Academia

• John Spencer Bassett
  John Spencer Bassett
  John Spencer Bassett was an American historian. He was a professor at Duke University best known today for initiating the Bassett Affair in 1903.- Biography :...
  
   (1867-1928), American professor at Trinity College (Duke University)
• Joshua Bassett
  Joshua Bassett
  Joshua Bassett or Basset was an English academic, Master of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge under James II.-Life:...
  
   (c.1641-1720), English academic at Cambridge

Arts and entertainment

• Angela Bassett
  Angela Bassett
  Angela Evelyn Bassett is an American actress. She has become well known for her biographical film roles portraying real life women in African American culture, including singer Tina Turner in the motion picture What's Love Got to Do with It, as well as Betty Shabazz in the films Malcolm X and...
  
   (born 1958), American actress
• Dave Bassett (songwriter)
  Dave Bassett (songwriter)
  Dave Bassett is an American songwriter and record producer with many charting singles. Since March 2011, he is signed to EMI Music Publishing for an international co-publishing deal....
  
  , American songwriter and producer
• Desiree Bassett
  Desireé Bassett
  Desireé Apolonio Bassett is an American rock music guitarist and recording artist. Considered a child prodigy, she has performed alongside mainline performers such as Sammy Hagar, Ted Nugent, Living Colour, Barry Goudreau, the Marshall Tucker Band and members of the Allman Brothers Band...
  
   (born 1992) American musician
• James Bassett (author) (1912-1978), American newspaper editor and author
• Johnny Bassett
  Johnny Bassett
  John Bassett is the person credited with putting together the talent for the Edinburgh International Festival revue, Beyond the Fringe, in 1960.-The beginnings:...
  
   (born 1935), English progenitor of Beyond the Fringe
• Leslie Bassett
  Leslie Bassett
  Leslie Bassett is an American composer of classical music, and the University of Michigan’s Albert A. Stanley Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Composition...
  
   (born 1923), American composer of classical music
• Ronald Bassett
  Ronald Bassett
  Ronald Leslie Bassett is a British writer and novelist. He wrote numerous works of historical fiction, sometimes under the pseudonym of "William Clive". He received many awards for his medical and pharmaceutical writing.-Personal life:...
  
   (born 1924), British novelist

Military

• Cyril Royston Guyton Bassett
  Cyril Royston Guyton Bassett
  Cyril Royston Guyton Bassett was a New Zealander 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...
  
   (1892-1983), New Zealand recipient of the Victoria Cross
• Edgar R. Bassett
  Edgar R. Bassett
  Edgar R. Bassett was a United States Navy officer who received the Navy Cross posthumously for his actions in combat during World War II.-Biography:...
  
   (1914-1942), United States Navy officer, pilot, and Navy Cross recipient

Politics and governance

• Ebenezer Bassett
  Ebenezer Bassett
  Ebenezer D. Bassett was an African American who was appointed United States Ambassador to Haiti in 1869. He was the first African-American diplomat....
  
   (1833-1908), American diplomat
• Edward Bassett
  Edward Bassett
  Edward Murray Bassett was one of the founding fathers of modern day urban planning. Known as "The Father of American Zoning," Bassett wrote the first comprehensive zoning ordinance in the United States, adopted by New York City in 1916....
  
   (1863-1948), "Father of American Zoning"
• Isabel Bassett
  Isabel Bassett
  Isabel Bassett is a Canadian broadcaster and former politician. From 1999 until 2005 she was the chair and CEO of TVOntario/TFO, Ontario's provincial public television network. She has been a controversial figure at times, but is also a highly regarded pioneer in Canadian...
  
   (born 1939), Canadian broadcaster and politician
• Richard Bassett
  Richard Bassett
  Richard Bassett was an American lawyer and politician from Dover, in Kent County, Delaware. He was a veteran of the American Revolution, a delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1787, and a member of the Federalist Party, who served in the Delaware General Assembly, as Governor of Delaware,...
  
   (1745–1815), American lawyer and politician

Religion

• Christopher Bassett
  Christopher Bassett
  Christopher Bassett was a Welsh Methodist cleric.-Life:Bassett was born in Aberthaw, Glamorgan, Wales to Christopher and Alice Bassett, both followers of Howell Harris . After studying at Cowbridge Grammar School, Bassett went to Jesus College, Oxford, matriculating in 1768. He obtained a B.A...
  
   (1753-1784), Welsh Methodist cleric
• Richard Bassett (clergyman)
  Richard Bassett (clergyman)
  Richard Bassett was a Welsh cleric, thought to be the last Anglican clergyman in Wales to be associated with the Methodists.-Life:...
  
