Mason (surname)
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Mason is an occupational surname of English
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 origin, and may refer to many people:

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  • A. E. W. Mason, British author
  • Abner Mason
    Abner Mason
    Abner Mason is a former president of the Log Cabin Republicans, an association of Republican gays and lesbians. From 2002 to 2005 he served on the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS....

    , American presidential advisor on AIDS
  • Alex Mason, the protagonist of Call of Duty: Black Ops
    Call of Duty: Black Ops
    Call of Duty: Black Ops is a first-person shooter video game developed by Treyarch, published by Activision and released worldwide on November 9, for Microsoft Windows, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Wii consoles, with a separate version for Nintendo DS developed by n-Space. Announced on April 30, 2010,...

  • Andrea Mason
    Andrea Mason
    Andrea Mason is an Australian politician and an Australian Aborigine. In the Federal Election of 2004, she led the Family First Party, a political party with close links with the Assemblies of God in Australia denomination....

     (born 1968), Australian politician
  • Angela Mason
    Angela Mason
    Angela Margaret Mason CBE is a British civil servant and activist, and a former director of the UK-based lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender lobbying organisation Stonewall...

    , British activist
  • Anthony Mason (disambiguation), several people
  • Armistead Thompson Mason (1787–1819), US Senator

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  • Barbara Mason
    Barbara Mason
    Barbara Mason is an American R&B/soul singer best known for her 1965 hit song, "Yes, I'm Ready".-Career:A soul singer, Mason initially focused on songwriting when she entered the music industry in her teens...

    , American singer
  • Barry Mason
    Barry Mason
    John Barry Mason is an English songwriter, originally from the village of Coppull, near Chorley in Lancashire....

    , British songwriter
  • Benedict Mason
    Benedict Mason
    Benedict Mason, born on 23 February 1954, is a British composer.Mason was educated at King's College Cambridge and took a degree in film-making at the Royal College of Art . He did not turn to composition until his early 30s, but his first acknowledged work, Hinterstoisser Traverse , attracted...

    , British composer
  • Biddy Mason
    Biddy Mason
    Bridget "Biddy" Mason was an African American nurse and a Californian real estate entrepreneur and philanthropist.-Early life:...

    , American freed slave, nurse and businesswoman
  • Bill Mason
    Bill Mason
    Bill Mason was an award-winning Canadian naturalist, author, artist, filmmaker, and conservationist, noted primarily for his popular canoeing books, films, and art as well as his documentaries on wolves. Mason was also known for including passages from Christian sermons in his films...

     (1929–1988), Canadian canoeist, author, artist
  • Bobbie Ann Mason
    Bobbie Ann Mason
    Bobbie Ann Mason is an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and literary critic from Kentucky.With four siblings Mason grew up on her family's dairy farm outside of Mayfield, Kentucky. As a child she loved to read, so her parents, Wilburn and Christina Mason, always made sure she had...

     (born 1940), American novelist
  • Brett Mason
    Brett Mason
    Dr Brett John Mason , Australian politician, has been a Liberal member of the Australian Senate since July 1999, representing the state of Queensland. He was the Parliamentary Secretary for Health....

    , Australian politician
  • Brewster Mason
    Brewster Mason
    Brewster Mason was an English stage actor who also made some notable film and television appearances.He was born in Kidsgrove, Staffordshire and made his stage debut at the Finsbury Park Open Air Theatre in 1947. He then appeared on stage in repertory theatre, in London's West End and on Broadway...

    , British actor
  • Brian Mason
    Brian Mason
    Brian Mason is a Canadian politician and leader of the Alberta New Democrats . Mason was first elected as a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta for Edmonton-Highlands-Norwood in a 2001 byelection, and his career in politics spans more than 20 years.Mason first became politically active...

    , Canadian politician

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  • Caroline Atherton Mason (née Briggs) (1823–1890), American poet
  • Charles Mason
    Charles Mason
    Charles Mason was an English astronomer who made significant contributions to 18th-century science and American history, particularly through his involvement with the survey of the Mason-Dixon line, which came to mark the division between the northern and southern United States...

     (of the Mason-Dixon line
    Mason-Dixon line
    The Mason–Dixon Line was surveyed between 1763 and 1767 by Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon in the resolution of a border dispute between British colonies in Colonial America. It forms a demarcation line among four U.S. states, forming part of the borders of Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, and...

