- Dana Priest
Dana Priest is an author and a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist. Priest has worked almost twenty years for "The Washington Post". As one of the "Washington Post's" specialists on National Security she has written many articles on the United States' "War on terror". In February 2006, Ms. Priest was awarded the George Polk Award for National Reporting for her November 2005 article on secret CIA detention facilities in foreign countries. - Lee Priest
Lee Andrew Priest McCutcheon, also known as “The Blond Myth” is an IFBB professional bodybuilder. - Maxi Priest
Maxi Priest (born Max Alfred Elliott, 10 June 1960, Lewisham, London) is a reggae singer and songwriter from England. - Patricia Ann Priest
Patricia Ann Priest (better known by the stage name Pat Priest is an American actress who is best known for portraying Marilyn Munster on the cult television show, "The Munsters" (1964—1966). Priest replaced actress Beverley Owen, who quit the series after the first thirteen episodes. The running gag of the Cousin Marilyn character was that this normal, … - Cherie Priest
Cherie Priest (born 30 July 1975) is an American novelist who best known for her debut novel "Four and Twenty Blackbirds", which was published in 2003. In addition to her novels Priest publishes two online blogs: one personal, one professional, and is at the head of the growing presence of authors online, being in contact with many others via their blogs. It is partially due to this online "networking" that her first novel was such a cult success, … - Killah Priest
Walter Reed (born August 16, 1970), better known as Killah Priest, is an American rapper and affiliate of the hip hop group Wu-Tang Clan. He is known for intensely spiritual lyrics loaded with metaphors and religious references. He is unofficially connected to the Black Hebrew Israelites (specifically the ICUPK) and the Five Percent Nation of Gods and Earths through his rhymes, and is known for controversial, highly Afrocentric subject matter. - Robert Priest
Born in 1951, Robert Priest is a Canadian poet and children's author who lives in Toronto, Ontario. Priest is also a successful musician. - Percy Priest
James Percy Priest was an American politician who represented Tennessee in the United States House of Representatives from 1941 until his death. Priest was born in Maury County, Tennessee. He attended Central High School in Columbia, and afterward continued his education at State Teachers' College in Murfreesboro (now Middle Tennessee State University), and the former Peabody College in Nashville. He taught school in Culleoka, in his native Maury County, … - Mark Priest
Mark Wellings Priest (born August 12, 1961, Greymouth, West Coast, New Zealand) is a former New Zealand cricketer who played in 3 Tests and 18 ODIs from 1990 to 1998. - Degory Priest
Degory Priest was one of the Pilgrim passengers on the "Mayflower" in 1620. His wife, Sarah Allerton, and children Mary and Sarah stayed behind in Holland in Leiden where some of the Pilgrims had moved to escape religious persecution in England. He died during that first desperate winter in Plymouth. His wife and children came to North America on the "Anne" in 1623. At least one of his grandchildren was an early resident of Nantucket Island. - Cathy Priest
Cathy LeFrancois (formerly Priest) is a professional female bodybuilder and figure competitor from Canada - Christopher Priest
Christopher Priest (born July 14, 1943 in Cheadle) is an English novelist, whose notable works include "Fugue for a Darkening Island" (US title "Darkening Island"), "Inverted World", "The Affirmation", "The Glamour", "The Prestige" and "The Separation". In 1983, Priest was one of the twenty Granta Best of Young British Novelists. He is married to the writer Leigh Kennedy and lives in Hastings with their twin children. - Christopher Priest
Christopher James Priest, born James Christopher Owsley in 1961, is a writer of comic books. During his career, he has written nearly every major character published by Marvel Comics and DC Comics. He was the first black man to be the editor of any comic book in North America. For several years he was the editor of the Spider-Man comic books, during which time he first hired Peter David. He edited the Impact imprint for DC Comics. - Fred Priest
Fred Priest was a professional footballer who won the 1899 and 1902 FA Cup finals with Sheffield United. He also played on the losing side in the 1901 FA Cup final. - Rachel Priest
Rachel Holly Priest (b. 13 July, 1985) in New Plymouth. She is a New Zealand cricketer who plays for the Central Districts Hinds in the State League. - Mathew Priest
Mathew Priest (born 3 April 1970, Birmingham, England) is most notably known as the drummer from Dodgy. He has also played with The Lightning Seeds, The Electric Soft Parade, and Ian McNabb in The Icicle Works. He currently manages the bands Hey Gravity (formerly called M.A.S.S., with former bandmate Andy Miller on guitar) and Misty's Big Adventure. He contributes to Rhythm Magazine in the UK, reviewing the demos sent in by readers. - James M. Priest
