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Sam Jones

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  • Samuel Jones (musician)
    Samuel Jones (musician)
    Samuel Jones was a jazz bassist, cellist, and composer.Jones played with Bobby Timmons, Tiny Bradshaw, Les Jazz Modes, Kenny Dorham, Illinois Jacquet, Freddie Hubbard, Dizzy Gillespie and Thelonious Monk...

    , U.S. bassist, cellist, and composer
  • Samuel Jones (composer)
    Samuel Jones (composer)
    Samuel Jones is an American composer and conductor.-Biography:Samuel Jones was born in Inverness, Mississippi in 1935. He received his undergraduate degree with highest honors from Millsaps College in 1957 and subsequently attended Eastman School of Music, studying composition under Howard Hanson,...

    , U.S. composer, conductor
  • Sam Jones (Doctor Who)
    Sam Jones (Doctor Who)
    Samantha Angeline Jones, or simply Sam, is a fictional character in the Eighth Doctor Adventures novels based upon the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. The Eighth Doctor first met her in the novel The Eight Doctors by Terrance Dicks, and she went on to become one of his...

    , character in Doctor Who spin-off novels
  • Sam J. Jones
    Sam J. Jones
    Sam J. Jones is an American actor, often credited as Sam Jones. Often cast as a hero in action films, Jones is best remembered for his portrayal of Flash Gordon in the 1980 film of the same name. As Andrew Cooper III, he was the centerfold in the June 1975 issue of Playgirl Magazine...

     (born 1954), American actor, Flash Gordon (1980)
  • Sam Jones III
    Sam Jones III
    Sam L. Jones III is an American actor.Jones is best known for playing Pete Ross on the television series Smallville for the first three seasons, but left to film Glory Road. Jones has also appeared on the television shows The Practice, ER, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, and 7th Heaven...

     (born 1983), American actor, played Pete Ross on Smallville
  • Sam Jones (filmmaker)
    Sam Jones (filmmaker)
    Samuel Jones is a filmmaker and celebrity photographer based in Los Angeles. His works include I Am Trying to Break Your Heart, a black-and-white film about the rock band Wilco and the making of their album Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, from one of whom's songs the film takes its name.Not to be confused...

    , producer of I Am Trying To Break Your Heart
  • Sam Jones (Mayberry R.F.D.)
    Sam Jones (Mayberry R.F.D.)
    Sam Jones is a fictional character who debuted on the American television sitcom The Andy Griffith Show . Jones then went on to star in the spin-off show Mayberry R.F.D.. Jones is portrayed by American actor Ken Berry.-Overview:...

    , a fictional character on The Andy Griffith Show and Mayberry R.F.D.

  • Sam Jones (Confederate Army officer) (1819–1887), Civil War Confederate Major General
  • Samuel M. Jones
    Samuel M. Jones
    Samuel Milton Jones, a.k.a. "Golden Rule Jones", lived from 1846 to 1904 and served as a Progressive Era Mayor of Toledo, Ohio from 1897 to 1904 . Born in Denbighshire, Wales, Jones emigrated to the United States in 1849. Jones had little education because he had work in order to help his family...

     (1846–1904), U.S.
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  • Samuel Jones (musician)
    Samuel Jones (musician)
    Samuel Jones was a jazz bassist, cellist, and composer.Jones played with Bobby Timmons, Tiny Bradshaw, Les Jazz Modes, Kenny Dorham, Illinois Jacquet, Freddie Hubbard, Dizzy Gillespie and Thelonious Monk...

    , U.S. bassist, cellist, and composer
  • Samuel Jones (composer)
    Samuel Jones (composer)
    Samuel Jones is an American composer and conductor.-Biography:Samuel Jones was born in Inverness, Mississippi in 1935. He received his undergraduate degree with highest honors from Millsaps College in 1957 and subsequently attended Eastman School of Music, studying composition under Howard Hanson,...

    , U.S. composer, conductor
  • Sam Jones (Doctor Who)
    Sam Jones (Doctor Who)
    Samantha Angeline Jones, or simply Sam, is a fictional character in the Eighth Doctor Adventures novels based upon the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. The Eighth Doctor first met her in the novel The Eight Doctors by Terrance Dicks, and she went on to become one of his...

    , character in Doctor Who spin-off novels
  • Sam J. Jones
    Sam J. Jones
    Sam J. Jones is an American actor, often credited as Sam Jones. Often cast as a hero in action films, Jones is best remembered for his portrayal of Flash Gordon in the 1980 film of the same name. As Andrew Cooper III, he was the centerfold in the June 1975 issue of Playgirl Magazine...

     (born 1954), American actor, Flash Gordon (1980)
  • Sam Jones III
    Sam Jones III
    Sam L. Jones III is an American actor.Jones is best known for playing Pete Ross on the television series Smallville for the first three seasons, but left to film Glory Road. Jones has also appeared on the television shows The Practice, ER, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, and 7th Heaven...

     (born 1983), American actor, played Pete Ross on Smallville
  • Sam Jones (filmmaker)
    Sam Jones (filmmaker)
    Samuel Jones is a filmmaker and celebrity photographer based in Los Angeles. His works include I Am Trying to Break Your Heart, a black-and-white film about the rock band Wilco and the making of their album Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, from one of whom's songs the film takes its name.Not to be confused...

    , producer of I Am Trying To Break Your Heart
  • Sam Jones (Mayberry R.F.D.)
    Sam Jones (Mayberry R.F.D.)
    Sam Jones is a fictional character who debuted on the American television sitcom The Andy Griffith Show . Jones then went on to star in the spin-off show Mayberry R.F.D.. Jones is portrayed by American actor Ken Berry.-Overview:...

