Marsden
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Marsden is both a surname and a place name.
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As a surname
As a surname, Marsden may refer to:- Bernie MarsdenBernie Marsden-External links:*...
(born May 7, 1951), English rock guitarist - Betty MarsdenBetty MarsdenBetty Marsden was an English comedy actress.Originally from Liverpool, she attended the Italia Conti Stage School and ENSA.In the radio series Beyond Our Ken, she played Fanny Haddock, a takeoff of Fanny Cradock...
(24 February 1919 – 18 July 1998), British comedy actress - Brian G. MarsdenBrian G. MarsdenBrian Geoffrey Marsden was a British astronomer born in Cambridge, England, and educated at The Perse School in Cambridge, New College, Oxford and Yale University. Dr...
(5 August 1937 – 18 November 2010), British astronomer - Chris MarsdenChris MarsdenChristopher "Chris" Marsden is an English former footballer who played in the Football League and Premier League for Sheffield United, Huddersfield Town, Coventry City, Wolverhampton Wanderers, Notts County, Stockport County, Birmingham City, Southampton and Sheffield Wednesday, and in the Korean...
, former Football player - David MarsdenDavid MarsdenDavid Marsden is a Canadian radio broadcaster. As the driving force behind Brampton, Ontario radio station CFNY in the 1980s, he became an influential figure in the Canadian music industry by giving many Canadian and international alternative rock artists major Canadian radio exposure...
, Canadian radio broadcaster - Dora MarsdenDora MarsdenDora Marsden was an English feminist editor of avant-garde literary journals, and an author of philosophical writings.-Early life:...
(5 March 1882 – 13 December 1960), author - Edward MarsdenEdward MarsdenThe Rev. Edward Marsden was a Canadian-American missionary and member of the Tsimshian nation who became the first Alaska Native to be ordained in the ministry....
, (1869–1932), Canadian-American missionary - Elaine Marsden, fictional character
- Ernest MarsdenErnest MarsdenSir Ernest Marsden was an English-New Zealand physicist. He was born in East Lancashire, living in Rishton and educated at Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Blackburn, where an inter-house trophy rewarding academic excellence bears his name.He met Ernest Rutherford at the University of Manchester...
(1889–1970), British-New Zealand physicist - Frances Marsden, fictional character
- Frank MarsdenFrank MarsdenFrank Marsden was a British Labour Party politician. He served as Member of Parliament for Liverpool Scotland from 1971 to 1974....
(1923–2006), British politician - George MarsdenGeorge MarsdenGeorge M. Marsden is an historian who has written extensively on the interaction between Christianity and American culture, particularly on Christianity in American higher education and on American Evangelicalism...
, American historian - Gerry MarsdenGerry MarsdenGerard "Gerry" Marsden is an English musician and television personality, best known for being leader of the British band Gerry & the Pacemakers.-Biography:...
(born September 24, 1942), British musician - Gordon MarsdenGordon MarsdenGordon Marsden is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament for Blackpool South since 1997.-Early life:...
(born November 28, 1953), British politician - Henry Rowland MarsdenHenry Rowland MarsdenHenry Rowland Marsden was a philanthropist and Mayor of Leeds for 1873 to 1875, said to be the most popular Victorian mayor of Leeds....
(1823–1876) Victorian Mayor of Leeds and philanthropist - Ian D. MarsdenIan D. Marsdenthumb|rightIan David Marsden is a illustrator, cartoonist, designer and artist. Born in Greenwich Village, Currently he resides near Montpellier Southern France with his wife Sheryl and their three daughters...
, American cartoonist - James MarsdenJames MarsdenJames Paul Marsden is an American actor, singer and former Versace model. He is known for playing the superhero Cyclops in the first three X-Men films and for his roles in other commercially successful films such as Hop, Superman Returns, Hairspray, Enchanted, The Box, and 27 Dresses.-Early life...
(born 18 September 1973), American actor - Jason MarsdenJason MarsdenJason Christopher Marsden is an American screen and voice actor who has done numerous voice roles in animated films, as well as various television series.-Early life:...
