- Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Douglas Elton Fairbanks, Jr., KBE, DSC, K.st.j. (December 9, 1909 - May 7, 2000) was an American actor and a highly decorated naval officer of World War II. - Jason Fairbanks
Jason Fairbanks was an early American murderer. Fairbanks came from a prominent family in Dedham, Massachusetts. He was the son of Ebenezer and Prudence Farrington Fairbanks and lived in the Fairbanks House, today the oldest house in the country. He was born with a lame arm. His sixth cousin, once removed, was Vice President Charles Fairbanks. He had been courting Elizabeth Fales, the daughter of Nehemiah Fales, for a long while but she would not consent to marry him. - Douglas Fairbanks
Douglas Fairbanks (May 23, 1883 - December 12, 1939) was an American actor, screenwriter, director and producer, who became noted for his swashbuckling roles in silent movies such as "The Mark of Zorro" (1920), "The Three Musketeers" (1921), "Robin Hood" (1922), "The Thief of Bagdad" (1924) and "The Black Pirate" (1926). - Nola Fairbanks
Nola Fairbanks was born Nola Jo Modine on December 10, 1924. She was the grand-daughter of Mormon pioneers from southern Utah. As a child in Santa Paula, California, USA, she joined the Meglin Kiddies Dance Troup where Shirley Temple was also a student. Nola Jo's mother washed clothes to pay for her singing and dancing lessons during the great depression. Her first movie role was as a "glorified extra" in The Corn is Green in 1945, starring Bette Davis. - Gene Fairbanks
Gene Fairbanks (born 8 August, 1982 in Goondiwindi, Australia) is an Australian rugby union footballer. He currently plays for the Brumbies in the international Super 14 competition. His usual position is at inside centre or fly-half. Fairbanks was educated at Downlands College in Toowoomba and he was invited to join the Reds Rugby College in 1997. He played his senior club rugby for Easts. Fairbanks made his Super 12 debut in 2003, for the Queensland Reds, … - Charles W. Fairbanks
Charles Warren Fairbanks (May 11, 1852 - June 4, 1918) was a Senator from Indiana and the twenty-sixth Vice President of the United States. Born in a log cabin near Unionville Center, Ohio, Fairbanks's ancestry traced back to Oliver Cromwell, with Jonathan Fayerbankes the first family member to reach America in 1632. The son of a wagon-maker, Fairbanks's formative years saw his family's home used as a hiding place for runaway slaves. - Erastus Fairbanks
Erastus Fairbanks (born October 28, 1792 in Brimfield, Massachusetts; died November 20 1864) was an American manufacturer and Whig politician. He studied law but abandoned it for mercantile pursuits, finally settling in St. Johnsbury, Vermont, where in 1824 he formed a partnership with his brother Thaddeus for the manufacture of scales, stoves and ploughs. Subsequently the scales (see Fairbanks Scales) invented by Thaddeus were manufactured extensively. - Jerry Fairbanks
Gerald Bertram Fairbanks was born in San Francisco, California USA on November 1, 1904, and survived the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. He began his career in film as a cameraman on silent movies (John Barrymore's "The Sea Beast") followed by work on early sound productions such as Howard Hughes' film "Hell's Angels" where he participated both as a biplane pilot and aerial cinematographer for the extensive WWI dogfight scenes. - Horace Fairbanks
Horace Fairbanks (21 March 1820-17 March 1888) was Governor of Vermont from 1876 to 1878. He was born in Barnet, Vermont, the third of nine children of Erastus Fairbanks (who had been a Republican Governor of Vermont) and his wife Lois Crossman. He was educated in the county schools and Phillips Andover Academy. He became confidential clerk of E. & T. Fairbanks & Co. at age twenty, eventually becoming partner and then president. - Chuck Fairbanks
Chuck Fairbanks (born June 10, 1933) was a football head coach at the high school, collegiate and professional levels, who was often plagued by ethical controversies surrounding his activities. Fairbanks graduated from Michigan State University in 1955 following three years of football with the Spartans, and that fall, began the first of three years as head coach of Ishpeming High School in Michigan. - Michelle Fairbanks
Michelle Fairbanks is an American actress. Fairbanks attended Johnston High School where she was an active member of the drama department. It was there where she make her first appearances in big screen movies such as "Varsity Blues" and "The Faculty". She has since gone on to act in numerous commercials, TV shows, and star in feature-length movies. - Jonathan Fairbanks
Jonathan Fairbanks (born 1594, died December 5, 1668) was born in Heptonstall, Halifax, Yorkshire, England. He first built the Fairbanks House in Dedham, Massachusetts which is today the oldest house in North America. He had "long stood off from the church upon some scruples about public profession of faith and the covenant, … - William Fairbanks