    ), British astronomer
  • Charles Harrison Mason
    Charles Harrison Mason
    Bishop Charles Harrison 'C.H.' Mason was an American Pentecostal–Holiness and Charismatic, denomination leader. He was the founder, Chief Apostle and first Senior Bishop of the Church of God in Christ, Inc. He was also the grandfather of Bishop J.O...

    , American religious leader
  • Cheryl Mason, character from the Silent Hill
    Silent Hill
    is a survival horror video game series consisting of seven installments published by Konami and its subsidiary Konami Digital Entertainment. The first four games in the series, Silent Hill, Silent Hill 2, 3 and 4, have been developed by an internal factor, Team Silent...

     series
  • Chris Mason (disambiguation), several people including:
    • Chris Mason, Canadian ice hockey player
    • Chris Mason
      Chris Mason (darts player)
      Christopher John Mason is an English darts player who plays in the Professional Darts Corporation. He uses the nickname Mace the Ace for his matches.- BDO and first PDC spell :...

      , British darts player
  • Clarence Mason
    Clarence Mason
    Herman Stevens, Jr. is an American attorney and former professional wrestling manager, best known for his attorney gimmicks as Clarence Mason in the World Wrestling Federation and as J. Biggs in World Championship Wrestling from 1996–1999.-Early life:As a child, Stevens had always wanted...

    , American lawyer and professional wrestling manager
  • Colin Mason
    Colin Mason
    Colin Victor James Mason is a New Zealand-born Australian journalist, author and former politician.Mason worked for 14 years as the first foreign correspondent of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and became deeply involved in Asian affairs...

    , Australian author, journalist and politician
  • Connie Mason
    Connie Mason
    Connie Mason is an American model and actress who was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its June 1963 issue. After winning Playmate of the Month, Mason started a career in film by starring in the gore movies pioneered by Herschell Gordon Lewis, Blood Feast and Two Thousand Maniacs!...

    , American model

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  • Dave Mason
    Dave Mason
    David Thomas "Dave" Mason is an English singer, songwriter, and guitarist from Worcester, who first found fame with the rock band Traffic...

    , British musician, early member of Traffic
    Traffic (band)
    Traffic were an English rock band whose members came from the West Midlands. The group formed in April 1967 by Steve Winwood, Jim Capaldi, Chris Wood and Dave Mason...

  • David Mason (disambiguation), several people
  • Derrick Mason
    Derrick Mason
    Derrick James Mason is an American football wide receiver for the Houston Texans of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Tennessee Oilers in the fourth round of the 1997 NFL Draft. He played college football at Michigan State.Mason has also played for the Baltimore Ravens where he...

    , American football player
  • Desmond Mason
    Desmond Mason
    Desmond Tremaine Mason is an American former professional basketball player. He was designated as a shooting guard and small forward.-Career:...

    , American basketball player
  • Dutch Mason
    Dutch Mason
    Dutch Mason, CM was a Canadian musician from Halifax, Nova Scotia. He was inducted into the Canadian Jazz and Blues Hall of Fame, and was inducted into the Order of Canada in 2005.-Career:...

    , Canadian musician

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  • F. Van Wyck Mason
    F. Van Wyck Mason
    Francis Van Wyck Mason was an American historian and novelist. He had a long and prolific career as a writer spanning 50 years and including 78 published novels, many of which were best sellers and well received.- Life :Van Wyck Mason was born to a patrician Boston family which traced its roots...

     (1901–1978), American historian and novelist
  • Frank Mason (disambiguation), several people

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  • Gary Mason (disambiguation), several people
  • Germaine Mason
    Germaine Mason
    Germaine Mason is a Jamaican-born athlete competing in high jump. In 2006 he switched sporting allegiance, and now represents Great Britain. He attended Wolmer's School in Kingston...

    , Jamaican athlete
  • George Mason (disambiguation)
    George Mason (disambiguation)
    George Mason may refer to:*George Mason I, Cavalier, early American colonist and statesman*George Mason II, early American planter and statesman*George Mason III, early American planter and statesman, father of George Mason IV...

