Kerr (surname)
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Kerr is a surname
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"...

, traditionally pronounced either 'cur', 'care' or 'carr'. In Scotland
Scotland
Scotland 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...

, it is pronounced 'kehr' with a trilled 'r' and the vowel sounded as long 'eh' as in egg. See Clan Kerr
Clan Kerr
Clan Kerr is a Scottish clan that played an important role in the history of the Border country of Scotland.-Origins:The origins of the name Kerr are disputed as being either:*Caer *Ciar...

 for the Scottish
Scotland
Scotland 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...

 origins.

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  • Alex Kerr
    Alex Kerr
    Alex Kerr is an American writer and Japanologist.-Life and career:Originally from the Bethesda area in Montgomery County, Maryland, Kerr’s father, a naval officer, was posted in Yokohama from 1964 to 1966. Kerr returned to the states and studied Japanese Studies at Yale University...

    , Japanologist
  • Alfred Kerr
    Alfred Kerr
    Alfred Kerr , born Alfred Kempner, was an influential German-Jewish theatre critic and essayist, nicknamed the Kulturpapst ....

    , Jewish born German journalist, critic and writer
  • Andrew Kerr (disambiguation)
    Andrew Kerr (disambiguation)
    Andrew Kerr was an American football coach.Andrew or Andy Kerr may also refer to:*Andy Kerr Stadium, a stadium named for the football coach*Andrew Kerr , co-founder of the Glastonbury Festival...

    , various
  • Archibald John Kerr Clark Kerr, 1st Baron Inverchapel, British diplomat

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  • Baine Kerr
    Baine Kerr
    Baine Perkins Kerr was a prominent Houston lawyer who was a partner in the law firm of Baker and Botts, where he managed the corporate law department, before he joined Pennzoil.-Career:...

    , Houston lawyer
  • Ben Kerr
    Ben Kerr
    Ben Kerr was a Canadian author, broadcaster, musician and perennial candidate, who was most famous as one of Toronto, Ontario's quirky street performers.-Background:...

    , Canadian author
  • Bill Kerr
    Bill Kerr
    William 'Bill' Kerr is an Australian film and television actor. He was born into a performing arts family in Cape Town, South Africa, but grew up in Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia....

    , actor
    Actor
    An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...

  • Brian Kerr, Irish soccer manager
  • Brian Kerr (footballer)
    Brian Kerr (footballer)
    Brian Kerr is a Scottish international association football player.- Newcastle United :Kerr started his career with Newcastle United, but failed to hold down a regular first team place. Despite this, he won three caps for Scotland under the management of Berti Vogts...

  • Brook Kerr
    Brook Kerr
    Brook Kerr is an American actress who is best known for her portrayal of Whitney Russell Harris on the television soap opera, Passions.-Biography:...

  • Brooke Kerr, American actress

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  • Charles Hope Kerr
    Charles Hope Kerr
    Charles Hope Kerr , a son of abolitionists, was a vegetarian and Unitarian in 1886 when he established Charles H Kerr Company Publishers in Chicago right before the Haymarket Riot. Over the years, his company became a leading publisher of socialist, anarchist, and Wobbly works...

  • Charles Kerr, 1st Baron Teviot
    Charles Kerr, 1st Baron Teviot
    Charles Iain Kerr, 1st Baron Teviot DSO, MC was a British politician.Kerr was the son of Charles Wyndham Rodolph Kerr and the great-grandson of William Kerr, 6th Marquess of Lothian. His mother was Anna Maria Olivia, daughter of Admiral Sir George Elliot...

  • Christine Kerr
  • Clark Kerr
    Clark Kerr
    Clark Kerr was an American professor of economics and academic administrator. He was the first chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley and twelfth president of the University of California.- Early years :...

    , first Chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley
    University of California, Berkeley
    The University of California, Berkeley , is a teaching and research university established in 1868 and located in Berkeley, California, USA...

  • Cristie Kerr
    Cristie Kerr
    Cristie Kerr is an American professional golfer who plays on the U.S.-based LPGA Tour. She has 14 wins on the LPGA Tour, including two major championships, and over $13 million in career earnings...

     (born 1977), American golfer

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  • Daniel Kerr
    Daniel Kerr
    Daniel Matthew Kerr is an Australian rules footballer.Kerr was recruited from East Fremantle Football Club and made his AFL debut in 2001 with the West Coast Eagles. He is a hard-running midfielder who is a vital part of the midfield at the Eagles.-Background:Kerr is of Anglo-Indian descent...

