Root (surname)
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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"...
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- Amanda RootAmanda RootAmanda Root is an English stage and screen actor and a former voice actor for children's programmes.Root known for her starring role in the 1995 BBC film adaptation of Jane Austen's Persuasion and the British TV comedy All About Me, as Miranda, alongside Richard Lumsden in 2004 and when she was a...
(born 1963), British actress - Amos RootAmos RootAmos Ives Root developed innovative beekeeping techniques in the United States during the mid-19th century, a period when the industry played an important role in the economy of many communities. He founded his own company, which continues in business to the present day...
, American beekeeper - Antony RootAntony RootAntony Root is an award-winning television executive and producer.- Education :He was educated at King's College School, Cambridge, Marlborough College and Christ's College, Cambridge where he read Philosophy and English...
, British scriptwriter and drama producer - Budd RootBudd RootBudd Root is an American cartoonist, and creator of the independent comic book Cavewoman, published by Root's company Basement Comics/Amryl Entertainment. Root is one of the premiere contemporary "good girl" artists, with an art style similar to Art Adams.'- Biography :Root was born in Heidelberg,...
, comic book artist - Charlie RootCharlie RootCharles Henry Root was an American right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball for the Chicago Cubs for sixteen seasons from 1926 through 1941. He holds the club record for games, innings pitched, and career wins with 201....
, American baseball player - DC Root, Australian rock singer
- Edmund RootEdmund RootEdmund Spence Root was a United States Navy Captain who served as the 34th Naval Governor of Guam. He graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1905, serving on many ships as an ensign. He served as the inaugural commanding officer of two ships: the USS Rizal and the USS Astoria...
, American naval officer - Edward RootEdward RootEddie Root was an Australian rugby league footballer of the 1920s and 30s. A State and Australian national representative, his club career was played in Sydney with the South Sydney Rabbitohs, the Newtown Bluebags and the St. George Dragons...
, Australian rugby league footballer - Eleazer RootEleazer RootEleazer Root was an American educator and Episcopalian priest.Born in Canaan, New York, Root graduated from Williams College and was admitted to the New York bar. After moving briefly to Virginia, Root moved to Waukesha, Wisconsin where he help founded the present Carroll University...
, American educator and Episcopalian priest - Elihu RootElihu RootElihu Root was an American lawyer and statesman and the 1912 recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. He was the prototype of the 20th century "wise man", who shuttled between high-level government positions in Washington, D.C...
(1845–1937), American statesman and 1912 recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize - Elisha K. RootElisha K. RootElisha K. Root was a Connecticut machinist and inventor.Root was born on a Massachusetts farm and worked as a bobbin boy in a cotton mill before switching, at the age of 15, to working in a machine shop in Ware, Massachusetts. At age 24 he was hired by Connecticut industrialist Samuel W...
, American inventor - Enoch Root, fictional character in novels by Neal StephensonNeal StephensonNeal Town Stephenson is an American writer known for his works of speculative fiction.Difficult to categorize, his novels have been variously referred to as science fiction, historical fiction, cyberpunk, and postcyberpunk...
- Fred RootFred RootCharles Frederick Root was an English cricketer who played for England in 1926 and for Derbyshire between 1910 to 1920 and for Worcestershire between 1921 and 1932.- Early career :...
, English cricketer - George Frederick RootGeorge Frederick RootGeorge Frederick Root was an American songwriter, who found particular fame during the American Civil War.-Biography:...
, American songwriter - Gladys RootGladys RootGladys Towles Root was a successful criminal defense attorney in Los Angeles, California known for her piercing cross-examinations. Root was forced to specialize in sexual assault and murder cases because no other work was available to her....
, American criminal defense attorney - Gloria RootGloria RootGloria Root was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for the December 1969 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Pompeo Posar.-Education:...
, American model - James Root, American guitarist
- Jane RootJane RootJane Root is a creative executive in the media industry, who has run major television networks on both sides of the Atlantic...
, British television executive - Jesse RootJesse RootJesse Root was an American minister and lawyer from Coventry, Connecticut. During the American Revolution he served on the Connecticut Council of Safety and in the Connecticut militia...
, American jurist - Joan RootJoan RootJoan Root was a Kenyan-born conservationist, ecological activist and Oscar-nominated filmmaker....
(1936–2006), British (Kenyan-born) ecological activist and Oscar-nominated filmmaker. - Joe RootJoe Root (Pennsylvania)Joseph "Joe" Root was a resident who was born in Erie, Pennsylvania, USA. He was considered to be one of America's earliest naturalists. Root's unique talents allowed him to find a virtual buffet on Presque Isle without having to resort to modern day conveniences...
