Drake (surname)
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- Abraham DrakeAbraham DrakeAbraham Drake was an officer in the New Hampshire militia that served with the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War.-Biography:...
(1715–1781), American military officer - Alexander Wilson DrakeAlexander Wilson DrakeAlexander Wilson Drake was an American artist, collector and critic, born near Westfield, NJ. He studied wood engraving under John W. Orr of New York city, as well as oil and water-color painting. He was in the wood engraving business on his own account in New York city from 1865 to 1870...
(1843–1916), American artist - Alfred DrakeAlfred DrakeAlfred Drake was an American actor and singer.-Biography:Born as Alfred Capurro in New York City, the son of parents emigrated from Recco, Genoa, Drake began his Broadway career while still a student at Brooklyn College...
(1914–1992), American actor - Alfred George DrakeAlfred George DrakeAlfred George Drake VC was an English 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....
(1894–1915), British soldier - Arnold DrakeArnold DrakeArnold Drake was an American comic book writer and screenwriter best known for co-creating the DC Comics characters Deadman and the Doom Patrol, and the Marvel Comics characters the Guardians of the Galaxy, among others....
(1924–2007), American writer of comic books
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- Bill DrakeBill DrakeBill Drake , born Philip Yarbrough, was an American radio programmer who co-developed the Boss Radio format with Gene Chenault via their company Drake-Chenault.-Early career:...
(1937-2008), American radio programmer - Bill Drake (baseball) (1895-1997), American baseball player
- Bill Drake (rugby league)Bill Drake (rugby league)William "Bill" D. Drake is an English former professional rugby league footballer of the 1960s who at representative level has played for Great Britain, and England, and at club level for Hull, and Leeds, playing at , i.e...
(born 1931), English former rugby league player - Billy DrakeBilly DrakeGroup Captain Billy Drake DSO, DFC & Bar was a British air ace. He scored 20 enemy aircraft confirmed destroyed, six probable and nine damaged with the Royal Air Force during the Second World War...
(born 1917), British RAF pilot - Bob Drake (musician)Bob Drake (musician)Bob Drake is an American multi-instrumentalist musician and recording engineer. He was a founding member of the avant-rock band Thinking Plague in the early 1980s, and a member of the 5uu's, Hail and The Science Group . He formed his own band, Bob Drake's Cabinet of Curiosities in 2007...
(born 1957), American musician - Bob Drake (Formula One)Bob Drake (Formula One)Bob Drake was a racecar driver from the United States. He participated in one Formula One Grand Prix, on November 20, 1960. He scored no championship points...
(1919-1980), American racing driver - Brad E. DrakeBrad DrakeBrad Drake is a Republican member of the Florida House of Representatives. First elected in November 2008, he represents DeFuniak Springs, Florida. He was born in Fort Walton Beach, Florida. He received a Bachelor of Science from the University of Florida. From 2001 to 2007, he worked as a legal...
, Florida politician - Bruce DrakeBruce DrakeBruce Drake was a college men's basketball coach. The Gentry, Texas native was head coach at the University of Oklahoma between 1938 and 1955, compiling a 200-181 record. He also coached the Air Force team to a 34-14 record in 1956Prior to coaching, he was also a star for Hugh McDermott's Oklahoma...
(1905–1983), American basketball coach - Charles DrakeCharles DrakeCharles Drake was an American actor.-Biography:Drake was born as Charles Ruppert in New York City. He graduated from Nichols College and became a salesman. In 1939, he turned to acting and signed a contract with Warner Brothers. He wasn't immediately successful...
(1917–1994), American actor - Charles George DrakeCharles George DrakeCharles George Drake, CC, O.Ont, FRCS was a Canadian neurosurgeon known for his work on treating aneurysms.Born in Windsor, Ontario, he received his B.Sc. and MD degrees from The University of Western Ontario....
(1920–1998), Canadian neurosurgeon - Charlie DrakeCharlie DrakeCharlie Drake was an English comedian, actor, writer and singer.With his small stature , curly red hair and liking for slapstick he was a popular comedian with children in his early years, becoming nationally-known for his "Hello, my darlings" catchphrase...
(1925-2006), British actor
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- Dallas DrakeDallas DrakeDallas James Drake is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey winger in the National Hockey League who last played for the Detroit Red Wings. Previously, Drake played for the Winnipeg Jets/Phoenix Coyotes, and St. Louis Blues...
(born 1969), Canadian hockey star - David DrakeDavid DrakeDavid Drake is an American author of science fiction and fantasy literature. A Vietnam War veteran who has worked as a lawyer, he is now one of the premier authors of the military science fiction subgenre.-Biography:...
(born 1945), American sci-fi and fantasy writer - Edward DrakeEdward DrakeEdward Drake is a British alpine skier. He represented Great Britain at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.-References:...
(born 1986), British alpine skier - Edwin DrakeEdwin DrakeEdwin Laurentine Drake , also known as Colonel Drake, was an American oil driller, popularly credited with being the first to drill for oil in the United States.-Early life:...