  • David Kerr, several people, including:
    • David Kerr (Northern Irish politician), Chair of the Third Way group
    • David Kerr (UK politician)
      David Kerr (UK politician)
      David Leigh Kerr was a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom. He was an active member of the Socialist Medical Association before he was elected Member of Parliament for Wandsworth Central from 1964 to 1970, when he stood down...

       (born 1923), British Labour Member of Parliament 1964–1970
    • David Kerr (cinematographer)
      David Kerr (cinematographer)
      David Kerr is a British cinematographer based in England.Kerr began his career ironically with an eye for much smaller details. His undergraduate studies in Microbiology at the University of Kent led him to pursue a second degree in Electron Microscopy and Specialized Photography at Oxford University...

      , British cinematographer
  • Deborah Kerr
    Deborah Kerr
    Deborah Kerr, CBE was a Scottish film and television actress from Glasgow. She won the Sarah Siddons Award for her Chicago performance as Laura Reynolds in Tea and Sympathy, a role which she originated on Broadway, a Golden Globe Award for the motion picture The King and I, and was a three-time...

     (1921–2007), British film actress
  • Dickie Kerr
    Dickie Kerr
    Richard Henry "Dickey" Kerr was a starting pitcher for the Chicago White Sox from -. As a rookie, he won 13 games and both his starts in the 1919 World Series, which would lead to the permanent suspensions of eight of his teammates in the Black Sox Scandal...

     (1893–1963), American baseball player
  • Don Kerr
    Don Kerr
    Don Kerr is a Canadian multi-instrumentalist and record producer.He was a member of Rheostatics from 1995 to May 2001. He plays in Ron Sexsmith's band, and sometimes with The Kelele Brothers. He and Sexsmith released an album together, Destination Unknown, in 2005...

  • Donald Kerr
    Donald Kerr
    Donald MacLean Kerr, Jr. is the current Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence. He was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on Thursday, October 4, 2007. He most recently was the Director of the National Reconnaissance Office. He was sworn into that position July 2005 by Secretary of Defense...

    , Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence
  • Duncan Kerr
    Duncan Kerr
    Duncan James Colquhoun Kerr SC is an Australian Senior Counsel and former politician.Born in Hobart, Tasmania, Kerr was educated at the University of Tasmania, where at one stage he was President of the Tasmania University Union and has degrees in both law and social work...

    , Australian politician

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  • Euan Kerr, Scottish comic magazine editor, D. C. Thomson & Co. Ltd
    D. C. Thomson & Co. Ltd
    D. C. Thomson & Co. Ltd, is a publishing company based in Dundee, Scotland, best known for producing The Dundee Courier, The Evening Telegraph, The Sunday Post, Oor Wullie, The Broons, The Beano, The Dandy and Commando comics...


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  • Gavin Kerr
    Gavin Kerr
    Gavin Kerr is a retired rugby union footballer who played prop, he played international rugby for Scotland. He played club rugby for Leeds Tykes , the defunct Border Reivers, Edinburgh and Sale Sharks...

    , Scottish international rugby team prop
  • George Kerr (footballer)
    George Kerr (footballer)
    George Adams McDonald Kerr is a Scottish former footballer and manager. As a player, he played for Barnsley, Bury, Oxford United and Scunthorpe United. As a manager, he managed Lincoln City twice, Grimsby Town, Rotherham United and Boston United.-Managerial career:Kerr briefly managed Lincoln City...

    , English footballer and manager
  • George Kerr (politician), Irish politician
  • George Kerr (judoist)
    George Kerr (judoist)
    George Kerr CBE is a Scottish judo expert.In 1957, he won the gold medal in the European Judo Championships in Rotterdam. In 2002 he was named one of the inaugural members of the Scottish Sports Hall of Fame...

    , Scottish 10th dan
  • George Albert Kerr, Canadian politician
  • George Fraser Kerr
    George Fraser Kerr
    George Fraser Kerr VC, MC & Bar, MM, was a Canadian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest military award given to British and Commonwealth forces for gallantry in the face of the enemy....

    , Canadian World War I soldier
  • George H. Kerr
    George H. Kerr
    George H. Kerr , also known in Taiwan as 葛超智 , was a United States diplomat during World War II, and in later years he was an author and an academic...

