- Stuart Hampshire
Sir Stuart Newton Hampshire (October 1, 1914 - June 13, 2004) was an Oxford University philosopher, literary critic and university administrator. He was one of the antirationalist Oxford thinkers who gave a new direction to moral and political thought in the post-World War II era. Hampshire was educated at Repton School and at Balliol College, Oxford where he matriculated as a history scholar. - Keith Hampshire
Keith Hampshire (born November 23, 1945) is a British-born Canadian popular singer of the 1970s, famous in Canada for three top ten hits and the successful television show "Music Machine." He was not as successful in the United States where his highest single only reached number 51. On June 18, 2005 Hampshire was hired by Darren Stevens to host a 60's-70's based oldies radio show on CHAY-FM in Barrie,Ontario. - David Hampshire
David Hampshire (29 December 1917 - 25 August 1990) was a racing driver from England. He was born in Mickleover, Derby, Derbyshire and died in Newton Solney, in South Derbyshire. He participated in 2 grands prix, debuting on May 13, 1950. He scored no championship points. In 1950, with a Maserati, he won the 1950 Nottingham Trophy Grand Prix, which was not valid for the World Championship. - John Hampshire
John Harry Hampshire (born February 10 1941 Thurnscoe, Yorkshire), better known as Jackie Hampshire, was an English cricketer who played only a handful of Tests and ODI's for England. He also played first-class cricket for 20 years for Yorkshire and then, after leaving during one of the county's perennial bouts of civil war, for Derbyshire and Leicestershire. - Alan Hampshire
Alan Wesley Hampshire is a first class cricketer who played for Yorkshire County Cricket Club in 1975. A right handed batsman, his only first class match came against Derbyshire CCC at Queen's Park, Chesterfield. He scored 17 and 1 in a drawn game. He played 4 list A one day matches, scoring 3 against Lancashire CCC, ducks against Leicestershire CCC and Northamptonshire CCC and not batting against Worcestershire. He also appeared for Yorkshire Second XI in 1974 and 1975, … - Ian Hampshire
Ian Hampshire (born May 9 1948) was an Australian rules footballer who played for Geelong and Footscray. He played as a ruckman. Recruited from Portland to Geelong, Hampshire made his VFL debut in 1968 and played with the club for eight seasons. He then, in 1976 moved to Footscray where he acted as a secondary ruckman to Gary Dempsey. Dempsey left the club three seasons later and Hampshire became their first choice in the ruck, finishing second in the best and fairest. - Francis Scott Key
Francis Scott Key (August 1, 1779 - January 11, 1843) was an American lawyer, an author, and an amateur poet who wrote the words to the United States national anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner". - Susan Hampshire
Susan Hampshire, Lady Kulukundis, OBE (born on 12 May 1937 in London) is an English actress best known for her many film and television roles. Her appeal has always been that of an "English rose". Hampshire first became famous after playing the lead in a 1962 BBC adaptation of "What Katy Did". Soon afterwards, she was taken up by Walt Disney, and starred in "The Three Lives of Thomasina" opposite Patrick McGoohan and "The Fighting Prince of Donegal". - Emily Hampshire
Emily Hampshire (born 1979 in Montreal) is a Canadian film and television actress. She is best known for her role as Siobhan Roy on "Made in Canada". More recently, she has starred in the series "This Space For Rent", "Carl Squared" and "Northern Town". She has twice been nominated for Genie Awards. She was a Best Supporting Actress nominee at the 24th Genie Awards for "A Problem with Fear", … - William Whipple
William Whipple, Jr. (1730-1785), was a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence as a representative of New Hampshire. William Whipple was born at Kittery, Maine, and educated at a common school until his off to sea. He became a Ship's Master by the age of twenty-three. In 1759 he landed in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and in partnership with his brother, established himself as a merchant. In 1775 he was elected to represent his town at the Provincial Congress. - Chris Huhne
Christopher Murray Paul Huhne, known as Chris Huhne, (born 2 July 1954) is a British Liberal Democrat politician and the current Member of Parliament for the Eastleigh constituency in Hampshire. He finished second to Menzies Campbell in the 2006 election for the leadership of the Liberal Democrats and is the party's Shadow Secretary for Environment and Rural Affairs in the House of Commons. - James Arbuthnot
James Norwich Arbuthnot (born 4 August 1952) is a British politician. He is the British Member of Parliament for Hampshire North-East and is a member of the Conservative Party. Since the 2005 election he has served as the chairman of the influential Defence Committee and he is the current Parliamentary Chairman of the Conservative Friends of Israel. - Edward Gibbon
