Pollard (surname)
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Pollard is a family name
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Family name
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that may refer to:
- Albert PollardAlbert PollardAlbert Frederick Pollard was a British historian who specialized in the Tudor period.-Life and career:Pollard was born in Ryde on the Isle of Wight. He was educated at Felsted School and Jesus College, Oxford where he achieved a first class honours in Modern History in 1891...
, British historian - Alfred W. PollardAlfred W. PollardAlfred William Pollard was an English bibliographer, widely credited for bringing a higher level of scholarly rigor to the study of Shakespearean texts....
, (1859 – 1944), English bibliographer - Bernard PollardBernard PollardBernard Karmell Pollard is an American football safety for the Baltimore Ravens of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Kansas City Chiefs in the second round of the 2006 NFL Draft...
, an NFL safety for the Houston TexansHouston TexansThe Houston Texans are a professional American football team based in Houston, Texas. The team is currently a member of the Southern Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League... - Carl PollardCarl PollardCarl Jesse Pollard is a Professor of Linguistics at the Ohio State University. He is the inventor of Head grammar and Higher-order grammar, as well as co-inventor of Head-driven phrase structure grammar . He is currently also working on Convergent Grammar . He has written numerous books and...
, American linguist - Charles Pollard (rugby league)Charles Pollard (rugby league)Charles "Charlie" A. Pollard was an English professional rugby league footballer of the 1910s, 20s and '30s who at representative level has played for Great Britain, and at club level for Wakefield Trinity, playing at , i.e...
, rugby league footballer of the 1910s, 20s and '30s for Great Britain, and Wakefield Trinity - Dick PollardDick PollardRichard "Dick" Pollard was an English cricketer born in Westhoughton, Lancashire, who played in four Tests between 1946 and 1948...
, England Test cricketer - Ernest C. PollardErnest C. PollardErnest Charles "Ernie" Pollard was a professor of physics and biophysics and an author, who worked on the development of radar systems in World War II, worked on the physics of living cells, and who wrote textbooks and approximately 200 papers on nuclear physics and radiation biophysics.-...
, atomic physicist and biophysicist, son of Sam Pollard - Ernest Pollard (rugby league)Ernest Pollard (rugby league)Ernest "Ernie" Pollard is an English former professional rugby league footballer of the 1930s who at representative level has played for Great Britain, and England, and at club level for Wakefield Trinity, and Bradford Northern, playing at /, i.e. number 6...
, rugby league footballer of the 1930s for Great Britain, England, Wakefield Trinity, and Bradford Northern - Eve PollardEve PollardEvelyn "Eve" Pollard, Lady Lloyd, OBE is an English author, journalist and a former editor of several tabloid newspapers.-Career:...
(born 1945), British journalist - George Pollard (disambiguation), several people
- H. B. PollardH. B. PollardHenry B. Pollard was the first postmaster of Ashland, Kentucky , who established the post office as Pollard Mills on December 23, 1847, the same year the first adhesive postage stamps were used....
, first postmaster of Ashland, Kentucky - John Pollard (disambiguation), several people
- Jonathan PollardJonathan PollardJonathan Jay Pollard worked as a civilian intelligence analyst before being convicted of spying for Israel. He received a life sentence in 1987....
, a former civilian intelligence analyst who was convicted of spying for Israel - Jon Pollard (actor), Australian actor in Doom RunnersDoom RunnersDoom Runners is an Australian science fiction television children's film.The story concerns a group of children in a post-apocalyptic world searching for the last unpolluted place on Earth, New Eden. However, the Doom Troopers , led by Dr. Kao , want to get there first and will do anything to stop...
(1997) - Justin PollardJustin PollardJustin David Pollard is a British historian, television producer and writer.-Biography:Pollard is a popular historian and screenwriter working in the field of feature films, television and print...
, historian and writer - Kieron PollardKieron PollardKieron Adrian Pollard is an international cricketer who plays for the West Indies. An aggressive all-rounder, Pollard provides medium-fast pace bowling and big-hitting from the middle-order. After shining during the 2009 Champions League Twenty20, he was signed by both the Southern Redbacks and...
, West Indies cricketer - Michael J. PollardMichael J. Pollard- Early life :Born Michael John Pollack, Jr. in Passaic, New Jersey, he is the son of Sonia and Michael John Pollack. He attended the Montclair Academy and the Actors Studio.- Career :...