    , US diplomat during World War II
  • Gordon Kerr (disambiguation), multiple people
  • Graham Kerr
    Graham Kerr
    Graham Kerr is a cooking personality who is best known for his television cooking show The Galloping Gourmet.- Biography :...

     (born 1934), British cooking personality
  • Greg Kerr
    Greg Kerr
    Greg J. Kerr is a politician from Nova Scotia, Canada. He was elected as the Conservative Party Member of Parliament for the electoral district of West Nova in the 2008 federal election. He is currently the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Veterans Affairs.-Biography:He graduated from...

    , Canadian politician

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  • Jack Kerr
    Jack Kerr
    John Lambert Kerr was a New Zealand cricketer who played seven Tests for the New Zealand cricket team before the Second World War...

     (1910–2007), New Zealand cricketer
  • Jack Kerr (ice hockey)
    Jack Kerr (ice hockey)
    Jack Kerr was a Canadian ice hockey player and athlete. He was one of the founders of the Ottawa Hockey Club for which he played from 1883 onwards. He was a member of the Ontario championship team in 1891, 1892, 1893 and the Canadian championship team of 1892...

  • James Kerr, several people, including:
    • James Kerr (Pennsylvania)
      James Kerr (Pennsylvania)
      James Kerr was a Member of the United States House of Representatives and later the Clerk of the United States House of Representatives.-Biography:...

    • James Kerr (Texas)
      James Kerr (Texas)
      James Kerr was a politician in Missouri and Texas who was active in the establishment of the Republic of Texas.-Early life and family:...

  • Jane Kerr
    Jane Kerr
    Jane Louise Kerr Thompson is a former college and international swimmer from Canada. Kerr was a butterfly and freestyle specialist who was an Olympic bronze medalist.Kerr was born in Mississauga, Ontario....

  • Jean Kerr
    Jean Kerr
    Jean Kerr was an American author and playwright born in Scranton, Pennsylvania and best known for her humorous bestseller, Please Don't Eat the Daisies, and the plays King of Hearts and Mary, Mary...

  • Jerry Kerr
    Jerry Kerr
    Jasper Jerald 'Jerry' Kerr was a Scottish football player and manager, best known as manager of Dundee United from 1959 to 1971...

  • Jim Kerr
    Jim Kerr
    James "Jim" Kerr is a Scottish musician and singer-songwriter, best known for his work with the band Simple Minds who achieved five UK #1 albums and a #1 single "Ballad of the Streets EP". He released his first solo album, Lostboy! AKA Jim Kerr, on the 27 May 2010.- Simple Minds :Kerr attended...

    , Scottish musician
  • John Kerr
    John Kerr (disambiguation)
    -Government and politics:* Sir John Kerr , Australian Governor-General* John Kerr , Irish-born mayor of Columbus, Ohio* John Leeds Kerr , U.S...

    , several people, including:
    • John Kerr, a member of Scottish band, The Dykeenies
      The Dykeenies
      The Dykeenies are a Scottish indie rock band from Cumbernauld, formed in 2005. The group consists of brothers Brian Henderson and Andrew Henderson , along with Steven Ramsay and John Kerr...

    • John Kerr (Governor-General), Australian judge, Governor-General
    • John Kerr (Virginia Congressman)
      John Kerr (Virginia Congressman)
      John Kerr , father of John Kerr, Jr., cousin of Bartlett Yancey, and grand-uncle of John H. Kerr, was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives representing Virginia from 1813 to March 1815 and again from October 1815 to 1817.-External links:...

    • John Kerr, Jr. (congress), North Carolina
      North Carolina
      North Carolina is a state located in the southeastern United States. The state borders South Carolina and Georgia to the south, Tennessee to the west and Virginia to the north. North Carolina contains 100 counties. Its capital is Raleigh, and its largest city is Charlotte...

       politician
    • John Bozman Kerr
      John Bozman Kerr
      John Bozman Kerr was a U.S. Congressman, representing the sixth district of the state of Maryland from 1849 until 1851....

      , U.S. Representative from Maryland
      Maryland
      Maryland is a U.S. state located in the Mid Atlantic region of the United States, bordering Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and Delaware to its east...

    • John C. Kerr
      John C. Kerr
      John Custance Kerr, is a Canadian executive. He is the former Chair and CEO of Lignum Ltd., one of Canada’s largest privately held forest product companies....

