Parent (surname)
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Parent is a surname, and may refer to:
- Alphonse-Marie ParentAlphonse-Marie ParentAlphonse-Marie Parent, CC was a Canadian priest, educator and academic administrator. He is best known for having given his name to the Parent Report on the reform of Quebec's education system....
- Antoine ParentAntoine ParentAntoine Parent was a French mathematician, born at Paris and died there, who wrote in 1700 on analytical geometry of three dimensions. His works were collected and published in three volumes at Paris in 1713....
- Bernie ParentBernie ParentBernard Marcel Parent , better known as Bernie Parent, is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender who played 13 National Hockey League seasons with the Philadelphia Flyers, Boston Bruins, and Toronto Maple Leafs, and also spent one season in the World Hockey Association with the...
- Bob ParentBob ParentBob Parent was Canadian-born photographer who specialized in photographing the Jazz musicians of New York City. His phototgraphs often appeared in Life, Down Beat and Metronome magazines, in books and album covers. He also designed LP jackets for independent recording companies - Miles Davis'...
- Clark ParentClark ParentJean Jacques Clark Parent is a writer, poet, composer, singer, playwright, novelist, and philosopher. He was born in Pétionville, Haiti on October 17, 1951. He was a Senator of the Republic of Haiti, elected in 1990 under FNCD in the Ouest Department....
- Dan ParentDan ParentDan Parent is an American comic book artist and writer best known for his work for Archie Comics. A graduate of The Kubert School, Parent began working for Archie immediately after graduation. His writing of the Love Showdown series from 1994 received widespread attention...
- Elaine ParentElaine ParentElaine Antoinette Parent was an American criminal known as "the world's most wanted woman" in the late nineties and early '00s. She was wanted for the murder of her former roommate, Beverly McGowan. Beverly had placed an ad in the paper looking for a roommate. A woman named "Alice" answered the...
- Étienne ParentÉtienne ParentÉtienne Parent was a Canadian journalist and government official.He was editor of the newspaper Le Canadien and, as such, supported French Canadian journalism and writing...
- Gilbert ParentGilbert ParentGilbert "Gib" Parent, PC was a Canadian Member of Parliament. He is best known in his role of Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons between 1994 and 2001....
- Jacques Parent (fencer)Jacques Parent (fencer)Jacques Parent was a French Olympic fencer. He competed in the team sabre event at the 1948 Summer Olympics.-References:...
, a French Olympic fencer - Jacques Parent (politician), a Canadian politician
- Maury ParentMaury ParentMaury Parent was a well-known radio personality in the Nashua, New Hampshire/Lowell, Massachusetts area from the 1950s until his death on August 19, 2004....
- Kevin ParentKevin ParentKevin Parent Kevin Parent Kevin Parent (born 12 December 1972 in Greenfield Park, Quebec (now Longueuil) is a bilingual Québécois singer-songwriter. Although his mother language is English, he was raised and educated in the French speaking area of Bay of Chaleur (Gaspé Peninsula) in the...
- Mark ParentMark ParentMark Parent is an author and former Member of the Legislative Assembly of Nova Scotia, Canada for the constituency of Kings North...
- Mark Parent (baseball player)Mark Parent (baseball player)Mark Alan Parent was a Major League Baseball catcher who played from 1986 to 1998 and is currently the Chicago White Sox bench coach...
(born 1961), American Major League Baseball player - Mary ParentMary ParentMary Parent is an American film executive, who is currently the Chairperson of Metro Goldwyn Mayer's Worldwide Motion Picture Group. She was a former President of Production for Universal Studios. There, she was responsible for Meet the Fockers, The Bourne Supremacy, Serenity, and other films...
- Maury ParentMaury ParentMaury Parent was a well-known radio personality in the Nashua, New Hampshire/Lowell, Massachusetts area from the 1950s until his death on August 19, 2004....
(died 2004), American radio personality - Mimi Parent
- Phil Parent
- Ryan ParentRyan ParentRyan Parent is a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman who currently plays within the Vancouver Canucks organization of the National Hockey League .-Playing career:...
- Simon-Napoléon ParentSimon-Napoléon ParentSimon-Napoléon Parent . Born in Quebec City he was the 12th Premier of the Canadian province of Quebec from October 3, 1900 to March 21, 1905.-Background:...
- Steven ParentSteven ParentSteven Earl Parent was a victim of the Charles Manson murders.-Early life:Steven Earl Parent was born in California to Wilfred Elmer Parent, a construction superintendent and his wife, Juanita, a homemaker...