- Wavell Wakefield 1st Baron Wakefield of Kendal
Sir William Wavell Wakefield, 1st Baron Wakefield of Kendal (10 March 1898, Beckenham-12 August 1983) was a rugby union player for Harlequins and England, President of the Rugby Football Union and a British politician. Wakefield attended Sedbergh School in the West Riding of Yorkshire (now part of Cumbria), leaving during World War I to join the Royal Naval Air Service. After the War he became the captain of the RAF rugby team and joined Quins. - Tim Wakefield
Timothy Stephen Wakefield (born August 2, 1966 in Melbourne, Florida) is a right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball who has played with the Boston Red Sox since 1995. He is known for effectively throwing the knuckleball. - Andrew Wakefield
Andrew Wakefield (born 1956 in the United Kingdom) is a Canadian trained surgeon, best known as the lead author of a controversial 1998 research study, published in "The Lancet", which reported bowel symptoms in a selected sample of twelve children with autistic spectrum disorders and other disabilities, and alleged a possible connection with MMR vaccination. Citing safety concerns, in a press conference held in conjunction with the release of the report Dr. - Buddy Wakefield
Buddy Wakefield is a spoken word poet, signed to Sage Francis' record label, Strange Famous Records. He has been praised for his explosive energy and captivating lyrics. - Ruth Graves Wakefield
Ruth Graves Wakefield (June 17, 1903-January 10 1977) was the inventor of the Toll House Cookie, the first chocolate chip cookie. She later became an author. - H. Russell Wakefield
Herbert Russell Wakefield (1888 - 1964) was an English short story writer, novelist, publisher, and civil servant chiefly remembered today for his ghost stories. These were published in several collections during the course of his lengthy writing career: "They Return at Evening" (1928), "Old Man's Beard: Fifteen Disturbing Tales" (1929), "Imagine a Man in a Box" (1931), "Ghost Stories" (1932), "A Ghostly Company" (1935), … - Edward Wakefield
Sir Edward Birkbeck Wakefield, 1st Baronet (24 July 1903 - 14 January 1969), was a British civil servant and Conservative Party politician. Educated at Haileybury and at Trinity College, Cambridge, he joined the Indian Civil Service in 1927 and served in Punjab, Rajputana, Kathiawar, Baluchistan, Central India, Tibet and the Persian Gulf. He was Chief Minister of Kalat State 1933-1936, of Nabha State 1939-1941 and of Rewa State 1943-1945, and was Joint Secretary, … - Arthur Wakefield
Captain Arthur Wakefield was the second brother of Edward Gibbon Wakefield, founder of the New Zealand Company. Arthur Wakefield was born in Essex near London, and joined the British Navy at age eleven. He saw action in the Dutch East Indies, and was part of the force that captured and burnt Washington, D.C. during the War of 1812. He took part in the Battle of Algiers, one of the bloodiest battles fought by the British Navy in this era. - Edward Jerningham Wakefield
Edward Jerningham Wakefield (25 June 1820 - 3 March 1879) was the only son of Edward Gibbon Wakefield. He was born in London, and educated in England and France. In 1839 he accompanied his uncle, Colonel William Wakefield to New Zealand on the New Zealand Company ship Tory. This expedition was an advance party seeking a suitable site to found a colony in the Cook Strait area. - Edward Gibbon Wakefield
Edward Gibbon Wakefield (20 March, 1796 - May 16, 1862) was the driving force behind much of the early colonization of South Australia, and later New Zealand. Wakefield, who in 1816 married Eliza Pattle (1799 - 1820), was the eldest son of Edward Wakefield (1774 - 1854) and Susanna Crash (1767 - 1816). - Fred Wakefield
Frederick Douglas Wakefield (born September 17 1978 in Tuscola, Illinois) is a tight end currently playing for the Oakland Raiders of the National Football League. In 2005 he started his 5th season. He played his entire career with Arizona, before signing with Oakland on March 9, 2007. He attended college at the University of Illinois. - James Wakefield
James Beach Wakefield (March 21, 1825 - August 25, 1910) was a United States Representative from Minnesota; born in Winsted, Connecticut; attended the public schools at Westfield, Massachusetts, and Jonesville, New York; was graduated from Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut in 1846; studied law in Painesville, Lake County, Ohio; was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Delphi, Indiana, in 1852; moved to Shakopee, Minnesota, … - Charity Wakefield
Charity Wakefield is a British actress. She trained at the Oxford School of Drama from 2000-2003. Wakefield is perhaps best known for playing Marianne Dashwood in "Sense & Sensibility". - P. J. Wakefield
