- Kate Miner
Kate Miner (born Pam Dwinell in San Diego, California) is an American singer and songwriter. Miner is married to musician David Miner. Kate began singing publicly at the age of four in the San Diego area. At the age of ten, she was singing music for Television Commercials. By 21, Kate had moved to Los Angeles, California and was signed to a recording contract with Word Records, which included a co-publishing/development deal with Sony Music Publishing. - Jay Miner
Jay Glenn Miner (May 31, 1932 - June 20, 1994) was a famous integrated circuit designer, known primarily for his work in multimedia chips. He received a BS in EECS from UC Berkeley in 1959. Miner started in the electronics industry with a number of designs in the medical world, including a remote-control pacemaker. He moved to Atari in the late 1970s. One of his first successes was to combine an entire breadboard of components into a single chip, known as the TIA. - Hazel Miner
Hazel Dulcie Miner (April 11, 1904 - March 16, 1920), the daughter of a North Dakota farmer and a student at a one-room school, died saving her 10-year-old brother, Emmet, and 8-year-old sister, Myrdith, during a spring blizzard in Center, Oliver County, North Dakota. After her death, she became a national heroine. Her actions have been celebrated in a folk ballad and in newspaper and magazine articles for nearly 90 years. - Zach Miner
Zachary Charles Miner (born March 12, 1982, in St. Louis, Missouri) is an American League pitcher in Major League Baseball who currently plays with the Detroit Tigers. He bats and throws right-handed. In 2005, Miner was traded to the Tigers along with relief pitcher Roman Colon from the Atlanta Braves for setup man/closer Kyle Farnsworth. Standing at 6 foot 3 inches and 200 pounds, Zach Miner had no previous college experience before playing minor and major league baseball. - Rachel Miner
Rachel Miner (born July 29, 1980 in New York City, New York) is a Broadway, film and television actress. She is a Scientologist. A third generation Miner in show business, she is the daughter of director/teacher Peter Miner and the granddaughter of director/producer Worthington Miner and actress Frances Fuller. She briefly came under the media spotlight for her two-year (1998-2000) marriage to actor Macaulay Culkin. - Raymond Miner
Raymond Andrew Miner (born September 12, 1977) is an American writer. - Harold Miner
Harold Miner (born May 5 1971 in Inglewood, California) is a retired American professional basketball player and two-time champion of the National Basketball Association (NBA) Slam Dunk Contest. He attended college at the University of Southern California (USC) and was a star player on that school's men's basketball team. He left school in 1992 to pursue his professional career, and played in the NBA for the Miami Heat and the Cleveland Cavaliers. - Bill Miner
Bill Miner (1847 - September 2, 1913) was a noted American criminal, originally from Bowling Green, Kentucky, who served several prison terms for stagecoach robbery. Known for his unusual politeness while committing robberies, he was widely nicknamed The Gentleman Robber or The Gentleman Bandit. He is reputed to have been the originator of the phrase "Hands up!". - Cursor Miner
Cursor Miner is an underground electronica producer from Chichester, England. Signed to Lo Recordings in the UK, he has released three albums, "Danceflaw" (2006), "Cursor Miner Plays God" (2004) and "Explosive Piece Of Mind" (2002). His music was described by Uncut as "electro Syd Barrett meets Aphex Twin meets Gary Numan with a touch of early Eno and a nod at Beck". - Jack Miner
John Thomas Miner, OBE, or "Wild Goose Jack," was a Canadian conservationist called by some the "father" of North American conservationism. - Paul Miner
Paul Miner (born March 24, 1976) is the bassist for Death by Stereo, who left the band early 2005 (right before the bands fourth album Death for Life), to produce, engineer, master, and mix music full time. Previously he produced and engineered the first three Death by Stereo records, which is probably why the bands fourth album Death for Life, was a noticeable departure from their regular sound. Paul was also in a band called Kill The Messenger, … - Steve Miner
Steve Miner (born June 18, 1951 in Westport, Connecticut) is an American film and television director. Television programs Miner has directed include "The Wonder Years", "Jake 2.0", "Felicity", "Dawson's Creek" (including the pilot and four of the other episodes of the first season), and "Diagnosis Murder". In Cinema, he is best known for directing "Halloween H20: 20 Years Later", and "Lake Placid". - Myrtilla Miner
Myrtilla Miner (born March 4, 1815, near Brookfield, New York; died December 17, 1864, Washington, DC) was an American educator and abolitionist whose school for African Americans, established against considerable opposition, grew to a successful and long-lived teachers institution. Miner was educated at the Clover Street Seminary in Rochester, New York (1840-44), and taught at various schools, including the Newton Female Institute (1846-47) in Whitesville, Mississippi, … - David Miner
David Miner is an Emmy Award-nominated American film and television producer who is best known for his work as an executive producer on NBC's "30 Rock". Miner is the manager of Tina Fey, 30 Rock's star and creator. - Ahiman Louis Miner