    , several people including:
    • George Mason
      George Mason
      George Mason IV was an American Patriot, statesman and a delegate from Virginia to the U.S. Constitutional Convention...

      , United States patriot, statesman and delegate from Virginia to the U.S. Constitutional Convention
    • George Mason, fictional character, director of CTU in the television series 24
      24 (TV series)
      24 is an American television series produced for the Fox Network and syndicated worldwide, starring Kiefer Sutherland as Counter Terrorist Unit agent Jack Bauer. Each 24-episode season covers 24 hours in the life of Bauer, using the real time method of narration...

    • George W. Mason
      George W. Mason
      George Walter Mason was an American industrialist. During his career Mason served as the Chairman and CEO of the Kelvinator Corporation , Chairman and CEO of the Nash-Kelvinator Corporation , and Chairman and CEO of American Motors Corporation .- Early life :George W. Mason was born in Valley...

      , an American automobile industry executive
  • Glen Mason
    Glen Mason
    Glen O. Mason is an American football coach. Mason previously served as the head football coach at Kent State University, the University of Kansas, and the University of Minnesota, compiling a career college football record of 123–121–1.-Playing career:Mason played college football at...

    , American football coach
  • Glyn Mason, 2nd Baron Blackford
    Glyn Mason, 2nd Baron Blackford
    Lieutenant-Colonel Glyn Keith Murray Mason, 2nd Baron Blackford CBE, DSO was a British businessman, magistrate and Conservative politician.-Background:...

     (1887–1972) politician

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  • Harry Mason (disambiguation), several people
  • Harvey Mason
    Harvey Mason
    Harvey William Mason is an American jazz drummer. He has worked with many jazz and fusion artists such as Bob James, The Brecker Brothers, Lee Ritenour, Herbie Hancock's Headhunters and almost all the Mizell Brothers productions with Donald Byrd, Johnny Hammond, Bobbi Humphrey and Gary Bartz...

    , American drummer
  • Helen Mason
    Helen Mason
    Helen Mason Young was a journalist and children's author.She gave up a successful journalistic career with the Daily Express after she married the political journalist Hugo Young and decided to devote her life to her four children.As they grew older, she grew back into work...

    , British journalist and author
  • Henry Mason
    Henry Mason
    Henry Mason was one of the co-founders of the American piano manufacturer Mason and Hamlin.He was the son of American church music composer Lowell Mason, and the brother of composer William Mason.-Notes:...

    , American piano maker

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  • Jack Mason
    Jack Mason
    John Richard Mason was an English cricketer who played in 5 Tests on A.E. Stoddart's 1897/98 tour of Australia. A right-hand bat and right-arm fast-medium pace bowler, Mason played county cricket for Kent between 1893 and 1919...

    , English cricketer
  • Jackie Mason
    Jackie Mason
    Jackie Mason is an American stand-up comedian and movie actor.-Early life:Born Yacov Moshe Maza in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, he grew up on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, New York City....

    , American comedian
  • James Mason (disambiguation)
    James Mason (disambiguation)
    James Mason was a British actor.James, Jim or Jimmy Mason may also refer to:-In entertainment and the arts:*James Mason , American classical conductor...

    , several people including:
    • James Mason
      James Mason
      James Neville Mason was an English actor who attained stardom in both British and American films. Mason remained a powerful figure in the industry throughout his career and was nominated for three Academy Awards as well as three Golden Globes .- Early life :Mason was born in Huddersfield, in the...

      , British actor
    • James Mason
      James Mason (chess player)
      James Mason was a famous chess player and writer. He was born in Kilkenny in Ireland. His original name is unknown: he was adopted as a child and only took the name James Mason when he and his family moved to the United States in 1861...

       - chess player
    • James Mason
      James Mason (National Socialist)
      James N. Mason is an American National Socialist.- American National Socialist :When he was 14 years old he began communicating with George Lincoln Rockwell's American Nazi Party and became a youth member until his 18th birthday when he was sworn into the renamed National Socialist White People's...

      , American Neo-Nazi
    • James Murray Mason
      James M. Mason
      James Murray Mason was a United States Representative and United States Senator from Virginia. He was a grandson of George Mason and represented the Confederate States of America as appointed commissioner of the Confederacy to the United Kingdom and France between 1861 and 1865 during the American...

