West (surname)
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West is a surname shared by several notable people:
- Absolom M. WestAbsolom M. WestAbsolom Madden West was a Southern United States politician, soldier, railroad president and labor organizer.-Biography:...
, Southern United States politician, soldier, railroad president and labor organizer - Adam WestAdam WestWilliam West Anderson , better known by the stage name Adam West, is an American actor best known for his lead role in the Batman TV series and the film of the same name...
, actor who played the title character in the television series Batman - Alan West, Baron West of SpitheadAlan West, Baron West of SpitheadAdmiral Alan William John West, Baron West of Spithead GCB DSC PC was, from June 2007 to May 2010, a Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the British Home Office with responsibility for Security and a Security Advisor to Prime Minister Gordon Brown...
, a Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the British Home Office - Allen West (disambiguation), multiple people
- Andy WestAndy WestAndy West is an American bass guitarist and composer who is an original founding member of the Dixie Dregs along with Steve Morse. Since the breakup of the original band in 1983, Andy West has been on albums with Mike Keneally, Henry Kaiser, Paul Barrere, Vinnie Moore, and many others...
, an American bass guitarist - Anita WestAnita West-Blue Peter:On 7 May 1962, she joined the British children's television show Blue Peter as co-host, following the departure of Leila Williams...
, a British actress and former television presenter - Anthony West (author), a British author
- Anthony West (motorcycle racer)Anthony West (motorcycle racer)Anthony "Ant" West is an Australian Grand Prix motorcycle road racer. He has won one race, the 2003 Dutch TT in the 250cc class...
, an Australian Grand Prix motorcycle road racer - Benjamin WestBenjamin WestBenjamin West, RA was an Anglo-American painter of historical scenes around and after the time of the American War of Independence...
, Anglo-American painter - Billy WestBilly WestWilliam Richard "Billy" West is an American voice actor. Born in Detroit but raised in the Roslindale neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, Billy launched his career in the early 1980s performing daily comedic routines on Boston's WBCN. He left the radio station to work on the short-lived revival...
, an American voice actor - Billy West (silent film actor)Billy West (silent film actor)Billy West was a film actor, producer, and director of the silent film era. He is best known as a Charlie Chaplin impersonator....
, an American film actor and director of the silent film era - Bob WestBob WestBob West is an American television actor best known as the voice of Barney in the hit children's show Barney & Friends. He has also appeared in several Barney-related shows such as concert tours...
, the voice of Barney T. Dinosaur - Brian West (disambiguation), multiple people
- Chandra WestChandra West-1990s:West's career began in 1991 when she played a small part in the television series True Confections, a 1950s conservative drama about a woman with an ahead-of-her-time awareness...
, actress - Chester H. WestChester H. WestChester Howard West was a soldier in the United States Army who received the Medal of Honor for his actions during the World War I.-Biography:...
, American Medal of Honor recipient - Corinne WestCorinne WestCorinne West is an American singer-songwriter, born and raised in California, who started singing and writing songs at five years of age. She dropped out of high school and joined a group of artists touring the United States in a bus and began her music busking career...
, American singer-songwriter - Cornel WestCornel WestCornel Ronald West is an American philosopher, author, critic, actor, civil rights activist and prominent member of the Democratic Socialists of America....
, religious studies and African-American studies scholar - David West (basketball)David West (basketball)David Moorer West is an American professional basketball player who has most recently played with the NBA's New Orleans Hornets...
, basketball player - David West, RSWDavid West, RSWDavid West, RSW, was a watercolour painter of land, sea and sky. He was born on 12 November 1868 in Lossiemouth, the youngest of 12 children, and died 8 October 1936 in Glasgow following a seizure.- Life and career:...
, watercolourist - Debi Mae WestDebi Mae WestDebi Mae West is an American voice actress. In 2008, she won a Spike Video Game Award for voicing Meryl Silverburgh in Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots.- Film roles :* Boyz Up Unauthorized - Unknown* Superman - Billy...
, an American voice actor - Delonte WestDelonte WestDelonte Maurice West is an American professional basketball player who last played with the Boston Celtics of the NBA.-High school career:...