Ahiman Louis Miner (September 23, 1804 - July 19, 1886) was a U.S. Representative from Vermont. Born in Middletown, Vermont, Miner attended the common schools and Castleton Academy. He studied law in Poultney and Rutland, Vermont. He was admitted to the bar in 1832 and practiced in Wallingford 1833-1836. He moved to Manchester, Vermont, in 1835 and continued the practice of law. He served as clerk of the State house of representatives in 1836-1838. - Bob Miner
Bob Miner (1942-1994) co-founded Software Development Labs in August 1977 with Larry Ellison, and Ed Oates. Software Development Labs later became Oracle Corporation. If Larry Ellison was the brain behind Oracle, Bob Miner was its heart. Bob was a co-founder and a well-liked manager for over two decades. He grew up in an Assyrian family in Cicero, Illinois. He graduated in mathematics in 1963 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. - Roger Miner
Roger Jeffrey Miner (born 1934) is a federal appellate judge serving on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. After graduating from New York Law School, Miner practiced law for many years in Hudson, New York. He was corporation counsel (city attorney) for the City of Hudson from 1961 to 1964 and District Attorney of Columbia County, New York from 1968 to 1975. Miner's judicial career began with his election in 1975 to the New York State Supreme Court, … - David M. Miner
David Morris Miner is a former Republican member of the North Carolina General Assembly who represented the state's thirty-sixth House district, including constituents in Wake County. A textile executive from Cary, North Carolina, Miner served six terms in the Assembly, from 1993 to 2004. He was Chairman of the NC House Finance Committee. Politically, Miner was an original Bush Pioneer in the 2000 campaign. - Henry C. Miner
Henry Clay Miner (March 23, 1842 - February 22, 1900) was a U.S. Representative from New York. Born in New York City, Miner attended the public schools and the American Institute of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City. He engaged in the drug business. In 1864 became interested in the theatrical business and eventually owned five theaters in New York City and Newark, New Jersey. - Earl Miner
Earl Miner (1926 - April 17, 2004) was a professor at Princeton University, and a noted scholar of Japanese literature and especially Japanese poetry; he was also active in early English literature (for instance, his "New York Times" obituary notes that a critical edition of John Milton's "Paradise Lost" was in the process of being published when he died). - Jim Miner
Jim Miner is the original guitarist of Death By Stereo (and also tattooist). He left the band shortly after Into the Valley of Death, after getting married and having some of his fingers bitten-off by a wild boar. He is the brother of Paul Miner, who was the band's bassist. "As for me, dan was right about the wild boars. it's got nothing to do with getting married, although after maybe three and a half minute, maybe, fo, most of you would be wantin to marry a nigga. - Harry Garnet Bedford Miner
Harry Garnet Bedford Miner, VC (b 24 June 1891 at Cedar Springs, Ontario, d 8 August 1918) (VC, Croix de Guerre (France)) was a Canadian 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. - Charles Miner
Charles Miner was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. Charles Miner was born in Norwich, Connecticut. He attended the public schools of Norwich and moved in 1797 to his father’s lands in the Wyoming Valley, and to Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, in 1802. He became the publisher of the "Luzerne County Federalist". Miner was elected as a Federalist to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives and served in 1807 and 1808. - David Miner
David Miner (Born Los Angeles, California on June 28, 1942), sometimes credited as David Minor, is an American guitarist, singer and songwriter, perhaps best known as a member of Grace Slick's The Great Society in the 1960s. - Horace Mitchell Miner
Horace Mitchell Miner was born on May 26, 1912, in St. Paul, Minnesota and died in Ann Arbor, Michigan in November 1993. Horace Miner was an anthropologist -- a social scientist who studies human cultural variation. He was particularly interested in those societies of his time that were still closely tied to the earth. In 1955, he earned his doctorate at the University of Chicago. After that he taught at Chicago, at other universities in the United States, … - Jan Miner
Jan Miner (October 15, 1917, Boston, Massachusetts - February 15, 2004, Bethel, Connecticut) was an American actress who became an icon to TV viewers as Madge, the wisecracking manicurist in commercials for Palmolive Dishwashing Detergent. Miner played Madge for 27 years, and made the commercials in French, German, Danish and Italian. She was married to actor Richard Merrell until his death in 1998, and often appeared with him on the stage. - Thomas Miner