      , American Confederate politician
    • James O. Mason
      James O. Mason
      James Ostermann Mason was the United States Assistant Secretary for Health from 1989 to 1993 and the Acting Surgeon General of the United States from 1989 to 1990. As the ASH he was also a former four-star admiral in the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps...

      , acting US Surgeon General
    • James Mason
      James Mason (field hockey)
      James Robert Mason is a retired field hockey player from Australia, who won the silver medal with the Men's National Team at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City.-References:*...

      , Australian field hockey player
  • James Wood-Mason
    James Wood-Mason
    James Wood-Mason was a Scottish zoologist who worked in the Indian Museum at Calcutta from 1877 succeeding Prof. John Anderson. He made many collections of marine animals and lepidoptera.-Publications:...

    , Scottish zoologist
  • Jeanine Mason
    Jeanine Mason
    Jeanine Marie Mason is an American dancer specializing in contemporary dance. She is best known for her 2009 appearance as the winner of the fifth season of the television show So You Think You Can Dance - which airs on the Fox Network - becoming the youngest person to win the competition...

    , winner of So You Think You Can Dance (season 5)
    So You Think You Can Dance (season 5)
    So You Think You Can Dance is a United States television reality program and dance competition airing on the Fox Broadcasting Company network. Season five premiered on May 21, 2009, with Nigel Lythgoe and Mary Murphy returning as permanent judges and Cat Deeley returning to host...

  • John Mason (disambiguation)
    John Mason (disambiguation)
    John Mason may refer to:* John Mason , sports announcer for the Detroit Pistons basketball team* John Mason , ceramic artist from Los Angeles, California* John Mason John Mason may refer to:* John Mason (announcer), sports announcer for the Detroit Pistons basketball team* John Mason (artist) (b....

    , several people including:
    • Sir John Mason (1503-1566), British diplomat and spy
    • John Mason (1586-1635), founder of the Province of New Hampshire
      Province of New Hampshire
      The Province of New Hampshire is a name first given in 1629 to the territory between the Merrimack and Piscataqua rivers on the eastern coast of North America. It was formally organized as an English royal colony on October 7, 1691, during the period of English colonization...

      .
    • John Mason (c.1600-1672)
      John Mason (c.1600-1672)
      John Mason was an English Army Major who immigrated to New England in 1632. Within five years he had joined those moving west from the Massachusetts Bay Colony to the nascent settlements along the Connecticut River that would become the Connecticut Colony...

      , commander of the Connecticut forces in the Pequot War
      Pequot War
      The Pequot War was an armed conflict between 1634–1638 between the Pequot tribe against an alliance of the Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, and Saybrook colonies who were aided by their Native American allies . Hundreds were killed; hundreds more were captured and sold into slavery to the West Indies. ...

       in 1637
    • John Mason (businessman)
      John Mason (businessman)
      John Mason was an early American businessperson, merchant and banker. Mason served as the second president of Chemical Bank from 1831 through 1839 and would later be referred to as "the father of the Chemical Bank". Mason was a founder of the New York and Harlem Railroad, one of the first...

      , an early 19th century merchant and banker, founder of Chemical Bank and the New York and Harlem Railroad
    • John Sanford Mason, Union general in the American Civil War
    • John Thomson Mason
      John Thomson Mason
      John Thomson Mason, Jr. was a U.S. Congressman from Maryland, representing the sixth district from 1841 to 1843.-Early life and education:...

      , U.S. Congressman from Maryland
    • John Mason
      John Mason (Australian politician)
      John Marsden Mason is a former Australian politician, a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for 16 years.-Early life:Mason was born in Rose Bay in Sydney in 1928, the son of Kay Mason and Stella Marsden...

      , Australian politician
    • John Y. Mason
      John Y. Mason
      John Young Mason was an American politician, diplomat, and United States federal judge.-Early life, education, and career:...

       (1799–1859), American politician and diplomat
  • Jonathan Mason (disambiguation), several people
  • Joseph Mason
    Joseph Mason (settler)
    Joseph Mason, known as the "Father of Fort Collins, Colorado", was an early white homesteader in Larimer County, Colorado in the 1860s. Mason settled a large tract of land along the Cache la Poudre River in present-day north Fort Collins, and he played in an instrumental role in persuading the...

