Hopkinson
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Hopkinson is a surname
of English and Welsh origin, and may refer to:
Surname
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of English and Welsh origin, and may refer to:
- Alfred HopkinsonAlfred HopkinsonSir Alfred Hopkinson was an English lawyer, academic and politician who served as a Member of Parliament for two three-year periods, separated by nearly thirty years....
, British politician - Austin HopkinsonAustin HopkinsonAustin Hopkinson JP was a British industrialist and Member of Parliament for constituencies in present-day Greater Manchester who was notable for rejecting membership of political parties and sitting as an Independent member. He represented Mossley from 1918 to 1929 and 1931 to 1945...
, British politician - Bertram HopkinsonBertram HopkinsonBertram Hopkinson, CMG, FRS, was a patent lawyer and Professor of Mechanism and Applied Mechanics at Cambridge University. In this position he researched flames, explosions and metallurgy and became a pioneer designer of the internal combustion engine.Hopkinson was born in Birmingham, in 1874, the...
, British engineer - Bobby HopkinsonBobby HopkinsonBobby Thomas Hopkinson is a professional English footballer who plays as a midfielder for Horndean.-Career:Hopkinson started his career as a youth player at Plymouth Argyle, signing on scholarship forms in July 2006 under Ian Holloway. Hopkinson was a member of the Pilgrims' side that reached the...
, English footballer - Carl HopkinsonCarl HopkinsonCarl Hopkinson is a former English cricketer and current coach. He was a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium pace bowler. He was also a talented fielder.Born in Sussex, he attended Brighton College...
, English cricketer - Charles HopkinsonCharles HopkinsonCharles Sydney Hopkinson was an American portrait painter and landscape watercolorist. He maintained a studio in the Fenway Studios building in Boston from 1906 to 1962. He painted over 800 portraits in a direct style with a palette gradually lightening through his career. Many of his paintings...
, American artist - Edward HopkinsonEdward HopkinsonEdward Hopkinson was a British electrical engineer and Conservative politician.He was the fourth son of John Hopkinson, an engineer who was mayor of Manchester in 1882/83. Hopkinson was educated at Owen's College, Manchester and Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He graduated from Emmanuel in 1881 and...
, British politician and engineer - Francis HopkinsonFrancis HopkinsonFrancis Hopkinson , an American author, was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence as a delegate from New Jersey. He later served as a federal judge in Pennsylvania...
, American writer and signer of the Declaration of Independence - George Hopkinson, British general
- John HopkinsonJohn HopkinsonJohn Hopkinson, FRS, was a British physicist, electrical engineer, Fellow of the Royal Society and President of the IEE twice in 1890 and 1896. He invented the three-wire system for the distribution of electrical power, for which he was granted a patent in 1882...
, British physicist - Mark HopkinsonMark HopkinsonMark A. Hopkinson was a convicted murderer who was executed by the U.S. state of Wyoming in 1992 for the murders of Vincent Vehar, Beverly Vehar, John Vehar, and Jeffrey Green...
, American convicted murderer - Nalo HopkinsonNalo HopkinsonNalo Hopkinson is a Jamaican science fiction and fantasy writer and editor who lives in Canada. Her novels and short stories such as those in her collection Skin Folk often draw on Caribbean history and language, and its traditions of oral and written storytelling.Hopkinson has...
, Jamaican writer - Simon HopkinsonSimon HopkinsonSimon Charles Hopkinson is a food writer, critic and former chef. He is considered to be one of the best cookery writers working today.- Early career :...
, British chef and cookery writer - William C. Hopkinson, British intelligence agent