(1819–1880), American oil driller - Emmanuel Drake del CastilloEmmanuel Drake del CastilloEmmanuel Drake del Castillo was a French botanist.He was born at Paris and studied with Louis Édouard Bureau at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle...
(1855–1904), French botanist - Ervin DrakeErvin DrakeErvin Drake, born Ervin Maurice Druckman is an American songwriter whose works include such American Songbook standards as "It Was a Very Good Year". He has written in a variety of styles and his work has been recorded by musicians from all over the world in a multitude of styles...
(born 1919), American songwriter - Fabia DrakeFabia DrakeFabia Drake OBE was an English actress whose professional career spanned almost 73 years during the 20th century.Drake was born in Herne Bay, Kent...
(1904–1990), English actress - Sir Francis DrakeFrancis DrakeSir Francis Drake, Vice Admiral was an English sea captain, privateer, navigator, slaver, and politician of the Elizabethan era. Elizabeth I of England awarded Drake a knighthood in 1581. He was second-in-command of the English fleet against the Spanish Armada in 1588. He also carried out the...
(1540–1595), English explorer and privateer - Frank DrakeFrank DrakeFrank Donald Drake PhD is an American astronomer and astrophysicist. He is most notable as one of the pioneers in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, including the founding of SETI, mounting the first observational attempts at detecting extraterrestrial communications in 1961 in Project...
(born 1930), American astronomer and astrophysicist who developed the Drake equationDrake equationThe Drake equation is an equation used to estimate the number of detectable extraterrestrial civilizations in the Milky Way galaxy. It is used in the fields of exobiology and the Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence...
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- Gabrielle DrakeGabrielle DrakeGabrielle Drake is a British actress who was born in Lahore, British India and lived in several Far Eastern countries .-Career:...
(born 1944), British actress - Gavin Drake (born 1970), British journalist
- George Burton DrakeGeorge Burton DrakeGeorge Burton Drake was an American landscape painter and minister.George Burton Drake was born August 3, 1870 in Eagle, New York to John and Emily Drake...
(1876–1942), American landscape painter and minister - Harry DrakeHarry DrakeHarry Eugene Drake was an archer and bowyer. Drake was an early pioneer in work on modern implementations of the composite bow design.-Biography:...
(born 1915), American archer - Howard DrakeHoward DrakeHoward Ronald Drake, OBE, is the current British High Commissioner to Jamaica. He was appointed in January 2010.- Career :* 1981–1983: Vice-Consul Commercial, Los Angeles, United States* 1985–1988: Second Secretary Political, Santiago, Chile...
, British diplomat
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- James DrakeJames DrakeJames George Drake , Australian politician, was a member of the first federal ministry.Drake was born in London and educated at King's College School, and migrated to Australia in 1873, working as a storekeeper and journalist in Queensland...
(1850–1941), Australian politician - Jay DrakeJay DrakeJay Scott Drake is an American auto racing driver.-Racing career:Drake won the 1998 Turkey Night Grand Prix midget car race. Drake was the USAC National Sprint Car Champion in 2004. He also competed in 14 Indy Pro Series races in 2004 and 2005 with a best finish of third and finishing 9th in the...
(born 1969), American auto racing driver - Jessica DrakeJessica DrakeJessica Drake is an American pornographic actress.-Early life:Drake spent much of her early life growing up around the state of Texas in different cities including San Antonio and El Paso. While majoring in psychology at a college in El Paso, Drake took a job as a house dancer at a local strip club...
(born 1974), American pornographic actress - Jimmy Drake (1912-1968), American humorist and musician (stage name: Nervous Norvus)
- John DrakeJohn DrakeJohn Drake was the debonair and duty-bound secret agent played by Patrick McGoohan in the British television series Danger Man...
, several people - Joseph Rodman DrakeJoseph Rodman DrakeJoseph Rodman Drake was an early American poet.- Biography :Born in New York City, he was orphaned when young and entered a mercantile house. While still a child, he showed a talent for writing poems. He was educated at Columbia. In 1813 he began studying in a physician's office...
(1795–1820), American poet - Joshua F. Drake, American musicologist
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- Marino DrakeMarino DrakeMarino Drake is a retired Cuban athlete competing in the high jump. He currently works for a university in highjumping.-Achievements:*1995 Central American and Caribbean Championships - gold medal...
(born 1967), Cuban high jumper - Nathan DrakeNathan Drake (artist)Nathan Drake was an English artist and a fellow of the Society of Artists.-Biography:Drake was the son of the Rev. Samuel Drake, rector of St Mary's, Nottingham...
(1728–1778), artist, a fellow of the Society of Artists - Nathan Drake (1766–1836), British essayist and physician
- Nick DrakeNick DrakeNicholas Rodney "Nick" Drake was an English singer-songwriter and musician. Though he is best known for his sombre guitar based songs, Drake was also proficient at piano, clarinet and saxophone...
(1948–1974), British singer and songwriter - Nick DrakeNick DrakeNicholas Rodney "Nick" Drake was an English singer-songwriter and musician. Though he is best known for his sombre guitar based songs, Drake was also proficient at piano, clarinet and saxophone...
