Ayres
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People
- Agnes AyresAgnes AyresAgnes Ayres was an American actress who rose to fame during the silent film era. She was best known for her role as Lady Diana Mayo in The Sheik and The Son of the Sheik opposite Rudolph Valentino.-Early life and career:...
(1898–1940), US silent film actor - Alice AyresAlice AyresAlice Ayres was an English nursemaid honoured for her bravery in rescuing the children in her care from a house fire. Ayres was a household assistant and nursemaid to the family of her brother-in-law and sister, Henry and Mary Ann Chandler...
(1859–1885), Died following the rescue of her three nieces from a burning building - Anne AyresAnne AyresAnne Ayres was a nun and the founder of the first Episcopalian religious order for women.Born in London, she emigrated to the United States in 1836; settling in New York City...
(1816–1886), US Episcopalian nun - Bill AyresBill AyresBill Ayres is a talk radio host and Executive Director and co-founder of World Hunger Year.Ayres became a Catholic priest for the Archdiocese in New York in 1966, but always had a fondness for radio broadcasting, starting as WGSM on Long Island. He began hosting and producing a weekly radio talk...
, American radio talk show host, co-founder and executive director of World Hunger Year - Christopher AyresChristopher AyresFor the journalist, see Chris Ayres.Christopher Owen Ayres is an American voice actor ADR Director and Script Writer, who works for anime series at FUNimation Entertainment, ADV Films, Seraphim Digital, New Generation Pictures and OkraTron 5000. He has provided voices for a number of English...
(born 1965), American voice actor - Gary AyresGary AyresGary Ayres is a former Australian rules footballer for the Hawthorn Football Club and currently the senior coach for the Port Melbourne Football Club in the Victoria Football League.-Playing career:...
(born 1960), Australian rules footballer and coach - Gillian AyresGillian AyresGillian Ayres, CBE is an English painter.-Early life and career:Ayres was born on 3 February 1930 in Barnes, London, the youngest of three sisters. Ayres started school when she was six. Her parents, a prosperous couple, sent her to Ibstock, a progressive school in Roehampton run on Fröbel...
(born 1930), British painter - Greg AyresGreg AyresGregory Scott Ayres is an American voice actor who works for anime series at Funimation Entertainment, ADV Films, Seraphim Digital, and OkraTron 5000. He has provided voices for a number of English language versions of Japanese anime films...
(born 1968), American voice actor - Ian AyresIan AyresIan Ayres is an American academic who is the William K. Townsend Professor at the Yale Law School and a Professor at the Yale School of Management.-Biography:...
, Academic - Ian Ayres (filmmaker)Ian Ayres (filmmaker)-Career:As a director his films include the feature length documentary The Jill & Tony Curtis Story which was selected for screening at the Bel Air Film Festival, the Montreal World Film Festival, and the Mammoth Film Festival...
, American filmmaker - João Maria Correia Ayres de Campos, 1st Count of AmealJoão Maria Correia Ayres de Campos, 1st Count of AmealJoão Maria Correia Ayres de Campos, 1st Count of Ameal was a Portuguese politician, art collector, maecenas and humanist, renowned chiefly for having assembled one of Portugal's largest and most important private art collections, as well as what was at the time the largest private library in the...
(1847-1920), Portuguese humanist, politician and art-collector - José Márcio AyresJosé Márcio AyresJosé Márcio Ayres was a Brazilian primatologist and conservationist who founded the Mamirauá Sustainable Development Reserve in 1996, followed by the Amanã Sustainable Development Reserve in 1997...
(1954-2003), Brazilian primatologist and conservationist - Leonard Porter AyresLeonard Porter AyresLeonard Porter Ayres was an American educator, soldier, and statistician.-Biography:Ayres was born at Niantic, Conn. He received his college and graduate training at Boston, Harvard, and Columbia universities....
(1879–1946), US statistician - Lew AyresLew AyresLew Ayres was an American actor, best known for starring as Paul in All Quiet on the Western Front and for playing Dr...
(1908–1996), US actor - Lewis AyresLewis AyresDr. Lewis Ayres, a lay Catholic theologian, husband, and father of four, is currently the Bede Professor of Catholic Theology at Durham University in the United Kingdom. As holder of the Bede Chair, he is the figurehead for the newly established Durham Centre for Catholic Studies and is also...