    , American settler
  • Sir Josiah Mason
    Josiah Mason
    Sir Josiah Mason was an English pen-manufacturer.Mason was born in Mill Street, Kidderminster, the son of a carpet-weaver. He began life as a street hawker of cakes, fruits and vegetables. After trying his hand in his native town at shoemaking, baking, carpentering, blacksmithing, house-painting...

     (1795–1881), pen manufacturer

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  • Leonard F. Mason
    Leonard F. Mason
    Leonard Foster Mason served in the United States Marine Corps during World War II. He was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for heroism during the Battle of Guam where he was mortally wounded.-Biography:...

    , US Marine
  • Lisa Mason
    Lisa Mason
    Lisa Elena Jane Mason is a British gymnast who trained at Huntingdon Gym Club, starting at the age of five, and competed at both domestic and international level....

    , British gymnast
  • Lowell Mason
    Lowell Mason
    Lowell Mason was a leading figure in American church music, the composer of over 1600 hymn tunes, many of which are often sung today. His most well-known tunes include Mary Had A Little Lamb and the arrangement of Joy to the World...

     (1792–1872), American composer of church music

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  • Marie Mason
    Marie Mason
    Marie Mason is an environmental activist from Cincinnati, Ohio, who in 2009 was sentenced to 22 years after admitting 13 counts of arson and property damage amounting to US$4 million...

    , American environmental activist convicted for arson
  • Martin Mason (Australian pioneer)
    Martin Mason (Australian pioneer)
    Martin Mason was a surgeon, magistrate and commander who is notable as a pioneer settler of Australia, and also as a supporter of Captain Bligh following the 1808 Rebellion at Sydney, New South Wales.-Early career:...

    , magistrate and surgeon in New South Wales
  • Martin Mason (English Quaker), writer of religious tracts
  • Marsha Mason
    Marsha Mason
    Marsha Mason is an American actress and television director.She received four Academy Award nominations as Best Actress for her performances in Cinderella Liberty, The Goodbye Girl, Chapter Two, and Only When I Laugh. She is also known for starring in the 1986 film Heartbreak Ridge.-Life:Mason was...

    , (born 1942), actress
  • Martha Mason
    Martha Mason
    Martha Mason is an American dancer and choreographer, noted for her work in modern dance and postmodern dance. She is currently the artistic director of the Boston based Snappy Dance Theater which she co-founded in 1996....

    , American dancer
  • Matthew Mason (disambiguation), several people
  • Max Mason
    Max Mason
    Charles Max Mason was an American mathematician...

    , American mathematician
  • Melvin T. Mason
    Melvin T. Mason
    Melvin T. Mason is an American politician who ran as Socialist Workers Party candidate for United States President in the 1984 United States presidential election...

    , American politician
  • Michael Mason (disambiguation), several people
  • Mike Mason
    Mike Mason (baseball)
    Michael Paul Mason , is a retired Major League Baseball player who played pitcher from - for the Texas Rangers, Chicago Cubs, and Minnesota Twins. He is currently the pitching coach for the Iowa Cubs. His best season came as a member of the 1984 Texas Rangers.-External links:...

    , baseball player
  • Milt Mason
    Bernie Brewer
    Bernie Brewer is the official mascot for the Milwaukee Brewers baseball team.In late June 1970, when the Brewers were still a new team and having difficulty drawing spectators to their games at Milwaukee County Stadium, Milt Mason, a 69-year-old fan decided to sit atop top the scoreboard until the...

    , baseball fan
  • Monica Mason
    Monica Mason
    Dame Monica Mason DBE is a ballet dancer and has been the director of The Royal Ballet, since 2002.-Early life:Monica Margaret Mason was born in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1941...

    , British ballet dancer
  • Moose Mason
    Moose Mason
    Moose Mason is a fictional character in the Archie Comics universe. He attends Riverdale High School where he is typically depicted as the best athlete but the poorest student. His difficulties with school were later attributed to dyslexia...

    , fictional character, the "Moose" in Archie Comics
    Archie Comics
    Archie Comics is an American comic book publisher headquartered in the Village of Mamaroneck, Town of Mamaroneck, New York, known for its many series featuring the fictional teenagers Archie Andrews, Betty Cooper, Veronica Lodge, Reggie Mantle and Jughead Jones. The characters were created by...