James M. Priest was Vice-President of Liberia from 1864 to 1868 under President Daniel Bashiel Warner. - Tim Priest
Tim Priest, is a former New South Wales police Detective Sergeant in Australia. He wrote a book called "To Protect And To Serve" with Richard Basham about his experiences dealing with the drug trade and the police service. In 2003, he gave a talk at a Quadrant dinner in November 2003 entitled "The Rise of Middle Eastern Crime in Australia" in which he also talked about his experience policing specific Lebanese households, and criticised Peter Ryan and Mike Carlton. - Josias Priest
Josias Priest was an English dancer, dancing-master and choreographer. - Graham Priest
Graham Priest (born 1948, London) is Boyce Gibson Professor of Philosophy at the University of Melbourne and a regular visitor at St. Andrews University. He is known for his bold defense of dialetheism, his in-depth analyses of the semantic paradoxes, and his many writings related to paraconsistent and other non-classical logics. Priest, a long-time resident of Australia, is the author of numerous books, … - Ivy Baker Priest
Ivy Baker Priest (September 7, 1905-June 23, 1975) was a politician. She served as United States Treasurer, January 28, 1953 - January 29, 1961. She was later elected as a Republican to the office of California State Treasurer, serving two terms from 1967-1975. She had previously run for Congress in Utah under the Republican ticket in 1934 and 1950, but lost both times. - Martin Luther
Martin Luther was a German monk, theologian, and church reformer. Luther's theology challenged the authority of the papacy by emphasizing the Bible as the sole source of religious authority and the church as a priesthood of all believers. According to Luther, salvation was attainable only by faith in Jesus as the messiah, a faith unmediated by the church. These ideas helped to inspire the Protestant Reformation and changed the course of Western civilization. - George L. Priest
George Priest is the John M. Olin Professor of Law and Economics at Yale Law School. One of the nation's foremost antitrust scholars, he is also the author of a wide number of articles and monographs on the subjects of product liability, tort law, insurance litigation, and settlement. - Ted Kennedy
Edward Phillip Kennedy was a prominent Australian clergyman and activist. Ted Kennedy was known throughout Australia as the priest of St Vincent’s Roman Catholic church in the Sydney inner-city suburb of Redfern. He arrived there in 1971, appointed to head a team ministry by the then Archbishop of Sydney James Freeman (later Cardinal). - John Wesley
John Wesley was an eighteenth-century Anglican minister and Christian theologian who was an early leader in the Methodist movement. Methodism had three rises: the first at Oxford University with the founding of the so-called "Holy Club"; the second while Wesley was parish priest in Savannah, Georgia; and the third in London after Wesley's return to England. The movement took form from its third rise in the early 1740s with Wesley, along with others, … - Matthew Fox
Matthew Fox (born 1940) is a controversial American priest and theologian, and the leading exponent of Creation Spirituality, a movement grounded in the mystical philosophies of medieval visionaries Hildegard of Bingen, Thomas Aquinas, Meister Eckhart, and Nicholas of Cusa. Fox was born in Madison, Wisconsin and named Timothy James. He was ordained a Roman Catholic priest in 1967, taking the name Matthew. - Pope John XXIII
Pope John XXIII (Latin: "Ioannes PP. XXIII"; Italian: "Giovanni XXIII"), born Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli (November 25, 1881 - June 3, 1963), was elected as the 261st Pope of the Catholic Church and sovereign of Vatican City on October 28, 1958. He called the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965) but did not live to see it to completion, dying on June 3, 1963, two months after the completion of his final encyclical, "Pacem in Terris". - Gabriele Amorth
Fr. Gabriele Amorth (born May 1, 1925) is an Italian Roman Catholic priest and the senior exorcist of Vatican City. Amorth was born in Modena, Italy in 1925. He was ordained a Roman Catholic Priest in 1954 and became an official Vatican exorcist in June 1986 under the tutelage of Father Candido Amantini. He is a member of the Society of St. Paul, the Congregation founded by James Alberione in 1914. - Robert Johnson