PJ Wakefield (born December 5, 1980 in Baltimore, Maryland) is a defender for the Baltimore Blast who play in the MISL. - Frank Wakefield
Franklin Delano Roosevelt Wakefield (born June 26, 1934) is a legendary American mandolin player. Frank Wakefield is notable as a great bluegrass player and for his significant innovations that have shaped the way many musicians play the mandolin. Wakefield's pedigree as a bluegrass giant can be seen through his collaborations with a number of important and well-known bands, including Red Allen, Jimmy Martin, Don Reno, Jerry Garcia, Ralph Stanley, Bill Monroe, … - William Wakefield
Colonel William Hayward Wakefield (1801 - 19 September 1848), was the leader of the first colonizing expedition to New Zealand and a founder of Wellington. He married in 1826 Emily Sydney, a daughter of Sir John Sidney, Bt. - Mark Wakefield
Mark Wakefield (born November 17, 1968) was an English cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and a left-handed slow bowler who played for Derbyshire in 1987. Wakefield played the first game in his career for Lancashire in 1985, making one second XI appearance against the Peakites. He played for three years in the Second XI Trophy, where he alternated as a tailender along with Paul Taylor. - Dick Wakefield
Richard Cummings Wakefield (born May 6, 1921 in Chicago, Illinois - August 25, 1985 in Redford, Michigan), is a former professional baseball player who played outfield in the Major Leagues from 1941-1952. - S. A. Wakefield
Sydney Alexander Wakefield was born in 1927 and is the author of Bottersnikes and Gumbles among other books. - Daniel Bell Wakefield
Daniel Bell Wakefield (1798-8 January 1858) was a notable judge in New Zealand during the mid-19th century. Wakefield was the third child of Edward Wakefield and Priscilla Bell. As a child in England, Wakefield was thought to be rather 'slow' and showed little initiative at school. During his later school years he lived with Francis Place, one of the leading radical reformers of the era and a friend of his father. On leaving school he was apprenticed to learn book-keeping, … - Mark Wakefield
Mark Wakefield is the manager for the band Taproot, and is the former singer of Xero, the band that eventually became Linkin Park. He met Mike Shinoda in high school and joined the band, who were at that point called SuperXero. They revised the name to Xero and recorded the self-titled Xero sampler tape featuring the songs, "Fuse", "Reading My Eyes", "Stick N' Move" and "Rhinestone". - Howard Wakefield
Howard Wakefield (April 2, 1884 - April 16, 1941) was a professional baseball player from 1905 to 1907. Wakefield played the 1905 and 1907 seasons with the Cleveland Indians. His 1906 season he played with the Washington Senators Wakefield was a catcher. - Gilbert Wakefield
Gilbert Wakefield (1756 - 1801), scholar and controversialist, born at Nottingham, educated at Cambridge, took orders, but becoming a Unitarian renounced them and acted as classical tutor in various Unitarian academies. He was a strong defender of the French Revolution, and was imprisoned for two years for writing a seditious pamphlet. - Dexter B. Wakefield
Dr. Dexter B. Wakefield is an assistant professor and 1st Vice-President at the Southern Illinois University. In 1990 Wakefield completed a B.S. in Agricultural Education from Fort Valley State University. In 1998 a M.S. in Agricultural Education and Extension from Purdue University and in 2001 a Ph.D. in Agricultural Education and Extension from Purdue University. - Felix Wakefield
Felix Wakefield, (1807 - 1875), was the seventh child of Edward Wakefield and Priscilla Belland, and brother of Edward Gibbon Wakefield. In 1831 he married Marie Bailley by whom he had nine children. When he left school Felix began working with his father and training as a surveyor and civil engineer. However this was interrupted in 1826 as a result of the scandal surrounding his brothers, Edward Gibbon and William Wakefield and also his step mother. - Edward Wakefield
Edward Wakefield was the son of Felix Wakefield, one of Edward Gibbon Wakefield’s younger brothers. Edward was born in Launceston, Tasmania, brought up in New Zealand, and educated in France and King’s College, London. He was a journalist and then politician in New Zealand, who showed considerable promise, though this was not fulfilled. He was the Member of Parliament for Geraldine 1875-81, then for Selwyn 1884-87, when he resigned. - Rhys Wakefield
Rhys Wakefield (born 20 November 1988 in Cairns, Queensland) is an Australian actor. He is best known for portraying Lucas Holden in Home and Away - an ongoing character, in the long running TV series, since August 2005. He is also currently filming his role in the forthcoming movie The Black Balloon - Martin Creed