      , Canadian businessman
    • John Chipman Kerr
      John Chipman Kerr
      John Chipman Kerr VC , was a Canadian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.In 1912, after working as a lumberjack near Kootenay, B.C...

       VC, Canadian soldier
    • John Glasgow Kerr
      John Glasgow Kerr
      John Glasgow Kerr was a Presbyterian medical missionary to China with the American Presbyterian Mission.Born in Duncansville, Ohio, Kerr graduated from Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia. He went to China as a medical missionary and arrived at Guangzhou in 1854...

       (1824–1901), medical missionary to China with the American Presbyterian Mission
    • John Graham Kerr
      John Graham Kerr
      Sir John Graham Kerr was a Scottish embryologist and Unionist Member of Parliament .  He is best known for his studies of the embryology of lungfishes.Born in Hertfordshire to Scottish parents, Kerr was educated at the Royal High School, Edinburgh, and at the University of Edinburgh, but...

       (1869–1957), Scottish embryologist and Member of Parliament
    • John H. Kerr, III
      John H. Kerr, III
      John Hosea Kerr III was a Democratic member of the North Carolina General Assembly representing constituents in Greene, Lenoir and Wayne counties. An attorney from Goldsboro, North Carolina, Kerr served eight terms in the state Senate. Previously, he served three terms in the state House. In...

      , North Carolina politician
    • Sir John Henry Kerr
      John Henry Kerr
      Sir John Henry Kerr, KCSI, KCIE was a colonial governor in British India-Life:John Henry Kerr was born in Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland, the elder son , of John Smith Kerr, tea and sugar merchant of Greenock, and his wife, Sarah Ann Bray, elder daughter of Tom Cox Bray, an early settler of...

      , colonial governor in British India
    • John Leeds Kerr
      John Leeds Kerr
      John Leeds Kerr was an American politician.-Early years:Kerr was born in 1780 at Greenbury Point near Annapolis, Maryland, and graduated from St. John’s College of Annapolis in 1799...

      , former U.S. Senator
      United States Senate
      The United States Senate is the upper house of the bicameral legislature of the United States, and together with the United States House of Representatives comprises the United States Congress. The composition and powers of the Senate are established in Article One of the U.S. Constitution. Each...

       from Maryland
    • John Kerr (actor)
      John Kerr (actor)
      John Kerr is an American actor from a family rooted in British and Broadway stage, and a lawyer.- Early life :Kerr's parents, Geoffrey Kerr and June Walker, were both stage and film actors, and his grandfather was Frederick Kerr, a famed British trans-Atlantic character actor in the period...

      , who appeared in Tea and Sympathy and South Pacific (later became a lawyer)
    • John Kerr (broadcaster)
      John Kerr (broadcaster)
      For other people called John Kerr see John Kerr John Kerr is a multi-talented Australian radio announcer....

      , Australian radio broadcaster
    • John Kerr (figure skater)
      John Kerr (figure skater)
      John Alastair Kerr is a Scottish ice dancer who represents Great Britain. He competes with his sister Sinead Kerr...

      , Scottish figure skater
    • John Kerr (physicist)
      John Kerr (physicist)
      John Kerr FRS was a Scottish physicist and a pioneer in the field of electro-optics. He is best known for the discovery of what is now called the Kerr effect.-Life and work:...

      , Scottish physicist
    • John Kerr (Royal Navy officer)
      John Kerr (Royal Navy officer)
      Admiral Sir John Beverley Kerr GCB, DL, is a retired admiral in the Royal Navy.-Career:During his naval career Kerr commanded a frigate, a guided missile destroyer and an aircraft carrier — HMS Illustrious. He was appointed Chief of Defence Intelligence in 1988...

      , English admiral
    • John Kerr (soccer)
      John Kerr (soccer)
      John Kerr, Jr. is an American retired soccer midfielder who played professionally in the United States, Canada, England, France and Northern Ireland during a much traveled and varied playing career. He is currently head coach of the Duke University men's soccer team. Kerr was named the 1986...

      , American soccer player
    • John Kerr (US politician)
      John Kerr (US politician)
      John Kerr was an Irish-born mayor of Columbus, Ohio in the United States. He was the second person to serve as mayor of that city, and held office from 1818 to 1820....