, Lay Catholic Theologian - Pam AyresPam AyresPam Ayres MBE is an English poet, songwriter and presenter of radio and television programmes. Her 1975 appearance on the television talent show Opportunity Knocks led to a variety of appearances on TV and radio shows, a one woman touring stage show and performing before the Queen.-Early life:Pam...
(born 1947), British writer of humorous poetry - Philip Ayres (poet)Philip Ayres (poet)Philip Ayres , the author of numerous books and pamphlets, flourished in the latter part of the seventeenth century; was born at Cottingham, and educated at Westminster, and St. John's College, Oxford. He became tutor in the family of Montagu Garrard Drake, of Agmondesham, Bucks, and lived in the...
(1638-1712), English poet - Philip Burnard AyresPhilip Burnard AyresPhilip Burnard Ayres was a British physician, botanist and plant collector. He was born at Thame in Oxfordshire on 12 December 1813. He initially began to collect plants in his native United Kingdom and also in France. In 1856 Ayres was appointed by Queen Victoria to superintendency of...
, British physician and botanist - Richard AyresRichard AyresRichard Ayres is a British composer and teacher.Ayres was born in Cornwall, England in 1965. He followed Morton Feldman’s classes at the Darmstadt and Dartington summer schools. He studied composition, electronic music, and trombone at Huddersfield Polytechnic until 1989, graduating with...
(born 1965), British composer - Robert Ayres (disambiguation), multiple people
- Romeyn B. AyresRomeyn B. AyresRomeyn Beck Ayres was a Union Army general in the American Civil War.-Early life:Ayres was born at East Creek, New York, along the Mohawk River in Montgomery County. He was the son of a small-town doctor who urged all of his sons into professional careers...
(1825–1888), Union general in the American Civil War - Rosalind AyresRosalind AyresRosalind Ayres is an English actress. Active since 1970, Ayres may be best known by a wide audience for her role was in the 1997 film Titanic, in which she played Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon....
(born 1946), British actress - Thomas AyresThomas AyresThomas Ayres was a British born South African ornithologist. In 1850 he migrated with his family to Natal where he started to collect birds. In 1865 he and his brother Jack moved to Potchefstroom, where they hunted and traded with the Boer settlers...
(1828–1913), South African ornithologist - Vernon AyresVernon AyresThomas Vernon "Vern" Ayres was a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman who played six seasons in the National Hockey League for the New York Americans, Montreal Maroons, St. Louis Eagles and New York Rangers.-External links:...
(born 1909), Canadian ice hockey player - William Orville AyresWilliam Orville AyresWilliam Orville Ayres was an American physician and ichthyologist. Born in Connecticut, he studied to become a doctor at Yale University School of Medicine....
(1817–1887), US American physician and ichthyologist
Companies
- Ayres (sports company)Ayres (sports company)Founded in 1810 by Edward Ayres manufactured a range of sporting equipment in over 125 years of its existence.Most famous was it quality manufacturing of equipment for archery, in particular the bow...
, a British sports equipment manufacturer - L. S. Ayres, an Indiana department store founded in 1872
- Ayres Corp.Ayres Corp.Ayres Corporation was a US aircraft manufacturer owned and run by Fred Ayres. In 1977, Ayres bought the Albany, Georgia division of Rockwell International, which made the S2R Thrush Commander agricultural aircraft. Before this, Ayres had been a distributor of Thrush Commanders. After the...
, a former US aircraft manufacturer
Locations
- Ayres, former name of Zama, MississippiZama, MississippiZama is an unincorporated community in Attala County, Mississippi, United States. On April 27, 2011, a tornado hit the Zama area as part of the April 25–28, 2011 tornado outbreak, causing heavy tree and power line damage. The tornado was classified as an EF-1, with estimated wind speeds of...
- Ayres Natural Bridge Park, a formation along the Oregon Trail in the US state of Wyoming
- Point of AyrePoint of AyreThe Point of Ayre is the northernmost point of the Isle of Man. It lies at the northern end of Ramsey Bay north of the town of Ramsey. The point can be accessed by the A16 road from Bride....
, Isle of Man