, a basketball player for the Cleveland Cavaliers - Dominic WestDominic WestDominic Gerard Fe West is an English actor best known for his role as Detective Jimmy McNulty in the HBO drama series The Wire.-Film and TV:...
, an English actor - Don West (educator)Don West (educator)Don West was an American writer, poet, educator, trade union organizer, civil-rights activist and a co-founder of the Highlander Folk School.-Early life and career:...
, an American educator - Don West (sportscaster)Don West (sportscaster)Donald "Don" West is an American pitchman, television personality and wrestling broadcaster currently working as an on-screen talent for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, and also as a pitchman for WildWestDeals.com, an internet marketing website...
, American professional wrestling commentator - Dorian WestDorian WestDorian Edward West MBE nicknamed "Nobby" is a former English international rugby union footballer.Born in Wrexham, his family moved to England when he was young...
, a former English rugby footballer - Dorothy WestDorothy WestDorothy West was a novelist and short story writer who was part of the Harlem Renaissance. She is best known for her novel The Living Is Easy, about the life of an upper-class black family.-Early years:...
, a novelist - Dottie WestDottie WestDottie West was an American country music singer and songwriter. Along with her friends and co-recording artists Patsy Cline and Loretta Lynn, she is considered one of the genre's most influential and groundbreaking female artists...
, an American country music singer - Earl Irvin West (1920-2011), American church historian
- Fred WestFred WestFrederick Walter Stephen West , was a British serial killer. Between 1967 and 1987, he alone, and later, he and his wife Rosemary, tortured, raped and murdered at least 11 young women and girls, many at the couple's homes. The majority of the murders occurred between May 1973 and September 1979 at...
, serial killer - George WestGeorge WestGeorge West was a U.S. Representative from New York. Born in Bradninch, England, West attended the common schools. West immigrated to the United States in February 1849 and settled at Ballston Spa, New York...
, U.S. representative - George Algernon WestGeorge Algernon WestGeorge Algernon West, MM was a British Anglican missionary who spent many years in Burma, first as a missionary for the Society for Propagation of the Gospel and then as the Lord Bishop of Rangoon. In the latter position he served for nineteen years, and gradually became active involved with the...
, Bishop of Rangoon 1934-1935 - Gilbert WestGilbert WestGilbert West was a minor English poet, translator and Christian apologist in the early and middle eighteenth century. Samuel Johnson included him in his Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets.-Biography:...
, British author - Gordon WestGordon WestGordon West is an English former professional football goalkeeper.-Blackpool:He made his debut for Blackpool at the age of 17...
, a former English footballer - Graeme WestGraeme WestGraeme Leonard West is a New Zealand former rugby league footballer and coach. Standing at six-foot, five inches, he played in the forwards, captaining English club Wigan...
, New Zealand rugby league footballer and coach - Harry WestHarry WestHenry William West was a politician in Northern Ireland who served as leader of the Ulster Unionist Party from 1974 until 1979.West was born in County Fermanagh and educated at Portora Royal School in Enniskillen...
, an Irish politician - Herbert WestHerbert WestHerbert West is a fictional character created by H. P. Lovecraft for his short story "Herbert West—Reanimator", first published in 1922. There have been several adaptations of the story including Herbert West as played by Jeffrey Combs in the 1985 Re-Animator movie and its two sequels, Bride...
, fictional character of H. P. LovecraftH. P. LovecraftHoward Phillips Lovecraft --often credited as H.P. Lovecraft — was an American author of horror, fantasy and science fiction, especially the subgenre known as weird fiction.... - Honey WestHoney WestHoney West is a fictional character created by Gloria and Forest Fickling under the pseudonym "G.G. Fickling", and appearing in eleven mystery novels by the duo.The character is notable as being one of the first female private detectives in popular fiction...
, fictional character - H. O. WestH. O. WestHerman O. West, known as H. O. West , was the co-founder and later owner of a chain of thirty-three department stores in mostly north Louisiana and southern Arkansas...
, Louisiana businessman - James Edward Maceo WestJames Edward Maceo WestJames Edward Maceo West is an American inventor and acoustician. Along with Gerhard Sessler, West developed the foil electret microphone in 1962...