    , a fictional character on The Andy Griffith Show and Mayberry R.F.D.

Military, Politics, etc

  • Sam Jones (Confederate Army officer) (1819–1887), Civil War Confederate Major General
  • Samuel M. Jones
    Samuel M. Jones
    Samuel Milton Jones, a.k.a. "Golden Rule Jones", lived from 1846 to 1904 and served as a Progressive Era Mayor of Toledo, Ohio from 1897 to 1904 . Born in Denbighshire, Wales, Jones emigrated to the United States in 1849. Jones had little education because he had work in order to help his family...

     (1846–1904), U.S. businessman, politician
  • Sam H. Jones
    Sam H. Jones
    Sam Houston Jones was the reform Democratic governor of Louisiana from 1940 to 1944. He defeated the legendary Earl Kemp Long in the 1940 Democratic primary. Long turned the tables on Jones and soundly defeated him in the 1948 party primary.- Early life :Sam Jones was born in Merryville in...

     (1897–1978), governor of Louisiana
  • Sam Jones (mayor)
    Sam Jones (mayor)
    Samuel Leon Jones is serving his first term as mayor of his hometown, Mobile, Alabama. He is Mobile's first African American mayor. He ran on a platform of safety, efficient government, historic preservation and bringing employers to the city....

    , mayor of Mobile, Alabama
  • Samuel Jones (chancellor)
    Samuel Jones (chancellor)
    Samuel Jones Samuel Jones Samuel Jones (May 26, 1769 New York City - August 9, 1853 Cold Spring Harbor, New York was an American lawyer and politician.-Life:He was the son of Samuel Jones (1734-1819). He graduated from Columbia University in 1790. He then studied law in his father's office and was...

     (1769–1853), Chancellor of New York, 1826–1828
  • Sam Jones (evangelist) (1847–1906)
  • Samuel Jones-Loyd, 1st Baron Overstone
    Samuel Jones-Loyd, 1st Baron Overstone
    Samuel Jones-Loyd, 1st Baron Overstone was a British banker and politician.-Banker:Samuel Loyd was the only son of Rev. Lewis Loyd, a Manchester banker who at his death in 1858 left Samuel Loyd an estate worth £2 million...

     (1796–1883), British banker and politician
  • Samuel Jones (academy tutor)
    Samuel Jones (academy tutor)
    Samuel Jones was an English educator, known for his academy for nonconformists.-Early life:He was the son of Malachi Jones , a dissenting preacher from Herefordshire, who left England for America ca. 1711...

  • Samuel Jones (non-conformist)
    Samuel Jones (non-conformist)
    Samuel Jones was a Welsh nonconformist clergyman, who established an academy for educating dissenting ministers.-Life:Jones was born in Denbighshire, Wales, near Chirk Castle, in 1628...

  • Samuel Jones (NY comptroller)
    Samuel Jones (NY comptroller)
    Samuel Jones was an American lawyer and politician.-Life:...

     (1734–1819), first New York State Comptroller
  • Samuel Jones (Australian politician)
    Samuel Jones (Australian politician)
    Sam Jones was an Australian politician. He was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1965 until 1984. He was a member of the ALP....

     (1923–1999) Member for Waratah, New South Wales 1965–1984
  • Samuel J. Jones, leading figure in the Sacking of Lawrence
    Sacking of Lawrence
    In the summer of 1856, the Sacking of Lawrence helped ratchet up the guerrilla war in Kansas Territory that became known as Bleeding Kansas.-Background:...

     prior to the Civil War
  • Ar-pi-uck-i (Sam Jones)
    Ar-pi-uck-i (Sam Jones)
    Ar-pi-uck-i, also known as Sam Jones , generally believed to have been born 1760 in Georgia, died c. 1860 in Florida, was a powerful spiritual/alektca and war chief of the Miccosukee, Ar-pi-uck-i, also known as Sam Jones , generally believed to have been born 1760 in Georgia, died c. 1860 in...

     (1760–1860), an important Seminole Native American chief

Sports

  • Sam Jones (basketball)
    Sam Jones (basketball)
    Samuel Jones is a retired American professional basketball player at point guard and a member of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. He was known for his quickness and game-saving shots, especially during the NBA Playoffs, that inspired his famous nickname "Mr...

     (born 1933)
  • Sam Jones (baseball)
    Sam Jones (baseball)
    Samuel "Sam" Jones , known during his career as "Toothpick Sam" Jones or "Sad Sam" Jones, was a Major League Baseball pitcher who played from to ....

     (1925–1971), known as "Toothpick Sam"
  • Sad Sam Jones
    Sad Sam Jones
    Samuel Pond "Sad Sam" Jones was a starting pitcher in Major League Baseball who played in the American League with the Cleveland Indians , Boston Red Sox , New York Yankees , St. Louis Browns , Washington Senators and Chicago White Sox . A native of Woodsfield, Ohio, Jones batted and threw...

     (1892–1966), baseball player
  • Sammy Jones
    Sammy Jones
    Samuel Percy "Sammy" Jones was an Australian cricketer who played in 12 Tests between 1882 and 1888....

     (1861–1951), Australian cricketer
  • Samuel Jones (athlete)
    Samuel Jones (athlete)
    Samuel "Sam" Symington Jones was an American athlete who competed mainly in the high jump.He competed for the United States in the 1904 Summer Olympics held in St Louis, United States in the high jump where he won the gold medal.-External links:*...

    , U.S. Olympian, 1904