The surname Cuyp (sometimes spelled Kuyp) is shared by three painters who lived during the Dutch Golden Age: * Jacob Gerritsz. Cuyp (1594-1651 or 1652) * his half-brother Benjamin Gerritsz. Cuyp (1612-1652) * Jacob's son Aelbert Cuyp (1620-1691), the most famous of the three

General (ret.) Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (born September 9, 1949 in Pacitan, East Java, Indonesia), is an Indonesian retired military general and statesman as well as the sixth President of Indonesia. Yudhoyono won the presidency in September 2004 in the second round of the Indonesian presidential election, in which he defeated incumbent President Megawati Sukarnoputri. He was sworn into office on 20 October 2004, together with Jusuf Kalla as Vice President.

Rashleigh is a surname that has connotations of wealth and status in Cornwall in the United Kingdom. The Rashleighs of Fowey and Menabilly were powerful merchants in the time of Henry VIII and Elizabeth I. Philip Rashleigh, younger son of a family from Barnstaple in Devon, had purchased the manor of Trenant close to Fowey from the King after the dissolution of the monasteries in 1545. He went into trade, became successful but died in 1551.

The Abravanel family (also Abarbanel or Abrabanel) is one of the oldest and most distinguished Jewish Iberian families; they trace their origin from the biblical King David. Members of this family lived at Seville, where dwelt its oldest representative, Don Judah Abravanel. Samuel Abravanel, his grandson, settled at Valencia, and Samuel's son, Judah (or perhaps he himself), …

William Caleb "Cale" Yarborough (born March 27, 1939 in Timmonsville, South Carolina, near the Famous Darlington Raceway), is a businessman and former NASCAR Winston Cup Series driver and owner. He is the only driver in NASCAR history to win three consecutive championships. In the past, he has appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated. His 83 wins places him at number five in the all-time NASCAR winner's list.

Abe (Abraham) Okpik CM, (12 January, 1929 - 10 July, 1997) was instrumental in helping Inuit obtain surnames rather than disc numbers. He was also the first Inuk to sit on the Northwest Territories Council and worked with Thomas Berger.

Lonnie "LeeRoy" Yarbrough (born September 17, 1938 in Jacksonville, Florida, died December 7, 1984) was a NASCAR auto driver. He had one of the greatest seasons in racing history in 1969, when he won seven races, tallied 21 Top Ten finishes and earned $193,211. During his entire career from 1960-1972, he competed in 198 races, scoring 17 wins, 65 top fives, 92 top tens, and 10 poles. His racing number was 98. Yarbrough was admitted to a mental institution in the mid-1970's, …

Bartholomew was one of the twelve Apostles of Jesus. "Bartholomew" (transliterated "Bartholomaios") comes from the Aramaic "bar-Tôlmay" (תולמי‎‎‎‎‎-בר‎‎), meaning "son of Tolmay" (Ptolemy) or "son of the furrows" (perhaps a ploughman). The festival of St. Bartholomew is celebrated on August 24.

Paul Broadbent is the son of Ed Broadbent, who adopted him after marrying the young widow Lucille Munroe, Paul's mother. Educated at Georges Vanier Catholic School in Kanata, Ontario, and École secondaire publique De La Salle in Ottawa, Ontario, he joined 3 Field Engineer Squadron (a Militia unit of the Primary Reserve) in 1978, subsequently transferring to the regular component of the Canadian Forces in 1980.

Halévy is a surname which may refer to the following people: * Daniel Halévy, French historian * Élie Halévy, French philosopher and historian * Élie Halévy (Chalfan), French Hebrew poet and author * Fromental Halévy, French composer * Joseph Halévy, French Orientalist (Hebraist) and traveller * Léon Halévy, French author and dramatic writer; brother of Jacques François Fromental Halévy * Ludovic Halévy, French dramatist

Laura Espido Freire (her pen name is just her surnames Espido Freire) was born in Bilbao, Spain on July 16, 1974. She is considered one of the most popular contemporary Spanish writers.

Dame Katharine Furse, GBE (23 November 1875, Bristol - d. 25 November 1952, London), founder of the English Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) force, was born Katharine Symonds, daughter of the poet and critic John Addington Symonds and Janet Catherine Symonds. Educated by governesses and her mother she spent most of her early life in Switzerland and Italy. In 1900 she married the painter Charles Wellington Furse, …

Richard Beresford Poore O.A.M in Christchurch son of Matt Poore who was a cricketer who played Test cricket for New Zealand cricket team in the 1950's. He played an integral part in the launch of the first english speaking News channel based in the middle east. Al Jazeera English was launched on the 15th of November 2006, with Poore and George Georgiou in transmission, to worldwide acclaim.

