Fiennes
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Fiennes may refer to:
a prominent English family, notably including:
  • Bessie Fiennes, Baroness Clinton, better known as Bessie Blount, mistress of Henry VIII of England
    Henry VIII of England
    Henry VIII was King of England from 21 April 1509 until his death. He was Lord, and later King, of Ireland, as well as continuing the nominal claim by the English monarchs to the Kingdom of France...

     and mother of his son, Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Richmond and Somerset
    Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Richmond and Somerset
    Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Richmond and Somerset was the son of King Henry VIII of England and his teenage mistress, Elizabeth Blount, the only illegitimate offspring whom Henry acknowledged.-Childhood:...

  • James Fiennes, 1st Baron Saye and Sele
    James Fiennes, 1st Baron Saye and Sele
    James Fiennes, 1st Baron Saye and Sele was an English soldier and politician, son of Sir William Fiennes and wife Elizabeth Batisford ....

  • William Fiennes, 1st Viscount Saye and Sele
    William Fiennes, 1st Viscount Saye and Sele
    William Fiennes, 1st Viscount Saye and Sele was born at the family home of Broughton Castle near Banbury, in Oxfordshire. He was the only son of Richard Fiennes, seventh Baron Saye and Sele...

  • Nathaniel Fiennes
    Nathaniel Fiennes
    Nathaniel Fiennes was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1640 and 1659...

     (1608-1669), English politician
  • Celia Fiennes
    Celia Fiennes
    Celia Fiennes was an English traveller. Born in Wiltshire, she was the daughter of an English Civil War Parliamentarian Colonel, who was in turn the second son of the William Fiennes, 1st Viscount Saye and Sele. Celia Fiennes died in Hackney in 1741.-Pioneering Female Traveller:Fiennes never married...

    , (1662-1741), English travel writer
  • Geoffrey Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, 18th Baron Saye and Sele
    Geoffrey Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, 18th Baron Saye and Sele
    Geoffrey Cecil Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, 18th Baron Saye and Sele , was a British soldier and Liberal politician...

  • Nathaniel Fiennes, 21st Baron Saye and Sele
    Nathaniel Fiennes, 21st Baron Saye and Sele
    Nathaniel Thomas Allen Fiennes, 21st Baron Saye and Sele is a British nobleman and businessman.Nathaniel Thomas Allen Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes was born on 22 September 1920, the son of Ivo Murray Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, later 20th Baron Saye and Sele, whom he succeeded in 1968.Despite a family...

  • Joseph Fiennes
    Joseph Fiennes
    Joseph Fiennes is an English film and stage actor. He is perhaps best known for his portrayals of William Shakespeare in Shakespeare in Love, Sir Robert Dudley in Elizabeth, Commisar Danilov in Enemy at the Gates, Martin Luther in Luther, Merlin in Camelot, and his portrayal of Mark Benford in the...

     (b. 1970), actor
  • Mark Fiennes
    Mark Fiennes
    Mark Fiennes was an English photographer and illustrator.Mark Wykeham-Fiennes was born at Dalton, Northumberland, the eldest of five children of industrialist Maurice Fiennes, who was later knighted by Prime Minister Harold Wilson for his services to the export of British heavy engineering...

  • Martha Fiennes
    Martha Fiennes
    Martha Fiennes is a British film director, writer and producer. An award-winning director, Fiennes is best-known for her films Onegin and Chromophobia .-Career:...

  • Sophie Fiennes
    Sophie Fiennes
    Sophia Victoria Twisleton Wykeham-Fiennes , known as Sophie Fiennes, is an English film director and producer.-Career:Following a foundation course in painting at Chelsea School of Art, Fiennes worked with director Peter Greenaway from 1987–1992. She managed the UK based dance company, The Michael...

  • Magnus Fiennes
    Magnus Fiennes
    Magnus Fiennes is an English cross-genre composer, record producer and songwriter. He has worked with artists such as Shakira, Pulp, Tom Jones and Morcheeba...

  • Ralph Fiennes
    Ralph Fiennes
    Ralph Nathaniel Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes is an English actor and film director. He has appeared in such films as The English Patient, In Bruges, The Constant Gardener, Strange Days, The Duchess and Schindler's List....

     (b. 1962), actor
  • Ranulph Fiennes
    Ranulph Fiennes
    Sir Ranulph Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, 3rd Baronet, OBE , better known as Ranulph Fiennes, is a British adventurer and holder of several endurance records. He is also a prolific writer. Fiennes served in the British Army for eight years including a period on counter-insurgency service while...

     (b. 1944), adventurer
  • Susannah Fiennes
    Susannah Fiennes
    Susannah Fiennes is a British artist who has worked extensively with the Prince of Wales and is collected in Europe, Asia and America.-Biography:Fiennes is the daughter of Lord & Lady Saye and Sele who are the owners of Broughton Castle....

     (b. 1961), artist
  • William Fiennes (author)
    William Fiennes (author)
    William Fiennes is a British author.Fiennes was educated at the Dragon School in Oxford, Eton College, and Oxford University, where he received both undergraduate and graduate degrees...

    , (b. 1970), writer


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Fiennes may also refer to:
  • Fiennes
    Fiennes, Pas-de-Calais
    Fiennes is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region of France.-Geography:A farming village located 10 miles south of Calais, at the junction of the D250, D232 and D151 roads.-Population:-Places of interest:...

    , a commune of the Pas-de-Calais département in northern France
    France
    The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

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