Langley (surname)
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Langley is a habitational name from any of the numerous places named with Old English lang (meaning ‘long’) + lēah (meaning ‘wood’ or ‘glade’)
Famous people with this surname include:
Famous people with this surname include:
- A. DeWade LangleyA. DeWade LangleyA. DeWade Langley is an American police officer from Oklahoma. Langley is the current Director of the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation, being appointed to that position in 1995.-Early life and career:...
, American police officer - Ambrose LangleyAmbrose LangleyAmbrose Langley was the manager of Hull City Football Club from 1905 until 1913. He was born in 6 South Street, Horncastle and played over 300 games for Sheffield Wednesday....
(1870–1937), English football manager - Arthur Langley (né Longbottom, born 1933), English football manager
- Batty LangleyBatty LangleyBatty Langley was an English garden designer, and prolific writer who produced a number of engraved designs for "Gothick" structures, summerhouses and garden seats in the years before the mid-18th century.The eccentric landscape designer, who gave some of his numerous children names like Hiram,...
[sic] (1696–1751), English garden designer - Bob LangleyBob LangleyBob Langley was a British television presenter and novelist, most famous for hosting the BBC1 afternoon chat show Pebble Mill At One. Langley also presented its late night version Saturday Night at The Mill.He began his broadcast career in the early days of Tyne Tees television on the nightly news...
(born 1939), English TV presenter - Bruno LangleyBruno LangleyBruno Langley is an English actor. He is best known for playing Todd Grimshaw in Coronation Street and Adam Mitchell in Doctor Who.- Early life :...
(born 1983), English actor - Cal LangleyCal LangleyCal Langley is a fictional character in the television series Roswell, portrayed by Joe Pantoliano.-Biography:Cal is an alien from the planet Antar, a servant of that planet's ruler Zan...
, fictional character from Roswell - Chris LangleyChris LangleyChris Langley is an English rugby league player for the Dewsbury Rams in National League One. He plays as a centre. He has previously played for the Huddersfield Giants in the European Super League and also had spells with Bradford, Featherstone Rovers, York and Doncaster.-External links:**...
(born 1996), English rugby player - Clint LangleyClint LangleyClint Langley is a British comic book artist best known for his work on series with Pat Mills at 2000 AD and as the cover artist for Marvel Comics' Guardians of the Galaxy....
(born c. 1975), English comic-book artist - Desmond LangleyDesmond LangleyMajor-General Sir Henry Desmond Allen Langley KCVO MBE was Major-General Commanding the Household Division and General Officer Commanding London District.-Military career:...
(1930–2008), English army officer - Dorothy LangleyDorothy LangleyDorothy Langley was the pseudonym of Dorothy Selma Richardson Kissling, an American novelist. She won the award for the best novel by a Midwestern writer for Dark Medallion .-Life:...
(1904–1969), American author - Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of YorkEdmund of Langley, 1st Duke of YorkEdmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York, 1st Earl of Cambridge, KG was a younger son of King Edward III of England and Philippa of Hainault, the fourth of the five sons who lived to adulthood, of this Royal couple. Like so many medieval princes, Edmund gained his identifying nickname from his...
(1341–1402), English prince - Elmo LangleyElmo LangleyElmo Langley was a NASCAR driver and owner. Langley primarily used the number "64" on his race cars during his NASCAR career.-Racing career:...
(1928–1996), American NASCAR driver - Elizabeth Langley (née Cass, fl. 1863–1877), English victim of miscarriage of justice
- Esme LangleyEsme LangleyDr Esmé Ross-Langley born 26 August 1919 in Guisborough, Yorkshire, was a British writer made a major contribution to the social evolution of women in Britain. She is best known as the founder of the Minorities Research Group and Arena Three...
(1919–1991), English writer - Eve LangleyEve LangleyEve Langley , born Ethel Jane Langley, was an Australian novelist and poet. Her novels belong to a tradition of Australian women's writing that explores the conflict between being an artist and being a woman.-Life:...
(1908–1974), Australian novelist and poet - Francis LangleyFrancis LangleyFrancis Langley was a theatre builder and theatrical producer in Elizabethan era London. After James Burbage and Philip Henslowe, Langley was the third significant entrepreneurial figure active at the height of the development of English Renaissance theatre.-Background:Langley was a goldsmith by...
(1548–1602), English theatre producer - Frank LangleyFrank LangleyFrank E. Langley was an Australian rules footballer who played for Melbourne in the Victorian Football League during the early 1900s.Langley was educated at Caufield Grammar School....
(fl. 1882–1906), Australian VFL football player - Gary LangleyGary LangleyGareth "Gaz" Langley was a professional rugby league footballer who played for Salford City Reds and St. Helens in the Super League before moving on to Oldham Roughyeds. He was by a preference a wing and could kick goals...
