Hick
Encyclopedia

Surname

  • Benjamin Hick
    Benjamin Hick
    Benjamin Hick was a mechanical engineer. He was born at Leeds in 1790 and trained at Fenton, Murray and Wood, the well known makers of steam engines, textile machines and other machinery. In 1810 Hick moved to Bolton as manager of Rothwell's Union Foundry...

    , (1790-1842), a mechanical engineer
  • Graeme Hick
    Graeme Hick
    Graeme Ashley Hick MBE is a Zimbabwean-born cricketer who played 65 Test matches and 120 One Day Internationals for England. He played county cricket for Worcestershire for his entire English domestic career, a period of well over twenty years, and in 2008 he surpassed Graham Gooch's record for...

    , (born 1966), an English cricketer
  • John Hick
    John Hick
    Professor John Harwood Hick is a philosopher of religion and theologian. In philosophical theology, he has made contributions in the areas of theodicy, eschatology, and Christology, and in the philosophy of religion he has contributed to the areas of epistemology of religion and religious...

    , (born 1922), a philosopher of religion and theologian
  • Pentland Hick
    Pentland Hick
    Edwin Pentland Hick, born 21 July 1919, is a British entrepreneur, author, publisher, and veteran of World War II. Hick is today best known for founding the Flamingo Land Theme Park and Zoo in North Yorkshire-Military service:...

     (born 1919), a British entrepreneur, author, and publisher
  • W. E. Hick
    W. E. Hick
    William Edmund Hick was a British psychologist, who was a pioneer in the new sciences of experimental psychology and ergonomics in the mid-20th century....

    , (1912-1974), a British psychologist

Nickname

  • Hick Cady
    Hick Cady
    Forrest Leroy Cady was a backup catcher in Major League Baseball who played for the Boston Red Sox and Philadelphia Phillies . Cady batted and threw right-handed...

    , (1886-1946), a baseball player
  • Hick Carpenter
    Hick Carpenter
    Warren William "Hick" Carpenter was an American Major League Baseball third baseman from Grafton, Massachusetts. He travelled around the National League with several clubs before getting the starting third base job with the Cincinnati Red Stockings of the American Association...

    , (1855-1937), a baseball player

See also

  • Hicks (disambiguation)
  • Hicks (surname)
    Hicks (surname)
    The surname Hicks, also spelt Hickes and Hix might be the name of one of the people below:*Adam Hicks, American actor*Andre Hicks, dead west-coast rapper known by pseudonym 'Mac Dre'*Andy Hicks, English snooker player...

  • Yokel
    Yokel
    Yokel is a derogatory term referring to the stereotype of unsophisticated country people.-Stereotype:In the US, it is used to describe someone living in rural areas...

    , as a derogatory stereotype
  • Hick (film)
    Hick (film)
    Hick is a dramatic feature film directed by Derick Martini, based on the novel of the same name by Andrea Portes. It premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 10, 2011. It's scheduled for a Spring 2012 theatrical release by Phase 4 Films-Plot:A 13-year-old Nebraska girl,...

    , directed by Derick Martini
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