- Ed Carpenter
Ed Carpenter is an Indy Racing League driver born March 3, 1981. He is the stepson of Indy Racing League founder Tony George. He and his wife, Heather Carpenter, are expecting their first child in October of 2007. Following a successful career in midget racing that dated as far back as 1989, he moved up to single-seater formula cars in 2002 with the creation of the IRL Infiniti Pro Series. - James Carpenter
James Carpenter (1840-1899) was a British astronomer at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich. During the 1860s he performed the first observations of stellar spectra at the observatory, under the direction of the Astronomer Royal George Airy. In 1861-62 he was one of three astronomers to successfully observe the dark underside of the rings of Saturn, the other two astronomers being William Wray and Otto Struve. - Brian Carpenter
Brian Carpenter is a British Internet engineer, and past chair of the IETF. - Harry Carpenter
Harry Carpenter (b 17 October, 1925 in London), was a BBC sports commentator from the early 1950s until his retirement in the 1990s. His speciality was boxing. He was presenter of programmes such as Sportsnight (1978-1985) and Grandstand and also anchored coverage of Wimbledon and golf tournaments. He was famous for his rapport with former WBC World Heavyweight Champion Frank Bruno. - Bobby Carpenter
Bobby Carpenter (born August 1, 1983 in Lancaster, Ohio) is an American football linebacker, taken from Ohio State University by the Dallas Cowboys with the 18th pick in the first round of the 2006 NFL Draft. He is the son of former New York Giants running back Rob Carpenter. Carpenter, a LCMS Christian, played at Lancaster High School where his father is head coach. - John Carpenter
John Carpenter (born 1967) was the first $1,000,000 winner on the United States version of the game show "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire". The historic event occurred on November 19, 1999. He held the record for the largest single win in United States game show history, until it was broken by Rahim Oberholtzer on another U.S. quiz show, "Twenty One". - Michael Carpenter
Michael Carpenter is an American porn director. He is sometimes credited as Mike Carpenter or Michael Carre. He is a member of the AVN Hall of Fame. - Karen Carpenter
Karen Anne Carpenter (March 2, 1950 - February 4, 1983) was a highly successful American singer and drummer. She and her brother, Richard, formed the successful duo The Carpenters. - Margaret Carpenter
Margaret Carpenter is a Republican member of the North Carolina House of Representatives from the fifty-second district (Madison, Haywood, Graham, Swain, and part of Jackson counties) for one term (2001-2002). Carpenter, a resident of Waynesville, Haywood County, defeated Haywood County Commissioner and former Hazelwood Mayor, Mary Ann Enloe, by a narrow margin in 2000. Carpenter was defeated by Mars Hill Mayor Ray Rapp for the newly drawn 118th district (Haywood, Madison, … - Rob Carpenter
Robert J. Carpenter, Jr. (born April 20, 1955 in Lancaster, Ohio) is a former American football running back. He is the father of Dallas Cowboys linebacker Bobby Carpenter. He currently resides in Lancaster, Ohio and is a teacher and head football coach of Lancaster High School (Ohio). He is a graduate of Miami University. - Rollo Carpenter
Rollo Carpenter is the British-born creator of Jabberwacky, a learning Artificial Intelligence (AI) chatterbot that models, in part, the way humans learn. Carpenter has worked as CTO of a business software startup in Silicon Valley, but returned to the UK to work at Icogno. As Managing Director of Icogno Ltd, Carpenter is developing AI for entertainment, companionship and communication. His AI entries George and Joan were #1 for Loebner Prize (2005) and (2006). - David Carpenter
David C. Carpenter (born 1941 in Edmonton, Alberta) is a Canadian novelist who lives in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. - Francis Bicknell Carpenter
Unsigned]]Francis Bicknell Carpenter (August 6, 1830-May 23, 1900) was an American painter born in Homer, New York. Carpenter is best known for his painting "First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation of President Lincoln", which is hanging in the United States Capitol. Carpenter resided with President Lincoln at the the White House and in 1866 published his one volume memoir " Six months at the White House with Abraham Lincoln". - Benajah Carpenter
Benajah Carpenter, founding member of the United States Army Field Artillery Corps under Henry Knox and veteran of the Siege of Boston and Battle of Long Island. Carpenter was born April 27, 1748 and perished at war on the fateful day August 27, 1776. He was a descendant of the Rehoboth Carpenter Family. His father was a Stephen Carpenter and mother Jane Thurston of Rehoboth, Massachusetts. Benajah Carpenter was an apprenticed Rhode Island chairmaker until 1771. - Charisma Carpenter
Charisma Lee Carpenter (born July 23, 1970) is an American actress. She is best known for playing the character Cordelia Chase in the television series "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and its spin-off "Angel". - John Carpenter
