- Charles Darwin
I was born in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England, on February 12, 1809, the fifth child of doctor Robert Darwin. - Charles Galton Darwin
Sir Charles Galton Darwin, KBE, MC, FRS (18 December 1887-13 December 1962) was the English physicist grandson of Charles Darwin, who served as director of the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) during the Second World War. - Erasmus Darwin
Erasmus Darwin, was an English physician, natural philosopher, physiologist, inventor and poet. He was one of the founder members of the Lunar Society, a discussion group of pioneering industrialists and natural philosophers. He was a member of the Darwin — Wedgwood family, which most famously includes his grandson, Charles Darwin. - Leonard Darwin
Major Leonard Darwin (15 January 1850 - 26 March 1943), a son of the English naturalist Charles Darwin, was variously a soldier, politician, economist, eugenicist and mentor of the statistician and evolutionary biologist Ronald Fisher. - Horace Darwin
Sir Horace Darwin, KBE, FRS (13 May 1851 - 29 September 1928), a son of the English naturalist Charles Darwin, was a civil engineer. Darwin was born in Down House in 1851, the fifth son and ninth child of the British naturalist Charles Darwin and his wife Emma, the youngest of their seven children that survived to adulthood. He founded the Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company in 1885 and was Mayor of Cambridge between 1896 and 1897. - Emma Darwin
Emma Darwin was the wife and cousin of the English naturalist Charles Darwin and mother to their ten children. - George Darwin
Sir George Howard Darwin, F.R.S. (July 9 1845 - December 7 1912) was a British astronomer and mathematician, the second son and fifth child of Charles and Emma Darwin. He was born at Down House. He studied under Charles Pritchard, went on to study at Cambridge University, was admitted to the bar, but returned to science. In 1883 he became Plumian Professor of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy at Cambridge University. He studied tidal forces involving the Sun, Moon, … - Francis Darwin
Sir Francis "Frank" Darwin, F.R.S. (August 16 1848 - 19 September 1925), a son of the British naturalist Charles Darwin, followed his father into botany. - Charles Waring Darwin
Charles Waring Darwin was the last of the children of Charles Darwin and Emma Darwin, their tenth child and sixth boy. It was noted by Henrietta, in her biography of her mother, that the child was born "without the full share of intelligence". Darwin noted that even though "he was backward in talking & walking" he was nevertheless "intelligent & observant". - Bernard Darwin
Bernard Richard Meirion Darwin CBE JP (September 7 1876-18 October 1961) a grandson of the British naturalist Charles Darwin, was a golf writer. - Robert Darwin
Dr Robert Waring Darwin, F.R.S. (30 May, 1766 - 13 November, 1848) was a Shrewsbury-based medical doctor, today best known as the father of the naturalist Charles Darwin. - Etty Darwin
Henrietta Emma "Etty" Darwin, or (25 September 1843 - 17 December 1927) was a daughter of Charles Darwin and his wife Emma Wedgwood. Etty was born in Down House, Downe in 1843. She was Darwin's third daughter and the eldest daughter to reach adulthood after the eldest Annie died aged 10, and second daughter Mary died before becoming a month old. She and her brother Frank helped her father with his work, and Etty helped edit "The Descent of Man". - Erasmus Alvey Darwin
Erasmus Alvey Darwin, nicknamed "Eras" or "Ras", was the older brother of Charles Darwin, born five years earlier, and also brought up at the family home, The Mount House, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England. He was the only other boy in the family, the fourth of six children of Robert and Susannah Darwin ("née" Wedgwood), and the grandson of Erasmus Darwin, and of Josiah Wedgwood, a family of the Unitarian church. - Anne Darwin
Anne Elizabeth "Annie" Darwin (2 March 1841-22 April 1851) was the second child and eldest daughter of Charles and Emma Darwin. According to biographers, she was a delightful child who brought much happiness to her parents. Eminent Darwin scholar E. Janet Browne writes of her: :"Anne was .. the apple of her proud father's eye, his favourite child, he confessed to" [his friend and cousin William Darwin] Fox. - Danny Darwin
Daniel Wayne "Danny" Darwin (born October 25, 1955 in Bonham, Texas), known as the "Bonham Bullet," is a former veteran pitcher of 21 Major League Baseball seasons. He amassed 171 wins and 182 losses over his career for 8 different Major League teams with a 4.07 earned run average. His best season was at the age of 34 when he went 11-4 and won the National League ERA title with 2.21 for the Houston Astros in 1990. - Elinor Darwin
Elinor Mary Darwin, (1871-1954) was an Irish engraver and artist. She was born in Limerick, Munster and studied at the Slade School of Art in London, earning a scholarship in 1896. She married Bernard Darwin, the golf writer grandson of the British naturalist Charles Darwin in 1906. Their children were Ursula Darwin (born 1908) and Sir Robert Vere Darwin (1910-1974). She illustrated some of her husband's books for children, such as the "Tale Of Mr. - Mike Darwin
