Jerome (disambiguation)
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Jerome is a name that is the anglicization of Hieronymus
Hieronymus
Hieronymus, pronounced , the Greek and Latin form of the name Jerome, means "sacred name."It may refer to several people:* Eusebius Sophronius Hieronymus, better known as Saint Jerome * Hiëronymus Emiliani, better known as St...

. St Jerome
Jerome
Saint Jerome was a Roman Christian priest, confessor, theologian and historian, and who became a Doctor of the Church. He was the son of Eusebius, of the city of Stridon, which was on the border of Dalmatia and Pannonia...

 (340-420) was an Illyrian Christian priest who translated the Bible into Latin. Jerome may also refer to:

Surname

  • Cameron Jerome
    Cameron Jerome
    Cameron Zishan Rana-Jerome is an English footballer who plays for Stoke City as a striker. He also played for Cardiff City in the Football League, and for Birmingham City in the Football League and Premier League, and at international level has several caps for the England under-21 team.-Early...

     (born 1986), English footballer
  • Chauncey Jerome
    Chauncey Jerome
    Chauncey Jerome was a Clockmaker in the early 19th century. He made a fortune selling his clocks, and his business became enormous. He was born in Canaan in 1793; Chauncey Jerome was the son of a blacksmith and nail-maker....

     (1793-1868), American clockmaker and politician
  • James Jerome
    James Jerome
    James Alexander Jerome, PC was a Canadian jurist and former politician and Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons....

     (1933-2005), Canadian judge and politician
  • Jennie Jerome, Lady Randolph Churchill (1854-1921), mother of UK Prime Minister Winston Churchill
  • Jerome K. Jerome
    Jerome K. Jerome
    Jerome Klapka Jerome was an English writer and humorist, best known for the humorous travelogue Three Men in a Boat.Jerome was born in Caldmore, Walsall, England, and was brought up in poverty in London...

     (1859-1927), British author
  • Leonard Jerome
    Leonard Jerome
    Leonard Walter Jerome was a Brooklyn, New York, financier and grandfather of Winston Churchill.- Early life :...

     (1817-1891), American financier
  • Randolph Jerome
    Randolph Jerome
    Randolph Jerome is a Guyanese soccer player who currently plays for North East Stars in the TT Pro League.- Professional :Jerome began his career in Trinidad with Doc’s Khelwalaas FC, before moving to league rival Caledonia AIA...

     (born 1978), Guyanese soccer player
  • William Jerome
    William Jerome
    William Jerome was an American songwriter, born in Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York of Irish immigrant parents, Mary Donnellan and Patrick Flannery...

     (1865-1932), American songwriter
  • William Travers Jerome
    William Travers Jerome
    William Travers Jerome was an American lawyer and politician from New York.-Biography:He was the son of Lawrence Jerome and Kate Jerome. He attended Amherst College but left in 1881 without graduation...

     (1859-1934), New York lawyer

Given Name

  • Jerome Bettis
    Jerome Bettis
    Jerome Abram "The Bus" Bettis is a retired American football halfback who played for the NFL's Los Angeles/St. Louis Rams and Pittsburgh Steelers. Bettis is considered one of the best big backs ever because his footwork and power, and is currently fifth on the National Football League's all-time...

     (born 1972), American football player
  • Jerome Bixby
    Jerome Bixby
    Drexel Jerome Lewis Bixby was an American short story writer, editor and scriptwriter, best known for his work in science fiction. He also wrote many westerns and used the pseudonyms D. B. Lewis, Harry Neal, Albert Russell, J. Russell, M. St...

     (1923-1998), American writer
  • Jérôme Bonaparte
    Jérôme Bonaparte
    Jérôme-Napoléon Bonaparte, French Prince, King of Westphalia, 1st Prince of Montfort was the youngest brother of Napoleon, who made him king of Westphalia...

     (1784-1860), French king of Westphalia, brother of Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Jerome Bruner
    Jerome Bruner
    Jerome Seymour Bruner is an American psychologist who has contributed to cognitive psychology and cognitive learning theory in educational psychology, as well as to history and to the general philosophy of education. Bruner is currently a senior research fellow at the New York University School...

     (born 1915), American psychologist
  • Jerome Cowan
    Jerome Cowan
    Jerome Palmer Cowan was an American film and television actor. At eighteen he joined a travelling stock company, shortly afterwards enlisting in the navy in World War I. After the war he returned to the stage and became a vaudeville headliner, then gained success on the New York stage...

     (1897-1972), American actor
  • Jérôme d'Ambrosio
    Jérôme d'Ambrosio
    Jérôme d'Ambrosio is a Belgian racing driver of Italian descent. He is driving for Marussia Virgin Racing during the 2011 Formula One World Championship.-Karting:...