(born 1961), British poet, author and screenplay-writer - Penny DrakePenny DrakePenny Drake is an American Independent film actress and model. She is the daughter of a Southern Baptist pastor.Her modelling career since 2008 has included work for Herra Couture, Flora Zeta and Ed Hardy...
(born 1984), American actress
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- Richard DrakeRichard DrakeRichard Drake of Esher , Equerry of the Stable to Queen Elizabeth I, was the son of John Drake, of Ashe, and Amy ; he was a brother of Sir Bernard Drake...
(1535-1603), Equerry to Elizabeth I of England - Roger DrakeRoger DrakeRoger Drake was an administrator of the English East India Company. He served as President of Bengal in the mid-eighteenth century. He abandoned Fort William in Calcutta as it was under attack by Siraj Ud Daulah. The people who remained behind in the Fort were then thrown into the Black Hole of...
, Governor of Calcutta during the 1750s - Steve DrakeSteve DrakeSteve Drake is a pornographic actor and director. He has performed in over 800 movies since the 1980s, and was inducted into the XRCO Hall of Fame in 1999.-External links:* in Excaliburfilms* Steve Drake at the * Steve Drake at the...
(born 1954), American pornographic actor - Ted DrakeTed DrakeEdward Joseph "Ted" Drake was an English football player and manager. As a player, he first played for Southampton but made his name playing for Arsenal in the 1930s, winning two league titles and an FA Cup, as well as five caps for England. He was also a cricketer, but only ever played sparingly...
(1912–1995), British cricket and football player - Thelma DrakeThelma DrakeThelma D. Drake was a Member of Congress of the Republican party from the state of Virginia. She was first elected to the United States House of Representatives in November 2004 to represent . She was defeated by Democrat Glenn Nye in 2008.Thelma Drake grew up in Ohio and attended Elyria High School...
(born 1949), American politician - Tom DrakeTom DrakeTom Drake , born Alfred Sinclair Alderdice in Brooklyn, New York, was an American actor. Drake made films starting in 1940 and continuing until the mid-1970s, and also made TV acting appearances....
(1918–1982), American actor - Tom Drake (baseball player)Tom Drake (baseball player)Thomas Kendall Drake was a Major League Baseball right-handed pitcher.In 1935, Drake started his professional baseball career with the New Orleans Pelicans of the Southern Association...
(1912–1988), American baseball player - Thomas J. DrakeThomas J. DrakeFor other Thomas Drakes, please see Thomas Drake Thomas Jefferson Drake was a politician from the U.S...
(1797–1875), American politician
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- William DrakeWilliam Drake, Organ BuilderWilliam Drake, Organ Builder is a manufacturer of pipe organs based out of the town of Buckfastleigh, Devon, England. Drake has an appointment as an organ builder to the Queen....
, British organ builder - William D. DrakeWilliam D. DrakeWilliam D. Drake is an English musician, keyboardist, pianist, composer and singer-songwriter. He is best known as a former member of the cult English rock band Cardiacs, whom he played with for nine years between 1983 and 1992...
, British musician
Fictional characters
- Alex DrakeAlex DrakeDI Alexandra "Alex" Drake is a fictional character in BBC One's science fiction/police procedural drama, Ashes to Ashes. The character is portrayed by Keeley Hawes and as a child by Lucy Cole.-Character history:...
, a character in the TV series Ashes to Ashes - Dèmon Drake, a character |in the TV series Charmed
- Doofus Drake, a character in the animated series DuckTales
- Downy O'Drake, a Disney character
- John Drake, a character in the TV series Danger Man
- Ludwig Von DrakeLudwig Von DrakeProfessor Ludwig von Drake is one of Walt Disney's cartoon and comic book characters. He was first introduced on September 24, 1961, as the presenter in the cartoon An Adventure in Color, part of the first show of Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color on NBC...
, a Disney character - Nathan DrakeNathan Drake (character)Nathan "Nate" Drake is the fictional protagonist of the Uncharted video game series, developed by Naughty Dog. He is a playable character in Uncharted: Drake's Fortune, Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception, Uncharted: Golden Abyss, and appears in the motion comic prequel...
, a character in the video game series Uncharted - Paul Drake, a character in various media of the Perry Mason franchise
- Robert Putney Drake, a character in the Illuminatus! TrilogyThe Illuminatus! TrilogyThe Illuminatus! Trilogy is a series of three novels written by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson first published in 1975. The trilogy is a satirical, postmodern, science fiction-influenced adventure story; a drug-, sex-, and magick-laden trek through a number of conspiracy theories, both...
of books - Tim DrakeTim DrakeTimothy "Tim" Drake is a superhero who appears in comic books published by DC Comics and in related media. The character was created by Marv Wolfman and Pat Broderick. From 1989 to 2009, he was known as Robin in the Batman comics, becoming the third character to take up the identity...
, the third RobinRobin (comics)Robin is the name of several fictional characters appearing in comic books published by DC Comics, originally created by Bob Kane, Bill Finger and Jerry Robinson, as a junior counterpart to DC Comics superhero Batman...
in the DC Comics media