(born 1984), English rugby player - Geoffrey of LangleyGeoffrey of LangleyGeoffrey of Langley was an English knight and ambassador of the 13th century. He participated to the crusade of Edward I of England in the Holy Land in 1270-71....
(fl. 1270–1294), English knight - Gerard Langley, English musician - see The Blue AeroplanesThe Blue AeroplanesThe Blue Aeroplanes are an English rock band from Bristol, the mainstays of which: Gerard Langley, brother John Langley and dancer Wojtek Dmochowski originate from the earlier New Wave “Art band” Art Objects .-History:...
- Gil LangleyGil LangleyGilbert Roche Andrews "Gil" Langley was an Australian Test cricketer, champion Australian rules footballer and member of parliament, serving as Speaker of the South Australian House of Assembly....
(1919–2001), Australian cricketer - Gill LangleyGill LangleyGillian Rose Langley is a British scientist and writer who specializes in alternatives to animal testing and animal rights. She is a member of the Replacement Advisory Group of the British National Centre for the Three Rs, founded by David Sainsbury, and was from 1981 until 2009 the science...
(born 1952), British writer and animal-rights activist - Gordon LangleyGordon LangleyGordon Langley is an animator, web designer, DJ and lecturer. He adapted and directed the animated TV series Horrible Histories and has created work for Channel 4 and MTV. His animated film, Chicken, was nominated for awards at the Oslo Film Festival and Soho Shorts...
, animator - Harold D. LangleyHarold D. LangleyHarold David Langley is an American diplomatic and naval historian who served as associate curator of naval history at the Smithsonian Institution from 1969...
(born 1925), American historian - Henry LangleyHenry LangleyHenry Langley was an English clergyman and academic, intruded Master of Pembroke College, Oxford, and later an ejected minister and nonconformist tutor.-Life:He was son of Thomas Langley, a shoemaker, of Abingdon, Berkshire...
(1611–1679), English clergyman and academic - Henry Langley (architect)Henry Langley (architect)Henry Langley was a Canadian architect based in Toronto. He was active from 1854 to 1907. Among the first architects born and trained in Canada, he was a founding members of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts in 1880 and was instrumental in establishing the Ontario Association of Architects in 1889...
(1836–1907), Canadian architect - J. Batty LangleyJ. Batty LangleyJ. Batty Langley was a British Liberal Party politician.Born in Uppingham, Langley became a wealthy timber merchant in Sheffield, and one of the city's most prominent non-conformists. He was elected to Sheffield Town Council, serving many years and becoming an alderman.In 1892, Langley became...
(1834–1914), English politician - Jane LangleyJane LangleyJane Langley is a painter born in 1959. She studied at The Royal College of Art , Camberwell, and Chelsea School of Art. She was an Abbey Scholar at the British School of Rome in 1993 and in 2008 a Visiting Fellow, at Goldsmiths, University of London, attached to the Constance Howard Resource and...
(born 1959), English painter - Jane Pickens LangleyJane Pickens LangleyJane Pickens Hoving was a popular singer on Broadway, radio and television for 20 years and later an organizer in numerous philanthropic and society events. Mrs...
(1908–1982), American singer - Jamie LangleyJamie LangleyJamie Langley is an English professional rugby league footballer with the Bradford Bulls of Super League...
(born 1983), English rugby player - Jamie Langley (pageant titleholder)Jamie Langley (pageant titleholder)Jamie Leigh Langley is Miss Alabama 2007, a news anchor for WAKA CBS 8, and toured the state as a motivational speaker, spokeswoman, advocate and performer. She participated in Miss America in January 2008.-Biography:...
(born 1984), American broadcaster - Jim LangleyJim LangleyErnest James "Jim" Langley , was an English association football player noted for his pacey, rampaging runs from the left fullback position and his long throw-ins...
(1929–2007), English footballer - John LangleyJohn LangleyJohn Langley is an American television and film director, writer, and producer who is best known as the creator and executive producer of the long-running television show COPS, which premiered on FOX in March 1989....
(born 1943), American television and film director - John Langley (ice hockey)John Langley (ice hockey)John Arthur "Art" Langley was an American ice hockey player who competed in the 1924 Winter Olympics....
(1896–1967), American ice hockey player - John Newport LangleyJohn Newport LangleyJohn Newport Langley was a British physiologist. He spent his entire career at Cambridge University. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1883 and later its vice-president....
(1852–1955), British physiologist - John W. LangleyJohn W. LangleyJohn Wesley Langley was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky, husband of Katherine Gudger Langley.Born in Floyd County, Kentucky, Langley attended the common schools.He taught school for three years....
(1868–1932), American congressman - Katherine G. LangleyKatherine G. Langley]Katherine Gudger Langley was an American politician. Langley was member of United States House of Representatives from Kentucky during the Seventieth and Seventy-first sessions of Congress. She was the wife of John W. Langley and daughter of James M. Gudger, Jr...
