Chamberlain (surname)
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Chamberlain is the surname of:
- Alec ChamberlainAlec ChamberlainAlec Francis Roy Chamberlain is a former English goalkeeper currently employed by Watford as the club's goalkeeping coach. He made 788 league appearances during his 25-year playing career, the final 11 years and 247 appearances of which were with Watford.-Career:Chamberlain started his career at...
, English football player - Alexander Francis ChamberlainAlexander Francis ChamberlainAlexander Francis Chamberlain was a Canadian anthropologist, born in England. Under the direction of Franz Boas he received the first Ph.D. granted in anthropology in the United States from Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. After graduating, he taught at Clark, eventually becoming full...
, Canadian anthropologist - Alex Oxlade-ChamberlainAlex Oxlade-ChamberlainAlexander Mark David "Alex" Oxlade-Chamberlain is an English footballer who plays for Arsenal as a winger. After rising to prominence with Southampton during the 2010-11 season, he signed for Arsenal in August 2011...
, English Football player - Ardwight ChamberlainArdwight ChamberlainArdwight Chamberlain is a voice actor and screen writer currently living in Los Angeles, California. He is best known as the voice of Vorlon Ambassador Kosh on the science-fiction television series Babylon 5...
, voice actor - Austen ChamberlainAusten ChamberlainSir Joseph Austen Chamberlain, KG was a British statesman, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize and half-brother of Neville Chamberlain.- Early life and career :...
(1863–1937), British politician, Nobel Peace Prize winner, son of Joseph Chamberlain - Basil Hall ChamberlainBasil Hall ChamberlainBasil Hall Chamberlain was a professor of Tokyo Imperial University and one of the foremost British Japanologists active in Japan during the late 19th century. He also wrote some of the earliest translations of haiku into English...
(1850–1935), British Japanologist and poet - Brenda ChamberlainBrenda ChamberlainBrenda Kay Chamberlain, PC was a member of the Canadian House of Commons, representing the riding of Guelph for the Liberal Party from 1993 until her resignation as of April, 2008....
, Canadian politician - Brenda Chamberlain (artist)Brenda Chamberlain (artist)Brenda Chamberlain was a Welsh artist and poet.Born in Bangor, Wales, she studied art at the Royal Academy in London, but simultaneously developed an interest in poetry. Just before the Second World War, she moved in with artist John Petts, and together they set up the Caseg Press at their home...
, Welsh artist and poet - Bob Chamberlain Australian founder of Chamberlain Tractor now part of Chamberlain John DeereChamberlain John DeereChamberlain John Deere is a brand of tractors from Australia.Whilst Bob Chamberlain was working as a tractor mechanic in Victoria he designed a tractor and built a prototype tractor around what he believed farmers wanted...
- Charles Joseph ChamberlainCharles Joseph ChamberlainCharles Joseph Chamberlain, Ph. D. was an American botanist, born near Sullivan, Ohio, and educated at Oberlin College and at the University of Chicago, where he earned the first Ph. D. in that institution's botany department, and where he was a long-time employee, becoming associate professor in...
, American botanist - Cyril ChamberlainCyril ChamberlainCyril Chamberlain was an English film and television actor. He appeared in a number of the early Carry On, Doctor in the House and St. Trinian's films....
, British actor - Daniel Henry ChamberlainDaniel Henry ChamberlainDaniel Henry Chamberlain was a planter, lawyer, author and the 76th Governor of South Carolina from 1874 until 1877....
, American politician - Daniel R. ChamberlainDaniel R. ChamberlainDaniel R. Chamberlain is a former president of Houghton College. He served for 30 years a president of the college. He is married to the former Joyce Books, and has 7 children: Rodney, Mark, Anthony, Priscilla, Aletha, Cynthia, and Marianne. On February 14, 2005, Dr. Chamberlain announced his...
, president of Houghton College - David ChamberlainDavid ChamberlainDavid Chamberlain is a cross-country skier from the United States. He was born and raised in Wilton, Maine and took up cross-country skiing in high school...
, American cross-country skier - Dean ChamberlainDean ChamberlainDean Chamberlain is a photographer who specializes in unique lighting effects and extended exposure times. Famous models for his pictures sit for up to five hours as he leaves the camera shutter open and "paints" the space around them with carried and projected lights of various colors and shapes,...
, American photographer - Edward Chamberlain, American economist
- Eric Chamberlain, American graphic artist
- George Earle ChamberlainGeorge Earle ChamberlainGeorge Earle Chamberlain was an American politician, legislator, and public official in Oregon. A native of Mississippi and trained lawyer, he served as the 11th Governor of Oregon, a representative in the Oregon Legislative Assembly, a United States Senator.-Early life:Chamberlain was born near...