Blessed Robert Johnson, a Shropshire native, was a Catholic priest and martyr during the reign of Elizabeth I. He joined the German College in Rome on October 1, 1571. He was ordained a priest in Brussels from the English College, Douai. After a pilgrimage to Rome in 1579 he returned to England in 1580, was arrested on July 12, and put in the tower on December 5. Johnson was racked on December 16 and put in a dungeon until his trial on November 14, 1581. - Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson (1846-1901) was an Anglican priest and historian of the Yoruba. Born in Freetown, Sierra Leone, Johnson claimed descent from Alaafin Abiodun of Oyo. He completed his education at the Christian Missionary Society's Training Institute and did teaching while the Yoruba wars went on. He was involved in peace efforts in the 1870s, leading to his work assisting the end of the Yoruba wars in 1886. In 1880, he became a deacon and in 1888 a priest. - John Taylor
John Taylor (c. 1480-1534) was Master of the Rolls from 1527 to 1534. Taylor would have been notable just for the circumstances of his birth; he was the firstborn of healthy triplets who all survived to adulthood, which was virtually unheard of in the 1400s. He went on to a successful career as a priest and civil servant, culminating in a post as Master of the Rolls from 1527 to 1534. John Taylor and Susan Rowland were the parents of Rowland Taylor, … - George Herbert
George Herbert (April 3, 1593 - March 1, 1633) was a Welsh poet, orator and a priest. Being born into an artistic and wealthy family, he received a good education which led on to him holding prominent positions at Cambridge University and Parliament. As a student at Trinity College, Cambridge, England, George Herbert excelled in languages and music. He went to college with the intention of becoming a priest, … - John McLaughlin
John McLaughlin (born March 29 1927) is the creator, executive producer, and host of "The McLaughlin Group", a weekly public affairs television program broadcast in the United States since 1982, and of "McLaughlin's One on One", an interview program. In the group program, the current format involves a group of four respected commentators discussing current political issues at the host's direction and tends to become a little heated, … - Anthony Of Padua
Saint Anthony of Padua, also venerated as Saint Anthony of Lisbon, is a Catholic saint who was born in Lisbon, Portugal, as Fernando de Bulhões to a wealthy family and who died in Padua, Italy. - John Donne
John Donne, 1572 – March 31, 1631) was a Jacobean poet and preacher, representative of the metaphysical poets of the period. His works, notable for their realistic and sensual style, include sonnets, love poetry, religious poems, Latin translations, epigrams, elegies, songs, satires and sermons. His poetry is noted for its vibrancy of language and immediacy of metaphor, compared with that of his contemporaries. - Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift was an Anglo-Irish cleric, satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for Whigs then for Tories), and poet, famous for works like "Gulliver's Travels", "A Modest Proposal", "A Journal to Stella", "The Drapier's Letters", "The Battle of the Books", and "A Tale of a Tub". Swift is probably the foremost prose satirist in the English language, although he is less well known for his poetry. - John Church
The Reverend John Church was an Independent clergyman most famous for his involvement in the homosexual scandal of the Vere Street Coterie. He is often claimed as the first openly gay ordained Christian minister in England. Contemporary rumours about this are unproveable one way or the other, though circumstantial evidence seems to suggest that his ‘inordinate affections which led me into error’ can be equated with homosexual inclinations. - Jean-Bertrand Aristide
Former President of Haiti (1991),(1994-1996) and (2001-2004), ousted in two coups d'état (1991,2004). The American government ruled that the years of military government between 1991 and 1994 would count as part of his term, forcing him to step down after only two years as he was not permitted to run for a second consecutive term. His second term was also interrupted by a putsch and he was forced into exile by the American military. When he could not run, René Préval was elected... - William Smith
The Rev. Dr. William Smith (1728-1803) was the first president of the University of Pennsylvania. He was born at Aberdeen, Scotland, to Thomas and Elizabeth (Duncan) Smith. He attended the University of Aberdeen. In 1753, Smith wrote a pamphlet outlining his thoughts about education. - William Smith
Very Revd. Dr William Smith (1711-1787), Dean of Chester, Greek and Latin scholar and first translator of the works of Thucydides. Smith was born in Worcester in 1711, the son of the rector of St Nicholas' Church. He was sent to RGS Worcester after which he proceeded to New College, Oxford in 1728. He remained here for many years gaining four degrees including D.D. in 1758. He became headmaster of Brentwood School, Essex, in 1748, …
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