Gregory (surname)
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Gregory is a surname, and may refer to:
- Adam GregoryAdam GregoryAdam Gregory is a country music singer and actor. Active since 2000, he has recorded three studio albums, including 2000's The Way I'm Made and 2002's Workin' On It, both on Epic Records, as well as a self-titled album in 2006 on Mensa Records...
- Alyse GregoryAlyse GregoryAlyse Gregory was an American suffragist and writer.Her father was a doctor in Nowalk. She showed musical talent at an early age, was sent to Paris, France, to receive a musical education when she was fifteen years old, and continued her study of music on her return to the United States...
- Andre GregoryAndre GregoryAndre William Gregory is an American theatre director, writer and actor.Gregory studied at Harvard University.During the 1960s and 1970s, Gregory directed a number of avant-garde productions developed through ensemble collaboration, the most famous of which was Alice In Wonderland , based on Lewis...
- Augustus Charles Gregory, Australian explorer
- Benji GregoryBenji GregoryBenji Gregory Benji Gregory Benji Gregory (born Benjamin Gregory Hertzberg on May 26, 1978 in Panorama City, California (IMDB reports that Mr Gregory-Hertzberg was born in Encino, California) is an American actor. He is best known for playing the role of Brian Tanner on ALF (1986)...
- :fr:Bernard Gregory, French physicist, CERNCERNThe European Organization for Nuclear Research , known as CERN , is an international organization whose purpose is to operate the world's largest particle physics laboratory, which is situated in the northwest suburbs of Geneva on the Franco–Swiss border...
Director General - Bob GregoryBob GregoryRobert P. Gregory was an American comics artist and writer best known for writing and/or drawing hundreds of Gold Key comics starring the Walt Disney Pictures character Donald Duck.-Biography:...
- Brad Stephan GregoryBrad Stephan GregoryDr. Brad Stephan Gregory is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame. His principal field of study is the religious wars of the Reformation. Dr. Gregory received the Hiett Prize in 2005....
- Bud GregoryBud GregoryMilton Edward Charles Gregory is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1975 to 1987 and was a cabinet minister in the governments of Bill Davis and Frank Miller. Gregory was a member of the Progressive Conservative Party.Gregory was born...
- Celia GregoryCelia GregoryCelia Christine Gregory was a British stage, film and television actress, who became a faith healer later in life....
- Charles Hutton GregoryCharles Hutton GregorySir Charles Hutton Gregory KCMG was a British civil engineer. He was president of the Institution of Civil Engineers between December 1867 and December 1869....
, British civil engineer - Conal GregoryConal GregoryConal Robert Gregory was Conservative Party Member of Parliament for York from 1983 to 1992, when he lost the seat to Labour Party candidate Hugh Bayley....
- Cynthia GregoryCynthia GregoryCynthia Kathleen Gregory is an American ballerina.-Career:Born in Los Angeles, Gregory’s parents encouraged her to take up dancing when she was five, hoping exercise would stem a history of childhood illnesses. By age six, she was en pointe...
- Dave GregoryDave Gregory (cricketer)David William Gregory was an Australian cricketer of the 19th century. A right-handed batsman, Gregory was the first Australian national cricket captain, leading the side for the first three recognised Test matches between England and Australia in March and April 1877 and January 1879...
, Australian cricketer - Dave Gregory, guitarist for XTCXTCXTC were a New Wave band from Swindon, England, active between 1976 and 2005. The band enjoyed some chart success, including the UK and Canadian hits "Making Plans for Nigel" and "Senses Working Overtime" , but are perhaps even better known for their long-standing critical success.- Early years:...
- David Gregory (mathematician), Scottish mathematician
- David Gregory (BBC)David Gregory (BBC)Dr. David Gregory is a news correspondent for BBC Midlands Today, the regional news programme broadcast in the Midlands of England. He is the Science and Environmental Correspondent....
- David GregoryDavid Gregory (journalist)David Michael Gregory is an American television journalist, and moderator of NBC News' Sunday morning talk show Meet the Press.-Early life:...
, American journalist - David GregoryDavid Gregory (footballer)David Spencer Gregory is a retired English football midfielder. After his retirement from professional football, David Gregory remained in the football industry and now works at Colchester United in the media department. He recently took part in a charity match at Layer road.-References:...
, English footballer - Deborah GregoryDeborah GregoryDeborah Gregory is the author of the popular book series The Cheetah Girls. She is also the producer of the Disney Channel Original Movies The Cheetah Girls and The Cheetah Girls 2 and was an executive producer for The Cheetah Girls: One World....
- Derek GregoryDerek GregoryDerek Gregory Ph.D. FBA, FRCC is an influential British academic and geographer who is currently Professor of Political Geography at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. He formerly held positions at the University of Cambridge.Gregory is best known for his book The Colonial...
