- William Frawley
William Frawley was an American stage entertainer, screen and television actor. Having acted in over one hundred films, he achieved greater fame playing landlord Fred Mertz on the landmark American television sitcom "I Love Lucy". - Michael Skakel
Michael, whose dyslexia was not diagnosed until he was 26, was an awful student who failed out of a dozen schools. His father railed at him for his poor academics, and Michael says he was "the family scapegoat" even as a young child. The central event of his childhood, and perhaps his life, was his mother's death from cancer in 1973 when Michael was 12. She had been the glue that held the family together, and Michael was devastated by her death. - Jean Parker
Lois Mae Green, known by her screen name Jean Parker, (August 11, 1915 - November 30, 2005), was an American movie actress born in Deer Lodge, Montana. She was once married to actor Robert Lowery (who played Batman in 1949). She appeared in 70 movies from 1932 through 1966. She was discovered by Ida Koverman, secretary to MGM mogul Louis B. Mayer, after she saw a poster featuring Parker portraying Father Time. - Todd Reynolds
Todd Reynolds is an American violinist, composer, and conductor well-known for his work with amplified violin and electronics. A student of Jascha Heifetz and former principle of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, Reynolds entered into the contemporary music scene in New York as a member of Bang on a Can and Steve Reich and Musicians. - John Drew Barrymore
John Drew Barrymore, was born as John Blyth Barrymore, Jr. (June 4, 1932 - November 30, 2004) was a member of the Barrymore family of actors which included his father, John Barrymore, and his father's siblings, Lionel and Ethel. He was the father of 4 children, including John Blyth Barrymore and Drew Barrymore. - Ralph Farris
Ralph Farris (born Ralph Howard Farris Jr.) is an American violist, violinist, composer, arranger, and conductor. He specializes in new music and is a founding member of the string quartet ETHEL. Farris was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1970, the son of musicians, Nancy DuCette Farris and Ralph Howard Farris. He began studying music at the age of 3, beginning with recorder and piano, moving on to violin at age six. - J. Randy Taraborrelli
John Randall Taraborrelli (b. February 29, 1956) is a journalist and biographer. He writes mainly about contemporary entertainment and entertainers, and has written biographies about several celebrities. Taraborrelli resides in Los Angeles, California, and as of 2007 he just released an updated biography about Diana Ross. His books are : *"Diana : A Celebration of the Life and Career of Diana Ross" (1985) *"Motown: Hot Wax, … - Pamela Z
Pamela Z (born Pamela Brooks, 1956) is an American composer, performer, and audio artist who works primarily with her voice and live electronic processing. Raised in the Denver area, the African American Z received her bachelor's degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder, where she studied classical voice. After performing throughout Colorado as a rock musician under the name Pam Brooks, in 1985 she moved to San Francisco, … - Georgiana Drew
Georgiana Emma Drew was an American stage actress. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, her family - parents John Drew and Louisa Lane Drew; brothers John Drew Jr. and Sidney; sister Louisa - were all actors. She made her theatrical debut in 1872 in "The Ladies' Rattle". She followed John Jr. to New York, where she acted in many Broadway hits, like "As You Like It" and "Pique". In "Pique" she met a young English actor, Maurice Barrymore, … - Marcelo Zarvos
Marcelo Zarvos is a Brazilian pianist and composer. He began in classical music in his teens and studied at the Berklee College of Music. He is more known for jazz and had success with the album "Dualism" accompanied by saxophonist Peter Epstein. He has done several film scores including the scores to Kissing Jessica Stein, The Door in the Floor and Boynton Beach Club. His music has been recorded a number of times by the string quartet ETHEL. - John Drew Jr.
