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According to the Bible and the Quran, Lot (Arabic: لوط, '; "Hidden, covered") was the nephew and brother in law of the patriarch, Abraham or Abram. He was the son of Abraham's brother Haran. (Gen. 11:27) Abram became Lot's brother in law by the marriage of Nahor (Abraham's brother) to Milcah (Lot's sister). - Simon Kvamm
Simon Kvamm, is a Danish actor and singer. He is most well known as member of the Danish rock band Nephew, where he is the lead vocalist and keyboard player. The band has had several hits in Denmark such as "Igen & Igen &", "Superliga", and "Worst/Best Case Scenario", which have won them several Danish national music awards. He also had a spell as a football player with Olympia Århus København. - Butch Trucks
Claude Hudson "Butch" Trucks (born May 11, 1947 in Jacksonville, Florida) is an American drummer who is one of the founding members of The Allman Brothers Band. One of Trucks' first bands was local Jacksonville band The Vikings, who made one 7" record in 1964. Another early band was The 31st of February which formed and broke-up in 1968. This group's lineup eventually included both Duane Allman and Gregg Allman. - John Andretti
John Andretti from Indianapolis, Indiana is a one of the most versatile race car drivers in American history, winning in Indy car, NHRA Top Fuel Dragsters, endurance racing and NASCAR racing. - James Otis
James Otis, Jr. (February 5, 1725 - May 23, 1783) was a lawyer in colonial Massachusetts who was an early advocate of the political views that led to the American Revolution. The phrase "Taxation without Representation is Tyranny" is usually attributed to him. He was born at Sterling Park to James Otis, Sr. and Mary Allyne, the second of thirteen children and the first to survive infancy. His younger sister Mercy Otis Warren, his brother Joseph Otis, … - Tim Flannery
Timothy Earl Flannery (Born: September 29, 1957 Tulsa, Oklahoma) is the nephew of former Major League Baseball player Hal Smith. He also spent 11 seasons in the Majors himself, playing from 1979 to 1989 with the San Diego Padres. Before being drafted in the 6th round of the 1978 draft by the Padres, Flannery attended Chapman University. Standing at 5'11" tall and weighing 175 pounds, Flannery batted left handed but threw right handed. - Ezer Weizman
"'"' ((June 15,1924-April 24, 2005) was the seventh President of the State of Israel. He served a seven-year term, 1993–2000. Before the presidency, Weizman was commander of the Israeli air force and Minister of Defense. - David Forrest
David Forrest is a pen-name used by Robert Forrest-Webb and David Eliades to write four books, "After me, the deluge" (1972), "The great dinosaur robbery" (1970), "And to my nephew Albert I leave the island what I won off Fatty Hagan in a poker game" (1969), and "The undertaker's dozen" (1974). These books were an example of tight plotlines and riotous humor, … - Wong Kan Seng
Wong Kan Seng (born 1946) is the Minister for Home Affairs and Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore. He is also the Leader of the House in the Parliament of Singapore and nephew-in-law of Singapore's first Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew. Wong was credited for his highly successful handling of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) crisis in 2003. He was responsible for coordinating the inter-ministerial nation-wide effort to counter the epidemic. - Gustav Ludwig Hertz
Gustav Ludwig Hertz (July 22 1887, Hamburg - October 30 1975, Berlin) was a German physicist, and a nephew of Heinrich Rudolf Hertz. Hertz won a Nobel Prize in 1925 for studies in cooperation with James Franck of electrons passing through gas. The Franck-Hertz experiment was an early physics experiment that provided support for the Bohr model of the atom, a precursor to quantum mechanics. In 1914, an experiment probe of the energy levels of the atom was conducted. - Richard Jebb
Richard Jebb (1874-25 June 1953) was an English journalist and author in the field of Empire and colonial nationalism. He was the nephew of the classical scholar and politician, Sir Richard Claverhouse Jebb. He went to school at Marlborough College followed by New College, Oxford. During the First World War, Jebb was a captain in the King's Shropshire Light Infantry, spending most of the war in England, serving as an instructor. - Cao Zhen
Cao Zhen (185 - 231) was a military general under the powerful warlord Cao Cao and succeeding rulers of Cao Wei during the late Eastern Han Dynasty and Three Kingdoms Period in ancient China. He was also a distant nephew of Cao Cao, though the latter treated him like a son. Cao Zhen participated in many campaigns against forces of Liu Bei and Sun Quan. From 227 onwards, he was very much involved with resisting the Northern Expeditions led by Zhuge Liang. - Justin Bihag
Justin DeRago Bihag (born 1983) is the nephew of Duane "Dog" Chapman, and appeared on the A&E documentary/reality television series Dog The Bounty Hunter. Justin served as part of Chapman's team of bounty hunters during the first season of the show. During the "Bustin' With Justin" episode, he was described by Tim Chapman as more of a clown than a bounty hunter. Amidst the chagrin of many of the other employees, … - Edgard Clemente