     (born 1985), Belgian racing driver
  • Jerome Flynn
    Jerome Flynn
    Jerome Flynn is an English actor best known for his role as Corporal Paddy Garvey of the King's Fusiliers in the ITV series Soldier Soldier....

     (born 1963), British actor
  • Jerome Fontamillas
    Jerome Fontamillas
    Jerome Earl Fontamillas is a Filipino American musician. Jerome has played in several bands notably with industrial rock band Mortal and Fold Zandura, with long time musical partner Jyro Xhan. He currently plays with alternative rock band Switchfoot as a guitar and keyboard player.In 1985...

     (born 1967), American musician
  • Jerome Frank (lawyer) (1889-1957), American judge and legal philosopher
  • Jerome K. Jerome
    Jerome K. Jerome
    Jerome Klapka Jerome was an English writer and humorist, best known for the humorous travelogue Three Men in a Boat.Jerome was born in Caldmore, Walsall, England, and was brought up in poverty in London...

     (1859-1927), British author
  • Jerome Karle
    Jerome Karle
    Jerome Karle, born Jerome Karfunkel is an American physical chemist. Jointly with Herbert A. Hauptman, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1985, for the direct analysis of crystal structures using X-ray scattering techniques.-Early life and education:Karle was born in New York City on...

     (born 1918), American chemist
  • Jerome Kern
    Jerome Kern
    Jerome David Kern was an American composer of musical theatre and popular music. One of the most important American theatre composers of the early 20th century, he wrote more than 700 songs, used in over 100 stage works, including such classics as "Ol' Man River", "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man", "A...

     (1885-1945), American composer
  • Jerome K. Moore
    Jerome K. Moore
    Jerome K. Moore is an artist best known for his montage-style cover designs for DC Comics' "Star Trek" titles, and "Star Trek: The Next Generation," as well as for Malibu Comics' "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine," and Innovation Comics' "Lost In Space." Moore primarily credits editor Robert Greenberger...

    , American artist
  • Jerome Pradon
    Jérôme Pradon
    Jérôme Pradon is an actor and singer who has performed in the West End, Paris and various other places around the world. He was born in Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, France on 3 June 1964.- Theatre :...

    , French actor and singer
  • Jerome Robbins
    Jerome Robbins
    Jerome Robbins was an American theater producer, director, and choreographer known primarily for Broadway Theater and Ballet/Dance, but who also occasionally directed films and directed/produced for television. His work has included everything from classical ballet to contemporary musical theater...

     (1918-1998), American director
  • Jérôme Rothen
    Jérôme Rothen
    Jérôme Rothen born 31 March 1978) is a French footballer who plays as a winger for SC Bastia.Rothen has won 13 caps for the French national team. He represented his country at the 2004 European Football Championship and won the FIFA Confederations Cup with France in 2003...

     (born 1978), French footballer
  • Jerome T. Youngman
    Jerome T. Youngman
    Jerome T. Youngman , is an American rock singer, songwriter, and record producer, best known for his hits "Creeps at my Door" and "Blood for Oil", and TV host of the Talk show Bring it to Jerome.-Career:Youngman's musical influences are Igor Stravinsky, John Lee Hooker, Rolling Stones, Bo Diddley,...

     (born 1951), American musician
  • Jerome Salinger (born 1919), American author
  • Jerome Vered
    Jerome Vered
    Jerome Vered is a Studio City, California writer, publicly known for his record-setting success as a contestant on the U.S. television game show Jeopardy!-Biography:...

     (born 1958), American television contestant
  • Jerome Wiesner
    Jerome Wiesner
    Jerome Bert Wiesner was an educator, a Science Advisor to U.S. Presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy and Johnson, an advocate for arms control, and a critic of anti-ballistic-missile defense systems...

     (1915-1994), American science advisor and educator

Places

United States
  • Jerome, Arizona
    Jerome, Arizona
    Jerome is a town in Yavapai County, Arizona, United States. According to 2006 Census Bureau estimates, the population of the town is 353.-History:...

    • Jerome State Historic Park
      Jerome State Historic Park
      Jerome State Historic Park is a state park of Arizona, USA, featuring the Douglas Mansion, built in 1916 by a family of influential mining entrepreneurs in Jerome, Arizona, a mining region in the northeast of the Black Hills, east Yavapai County...

  • Jerome, Arkansas
    Jerome, Arkansas
    Jerome is a city in Drew County, Arkansas, United States. The population was 46 at the 2000 census. During World War II, Jerome was home to a Japanese American internment camp , Jerome War Relocation Center , later converted into a prison camp for captured German soldiers.-Geography:Jerome is...