John Howard Carpenter (born January 16, 1948) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, film score composer and occasional actor. Carpenter has worked in numerous film genres, and is considered one of the most accomplished and influential horror and science fiction directors in Hollywood. - Humphrey Carpenter
Humphrey William Bouverie Carpenter was an English biographer, author and radio broadcaster. He was born, died, and lived practically all of his life, in the city of Oxford. As a child he lived in the Warden's Lodgings at Keble College, Oxford, where his father, Harry James Carpenter, was Warden until his appointment as Bishop of Oxford. On leaving the Dragon School in Oxford, Humphrey was educated at Marlborough College in Wiltshire, but returned to study English at Keble. - Jennifer Carpenter
Jennifer Leann Carpenter (born December 7, 1979 in Louisville, Kentucky) is an American film actress. - Scott Carpenter
Malcolm Scott Carpenter is a retired American Naval officer and was one of the original seven astronauts selected in 1959 for Project Mercury. Created by the newly formed National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Project Mercury was the United States' answer to the Soviet Union's space program. This rivalry eventually became the space race — a contest between the two superpowers to land the first men on the moon and return them safely to earth. - Loren Carpenter
Loren C. Carpenter (born 1947) is a computer graphics researcher and developer. He is co-founder and chief scientist of Pixar Animation Studios. One of his many inventions is the A-buffer hidden surface algorithm. In 1980 when he was working at The Boeing Company he presented at SIGGRAPH a two-minute animation showing a very complicated landscape called Vol Libre, then he was hired to work at Lucasfilm's Computer Division. - William Carpenter
William Henry Carpenter was an Australian politician. He held seats in three parliaments: the South Australian Legislative Assembly, the Australian House of Representatives and the Western Australian Legislative Assembly. William Carpenter was born in Stratton, Wiltshire, England in 1863. He was educated at Swindon, and it was there that he took an apprenticeship as a boilermaker on the Great Western Railway. - Hick Carpenter
Warren William "Hick" Carpenter (August 16, 1855 - April 18, 1937) was a 19th century Major League Baseball Third baseman from Grafton, Massachusetts. He travelled around the National League with several clubs before getting the starting Third base job with the Cincinnati Red Stockings of the American Association. He played his entire career at third base, even though he was left handed, unorthodox even during that era. - Liz Carpenter
Elizabeth "Liz" Sutherland Carpenter (born September 1, 1920 in Salado, Texas) is a writer, feminist, former reporter, media advisor, speechwriter, political humorist, and public relations expert. Carpenter stood at the forefront of the Women's Movement when it began and never wavered from her platform. Her projects and causes range from supporting high tech to fighting cancer. Often called the "funniest woman in politics", she is still in demand as a public speaker. - Alfred Carpenter
Alfred Francis Blakeney Carpenter VC (September 17, 1881 - December 27, 1955) (VC, Croix de Guerre and Legion d'Honneur (France)) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. Born in Barnes, SW London, son of Commander Alfred Carpenter and grandson of Commander Charles Carpenter. - Cris Carpenter
Cris Howell Carpenter (born April 5, 1965, in St. Augustine, Florida) was a Major League Baseball right-handed pitcher. He is an alumnus of the University of Georgia. Drafted by the St. Louis Cardinals in the 1st round of the 1987 MLB amateur draft, Carpenter would make his Major League Baseball debut with the St. Louis Cardinals on May 14, 1988, and appear in his final game on April 26, 1996. Over his career, he had 27 wins, 414 1/3 innings pitched, … - Edmund Carpenter
Edmund "Ted" Snow Carpenter (born 1922 in Rochester, New York) is a noted visual anthropologist best known for his work on indigenous peoples and media. - George Carpenter
George Lyndon Carpenter (June 20, 1872 - April 9, 1948) was the 5th General of The Salvation Army (1939-1946). He trained in Raymond Terrace, Australia, and became an officer of the Army in 1892. For the first 18 years of his officership, he worked in property, training and literary work in Australia. He and Ensign Minnie Rowell were married in 1899. She wrote such books as "Notable Officers of The Salvation Army" and "Women of the Flag", among others. - Matthew H. Carpenter
Matthew Hale Carpenter, born Decatur Merritt Hammond Carpenter, (December 22, 1824 - February 24, 1881) was a member of the Republican Party who served in the United States Senate for the state of Wisconsin from 1869 - 1875 and again from 1879 - 1881. Carpenter was born in Moretown, Vermont. He served as District Attorney of Rock County, Wisconsin, from 1850 to 1854. He was originally a member of the Democratic Party until the start of the Civil War. - Ken Carpenter
