- Alan Ball Jr.
James Alan Ball, MBE (12 May 1945 - 25 April 2007) was an English professional footballer and football club manager. He was the youngest member of England's 1966 World Cup winning team and was made Man of the Match in the final following his performance. He played for various clubs, scoring more than 180 league goals in a career spanning 22 years. - Alan Ball Sr.
James Alan Ball (26 September 1924 - 2 January 1982), was an English footballer and manager. Born in Farnworth, Bolton, Lancashire, Ball played as an inside-forward for Bolton B.F., Southport (46+2 league appearances) (1946-1947), Birmingham City (1947-1948), Southport (41 appearances, 9 goals) (1948-1950), Oldham Athletic (7 appearances, 1 goal) (1950-1952) and Rochdale (5 appearances, one goal) (1952). - Sir Nigel Ball 3rd Baronet
Sir Nigel Gresley Ball, 3rd Baronet (born 27 August 1892, died 1978) was Professor of Botany at University College, Colombo, Sri Lanka, (1924-1943). - Lucille Ball
Lucille Désirée Ball was an iconic American comedian, actress and star of the landmark sitcom "I Love Lucy", a four time Emmy Award winner (awarded 1953, 1956, 1967, 1968) and charter member of the Television Hall of Fame. A major movie star and "glamour girl" of the 1930s and 1940s, she later achieved tremendous success as a television actress. She received the Kennedy Center Honors in 1986. - Mary Ball
Mary Ball was an Irish naturalist and entomologist most noted for her studies of Odonata and for her discovery of the curious phenomenon of stridulation in aquatic bugs. The Ball family lived in Youghal, County Cork. Mary had two brothers — Robert and the curiously named Bent — and one sister, Anne, a well-known algologist. The family was Protestant and "involved in trade." Robert encouraged Mary in her early insect studies, … - George Wildman Ball
George Wildman Ball (December 21, 1909-May 26, 1994) was an American diplomat Ball was born in Des Moines, Iowa. He lived in Evanston, Illinois and graduated from Northwestern University. He was the Under Secretary of State for Economic and Agricultural Affairs in the administrations of John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. He is best known as the voice against the Vietnam War during the escalation in the 1960s. - Frank Ball
Frank Elliot Ball (1857 - 1943), was an U.S. can & jar businessman and co-introducer & co-eponym of Ball jar 1886; brother of Edmund Ball and member of the Ball Brothers. Ball State University's Elliot Hall is named for him. - Luke Ball
Luke Patrick Ball (born 25 May, 1984) is an Australian rules footballer. The younger brother of Hawthorn player Matthew Ball, who, along with his brother, played for Ashburton in junior years. Luke was drafted to the St Kilda Football Club in 2001 with the priority pick (no 2 overall) in the AFL Draft. The draft that season was known as the "super draft", and Ball was taken behind Luke Hodge and ahead of Chris Judd. - John M. Ball
Professor Sir John Macleod Ball FRS (born 1948) is Sedleian Professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of Oxford. He was the President of the International Mathematical Union from 2003-06 and a Fellow of Queen's College, Oxford. He was educated at the University of Cambridge and Sussex University, and prior to taking up his Oxford post was a professor of mathematics at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh. - Ernie Ball
Ernie Ball was an American entrepreneur, musician, and innovator, widely acclaimed as a revolutionary in the development of guitar-related products. He began as a club and local television musician and small business entrepreneur, building an international business in guitars and accessories that would eventually gross US$40 million a year. - Webb C. Ball
Webb C. Ball (October 6, 1847-1922) was a jeweller and watchmaker born in Fredericktown, Ohio. After a two-year apprenticeship to a jeweller, Ball settled in Cleveland, Ohio to join a jewelry store. When Standard Time was adopted in 1883, he was the first jeweller to use time signals from the United States Naval Observatory, bringing accurate time to Cleveland. In 1891 there was a collision between Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railways at Kipton, … - Kevin Ball
Kevin Ball (born Hastings, England, United Kingdom on 12 November, 1964) is a former professional footballer and now coach. Between 6 March and 8 May, 2006 Ball acted as Sunderland caretaker manager for the last ten games of the 2005-06 season following the sacking of Mick McCarthy, taking five points from these games. Although Ball expressed his interest in the manager's job on a full-time basis, … - Zoë Ball
Zoë Louise Ball is an English television and radio personality, most famous for becoming the first female host of the prestigious BBC Radio 1 breakfast show. - Johnny Ball