   (1777-1852), Welsh clergyman

Sport

• Arthur Bassett
  Arthur Bassett
  Arthur Bassett was a Welsh dual-code international rugby union and professional rugby league footballer who represented Wales at both rugby union and rugby league codes...
  
  , Welsh rugby league footballer
• Billy Bassett
  Billy Bassett
  William Isiah Bassett was an English association footballer, director and club chairman who served West Bromwich Albion for over half a century.-Playing career:...
  
   (1869-1937), English football player and director
• Billy Bassett (Welsh footballer)
  Billy Bassett (Welsh footballer)
  William Edward George "Billy" Bassett was a Welsh professional footballer.-Career:Bassett began his career at Aberaman Athletic before moving on to Wolverhampton Wanderers in 1933. He only spent a single season at Wolves, without making a first team appearance, before returning to Wales and...
  
   (1912–1977), Welsh football player
• Caitlin Bassett
  Caitlin Bassett
  Caitlin Bassett is an Australian netball player in the ANZ Championship, playing for the West Coast Fever. Bassett previously played for the Perth Orioles in the Commonwealth Bank Trophy from 2005–07. In 2008, she played for one half of a game as a member of the Australian Diamonds team...
  
   (born 1988), Australian netball player
• Carling Bassett-Seguso
  Carling Bassett-Seguso
  Carling Kathrin Bassett-Seguso is a former Canadian professional tennis player. Bassett is the daughter of John F. Bassett and Susan Carling, and the granddaughter of media baron John Bassett and politician and brewery executive John Carling.-Tennis career:In 1981, Bassett won the Canadian junior...
  
   (born 1967), Canadian tennis player
• Charley Bassett
  Charley Bassett
  Charles Edwin Bassett , was a Major League Baseball infielder. He played all or part of nine seasons in the majors, from -, for the Providence Grays, Kansas City Cowboys, Indianapolis Hoosiers, New York Giants, and Louisville Colonels.-External links:...
  
   (1863-1942), baseball player
• Dave Bassett
  Dave Bassett
  David Bassett , also frequently known by his nickname of Harry, is an English football manager and a former player....
  
   (born 1944), English football manager
• Glenn Bassett
  Glenn Bassett
  Glenn Bassett was an American tennis player in the mid-20th century who later would be one of the most successful college tennis coaches of all time....
  
  , American tennis player and coach
• Jack Bassett
  Jack Bassett
  Jack Bassett was a Welsh international rugby union full back who played club rugby for Penarth. He won 15 caps for Wales and was selected for the 1930 British Lions tour of Australia and New Zealand...
  
   (born 1905), Welsh rugby full back
• Nathan Bassett
  Nathan Bassett
  Nathan "Fred" Bassett is a former Australian rules footballer for the Adelaide Football Club of the Australian Football League....
  
   (born 1976), Australian rules footballer
• Zered Bassett
  Zered Bassett
  He was born in Hyannis, Massachusetts, grew up in Chatham, Massachusetts, and currently resides in Manhattan, New York.He appears in the DVS shoe co. video "Skate More" and the Zoo York Skateboard Company video City of Killers and "Vicious Cycle". Since then, Zered has also been given his first DVS...
  
   (born 1984), American skateboarder

Other

• Ann Bassett
  Ann Bassett
  Ann Bassett , also known as Queen Ann Bassett, was a prominent female rancher of the Old West, and with her sister Josie Bassett, was an associate of outlaws, particularly Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch.-Early life:...
  
   (1878-1956), American rancher
• Anne Bassett
  Anne Bassett
  Anne Bassett was an English courtier of the Tudor period, whose charms attracted the attention of King Henry VIII.-Family background:Anne was born in 1521, the fourth child of Sir John Bassett and Honor...
  
   (born 1521 death unknown), mistress of Henry VIII of England
• Charles Bassett
  Charles Bassett
  Charles Arthur "Art" Bassett, II was an American engineer and United States Air Force officer. He was selected as a NASA astronaut in 1963 and assigned to Gemini 9 but died in an airplane crash during training for his first spaceflight.-Early life and education:Bassett was born in Dayton, Ohio,...
  
   (1931–1966), American astronaut
• Charlie Bassett (circa 1847–1896), American lawman and saloon keeper
• Douglas Bassett
  Douglas Bassett
  Douglas Graeme Bassett, OC, O.Ont is a Canadian media executive.Born in Toronto, Ontario, the son of John Bassett, he is the former President and Chief Executive Officer of Baton Broadcasting Inc. and Chairman of the Board of CTV Television Network Limited...
  