Martin Creed (born 1968) is an English artist noted for his works which hark back to the conceptual art of the 1960s and 1970s. Creed was born in Wakefield and brought up in Glasgow. He studied art at the Slade School of Art in University College, London from 1986 to 1990. Since 1987, Creed has numbered each of his works, and most of his titles relate in a very direct way to the piece's substance. - John Scott
John Scott , Organist and Director of Music since 2004, is one of the worlds leading organists and choir trainers. After his initial musical training as a Cathedral chorister in Wakefield, Yorkshire, Mr. Scott immersed himself in organ and choral music, becoming Organ Scholar of St. Johns College, Cambridge. While still a student, he made his Royal Albert Hall debut as the youngest organ soloist to appear in the Proms. - Mary Creagh
Mary Helen Creagh (born 2 December 1967) is a British politician. She is the Labour Member of Parliament for Wakefield. Mary Creagh was born and brought up in Coventry of Irish parentage, her father a car factory worker and her mother a primary school teacher, She was educated locally at the Bishop Ullathorne Comprehensive School in Coventry before winning a scholarship to attend Pembroke College, Oxford where she studied modern language. - William Allen
William Reginald Allen {born April 14, 1893 in Sharlston, near Wakefield, Yorkshire, England and died October 14, 1950, Normanton, Yorkshire, England) was an English cricketer who played for Yorkshire County Cricket Club. He was a right-handed batsman and a wicketkeeper. He played thirty matches for Yorkshire scoring 475 runs at an average of 21.59 with the bat with a highest score of 95. He also took 45 catches and made 21 stumpings. - David Hinchliffe
David Martin Hinchliffe (born 14 October 1948) is a politician in the United Kingdom. He was Labour member of Parliament for Wakefield, from 1987 to 2005 when he stood down and was replaced by Mary Creagh. He was Chair of the Health Select Committee. He was a founder and first secretary of the All-Party Parliamentary Rugby League Group in 1987. - Harold Shipman
Harold Frederick Shipman (January 14, 1946-January 13, 2004) was an English general practitioner who was one of the most prolific known serial killers in modern history. He was better known, before his arrest, as Fred Shipman. He was convicted on 15 sample charges in 2000 and sentenced to 15 consecutive life sentences. He committed suicide in 2004 at HMP Wakefield, West Riding of Yorkshire, without admitting or explaining his crimes. - Barbara Hepworth
Dame Barbara Hepworth DBE (January 10, 1903 - May 20, 1975, christened Jocelyn Barbara Hepworth) was a major British sculptor and artist of the twentieth century. Although not as renowned, she is generally considered as great a sculptor as her contemporary and friend Henry Moore. Hepworth was born in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, attended Wakefield Girls High School, and studied at the Leeds School of Art (where she met Moore) and the Royal College of Art. - George Gissing
George Gissing (November 22, 1857 - December 28, 1903) was an English novelist, who wrote twenty-three novels between 1880 and 1903. Although his early works are naturalistic, he developed into one of the the most accomplished realists of the late-Victorian era. Born in Wakefield, Yorkshire, to lower-middle class parents, Gissing went on to win a scholarship to Owens College, the present day University of Manchester. - John Carr
John Carr (1723 -1807) was a prolific English architect. He was born at Horbury, near Wakefield, England, the eldest of nine children and the son of a master mason, under whom he trained.. He started an independent career in 1748 and continued until shortly before his death. - Paul Scott
Paul Scott (born November 5, 1979 in Wakefield) is an English professional football (soccer) player, currently with Bury F.C. Beginning his career as a trainee at Huddersfield Town, he made just 32 league appearances for the club before leaving aged 24. His debut came in Huddersfield's 1-0 win at Peterborough United on 2002-08-17. Moving to Bury on a free transfer, Scott started at Bury on non-contract terms, … - Lucius Beebe
Lucius Morris Beebe, was a noted author, gourmand, photographer, railroad historian, journalist, and syndicated columnist. - Bill Nelson
Bill Nelson (born William Nelson on 18 December 1948) is a prolific guitarist, songwriter, painter and experimental musician from Wakefield, Yorkshire, England, UK. He currently lives in Selby, Yorkshire, England, UK. - Jon Wells
Jon Wells (born 23 September, 1978 in Wakefield, England) is an English rugby league player who currently plays for the Harlequins Rugby League club. His usual position is winger.
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