Butterworth
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People with the surname
- Arthur ButterworthArthur ButterworthArthur Butterworth MBE is an English composer, conductor and teacher.Butterworth attended the Royal Manchester College of Music , where he studied composition with Richard Hall and also learned the trumpet and conducting...
(born 1923), English composer - Bob ButterworthBob ButterworthRobert A. Butterworth is an American attorney and politician from the U.S. state of Florida.-Early life and career:Butterworth was born in Passaic, New Jersey, and moved to Florida with his family as a child. He received a degree in business administration from the University of Florida in 1965,...
, former Florida attorney general - Brad ButterworthBrad ButterworthBradley William Butterworth, OBE is a world-renowned yachtsman known for the role he played as tactician and skipper in the America's Cup for Team New Zealand and the Alinghi team of Switzerland.He was born in Te Awamutu, New Zealand in 1959...
(born 1959), yachtsman from New Zealand - Brian ButterworthBrian ButterworthBrian Butterworth is a professor of cognitive neuropsychology in the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London. His research has ranged from speech errors and pauses, short-term memory deficits, dyslexia, reading both in alphabetic scripts and logograms, and mathematics and...
Cognitive neuropsychologist at University College London researching speech, reading and mathematics - Charles Butterworth (actor)Charles Butterworth (actor)Charles Butterworth was an American actor specializing in comedy roles, often in musicals. In his obituary, he was described as "the man who could not make up his mind". Butterworth's distinct voice was the inspiration for the Cap'n Crunch commercials from the Jay Ward studio...
(1896–1946), film actor, comedian of the 1930s and 1940s - Charles ButterworthCharles ButterworthCharles Butterworth, Ph.D. is a noted philosopher of the Straussian school and currently a professor of political philosophy at the University of Maryland, College Park....
, academic - Dean ButterworthDean ButterworthDean "Deano" Butterworth is a professional drummer. He played for popular singer Morrissey and was announced as the official drummer for the band Good Charlotte in March 2005 after they parted with their previous drummer, Chris Wilson in 2005...
(born 1976), English professional drummer - Donna Butterworth, American child actress of the 1960s, starred in The Family JewelsThe Family Jewels (film)The Family Jewels is a 1965 American comedy film. It was filmed from January 18-April 2, 1965 and was released by Paramount Pictures on July 1, 1965. The film was co-written, directed, and produced by Jerry Lewis who also played seven roles in the film...
- Edgar Ray ButterworthEdgar Ray ButterworthEdgar Ray Butterworth was an American funeral director, believed to have coined the professional terms mortuary and mortician.-A slow migration west:...
(1847–1921), American funeral director - George ButterworthGeorge ButterworthGeorge Sainton Kaye Butterworth, MC was an English composer best known for the orchestral idyll The Banks of Green Willow and his song settings of A. E...
(1885–1916), English composer killed in the First World War - Ian ButterworthIan ButterworthIan Stuart Butterworth is a former professional footballer, formerly assistant and caretaker manager at Norwich City....
(born 1964), English professional footballer - Jack Butterworth, Baron ButterworthJack Butterworth, Baron ButterworthJohn Blackstocke Butterworth, CBE, DL was a British lawyer.Jack, as he liked to be called, was graduated in jurisprudence from Oxford University on the eve of the Second World War...
- Jez ButterworthJez ButterworthJeremy “Jez” Butterworth is an English dramatist and film director.-Life and career:Butterworth was born in London, England, and attended Verulam Comprehensive School, St Albans and St John's College, Cambridge...
(born 1969), playwright and screen writer - Jim Butterworth (entrepreneur)Jim Butterworth (entrepreneur)Jim Butterworth is a technology entrepreneur and documentary filmmaker. He is the co-founder of the nonprofit documentary production company Incite Productions, and a director and producer of the award-winning film Seoul Train. He is also the holder of numerous U.S...
, American technology entrepreneur and noted documentary filmmaker - Jim Butterworth (Georgia politician)Jim Butterworth (Georgia politician)Jim Butterworth is the adjutant general of Georgia National Guard. Butterworth replaced Maj. Gen. Terry Nesbitt who retired after more than 40 years of service...
, Habersham County, Georgia Commission Chairman and State Senator - Luke ButterworthLuke ButterworthLuke Rex Butterworth in Hobart, Tasmania is an Australian cricket player, who plays for the Tasmanian Tigers and plays club cricket for Glenorchy Cricket Club....
, Tasmanian cricketer - Mary ButterworthMary ButterworthMary Peck Butterworth was a counterfeiter in colonial America.Born to Joseph and Elizabeth Peck in Rehoboth, Massachusetts, she married John Butterworth, son of a British captain in 1710. Mary Butterworth allegedly started her counterfeiting operation around 1716...
, Colonial American counterfeiter - Michael ButterworthMichael ButterworthMichael Butterworth is a British author and publisher who has written many novels and short stories, particularly in the genre of science fiction...