, American politician - Helen ChamberlainHelen ChamberlainHelen Marie Chamberlain is an English television presenter.She previously worked as a holiday camp entertainer and Disc Jockey before working on a variety of radio and television programmes...
, British television host - Houston Stewart ChamberlainHouston Stewart ChamberlainHouston Stewart Chamberlain was a British-born German author of books on political philosophy, natural science and the German composer Richard Wagner. He later became a German citizen. Chamberlain married Wagner's daughter, Eva, some years after Wagner's death...
, British author noted for his works concerning the Aryan race - Ice Box Chamberlain, American baseball player
- Jay ChamberlainJay ChamberlainJay Chamberlain was a racing driver from the United States. He participated in 3 World Championship Formula One Grands Prix, debuting on July 21, 1962. He scored no championship points...
, American race car driver - Jerry ChamberlainJerry ChamberlainJerry Chamberlain , is a United States singer, songwriter, guitarist, and producer, best known for his work with the rock bands Daniel Amos and The Swirling Eddies ....
, singer/songwriter - Joba ChamberlainJoba ChamberlainJustin Louis "Joba" Chamberlain is a Major League Baseball pitcher for the New York Yankees.-Early life:Chamberlain was born and grew up in Lincoln, Nebraska. Chamberlain's parents, Harlan Chamberlain and Jackie Standley, were never married and split up when Joba was 18 months old...
, a pitcher on the New York YankeesNew York YankeesThe New York Yankees are a professional baseball team based in the The Bronx, New York. They compete in Major League Baseball in the American League's East Division... - John Angus Chamberlain (born 1927), American sculptor
- John Chamberlain (letter writer)John Chamberlain (letter writer)John Chamberlain was the author of a series of letters written in England from 1597 to 1626, notable for their historical value and their literary qualities. In the view of historian Wallace Notestein, Chamberlain's letters "constitute the first considerable body of letters in English history and...
(1553–1628) - John Henry ChamberlainJohn Henry ChamberlainJohn Henry Chamberlain , generally known professionally as J H Chamberlain, was a nineteenth century English architect....
(1831–1883), English architect - John Loomis ChamberlainJohn Loomis ChamberlainJohn Loomis Chamberlain was an American army officer, born in New York. He graduated at the United States Military Academy in 1880. He entered the army as a second lieutenant and continued in the military service until his retirement in 1921 as a major general...
(1858–1948), American army officer, recipient of the Distinguished Service Medal - John Curtis ChamberlainJohn Curtis ChamberlainJohn Curtis Chamberlain was a United States Representative from New Hampshire. He was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, June 5, 1772. He was a member of the New Hampshire State House of Representatives, 1802–04, 1818; and a U.S. Representative from New Hampshire's 2nd congressional district,...
(1772–1834), US politician - Joseph ChamberlainJoseph ChamberlainJoseph Chamberlain was an influential British politician and statesman. Unlike most major politicians of the time, he was a self-made businessman and had not attended Oxford or Cambridge University....
(1836–1914), British politician - Joshua ChamberlainJoshua ChamberlainJoshua Lawrence Chamberlain , born as Lawrence Joshua Chamberlain, was an American college professor from the State of Maine, who volunteered during the American Civil War to join the Union Army...
, college professor, officer in the United States ArmyUnited States ArmyThe United States Army is the main branch of the United States Armed Forces responsible for land-based military operations. It is the largest and oldest established branch of the U.S. military, and is one of seven U.S. uniformed services...
during the American Civil War and Governor of MaineMaineMaine is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States, bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the east and south, New Hampshire to the west, and the Canadian provinces of Quebec to the northwest and New Brunswick to the northeast. Maine is both the northernmost and easternmost... - Lindy ChamberlainLindy ChamberlainAlice Lynne Chamberlain-Creighton was at the centre of one of Australia's most publicised murder trials, in which she was convicted of killing her baby daughter, Azaria. The conviction was later overturned.-Early life:...
and Michael ChamberlainMichael ChamberlainMichael Leigh Chamberlain is an Australian writer, retired teacher and former pastor, best known due to the 1980 disappearance of his daughter Azaria whilst camping near Uluru/Ayers Rock in the Northern Territory. When Chamberlain's then-wife Lindy was found guilty of the baby's murder in 1982, he...