, US inventor - James WestJames West (football manager)James West was the second full-time secretary and de facto manager of football club Newton Heath, the precursor to Manchester United; the term "manager" was not in common usage at the club until the arrival of Jack Robson in 1914.) West oversaw Newton Heath's financial collapse and near bankruptcy,...
, British Manchester United manager - James E. WestJames E. West (politician)James Elton "Jim" West was an American politician. In 2005, while Mayor of Spokane, Washington, he was the target of allegations of the sexual abuse of boys twenty years earlier. These allegations became public after West became a target of a sting operation conducted by his hometown newspaper,...
, former mayor of Spokane, Washington - James E. West (Scouting)James E. West (Scouting)Dr. James E. West was a lawyer and an advocate of children's rights, who became the first professional Chief Scout Executive of the Boy Scouts of America , serving from 1911–1943. Upon his retirement from the BSA, West was given the title of Chief Scout.-Personal life:His father died around the...
, first Chief Scout Executive of the Boy Scouts of AmericaBoy Scouts of AmericaThe Boy Scouts of America is one of the largest youth organizations in the United States, with over 4.5 million youth members in its age-related divisions...
(BSA) - James R. WestJames R. WestJames R. West has been professor of trumpet at the Louisiana State University School of Music in Baton Rouge, Louisiana since 1978. Well-known as an educator and active in the International Trumpet Guild, he is a writer for the International Trumpet Guild Journal and is principal trumpet of the...
, American trumpet player and teacher - Jane WestJane WestJane West [née Iliffe] , who published as "Prudentia Homespun" and "Mrs. West," was an English novelist, poet, playwright, and writer of conduct literature and educational tracts.- Life :...
, British writer and poetess - Jerry WestJerry WestJerry Alan West is a retired American basketball player who played his entire professional career for the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association . His nicknames include "Mr...
, professional basketball player for the Los Angeles Lakers - Jerry West, author of The Happy Hollisters series of children books
- Jessamyn West (writer)Jessamyn West (writer)Mary Jessamyn West was an American Quaker who wrote numerous stories and novels, notably The Friendly Persuasion ....
(1902–1984), American writer - Jim WestJim West (guitarist)James "Jim" "Kimo" West is a guitarist best known for working with the singer-songwriter "Weird Al" Yankovic. West auditioned for Yankovic, after being introduced by Steve Jay, and the two have worked together ever since...
, guitarist for "Weird Al" Yankovic"Weird Al" YankovicAlfred Matthew "Weird Al" Yankovic is an American singer-songwriter, music producer, accordionist, actor, comedian, writer, satirist, and parodist. Yankovic is known for his humorous songs that make light of popular culture and that often parody specific songs by contemporary musical acts...
, film and TV composer, slack-key guitarSlack-key guitarSlack-key guitar is a fingerstyle genre of guitar music that originated in Hawaii. Its name refers to its characteristic open tunings: the English term is a translation of the Hawaiian kī hōalu, which means "loosen the [tuning] key"...
performer (under the name Kimo West). - Jim WestJim West (footballer)Jim West is a former Australian rules footballer, playing with the Sydney Swans from 1990 to 1992.Recruited from Glenelg Football Club in the South Australian National Football League , West never really establishing himself in the lineup, only managing 37 games .The highlight of his career came...
, Australian rules footballer - Joe West, baseball umpire
- John West (disambiguation), multiple people
- Josh WestJosh WestJoshua "Josh" West is a British rower.-Early life:West is Jewish, was born in Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States. His mother is American, and his father is British.-Rowing career:...
, American rower - Josh West (Home and Away)Josh West (Home and Away)Joshua "Josh" West is a fictional character from the Australian Channel Seven soap opera Home and Away, played by Daniel Collopy. He debuted on-screen during the episode airing on 21 November 2001. The character departed in 2003, but made several reappearances later that year...
, a fictional character in the Australian soap opera Home and Away - Julian West (politician)Julian West (politician)Julian West is a mathematician, political and environmental activist from British Columbia, Canada.- Early life and career :West moved with his family to British Columbia, Canada in 1968...