    • John Kerr, Baron Kerr of Kinlochard
      John Kerr, Baron Kerr of Kinlochard
      John Olav Kerr, Baron Kerr of Kinlochard GCMG , a former diplomat, is Deputy Chairman of Royal Dutch Shell and an independent member of the House of Lords.-Background and education:...

      , former British Ambassador to the United States
  • Johnny Kerr
    Johnny Kerr
    John G. “Red” Kerr was an American basketball player, coach, and color commentator. He played in the NBA from 1954 to 1966, mainly as a member of the Syracuse Nationals...

     (1932–2009), American basketball player, coach, executive, and broadcaster
  • Josiah Kerr
    Josiah Kerr
    Josiah Leeds Kerr represented Maryland's 1st congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1900 to 1901....

  • Joseph Kerr
    Joseph Kerr
    Joseph Kerr was a Democratic-Republican politician from Ohio. He served in the United States Senate.Born in Kerrtown, Pennsylvania , Kerr moved to Ohio in 1792. He served in a number of positions as clerk, judge and justice of the peace in the Northwest Territory...

    , politician from Ohio
    Ohio
    Ohio is a Midwestern state in the United States. The 34th largest state by area in the U.S.,it is the 7th‑most populous with over 11.5 million residents, containing several major American cities and seven metropolitan areas with populations of 500,000 or more.The state's capital is Columbus...

    , United States
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

  • Joseph Kerr (Canadian politician)
    Joseph Kerr (Canadian politician)
    Joseph Kerr was an Ontario merchant and political figure. He represented Stormont in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario as a Conservative member from 1879 to 1885....

  • Joseph "Joe" Kerr, The Joker
    Joker (comics)
    The Joker is a fictional character, a comic book supervillain published by DC Comics. He is the archenemy of Batman, having been directly responsible for numerous tragedies in Batman's life, including the paralysis of Barbara Gordon and the death of Jason Todd, the second Robin...

     from the Batman
    Batman
    Batman is a fictional character created by the artist Bob Kane and writer Bill Finger. A comic book superhero, Batman first appeared in Detective Comics #27 , and since then has appeared primarily in publications by DC Comics...

     comics
  • Judith Kerr
    Judith Kerr
    Judith Kerr is a German-born British writer and illustrator who has created both enduring picture books such as the Mog series and The Tiger Who Came To Tea and acclaimed novels for older children such as the autobiographical When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit which give a child's-eye view of the...

    , German-British writer

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  • Katharine Kerr
    Katharine Kerr
    Katharine Kerr is a science fiction and fantasy novelist, best known for her series of Celtic-influenced high fantasy novels set in the fictional land of Deverry.- Biography :...

    , science fiction and fantasy novelist
  • Kevin Kerr, several people

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  • Malcolm Kerr (1931–1984), American academic (see also his father Stanley Kerr and son Steve Kerr)
  • Malcolm Kerr
    Malcolm Kerr (Australian politician)
    Malcolm John Kerr JP , a former Australian politician, was a Member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly representing Cronulla for the Liberal Party of Australia between 1984 and 2011.Kerr is a barrister and is not married....

     (born 1950), Australian politician
  • Mark Kerr, several people, including:
    • Mark Kerr, American mixed martial artist
    • Mark Kerr, 1st Earl of Lothian
      Mark Kerr, 1st Earl of Lothian
      Mark Kerr , 1st Earl of Lothian was a Scottish nobleman and politician.He was the son of Mark Kerr, abbot of Newbattle, Midlothian, and the sister of the Earl of Rothes. Mark was Vicar of Linton in 1567...

    • Mark Kerr, British admiral
    • Mark Kerr
      Mark Kerr (footballer)
      Mark Kerr is a Scottish professional football player who currently plays for Greek club Asteras Tripolis.-Falkirk:Kerr began his career with Falkirk, where he played from 1998 until 2003...

      , Scottish footballer
  • M.E. Kerr, one of the many pseudonyms used by Marijane Meaker, an American novelist and short story writer
  • Mel Kerr
    Mel Kerr
    John Melville Kerr is a Canadian-born former major league baseball player....

  • Michael Kerr, judge, lawyer and author
  • Michael C. Kerr
    Michael C. Kerr
    Michael Crawford Kerr was an American legislator.He was born at Titusville, Pennsylvania and educated at the Erie Academy. He graduated from Louisville University's Law School in 1851...

