Waters
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Waters is a surname, and may refer to:
- Alice WatersAlice WatersAlice Louise Waters is an American chef, restaurateur, activist, and author. She is the owner of Chez Panisse, a Berkeley, California restaurant famous for its organic, locally-grown ingredients and for pioneering California cuisine.Waters opened the restaurant in 1971. It has consistently ranked...
(born 1944), American chef - Allan WatersAllan WatersAllan Waters was a Canadian businessman and media icon. Waters was one of the founders of CHUM Limited, a Canadian media corporation....
(1921–2005), Canadian businessman - Anthony WatersAnthony WatersAnthony D. Waters is an American football linebacker for the New Orleans Saints of the National Football League. He was drafted by the San Diego Chargers in the third round of the 2007 NFL Draft. He played college football at Clemson.-College career:Waters attended Clemson University for college...
(born 1985), American football linebacker - Beau WatersBeau WatersBeau Waters is a player and the current vice-captain for the West Coast Eagles in the Australian Football League. He has played 82 games for the club after making his debut in 2004.-Early career:...
(born 1986), Australian rules footballer - Ben WatersBen WatersBen Waters was a New Zealand rower who competed at the 1930 British Empire Games.In 1930 he was a member of the New Zealand Coxed Four team that won the gold medal in the British Empire Games in Hamilton. He was also part of the Men's Eight that earned a silver medal at the same Games.-References:...
, New Zealand rower - Brian WatersBrian WatersBrian Demond Waters is an American football guard for the New England Patriots of the National Football League . He was signed by the Dallas Cowboys as an undrafted free agent in 1999 out of the University of North Texas...
(born 1977), American football guard - Craig WatersCraig WatersCraig Waters has been the public information officer of the Florida Supreme Court in Tallahassee since June 1, 1996. He is best known as the public spokesman for the Court during the 2000 presidential election controversy, when he frequently appeared on worldwide newscasts announcing decisions of...
(born 1956), public information officer of the Florida Supreme Court - Charlie WatersCharlie WatersCharlie Tutan Waters is a former American football safety for the Dallas Cowboys from 1970-1981 in the National Football League...
(born 1948), American footballer - Crystal WatersCrystal WatersCrystal Waters is an American dance music singer and songwriter.-Childhood and young adult life:Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Waters is the daughter of Betty and Junior Waters, a famed jazz musician; her great aunt, Ethel Waters, was one of the first African-American vocalists to appear in...
(born 1964), American singer/songwriter - Dan WatersDan WatersDaniel Waters is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He served as a New Democratic Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1990 to 1995.-Background:...
, a politician in Ontario, Canada. - Daniel WatersDaniel WatersDaniel Waters was an officer in the Continental Navy and in the United States Navy.-Biography:He was born on June 20, 1731, in Charlestown, Massachusetts, and was one of the "minutemen" who engaged the British at the onset of the American Revolutionary War...
(1731–1816), officer in the United States Navy. - Daniel Waters (writer)Daniel Waters (writer)Daniel "Dan" Waters is an American screenwriter and film director. He is the older brother of director Mark Waters.-Screenwriting credits:...
(born 1962), American screenwriter and film director, brother of Mark S. Waters - David Waters (Australian actor)David Waters (Australian actor)David A. Waters is an Australian actor. He is best known for his role as David Bridges in the television series Prisoner.Waters was born in the United Kingdom in Braintree, Essex...
- David Roland Waters, the killer of the American activist Madalyn Murray O'Hair
- Dina WatersDina SpybeyDina Spybey is an American actress, known as Dina Waters since her 2000 wedding to director Mark Waters. She has appeared in more than 20 films, including John Q., subUrbia and The Haunted Mansion. She is perhaps best known for her role as Tracy Montrose Blair on the first season of Six Feet Under...
(born 1965), American actress, also known as Dina Spybey - Eric Fletcher Waters (1913–1944)
- Ethel WatersEthel WatersEthel Waters was an American blues, jazz and gospel vocalist and actress. She frequently performed jazz, big band, and pop music, on the Broadway stage and in concerts, although she began her career in the 1920s singing blues.Her best-known recordings includes, "Dinah", "Birmingham Bertha",...