  • Jerome, Florida
    Jerome, Florida
    Jerome is a small unincorporated community in Collier County, Florida, United States. It lies along State Road 29 north of Copeland and south of Deep Lake. It lies at an elevation of 10 feet ....

  • Jerome, Idaho
    Jerome, Idaho
    Jerome is a city in Jerome County, Idaho, U.S.A. The population was 10,890 at the 2010 census. The city is the county seat of Jerome County, and sits at an elevation of 3763 feet above sea level. It is part of the Twin Falls, Idaho Micropolitan Statistical Area.-Geography:Jerome is located at ...

  • Jerome, Illinois
    Jerome, Illinois
    Jerome is a village in Sangamon County, Illinois, United States. The population was 1,414 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Springfield, Illinois Metropolitan Statistical Area.-Geography:Jerome is located at ....

  • Jerome, Indiana
    Jerome, Indiana
    Jerome is an unincorporated town in Union Township, Howard County, Indiana, United States. It is part of the Kokomo, Indiana Metropolitan Statistical Area....

  • Jerome, Ohio
    Jerome, Ohio
    Jerome is an unincorporated community in Jerome Township, Union County, Ohio, United States. It is located at , at the intersection of Jerome Road and Scioto Road , about 2 miles east of New California....

  • Jerome, Pennsylvania
    Jerome, Pennsylvania
    Jerome is a census-designated place in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 1,068 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Johnstown, Pennsylvania, Metropolitan Statistical Area...

  • Jerome, West Virginia
    Jerome, West Virginia
    Jerome is an uninhabited community along the old Baltimore and Ohio Railroad main line in Morgan County in the U.S. state of West Virginia. It is located entirely within the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park on the Potomac River...

  • Jerome County, Idaho
    Jerome County, Idaho
    Jerome County is a county in the U.S. state of Idaho. As of the 2000 Census the county had a population of 18,342 . The county seat and largest city is Jerome....

  • Jerome Park Racetrack
    Jerome Park Racetrack
    Jerome Park Racetrack was an American thoroughbred horse racing facility.-History:It opened in 1866 in the northwest part of Fordham, Westchester County , New York....

    , home of the inaugural running of the Belmont Stakes in 1867
  • Jerome Park Reservoir
    Jerome Park Reservoir
    The Jerome Park Reservoir is located in Jerome Park, a neighborhood in the North Bronx, New York City. It was built in 1906 to serve the Croton Aqueduct as part of the New York City water supply system....

    , part of the metropolitan New York City water supply system
  • Jerome Township, Michigan
    Jerome Township, Michigan
    Jerome Township is a civil township of Midland County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 4,888 at the 2000 census. Jerome township is the most populated township in Midland County.The village of Sanford is within the township.-Geography:...

  • Jerome Township, Union County, Ohio
    Jerome Township, Union County, Ohio
    Jerome Township is one of the fourteen townships of Union County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 3,950 people in the township, 3,033 of whom lived in the unincorporated portions of the township.-Geography:...



Canada
  • Saint-Jérôme, Quebec
    Saint-Jérôme, Quebec
    Saint-Jérôme is a town in Quebec, Canada, near Mirabel, about northwest of Montreal along Autoroute des Laurentides. The town is a gateway to the Laurentian Mountains and its resorts....


See also

  • Jerome (given name)
    Jerome (given name)
    Jerome is a masculine name of Greek origin. It derived from the Greek name Hieronymos meaning "sacred name". It is the name of a well-known saint, Saint Jerome. Jerome ranked among the top 200 names given to boys born in the United States between 1903 and 1985...

  • Jeroen
    Jeroen
    Jeroen is a common Dutch male given name originating from the Greek Hieronymus, and is equivalent to the English name Jerome. In The Netherlands, there are around 52,000 people who are called Jeroen.People named Jeroen include:*Jeroen Bleekemolen...

    , Dutch variant of the name
  • Geronimo
    Geronimo
    Geronimo was a prominent Native American leader of the Chiricahua Apache who fought against Mexico and the United States for their expansion into Apache tribal lands for several decades during the Apache Wars. Allegedly, "Geronimo" was the name given to him during a Mexican incident...

    , variant of the name
  • Jarome Iginla
    Jarome Iginla
    Jarome Arthur-Leigh Adekunle Tig Junior Elvis Iginla is a Canadian professional ice hockey player for the Calgary Flames of the National Hockey League . A six-time NHL All-Star, he is the Flames' all-time leader in goals, points, and games played, and is second in assists to Al MacInnis...

    (born 1977), Canadian ice hockey player
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