  • Morgan Mason
    Morgan Mason
    Alexander Morgan Mason is a politician, film producer and actor. He was born in Beverly Hills, California, and is the son of the late Academy award-nominated British actor James Mason and his wife Pamela Mason, actress and commentator. He is a former Acting Chief of Protocol of the United States,...

    , son of James Mason, husband of Belinda Carlisle
    Belinda Carlisle
    Belinda Jo Carlisle is an American singer who gained worldwide fame as the lead vocalist of the Go-Go's, one of the most successful all-female bands and the first such group whose members wrote their own songs and played their own instruments...

    , film director

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  • Nick Mason
    Nick Mason
    Nicholas Berkeley "Nick" Mason is an English drummer and songwriter, best known for his work with Pink Floyd. He was the only constant member of the band since its formation in 1965...

    , British drummer for Pink Floyd
    Pink Floyd
    Pink Floyd were an English rock band that achieved worldwide success with their progressive and psychedelic rock music. Their work is marked by the use of philosophical lyrics, sonic experimentation, innovative album art, and elaborate live shows. Pink Floyd are one of the most commercially...

  • Noel Mason-Macfarlane
    Noel Mason-Macfarlane
    Lieutenant General Sir Frank Noel Mason-Macfarlane, KCB, DSO, MC was a British soldier, administrator and politician who served as Governor of Gibraltar during World War II.-Military career:...

    , British politician

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  • R. A. K. Mason
    R. A. K. Mason
    Ronald Allison Kells Mason was described by Allen Curnow as New Zealand's "first wholly original, unmistakably gifted poet". He was born in Auckland and educated at Auckland Grammar School, where he met A. R. D...

    , New Zealand poet
  • Raymond Mason (disambiguation), several people
  • Richard Mason (disambiguation), several people including:
    • Richard Mason
      Richard Mason (1919-1997)
      Richard Mason was a British novelist. Born near Manchester, he was educated in Dorset, then worked first on a film magazine and later for the British Council...

       (1919–1997), the author of The World of Suzie Wong
      The World of Suzie Wong
      The World of Suzie Wong is a 1957 novel written by Richard Mason. The main characters are Robert Lomax, a young British artist living in Hong Kong, and Suzie Wong, the title character, a Chinese woman who works as a prostitute...

    • Richard Mason
      Richard Mason (1977-)
      Richard Mason is a British novelist.Born in Johannesburg, in South Africa, he was ten years old when he moved to England with his parents. He was educated at Eton and New College Oxford...

       (1977-), born in South Africa
      South Africa
      The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...

      , the author of The Drowning People
    • Richard Mason, American physician and political organiser
    • Richard Barnes Mason
      Richard Barnes Mason
      Richard Barnes Mason was a career general officer in the United States Army and the fifth military governor of California before it became a U.S. state.-Early life:...

       (1797–1850), military governor of California
  • Robert Mason
    Robert Mason (writer)
    Robert C. Mason is a Vietnam War veteran and author of several books, including his first, best-selling memoir: Chickenhawk . Mason piloted Huey "Slicks" in the United States Army as a Warrant Officer 1...

    , veteran of the Vietnam War and writer.
  • Ron Mason
    Ron Mason
    Ron Mason is a Canadian former ice hockey player, head coach and university executive. As head coach of various universities, notably including Michigan State University , he became the winningest ice hockey coach in NCAA history with 924 career wins...

    , Canadian ice hockey coach
  • Ron G. Mason
    Ron G. Mason
    Ron G. Mason was one of the oceanographers whose pioneering Cold War geomagnetic survey work lead to the discovery of magnetic stripes around the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.-Further reading:* Oceanography 18, 1.*...

    , Oceanographer
  • Roswell B. Mason
    Roswell B. Mason
    Roswell B. Mason served as mayor of Chicago, Illinois for the Citizens Party....

     (1805–1892), mayor of Chicago
  • Roy Mason
    Roy Mason
    Roy Mason, Baron Mason of Barnsley, PC is a British Labour politician and former Cabinet minister.He was born in Royston, and grew up in Carlton, Barnsley in South Yorkshire...