Edgard Clemente (born December 15, 1975, in Santurce, San Juan, Puerto Rico) was a Major League Baseball outfielder. He is the nephew of Hall of Fame baseball legend Roberto Clemente. Drafted by the Colorado Rockies in the 10th round of the 1993 MLB amateur draft, Clemente would make his Major League Baseball debut with the Colorado Rockies on September 10, 1998, and appear in his final game on July 31, 2000. - Simon Ford
Simon Ford (born 17 November 1981 in Newham) is an English professional footballer currently playing for Kilmarnock in the Scottish Premier League. He is the nephew of former Rangers and Liverpool winger Mark Walters. Ford, a defender, began his career at Charlton Athletic but never played a first-team match for the club. After leaving Charlton in 2001 he joined Grimsby Town where he made 78 appearances for "The Mariners", scoring 4 goals. - Guillaume Durand
Guillaume Durand (died 1328 or 1330) was a French clergyman, a nephew of a more famous Guillaume Durand, nicknamed "The Speculator". Like his uncle, he was a canonist, was rector of the university of Toulouse and succeeded his uncle as Bishop of Mende. The pope John XXII and Charles IV of France sent him on an embassy to the Sultan Orkhan (1326-1360) at Brusa, to obtain more favourable conditions for the Latins in Syria. He died on the way back, in Cyprus (1328). - David Armstrong-Jones Viscount Linley
David Albert Charles Armstrong-Jones, Viscount Linley (born 3 November 1961), known professionally as David Linley, is the chairman-elect of Christie's UK, the international auction house. - Robert F. McGowan
Robert Francis McGowan (July 11 1882 - January 27 1955) was an American film director and producer, best known as the senior director of the "Our Gang" short subjects film series from 1922 until 1933. Before moving to Los Angeles, California, McGowan was a firefighter in his native Denver, Colorado. An on-the-job accident during a fire rescue mission left him with a permanent limp. McGowan moved to California in the 1910s and made the acquaintance of Hal Roach, … - Nicolaus I Bernoulli
Nicolaus Bernoulli, sometimes also written Nicolas or Nikolas, was a Swiss mathematician; he was the nephew of Jacob and Johann Bernoulli. In 1704 he graduated at the University of Basel under Jakob Bernoulli and obtained his PhD 5 years later with a work on probability theory in law. 1716 he obtained the Galileo-chair at the university of Padova, where he worked on differential equations and geometry. - George Rennie
George Rennie (1801 or 1802 - 22 March 1860) was a Scottish sculptor and politician. A nephew of John Rennie, he studied art in Rome. His marble statue "Cupid Rekindling the Torch of Hymen" is currently in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, although in 2005 it was temporarily removed from display pending reorganisation of the museum's sculpture galleries. Later he turned his attention to politics. From 1841 to 1842 he was Member of Parliament (MP) for Ipswich, … - Jo Schlesser
Joseph Schlesser was a Formula One and sports car racing driver from France. He participated in three grands prix, including the 1968 French Grand Prix in which he was killed. He scored no championship points. Schlesser also participated in the 1966 and 1967 German Grand Prix at the Nürburgring, each time driving a Formula 2 Spec Matra-Cosworth. In 1966, he finished 10th in the overall classification and 3rd in the Formula 2 classification. - James Stewart 1st Earl of Moray
James Stewart, Earl of Moray (c. 1499 - 1544) was the illegitimate son of James IV of Scotland and his mistress Janet Kennedy. He was created Earl of Moray in 1501, and was young enough to avoid fighting at the disastrous Battle of Flodden Field in 1513. He went on to have a varied relationship with his half-brother James V, and was imprisoned for a time. He married Lady Elizabeth Campbell, daughter of Colin Campbell, 3rd Earl of Argyll, in August 1529. - Giovanni Francesco Pico della Mirandola
Giovanni Francesco Pico della Mirandola was an Italian philosopher and nephew of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola. Like his uncle he devoted himself chiefly to philosophy, but made it subject to the Bible, though in his treatises, "De studio divinæ et humanæ sapientiæ" and particularly in the six books entitled "Examen doctrinæ unitatis gentium", he depreciates the authority of the philosophers, above all of Aristotle. - Charles Chauvel
Charles Edward Chauvel OBE (7 October 1897 - 11 November 1959) was an Australian film maker, born in Warwick, Queensland. He was the nephew of Sir Henry Chauvel, leader of the Australian light horse in the Middle East during World War I. Since 1992 the Brisbane International Film Festival has awarded a Chauvel Award to a "distinguished contributor to Australian Cinema". A cinema in the suburb of Paddington, Sydney is named after the actor. - Alexander Herrmann
Alexander Herrmann was a [[French] magician, better known as The Great Herrmann. Alexander was born in Paris to Samuel and Anna Sarah Herrmann, a physician who occasionally performed throughout Europe as a conjuror. Alexander's brother Compars Herrmann born (January 23,1816 died June 8, 1887) left medical school at an early age to pursue a career as a magician and served as a role model and inspiration for Alexander. - Hall Roosevelt