(1896–1977, American blues vocalist and actress - Fraser WatersFraser WatersFraser Henry Hamilton Waters is a rugby union footballer who plays at Centre for Treviso.Waters grew up in Cape Town before moving, aged 11, with his family to Jersey in the Channel Islands...
(born 1976), South African footballer - Harry WatersHarry WatersHarry Waters is a British piano and Hammond organ player. He is the son of former Pink Floyd's bass player and lyricist Roger Waters and has played on tour with his father since 2002, replacing keyboardist Andy Wallace on the In the Flesh tour. In 2004, he toured with Marianne Faithfull and the...
, British piano and Hammond organ player - Huw WatersHuw WatersHuw Thomas Waters is a Welsh cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm fast medium pace bowler who plays for Glamorgan....
(born 1986), Welsh cricketer - James WatersJames WatersJames A. Waters is Chairman of the Toronto-based media group CHUM Limited. He replaced his father, co-founder Allan Waters in late 2005. He was named Director in 1994 and Executive Vice President in 2000. His brother Ron Waters is also a member of the CHUM board of directors.-External links:*...
, Chairman of CHUM Limited - Jeff WatersJeff WatersJeff Waters , is the guitarist and mastermind of the metal band Annihilator. He was born in and resides in Ottawa, Canada. As the main member and songwriter for Annihilator, Jeff is considered among the most influential guitarists in the world and as a top songwriter. He is also a well-known mix...
(born 1966), Canadian guitarist - John Waters (disambiguation):
- John Waters (columnist)John Waters (columnist)John Waters is a columnist with The Irish Times and a former editor of Magill magazine. His career began in 1981 with the Irish political-music magazine Hot Press. He went on to write for the Sunday Tribune and later edited In Dublin magazine and Magill...
, Irish columnist - John S. WatersJohn S. WatersJohn Waters was an American filmmaker whose career began in the early days of silent film and culminated in two consecutive Academy Award nominations in the newly-instituted category of Best Assistant Director with the second nomination for MGM's Viva Villa!...
(1893–1965), American filmmaker who directed films from 1916 until 1958 - John K. WatersJohn K. WatersJohn Knight Waters was a United States Army four star general who served as commander, U.S. Army, Pacific from 1964 to 1966. He was also the son-in-law of General George S. Patton...
(1906–1989), former U.S. GeneralGeneralA general officer is an officer of high military rank, usually in the army, and in some nations, the air force. The term is widely used by many nations of the world, and when a country uses a different term, there is an equivalent title given....
, prisoner of warPrisoner of warA prisoner of war or enemy prisoner of war is a person, whether civilian or combatant, who is held in custody by an enemy power during or immediately after an armed conflict...
, and son-in-law of George S. PattonGeorge S. PattonGeorge Smith Patton, Jr. was a United States Army officer best known for his leadership while commanding corps and armies as a general during World War II. He was also well known for his eccentricity and controversial outspokenness.Patton was commissioned in the U.S. Army after his graduation from... - John Samuel Waters, Jr.John Waters (filmmaker)John Samuel Waters, Jr. is an American filmmaker, actor, stand-up comedian, writer, journalist, visual artist, and art collector, who rose to fame in the early 1970s for his transgressive cult films...
(born 1946), American filmmaker - John Waters (actor)John Waters (actor)John Russell Waters is a film, theatre and television actor and musician best known in Australia, to where he moved in 1968...
(born 1948), Australian actor
- John Waters (columnist)
- Joseph WatersJoseph WatersJoseph Waters is an American classical composer. He also mounts experimental electronic music festivals attempting to bridge the gap between contemporary popular genres and the avant-garde Western classical tradition.-Creative Projects:...
- Katarina WatersKatarina WatersKatarina Leigh Waters is a German-born English professional wrestler and valet, currently signed to Total Nonstop Action Wrestling under the ring name Winter. She is best known for her time in World Wrestling Entertainment, performing on its Raw brand under the ring name Katie Lea...