Carl Uhlman - William Fairbanks (24 May 1894, St. Louis, Missouri - 1 April 1945 in Los Angeles was an American silent film actor who mostly appeared in the 1920s. He appeared in over 60 films between 1916 and 1928. He died in 1945 - Mabel Fairbanks
Mabel Fairbanks (November 14, 1916-October 2001) was an African-American figure skater and later a coach of pairs skaters Tai Babilonia and Randy Gardner, Leslie Robinson and Michelle McCladdie as well as individual skaters Atoy Wilson, Scott Hamilton, Kristi Yamaguchi, Rudy Galindo, Tiffany Chin, and Debi Thomas. In 1977, Fairbanks was the first African American inducted into the US Figure Skating Hall of Fame. - Sarah Palin
Sarah Louise Heath Palin (born February 11, 1964) is the current Governor of Alaska and the presumptive 2008 Republican candidate for Vice President of the United States. She will be the first female Vice Presidential candidate representing the Republican Party and the second female Vice Presidential candidate representing a major political party. - Chris Lott
Chris Lott (b. October 23, 1970) was the co-founder of Eclectica Magazine along with Tom Dooley (editor) in 1996. Chris was born in Fairbanks, Alaska, and bounced around between Fairbanks and Tok, Alaska before graduating from Tok High School in 1988. - George M. Sullivan
George M. Sullivan (born c.1922) was Mayor of Anchorage from 1967-1982. His father was Harvey Sullivan, a U.S. District Marshal who had followed the Chilkoot Trail in 1898 to join the Klondike Gold Rush. Harvey Sullivan met the woman who would become George's mother (maiden name Murray) in Valdez, where she was serving as Postmaster. George Sullivan grew up in Valdez. His mother was elected mayor about 1934. - Joe Vogler
Joe Vogler (1913-1993) was the founder of the Alaskan Independence Party and active in politics, regularly running for public office in Alaska for many years. Vogler was born April 24, 1913, on a farm outside Barnes, Kansas. Joe Vogler attended the University of Kansas on a scholarship in 1929. He graduated with a law degree in five years and was admitted to the Kansas State Bar. - Austin E. Lathrop
Austin Eugene "Cap" Lathrop (1865-1950) was an industrialist and outspoken opponent of Alaska statehood. He has been called "Alaska's first home-grown millionaire." "Cap" Lathrop was born in 1865 in Lapeer County, Michigan to Eugene Lathrop and Susan Miriah Parsons Lathrop. He was expelled from school in the ninth grade for damages caused when he tampered with a water heater. - Lincoln Brewster
Lincoln Brewster (born July 30, 1971 in Fairbanks, Alaska) is a Christian music artist and pastor. A multi-talented guitarist, singer, and songwriter, Brewster became a sought-after session guitarist in the early 90s. - Jay Rabinowitz
Jay Andrew Rabinowitz (February 25, 1927–June 16, 2001) was an American lawyer, best known for serving as an Alaska Supreme Court justice from February 1965 to February 1997. - Clemon Johnson
Clemon Johnson (born September 12, 1956 in Monticello, Florida) is a retired American professional basketball player. Johnson was a 6'10", 240 lb. center who played 761 games for four teams during his 10 seasons in the National Basketball Association. From 1974-78 he played college basketball at Florida A&M University where he earned a Master's Degree in Sports Management. - Eva McGown
Eva McGown "née" Montgomery, the "hostess of Fairbanks," was best known for her three decades helping newcomers, military wives, construction workers, students, and visitors to find shelter in Fairbanks, Alaska during periods of time — particularly World War II — when the demand for housing far oustripped supply. Named Official Hostess of Fairbanks and Honorary Hostess of Alaska, … - Ken Hinchey
Ken Hinchey (1912 - 1994) was an Alaskan entrepreneur. He served one term as Mayor of Anchorage, Alaska from 1955 to 1956. Ken Hinchey was born September 9, 1912 in Fern Hill, Tacoma, Washington. In 1933, he married Nadine Graves, and in 1937 the couple moved to Anchorage, Alaska. Hinchey started a number of businesses in Alaska, including Northern Transfer, the Black and White Restaurant, Alaska Aggregate Corporation, Idealaska Cement, and Pacific Western Lines. - Carl Benjamin Eielson
Carl Benjamin Eielson was an aviator, bush pilot and explorer. He was born in Hatton, North Dakota to Norwegian immigrants. His interest in aviation went back to his childhood. Following America’s entry into World War I, Eielson found his chance to become an aviator. Eielson learned to fly in the U.S. Army Air Service in 1917. In January of 1918 he enlisted in the newly-formed aviation section of the U.S. Army Signal Corps. - Magnus Colcord Heurlin
