Many persons have been given the
ScottishScotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...
name "
Horace", typically after the Roman poet Quintus Horatius Flaccus:
- Horace
This article is about the Roman poet Horace. For other uses, see Horace .Quintus Horatius Flaccus, , known in the English-speaking world as Horace, was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus.-Life:Born in the small town of Venusia in the border region between Apulia and Lucania...
, Roman poet
- Horace Alexander
Horace Gundry Alexander was an English Quaker teacher and writer, pacifist and ornithologist. He was the youngest of four sons of Joseph Gundry Alexander...
, ornithologist
- Horace Andy
Horace Andy , is a roots reggae songwriter and singer, known for his distinctive vocals and hit songs such as "Government Land", "You Are My Angel", "Skylarking" and a cover version of "Ain't No Sunshine".-Early Days:Hinds recorded his first single in 1967 for producer Phil Pratt...
(born Horace Hinds), Jamaican roots reggae singer
- Horace Donisthorpe
Horace St. John Kelly Donisthorpe was an eccentric British myrmecologist and coleopterist, memorable in part for his enthusiastic championing of the renaming of the genus Lasius after him as Donisthorpea, and for his many claims of discovering new species of beetles and ants.He is often considered...
, British entomologist
- Horace Engdahl
Horace Oscar Axel Engdahl is a Swedish literary historian and critic, and has been a member of the Swedish Academy since 1997. He was the permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, i.e. its spokesman, from 1999 to June 2009, when he was succeeded by historian Peter Englund.-Biography:Engdahl was...
, Permanent secretary of the Swedish academy since 1999
- Horace Fletcher
Horace Fletcher was an American health-food faddist of the Victorian era who earned the nickname "The Great Masticator," by arguing that food should be chewed thirty two times – or, about 100 times per minute – before being swallowed: "Nature will castigate those who don't masticate." He invented...
, American dietitian
- Horace A. Ford
Horace A. Ford is known as one of the greatest target archers of all time. He first picked up the bow in 1845, and a mere four years later won the Grand National Archery Meeting held in the United Kingdom. He proceeded to win an unmatched, eleven consecutive championships, and a twelfth "comeback"...
, archer
- Horace Furness, Shakespearean scholar
- Horace Grant
Horace Junior Grant is a retired American basketball player. He attended and played college basketball at Clemson University, before playing professionally in the National Basketball Association , where he became a four-time champion with the Chicago Bulls and Los Angeles Lakers...
, basketball player
- Horace Gray
Horace Gray was an American jurist who ultimately served on the United States Supreme Court. He was an active in public service and a great philanthropist to the City of Boston.-Early life:...
, American jurist
- Horace Greeley
Horace Greeley was an American editor of a leading newspaper, a founder of the Liberal Republican Party, a reformer, and a politician...
, author and newspaper editor
- Horace Hogan
Michael Bollea is an American professional wrestler and mixed martial artist. In wrestling, he is best known by his ring name, Horace Hogan. He is the nephew of professional wrestler Hulk Hogan and cousin of the late Mike Awesome....
, the stage name of professional wrestler Michael Bollea
- Horace Mann
Horace Mann was an American education reformer, and a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1827 to 1833. He served in the Massachusetts Senate from 1834-1837. Mann was a brother-in-law to author Nathaniel Hawthorne, their wives being sisters.-Education and early career:Horace Mann was...
, American lawyer and education reformer
- Horace Pippin
Horace Pippin was a self-taught African-American painter who worked in a naive style. The injustice of slavery and American segregation figure prominently in many of his works.-Biography:...
, American artist
- Horace Porter
Horace Porter, was an American soldier and diplomat who served as a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War....
, American soldier and diplomat
- Horace-Bénédict de Saussure
200px|thumb|Portrait of Horace-Bénédict de Saussure Horace-Bénédict de Saussure was a Swiss aristocrat, physicist and Alpine traveller, often considered the founder of alpinism.-Life and work:Saussure was born in Conches, near Geneva, in 1740.His early interest in botanical studies led him...
, Swiss scientist and mountain pioneer
- Horace Silver
Horace Silver , born Horace Ward Martin Tavares Silva in Norwalk, Connecticut, is an American jazz pianist and composer. His father, who was known as John Tavares Silva, was from the island of Maio in Cape Verde. His mother was born in New Canaan, Connecticut and was of Irish-African descent...
