealand politician, and Speaker of the House of Representatives.-Personal information:...

    , New Zealand politician
  • Sir Alec Guinness
    Alec Guinness
    Sir Alec Guinness, CH, CBE was an English actor. He was featured in several of the Ealing Comedies, including Kind Hearts and Coronets in which he played eight different characters. He later won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as Colonel Nicholson in The Bridge on the River Kwai...

     (1914-2000), British actor
  • Humphrey Patrick Guinness (1902-1986), British polo player
  • Kenelm Lee Guinness
    Kenelm Lee Guinness
    Kenelm Edward Lee Guinness MBE was a racing driver of the 1910s - 1920s. He was part of the Guinness brewing family, and a director of the company.- Beginnings in motor racing :...

     (1887-1937), racing driver and spark plug manufacturer
  • Matthew Guinness
    Matthew Guinness
    Matthew Guinness is an English actor. He plays The Farmer in the 1976 film Nuts in May, appears in Ridley Scott's The Duellists and had a small role in 1987's Lady Jane. He has also worked extensively in theatre....

     (born 1940), British actor
  • Os Guinness
    Os Guinness
    Os Guinness is an author and social critic.-Biography:Born in China, he is the great-great-great-grandson of Arthur Guinness, the Dublin brewer. He was a witness to the climax of the Chinese revolution in 1949, and returned to England in 1951, where he went to school and college. He received a B.D...

     (born 1941), author
  • Jasmine Guinness
    Jasmine Guinness
    Jasmine Leonora Guinness has been a designer and a fashion model since 1994. She is also an heiress to the Guinness brewing fortune.-Personal life:...

     (born 1976), model
  • Bunny Guinness
    Bunny Guinness
    Bunny Guinness is a chartered landscape architect, journalist and radio personality who is a regular panellist on the long running BBC Radio 4 programme, Gardener's Question Time. She also writes a weekly column in the Sunday Telegraph...

    , scientist and broadcaster

See also

  • Arthur Guinness (disambiguation)
    Arthur Guinness (disambiguation)
    Arthur Guinness , was the Irish entrepreneur founding Guinness brewers.Arthur Guinness may also refer to:* Arthur Guinness , politician* Arthur Guinness, 1st Baron Ardilaun , British...

  • Guinness family
    Guinness family
    The Guinness family is an extensive aristocratic Irish Protestant family noted for their accomplishments in brewing, banking, politics and religious ministry...

  • Guinness-on-Sea
  • Guinness Peat Aviation
    Guinness Peat Aviation
    Guinness Peat Aviation was a Commercial Aircraft Sales and Leasing company set up in 1975 by Aer Lingus, the Guinness Peat Group and Tony Ryan, then an Aer Lingus executive.-History:...

    , foremerly an aircraft leasing company
  • Guinness Mahon
    Guinness Mahon
    Guinness Mahon was an Irish merchant bank originally based in Dublin but more recently with major operations in London.-History:The firm was founded in Dublin in 1836 by brewer Robert Rundell Guinness, cousin of the brewer Arthur Guinness, and John Ross Mahon, an estate agent. A London office...

    , a merchant bank
  • Guinness Peat Group plc
    Guinness Peat Group
    Guinness Peat Group is an investment holding company with interests in Europe, Australia and New Zealand.-History:The company, which had been formed as an investment offshoot of the London-based investment bank Guinness Mahon in the 1980s, was acquired by Brierley Investments Limited in 1990...

    , an investment holding company listed on the London Stock Exchange
  • Guinness share-trading fraud
    Guinness share-trading fraud
    The Guinness share-trading fraud was a famous British business scandal of the 1980s. It involved an attempt to manipulate the stock market on a massive scale to inflate the price of Guinness shares and thereby assist a £2.7 billion take-over bid for the Scottish drinks company Distillers...

  • Guiness, County Down, a townland in County Down, Northern Ireland
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