Magnus Colcord "Rusty" Heurlin (b. July 5 1895, Christanstad, Sweden - d. March 10 1986, Ester, Alaska) was born into American parents, Berndt Felix Heurlin and Sophie Bjorklund, and was raised in Wakefield, Massachusetts after the family returned to the U.S. from Sweden in 1896. He attended art classes at the Fenway School of Illustration in Boston. Heurlin first came to Alaska in 1916, to Valdez, traveling aboard the SS "Northwestern" from Seattle, Washington. - Jaroslav Nešetřil
Jaroslav Nešetřil is a Czech mathematician, Charles University (Prague). His research areas include combinatorics (structural combinatorics, Ramsey theory), graph theory (coloring problems), algebra (representation of structures, categories, homomorphisms), posets (diagram and dimension problems), computer science (complexity, NP-completeness). He is responsible for more than 250 publications, … - Jerry Fairbanks
- Charles Fairbanks
after a brief stint as a mexican pro wrestler i now find myself catapaulted not into the cheap seats but into graduate school, which in some ways may be the same thing. - Bob Bartlett
Edward Lewis "Bob" Bartlett (April 20, 1904 - December 11, 1968) was an American politician, and was a member of the Democratic Party. Bartlett was born in Seattle, Washington. After graduating from the University of Alaska in 1925, Bartlett began his career in politics. A reporter for the Fairbanks Daily News until 1933, he accepted the position of secretary to Delegate Anthony Dimond of Alaska. - Jay Hammond
Jay Sterner Hammond was an American Republican politician who was Governor of Alaska from 1974 to 1982. He was born in Troy, New York in 1922. He studied petroleum engineering at Penn State University, where he was a member of Triangle Fraternity. He later served as a Marine Corps fighter pilot in World War II, and in China, until 1946. - Jamie Smith
Jamie Smith, born in New York, is an Alaskan painter, printmaker, and cartoonist and creator of the strips "freeze-frame" and "Nuggets". He received his bachelor of fine art (drawing and printmaking) at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and has completed graduate work in a masters degree in sequential arts from the Savannah College of Art and Design. He has published three "freeze-frame" collections and illustrated several books, … - Margaret Murie
Margaret "Mardy" Thomas Murie was the enabling force behind the passage of the Wilderness Act in the United States and the protection of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. She was known as the "Grandmother of the Conservation Movement". Mardy Murie was born in Seattle, Washington in 1902 and then moved to Fairbanks, Alaska in 1911. Murie was the first woman to graduate from the University of Alaska in 1924. - David Marusek
David Marusek is an author who was born in Buffalo, New York but lived various places in youth. He is currently divorced and has a grown daughter. He has lived in Alaska since 1973 and that is the state he is most associated with. Marusek worked as a graphic designer for about twenty years and for eleven years he also taught graphic design at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks. He became serious about a writing career around 1986, however, … - Liesl Jobson
Liesl Jobson is a South African poet and musician. She received first prize in the Inglis House Poetry Contest 2003 and her poetry was performed at the "Art of Survival" exhibition of the University of Alaska, Fairbanks' Women's Art Group. She was the Focus Poet for Timbila 2005 and her poetry appears in numerous journals online and in print. - Matthew Emmons
Matthew Emmons (born April 5, 1981) is an American sport shooter. He started out as a successful junior and is one of the holders of the Junior World Record in 50 m Rifle Three positions. The young shooter won both the 2002 ISSF World Cup Final and the 2004 ISSF World Cup Final in this event. At the great championships however, his successes have come in another event: that of the Prone position. - Ronald Senungetuk
Ronald Senungetuk is an Inupiat artist originally from Wales, Alaska who works primarily in wood and metal. He is a sculptor and silversmith and is known for his abstractions of animal figures. He trained at the School for American Craftsmen at the Rochester Institute of Technology and in Oslo, Norway, on a Fulbright Fellowship at Statens Handværks og Kunstindustriskole. He and his wife, Turid, an accomplished silversmith, live in Homer. - Shaun Fairbanks
I love the outdoors and plan on staying in Alaska forever. - Theresa Fairbanks
- Bristol Marunde
Bristol Marunde (b. April 20 1980, Fairbanks, Alaska) is an American professional mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter. He is currently fighting for the Seattle Tiger Sharks of the International Fight League.
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