, whose infant daughter Azaria disappeared in the Dingo Baby case - Marise ChamberlainMarise ChamberlainMarise Chamberlain is a former New Zealand middle distance runner. She is the only New Zealand woman to win an Olympic medal in track athletics...
(born 1935), New Zealand middle-distance runner - Matt ChamberlainMatt ChamberlainMatthew Chamberlain is an American drummer, producer and sound engineer. He is currently based in Los Angeles, California.-Early life:...
, American drummer - Montague ChamberlainMontague ChamberlainMontague Chamberlain was a Canadian-American businessman, naturalist, and ethnographer.Chamberlain was born in St. John, New Brunswick, Canada. He spent the first few decades of his life as a bookkeeper and later manager of a grocery company in St. John. In his mid-twenties, he also became a...
, Canadian-American naturalist, founder of the American Ornithologists' Union - Neville ChamberlainNeville ChamberlainArthur Neville Chamberlain FRS was a British Conservative politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from May 1937 to May 1940. Chamberlain is best known for his appeasement foreign policy, and in particular for his signing of the Munich Agreement in 1938, conceding the...
(1869–1940), British Prime Minister from 1937 to 1940, son of Joseph Chamberlain - Neville Bowles ChamberlainNeville Bowles ChamberlainField Marshal Sir Neville Bowles Chamberlain GCB GCSI was a British soldier who served in India.-Military career:...
(1820–1902), British Field Marshal - Neville Francis Fitzgerald ChamberlainNeville Francis Fitzgerald ChamberlainSir Neville Francis Fitzgerald Chamberlain KCB KCVO KPM was a British Army officer, and later Inspector-General of the Royal Irish Constabulary who resigned in the aftermath of the 1916 Easter Rising in Ireland...
(1856–1944), British Army officer and Inspector-General of the Royal Irish Constabulary - Neville Patrick ChamberlainNeville Chamberlain (footballer)Neville Patrick Chamberlain is a retired English footballer. His brother, Mark was also a footballer, and his nephew Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain plays for Arsenal.-Playing career:...
(born 1960), English footballer - Owen ChamberlainOwen ChamberlainOwen Chamberlain was an American physicist, and Nobel laureate in physics for his discovery, with collaborator Emilio Segrè, of antiprotons, a sub-atomic antiparticle.-Biography:...
, Nobel Prize winning American physicist and co-discoverer of the anti-proton - Richard Chamberlain (actor) (born 1935), American actor who became a teen idol in the title role of the television show Dr. Kildare
- Richard Chamberlain (politician)Richard Chamberlain (politician)Richard Chamberlain was a Liberal and later Liberal Unionist politician in the United Kingdom.The younger brother of Joseph Chamberlain, he was Mayor of Birmingham from 1879 to 1880, and later Member of Parliament for Islington West from 1885 to 1892.- References:...
(c. 1840–1899), British politician - Samuel ChamberlainSamuel ChamberlainSamuel E. Chamberlain was a soldier, painter, and author who travelled throughout the American Southwest and Mexico. He and his wife, Mary, had three children.-Early life:...
, American soldier, painter and artist - Siobhan ChamberlainSiobhan ChamberlainSiobhan Rebecca Chamberlain is an English female international football goalkeeper, currently playing her club football for Bristol Academy.-Club career:...
(born 1983), English football goalkeeper - Spencer ChamberlainSpencer ChamberlainSpencer Chamberlain is an American musician, best known as lead vocalist for the metalcore band Underoath. Before fronting Underoath, Chamberlain was also the vocalist for the band This Runs Through in which his brother, Phil Chamberlain, was the drummer.-Background:Spencer Chamberlain was born in...
, American vocalist for the band Underoath - Thomas Crowder Chamberlain, American geologist
- William Charles ChamberlainWilliam Charles ChamberlainWilliam Charles Chamberlain was a Rear Admiral in the Royal Navy, and sometime Superintendent at the dockyard, HMNB Devonport....
(1818–1878), British Rear Admiral - Wilt ChamberlainWilt ChamberlainWilton Norman "Wilt" Chamberlain was an American professional NBA basketball player for the Philadelphia/San Francisco Warriors, the Philadelphia 76ers and the Los Angeles Lakers; he also played for the Harlem Globetrotters prior to playing in the NBA...
, American basketball player
See also
- Chamberlayne (disambiguation)
- Chamberlin (disambiguation)Chamberlin (disambiguation)Chamberlin may refer to:* Chamberlin * Chamberlin, musical keyboard instrument invented by Harry Chamberlain* Chamberlin Observatory* Chamberlin trimetric projection* Chamberlin-Johnson-DuBose Company...