, a British Canadian mathematician, political and environmental activist - Julian West, stage name of editor and bon-vivant Nicolas de Gunzburg
- Julian West, fictional protagonist of the 1888 utopian novel Looking BackwardLooking BackwardLooking Backward: 2000-1887 is a utopian science fiction novel by Edward Bellamy, a lawyer and writer from western Massachusetts; it was first published in 1887...
- Kanye WestKanye WestKanye Omari West is an American rapper, singer, and record producer. West first rose to fame as a producer for Roc-A-Fella Records, where he eventually achieved recognition for his work on Jay-Z's album The Blueprint, as well as hit singles for musical artists including Alicia Keys, Ludacris, and...
, an American record producer and rapper - Kimber West, a former Playboy Playmate
- Lizzie WestLizzie WestLizzie West is a singer/songwriter. Her music can be described as a blend of many genres including country, folk, blues, pop, and rock. Her band is called "Lizzie West and the White Buffalo," the "White Buffalo" referring to her co-producer and boyfriend, Anthony Kieraldo...
(1973-), an American singer/songwriter - Madeleine WestMadeleine WestMadeleine West is an Australian actress known for her TV roles, having played Dee Bliss on the Australian soap opera Neighbours from 2000–2003 and high-class escort Mel on Satisfaction from 2007 to 2010.-Career:...
, an Australian actress - Mae WestMae WestMae West was an American actress, playwright, screenwriter and sex symbol whose entertainment career spanned seven decades....
, actress and screenwriter - Mark West, American basketballBasketballBasketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...
player - Martin WestMartin WestSir Martin West was born in England, the son of a civil servant in the Treasury.Martin West studied at Balliol College, Oxford, before joining the British East India Company...
- Martin Litchfield WestMartin Litchfield WestMartin Litchfield West is an internationally recognised scholar in classics, classical antiquity and philology...
, an English scholar - Maura WestMaura WestMaura Jo West born Maura Snyder is an American actress, best known for her role as Carly Tenney on the television soap opera As the World Turns and as Diane Jenkins on The Young and the Restless....
, an American actress - Michael West (disambiguation), multiple people
- Michelle Sagara WestMichelle Sagara WestMichelle Michiko Sagara is a Japanese-Canadian author of fantasy literature, active since the early 1990s. She has published as Michelle Sagara, as Michelle West and as Michelle Sagara West....
, Japanese-Canadian author of fantasy literature - Mike West, Canadian backstroke swimmer
- Morris L. West, Australian writer
- Nathanael WestNathanael WestNathanael West was a US author, screenwriter and satirist.- Early life :...
(1903–1940), pen name of Nathan Wallenstein Weinstein, American novelist and playwright - Nicholas WestNicholas WestNicholas West , English bishop and diplomatist, was born at Putney, and educated at Eton and at King's College, Cambridge, of which he became a fellow in 1486....
, an English bishop and diplomatist - Nigel West, pen-name of the British writer and former politician Rupert AllasonRupert AllasonRupert William Simon Allason is a military historian and former Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom. He was the Member of Parliament for Torbay in Devon, from 1987 to 1997...
- Oswald WestOswald WestOswald West was an American politician, a Democrat, who served most notably as the 14th Governor of Oregon. Called "Os West" by Oregon writer Stewart Holbrook, who described him as "by all odds the most brilliant governor Oregon ever had."- Early life and career :West was born in Ontario, Canada...
, an American politician - Paul West (disambiguation), multiple people
- Randy WestRandy WestRandy West is an American television personality who is best known for his work on game shows. He has been an announcer on American television game shows since 1990, with credits including Supermarket Sweep, Trivial Pursuit, Hollywood Showdown, and a substitute role on The Price Is Right.West's...
, television announcer - Randy West (porn star)Randy West (porn star)Randy West is an American pornographic actor.-Early life and pre-porn career:West grew up in New York City, and later moved to South Florida. He originally hoped to play professional baseball , but he instead decided to pursue a career as a singer...
, pornographic actor and director - Randy West (photographer)Randy West (photographer)Randy West is a noted American fine art photographer, perhaps best known for his distinctive and avant-garde use of the photographic medium, as seen across several series of his work *...