, British author - Michael Butterworth (American football)Michael Butterworth (American football)Michael Butterworth is an American football offensive tackle who is currently a free agent of the National Football League. He was signed by the Atlanta Falcons as an undrafted free agent in 2008. He played college football at Slippery Rock.-External links:*...
, - Mike ButterworthMike ButterworthMike Butterworth was a British comic book writer, best known for his comic strip The Rise and Fall of the Trigan Empire in the British weeklies Ranger and Look and Learn...
, British comic book writer - Nick ButterworthNick ButterworthNick Butterworth is a British children's author and illustrator who has sold more than 12 million books.- Biography :After his education at the Royal Liberty School in Gidea Park, he left home to work as an apprentice as a typographical designer with the National Children's Home before working at...
, British children's author and illustrator - Oliver ButterworthOliver ButterworthOliver Butterworth was an American children's author and educator.-Biography:Butterworth was born in Hartford, Connecticut and spent much of his life as a teacher, teaching at Kent School in Kent, Connecticut from 1937 to 1947 and Junior School in West Hartford, Connecticut from 1947 to 1949...
(1915–1990), American children's author and educator - Oliver Butterworth (violinist)Oliver Butterworth (violinist)Oliver Butterworth is a British violinist.He is professor of violin at Trinity College of Music.For many years he was Artistic Director of the London Schools Symphony Orchestra...
- Peter ButterworthPeter ButterworthPeter William Shorrocks Butterworth was an English comedy actor and comedian, best known for his appearances in the Carry On series of films. He was also a regular on children's television and radio and appeared in seven early episodes of Doctor Who in 1965 as the 'The Meddling Monk'...
(1919–1979), English comic actor - Shane Butterworth, American actor, starred in the TV series The Bad News Bears
- Stephen ButterworthStephen ButterworthStephen Butterworth was a British physicist who invented the Butterworth filter, a class of electrical circuits that are used to separate different frequencies of electrical signals....
, the inventor of the Butterworth filter - W. E. Butterworth, who writes as W. E. B. Griffin
- William Butterworth (businessman)William Butterworth (businessman)William Butterworth served as both president and chairman of Deere & Company.-Biography:Butterworth was born in Maineville, Ohio, and graduated from Lehigh University and studied law at the National University in Washington D.C.In 1892 Butteworth married Katherine Deere, daughter of Charles Deere...
, an American businessman and early Deere & Company president - William John Butterworth, English general and Governor of PenangGovernor of PenangThis is the list of people who have held the highest political office in Penang and its previous entities. Penang is a state in Malaysia.Until the 18th century, the island of Penang was part of the Sultanate of Kedah. In 1786, the island was leased by the Sultan of Kedah to an officer from the East...
, then known as the Straits Settlements - William Walton ButterworthWilliam Walton ButterworthWilliam Walton Butterworth was a U.S. diplomat. He was born in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, September 7, 1903.-Biography:...
, career diplomat and ambassador.
Places
- Butterworth (ancient township)Butterworth (ancient township)Butterworth was a township occupying the southeastern part of the parish of Rochdale, in the hundred of Salford, Lancashire, England. It encompassed of land by the South Pennines which spanned the settlements of Belfield, Bleaked-gate-cum-Roughbank, Butterworth Hall, Clegg, Firgrove, Haughs,...
, a former township centred on Milnrow, in the then Parish of Rochdale, England - Butterworth Air Base near Butterworth, Penang
- Butterworth, Eastern Cape, now also known as Gcuwa, a town located in South Africa
- Butterworth, PenangButterworth, PenangButterworth is the principal town of Seberang Perai in the state of Penang in Malaysia. Named after William John Butterworth, Governor of the Straits Settlements , Butterworth was established in the mid-19th century as a landing place across the channel from the capital of Penang, George Town...
, a town located in Province Wellesley, Penang, Malaysia
Other uses
- Aston ButterworthAston ButterworthAston Butterworth was a Formula Two constructor from the United Kingdom, during the years 1952-3 when the World Drivers' Championship was run to Formula Two regulations...
, a British automobile manufacturer - Butterworth filterButterworth filterThe Butterworth filter is a type of signal processing filter designed to have as flat a frequency response as possible in the passband so that it is also termed a maximally flat magnitude filter...
, a type of electronic filter design, eponym of Stephen Butterworth - Butterworth-HeinemannButterworth-HeinemannButterworth–Heinemann is a UK-based international publishing company specialized in professional information and learning materials for higher education and professional training, in printed and electronic forms...
, publisher - Mrs. Butterworth'sMrs. Butterworth'sMrs. Butterworth's is a brand of pre-packaged syrups and pancake mixes owned by Pinnacle Foods. The syrups come in distinctive bottles shaped in the form of a matronly female, Mrs. Butterworth. The packages, originally glass, are now mostly plastic....
, a brand of pre-packaged syrups and pancake mixes