(born January 3, 1975), American screen and voice actor - Jerrold E. MarsdenJerrold E. MarsdenJerrold Eldon Marsden , was an applied mathematician. He was the Carl F. Braun Professor of Engineering and Control & Dynamical Systems at the California Institute of Technology. Marsden is listed as an ISI highly cited researcher.-Career:Marsden earned his B.Sc...
(1942–2010), mathematician - Jill MarsdenJill MarsdenJill Marsden is a scholar of the work of German philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche. Marsden, from Nottingham, took her BA, MA and PhD from the University of Essex. Her doctoral thesis explored Nietzsche's Doctrine of Eternal Return....
(born 1964), philosopher - Jill Marsden (EastEnders), fictional character
- John Marsden (lawyer)John Marsden (lawyer)John Marsden , was a prominent Sydney-based Australian solicitor and former President of the Law Society of New South Wales...
, Australian solicitor - John Marsden (writer)John Marsden (writer)John Marsden is an Australian writer, teacher and school principal. Marsden has had his books translated into nine languages including Swedish, Norwegian, French, German, Dutch, Danish, Italian and Spanish....
(born September 27, 1950), Australian writer of books for children and young adults - John Marsden (archaeologist) (7 May 1803 – 24 January 1870), English antiquary and vicar
- Karen MarsdenKaren MarsdenKaren Marsden is a former Australian field hockey goalkeeper, who was a member of the Olympic gold medal winning team of the 1996 Summer Olympics.-References:*...
(born November 24, 1962), former Australian field hockey goalkeeper - Lorna MarsdenLorna MarsdenLorna Marsden, CM, O.Ont is a Canadian sociologist, academic, and former politician. She is the former President and Vice-Chancellor of both Wilfrid Laurier University and York University, and a former senator.-Career:...
, (1942- ), Canadian sociologist and senator - Matthew MarsdenMatthew MarsdenMatthew Marsden is an English actor and singer. In the United Kingdom he is widely remembered for playing the character Chris Collins in the popular soap opera, Coronation Street. However, he is best known in the USA as a film actor. He has played the roles of Paris in Helen of Troy, Dr...
, (1973- ), English actor - Midge MarsdenMidge MarsdenKeith Douglas "Midge" Marsden MNZM is a New Zealand blues and R&B guitarist, harmonica-player, and singer with a musical career spanning four decades.-Biography:...
, (1945- ), New Zealand musician - Pat MarsdenPat MarsdenPatrick Francis Marsden was a Canadian sportscaster and voice of the Canadian Football League play-by-play coverage in the 1970s and 1980s. He also worked as host for the historic 1972 Canada-Soviet Union hockey Summit Series sports telecasts.Marsden was born in Ottawa and attended St...
, (1936–2006), Canadian sportscaster - Paul MarsdenPaul MarsdenPaul William Barry Marsden is a British writer, businessman and former politician. He was the Member of Parliament for Shrewsbury and Atcham from 1997 until 2005...
(born March 18, 1968), British politician - Paul Marsden (Emmerdale)Paul Marsden (Emmerdale)Paul Marsden is a fictional character in the British ITV soap opera, Emmerdale. He was played by Matthew Booth and made his first appearance on 10 March 2003. The character was killed off in July 2004.-Character creation and development:...
, fictional character - Philip MarsdenPhilip MarsdenPhilip Marsden also known as Philip Marsden-Smedley is an English travel writer and novelist.Marsden has a degree in anthropology and worked for some years for The Spectator magazine. He became a full-time writer in the late 1980s...
, British author - Rachel MarsdenRachel MarsdenRachel Marsden is a Canadian conservative political columnist, geopolitical strategist, author and television commentator based in Paris. She writes an internationally syndicated weekly column for Tribune Media Services. She also teaches at Sciences Po University in Paris...