     (born 1924), British politician
  • Roy Mason
    Roy Mason (architect)
    Roy Mason was a lecturer, writer, and futuristic architect who designed and built a variety of futuristic homes and other buildings in the 1970s and 1980s using low cost materials and alternative energy sources...

     (1938–1996), American architect

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  • Samuel Jefferson Mason
    Samuel Jefferson Mason
    Samuel Jefferson Mason was an American electronics engineer. Mason's invariant and Mason's rule are named after him.He was born in New York City, but he grew up in a small town in New Jersey. It was so small, in fact, that it only had a population of 26. He received a B.S...

    , American electrical engineer
  • Sarah Mason
    Sarah Mason
    Sarah Fay Wright , sometimes credited as Sarah Mason, is an American actress and former fashion model who played the character of Paige Chase in the sitcom Quintuplets. She co-starred in the sitcom The Loop as Lizzy during the first season...

    , American actress
  • Scott Mason
    Scott Mason
    Scott Robert Mason was an Australian cricketer who played first-class cricket for the Tasmanian Tigers. He was a left-handed batsman who averaged 27.21 with the bat in 28 first-class games and 9.42 with the bat in 8 one-day domestic games...

    , Australian cricketer
  • Simon Mason, English field hockey goalkeeper
  • Skookum Jim Mason
    Keish
    Keish , better known by his English name Skookum Jim Mason, was a Canadian native part of the Tagish First Nation in what became the Yukon Territory of Canada...

     (c. 1855–1916), Klondike gold rush
  • Spinner Mason
    Spinner Mason
    Gavin Reginald "Spinner" Mason, is a fictional high-school graduate in Degrassi: The Next Generation, portrayed by Shane Kippel.-Characterization:...

    , a fictional character in Degrassi: The Next Generation
  • Steve Mason (disambiguation), several people
  • Stevens Thomson Mason (Virginia)
    Stevens Thomson Mason (Virginia)
    Stevens Thomson Mason was a Colonel in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War, a member of the Virginia state legislature and a Republican U.S. Senator from Virginia .-Early life and military career:...

     (1760–1803), US Senator
  • Stevens T. Mason
    Stevens T. Mason
    Stevens Thomson Mason , also known as Stevens T. Mason, Tom Mason, The Boy Governor, and lesser known nicknames Young Hotspur and The Stripling, was the territorial governor of the Michigan Territory, and later the first Governor of the state of Michigan. Mason guided the Michigan Territory into...

     (1811–1843), Governor of Michigan, grandson of the Governor of Virginia
  • Sylvia Mason-James
    Sylvia Mason-James
    Sylvia Mason-James born in 1959 is a British singer who has worked extensively as a backing vocalist and solo artist.She started her career with the disco band Voyage in 1977....

    , British singer

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  • Theodorus B. M. Mason
    Theodorus B. M. Mason
    Theodorus Bailey Myers Mason was the founder and first head of the USA Office of Naval Intelligence, with the post of Chief Intelligence Officer ....

    , American naval intelligence officer
  • Timothy Mason
    Timothy Mason
    Timothy Wright Mason was a British Marxist historian of Nazi Germany.-Life and work:He was born in Birkenhead, the child of school-teachers and was educated at Birkenhead School and Oxford University. He taught at Oxford from 1971–1984 and was twice married. He helped to found the...

    , British Marxist historian
  • Tom Mason
    Green Party candidates, 2003 Ontario provincial election
    The Green Party of Ontario fielded 102 candidates in the 2003 provincial election in Ontario, Canada, none of whom were elected. The only riding which the party did not contest was Oakville...

    , Ontario politician
  • Tom Mason
    Tom Mason
    Thomas Robert "Tom" Mason was a chiropractor who lived in Los Angeles in the 1950s.-Biography:He is best known as the stand-in for the then recently deceased Bela Lugosi in Edward D. Wood, Jr.'s infamous movie Plan 9 From Outer Space. Dr. Mason Thomas Robert "Tom" Mason (April 29, 1920 –...

    , American chiropractor and stand-in actor
  • Tom Mason
    Tom Mason (actor)
    Tom Mason is an American actor born in Brooklyn, New York. He began his television career in 1977, portraying Rex Stout's fictional detective Archie Goodwin in the ABC-TV movie Nero Wolfe...