John Drew, Jr. (November 13, 1853-July 9, 1927) was an American stage actor noted for his roles in Shakespearean comedy, society drama, and light comedies. He was the eldest son of John Drew and Louisa Lane Drew, and the brother of Georgiana Drew. As such, he was also the uncle of John, Ethel, and Lionel Barrymore. Drew was associated mainly with the company of Augustin Daly. His memoirs, titled "My Years on the Stage", were published in 1922. - Ethel du Pont
Ethel du Pont Roosevelt Warren (January 30, 1916 - May 25, 1965) was an American heiress and socialite and a member of the prominent du Pont family. Born in Wilmington, Delaware, she was the daughter of Eugene du Pont, Jr. She was raised at Owl's Nest, the family's estate in Greenville, Delaware. On June 30, 1937, she married Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jr., son of the sitting President of the United States. They had two sons, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, III (b. - Scott Ethel
- Ethel Smith
Ethel M. Smith (July 5, 1907 - December 31, 1979) was a sprinter from Canada most known for winning a bronze medal in the 100m at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam, Netherlands. In the same games she helped the Canadian national team win the 4x100m relay - Ethel Thomson Larcombe
Ethel Larcombe (June 8 1879 in Islington, Middlesex, England - August 11 1965 in Budleigh Salterton, Devon, England) was a former British female tennis player. She is best remembered for winning the ladies' singles title at the 1912 Wimbledon Championships. - Ethel Snowden
Ethel Snowden, born Ethel Annakin, was a British socialist and feminist politician. Ethel Snowden was a Christian Socialist and Labour Party politician and is most well known as a leading campaigner for women's suffrage. She was also an advocate of temperance, as well as being a leading member of the Women’s Peace Crusade during the First World War. - Ethel Catherwood
Ethel Mary Catherwood (April 28, 1908 - September 26, 1987) was a Canadian track and field athlete. Born in Haldimand County, Ontario, and raised and educated in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, she excelled at athletics, including baseball, basketball and track and field. In 1926 she equalled a Canadian record for high jump at the Saskatoon city track and field championships. On Labour Day of the same year, she broke the British held high jump world record. - Ethel Hedgeman Lyle
Ethel Hedgeman Lyle (born Ethel Hedgeman, February 10, 1885 - November 28, 1950) was an African-American founder of the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority (AKA). - Ethel Blondin-Andrew
Ethel Dorothy Blondin-Andrew, PC, (born March 25, 1951, in Tulita, Northwest Territories) is a former Canadian politician. Blondin-Andrew is a Dene who was the Member of Parliament for the district of Western Arctic in the Northwest Territories. She was also Minister of State (Northern Development) in the Liberal Cabinet of Prime Minister Paul Martin. She was the first Aboriginal woman to be elected to the Parliament of Canada. She was first elected in the 1988 election. - Ethel Percy Andrus
Dr. Ethel Percy Andrus (1884-1967) was a long-time educator and the first woman high school principal in California, but is better known as the founder of AARP in 1958. Andrus founded a separate organization, the National Retired Teachers Association (NRTA) in 1947. She realized that retired teachers were living on incredibly small pensions, often without any health insurance. She approached more than 30 companies to offer health insurance to retired teachers, … - Ethel Smyth
Dame Ethel Mary Smyth, DBE (23 April 1858 - 8 May 1944) was an English composer and a leader of the women's suffrage movement. - Ethel T. Wead Mick
Ethel Theresa Wead Mick (born March 9, 1881 - died February 21, 1957) is the founder of the Masonic girls' organization The International Order of Job's Daughters (now known as Job's Daughters International) and served as its first Supreme Guardian. Wead Mick was born in Atlantic, Iowa to William Henry Wead and Elizabeth Delight Hutchinson Wead, the youngest of four siblings. She was brought up in a close knit, very religious family. - Ethel M. Dell
Ethel May Dell (August 2, 1881-September, 1939) was a British writer of popular romance novels. Her married name is recorded as Ethel Mary Savage. She was born in a suburb of London. Her father was a clerk in the City of London and she had an older sister and brother. Her family was middle class and lived a comfortable life. Ethel was a very shy, quiet girl and was content to be dominated by her family. - Ethel Gee
Ethel Elizabeth Gee (1914-????), also known as "Bunty", was a spy who was a member of the Portland Spy Ring. - Ethel Schwabacher
Ethel Kremer Schwabacher (b. New York 1903-1984) was a protege of Arshile Gorky, his first biographer, and herself a well-known abstract expressionist painter. Schwabacher was born in New York in 1903. Her cousin, George Oppen, was founder of the Objective Press. Her family moved to Pelham in 1908 where she began painting in the garden. She attended Horace Mann School and at age 15 enrolled at the Art Students League. - Ethel Pedley
Ethel Charlotte Pedley (June 19, 1859-August 6, 1898) was an author and musician. Her most well-known book is Dot and the Kangaroo, which featured a little girl named Dot who becomes lost in the Australian outback, and is helped to find her way back home by a friendly kangaroo. She was a believer in the conservation of the Australian flora and fauna, and usually wrote her books from this perspective, … - Ethel Roosevelt Derby