(born December 2, 1974), Canadian political commentator and activist - Rhodri MarsdenRhodri Marsden-Journalism:Rhodri Marsden currently writes a weekly column for The Independent called "Life On Marsden", and a monthly "Cyberculture" spread for the same newspaper about technology and the internet. He previously wrote The Observer Music Monthly's "Guitarist Wanted" column, which required him to...
, (1971- ), London-based journalist, musician, and blogger - Ronnie Marsden, fictional character
- Roy MarsdenRoy MarsdenRoy Marsden is an English actor, who is probably best known for his portrayal of Adam Dalgliesh in the Anglia Television dramatisations of P. D. James's detective novels.- Education :...
, British actor who played detective Dalgliesh on television - Samuel MarsdenSamuel MarsdenSamuel Marsden was an English born Anglican cleric and a prominent member of the Church Missionary Society, believed to have introduced Christianity to New Zealand...
(1764–1838), Anglican priest - Simon MarsdenSimon MarsdenSir Simon Neville Llewelyn Marsden, 4th Baronet is an English photographer and author. He is known best for his uncommon black-and-white photographs of allegedly haunted houses and places throughout Europe...
(born December 1, 1948), English photographer - Siobhan MarsdenSiobhan MarsdenSiobhan Marsden is a fictional character in the British soap opera Emmerdale, played by Abigail Fisher. She made her first appearance on 10 March 2003.-Character creation and development:...
, fictional character - Steve Marsden, a British bassoonist
- Victor E. MarsdenVictor E. MarsdenVictor Emile Marsden was a journalist and translator, known for allegedly translating an English language version of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion...
, journalist and translator - William Marsden (orientalist) (16 November 1754 - 6 October 1836), English orientalist
- William Marsden (surgeon)William Marsden (surgeon)William Marsden was an English surgeon whose main achievements are the founding of two presently well-known hospitals, the Royal Free Hospital and the Royal Marsden Hospital ....
(1796–1867), English surgeon
As a place name
Marsden may refer to the following places:- Marsden (New Zealand electorate)Marsden (New Zealand electorate)Marsden is a former parliamentary electorate, in the Whangarei District in the Northland Region of New Zealand.-Population Centres:The electorate was mixed urban and rural, around the city of Whangarei.-History:...
- Marsden, Tyne and WearMarsden, Tyne and WearMarsden is a suburb in South Shields, North East England, located on the North Sea coast.The original village of Marsden, was demolished in the 1960s due to the risk of erosion from the encroaching shoreline. What remains are five rows of Victorian terraced houses, which were originally built to...
, in the United Kingdom - Marsden, West YorkshireMarsden, West YorkshireMarsden is a large village within the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees, in West Yorkshire, England, west of Huddersfield and located at the confluence of the River Colne and the Wessenden Brook...
, in the United Kingdom - Marsden, Wiltshire, in the United Kingdom
- Marsden, SaskatchewanMarsden, Saskatchewan-Arts and culture:Marsden is also the host of the annual Quad War, a Society for Creative Anachronism event. It is a Renaissance/Middle Ages full costume festival and war. It attracts approximately 500 people, mostly society members from Alberta and Saskatchewan. It is usually held in the first...
, in Canada - Marsden, QueenslandMarsden, QueenslandMarsden is a suburb of Logan City, Queensland, in Australia.-Notable people:*Cameron Smith*Israel Folau*Chris Sandow*Joseph Tomane*Antonio Winterstein*Leigh Muller-Leisure:...
, in Australia - Marsden MoundsMarsden MoundsMarsden Mounds is an archaeological site with components from the Poverty Point culture and the Troyville-Coles Creek period . It is located in Richland Parish, Louisiana near Delhi It was added to the NRHP on August 4, 2004 as NRIS number 04000803...
an archaeological site in Arkansas, USA
Other uses
- Marsden High School, in New South Wales, Australia
- Marsden State High SchoolMarsden State High SchoolMarsden State High School is a secondary school in Logan City, Queensland for students between years 8 and 12. Marsden State High School is located on Muchow Road between the suburbs of Marsden and Waterford West. The school was established in 1987 and—as of 2008—has 1,900...
, in Queensland, Australia.
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