Gracie Hall Roosevelt (June 28, 1891 - September 25, 1941) was the youngest brother of former First Lady of the United States, Eleanor Roosevelt and the nephew of Theodore Roosevelt. He was usually called Hall. He was named Gracie for his father's aunt, Anna Bulloch Gracie and her husband James, and Hall for his mother's family. When Hall was two years old his mother, Anna Hall Roosevelt, died, and shortly after his third birthday his father, … - Pieter Burmann The Elder
Pieter Burmann (1668 - March 31, 1741), Dutch classical scholar, known as the Elder, to distinguish him from his nephew, was born at Utrecht. At the age of thirteen he entered the university where he studied under Graevius and Gronovius. He devoted himself particularly to the study of the classical languages, and became unusually proficient in Latin composition. As he was intended for the legal profession, … - Raphael Sonenshein
Raphael J. Sonenshein (born 1949) is a professor of political science at California State University, Fullerton. Teaching at the college since 1982, Sonenshein holds a bachelor's in public policy from Princeton University and a doctorate in political science from Yale University. His books, Politics in Black and White: Race and Power in Los Angeles and The City at Stake: Secession, Reform, … - William Thomas Mercer
William Thomas Mercer (1821 - 1879) was a British colonial administrator, who ruled Hong Kong for one year, between 15 March 1865 to 11 March 1866. He was succeeded by Sir Richard Graves MacDonnell, who became the 6th Governor of Hong Kong. Mercer is the nephew of John Francis Davis, the second Governor of Hong Kong (1844 - 1848). Mercer Street in Sheung Wan is named after him. - Henri Hemsch
Henri Hemsch, original name Johann Heinrich Hemsch (21 February 1700 - September 1769), was a French harpsichord maker who was originally from Germany. He was born in Castenholtz, near Cologne, and moved to France in 1728 where he served a six-year apprenticeship in the shop of Antoine Vater (fl. - Gabriel Andrew Dirac
Gabriel Andrew Dirac was a mathematician. He was the stepson of Paul Dirac and nephew of Eugene Wigner. He was professor of mathematics in the University of Aarhus in Denmark. He mainly worked in graph theory and, for example, stated a sufficient condition for a Hamiltonian circuit in a graph. - George P. Broussard
George Patout Broussard, Sr. (September 17, 1916 - August 30, 1977), was a decorated World War II U.S. Army officer, the son of a United States senator, and a veterinarian from New Iberia, Louisiana, who conducted important research on the diseases anaplasmosis and brucellosis. Broussard was born in New Iberia, the seat of Iberia Parish in the sugar-producing region of south Louisiana, to Senator Edwin Sidney Broussard, I, and the former Marie C. Patout. - Karl Rudolf Friedenthal
Karl Rudolf Friedenthal (September 15, 1827, Breslau - March 7, 1890, died on his estate, Giesmannsdorf, near Neisse/Nysa) was a Prussian statesman. He was a nephew of Markus Bär Friedenthal, the author, and later became a convert to Christianity. He attended the gymnasium at Neisse (1839-44), studied law at Breslau, Heidelberg, and Berlin, and became (1854) "Kammergerichtsassessor". - Diego Xaraba
Diego Xaraba (c. 1640?-c. 1700) was a Spanish organist and composer. A nephew of organist Pablo Bruna, Xaraba studied with him at Daroca. He is known to have been working as the organist of El Pilar in Zaragoza in around 1676; he was later employed in the chapel of Carlos II in Madrid, where he died. A few of his organ works have been recorded. - Juan Nicolás Böhl de Faber
Juan Nicolás Böhl de Faber was a German lover of Spanish literature and culture. He was the father of Spanish/Swiss novelist Cecilia Böhl de Faber, aka "Fernán Caballero". Faber started his life in Spain at a shop owned by his bourgeois parents. In addition to the work of the store, he was also consul for Frederick William III of Prussia as well as overseeing the warehouses held by Sir James Duff and his nephew William Gordon at Puerto de Santa María. - John K. Inglis
John K. (Kenneth) Inglis, B.Sc., B.A., Dip.Ed., M.Inst.Biol., is a British biologist, writer, and a former lecturer at Oxford University in England.<br /> He has also taught anatomy, physiology, and health, at College of Lake County, Illinois, U.S.A., and at Durham College, Canada.<br /> His published books include: "A Textbook of Human Biology", "Introduction to Laboratory Animal Science and Technology", … - Gabriel Báthori
Gábor Báthori, Prince of Transylvania was a Hungarian Prince of Transylvania from 1608 to 1613, nephew of Erzsébet Báthory. <br - Neil Nephew
- Dan Nephew
Friendly,loyal,sincere,funny. I am in shape and feel good. Been deeply in love and been very hurt by it, but would not trade it for anything! Love the outdoors and dread the winter! Love to travel, but love to stay home and cuddle too. Lots of interests - just ask me! - Mr. Nephew
Im just someone who knows what they want in life... I have.
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