   (born 1940), Canadian media executive
• John Bassett
  John Bassett
  John White Hughes Bassett, was a Canadian publisher and media baron.Born in Ottawa, Ontario, he was the son of John Bassett , publisher of the Montreal Gazette, and Margaret Avery. Bassett attended Ashbury College and graduated from Bishop's University with a BA in 1936...
  
   (1915–1998), Canadian publisher
• Marnie Bassett
  Marnie Bassett
  Flora Marjorie Bassett was an Australian historian and biographer.-Life:Bassett was born in Melbourne to academic parents, Sir David Orme Masson, a professor of chemistry, and his wife Mary, née Struthers. She grew up in and around the University of Melbourne...
  
   (1889-1980), Australian historian and biographer
• Preston Bassett
  Preston Bassett
  Preston Rogers Bassett was an inventor, engineer, and pioneer in instruments for aviation.-Biography:Preston Rogers Bassett was born in Buffalo, New York, son of urban planner Edward Murray Bassett and Annie Preston Bassett. Geologist Isabel Bassett Wasson was his sister. He received an A.B...
  
   (1892-1992), American engineer

Fictional

• Earl Bassett, a hired hand in the film Tremors
• Madeline Bassett
  Madeline Bassett
  Madeline Bassett is a recurring character in the Jeeves stories by English comic writer P. G. Wodehouse, being one of the young women to whom Bertie Wooster periodically finds himself threateningly engaged.-Overview:...
  
  , a P. G. Wodehouse character
• Mike Bassett: England Manager
  Mike Bassett: England Manager
  Mike Bassett: England Manager is a 2001 satirical comedy film directed by Steve Barron, following the fortunes of the manager of Division One football club Norwich City, Mike Bassett, who having led his side to the 'Mr Clutch Cup', is appointed England manager.The film takes the form of a...
  
  , football manager
• Watkyn Bassett
  Watkyn Bassett
  Sir Watkyn Bassett CBE is a recurring fictional character in the stories of English comic writer P. G. Wodehouse.Bassett is the father of Madeline Bassett, whose mistaken belief that Bertie Wooster wishes to marry her is the basis of a major sub-plot in several stories...
  
  , a P. G. Wodehouse character

Places

• Bassett, Southampton
  Bassett, Southampton
  Bassett is a suburb and electoral ward of the City of Southampton, England. The suburb lies to the north of the city centre and is largely residential, including the University of Southampton's Glen Eyre Halls of residence complex, which houses around 2,100 students...
  
  
• Bassett Green
  Bassett Green
  Bassett Green is a suburb of Southampton, which has grown from the original small village of Basset. It remains part of the electoral ward of Bassett. The area is mainly residential, with a mixture of Herbert Collins-designed houses and recent council built estates known as the Flowers Estate and...
  
  , a suburb of Southampton
• Bassetts Pole
  Bassetts Pole
  Bassetts Pole is an area at the Staffordshire–West Midlands–Warwickshire Tripoint. There are no residences here, although the settlement of Middleton Heath is located just to the South West...
  
  , Warwickshire
• Berwick Bassett
  Berwick Bassett
  Berwick Bassett is a village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England. The United Kingdom Census 2001 recorded a parish population of 56.-Local government:Berwick Basset is a civil parish with an elected parish council...
  
  , Wiltshire
• Charney Bassett
  Charney Bassett
  Charney Bassett is a village and civil parish about north of Wantage and east of Faringdon in the Vale of White Horse. It was part of Berkshire until the 1974 boundary changes transferred it to Oxfordshire.-Archaeology:...
  
  , Oxfordshire
• Colston Bassett
  Colston Bassett
  Colston Bassett is a small picturesque village in the Vale of Belvoir in the south-east of Nottinghamshire close to its border with Leicestershire...
  
  , Nottinghamshire
• Compton Bassett
  Compton Bassett
  Compton Bassett is a village in Wiltshire between Calne and Cherhill with a population of approximately 250. It is a largely rural village with several farms, a church, a pub and a shop.-Midge Mather Incident:...
  
  , Wiltshire
• Drayton Bassett
  Drayton Bassett
  Drayton Bassett is a village and civil parish in the District of Lichfield, Staffordshire, England. Nearby are the town of Tamworth and Middleton Lakes RSPB reserve, formerly a gravel quarry known in part as Drayton Bassett Pits.It formerly had a manor....
  
  , Staffordshire
• Dunton Bassett
  Dunton Bassett
  Dunton Bassett is a small village in the Harborough District of Leicestershire. It lies between Leicester and Lutterworth, and close to Broughton Astley, Ashby Magna & Leire...
  