    , American actor
  • Tony Mason
    Tony Mason (co-driver)
    Tony Mason is a British former rally co-driver and television presenter. In 1972, he navigated the late Roger Clark to victory in the RAC Rally and the team also finished second in the event twice in 1974 and 1975, the only British crew to do so in a period spanning 35 years...

    , Rally co-driver

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  • William Mason (disambiguation), several people including:
    • William Mason
      William Mason (poet)
      William Mason was an English poet, editor and gardener.He was born in Hull and educated at Hull Grammar School and St John's College, Cambridge. He was ordained in 1754 and held a number of posts in the church....

       (1725–1797) - English
      England
      England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

       poet
      Poet
      A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...

      , editor and gardener
    • William Mason
      William Mason (locomotive builder)
      William Mason was a master mechanical engineer and builder of textile machinery and railroad steam locomotives. He founded Mason Machine Works of Taunton, Massachusetts. His company was a significant supplier of locomotives and rifles for the Union Army during the American Civil War...

       (1808–1883) - American
      United States
      The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

       steam locomotive
      Steam locomotive
      A steam locomotive is a railway locomotive that produces its power through a steam engine. These locomotives are fueled by burning some combustible material, usually coal, wood or oil, to produce steam in a boiler, which drives the steam engine...

       builder
    • William Mason (Colt)
      William Mason (Colt)
      William Mason was an engineer and inventor who worked for Remington Arms, Colt’s Patent Fire Arms Manufacturing Company, and Winchester Repeating Arms Company in the 19th century.-Remington:...

       - American
      United States
      The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

       machinist and inventor working for Samuel Colt
      Samuel Colt
      Samuel Colt was an American inventor and industrialist. He was the founder of Colt's Patent Fire-Arms Manufacturing Company , and is widely credited with popularizing the revolver. Colt's innovative contributions to the weapons industry have been described by arms historian James E...

    • William Mason
      William Mason (composer)
      William Mason was an American composer and pianist and a member of a musical family.Mason's father was composer Lowell Mason, a leading figure in American church music...

       (1829;1908) - composer
    • William Mason
      William Mason (mayor)
      William Mason was a New Zealand architect born in Ipswich, England, the son of an architect/builder George Mason and Susan, née Forty. Trained by his father he went to London where he seems to have worked for Thomas Telford . He studied under Peter Nicholson before eventually working for Edward...

      , first mayor of Dunedin
      Dunedin
      Dunedin is the second-largest city in the South Island of New Zealand, and the principal city of the Otago Region. It is considered to be one of the four main urban centres of New Zealand for historic, cultural, and geographic reasons. Dunedin was the largest city by territorial land area until...

      , New Zealand
      New Zealand
      New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...

    • Bill Mason
      Bill Mason
      Bill Mason was an award-winning Canadian naturalist, author, artist, filmmaker, and conservationist, noted primarily for his popular canoeing books, films, and art as well as his documentaries on wolves. Mason was also known for including passages from Christian sermons in his films...

       (1929–1988), Canadian canoeist and author
    • William D. Mason
      William D. Mason
      Bill Mason "William D." is the prosecutor of Cuyahoga County, Ohio. He took office in 1999, succeeding Stephanie Tubbs Jones. Mason was re-elected in 2004 and 2008....

      , American politician
    • William E. Mason
      William E. Mason
      William Ernest Mason was a U.S. Representative and Senator from Illinois.Mason was born in Franklinville, New York. His family moved to Bentonsport, Iowa when he was 8. He attended Birmingham College. After graduating, he taught at Bentonsport Academy, which he had previously attended...

      , American politician
  • Willie Mason
    Willie Mason
    William Marshall "Willie" Mason is an Australian professional rugby union footballer for Toulon in the Top 14 competition, having previously being a rugby league footballer for Hull KR in the European Super League.Mason signed a 3-year contract with Hull KR in September 2010, pending a successful...

    , Australian-Tongan rugby league player
  • Willy Mason
    Willy Mason
    Willy Mason is an American singer-songwriter.- Early life :He was born in New York, the son of Jemima James and Michael Mason, both folk singers. When Mason was five, he and his family moved from New York to West Tisbury, Massachusetts on the island of Martha's Vineyard...

    , musician
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