, photographer - Rebecca WestRebecca WestCicely Isabel Fairfield , known by her pen name Rebecca West, or Dame Rebecca West, DBE was an English author, journalist, literary critic and travel writer. A prolific, protean author who wrote in many genres, West was committed to feminist and liberal principles and was one of the foremost public...
, a British-Irish writer - Red WestRed WestRed West is an American actor, film stuntman and songwriter.West was born Robert Gene West in Memphis, Tennessee, the son of Lois and Newton Thomas West. He was a close high school friend of rock and roll singer Elvis Presley. An excellent athlete and former U.S...
, an American actor, film stuntman and songwriter - Richard Gilbert WestRichard Gilbert WestRichard Gilbert West FRS is a British botanist, geologist and palaeontologist.He began his career at the age of 18 in 1944 when he joined the Army and spent time in India. On return to England, he went to Clare College, Cambridge in 1948 taking Botany and Geology at Part I...
(1926), British botanist and geologist - Richard Martin WestRichard Martin WestRichard Martin West is a Danish astronomer working at the European Southern Observatory .He discovered numerous comets, including the spectacular "Comet West" and the periodic comets 76P/West-Kohoutek-Ikemura and 123P/West-Hartley.He also discovered a number of asteroids, including the Trojan...
, a Danish astronomer - Robert WestRobert WestRobert C. West is E. G. Rochow Professor of Chemistry Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin–Madison; Director of the Organosilicon Research Center, University of Wisconsin–Madison 1999–present; President, Silatronix, Inc...
, American chemist - Rosemary WestRosemary WestRosemary Pauline "Rose" West is a British serial killer, now an inmate at HMP Low Newton, Brasside, Durham, after being convicted of 10 murders in 1995...
, British murderer, wife of Fred West - Samuel WestSamuel WestSamuel Alexander Joseph West is an English actor and theatre director. He is perhaps best known for his role in Howards End and his work on stage. He also starred in the award-winning play ENRON...
, British actor - Scott WestScott WestScott West is a former Australian rules football player who played for the Western Bulldogs in the Australian Football League...
, (musician) - Scott WestScott WestScott West is a former Australian rules football player who played for the Western Bulldogs in the Australian Football League...
, an Australian rules footballer - Shane WestShane WestShane West is an American actor, musician and songwriter. West is best known for portraying Eli Sammler in Once and Again, Landon Carter with Mandy Moore in A Walk to Remember, Darby Crash in What We Do Is Secret, and Dr...
, actor - Sienna WestSienna WestSienna West is an American pornographic actress.-Career:West joined the industry in 2007 at around the age of 30. Since then she has appeared in MILF pornography, Latin, Squirting, foot fetish, hardcore and vignettes genres of Pornography...
, adult film actressPornographic actorA pornographic actor/actress or a porn star is a person who appears in pornographic film. Most actors appear nude in films...
. - Speedy WestSpeedy WestWesley Webb West , better known as Speedy West, was an American pedal steel guitarist and record producer. He frequently played with Jimmy Bryant, both in their own duo and as part of the regular Capitol Records backing band for Tennessee Ernie Ford and many others...
, Anglo-American Guitar Hall of Famer - Stuart WestStuart WestStuart West is a scientist, working in the field of social evolution, as a Professor of Zoology at the University of Edinburgh.His primary research interests are in the area of social evolution, sex allocation theory and microbial evolution...
, evolutionary biologist - Stu WestStu WestStu West is the current bassist in the English punk band The Damned. He joined in 2004, when the past bassist Patricia Morrison left the band due to pregnancy.-References:...
, bassist - Taribo WestTaribo WestTaribo West is a retired Nigerian professional footballer who played as a defender. West represented the Nigerian national team in the 1998 and 2002 World Cups. He is known for the various unusual and colourful hairstyles that he has sported over the years.-Club career:Taribo moved to France in...
, a Nigerian football defender - Temple WestTemple WestVice-Admiral Temple West was a British naval officer, best known for his role as second-in-command to Admiral John Byng in the Battle of Minorca.-Early career and family:West was a younger son of Rev. Dr...