- Dick GregoryDick GregoryRichard Claxton "Dick" Gregory is an American comedian, social activist, social critic, writer, and entrepreneur....
, American comedian, social activist, writer, and entrepreneur - Dorian GregoryDorian GregoryDorian Gregory is an American actor most notable for playing Darryl Morris on the television show Charmed, and as the fourth and final permanent host of Soul Train, replacing Shemar Moore.-Background:...
- Dudley S. GregoryDudley S. GregoryDudley Sanford Gregory was the first Mayor of Jersey City, New Jersey, and was elected as a Whig to represent in the United States House of Representatives from 1847 to 1849.-Biography:...
- Duncan Farquharson GregoryDuncan Farquharson GregoryDuncan Farquharson Gregory , a Scottish mathematician, was the youngest son of James Gregory and Isabella Macleod .-Education:...
- Earle D. GregoryEarle D. GregoryEarle Davis Gregory was a World War I Medal of Honor recipient for his heroic actions in 1918 during the Meuse-Argonne Offensive in France.-Biography:Davis was born in Clayville, Virginia on October 18, 1897...
- Ed GregoryEd GregoryEd Gregory is a former basketball scout, coach, and executive.In the 1960s he was the head men's basketball coach at Fresno State University; he also coached at UNLV....
- Edward John GregoryEdward John GregoryEdward John Gregory , British painter, born at Southampton, began work at the age of fifteen in the engineers drawing office of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company....
- Francis GregoryFrancis GregoryFrancis Hoyt Gregory was an officer in the United States Navy during the War of 1812 through to the Civil War, serving then as a Rear Admiral.-Early life; service during the War of 1812:...
, American naval captain, eponym of two ships named USS GregoryUSS GregoryTwo ships in the United States Navy have been named USS Gregory for Francis Gregory.* The first USS Gregory was a Wickes-class destroyer, serving from 1918 until she was sunk in battle in 1942.... - Francis Thomas GregoryFrancis Thomas GregoryFrancis Thomas Gregory was an English-born Australian explorer and politician.-Biography:Gregory was born at Farnsfield, Nottinghamshire, England, and was the younger brother of the explorer Augustus Gregory...
- Frederick D. GregoryFrederick D. GregoryFrederick Drew Gregory is a former NASA astronaut and former NASA Deputy Administrator. He also served briefly as NASA Acting Administrator in early 2005, covering the period between the departure of Sean O'Keefe and the swearing in of Michael Griffin.-Personal data:Gregory was born on January 7,...
- Gayson GregoryGayson GregoryGayson Gregory is an Antiguan footballer who plays for Antigua Barracuda FC in the USL Professional Division and the Antigua and Barbuda national team.-Club career:...
, Antiguan and Barbudan footballer - Geena Gregory, fictional character
- Horace GregoryHorace GregoryHorace Gregory was a prize-winning American poet, translator of classic poetry, literary critic and college professor.-Life:...
- Jack Gregory (disambiguation)Jack Gregory (disambiguation)Jack Gregory may refer to:*Jack Gregory , Australian cricketer*Jack Gregory , British sprinter*Jack Gregory , English footballer for Southampton and Leyton Orient...
, multiple people - James Gregory (disambiguation), multiple people
- Jecon GregoryJecon GregoryJecon Gregory is or was a nomadic artist, whose autobiographical fragments and poems, dictated to an acquaintance, were published as the book "History of a Nation of One: An Unlikely Memoir"...
a nomadic artist - John Gregory (moralist)John Gregory (moralist)John Gregory , a.k.a. John Gregorie, was an eighteenth-century Scottish physician, medical writer and moralist....
, Scottish physician and writer - John Gregory, English football (soccer) manager
- John F. GregoryJohn F. GregoryJohn F. Gregory was an American optical engineer and a popularizer of amateur telescope making. He is credited with the design of a version of the Maksutov telescope called the "Gregory-Maksutov telescope".-Career:...
, American optician and telescope constrcutor - John Munford GregoryJohn Munford GregoryJohn Munford Gregory was a U.S. political figure and Acting Governor of Virginia from 1842 to 1843.Gregory was born in Virginia on July 8, 1804 and was a member of the Virginia state House of Delegates from 1831 to 1840. He served as acting Governor of Virginia from 1842 to 1843 and then as a...
- John Walter GregoryJohn Walter GregoryJohn Walter Gregory, FRS, was a British geologist and explorer, known principally for his work on glacial geology and on the geography and geology of Australia and East Africa.-Early life:...
, British and Australian geologist and explorer - Jonathan M. GregoryJonathan M. GregoryJonathan M. Gregory is a climate modeller working on mechanisms of global and large-scale change in climate and sea level on multidecadal and longer timescales...
