Warren (name)
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Warren of old Germanic origin, is a common English language
masculine
given name
,or a surname
meaning "enclosure" or French
surname "de Warenne" meaning "from La Varrene". It is also common as a surname. People with the name "Warren" include:
┌───────┴───────┐ 1. Surgeon, revolutionary politician & soldier, killed in the Battle of Bunker Hill
Joseph Warren
1 John Warren (surgeon)
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1741–1775 1753–1815 2. Founder of Harvard Medical School
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John Collins Warren
3 3. First dean of Harvard Medical School, began Warren Anatomical Museum
1778–1856
│ 4. One of the first surgeons to specialise in plastic surgery
Jonathan Mason Warren4
1811–1867 5. President of the American Surgical Association
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John Collins Warren, Jr.
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1842–1927
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
masculine
Masculine
Masculine or masculinity, normally refer to qualities positively associated with men.Masculine may also refer to:*Masculine , a grammatical gender*Masculine cadence, a final chord occurring on a strong beat in music...
given name
Given name
A given name, in Western contexts often referred to as a first name, is a personal name that specifies and differentiates between members of a group of individuals, especially in a family, all of whose members usually share the same family name...
,or a surname
Surname
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"...
meaning "enclosure" or French
French language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...
surname "de Warenne" meaning "from La Varrene". It is also common as a surname. People with the name "Warren" include:
Surname
- Adam WarrenAdam WarrenAdam Warren is an American comic book writer and artist who is most famous for his adaptation of the characters known as Dirty Pair into an American comic book, and for being one of the first American commercial illustrators to be influenced by the general manga style...
, American comic book writer and illustrator - C. Denier WarrenC. Denier WarrenC. Denier Warren or Denier Warren was an American born actor who appeared extensively on stage and screen from the early 1930s to late 1960s, mostly in the United Kingdom....
, American born actor - Sir Charles WarrenCharles WarrenGeneral Sir Charles Warren, GCMG, KCB, FRS was an officer in the British Royal Engineers. He was one of the earliest European archaeologists of Biblical Holy Land, and particularly of Temple Mount...
, British general and Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis in London - Charles Marquis WarrenCharles Marquis Warren-External links:...
, American film producer, writer and director - Curtis Warren (born 1963), British criminal
- Dale WarrenDale WarrenDale Ossman Warren was an American musician, who was best known for his work as an arranger for Motown Records in the early 1960s, and later for the Stax label where he worked with Isaac Hayes among many others...
, American musician and arranger - David H. D. WarrenDavid H. D. WarrenDavid H. D. Warren is a computer scientist .In the 1970s and 1980s he worked primarily on logic programming and in particular the programming language Prolog. Warren wrote the first compiler for Prolog...
, computer scientist - Diane WarrenDiane WarrenDiane Eve Warren , is a US songwriter. Her songs have received six Academy Award nominations, five Golden Globe nominations, including one win and seven Grammy Award nominations, including one win. She was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2001...
, American songwriter - Dianne WarrenDianne WarrenDianne Warren is a Canadian novelist, dramatist and short story writer, who lives in Regina, Saskatchewan.-Background:...
, Canadian author - Don WarrenDon WarrenDonald James Warren is a former American football tight end, who spent his entire 14 year career playing for the Washington Redskins of the National Football League...
, American football player - Earl WarrenEarl WarrenEarl Warren was the 14th Chief Justice of the United States.He is known for the sweeping decisions of the Warren Court, which ended school segregation and transformed many areas of American law, especially regarding the rights of the accused, ending public-school-sponsored prayer, and requiring...
, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States - Ed WarrenEd WarrenEd and Lorraine Warren are American paranormal investigators and authors associated with prominent cases of hauntings.-Background:Edward Warren Miney was a noted demonologist, author, lecturer, World War II US Navy veteran, and former police officer...
, American demonologist and paranormal investigator - Elizabeth WarrenElizabeth WarrenElizabeth Warren is an American bankruptcy expert, policy advocate, Harvard Law School professor, and Democratic Party candidate in the 2012 United States Senate election in Massachusetts. She has written several academic and popular books concerning the American economy and personal finance. She...
, American attorney and law professor, and chair of the US Troubled Asset Relief Program Congressional Oversight Panel - Estella WarrenEstella WarrenEstella Dawn Warren is a Canadian actress, former fashion model, and a former synchronized swimmer. Her swimming career includes time on the National Canadian Team including 3 national titles. Her work in modeling is known through publications such as Sports Illustrated as well as working for...