(1860–1912) American naturalist from ErieErie, PennsylvaniaErie is a city located in northwestern Pennsylvania in the United States. Named for the lake and the Native American tribe that resided along its southern shore, Erie is the state's fourth-largest city , with a population of 102,000...
, PennsylvaniaPennsylvaniaThe Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is a U.S. state that is located in the Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. The state borders Delaware and Maryland to the south, West Virginia to the southwest, Ohio to the west, New York and Ontario, Canada, to the north, and New Jersey to...
. - Johannes Root (nl), Banda-born Dutch military personnel involved in some military operations in West KalimantanWest KalimantanWest Kalimantan is a province of Indonesia. It is one of four Indonesian provinces in Kalimantan, the Indonesian part of the island of Borneo. Its capital city Pontianak is located right on the Equator....
and BaliBaliBali is an Indonesian island located in the westernmost end of the Lesser Sunda Islands, lying between Java to the west and Lombok to the east...
, Dutch East IndiesDutch East IndiesThe Dutch East Indies was a Dutch colony that became modern Indonesia following World War II. It was formed from the nationalised colonies of the Dutch East India Company, which came under the administration of the Netherlands government in 1800....
(now IndonesiaIndonesiaIndonesia , officially the Republic of Indonesia , is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Indonesia is an archipelago comprising approximately 13,000 islands. It has 33 provinces with over 238 million people, and is the world's fourth most populous country. Indonesia is a republic, with an...
) - John Wellborn RootJohn Wellborn RootJohn Wellborn Root was an American architect who worked out of Chicago with Daniel Burnham. He was one of the founders of the Chicago School style...
(1850–1891), American architect - John Wellborn Root, Jr.John Wellborn Root, Jr.John Wellborn Root, Jr. was a significant U.S. architect based in Chicago. He was the son of architect John Wellborn Root. As a young man, he graduated from Cornell University and studied architecture at Paris' Ecole des Beaux-Arts, where he became friends with John Augur Holabird, the son of...
(1887–1963), American architect - Jon RootJon RootJonathan Edward Root is a former American volleyball player, who was a member of the United States men's national volleyball team that won the gold medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. He played college volleyball for Stanford University.-References:* * *...
(born 1964), American volleyball player - Julius RootJulius RootJulius Root is a fictional character from the Artemis Fowl series of children's books written by Irish author Eoin Colfer.- Personality :Julius Root was the commander of the reconnaissance division of the Lower Elements Police. Root was frequently angry, and when angry, he became extremely...
, fictional character from the Artemis Fowl series - Leon RootLeon RootDr. Leon Root is the former Chief of Pediatric Orthopaedics at the Hospital for Special Surgery. He was President of the American Academy for Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine in 1988. Dr...
, American physician - Martha RootMartha RootMartha Louise Root was a prominent traveling teacher of the Bahá'í Faith in the late 19th and early 20th century. Shoghi Effendi, the Guardian of the Bahá'í Faith called her "the foremost travel teacher in the first Bahá'í Century", and named her a Hand of the Cause posthumously...
, American teacher of the Bahá'í FaithBahá'í FaithThe Bahá'í Faith is a monotheistic religion founded by Bahá'u'lláh in 19th-century Persia, emphasizing the spiritual unity of all humankind. There are an estimated five to six million Bahá'ís around the world in more than 200 countries and territories.... - Richard RootRichard RootRichard K. Root was a clinical teacher at the University of Washington Medical Center and former chief of medicine at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, Washington...
(1938–2006), American epidemiologist - Robert Root-BernsteinRobert Root-BernsteinRobert Root-Bernstein is a professor of physiology at Michigan State University. In 1981, he was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship, commonly known as a "genius grant."...
, MacArthur fellow and professor of life sciences at Michigan State University - Sidney RootSidney RootSidney Root an American businessman.Root was born in Montague in western Massachusetts, but early in his life his family moved to Vermont, where his boyhood days were spent in the shadow of the Green Mountains. On his father's plantation he acquired the industrious habits which characterized him...
(1824–1897), American engineer and businessman - Stephen RootStephen RootStephen Root is an American actor. He is best known for his comedic work on the TV sitcom NewsRadio, in the film Office Space and as the voice of Bill Dauterive and Buck Strickland in the animated series King of the Hill...
, American actor - Tina RootTina RootTina Root , also now known as Tina Minero, is an American classically trained female vocalist and songwriter from Los Angeles, California, perhaps most famous for her work performing as the lead singer of Switchblade Symphony during the mid-to-late-1990s...
, American singer - Waverley Lewis Root, American journalist