, American actor - Odell PollardOdell PollardOdell Pollard is a retired attorney in Searcy, the seat of White County in central Arkansas, who was a pioneer in the revitalization of the Republican Party in his state.-Early years:...
, Arkansas politician - Robert PollardRobert PollardRobert Pollard is an American rock musician and singer-songwriter who is the leader and creative force behind indie rock group Guided by Voices, who disbanded in 2004, only to reform in 2010...
, lead singer of Guided by Voices - Roy PollardRoy PollardRoy Pollard is an English former professional rugby league footballer of the 1940s and '50s who at representative level has played for Great Britain, England, and at club level for Dewsbury, playing at , i.e...
, rugby league footballer of the 1940s and '50s for Great Britain, England, and Dewsbury - Sam PollardSam Pollard- Sources used : — Dingle describes how Sam Pollard used positioning of vowel marks relative to consonants to indicate tones — Morrison recounts meeting Sam Pollard and his wife at the Bible Christian Mission in 1894 — reports on an article in The Sunday Times describing the...
, Bible Christian Church missionary to China and inventor of the "Pollard script" - Scot PollardScot PollardScot L. Pollard is a retired American professional basketball player. In an eleven-year NBA career, he played for five teams, spending the bulk of his career with the Sacramento Kings and the Indiana Pacers...
, former American basketball player and current NBA TV analyst - Stu PollardStu PollardStu Pollard, born January 26, 1967 in Louisville, Kentucky, is an American film producer, writer and director.In his youth, Pollard attended and graduated from Kentucky Country Day School and Georgetown University...
, American film producer, writer and director - Su PollardSu PollardSusan Georgina "Su" Pollard, 7 November 1949, Nottingham) is an English comedy actress, most famous for her roles in the sitcoms Hi-de-Hi! and You Rang, M'Lord?. She is also well known for her unusual and flamboyant dress sense and her abrupt voice....
, English comedy actress who starred in the BBC TV sitcom Hi-de-Hi! - Thomas PollardThomas PollardThomas Pollard was an actor in the King's Men — a prominent comedian in the acting troupe of William Shakespeare and Richard Burbage....
, English Renaissance actor - Thomas D. PollardThomas D. PollardThomas Dean Pollard is a prominent educator, cell biologist and biophysicist whose research focuses on understanding cell motility through the study of actin filaments and myosin motors...
, American biologist - Tiffany PollardTiffany PollardTiffany Pollard is an American reality television personality and actress. She is best known as New York and for her participation in VH1's Flavor of Love and I Love New York television series. Pollard was given the nickname by rapper Flavor Flav, whom she dated on both season 1 and season 2 of...
, American reality television star - Walter PollardWalter PollardWalter Pollard was an English professional footballer who played as an inside forward.-References:...
(1906–1945), English footballer with Burnley, West Ham, Fulham and Southampton - William PollardWilliam PollardWilliam Pollard was a Quaker writer and recorded minister.-Early life:Pollard was born at Horsham, Sussex, on 10 June 1828, the son of James Pollard and his wife, Susannah. He became a junior teacher at the Friends' School, Croydon in 1843, and in 1849 entered the Flounders Institute at Ackworth,...
, British Quaker minister - William G. PollardWilliam G. PollardWilliam Grosvenor Pollard was a physicist and an Episcopal priest. He started his career as a professor of physics in 1936 at University of Tennessee. In 1946 he championed the organization of the Oak Ridge Institute of Nuclear Studies . He was its executive director until 1974. He was ordained...
(d. 1989), American physicist
Fictional characters
- Charley PollardCharley PollardCharlotte Elspeth Pollard, or simply Charley, is a fictional character played by India Fisher in a series of audio plays produced by Big Finish Productions, many of which were broadcast on BBC Radio 7, based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. A young woman...
, a character from the Big Finish Doctor Who releases - Eric PollardEric PollardEric Charles Pollard is a fictional character from the British soap opera Emmerdale played by Chris Chittell.Pollard has appeared on the show since 1986, making him the second longest running current character after Alan Turner who has appeared since 1982. He has lied to, cheated and swindled...
, a character from British soap opera Emmerdale - Vicky PollardVicky PollardVicky Pollard is a fictional character from the British comedy TV series Little Britain, which aired on BBC.Vicky Pollard is a stereotypical chav. She is a teenage mother and juvenile delinquent and is known for her inarticulate and incredibly fast speech and incessant gossip...
, a character from British comedy show Little Britain