Edward Gibbon (April 27, 1737 - January 16, 1794) was an English historian and Member of Parliament. His most important work, "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire", was published in six volumes between 1776 and 1788. "The History" is known principally for the quality and irony of its prose, its use of primary sources, and its open denigration of organized religion. - Stanley Spencer
Sir Stanley Spencer (30 June 1891 - 14 December 1959) was an English painter. - Jack Hargreaves
Jack Hargreaves OBE (born 31 December 1911, died 15 March 1994) was an author and television presenter in the UK. His enduring interest was to comment without nostalgia or sentimentality on accelerating distortions in relations between the city and the countryside. He also conceived and appeared on "How!" - a live children’s programme about how things worked, shown from 1966 on Southern Television and networked on ITV until the demise of Southern in 1981, … - Sybil Leek
Sybil Leek was an English witch, astrologer, psychic, and occult author. She wrote more than 60 books on occult and esoteric subjects. She was dubbed "Britain’s most famous witch" by the BBC. - Thomas Weelkes
Thomas Weelkes (baptised 25 October 1576 - buried 1 December 1623) was an English composer and organist. He became organist of Winchester College in 1598, moving to Chichester Cathedral. His works are chiefly vocal, and include madrigals, anthems and services. - Peter Underwood
Peter Underwood FRSA is an English author, broadcaster and parapsychologist. Underwood was born at Letchworth Garden City, Hertfordshire on May 16, 1923. Peter is patron to Paranormal Site Investigators (UK). He is the author of many books, mainly relating to the paranormal. - Shaka Hislop
Neil Shaka Hislop (born 22 February 1969) is a professional football goalkeeper, currently playing for FC Dallas and the Trinidad and Tobago national football team. - Peter Neyroud
Peter Neyroud Q.P.M Peter Neyroud joined Hampshire Constabulary in 1980, serving as Constable at Romsey and Aldershot, Sergeant at Southampton and Basingstoke, Inspector at Bitterne and HQ, Chief Inspector in East Hampshire, Superintendent as Staff Officer to the President of ACPO and also as Detective Superintendent. His last post at Hampshire was as the Director of Intelligence. - John Gregory Crace
Sir John Gregory Crace, KBE, CB (February 6, 1887-May 11, 1968) was an Australian who came to prominence as an officer of the British Royal Navy (RN). Crace neverthless spent a great deal of his career with the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). He commanded the Australian-United States Support Force (Task Force 44) at the Battle of the Coral Sea in 1942. Crace was born to Kate Marion Crace and Edward Kendall Crace at Gungahlin (which was later part of the ACT, … - Richard Dering
Richard Dering [also Deering, Dearing, Diringus etc.] (c.1580-1630) was an English composer. Despite being from England, he lived and worked most of his life in the Spanish-dominated South Netherlands, due to his Roman Catholic faith. It is believed that he would have originally been a protestant in England in his early life, but later converted to Roman Catholicism during a trip to Italy in his early thirties. He was born the illegitimate son of Henry Dering of Liss, … - Sir George Young 6th Baronet
Sir George Samuel Knatchbull Young, 6th Baronet (born July 16, 1941) is an English politician, and Conservative Member of Parliament for North West Hampshire. He is a patron of the Tory Reform Group. Young was elected as a Councillor on the London Borough of Lambeth from 1968 to 1971, alongside his wife and John Major. He represented Clapham Town ward, and served on the Housing Committee. He and other councillors worked as refuse collectors at week-ends, during a strike. - Bridgette Monet
Bridgette Monet (born Dana Kunath in 1959) is an American pornographic actress who was active in the porn industry in the early 1980s. Regarded as one of the few "high class" porn actresses, she had a personal pictorial in the March 1984 issue of Playboy magazine. - Mandy Moore
Amanda "Mandy" Leigh Moore (born April 10 1984) is an American pop singer, songwriter and actress. She grew up in Florida and came to fame as a teenager in the early 2000s, after the release of her teen-oriented pop albums "So Real", "I Wanna Be with You", "Mandy Moore", and "Coverage". Moore has branched out into a film career, … - Triple H
Paul Michael Levesque (born July 27, 1969 in Nashua, New Hampshire) is an American professional wrestler, better known by the ring name Triple H, an abbreviation of his former moniker, Hunter Hearst Helmsley. He is currently signed to World Wrestling Entertainment promotion on its "RAW" brand. Since January 2007, he has been inactive while rehabilitating a torn quadriceps muscle. Vignettes have started to air hyping his return. - Elizabeth Hurley
Elizabeth Jane Hurley (born June 10, 1965) is an English actress, fashion model, producer and designer. - Ty Conklin
Ty Conklin (born March 30, 1976, Anchorage, Alaska) is a goaltender with the Buffalo Sabres of the National Hockey League. He went undrafted, despite repeated honours in the United States Hockey League and the NCAA, while playing for the University of New Hampshire. He was signed by the Oilers in the summer of 2001 to challenge for the backup role. He spent the bulk of his time with the Hamilton Bulldogs, … - Charles Simic