, Canadian actress - Fiske WarrenFiske WarrenFrederick Fiske Warren was a hugely successful Paper Manufacturer, fine arts denizen and major supporter of Henry George's Single Tax system which he helped develop in Harvard, Massachusetts, United States in the 1930's. He was the son of Samuel Dennis Warren and Susan Cornelia Warren of Beacon...
, American businessman - Francis E. WarrenFrancis E. WarrenFrancis Emroy Warren was an American politician of the Republican Party best known for his years in the United States Senate representing Wyoming.-Early life and military service:...
, American politician; first governor of Wyoming - Frank Warren (promoter)Frank Warren (promoter)Frank Darren Warren is an English boxing manager and promoter.-Early life and early career:The son of a bookmaker, Warren trained as a solicitor's clerk with J Tickle & Co on Southampton Row in London....
, British boxing promoter - Fred WarrenFred WarrenFrederick Windsor 'Freddie' Warren was a Welsh professional footballer and Wales international.-Club career:...
, Wales international footballer - George T. WarrenGeorge T. Warren-Political life:He was elected as the Mayor of the City of Flint in 1886 for a single 1 year term.-Post-political life:Warren moved out the city by 1916.-References:...
, American politician - Gouverneur K. WarrenGouverneur K. WarrenGouverneur Kemble Warren was a civil engineer and prominent general in the Union Army during the American Civil War...
, Union general in the American Civil War - Harry WarrenHarry WarrenHarry Warren was an American composer and lyricist. Warren was the first major American songwriter to write primarily for film. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Song eleven times and won three Oscars for composing "Lullaby of Broadway", "You'll Never Know" and "On the Atchison,...
, American songwriter - Sir John Borlase Warren, 1st Baronet, English admiral, politician and diplomat
- Josiah WarrenJosiah WarrenJosiah Warren was an individualist anarchist, inventor, musician, and author in the United States. He is widely regarded as the first American anarchist, and the four-page weekly paper he edited during 1833, The Peaceful Revolutionist, was the first anarchist periodical published, an enterprise...
, American inventor, musician, and anarchist author - Leonard WarrenLeonard WarrenLeonard Warren was a famous American opera singer. A baritone, he was a leading artist for many years with the Metropolitan Opera in New York.-Biography:...
, American baritone - Linda WarrenLinda WarrenLinda Pearl Siegert Warren is an American author of contemporary romance novels.-Biography:Warren was born Linda Siegert in Brazos County, Texas in 1945. After graduation from Bryan High School in Bryan, Texas, Warren enrolled in a nursing program offered by Scott & White. After less than a year...
, American author - Marc WarrenMarc WarrenMarc Warren is an English actor, known for his British television roles as Danny Blue in Hustle, Dougie Raymond in The Vice and Dominic Foy in State of Play.-Career:...
, British actor - Mercy Otis WarrenMercy Otis WarrenMercy Otis Warren was a political writer and propagandist of the American Revolution. In the eighteenth century, topics such as politics and war were thought to be the province of men. Few women had the education or training to write about these subjects. Warren was the exception...
, American writer - Nancy Warren (baseball)Nancy Warren (baseball)Nancy Warren was a pitcher and infielder who played from through for six different teams of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Listed at 5' 5", 130 lb., she batted and threw right handed...
, All-American Girls Professional Baseball League pitcher - Ray WarrenRay WarrenRay "Rabbits" Warren in Junee, New South Wales is an Australian sports commentator, most famous for his coverage of televised professional rugby league matches on the Nine Network. On occasion he is referred to as "The Voice of Rugby League". Ray also calls the action for Australian swimming team...
, Australian sports commentator - Ray Warren (footballer)Ray Warren (footballer)Raymond Richard Warren was a professional footballer who spent his entire career at Bristol Rovers. He joined the club on 12 March 1936, at the age of 17, and spent twenty years playing as a centre-half with the Eastville club until retiring in 1956.-References:...
, English football player - Richard WarrenRichard WarrenRichard Warren was a passenger on the Mayflower in 1620. He settled in Plymouth Colony and was among ten passengers of the Mayflower landing party with Myles Standish at Cape Cod on November 11, 1620...
, Mayflower passenger - Rick WarrenRick WarrenRichard Duane "Rick" Warren is an American evangelical Christian minister and author. He is the founder and senior pastor of Saddleback Church, an evangelical megachurch located in Lake Forest, California, currently the eighth-largest church in the United States...
, Christian author and pastor - T. Raymond WarrenT. Raymond WarrenThomas Raymond Warren -- more commonly known as Ray Warren -- is a member of the North Carolina House of Representatives, representing the state's 88th House district. He was first elected in November 2006....
, American politician - Tommy WarrenTommy WarrenThomas Gentry Warren was a Major League Baseball pitcher. He was a native of Tulsa, Oklahoma.Warren is one of many ballplayers who only appeared in the major leagues during World War II. He pitched in 22 games for the Brooklyn Dodgers during the 1944 season, starting four of them and completing two...