Michael G. Darwin (Mike Darwin), who is an American, was the President of the cryonics organization Alcor Life Extension Foundation from 1983 to 1988, and Research Director until 1992. He was also President of BioPreservation, Inc., and Director of Research of Twenty-First Century Medicine (a cryobiological/critical care medicine research company) from 1993 to 1999. - Robin Darwin
Sir Robert Vere "Robin" Darwin KCB CBE (7 May 1910–30 January 1974) was a British artist and Principal of the Royal College of Art. He was the son of the golf writer Bernard Darwin and his wife the engraver Elinor Monsell. His sister is the potter Ursula Mommens. He was a great-grandson of the naturalist Charles Darwin. - John Darwin
John Haddrick Darwin was Government Statistician of New Zealand from 1980-1984 and a member of the Royal Commission on the Electoral System. - Emma Darwin
Emma Darwin is an English novelist whose first book, "The Mathematics of Love", was published to critical acclaim in 2006. She is the great-great-granddaughter of Charles and Emma Darwin. - Florence Henrietta Darwin
Lady Florence Henrietta Darwin, (née Fisher, 1863 (or 1864) - 5 March 1920), was an English playwright. Florence Henrietta Fisher was born in Kensington, London, the daughter of Herbert William Fisher (1826-1903), author of "Considerations on the Origin of the American War" and his wife Mary Louisa Jackson (1841-1916). - Ben Darwin
Ben Darwin (born 17 October, 1976) is a former Australian rugby union footballer. He played 28 times for the national team, the Wallabies, from 2001 to 2003, including games against the British and Irish Lions and at the 2003 Rugby World Cup. His usual position was as a prop. He made his international debut for Australia in 2001, coming off the bench against the touring Lions in Brisbane. He also played in the 2001 Tri Nations Series later that year, … - Edward Levett Darwin
Edward Levett Darwin, author under the pen-name High Elms of "Gameskeeper's Manual", which shows keen observation of the habits of various animals. Darwin was the son of Sir Francis Sacheverel Darwin and his wife Jane Harriet Ryle. He was a cousin of Sir Francis Galton and half-cousin of Charles Darwin, their shared ancestor being the physician and poet Erasmus Darwin. He grew up at Breadsall Priory, near Derby. - Francis Sacheverel Darwin
Sir Francis Sacheverel Darwin (17 June 1786 - 6 November 1859) was a physician and traveller who was knighted by King George IV. - Bobby Darwin
Bobby Darwin (born February 16, 1943 in Los Angeles, California) is a former Major League Baseball outfielder who played for the Los Angeles Angels (1962), Los Angeles Dodgers (1969-1971), Minnesota Twins (1972-1975), Milwaukee Brewers (1975-1976), Boston Red Sox (1976-1977) and Chicago Cubs (1977). Darwin began his career as a pitcher, and he appeared in one game with the Angels at the age of 19. After spending most of the next decade in the minor leagues, … - Richard Dawkins
Clinton Richard Dawkins (born March 26, 1941) is a British ethologist, evolutionary biologist, and popular science writer who holds the Charles Simonyi Chair for the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University. Dawkins first came to prominence with his 1976 book "The Selfish Gene", which popularised the gene-centered view of evolution and introduced the term meme into the lexicon, helping found memetics. - Ernst Mayr
Ernst Walter Mayr (July 5, 1904, Kempten, Germany - February 3, 2005, Bedford, Massachusetts U.S.), was one of the 20th century's leading evolutionary biologists. He was also a renowned taxonomist, tropical explorer, ornithologist, historian of science, and naturalist. His work contributed to the conceptual revolution that led to the modern evolutionary synthesis of Mendelian genetics, systematics, and Darwinian evolution, … - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"'"',, (28 August 1749 - 22 March 1832) was a German polymath. Goethe's works span the fields of poetry, drama, literature, theology, Humanism, science, and painting. His most enduring work, the two-part dramatic poem "Faust", is considered one of the peaks of world literature. Goethe's other well-known literary works include his numerous poems, the bildungsroman "Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship", … - Geoffrey Miller
Geoffrey Miller (born 1965) is an American evolutionary psychologist; his work is in the tradition of Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, and Steven Pinker. In Miller's view, evolution is driven not just by natural selection, for survival, but equally importantly by the process that Darwin called sexual selection. In support of his views on sexual selection, he has written "The mating mind: how sexual choice shaped the evolution of human nature". - James Burke