Johnny Ball originally came from Bristol, Gloucestershire spending his primary years there and later in his childhood moved to Bolton, Lancashire. He is a British television personality, a great populariser of mathematics and the father of former BBC Radio 1 DJ, and TV host, Zoë Ball. He was a regular fixture on children's television in the 1970s and 1980s, … - John Ball
John Ball (November 12, 1794-February 5, 1884) was born at Tenny Hill, Grafton County, New Hampshire. He had a common school education and graduated from Dartmouth College in 1820. He studied law two years at Lansingburg, New York and then went to Darien, Georgia where he taught school five years, then returned to New York and was admitted to the bar in 1824. As a member of Nathaniel Jarvis Wyeth's first expedition, in 1832 he traveled to the Oregon Country. - Michael Ball
Michael Ball is a British actor and singer, best known for the song "Love Changes Everything" and musical theatre roles such as Marius in "Les Misérables", Alex in "Aspects of Love", and Caractacus Potts in "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang". - Kenny Ball
Kenny Ball (born Kenneth Daniel Ball, 22 May 1930, Ilford, Essex, England) is a British jazz musician, best known as the lead trumpet player in Kenny Ball and his Jazzmen. - Peter Eugene Ball
Peter Eugene Ball (March 19, 1943) is an English sculptor. He is best known for his religious work which can be seen in churches and cathedrals throughout Britain. He also produces secular sculpture using predominantly driftwood and found objects. - Murray Ball
Murray Hone Ball (born 1937) is a New Zealand cartoonist. He was born in Feilding in the Manawatu, and is best known for his "Stanley the Palaeolithic Hero", "Bruce the Barbarian" and the long-running "Footrot Flats" comic series. In 2002 he was created officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit (ONZM) for his services as a cartoonist. - W. W. Rouse Ball
Walter William Rouse Ball was a British mathematician, lawyer and a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge from 1878 to 1905. - Alexander Ball
Sir Alexander John Ball, 1st Baronet, was a British admiral and governor of Malta. He was a member of a Gloucestershire family. He was born in Ebworth Park, Stonehouse, Gloucestershire. He was the fourth son of Robert and Mary (Dickinson) Ball. - Henry Lidgbird Ball
Henry Lidgbird Ball (1756-1818) was a British Navy seaman, best known for discovering and exploring Lord Howe Island. In 1788, having previously commanded the HMS Supply, Lieutenant Ball commanded the vessel entrusted with shipping the first group of settlers from Botany Bay to Norfolk Island. Between 1788 and 1790, Ball explored the area around Port Jackson and took part in the capture of the Aborigine, Arabanoo, on 31 December 1788, … - David Ball
David Ball (born 3 May 1959 in Blackpool, Lancashire) is an English producer and electronic musician, who has played in bands such as Soft Cell and The Grid, and collaborated with producers such as Ingo Vauk and Chris Braide. He is usually referred to as 'Dave Ball' on record sleeves. - Ed Ball
A: Ed Ball - Never Live To Love Again AA: 18 Wheeler - Ballad Of Paul Verlaine 7" Creation Records (CREXMAS01) 1996 - Larry Ball
Larry Lauren Ball (born September 27, 1949 in Iowa City, Iowa) is a retired American football linebacker. Ball was drafted out of University of Louisville in the 1972 NFL Draft by the Miami Dolphins. He also played for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Detroit Lions. During his NFL career, he participated in 79 games. Ball is best remembered for being the only player in NFL history to play for both an undefeated team, 1972 Dolphins, and a winless team, 1976 Buccaneers. - William MacMahon Ball
William Macmahon Ball AC (August 29, 1901 - December 26, 1986) was an Australian academic and diplomat. Educated at Caulfield Grammar School and the University of Melbourne, where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree, Ball studied both psychology and political science as a research fellow at Melbourne and the London School of Economics respectively. He then travelled Europe as a Carnegie Travelling Fellow, … - John Ball
John Ball (August 20, 1818 - October 21, 1889) was an Irish politician, naturalist and Alpine traveller, eldest son of an Irish judge, Nicholas Ball, born in Dublin. - Rudi Ball
Rudi Ball (March 27, 1910 - September 1975) was one of two athletes of Jewish descent to represent Germany in the 1936 Summer Olympic Games in Berlin. The other Jewish athlete was Helene Mayer. He was considered one of the greatest ice hockey players of the pre-war era. He and his two brothers, Gerhard Ball and Heinz Ball, represented Germany in many international competitions in their hockey careers. - Elizabeth Ball