, Major League Baseball pitcher - Tony WarrenTony WarrenAnthony McVay Simpson MBE , better known by his stage name Tony Warren, is an award-winning English television scriptwriter, best known for creating the soap opera Coronation Street...
, English scriptwriter, originator of Coronation Street - Ty WarrenTy WarrenTy'ron "Ty" Markeith Warren is an American football defensive tackle for the Denver Broncos of the National Football League. He was drafted by the New England Patriots in the first round of the 2003 NFL Draft...
, defensive tackle for the New England Patriots - William Whipple WarrenWilliam Whipple WarrenWilliam Whipple Warren was a mixed-blood Ojibwe historian, interpreter, and legislator in the Minnesota Territory. He moved from Wisconsin to Crow Wing in the fall of 1845. Warren suffered from lung problems for many years and died as a young man of 28 from tuberculosis on June 1, 1853.-Early life...
, Ojibwe historian
Surgical family
┌───────┴───────┐ 1. Surgeon, revolutionary politician & soldier, killed in the Battle of Bunker Hill
Joseph Warren
Joseph Warren
Dr. Joseph Warren was an American doctor who played a leading role in American Patriot organizations in Boston in early days of the American Revolution, eventually serving as president of the revolutionary Massachusetts Provincial Congress...
1 John Warren (surgeon)
John Warren (surgeon)
John Warren was a Continental Army surgeon during the American Revolutionary War, founder of the Harvard Medical School and the younger brother of Joseph Warren.-Early life:...
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1741–1775 1753–1815 2. Founder of Harvard Medical School
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John Collins Warren
John Collins Warren
John Collins Warren , of Boston, was one of the most renowned American surgeons of the 19th century. In 1846 he gave permission to William T.G. Morton to provide ether anesthesia while Warren performed a minor surgical procedure...
3 3. First dean of Harvard Medical School, began Warren Anatomical Museum
1778–1856
│ 4. One of the first surgeons to specialise in plastic surgery
Jonathan Mason Warren4
1811–1867 5. President of the American Surgical Association
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John Collins Warren, Jr.
John Collins Warren, Jr.
John Collins Warren was an American surgeon and president of the American Surgical Association.-Early life and education:...
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1842–1927
Given name
- Warren BartonWarren BartonWarren Dean Barton is a former English football player and a TV Pundit for Fox Soccer Channel.-Club career:...
, English footballer - Warren BeattyWarren BeattyWarren Beatty born March 30, 1937) is an American actor, producer, screenwriter and director. He has received a total of fourteen Academy Award nominations, winning one for Best Director in 1982. He has also won four Golden Globe Awards including the Cecil B. DeMille Award.-Early life and...
, American actor - Warren Eugene BrandonWarren Eugene BrandonWarren Eugene Brandon was a California painter and photographer who was born in San Francisco on Nov. 2, 1916. He studied art at Milligan College and also with Jack Davis, Ralph Ledesma, Jack Feldman, Raymond Brose, and Eliot O’hara. In the 1950s and 1960s, he cruised the Pacific Ocean on the...
(1916-1977), California painter and photographer - Warren BuffettWarren BuffettWarren Edward Buffett is an American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist. He is widely regarded as one of the most successful investors in the world. Often introduced as "legendary investor, Warren Buffett", he is the primary shareholder, chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway. He is...
, American investor, businessman and philanthropist - Warren E. BurgerWarren E. BurgerWarren Earl Burger was the 15th Chief Justice of the United States from 1969 to 1986. Although Burger had conservative leanings, the U.S...
, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States - Warren ChristopherWarren ChristopherWarren Minor Christopher was an American lawyer, diplomat and politician. During Bill Clinton's first term as President, Christopher served as the 63rd Secretary of State. He also served as Deputy Attorney General in the Lyndon Johnson administration, and as Deputy Secretary of State in the Jimmy...
, U.S. Secretary of State - Warren DeMartiniWarren DeMartiniWarren Justin DeMartini , nicknamed Torch, is the lead guitarist for Ratt, a popular American band during the mid-to-late 1980s Los Angeles glam metal scene.-Early life:...
, musician - Warren EwensWarren EwensWarren Ewens FRS, FAA is an Australian-born professor of biology at the University of Pennsylvania. He concentrates his research on the mathematical, statistical and theoretical aspects of population genetics. Ewens has worked in human population genetics, computational biology, and evolutionary...
