Saunders
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Saunders is a surname
of English
and Scottish
patronymic
origin derived from Sander, a mediæval form of Alexander
.
People with the surname Saunders include:
Fictional characters with the surname Saunders include:
Surname
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of English
English people
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and Scottish
Scottish people
The Scottish people , or Scots, are a nation and ethnic group native to Scotland. Historically they emerged from an amalgamation of the Picts and Gaels, incorporating neighbouring Britons to the south as well as invading Germanic peoples such as the Anglo-Saxons and the Norse.In modern use,...
patronymic
Patronymic
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origin derived from Sander, a mediæval form of Alexander
Alexander
Alexander is a common male first name, and less common surname. The most famous is Alexander the Great, the King of Macedon who created one of the largest empires in ancient history.- Origin :...
.
People with the surname Saunders include:
- Al SaundersAl SaundersAl Saunders is the current offensive coordinator for the Oakland Raiders.-Early life and playing career:Born in London, England, he became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1960, and is one of four foreign-born coaches in the NFL...
, American football coach - Allen SaundersAllen SaundersAllen Saunders was an American writer, journalist and cartoonist who wrote the comic strips Steve Roper and Mike Nomad, Mary Worth and Kerry Drake...
, American cartoonist - Alvin SaundersAlvin SaundersAlvin Saunders was a U.S. Senator from Nebraska, in the United States, as well as the governor of the Nebraska Territory for most of the American Civil War.-Education:Saunders was born in Fleming County, Kentucky...
, American politician - Albert Charles SaundersAlbert Charles SaundersAlbert Charles Saunders was a Canadian politician and jurist from Prince Edward Island.Saunders served as mayor of Summerside for four terms...
, Canadian politician - Arthur Frederick SaundersArthur Frederick SaundersArthur Frederick Saunders VC Arthur Frederick Saunders VC Arthur Frederick Saunders VC (Ipswich (23 April 1879 – 30 July 1947) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and...
, British soldier - Ben Saunders (disambiguation)
- Bradley SaundersBradley SaundersBradley Saunders is a British amateur boxer who won bronze at the 2007 World Amateur Boxing Championships and who competed in the 2008 Beijing Olympics.-Amateur career:...
English boxer - Charles Saunders (disambiguation):
- Charles Saunders (admiral)Charles Saunders (admiral)Admiral Sir Charles Saunders, KB was a Royal Navy officer in the Royal Navy during the Seven Years' War and later served as First Lord of the Admiralty. He was appointed to the Privy Council in 1766.-Early career:...
(1713-1775), British admiral - Charles Saunders (administrator)Charles Saunders (administrator)Sir Charles Saunders was the Chief Commissioner and Resident Magistrate of Zululand. He was responsible for the annexation of the territory in Southern Africa then called British Maputaland...
(died 1931), British administrator - Charles Saunders (rower)Charles Saunders (rower)Charles Saunders was a New Zealand rower who competed at the 1932 Summer Olympics and the 1930 British Empire Games.He was born in Blenheim....
(1902-1994), New Zealand rower - Charles Saunders (tennis player), real tennisReal tennisReal tennis – one of several games sometimes called "the sport of kings" – is the original indoor racquet sport from which the modern game of lawn tennis , is descended...
world champion (1890-1895) - Charles E. SaundersCharles E. SaundersSir Charles Edward Saunders, FRSC was a Canadian agronomist. He was the inventor of Marquis Wheat....
(1867-1937), Canadian agronomist
- Charles Saunders (admiral)
- Cicely SaundersCicely SaundersDame Cicely Mary Saunders, was a prominent Anglican, nurse, physician and writer, involved with many international universities...
, British physician - Clarence Saunders (grocer), American retailer
- Clarence Saunders (athlete), Bermudian high jumper
- E. Dale SaundersE. Dale SaundersE. Dale Saunders was an American scholar of Romance languages and literature, Japanese Buddhism, classical Japanese literature, and East Asian civilization....
, American scholar - Dave SaundersDave Saunders (volleyball)David Patrick Saunders is a former volleyball player form the United States, who was a member of the American Men's National Team that won the gold medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics. Four years later, when Seoul hosted the 1988 Summer Olympics, he once again won a gold medal.-References:*...