William Kenneth "Ken" Carpenter (April 19, 1913 - March 15, 1984) was the USC's first two-time NCAA champion in a weight event. In 1936, Carpenter captured the gold medal in the discus throw at the 1936 Summer Olympics with a toss of 50.48 meters. Between 1936 and 1940, he held the American record in discus and won the NCAA national title with a toss of 157 feet. Carpenter graduated from Compton High School, where he was a track and field star. - Bobby Carpenter
Robert E. Carpenter Jr. (born July 13, 1963 in Beverly, Massachusetts) is a former professional ice hockey center who played in the National Hockey League for 18 seasons from 1981-82 until 1998-99. He has the distinction of being the first U.S. Citizen to be drafted into the National Hockey League directly out of high school, and the first U.S.-born hockey player to be selected within the top five picks of the NHL Draft. - Eddie Carpenter
Everard "Eddie" Lorne Carpenter (Born June 15, 1890 in Hartford, Michigan - died April 30 1963) was an American professional ice hockey defenceman who played 2 seasons in the National Hockey League for the Quebec Bulldogs and Hamilton Tigers. - Terry Carpenter
Terry McGovern Carpenter (1900-1978) was a Nebraska politician. Though he changed his party five times, he was elected as a Democrat to the United States House of Representatives and later served 22 years in the Nebraska Legislature. He also unsuccessfully ran for the Senate, Governor and Lieutenant Governor of Nebraska, as well as mayor of Scottsbluff, Nebraska. Carpenter was also a successful businessman and founded the village of Terrytown, Nebraska. - Chris Carpenter
Christopher John (Chris) Carpenter (born April 27, 1975 in Exeter, New Hampshire) is a starting pitcher in Major League Baseball who has played for the St. Louis Cardinals since 2003, and is currently signed with the team until the 2011 season, with a club option for 2012. Carpenter was 22 years old and a highly-regarded prospect when he broke into the majors in 1997 with the Toronto Blue Jays. He stayed with Toronto until after the 2002 season. - Robert Carpenter
Robert Pearson Carpenter (born 18 November, 1830 in Mill Road, Cambridge; died 14 July, 1901 in Cambridge) was a noted English cricketer and umpire. A right-handed batsman and occasional wicket-keeper, he played for Cambridgeshire during its brief period as a first-class county in the 1850s and 1860s, as well as for the United All-England Eleven. He umpired in two Tests between England and Australia in the 1880s. - Richard Carpenter
Richard Lynn Carpenter (b. October 15, 1946 in New Haven, Connecticut) is a pop musician who is best known as one half of the brother/sister duo, the Carpenters, along with his sister, Karen Carpenter. - George Rice Carpenter
George Rice Carpenter (October 25, 1863 - April 8, 1909) was a noted educator and scholar. He was a descendant of the Rehoboth Carpenter Family of Massachusetts. His father was Charles Carrol Carpenter (b. 1836) and mother was Feronia N. Rice (b. 1862). His father was a Congregational minister who left an account of the final days of the Civil War and was an eyewitness of Abraham Lincoln's entry into Petersburg, Virginia. - Jeanne Carpenter
Jeanne Carpenter (1 February 1916 - 5 January 1994) was an American child actress of the silent era. Born Theo-Alice Jeanne Carpenter in Kansas City, Missouri, Carpenter started her film career as a baby actress, at age of three. Her fame grew in the early-1920s as she made a series of successful appearances in films such as, "Helen's Babies" with Baby Peggy, and "The Sign of the Rose". - Ed Carpenter
Ed Carpenter is an artist specializing in large-scale public installations ranging from architectural sculpture to infrastructure design. Since 1973 he has completed scores of projects for public, corporate, and ecclesiastical clients. Working internationally from his studio in Portland, Oregon, USA, Carpenter collaborates with a variety of expert consultants, sub-contractors, and studio assistants. He personally oversees every step of each commission, … - Stephen Carpenter
Stephen Carpenter, (born August 3, 1973) is a US musician, the lead guitarist and occasional multi-instrumentalist in Deftones. When Carpenter was younger, he was hit by a drunk driver who broke both his legs, and was confined to a wheelchair for some time. The insurance settlement as a result of this ended up in his favor and he acquired a large sum of money at the age of 18. By December of that year, he had invested all of which into himself. - Shawn Carpenter
Shawn Carpenter is an American Navy veteran and whistleblower (previously employed by Sandia National Laboratories) who tracked down a Chinese cyberespionage ring that is code-named Titan Rain by the FBI. He came to national attention when his story was reported on in the September 5, 2005 issue of "Time" magazine. Carpenter was an employee of Sandia National Laboratories, investigating security breaches in its networks.
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