Venter
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Venter is a surname, and may refer to:
  • Brendan Venter
    Brendan Venter
    Brendan Venter is a former rugby union player who played at centre and also coached for London Irish. He is currently director of rugby at Saracens...

     (1969-) - Rugby union
    Rugby union
    Rugby union, often simply referred to as rugby, is a full contact team sport which originated in England in the early 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand...

     footballer
  • Christoffel Venter
    Christoffel Venter
    Major-General Christoffel 'Boetie' Venter CB, DFC with bar, was a South African military commander. He served in the Royal Air Force in World War I, being credited with 16 aerial victories, and joined the South African Air Force in 1922....

     (1892–1977) - South African military commander
  • Craig Venter
    Craig Venter
    John Craig Venter is an American biologist and entrepreneur, most famous for his role in being one of the first to sequence the human genome and for his role in creating the first cell with a synthetic genome in 2010. Venter founded Celera Genomics, The Institute for Genomic Research and the J...

     (1946-) - American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     biologist
    Biologist
    A biologist is a scientist devoted to and producing results in biology through the study of life. Typically biologists study organisms and their relationship to their environment. Biologists involved in basic research attempt to discover underlying mechanisms that govern how organisms work...

     and businessman
  • Dora Venter
    Dora Venter
    Dora Venter is the pseudonym of the Hungarian pornographic film actress Melinda Gál.She was born October 1, 1976 near Salgótarján . She moved to Budapest, and studied to be a nurse, receiving her CCRN certificate in 1998...

     (1976-) - Hungarian
    Hungary
    Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...

     pornographic film actress
  • Jacobus Johannes Venter (1814–1889) - South African Boer
    Boer
    Boer is the Dutch and Afrikaans word for farmer, which came to denote the descendants of the Dutch-speaking settlers of the eastern Cape frontier in Southern Africa during the 18th century, as well as those who left the Cape Colony during the 19th century to settle in the Orange Free State,...

     political figure
  • Eudri Venter (1986) - South African Scientist
    Scientist
    A scientist in a broad sense is one engaging in a systematic activity to acquire knowledge. In a more restricted sense, a scientist is an individual who uses the scientific method. The person may be an expert in one or more areas of science. This article focuses on the more restricted use of the word...

     Ginger
    Ginger
    Ginger is the rhizome of the plant Zingiber officinale, consumed as a delicacy, medicine, or spice. It lends its name to its genus and family . Other notable members of this plant family are turmeric, cardamom, and galangal....

  • June Venters - The first and only Woman Solicitor Queen's Counsel
    Queen's Counsel
    Queen's Counsel , known as King's Counsel during the reign of a male sovereign, are lawyers appointed by letters patent to be one of Her [or His] Majesty's Counsel learned in the law...

     in the UK

See also

  • Abdomen
    Abdomen
    In vertebrates such as mammals the abdomen constitutes the part of the body between the thorax and pelvis. The region enclosed by the abdomen is termed the abdominal cavity...

     - the term venter may refer to the ventral side of an animal or plant organ.
  • Venter, the Hungarian
    Hungarian language
    Hungarian is a Uralic language, part of the Ugric group. With some 14 million speakers, it is one of the most widely spoken non-Indo-European languages in Europe....

     name for Vintere village, Holod
    Holod, Bihor
    Holod is a commune in Bihor County, northwestern Romania with a population of 3,447 people. It is composed of eight villages: Dumbrava, Dumbrăviţa, Forosig, Hodiş, Holod, Lupoaia, Valea Mare de Codru and Vintere....

    Commune, Bihor County, Romania
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