, American volleyball player - David Saunders (American football), American football receiver
- Dean SaundersDean SaundersDean Nicholas Saunders is a former Wales international footballer who played as a striker in a professional career which lasted from 1982 until 2001. He is the manager of Doncaster Rovers....
, Welsh footballer - Debra SaundersDebra SaundersDebra J. Saunders is a conservative columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle. Syndicated by Creators Syndicate, her thrice weekly column is also carried by newspapers throughout the country and on townhall.com. Saunders also blogs for the Chronicle under the moniker Token Conservative...
, American journalist - Dero A. SaundersDero A. SaundersJohn P. Grier was an American journalist and classical scholar.He was born in Starkville, Mississippi. A graduate of Dartmouth College, he was executive editor of Forbes Magazine from 1960-1981, and continued to edit a regular column until 1999.As a reporter for Fortune magazine in 1957 he...
, American journalist - Doug SaundersDoug SaundersDoug Saunders is a well-known British-Canadian journalist and author, a columnist and reporter for the Globe and Mail, a Canadian national newspaper based in Toronto, Canada...
, Canadian journalist - Drew P. SaundersDrew P. SaundersDrew Paschal Saunders is a Democratic member of the North Carolina General Assembly representing the state's ninety-ninth House district, including constituents in Mecklenburg county...
, American politician - Edward Saunders:
- Edward W. SaundersEdward W. SaundersEdward Watts Saunders was born in Franklin County, Virginia. His primary education was received from tutors at home and at Bellevue Academy in Bedford County. From the Academy, he entered the University of Virginia. After graduation, he joined Professor F.P. Brent in conducting a classical...
(1860–1921), Virginian politician - Edward Saunders (judge)Edward Saunders (judge)Sir Edward Saunders was an English judge and Chief Justice of the Queen’s Bench.-Early life and career:Saunders was the third son of Thomas Saunders of Sibertoft or of Harrington, Northamptonshire, by Margaret, daughter of Richard Cave. His younger brother was Laurence Saunders, the martyr. He was...
(died 1576), British judge - Edward Saunders (entomologist)Edward Saunders (entomologist)Edward Saunders was an English entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera and Hemiptera and Hymenoptera.He was a businessman associated with Lloyds Bank studying entomology in his spare time. His Catalogus Buprestidarum of 1871 was 'a work whose importance was immediately recognised, and which has...
(1848–1910), British entomologist
- Edward W. Saunders
- Ernest SaundersErnest SaundersErnest Walter Saunders is a former British business manager, best known as one of the "Guinness Four", a group of businessmen who attempted to fraudulently manipulate the share price of the Guinness company. He was sentenced to five years' imprisonment, but released after 10 months as he was...
, British businessman - Flip SaundersFlip SaundersPhillip "Flip" Saunders is an American basketball head coach of the Washington Wizards. He previously coached the Detroit Pistons and the Minnesota Timberwolves.-High school and college player:Saunders was born in Cincinnati, Ohio....
, American basketball coach - George SaundersGeorge SaundersGeorge Saunders is a New York Times bestselling American writer of short stories, essays, novellas and children's books. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, McSweeney's and GQ, among other publications...
, American short story writer - Helen SaundersHelen SaundersHelen Saunders was an English painter.Helen Saunders was born in Bedford Park, Ealing....
, British artist - Harold H. SaundersHarold H. SaundersHarold H. Saunders was the United States Assistant Secretary of State for Near East Affairs between 1978 and 1981. He is director of international affairs at the Kettering Foundation and the Founder and President of the International Institute for Sustained Dialogue...
, American diplomat - Howard SaundersHoward SaundersHoward Saunders was a British businessman, who later in life molded himself into a noted ornithologist.-Biography:...
, British ornithologist - Hugh SaundersHugh SaundersAir Chief Marshal Sir Hugh William Lumsden Saunders GCB KBE MC DFC and Bar MM RAF was a South African who rose through the ranks to become a senior Royal Air Force commander.-RAF career:...
, South African Royal Air Force commander - Irene SaundersIrene SaundersIrene Saunders is the author of the English-Chinese dictionary The Right Word in Chinese or Hànyǔ Zhǐnán.-Biography:Saunders graduated from West Virginia University with a degree in chemistry. She is married to Lynn C...