- Joseph GregoryJoseph GregoryCorporal Joseph Mathew Gregory was a Canadian sniper during both the First and Second World Wars. He concealed his age and joined the army at 15. He told friends he developed his later talent for sniping as a boy when he hunted in Saskatchewan...
- Joshua GregoryJoshua GregoryJoshua Gregory was an early settler in colonial Western Australia. Two of his sons, Augustus Charles and Francis Thomas, became renowned Australian explorers....
- Julie GregoryJulie GregoryJulie Joell Gregory is the author of Sickened: The Memoir of a Munchausen by Proxy Childhood, an autobiographical account of the Munchausen by proxy abuse she suffered as a child.-History :...
- Ken GregoryKen GregoryKen Gregory is a Canadian artist, who works with DIY interface design, hardware hacking, audio, video, and computer programming. He is based in Winnipeg, Manitoba....
- Lee GregoryLee GregoryGrover Leroy Gregory is a former Major League Baseball pitcher and pinch hitter who played for the Chicago Cubs in 1964. Gregory was born on June 2, 1938 in Bakersfield, California. He was 6'1", 180 pounds, and he threw and batted left-handed. Gregory attended Fresno State University.Before the...
- Louis George GregoryLouis George GregoryLouis George Gregory was a prominent member of the Bahá'í Faith. In 1951 he was posthumously appointed a Hand of the Cause, the highest appointed position in the Bahá'í Faith, by Shoghi Effendi.-Early years:He was born on June 6, 1874 to African-American parents liberated during the Civil War...
, Hand of the Cause in the Bahá'í Faith - Masten GregoryMasten GregoryMasten Gregory was a racing driver from the United States. He raced in Formula One between and , participating in 43 World Championship races, and numerous non-Championship races....
- Matt GregoryMatt GregoryMatt Gregory is the former Attorney General of the Northern Mariana Islands. He was appointed in 2006 and served until September 2008. After Gregory's departure, the position was vacant for nearly eleven months.-External links:* on LinkedIn...
- Maundy GregoryMaundy GregoryArthur Maundy Gregory was a British theatre producer and political fixer who is best remembered for selling honours for Prime Minister David Lloyd George. He may also have been involved with the Zinoviev Letter, the disappearance of Victor Grayson, and the suspicious death of his platonic...
- Melissa GregoryMelissa GregoryMelissa Gregory is an American ice dancer. With partner and husband Denis Petukhov, she is the 2004–2007 U.S. silver medalist.-Biography:...
, American figure skater - Michael Gregory (actor), American actor born Gary Meimar
- Mike GregoryMike GregoryMichael Keith "Mike" Gregory , was a rugby league player and later coach; the former head coach of Wigan and player for Warrington and Great Britain.-Playing career:...
- Natalie GregoryNatalie GregoryNatalie Gregory is an American film and television actress.-Career:She starred as Alice in the television film Alice in Wonderland...
- Ned GregoryNed GregoryEdward James Gregory was an Australian cricketer who played in the first recognised Test in 1877 between Australia and England in Melbourne....
- Noble Jones GregoryNoble Jones GregoryNoble Jones Gregory , a Democrat, represented Kentucky in the United States House of Representatives.Gregory was born and raised in Mayfield, Kentucky. He worked in various positions at the First National Bank of Mayfield from 1917 through 1936...
- Olinthus GregoryOlinthus GregoryOlinthus Gilbert Gregory was an English mathematician, author and editor.He was born on 29 January 1774 at Yaxley in Huntingdonshire. Having been educated by Richard Weston, a Leicester botanist, in 1793 he published a treatise, Lessons Astronomical and Philosophical...
, English mathematician - Philippa GregoryPhilippa GregoryPhilippa Gregory is an English novelist.-Early life and academic career:Philippa Gregory was born in Kenya. When she was two years old, her family moved to England. She was a "rebel" at school, but managed to attend the University of Sussex...
, Kenyan-English writer - Richard GregoryRichard GregoryRichard Langton Gregory, CBE, MA, D.Sc., FRSE, FRS was a British psychologist and Emeritus Professor of Neuropsychology at the University of Bristol.-Life and career:...
, British psychologist - Roberta GregoryRoberta GregoryRoberta Gregory is an American comic book writer and artist best known for her character Bitchy Bitch from her Fantagraphics Books series Naughty Bits.Gregory's father was Disney comics artist Bob Gregory...
- Roger GregoryRoger GregoryRoger L. Gregory is a federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.- Background :Gregory was born in Philadelphia but grew up in Petersburg, Virginia. He earned his B.A. degree summa cum laude from Virginia State University in 1975 and his law degree from the...