THOMAS STEICHEN (editor Surname List) Thomas Steichen , Winston-Salem, NC; BB member since July 1998 and Surnames Editor since March 2000. My immigrant Burgenland ancestors were my mother's grand parents: Theresa Halbauer, born in Wallern, and Joseph George Weiss, born in Halbturn, who emigrated to Stearns County, Minnesota in 1888 with three children. I hold an undergraduate degree in Mathematics and Computer Science and a graduate degree in Statistics.

Josef Beneš was a Czech linguist, specialising in anthroponymy and onomastics. Beneš studied Bohemistics and Germanistics at the Charles University in Prague, ending in 1930. Later, he worked on several places as a teacher in schools providing secondary education. After World War II he briefly worked at the Ministry of Education, then returned to the teaching. From the beginning of 1960s he lectured at pedagogic institutes in Liberec and Ústí nad Labem.

Josef Beneš was a Czech linguist, specialising in anthroponymy and onomastics. Beneš studied Bohemistics and Germanistics at the Charles University in Prague, ending in 1930. Later, he worked on several places as a teacher in schools providing secondary education. After World War II he briefly worked at the Ministry of Education, then returned to the teaching. From the beginning of 1960s he lectured at pedagogic institutes in Liberec and Ústí nad Labem.

Alex Lifeson OC (born Alexander Zivojinovich on August 27, 1953, in Fernie, British Columbia, Canada), is a Canadian musician, best known as the guitarist for the rock group Rush. Lifeson founded Rush in the summer of 1968, and has been an integral member of the three-piece band ever since. For Rush, Lifeson plays electric and acoustic guitars as well as other stringed instruments. He also performs backing vocals in live performances, …

The Mac an Bháird family was one of the learned families of late medieval Ireland. The name has evolved over many centuries, the anglicized forms coming down to us as "MacAward", "McWard", "MacEward", "MacEvard", "Macanward", "M'Ward", and its most commonly used variant today: "Ward". The name means 'son of the bard' and has no connection with the English name Ward, …

Charles Patrick García he is a Panamanian-American author, businessman, and Hispanic leader. In 1997, he founded Sterling Financial Group of Companies in 1997 and the firm grew to more than fifty offices in eight countries prior to in May 2006 selling substantially all the assets of the company to Vfinance Investments Inc., where he serves as President of the Sterling Hispanic Markets Capital Group.

James Stewart, Duke of Ross (March 1476 - January 1504) was the son of King James III of Scotland and Margaret of Denmark. He was made Marquess of Ormonde at his baptism, Earl of Ross in 1481, and Duke of Ross in 1488. Stewart became Archbishop of St. Andrews in 1497 and Lord Chancellor of Scotland in 1502. Stewart had two brothers, King James IV of Scotland and John Stewart, Earl of Mar. It may seem surprising that there were two brothers both called James.

Edward MacLysaght was one of the foremost genealogists of twentieth century Ireland. His numerous books on Irish surnames built upon the work of Patrick Woulfe's "Irish Names and Surnames" (1923) and made him well known to all those researching their family past.

Oswaldo José Payá Sardiñas is a political activist in Cuba and is considered that country's most prominent political dissident. He is commonly referred to in English language News media as Oswaldo Payá (For an explanation see Spanish use of two surnames)

Luzzatto or Luzzatti was a family of Italian-Jewish Talmudic scholars, whose genealogy can be traced back to the first half of the sixteenth century. According to a tradition communicated by S. D. Luzzatto, the family descends from a German Jew who immigrated into Italy from the province of Lausitz, and who was named after his native place ("Lausatia", "Lausiatus" = "Luzzatto").

Yuan Yida ([) is a researcher from the Institute of Genetic and Developmental Biology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is the leading authority on Chinese surnames in mainland China, and has been working on statistical studies of surname distribution in the People's Republic of China over the past two decades. Yuan Yida was born in 1947 in Shanghai, tracing his ancestry to Fenghua, Zhejiang. He spent much of his youth in Ningbo, …

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