, Australian biologist and statistician - Warren FeeneyWarren FeeneyWarren Feeney is a Northern Irish footballer who plays for Plymouth Argyle as a forward. He is the third generation of his family to have been capped at international level by Northern Ireland, after his father Warren and his grandfather Jim.-Early career:Feeney, who comes from a particularly...
, Northern Ireland international footballer - Warren FurmanWarren FurmanWarren Furman is best known for his role of Ace on the British TV show Gladiators from 1996 to 2000. He currently resides in Manhattan having previously appeared on the BBC TV show DIY SOS in Lowri Turner's team as a temporary replacement.Furman is also well known for his relationship with Jordan ...
, former UK Gladiator - Warren FuryWarren FuryWarren Fury is a Wales international rugby union player. He currently plays club rugby for Leeds Carnegie in the Guinness Premiership....
, Wales international rugby union player - Warren GWarren GWarren G , is an American West Coast rapper and hip hop producer. He is also Dr. Dre's half-brother.His biggest hit is the song "Regulate" with Nate Dogg released in 1994...
, American rapper - Warren GatlandWarren GatlandWarren David Gatland is a former New Zealand rugby footballer and the current head coach of the Wales national team.Gatland was born in Hamilton, New Zealand and educated at Hamilton Boys' High School and Waikato University...
, New Zealand born rugby union coach - Warren G. HardingWarren G. HardingWarren Gamaliel Harding was the 29th President of the United States . A Republican from Ohio, Harding was an influential self-made newspaper publisher. He served in the Ohio Senate , as the 28th Lieutenant Governor of Ohio and as a U.S. Senator...
, President of the United States - Warren HastingsWarren HastingsWarren Hastings PC was the first Governor-General of India, from 1773 to 1785. He was famously accused of corruption in an impeachment in 1787, but was acquitted in 1795. He was made a Privy Councillor in 1814.-Early life:...
, first Governor-General of India - Warren HaynesWarren HaynesWarren Haynes is an American rock and blues guitarist, vocalist and songwriter. Haynes is best known for his work as long time guitarist with The Allman Brothers Band and as founding member of the jam band Gov't Mule. Early in his career he was a guitarist for David Allan Coe and The Dickey...
, American rock and blues guitarist - Warren HullWarren HullJohn Warren Hull was an actor and TV personality, active from the 1930s through the 1960s. He was one of the most popular serial actors in the action-adventure field....
, actor / TV personality - Warren MacdonaldWarren MacdonaldWarren Macdonald is an Australian environmentalist, explorer, mountain climber, motivational speaker, and writer....
, handicapped mountain climber - Warren MitchellWarren MitchellWarren Mitchell is an English actor who rose to initial prominence in the role of bigoted cockney Alf Garnett in the BBC television sitcom Till Death Us Do Part , and its sequels Till Death... and In Sickness and in Health , all of which were written by Johnny Speight...
, English actor - Warren MoonWarren MoonHarold Warren Moon is a former American professional gridiron football quarterback who played for the Canadian Football League's Edmonton Eskimos and the National Football League's Houston Oilers, Minnesota Vikings, Seattle Seahawks and Kansas City Chiefs...
, American and Canadian football player - Warren "Pete" Moore, singer for The Miracles
- Warren SappWarren SappWarren Carlos Sapp is a retired American football player who played defensive tackle in the National Football League. He played for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the Oakland Raiders during his 13 year professional career, and college football for the University of Miami Hurricanes. He was then...
, National Football League player - Warren SpahnWarren SpahnWarren Edward Spahn was an American Major League Baseball left-handed pitcher. He played his entire 21-year baseball career in the National League. He won 20 games each in 13 seasons, including a 23-7 record when he was age 42...
, Major League Baseball pitcher - Warren SpectorWarren SpectorWarren Spector is a role-playing game designer and a video game designer. He is known for having worked to merge elements of role-playing games and first-person shooters. He currently resides in Austin, Texas with his wife, fantasy writer Caroline L. Spector...
, game designer - Warren StaceyWarren StaceyWarren Stacey is a British singer from London who came into prominence on the UK television show Popstars, the reality programme that created the pop band Hear'Say...
, British singer-songwriter - Warren TerhuneWarren TerhuneWarren Jay Terhune was a United States Navy Commander, and the 13th Governor of American Samoa. Terhune was born in Midland, New Jersey, and lived in New Jersey most of his life when not posted elsewhere. He was appointed to the United States Naval Academy in 1889, and graduated as a Lieutenant in...
, 13th Governor of American Samoa - Warren ZevonWarren ZevonWarren William Zevon was an American rock singer-songwriter and musician noted for including his sometimes sardonic opinions of life in his musical lyrics, composing songs that were sometimes humorous and often had political or historical themes.Zevon's work has often been praised by well-known...
, musician