James Patrick Burke (born February 4, 1971) is an Australian politician. He has been an Australian Labor Party member of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly since 2005, representing the electorate of Brennan. Burke is perhaps most famous for his shock defeat of then-Country Liberal Party Opposition Leader Denis Burke at the 2005 election. Although even he had not expected to have any chance of victory, he swept aside the incumbent member, … - Joanne Lees
Joanne Lees, (born September 25 1973 in Huddersfield), is a British woman, notable for being the girlfriend of Peter Falconio at the time of his disappearance on a remote stretch of highway near Barrow Creek in outback Northern Territory, Australia on July 14 2001. Lees was the chief crown witness in the subsequent murder trial of Bradley John Murdoch conducted in Darwin. Lees met Falconio in a nightclub in Huddersfield, … - Paul Miller
Paul Miller (born November 15, 1978 in Darwin, Northern Territory) is a boxer from Australia, who represented his native country at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney in the Men's 75 kg Division. There he was beaten by Vugar Alekperov of Azerbaijan in the second round, after defeating Dominica's Jerson Ravelo. The Queenslander has been national champion in his weight division (75 kilograms) since 1997. Miller won the Oceania Championships in both 1999 and 2000, … - Marion Scrymgour
Marion Rose Scrymgour (born 1960) is an Australian politician. She has been an Australian Labor Party member of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly since August 2001. Scrymgour represents the electorate of Arafura, which covers western Arnhem Land and the Tiwi Islands. She is the current Minister for Family and Community Services and Minister for Environment and Heritage, and is notable as the first indigenous woman to become a minister in any Australian government. - Louis Leakey
Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey (August 7, 1903 - October 1, 1972) was an Kenyan archaeologist and naturalist whose work was important in establishing human evolutionary development in Africa. He also played a major role in creating organizations for future research in Africa and for protecting wildlife there. Having been a prime mover in establishing a tradition of palaeoanthropological inquiry, he was able to motivate the next generation to continue it, … - Ron Wilson
Ron Wilson is the male nightly TEN-10 television news anchor in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. He also was the male nightly anchor for NEW-10 Perth's 5:00PM News, which is broadcast from TEN-10's studios, between 2003 and 2005. Ron has worked at TEN-10 Sydney for almost 30 years. Ron was born in Co. Fermanagh in the North of Ireland and emigrated to Australia with his family when he was a young child. He spent much of his childhood in Victoria, … - John McDouall Stuart
John McDouall Stuart (7 September 1815 - 5 June 1866) was the most accomplished and most famous of all Australia's inland explorers. Stuart led the second expedition to traverse the Australian mainland from south to north, and the first to do so from a starting point in South Australia, achieving this despite poor backing from the Government of South Australia. His experience and the care he showed for his team ensured he never lost a man, … - Kon Vatskalis
Konstantine "Kon" Vatskalis is an Australian politician. He has been an Australian Labor Party member of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly since September 2001, representing the Darwin-based electorate of Casuarina. He is the current Minister for Business and Economic Development, Minister for Regional Development, Minister for Defence Support, Minister for Sport and Recreation and Minister for Essential Services. - Henry Walter Bates
Henry Walter Bates FRS, FLS, FGS (February 8, 1825 - February 16, 1892) was an English naturalist and explorer most famous for his expedition to the Amazon with Alfred Russel Wallace in 1848. Wallace returned in 1852, but lost his collection in a shipwreck. When Bates arrived home seven years later (in 1859) he had sent back over 14,000 specimens (mostly insects) of which 8,000 were new to science. Bates was born in Leicester and, like Wallace, … - Hermann Müller
Hermann Müller, German botanist who provided important evidence for Darwin's theory of evolution. He was the author in 1873 of "Die Befruchtung der Blumen durch Insekten", a book translated at the suggestion of Darwin in 1883 as "The fertilisation of flowers". He and Darwin corresponded - 36 letters between the two, or from Darwin concerning Müller, are recorded. - Bert Hinkler
Herbert John Louis Hinkler, DSM (8 December 1892 – 8 January, 1933) - better known as Bert Hinkler, was a pioneer Australian aviator. Hinkler was born in Bundaberg, Queensland, the son of a German-born stockman. In his early life, he constructed and flew gliders on beaches near his hometown. He became mechanic to H. Stone who gave some exhibition flights at Sydney. In 1913, Hinkler went to England where he worked for the Sopwith Aviation Company.
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