  , Leicestershire
• North Weald Bassett
  North Weald Bassett
  North Weald Bassett is a village and civil parish in the Epping Forest district of the county of Essex, England. It is located east of Epping, south-east of Chipping Ongar and south of Harlow....
  
  , Essex
• Royal Wootton Bassett, Wiltshire
• Sutton Bassett
  Sutton Bassett
  Sutton Bassett is a village and civil parish in Northamptonshire, England, in the Welland valley. It was formerly in the Corby Hundred but has been part of the Stoke Hundred ....
  
  , Northamptonshire
• Thorpe Bassett
  Thorpe Bassett
  Thorpe Bassett is a village and civil parish in the Ryedaledistrict of the county of North Yorkshire, England....
  
  , North Yorkshire
• Winterbourne Bassett
  Winterbourne Bassett
  Winterbourne Bassett is a village and civil parish in the English county of Wiltshire.-Local government:Although a civil parish Winterbourne Bassett does not have a parish council in its own right, it shares one with Broad Hinton - see Broad Hinton and Winterbourne Bassett...
  
  , Wiltshire

• Bassett, California
  Bassett, California
  Bassett is an unincorporated community in the San Gabriel Valley, in Los Angeles County, California, United States, located within the Census boundaries of Avocado Heights...
  
  , Los Angeles County
• Bassett, Arkansas
  Bassett, Arkansas
  Bassett is a town in Mississippi County, Arkansas, United States. The population was 168 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Bassett is located at ....
  
  
• Bassett, Iowa
  Bassett, Iowa
  Bassett is a city in Chickasaw County, Iowa, United States. The population was 74 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Bassett is located at .According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all of it land....
  
  
• Bassett, Kansas
  Bassett, Kansas
  Bassett is a city situated along the Neosho River in the west-central part of Allen County, located in southeast Kansas, in the central United States of America. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 14.-History:...
  
  
• Bassett, Nebraska
  Bassett, Nebraska
  Bassett is a city in Rock County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 743 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Rock County.-Geography:Bassett is located at ....
  
  
• Bassett, Virginia
  Bassett, Virginia
  Bassett is a census-designated place in Henry County, Virginia, United States. The population was 1,338 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Martinsville Micropolitan Statistical Area. The town was founded along a rail line by the same family that later started Bassett Furniture. Bassett...
  
  
• Bassett, Wisconsin
  Bassett, Wisconsin
  Bassett is an unincorporated community in the Town of Randall, in southwestern Kenosha County, Wisconsin, United States. The Randall Town Hall is in the community.-History:...
  
  , town of Randall, Kenosha County
• Bassett Hall
  Bassett Hall
  Bassett Hall is an 18th-century farmhouse located in Williamsburg, Virginia. It was the home of John D. Rockefeller, Jr. and his wife Abby Aldrich Rockefeller during the restoration of Colonial Williamsburg.-Early history:...
  
  , a mansion-sized plantation-style home in Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia, USA
• Bassetts Island
  Bassetts Island
  Bassetts Island is a propeller-shaped island within Pocasset Harbor and Red Brook Harbor, in Bourne, Massachusetts, USA.The island is geographically separated into four portions, the central, northeast, southeast, and the western. The island is inhabited ; there is one house on the western portion...
  
  , a propeller-shaped island within Pocasset Harbor and Red Brook Harbor, in Bourne, Massachusetts, USA

Other

• USS Bassett (APD-73)
  USS Bassett (APD-73)
  USS Bassett , ex-DE-672, was a United States Navy high-speed transport in commission from 1945 to 1946 and from 1950 to 1957.-Construction and commissioning:...
  
  , a United States high-speed transport in commission from 1945 to 1946 and from 1950 to 1957; also its predecessor USS Bassett (DE-672)
• Bassett nicolo, a type of alto shawm (musical instrument)
• Bassett Furniture
  Bassett Furniture
  Bassett Furniture is a furniture manufacturer headquartered in Bassett, Virginia, United States.It was founded in 1902 by John David Bassett and C.C. Bassett...
  
  , an American furniture manufacturer
• Bassett-Lowke
  Bassett-Lowke
  Bassett-Lowke was a toy company in Northampton, England, founded by Wenman Joseph Bassett-Lowke in 1898 or 1899, that specialized in model railways, boats and ships, and construction sets...
  
  , a manufacturer of scale model locomotives and toys
• Trebor Bassett, a manufacturer of sweets

See also

• Basset (disambiguation)
• Bissett (disambiguation)