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- Alan Ramsay Hawley, early American aviator
- Cameron HawleyCameron HawleyCameron Hawley , was an American writer of fiction from Howard, South Dakota. Much of Hawley's output concerned the pressures of modern life, particularly in a business setting. He published numerous novels and short stories.Hawley's novel Executive Suite was the first title published by...
, American fiction writer - Caroline HawleyCaroline HawleyCaroline Hawley is a British journalist who has been a Special Correspondent for the BBC News channel since 2007.Hawley is the daughter of British diplomat Sir Donald Hawley, She was educated at Wycombe Abbey School, an independent school for girls in High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire, followed by...
, BBC war correspondent - David HawleyDavid HawleyDavid Hawley , Captain in the newly formed United States Navy and Privateer, commanded the USS Royal Savage in the first U.S. naval battle of the American Revolutionary War in 1776.-Biography:...
(1741–1807), Stratfield, Connecticut, captain and privateer during the American Revolution - Elizabeth HawleyElizabeth Hawley"Miss Hawley" redirects here. For other people of the same name see Hawley.Elizabeth Hawley is an American former journalist and chronicler of Himalayan expeditions. She traveled to Nepal in September 1960 and never left.She was educated at the University of Michigan...
, American journalist - Frank HawleyFrank HawleyFrank Hawley is a two-time World champion drag racing driver. He won seven National Hot Rod Association Funny Car and two Top Fuel Dragster national events during his 10-year Top fuel racing career that included the 1982 and 1983 National Hot Rod Association Funny Car World Championship...
, Canadian drag-racing driver - Gideon HawleyGideon HawleyGideon Hawley was a missionary to the Iroquois Indians in Massachusetts and on the Susquehanna River in New York.-Biography:He was born in the Stratfield section of Stratford, now Bridgeport, Connecticut, in New England on November 5, 1727. The son of Gideon Hawley and Hannah Bennett who was the...
(1727–1807), Yale graduate, missionary to the Iroquois Indians at Mashpee, Massachusetts - Graeme HawleyGraeme HawleyGraeme Hawley is an English actor known for his role as John Stape in the British soap Coronation Street.-Career:He graduated from Manchester Metropolitan University in 1996 with a degree in Drama before beginning his acting career in the theatre.He started his career off by performing on stage at...
, British actor - Henry HawleyHenry HawleyLieutenant General Henry Hawley was a British Army officer who entered the army in 1694.-Early life:He saw service in the War of Spanish Succession as a captain of Erie's Foot. After Almanza he returned to England, and a few years later had become lieutenant-colonel of the 19th...
(c. 1679–1759), British army officer - Jack HawleyJack HawleyJohn T. Hawley was a Republican politician from Idaho. Hawley was the 1962 Republican nominee for the United States Senate seat in Idaho. He was defeated by Democratic incumbent Frank Church....
, American Republican politician - James Edwin HawleyJames Edwin HawleyJames Edwin Hawley was an award winning Canadian geologist and distinguished Professor of Mineralogy at Queen's University....
, Canadian geologist - James H. HawleyJames H. HawleyJames Henry Hawley was the ninth Governor of Idaho from 1911 until 1913. Hawley also served as mayor of Boise from 1903 to 1905.-Biography:...
, governor of Idaho - Jesse Hawley (football)Jesse Hawley (football)Jesse Barnum Hawley was an American football coach. He served as the head coach at the University of Iowa from 1910 to 1915 and at Dartmouth College from 1923 to 1928, compiling a career college football record of 63–28–1...
, American college football coach - Jesse Hawley (merchant)Jesse Hawley (merchant)Jesse Hawley was a flour merchant in Geneva, New York who became an early and major proponent of building of the Erie Canal.Struggling to receive shipments and make deliveries over the wretched roadways of the era, Hawley imagined the canal as early as 1805...
, backer of the Erie Canal - Joseph Hawley (Captain)Joseph Hawley (Captain)Joseph Hawley , born in Parwich, Derbyshire, England, was the first of the Hawley name to come to America in 1629. He settled at Stratford, Connecticut in 1650, becoming the town's first town clerk or record keeper, tavern keeper and a shipbuilder.-Surname:The surname of Hawley is one of locality...
(1603–1690), Stratford, Connecticut, shipbuilder, first Town Clerk, long-time Representative and Yeoman - Joseph Roswell HawleyJoseph Roswell HawleyJoseph Roswell Hawley was the 42nd Governor of Connecticut, a U.S. politician in the Republican and Free Soil parties, a Civil War general, and a journalist and newspaper editor. He served two terms in the United States House of Representatives and was a four-term U.S...
(1826–1905), American political leader - Karl HawleyKarl HawleyKarl Leon Hawley is an English professional footballer who plays for Notts County as a striker. Hawley has represented England C.-Career:...
, English footballer who plays for Notts County - Michael HawleyMichael HawleyMichael Hawley is an educator, artist and researcher working in the field of digital media. Previously at MIT’s Media Laboratory where he was a professor and held the Alexander W. Dreyfoos, Jr...
(born 1961), artist and researcher in digital media - Nero HawleyNero HawleyNero Hawley , born into slavery in North Stratford, now Trumbull, Connecticut, enlisted in place of his owner, Daniel Hawley, in the Continental Army on April 20, 1777 during the American Revolution and earned his freedom...
(1742–1817), Trumbull, Connecticut, slave who fought in American Revolution to earn his freedom - Ormi HawleyOrmi HawleyOrmi Hawley was an American actress.Born Ormetta Grace Hawley in Holyoke, Massachusetts, she began her acting career in live theatre before turning to the new silent film industry in 1911 with Lubin Studios in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.Over her short film career she reportedly appeared in more...