  • Miranda Kerr
    Miranda Kerr
    Miranda May Kerr is an Australian model. She is best known as one of the Victoria's Secret Angels since mid-2007. She is the first Australian to participate in the Victoria's Secret campaign and also represents Australian fashion chain David Jones...

    , Victoria's Secret Model

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  • Patrick Kerr
    Patrick Kerr
    Patrick Kerr is an American television actor. He is probably best known for his recurring role as Noel Shempsky on Frasier...

  • Paul Kerr
    Paul Kerr (footballer)
    Paul Andrew Kerr is a former English footballer. He was a midfield player who managed to score almost 50 goals in a little over 260 games.-Playing career:...

    , English football (soccer) player
  • Peg Kerr
    Peg Kerr
    Peg Kerr is a US fantasy author.She was born in a suburb of Chicago and moved to Minnesota to attend St. Olaf College. She received an M.A. in English Literature in 1990, specializing in speculative fiction...

  • Peter Kerr
    Peter Kerr (disambiguation)
    Peter Kerr may refer to:* Peter Kerr , Scottish author* Peter Kerr, 12th Marquess of Lothian , Scottish peer, politician and landowner...

    , several people, including:
  • Philip Kerr
    Philip Kerr
    Philip Kerr is a British author of both adult fiction and non-fiction, most notably the Bernie Gunther series of thrillers, and of children's books, particularly the Children of the Lamp series....

  • Philip Kerr, 11th Marquess of Lothian
    Philip Kerr, 11th Marquess of Lothian
    Philip Henry Kerr, 11th Marquess of Lothian KT CH PC was a British politician and diplomat.Philip Kerr was the son of Lord Ralph Drury Kerr, the third son of John Kerr, 7th Marquess of Lothian...


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  • Ralph Kerr
    Ralph Kerr
    Captain Ralph Kerr CBE was an officer in the Royal Navy. He served in the First and Second World Wars, and was killed in the sinking of HMS Hood by the German battleship Bismarck at the Battle of the Denmark Strait....

    , Royal Navy captain of HMS Hood
  • R. S. Rait Kerr
  • Robbie Kerr
    Robbie Kerr
    Robert "Robbie" Kerr is a British race car driver from England.-Early career:In 2002 he became the British Formula Three Champion for Alan Docking Racing with 306 points ahead of Australian racing driver James Courtney.Following an abortive attempt at International Formula 3000 in 2003, Kerr did...

  • Robbie Kerr (cricketer)
    Robbie Kerr (cricketer)
    Robert Byers Kerr is a former Australian cricketer who played in 2 Tests and 4 ODIs in 1985....

  • Robert Kerr, several people, including:
    • Robert Kerr (athlete), Irish-Canadian sprinter
    • Robert Kerr (inventor), Canadian inventor who co-invented IMAX
      IMAX
      IMAX is a motion picture film format and a set of proprietary cinema projection standards created by the Canadian company IMAX Corporation. IMAX has the capacity to record and display images of far greater size and resolution than conventional film systems...

    • Robert Kerr (writer)
      Robert Kerr (writer)
      Robert Kerr FRS was a scientific writer and translator from Scotland.Kerr was born in Roxburghshire as the son of a jeweller. He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh and practised at the Edinburgh Foundling Hospital as a surgeon...

      , published The Animal Kingdom in 1792
    • Robert S. Kerr
      Robert S. Kerr
      Robert Samuel Kerr was an American businessman from Oklahoma. Kerr formed a petroleum company before turning to politics. He served as the 12th Governor of Oklahoma and was elected three times to the United States Senate...

see more Robert Kerr, disambiguation
  • Roger Kerr
    Roger Kerr
    Roger Lawrence Kerr, CNZM , a public policy and business leader, was the executive director of the New Zealand Business Roundtable, a free-market think-tank based in Wellington, New Zealand.-Career:...

  • W. Rolfe Kerr
    W. Rolfe Kerr
    William Rolfe Kerr is the president of the Logan Utah Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints...

    , Commissioner of Church Education and an emeritus general authority of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church)
  • Roy Kerr
    Roy Kerr
    Roy Patrick Kerr CNZM is a New Zealand mathematician who is best known for discovering the Kerr vacuum, an exact solution to the Einstein field equation of general relativity...