(1888–1948), American congresswoman - Kevin LangleyKevin LangleyKevin James Langley is a former English professional footballer who played as a midfielder. He made 427 appearances in the Football League, including a club record 317 for Wigan Athletic....
(born 1964), English footballer - Lee LangleyLee LangleyLee Langley was born in Calcutta, India. She is the author of several novels, including Changes of Address , a largely autobiographical account of her childhood in India, the first in a loose trilogy of novels set in India which was short-listed for the Hawthornden Prize...
, Scottish/Indian author - Lesley LangleyLesley LangleyLesley Langley from Weymouth, England was Miss United Kingdom and Miss World in 1965. She became the third woman from her country to win the title....
(fl. 1950–1964), English beauty queen - Mark Langley (born 1984), American jockey
- Matthew LangleyMatthew LangleyMatthew Langley is a Washington, D.C. area painter and photographer whose work has focuses on space, compression, volume and sentience and Vanishing American DIY culture the photographic series is titled Vanishing Culture USA....
, American photographer - Monica LangleyMonica LangleyMonica Langley is Senior Investigative Journalist for The Wall Street Journal and best-selling author of Tearing Down the Walls: How Sandy Weill Fought His Way to the Top of the Financial World...and Then Nearly Lost it All....
, American journalist - Morgan LangleyMorgan LangleyMorgan Langley, , is an American television producer. He is best known as the executive producer, and former producer, of the long-running COPS television show, currently entering its 24th season on the Fox Broadcasting Network...
, American TV producer - Neva Jane LangleyNeva Jane LangleyNeva Jane Langley is an American former beauty pageant contestant. As a college sophomore she transferred to Wesleyan College in Macon, Georgia where she was a member of Alpha Delta Pi sorority. While attending that college she became Miss Macon, Miss Georgia, and then Miss America in 1953. Ms...
(born 1933), American beauty queen - Noel LangleyNoel LangleyNoel Langley was a successful novelist, playwright, screenwriter and director. While under contract to MGM he was one of the screenwriters for The Wizard of Oz...
(1911–1980), South African playwright - Orville Edwin LangleyOrville Edwin LangleyOrville Edwin Langley was a United States federal judge.Langley received a B.S. from Harvard University in 1932 and an LL.B. from the University of Tulsa College of Law in 1940. He was in private practice in Muskogee, Oklahoma from 1940 to 1961. He was in the United States Army Colonel from 1942...
(died 1973), American judge - Paul Langley, fictional character from Waterloo Road
- R. F. LangleyR. F. LangleyRoger Francis Langley was an English poet and diarist. During his life, he was loosely affiliated with the Cambridge poetry scene.-Life and work:...
(born 1938), English poet - Richard LangleyRichard LangleyRichard Barrington Michael Langley is an English born-Jamaican footballer who plays for Thai Premier League side Pattaya United...
(born 1979), Jamaican footballer - Richard Langley (martyr)Richard Langley (martyr)Richard Langley was an English Roman Catholic layman, condemned for sheltering Catholic priests...
(died 1586), English martyr - Roger LangleyRoger LangleyRoger Langley was a president of the United States National Ski Association and a driving force behind the founding of the National Ski Patrol....
(1901–1986), American skier - Samuel Pierpont LangleySamuel Pierpont LangleySamuel Pierpont Langley was an American astronomer, physicist, inventor of the bolometer and pioneer of aviation...
(1834–1906), scientist and early experimenter in manned flight - Thomas LangleyThomas LangleyThomas Langley was an English prelate who held high ecclesiastical and political offices in the early to mid 1400s. He was Dean of York, Bishop of Durham, twice Lord Chancellor of England to three kings, and a Pseudocardinal. In turn Keeper of the King's signet and Keeper of the Privy Seal before...
(1363–1437), bishop of Durham, Cardinal and Lord Chancellor - Tommy LangleyTommy LangleyTommy Langley is a retired English footballer who played in the 1970s and 1980s as a striker. He is currently one of the hosts of Matchnight Live on Chelsea TV.-Chelsea:...
(born 1958), English footballer - Victoria LangleyVictoria LangleyVictoria Langley is a television journalist for Capitol News Service of Tallahassee, Florida, who primarily serves as a capitol beat reporter for Florida television stations, such as WFLA, WTVJ, and WBBH. She previously worked for WICS in Springfield, Illinois, and has been capitol beat reporter...
, American journalist - Walter LangleyWalter LangleyWalter Langley was an English painter and founder of the Newlyn School of plein air artists. He was born in Birmingham and his father was a journeyman tailor. At 15 he was apprenticed to a lithographer. At 21 he won a scholarship to South Kensington and he studied designing there for two years...
(1852–1922), English artist