Elizabeth Ball is a Vancouver city councillor who was elected as a member of Non-Partisan Association in 2005. She was the founder of Carousel Theatre Company and served as Managing Artistic Director for 27 years. - Duncan Ball
Duncan Ball (born 1941) is an Australian author who has written the children's series "Selby" (which is about a talking dog named Selby who tries to keep his secret away from his owners) and "Emily Eyefinger" (about a girl who has an eye on her finger). He is also writes under the name of John St Claire. St can mean either Saint or Street and Duncan happens to live on the corner of John and Claire Streets in Sydney. - Joe Ball
Joseph D. (Joe) Ball (January 7, 1896 - September 23, 1938) was an American serial killer, sometimes referred to as The Alligator Man, the Butcher of Elmendorf and the Bluebeard of South Texas. He is said to have killed at least twenty women in the 1930s. His existence was long believed to be apocryphal, but he is a familiar figure in Texas folklore. - Robert Stawell Ball
Sir Robert Stawell Ball (July 1, 1840-November 25, 1913) was an Irish astronomer to Lord Rosse in 1865 and Irish Astronomer-Royal in 1874. In 1892 he was appointed Lowndean Professor of Astronomy and Geometry at Cambridge University. His lectures, articles and books (eg. "Starland" and "The Story of the Heavens") were popular and simple in style. His main interest was mathematics and he devoted much of his spare time to his "Theory of Screws". - Martyn Ball
Martyn Ball (born April 26, 1970 in Bristol) is an English former cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and right-arm off-break bowler. He spent his 19 year career at Gloucestershire. Ball made his first-class debut in 1988 and continued to bowl a trademark floating off-break for several years, and in 1996 was offered his first county cap. Ball was at the forefront of Gloucestershire's rise to the top of the English game, … - Martin Ball
Martin Ball is an experienced theatre and television actor currently starring as Doctor Dillamond in Wicked (musical) at the Apollo Victoria Theatre London. Martin Ball was born & grew up in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent. He trained at Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art, and graduated in 1992. - Jerry Ball
Jerome Lee Ball (born December 15, 1964 in Beaumont, Texas) is a former professional American football defensive lineman in the NFL. During his career he went to three Pro Bowls. In the NFL for 13 seasons, Jerry Ball recorded 32.5 sacks during his career, most of them coming as a member of the Detroit Lions. Despite this fact, he was known mostly as a run stuffer later in his career, anchoring the Minnesota Viking defense alongside John Randle, … - Marcia Ball
Marcia Ball (born March 20, 1949) is an American blues singer and pianist born in Orange, Texas but who grew up in Vinton, Louisiana. This same region spawned other American blues greats, including Clifton Chenier, Janis Joplin, Lonnie Brooks, and Kenny Neal. Born into a musical family, Ball began playing piano at age 5, and showed an early interest in New Orleans style piano playing, as exemplified by Fats Domino, Professor Longhair, and James Booker. - Bobby Ball
Robert Harper (b. 28 January 1944, Oldham, England), better known as Bobby Ball, is one half of the comedy double act Cannon and Ball, along with Tommy Cannon. He married his first wife, Joan, in 1964, with whom he had two sons, Robert and Darren. They separated in 1968. He married his second wife, Yvonne, in 1971. They have one daughter, Joanne. Ball now has nine grandchildren. Ball has been in show business with his comedy partner for 42 years. - Greg Ball
Hon. Gregory R. Ball (born September 16, 1977) is the representative for the 99th District in the State Assembly. Ball defeated 12-year incumbent Willis Stephens, Jr. in a Republican primary in September 2006 taking 71% of the vote. Ball is a graduate of the United States Air Force Academy and a resident of Carmel. - Margaret Ball
Margaret Ball (1515-1584) was born Margaret Birmingham near Skryne in County Meath, and died of deprivation in the dungeons of Dublin Castle. She was Mayoress of Dublin in 1553. She was beatified in 1992. - Neal Ball
Cornelius "Neal" Ball (April 22, 1881 - October 15, 1957), the American baseball player, achieved fame on July 19, 1909 when he pulled off the first unassisted triple play in Major League baseball history in a game against the Boston Red Sox. "During the same game, he set another major league record for shortstops. His glove from that game is on exhibit at the Baseball Hall of Fame." Ball was born on April 22, 1881 in Grand Haven, Michigan and died on October 15, …
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