, American actress - Paul Hawley, member of the band Hot Hot Heat
- Pete Hawley, drummer for American heavy metal band Back From Ashes
- Richard HawleyRichard HawleyRichard Hawley is a guitarist, singer-songwriter and producer. After his first band Treebound Story broke up, Hawley found success as a member of Britpop band Longpigs in the 1990s. He later joined the band Pulp, led by his friend Jarvis Cocker...
, English guitarist/singer/songwriter/producer - Robert HawleyRobert HawleyRobert Hawley , Captain, raised provisions for the Continental soldiers and fought in the American Revolutionary War.BiographyCaptain Robert Hawley was born June 5, 1726, in North Stratford, now Trumbull, Connecticut, in New England...
, (1729–1799), Trumbull, Connecticut, captain and privateer during American Revolutionary War - Sandy HawleySandy HawleyDesmond Sanford "Sandy" Hawley, CM is a Hall of Fame jockey.Sandy Hawley started out as a plumber then later decided to be a jockey. He started his career as a jockey when he was a 17-year-old boy, hotwalking horses at a Toronto racetrack...
, (born 1949), Hall of Fame jockey - Steven HawleySteven HawleySteven Alan Hawley is a former NASA astronaut who flew on five spaceflights.-Personal data:Born December 12, 1951, in Ottawa, Kansas, but considers Salina, Kansas, to be his hometown. Currently married to the former Eileen M. Keegan of Redondo Beach, California, a public affairs officer at NASA...
(born 1951), NASA mission-specialist astronaut - Thomas HawleyThomas HawleyThomas Hawley was a long-serving officer of arms at the College of Arms in London. He began his career of royal service as a groom porter to Queen Margaret of Scotland from her marriage in 1503 until 1508...
(died 1557), English officer of arms - Wanda HawleyWanda HawleyWanda Hawley , was a veteran of the silent screen films era. She entered the theatrical profession with an amateur group in Seattle, and later toured the U.S. and Canada as a singer. She co-starred with Rudolph Valentino in the 1922's The Young Rajah, and rose to stardom in a number of Cecil B...
, silent film actress - Colonel William HawleyWilliam HawleyLieutenant-Colonel William Hawley was a British archaeologist who most famously undertook pioneering excavations at Stonehenge....
(1861–1941), British archaeologist - Willis C. HawleyWillis C. HawleyWillis Chatman Hawley was an American politician and educator in the state of Oregon. A native of the state, he would serve as president of Willamette University in Salem, Oregon, where he earned his undergraduate and law degrees before entering politics...
, American politician and co-sponsor of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff of 1930
Places named Hawley
In Australia- Hawley Beach, TasmaniaHawley Beach, TasmaniaHawley Beach, Tasmania is a seaside resort town from the nearest main town . At the 2006 census, the town had a population of 596. Nearby is the small town of Port Sorell and locality of Shearwater....
In the United Kingdom
- Hawley, HampshireHawley, HampshireHawley is a village in the civil parish of Blackwater and Hawley in the Hart district of northeastern Hampshire, England.The village is continguous with the small town of Blackwater. It is on the western edge of the Blackwater Valley conurbation, about north of central Farnborough, Hampshire,...
- Hawley, KentHawley, KentHawley is a village near Dartford in Kent, England. It is part of the Sutton-at-Hone and Hawley civil parish. It is one half of Sutton-at-Hone and Hawley ward on Dartford Borough Council, the Councillors are Tony Martin and Pat Coleman...
In the United States
- Hawley, CaliforniaHawley, CaliforniaHawley is an unincorporated community in Plumas County, California. It lies at an elevation of 4882 feet . Hawley is located on the Western Pacific Railroad, east of Portola....
- Hawley, Colorado
- Hawley, MassachusettsHawley, MassachusettsHawley is a town in Franklin County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 337 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Springfield, Massachusetts Metropolitan Statistical Area.- History :...
- Hawley, MinnesotaHawley, MinnesotaAs of the census of 2000, there were 1,882 people, 744 households, and 514 families residing in the city. The population density was 764.8 people per square mile . There were 787 housing units at an average density of 319.8 per square mile...
- Hawley, PennsylvaniaHawley, PennsylvaniaHawley is a borough in Wayne County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 1,211 at the 2010 census.- History :The borough was named for Irad Hawley, first president of the Pennsylvania Coal Company. Early industry centered around the transportation and support of nearby coal mining...
- Hawley, TexasHawley, TexasHawley is a city in Jones County, Texas, United States. The population was 646 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Abilene, Texas Metropolitan Statistical Area.-Geography:Hawley is located at ....
- HawleyvilleHawleyvilleHawleyville is an unincorporated community in Fairfield County in the Town of Newtown, Connecticut about 1 mile outside of the Incorporated Borough of Newtown.-External links:**...
, Connecticut - Ephraim Hawley HouseEphraim Hawley HouseThe Ephraim Hawley House, located in New England, is a Colonial American wooden post-and-beam timber-frame farm house built between 1670 and 1690...
, Trumbull, Connecticut - Thomas Hawley HouseThomas Hawley HouseThe Thomas Hawley House at 514 Purdy Hill Road in Monroe, Connecticut is a historic Colonial American wooden post-and-beam saltbox farm house built in 1755. Hawley was the great grandson of Joseph Hawley of Stratford, Connecticut through Samuel. A drawing and description of the house was included...
, Monroe, Connecticut - Hawley, fictional town in the film Jeremiah JohnsonJeremiah JohnsonJeremiah Johnson is a 1972 western film directed by Sydney Pollack and starring Robert Redford as the title character and Will Geer as "Bear Claw" Chris Lapp...
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