Charles Simic (born May 9, 1938) is a Serbian-American poet. Having emigrated in his youth from Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Simic represents an interesting counterpoint to many North American contemporaries, so many of whom have evolved from the traditions of American 19th century writers such as Dickinson and Whitman, both of whom wrote about the details of the world surrounding them. - Heather Mills
Heather, Lady McCartney (born 12 January 1968 in Aldershot, Hampshire, England), usually known as Heather Mills or Heather Mills McCartney, is a campaigner on behalf of several causes, including amputees, the curtailment of land mines and animal rights. Her early career was as a glamour model. She is the former wife of musician and ex-Beatle Sir Paul McCartney; the couple announced their separation in May 2006, … - Sean Caisse
Sean Caisse (born January 30, 1986, in Pelham, New Hampshire), is a stock car driver. He is currently a developmental driver with Kevin Harvick Incorportaed. Caisse rose through the ranks of karting to full-size stock cars at Lee USA Speedway in Lee, N.H. He progressed from Hobby Stocks to Late Models and beyond while still a teenager. He then joined the NASCAR Featherlite Modified Series in 2004. - Jenna Lewis
Jenna Lewis is an American celebrity who was born July 16, 1977 in Maine and moved to Franklin, New Hampshire as a child. She was a contestant on "Survivor: Borneo" (season one), finishing eighth, and "Survivor: All-Stars" (season eight), finishing third. She is also known for her sex tape from 2004. - Rashad McCants
Rashad Dion McCants (born September 25, 1984 in Asheville, North Carolina, USA) is an American professional basketball player. A 6' 4", 226 lb. shooting guard, he gained prominence while playing college basketball at the University of North Carolina (UNC), before going to play professionally for the Minnesota Timberwolves of the National Basketball Association. - James J. Martin
James J. Martin (September 18, 1916 - April 4, 2004) was an American historian. He was educated at the University of New Hampshire and the University of Michigan, earning a Ph.D. in history in 1949. He is best known for his work on the history of American individualist anarchism, "Men Against the State", first published in 1953. His 1964 book "American Liberalism and World Politics, 1931-1941" is also well known. - Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich (born July 11, 1938), is a pre-eminent historian of early America and the history of women and a University Professor at Harvard University. Ulrich's innovative and widely influential approach to history has been described as a tribute to "the silent work of ordinary people" -- an approach that, in her words, aims to "show the interconnection between public events and private experience." - Carlton Fisk
Carlton Ernest Fisk (born December 26, 1947 in Bellows Falls, Vermont) is a former Major League Baseball catcher who played for 24 years with the Boston Red Sox and Chicago White Sox. Although born in Vermont, Fisk is quick to point out that he is actually from Charlestown, New Hampshire, just across the Connecticut River from Bellows Falls, Vermont. This being the case, Fisk graduated from Charlestown High School, … - William Bronk
William Bronk (1918-1999) was an American poet and the author of more than 15 books of poems and essays and a winner of the American Book Award in 1982. William Bronk was born 17 February 1918 in Fort Edward, NY and died on 22 February, 1999. William M Bronk was a graduate of Dartmouth College and spent most of his life in his home in Hudson Falls, Washington County, New York. In 1981, when the University of New Hampshire began collecting Bronk, … - Rod Langway
Rod Cory Langway (born May 3, 1957 in Taipei, Taiwan) is a former American professional ice hockey defenceman in the National Hockey League (NHL), elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame in 2002. He was born when his father, an American serviceman, was stationed in Taiwan, and he is the only NHL player to have been born in Taiwan. He grew up in Randolph, Massachusetts, and didn't begin playing hockey until age 13, in 1970. He then played for his high school team, … - Alice McDermott
Alice McDermott (born June 27, 1953) is Johns Hopkins University's Writer-in-Residence. Born in Brooklyn, New York, McDermott attended St. Boniface School in Elmont, Long Island, NY [1967], Sacred Heart Academy in Hempstead NY [1971], the State University of New York at Oswego, receiving her BA in 1975, and later received her MA from the University of New Hampshire in 1978. She has taught at the UCSD and American University, … - Barbara Bonney
Barbara Bonney (born April 14, 1956) is an American soprano opera singer. Bonney was born in Montclair, New Jersey. As a child she studied piano and cello. When Bonney was 13 her family moved to Maine, where she became part of the Portland Youth Orchestra as a cellist. She spent two years at the University of New Hampshire studying German and music and studied abroad her junior year at the University of Salzburg, where she switched from cello to voice.
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