Ethel Carow Roosevelt Derby (August 13, 1891 - December 10, 1977) was the youngest daughter and fourth child of the President of the United States Theodore Roosevelt. Known as The Queen of Oyster Bay and The First Lady of Oyster Bay by its Long Island residents, Ethel was instrumental in preserving both the legacy of her father as well as the family home, "Sagamore Hill" for future generations, … - Ethel Wilson
Ethel Davis Wilson (January 20 1888 - December 22, 1980) was a Canadian writer of short stories and novels. Born in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, she moved to England in 1890 following the death of her mother. In 1898, after the death of her father, she was taken to live with her maternal grandmother in Vancouver, British Columbia. She received her teacher's certificate in 1907, and for thirteen years taught in Vancouver elementary schools. - Ethel Cochrane
Ethel M. Cochrane, BA (Ed), BA, MEd (born September 23 1937) is a Canadian Senator. A teacher by training, Cochrane worked as an educator in her native Newfoundland culminating in her period as a school principal. An advocate for education and literacy, she was appointed to the Senate by Governor General Jeanne Sauvé, on the recommendation of Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, in November 1986. - Ethel Booba
Ethel Gabison, also known to her stage name as Ethel Booba is a Filipino TV personality and comedian. She has also worked in the recording industry. She was a former talent of GMA Network and was one of the host of Extra Challenge. She also guest judged for Kakaibang Idol, a special edition of Philippine Idol, which was held for the contestants with the most notable auditions of the original show on September 23, 2006. - Ethel Gabriel
Ethel deNagy Gabriel (b. Nov. 16, 1921) is one of America's first female record producers in American music business and enjoys legendary acclaim for producing and representing some of the best known music entertainers during her 4-decade career at RCA Records. Growing up around Philadelphia, she learned the music business from the ground up as a trombone player who lead her own dance band in the 1930s and later started in RCA's record factory in Camden, … - Ethel Dickenson
Ethel Gertrude Dickenson (July 6, 1880 - October 26, 1918) educator, nurse, born St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada. She is noted as been one of the "Remarkable Women of Newfoundland and Labrador" for her tireless work and untimely death in the care of patients during the outbreak of Spanish influenza at St. John's in 1918. Dickenson educated at Methodist College, St. John's and McDonald College, Guelph, Ontario, … - Ethel Bedford-Fenwick
Ethel Bedford-Fenwick (26 January, 1856 - March 1947) was a British nurse who campaigned to procure a nationally recognised certificate for nursing, to safeguard the title "Nurse", and lobbied Parliament to introduce a law to control nursing and limit it to "registered" nurses only. She was born in the Morayshire town of Elgin in Scotland, the daughter of a wealthy doctor who died early in her life. Ethel's mother then married George Storer, a Member of Parliament. - Ethel Bentham
Dr. Ethel Bentham (5 January 1861 - 19 January 1931) was a progressive doctor, a politician and a suffragette in the United Kingdom. She was born in Ireland, educated at Alexandra School and College in Dublin, the London School of Medicine for Women and the Rotunda Hospital. She never married. Bentham worked as a General Practitioner (GP) in London, was an expert on childhood enuresis (bedwetting) and an early believer in what would now be called socialised medicine. - Ethel Shakespear
Dame Ethel Mary Reader Shakespear DBE (17 July 1871-17 January 1946), née Ethel Mary Reader Wood, was an English geologist, public servant and philanthropist. She was born in Biddenham, Bedfordshire, the daughter of a clergyman. She was educated at Bedford High School and Newnham College, Cambridge (1891-1895), graduating in natural sciences. In 1896 she became assistant to Charles Lapworth at Mason College, … - Ethel Locke-King
Dame Ethel Locke-King (née Gore-Browne), DBE, (1864–1956) was a motor-racing promoter and hospital patron. Her wealthy husband, Sir Hugh F. Locke-King, created and solely financed Brooklands House, Weybridge, Surrey, the first permanent race-track in the world. On 16 June 1907, she led the inaugural procession of cars on to the track in her open Itala minutes after the track had been opened by her husband. Ethel Locke-King ran a Red Cross hospital at her estate, … - Ethel Walker
Dame Ethel Walker, DBE (9 June 1861 - 2 March 1951) was a Scottish-born artist. - Ethel Armes
Ethel Marie Armes (1876-1945) was an American journalist and historian. Daughter of Col. George Augustus Armes and Lucy Hamilton Kerr, the daughter John Bozman Kerr, Ethel was brought up in Washington, D.C. where she attended private schools and later worked as a reporter for the "Washington Post". In 1904 she became engaged to the Japanese poet Yone Noguchi and planned to join him in Japan, but broke off the engagement under scandalous circumstances. - Ethel Cooper
Caroline Ethel Cooper (December 25 1871 - May 25 1961) was an Australian trombonist best known for the letters she wrote to her sister Emmie in Australia while she was trapped behind enemy lines in Leipzig during World War I. - Ethel Heins
Ethel L. Heins was a librarian, book reviewer, and editor of the Horn Book Magazine from 1974 to 1985. He added the sections "A Second Look" and "Out of Print — But Look in Your Library". Heins also wrote the book "The Cat and the Cook and Other Fables of Krylov". It is interesting to note that he became editor on the Magazine's 50th Anniversary edition.
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