, British admiral - Timothy WestTimothy WestTimothy Lancaster West, CBE is an English film, stage and television actor.-Career:West's craggy looks ensured a career as a character actor rather than a leading man. He began his career as an Assistant Stage Manager at the Wimbledon Theatre in 1956, and followed this with several seasons of...
, UK actor - Tom West (disambiguation), multiple people
- Togo D. West, Jr.Togo D. West, Jr.Togo Dennis West, Jr. is an American attorney and public official who was the third person to occupy the post of Secretary of Veterans Affairs. He was nominated by President Bill Clinton on January 27, 1998, during Clinton's second term, and was confirmed by the Senate on May 5, 1998. He had...
, an African American attorney - Vita Sackville-WestVita Sackville-WestThe Hon Victoria Mary Sackville-West, Lady Nicolson, CH , best known as Vita Sackville-West, was an English author, poet and gardener. She won the Hawthornden Prize in 1927 and 1933...
, an English poet, novelist and gardener - Wallace WestWallace WestWallace West was an American science fiction writer. He began publishing in 1927 with the story "Loup-Garou" in Weird Tales. The majority of West's work, which appeared prior to the 1960s, was short fiction, although he occasionally did turn his hand to writing novels...
, an American science fiction writer - Wally WestWally WestThe Flash is a fictional character, a superhero that appears in comic books published by DC Comics. He is the first Kid Flash and the third Flash....
, a fictional superhero known for being the first Kid Flash and the third Flash - Walter Scott WestWalter Scott WestWalter S. West was a private serving in the United States Marine Corps during the Spanish–American War who received the Medal of Honor for bravery.-Biography:...
, American Medal of Honor recipient - William West (disambiguation)William West (disambiguation)William West may refer to:*William West , American militia general in the American Revolutionary War and later political leader*William West, 1st Baron De La Warr , British political figure...
, multiple people
- Baron WestBaron WestBaron West is a title created in the Peerage of England in 1402. The title has been in abeyance since 1554, although it is possible to argue that it has been merged....
:- Thomas West, 1st Baron WestThomas West, 1st Baron WestThomas West, 1st Baron West was the only son of Sir Thomas West, of de Hampton Cantilupe , and Alice FitzHerbert the sister and heiress of Sir Edmund FitzHerbert. His father had fought in the Battle of Crécy and the subsequent siege of Calais under the command of Richard FitzAlan, 10th Earl of...
(1365–1405) - Thomas West, 2nd Baron WestThomas West, 2nd Baron WestThomas West, 2nd Baron West succeeded as Baron West at the age of 14. In less than a year, he married Ida de Saint Amand, younger daughter and coheiress of Amaury de Saint Amand, 3rd Baron Saint Amand . He was knighted on the eve of Henry V's coronation...
(c. 1391–1416) - Reginald West, 6th Baron De La Warr and 3rd Baron WestReginald West, 6th Baron De La WarrReginald West, 6th Baron De La Warr and 3rd Baron West was the second son of Thomas West, 1st Baron West and Joan La Warr, half-sister and heiress of Thomas la Warr, 5th Baron De La Warr...
(c. 1394–1451) - Richard West, 7th Baron De La Warr and 4th Baron WestRichard West, 7th Baron De La WarrRichard West, 7th Baron De La Warr and 4th Baron West . He was the son of Reginald West, 6th Baron De La Warr and Elizabeth Greyndour....
(c. 1432–1476) - Thomas West, 8th Baron De La Warr and 5th Baron WestThomas West, 8th Baron De La WarrThomas West, 8th Baron De La Warr and 5th Baron West, KB, KG was the oldest son of Richard West, 7th Baron De La Warr and 4th Baron of West and Catherine Hungerford.Thomas succeeded to his titles at the age of 19...
(c. 1457–1525) - Thomas West, 9th Baron De La Warr and 6th Baron WestThomas West, 9th Baron De La WarrThomas West, 9th Baron De La Warr and 6th Baron West, KG succeeded to his titles at the age of 50. He was the son of Thomas West, 8th Baron De La Warr and Lady Elizabeth Morton, daughter of Sir George Morton, of Lechlade....
(c. 1475–1554) (abeyant 1554)
- Thomas West, 1st Baron West