, jazz musician
- Horace Tabor, American prospector
- Horace de Vere Cole
William Horace de Vere Cole was a British eccentric prankster. His most famous trick was the Dreadnought hoax in 1910 when he fooled the captain of the famous Royal Navy warship HMS Dreadnought into taking Cole and a group of his friends for an Abyssinian delegation.Cole's other pranks included...
, eccentric British aristocrat and prankster
- Horace Vernet
Émile Jean-Horace Vernet was a French painter of battles, portraits, and Orientalist Arab subjects.Vernet was born to Carle Vernet, another famous painter, who was himself a son of Claude Joseph Vernet. Fittingly, he was born in the Paris Louvre, while his parents were staying there during the...
, French painter of military themes
- Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Oxford, novelist and politician
Fictional
- Horace Horsecollar
Horace Horsecollar is a funny animal cartoon character created by Ub Iwerks and Walt Disney.He is an anthropomorphic horse, one of Mickey Mouse's friends, and the boyfriend of Clarabelle Cow. Horace first appeared as Mickey's plough horse in the cartoon "The Plow Boy" in 1929...
, Walt Disney's horse character
- Horace Rumpole (see Rumpole of the Bailey
Rumpole of the Bailey is a British television series created and written by the British writer and barrister John Mortimer, QC which starred Leo McKern as Horace Rumpole, an aging London barrister who defends any and all clients...
), British barrister created by John Mortimer
- Horace Slughorn, a character in J.
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Many persons have been given the
ScottishScotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...
name "
Horace", typically after the Roman poet Quintus Horatius Flaccus:
- Horace
This article is about the Roman poet Horace. For other uses, see Horace .Quintus Horatius Flaccus, , known in the English-speaking world as Horace, was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus.-Life:Born in the small town of Venusia in the border region between Apulia and Lucania...
, Roman poet
- Horace Alexander
Horace Gundry Alexander was an English Quaker teacher and writer, pacifist and ornithologist. He was the youngest of four sons of Joseph Gundry Alexander...
, ornithologist
- Horace Andy
Horace Andy , is a roots reggae songwriter and singer, known for his distinctive vocals and hit songs such as "Government Land", "You Are My Angel", "Skylarking" and a cover version of "Ain't No Sunshine".-Early Days:Hinds recorded his first single in 1967 for producer Phil Pratt...
(born Horace Hinds), Jamaican roots reggae singer
- Horace Donisthorpe
Horace St. John Kelly Donisthorpe was an eccentric British myrmecologist and coleopterist, memorable in part for his enthusiastic championing of the renaming of the genus Lasius after him as Donisthorpea, and for his many claims of discovering new species of beetles and ants.He is often considered...
, British entomologist
- Horace Engdahl
Horace Oscar Axel Engdahl is a Swedish literary historian and critic, and has been a member of the Swedish Academy since 1997. He was the permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, i.e. its spokesman, from 1999 to June 2009, when he was succeeded by historian Peter Englund.-Biography:Engdahl was...
, Permanent secretary of the Swedish academy since 1999
- Horace Fletcher
Horace Fletcher was an American health-food faddist of the Victorian era who earned the nickname "The Great Masticator," by arguing that food should be chewed thirty two times – or, about 100 times per minute – before being swallowed: "Nature will castigate those who don't masticate." He invented...
, American dietitian
- Horace A. Ford
Horace A. Ford is known as one of the greatest target archers of all time. He first picked up the bow in 1845, and a mere four years later won the Grand National Archery Meeting held in the United Kingdom. He proceeded to win an unmatched, eleven consecutive championships, and a twelfth "comeback"...
, archer
- Horace Furness, Shakespearean scholar
- Horace Grant
Horace Junior Grant is a retired American basketball player. He attended and played college basketball at Clemson University, before playing professionally in the National Basketball Association , where he became a four-time champion with the Chicago Bulls and Los Angeles Lakers...
, basketball player
- Horace Gray
Horace Gray was an American jurist who ultimately served on the United States Supreme Court. He was an active in public service and a great philanthropist to the City of Boston.-Early life:...
, American jurist
- Horace Greeley
Horace Greeley was an American editor of a leading newspaper, a founder of the Liberal Republican Party, a reformer, and a politician...
, author and newspaper editor
- Horace Hogan
Michael Bollea is an American professional wrestler and mixed martial artist. In wrestling, he is best known by his ring name, Horace Hogan. He is the nephew of professional wrestler Hulk Hogan and cousin of the late Mike Awesome....
, the stage name of professional wrestler Michael Bollea
- Horace Mann
Horace Mann was an American education reformer, and a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1827 to 1833. He served in the Massachusetts Senate from 1834-1837. Mann was a brother-in-law to author Nathaniel Hawthorne, their wives being sisters.-Education and early career:Horace Mann was...