(born 1980), English wrestler - Keith WatersKeith WatersKeith Waters , formerly of LifeFX Networks, Inc., has been involved in facial animation for the past 20 years. He development of a muscle-based model for facial animation including a physically based skin tissue model as well as a visual text-to-speech system called DECface...
(born 1962), pioneer in facial animation - Latanza WatersLatanza WatersLatanza Waters is a female house music singer who has been featured on several big club hits by various producers and remixers. She is the featured artist on two tracks by Eric Miller: "Deja Vu" and "Insatiable"...
, home music singer - Lesley WatersLesley WatersLesley Waters is an English celebrity chef. She regularly appears on such cookery programmes as Ready Steady Cook, and is currently one of the featured chefs on This Morning....
(born 1961), English celebrity chef - Lou WatersLou WatersLou Waters was one of the original anchors of Cable News Network an American cable news station when it first aired in the summer of 1980. He remained one of the network's primary anchors until September 2001, adding to a journalism career spanning nearly 40 years. For much of his tenure with the...
, CNN anchor - Margaret WatersMargaret WatersMargaret Waters was an English murderess hanged by executioner William Calcraft on October 11, 1870 at Horsemonger Lane Gaol in London....
(died 1870), English murderess - Mark Waters (Director) (born 1964), American film director
- Mark AJ Waters (Irish Director)
- Maxine WatersMaxine WatersMaxine Waters is the U.S. Representative for , and previously the 29th district, serving since 1991. She is a member of the Democratic Party....
(born 1938), Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives - Miriam Van WatersMiriam Van WatersMiriam Van Waters was a noted early American feminist social worker and served as superintendent of the Massachusetts Reformatory for Women at Framingham...
(1887–1974), American feminist social worker - Morgan WatersMorgan WatersMorgan Waters is a Canadian actor. Waters was first seen on the CBC's children's program The X, which was canceled in 2003. Born in Victoria, British Columbia, Waters moved to Toronto, Ontario to host the The Morgan Waters Show, which aired on CBC Television in 2006. Waters competed in the 2000...
(born 1981), Canadian actor - Muddy WatersMuddy WatersMcKinley Morganfield , known as Muddy Waters, was an American blues musician, generally considered the "father of modern Chicago blues"...
(1913–1983), American blues musician - Patty WatersPatty WatersPatty Waters is a jazz vocalist, best known for her free jazz recordings in the 1960s for the ESP-Disk label. Although she has rarely recorded since then, she is more and more recognized as a vocal innovator whose influence extends beyond jazz....
, jazz vocalist - Roger WatersRoger WatersGeorge Roger Waters is an English musician, singer-songwriter and composer. He was a founding member of the progressive rock band Pink Floyd, serving as bassist and co-lead vocalist. Following the departure of bandmate Syd Barrett in 1968, Waters became the band's lyricist, principal songwriter...
(born 1943), English rock musician from Pink Floyd band - Ron Waters, director and Vice President of CHUM Limited
- Russell WatersRussell WatersRussell Waters was a Scottish film actor.Waters was educated at Hutchesons' Grammar School, Glasgow and the University of Glasgow. He began acting with the Old English Comedy and Shakespeare Company then appeared in repertory theatre, at the Old Vic and in the West End. On screen Waters generally...
(1908–1982), Scottish film actor - Sarah WatersSarah WatersSarah Waters is a British novelist. She is best known for her novels set in Victorian society, such as Tipping the Velvet and Fingersmith.-Childhood:Sarah Waters was born in Neyland, Pembrokeshire, Wales in 1966....
(born 1966), British novelist - Stanley WatersStanley WatersLieutenant General Stanley Charles "Stan" Waters, CD was Canada's first Senator to be appointed to his Senate seat following a non-binding provincial Senate election.-Early life:...
(1920–1991), Canadian Senator - T.A. WatersT.A. WatersThomas Alan Waters was an American magician, writer about magic, and science fiction author.-History:...
, American writer fl. 1960s - Terence Edward WatersTerence Edward WatersLieutenant Terence Edward Waters GC was a British soldier who was awarded the George Cross in recognition of gallant and distinguished services whilst a prisoner of war of North Korea, having been captured at the Battle of the Imjin River during the Korean War...
(1929–1951), British soldier awarded the George Cross