, American judge - Roger GregoryRoger Gregory (programmer)Roger Everett Gregory is a US computer programmer, technologist and scientist. Gregory's work in project Xanadu made him one of earliest pioneers of hypertext technology. Gregory is also co-designer of a rotary rocket engine design based on the posthumous patents of Robert Goddard Roger Everett...
, programmer, one of earliest pioneers of hypertextHypertextHypertext is text displayed on a computer or other electronic device with references to other text that the reader can immediately access, usually by a mouse click or keypress sequence. Apart from running text, hypertext may contain tables, images and other presentational devices. Hypertext is the... - Ross GregoryRoss GregoryRoss Gerald Gregory was an Australian Test cricketer.Gregory, a diminutive gifted right-hand batsman, was a precocious batting talent, making his debut for Victoria while still at school and his Test cricket debut before the age of 21 in the 1936-37 season, after scoring 128 for his state against...
- Scott GregoryScott GregoryScott Gregory was an American ice dancer. He competed at the 1984 Winter Olympics with Elisa Spitz. He then paired with Suzanne Semanick, with whom he won the gold medal at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships twice and competed at the Olympics in 1988...
- Stephen Gregory (actor)Stephen Gregory (actor)Stephen Gregory is an American actor who grew up in Manhasset, a Long Island suburb, 15 miles to the east of Manhattan....
- Stephen Gregory (author)Stephen Gregory (author)Stephen Gregory is a Welsh author of horror fiction. He was born in Derby, England in 1952. He has a degree in law from the University of London, and has worked as a teacher in various places, including Bangor in Wales, Algiers in Algeria and the Sudan...
- Susanna GregorySusanna GregorySusanna Gregory is the pseudonym of Elizabeth Cruwys, a Cambridge academic who was previously a coroner's officer. She writes detective fiction, and is noted for her series of mediaeval mysteries featuring Matthew Bartholomew, a teacher of medicine and investigator of murders in 14th-century...
, pseudonym - Syd GregorySyd GregorySydney Edward Gregory , sometimes known as Edward Sydney Gregory, was a cricketer who played for New South Wales and Australia. At the time of his retirement, he had played a world-record 58 Test matches during a career spanning 1890 to 1912...
- Thea GregoryThea GregoryThea Gregory was an English actress.She appeared in nine British films between 1954 and 1957, such as The Weak and the Wicked with John Gregson and Laurence Harvey. She is the widow of the actor John Gregson, whom she met while performing with Perth rep in 1946. They were married in London in...
- Thomas Watt GregoryThomas Watt GregoryThomas Watt Gregory was an American attorney and Cabinet Secretary.-Biography:Born in Crawfordsville, Mississippi, he graduated from The Webb School in Bell Buckle, TN in 1881, Southwestern Presbyterian University in 1883, and was a special student at the University of Virginia...
, American Attorney General - Tony GregoryTony GregoryTony Gregory was an Irish Independent politician and a Teachta Dála for the Dublin Central constituency from 1982 to 2009.-Early life:...
- Troy GregoryTroy GregoryTroy Gregory is a singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, filmmaker and solo artist. He is best-known for his work with The Dirtbombs, Prong, and The Witches.-Chronology:...
- T. Ryan GregoryT. Ryan GregoryDr. T. Ryan Gregory is a Canadian evolutionary biologist and genome biologist and a tenured Associate Professor in the and the at the University of Guelph in Guelph, Ontario, Canada....
, Canadian scientist - Victoria Welby-Gregory, Lady WelbyVictoria Welby-Gregory, Lady WelbyVictoria, Lady Welby , more correctly Lady Welby-Gregory, was a self-educated English philosopher of language, musician and water-colour artist.-Life:...
- Will GregoryWill GregoryWilliam Owen Gregory is best known as a songwriter, and the lead keyboards/synthesizer player & producer of the electronic music group Goldfrapp. Originally a classical music student at the University of York, Gregory is the son of an actress and an opera chorus-line singer...
- William G. GregoryWilliam G. GregoryWilliam George "Borneo" Gregory , is a retired NASA astronaut and United States Air Force lieutenant colonel.-Early life and education:...
- William S. GregoryWilliam S. GregoryWilliam S. Gregory was the first mayor of Kansas City, Missouri in 1853.When Kansas City was incorporated on March 18, 1853, it had an area and a population of 2,500. 63 votes were cast for mayor and Gregory defeated Dr...
- William Voris GregoryWilliam Voris GregoryWilliam Voris Gregory , a Democrat, was a United States Representative from Kentucky.Gregory was born in Graves County and after college he taught school and served as superintendent of schools there...
- Wilton D. GregoryWilton D. GregoryWilton Daniel Gregory is an African American clergyman of the Roman Catholic Church. He is the sixth and current Archbishop of Atlanta, having previously served as Bishop of Belleville and Auxiliary Bishop of Chicago...