, American lawyer and education reformer
- Horace Pippin
Horace Pippin was a self-taught African-American painter who worked in a naive style. The injustice of slavery and American segregation figure prominently in many of his works.-Biography:...
, American artist
- Horace Porter
Horace Porter, was an American soldier and diplomat who served as a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War....
, American soldier and diplomat
- Horace-Bénédict de Saussure
200px|thumb|Portrait of Horace-Bénédict de Saussure Horace-Bénédict de Saussure was a Swiss aristocrat, physicist and Alpine traveller, often considered the founder of alpinism.-Life and work:Saussure was born in Conches, near Geneva, in 1740.His early interest in botanical studies led him...
, Swiss scientist and mountain pioneer
- Horace Silver
Horace Silver , born Horace Ward Martin Tavares Silva in Norwalk, Connecticut, is an American jazz pianist and composer. His father, who was known as John Tavares Silva, was from the island of Maio in Cape Verde. His mother was born in New Canaan, Connecticut and was of Irish-African descent...
, jazz musician
- Horace Tabor, American prospector
- Horace de Vere Cole
William Horace de Vere Cole was a British eccentric prankster. His most famous trick was the Dreadnought hoax in 1910 when he fooled the captain of the famous Royal Navy warship HMS Dreadnought into taking Cole and a group of his friends for an Abyssinian delegation.Cole's other pranks included...
, eccentric British aristocrat and prankster
- Horace Vernet
Émile Jean-Horace Vernet was a French painter of battles, portraits, and Orientalist Arab subjects.Vernet was born to Carle Vernet, another famous painter, who was himself a son of Claude Joseph Vernet. Fittingly, he was born in the Paris Louvre, while his parents were staying there during the...
, French painter of military themes
- Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Oxford, novelist and politician
Fictional
- Horace Horsecollar
Horace Horsecollar is a funny animal cartoon character created by Ub Iwerks and Walt Disney.He is an anthropomorphic horse, one of Mickey Mouse's friends, and the boyfriend of Clarabelle Cow. Horace first appeared as Mickey's plough horse in the cartoon "The Plow Boy" in 1929...
, Walt Disney's horse character
- Horace Rumpole (see Rumpole of the Bailey
Rumpole of the Bailey is a British television series created and written by the British writer and barrister John Mortimer, QC which starred Leo McKern as Horace Rumpole, an aging London barrister who defends any and all clients...
), British barrister created by John Mortimer
- Horace Slughorn, a character in J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series
- Horace Goodspeed, Dharma Initiative leader in Lost (TV Series)
Lost is an American serial drama television series. It follows the lives of plane crash survivors on a mysterious tropical island, after a commercial passenger jet flying between Sydney, Australia, and Los Angeles, United States, crashes somewhere in the South Pacific...
- 'Horace', a daily cartoon strip published in The Daily Mirror
The Daily Mirror is a British tabloid newspaper founded in 1903. Twice in its history, from 1985 to 1987, and from 1997 to 2002, the title on its masthead was changed to read simply The Mirror, which is how the paper is usually referred to in popular parlance.- Early years :The Daily Mirror was...
Other things called Horace include:
- Horace, a French novel by George Sand
Amantine Aurore Lucile Dupin, later Baroness Dudevant , best known by her pseudonym George Sand , was a French novelist. She is considered by some a feminist although she refused to join this movement...
- Horace (play)
Horace is a 1972 television play written by Roy Minton and Directed by Alan Clarke.-Plot:Diabetic Horace Barry Jackson is mentally impaired and works in a joke shop. He befriends loner schoolboy, Gordon Blackett Stephen Tantum who retreats from his loveless home into an imaginary...
, a French play by Pierre CorneillePierre Corneille was a French tragedian who was one of the three great seventeenth-century French dramatists, along with Molière and Racine...
- Horace series
The Horace video game series was a series of a video games created in the 1980s by William Tang for Beam Software. The series comprised Hungry Horace, Horace Goes Skiing and Horace and the Spiders....
, series of 1980s video games with a character named Hungry Horace
Other uses
- Horace, Kansas
Horace is a city in Greeley County, Kansas, United States. The population was 143 at the 2000 census.The city is named after Horace Greeley of Chappaqua, New York, editor of the New York Tribune.-History:...
, a small town in the United States
- Horace, Altman, Will's best friend in the Ranger's Apprentice series by John Flanagan