Thomas Miner (Minor) (1608 - 1690) was one of the main founders of New London and Stonington, Connecticut, USA. He arrived in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1629 on the Lyon's Whelp. Shortly after his arrival, an outbreak of Typhus Fever prompted his relocation to Watertown for a brief stay, then on to Charlestown. Miner and his wife Grace Palmer had eight sons and three daughters. He and his son Ephraim were founders of Road Church in Stonington. - Phineas Miner
Phineas Miner (November 27, 1777 - September 15, 1839) was a United States Representative from Connecticut. He was born in Winchester, Connecticut where he completed preparatory studies. Later, he studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1797. He commenced his practice in Winchester. Miner was elected justice of the peace in 1809. He was a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives in 1809, 1811, 1813, 1814, and 1816. - William Rush Miner
William Rush Miner (January 3, 1902 - September, 1982) was a 20th century journalist. Miner was a reporter and editor of several mid-western newspapers, including "The St. Louis Post-Dispatch" and the "Chicago Sun". Her was born in Sheraton, New York, USA, and he died in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA. He married Mary Louise Bright. They had three children; William, John and Anne. - John Miner
- James Smith
James Smith was an explorer and discoverer of tin reserves in Tasmania, Australia including the Mount Bischoff mine. Smith was born near Maidstone, Kent, England, in 1820 and was educated for the church. He was born at Georgetown, Tasmania, on 1 July 1827. He was educated at Launceston, and after working for some time in that city in 1851 went to the Victorian gold diggings. Returning in 1853 he took up land at Westwood on the Forth River, … - John White
John P. White (February 28, 1870 - September 21, 1934) was a miner and president of the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) from 1911 to 1917. He was born in Coal Valley, Illinois in 1870 and went to work in the mines as a teenager before moving with his family to Iowa. He joined the United Mine Workers and was eventually elected District 13 secretary-treasurer in 1899. He became the district president from 1904 to 1907 and again from 1909 to 1912. - Cecil Roberts
Cecil Roberts (October 31, 1946) is a miner and president of the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA). He is also a vice president of the AFL-CIO, and sits on the AFL-CIO's executive council. - Richard Harris
Richard Tighe Harris was a Canadian miner and prospector. Richard Harris was born in Dummadonald, County Down, Ireland. However, attended Girard College, a private boarding school in Philadelphia, PA (USA). He is most famous for co-founding, with Joe Juneau, the city of Juneau, Alaska. The first major gold discovery in Juneau or Douglas Island (across from Juneau) was circa 1880. It has been the political capital of Alaska since 1906. - John Evans
John Evans (August 19, 1877 - June 10, 1990) is the longest-lived man ever authenticated in the United Kingdom. He had been a Welsh miner, and became the oldest man in the United Kingdom ever when he broke the record of England's John Mosely Turner. At the grand old age of 108, Evans was fitted with a pacemaker. When asked by interviewers for the secret of his long life, he replied, "No smoking, no drinking and no cursing". - Bonnie Tyler
Bonnie Tyler (real name Gaynor Hopkins born on June 8, 1951 in Skewen, Neath) is a pop/rock singer with a distinctive, powerful husky voice, with worldwide record sales in excess of 80 million - David Anderson
David Anderson, known as Dave Anderson, (born December 2, 1953) is a British politician and current Labour Member of Parliament for Blaydon. He was elected at the 2005 general election after John David McWilliam stood down. Born in Sunderland, Anderson was educated at the Maltby Grammar School and Durham Technical College, the Doncaster Technical College and Durham University. He worked as a miner from 1969 until 1989, … - William Davis
William Davis, (June 3 1887 - June 11 1925), was a coal miner from Cape Breton Island. He was born in Gloucestershire, England and died in Waterford Lake, Nova Scotia. Davis was a miner and began working for the Dominion Coal Company Limited (DOMCO) in 1905 at various collieries along the Sydney Coal Field, eventually graduating to become a pumpman and a roadmaker, lastly at the No. 12 Colliery in New Waterford. - Arthur Scargill
Arthur Scargill (born January 11, 1938) led the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) from 1981 to 2000. As of 2006, he led the Socialist Labour Party, a political party he founded in 1996. Scargill was born in Worsbrough Dale, just south of Barnsley. His father, Harold Scargill, was a miner and a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain. Scargill became a miner after leaving school, working at Woolley Colliery from 1953. - Robert Williams
Robert Williams (1881 - 1920's) was a British trade union organiser. He was born in Swansea, Wales, and began his working life as a coal trimmer at the docks. He became active in his union, the National Amalgamated Labourers' Union, at the age of 16 and eventually became its president. He went on to serve as the secretary of the National Transport Workers' Federation after its foundation in 1910 and became best known for his work with that body.
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