Tallis
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People

  • Gorden Tallis
    Gorden Tallis
    Gorden James Tallis is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played from 1992 to 2004. He captained Australia and Queensland as well as the Brisbane Broncos club, with whom he won three premierships and one Clive Churchill Medal...

    , an Australian rugby league player
  • John Tallis
    John Tallis
    John Tallis was an English cartographic publisher. His company, John Tallis and Company, published views, maps and atlases in London from roughly 1838 to 1851....

    , cartographer
  • Raymond Tallis
    Raymond Tallis
    Raymond Tallis F.Med.Sci., F.R.C.P., F.R.S.A. is a British philosopher, humanist, poet, novelist, cultural critic and retired medical doctor.-Medical career:...

    , an English geriatrician and intellectual
  • Thomas Tallis
    Thomas Tallis
    Thomas Tallis was an English composer. Tallis flourished as a church musician in 16th century Tudor England. He occupies a primary place in anthologies of English church music, and is considered among the best of England's early composers. He is honoured for his original voice in English...

     (1505-1585), an English composer

Other

  • The Tallis Scholars
    Tallis Scholars
    The Tallis Scholars are a British vocal ensemble normally consisting of two singers per part, with a core group of ten singers.Formed in 1973 by their director Peter Phillips, they specialise in performing a cappella sacred vocal music written during the Renaissance by composers from all over Europe...

    , a British early music ensemble named after the composer
  • Tallis, a world in Kathy Tyers' Firebird series
  • Tallis, a rock band formed by former Jethro Tull members John Evan
    John Evan
    John Evan , played keyboards for Jethro Tull from April 1970 to June 1980. He was educated at King's College London....

     and David Palmer
    Dee Palmer
    Dee Palmer is an English composer arranger and keyboardist best known for having been a member of the rock group Jethro Tull.Palmer studied composition at the Royal Academy of Music with Richard Rodney Bennet,winning the Eric Coates Prize and The Boosey and Hawkes Prize...

  • Tallis, a publishing company formed by Edgar Wallace
    Edgar Wallace
    Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace was an English crime writer, journalist, novelist, screenwriter, and playwright, who wrote 175 novels, 24 plays, and numerous articles in newspapers and journals....

     to promote his novel The Four Just Men

  • The Tallit
    Tallit
    A tallit pl. tallitot is a Jewish prayer shawl. The tallit is worn over the outer clothes during the morning prayers on weekdays, Shabbat and holidays...

    , a ritual shawl worn during certain Jewish religious services and ceremonies
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