     (*1934), discoverer of Kerr metric
    Kerr metric
    The Kerr metric describes the geometry of empty spacetime around an uncharged axially-symmetric black-hole with an event horizon which is topologically a sphere. The Kerr metric is an exact solution of the Einstein field equations of general relativity; these equations are highly non-linear, which...

     for rotating black holes

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  • Schomberg Henry Kerr, 9th Marquess of Lothian
  • Stevie Kerr, Scottish professional bowling champion
  • Sinead Kerr
    Sinead Kerr
    Sinead Houston Kerr is a Scottish ice dancer who represents Great Britain. She teamed up with her brother John Kerr in 2000. They are two-time European bronze medalists and the 2004–2010 British national champions...

    , Scottish figure skater
  • Sophie Kerr
    Sophie Kerr
    Sophie Kerr was a prolific writer of the early 20th century whose stories about smart, ambitious women mirrored her own evolution from small-town girl to successful career woman...

  • Stanley Kerr
    Stanley Kerr
    Stanley Elphinstone Kerr was an American humanitarian, clinical biochemist and educator. He was the father of Malcolm Kerr, former president of the American University of Beirut and the grandfather of NBA player Steve Kerr....

    , American missionary and academic (father of academic Malcolm Kerr and grandfather of Steve Kerr)
  • Steve Kerr
    Steve Kerr
    Stephen Douglas "Steve" Kerr is a retired American professional basketball player. He shot .454 from three point range over his career and currently holds the record as the most accurate three-point shooter in NBA history...

     (born 1965), basketball player, sportscaster, and basketball executive (son of academic Malcolm Kerr and grandson of Stanley Kerr)
  • Stu Kerr
    Stu Kerr
    Thomas Stewart Kerr, more familiarly known to audiences as Stu Kerr , was a Baltimore, Maryland, television personality who developed and hosted a number of programs on Baltimore television from 1952 through the 1980s...


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  • Walter Kerr
    Walter Kerr
    For the RN admiral see Lord Walter KerrWalter Francis Kerr was an American writer and Broadway theater critic. He also was the writer, lyricist, and/or director of several Broadway plays and musicals.-Biography:...

  • Warwick Estevam Kerr
    Warwick Estevam Kerr
    Warwick Estevam Kerr is a Brazilian agricultural engineer, geneticist, entomologist, professor and scientific leader, notable for his discoveries in the genetics and sex determination of bees. The Africanized bee in the western hemisphere is directly descended from 26 Tanzanian queen bees Warwick...

    , Brazilian biologist
  • Wayne Kerr
    Wayne Kerr
    Wayne Kerr is a rugby league player for Oldham Roughyeds in the Championship One. He is an Ireland international...

    , rugby league footballer
  • William Kerr, 3rd Marquess of Lothian
    William Kerr, 3rd Marquess of Lothian
    William Kerr, 3rd Marquess of Lothian KT was a Scottish nobleman, styled Master of Jedburgh from 1692 to 1703 and Lord Jedburgh from 1703 to 1722...

  • William Kerr, 4th Marquess of Lothian
    William Kerr, 4th Marquess of Lothian
    General William Henry Kerr, 4th Marquess of Lothian KT was a Scottish nobleman, soldier and politician, the eldest son of William Kerr, 3rd Marquess of Lothian. He was styled Master of Jedburgh until 1722, Lord Jedburgh from 1722 to 1735, and Earl of Ancram from 1735 to 1767...

  • William Kerr, 6th Marquess of Lothian
    William Kerr, 6th Marquess of Lothian
    William Kerr, 6th Marquess of Lothian KT was the son of William Kerr, 5th Marquess of Lothian.He married, firstly, Lady Harriet Hobart-Hampden, a younger daughter of 2nd Earl of Buckinghamshire , on 14 April 1793...

  • William Kerr (mayor)
    William Kerr (mayor)
    William Kerr , served as Mayor of Pittsburgh from 1845 to 1847.William Kerr was born in St. Clair Township. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania Medical School...

    , Mayor of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
  • William Alexander Kerr
    William Alexander Kerr
    Captain William Alexander Kerr VC was a Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.-Details:...

  • William Johnson Kerr
    William Johnson Kerr
    William Johnson Kerr was a political figure in Upper Canada.He was born in 1787, the son of Robert Kerr and grandson of Sir William Johnson. He was a captain in the Indian Department and with John Brant and John Norton, he led a group of Six Nations warriors at the Battle of Queenston Heights...

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