, American dictionary compiler - J. J. SaundersJ. J. SaundersJohn Joseph Saunders was a British historian whose work focused on medieval Islamic and Asian history.Born in Alphington, Devon, he was educated at Exeter University. He was a lecturer at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand. Geoffrey Rice wrote of him:John Saunders was an only child, and...
, British historian - Jack SaundersJack SaundersJohn Victor Saunders was an Australian cricketer who played in 14 Tests from 1902 to 1908....
, Australian cricketer - Jake SaundersJake SaundersSir John Anthony Holt Saunders, CBE, DSO, MC was chairman of The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation , at a time of rapid and turbulent development of the Hong Kong economy...
, British banker in Hong Kong - Jay SaundersJay SaundersJay Saunders born 29 June 1944, is a trumpeter and music educator at the collegiate level. He is most known for being a lead trumpeter with big bands — including the Stan Kenton Orchestra — and a recording studio musician in the Dallas area...
, Big band lead trumpeter, collegiate jazz studies educator - Jennifer SaundersJennifer SaundersJennifer Jane Saunders is an English comedienne, screenwriter, singer and actress. She has won two BAFTAs, an International Emmy Award, a British Comedy Award, a Rose d'Or Light Entertainment Festival Award, two Writers' Guild of Great Britain Awards, and a Peoples Choice Award.She first came into...
(born 1958), British comedienne and actress - Joe SaundersJoe SaundersJoseph Francis Saunders is a Major League Baseball left-handed pitcher for the Arizona Diamondbacks.-College and minor league career:...
, American baseball player - John Saunders (journalist), Canadian journalist
- John Cunningham SaundersJohn Cunningham SaundersJohn Cunningham Saunders, M.D. was an English surgeon, known for his pioneering work on the surgery of cataracts. He was founder of the Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital .-Life:Saunders was born at Huish, Devon, England...
, British surgeon - Joseph SaundersJoseph SaundersJoseph Saunders is the CEO of the multi billion dollar credit card distribution company Visa Inc., appointed in 2007. Before joining Visa International, he was assigned as president of card services for Washington Mutual, Inc. since acquiring Providian Financial Corporation in October 2005...
, Visa Inc. CEO - Kate SaundersKate SaundersKate Saunders is an English author, actress and journalist. The daughter of the early public relations advocate Basil Saunders and his journalist wife Betty , Saunders has worked for newspapers and magazines in the UK, including The Sunday Times, Sunday Express, Daily Telegraph, She and...
, British journalist - Laurence SaundersLaurence SaundersLaurence Saunders England was an English Protestant martyr, whose story is recorded in Foxe's Book of Martyrs...
, British preacher of the sixteenth century - Leslie Howard SaundersLeslie Howard SaundersLeslie Howard Saunders was Mayor of Toronto from 1954 to 1955 and the last member of the Orange Order to hold the position until William Dennison. He also served as Mayor of East York in 1976.-Early life:...
, Canadian mayor - Margaret Marshall SaundersMargaret Marshall SaundersMargaret Marshall Saunders CBE was a Canadian author.Saunders was born in the village of Milton, Nova Scotia, though she spent most of her childhood in Berwick, Nova Scotia where her father was a Baptist minister. Saunders is most famous for her novel Beautiful Joe...
, Canadian writer - Matthew SaundersMatthew SaundersMatthew Saunders is a professional English footballer who is a free agent after being released by Fulham at the end of the 2010–11 season.-Career:...
, English footballer - Merl SaundersMerl SaundersMerl Saunders, was an American multi-genre musician who played piano and keyboards, favoring the Hammond B-3 console organ.-Biography:...
, American musician - Neil SaundersNeil SaundersNeil Saunders is a footballer who plays as a midfielder. He is currently a free agent, having been most recently contracted to Exeter City in League One. He has played international futsal for England.-Career:...
(born 1983), English footballer - Nicholas Saunders (Vice-Chancellor)Nicholas Saunders (Vice-Chancellor)Nicholas Andrew Saunders is an Australian academic and was the [Vice-Chancellor]] of the Nicholas Andrew Saunders is an [[Australia]]n [[academic]] and was the [Vice-Chancellor]] of the...
of the University of Newcastle - Nicholas Saunders (activist), British entrepreneur of the Alternative Culture and, later, Ecstasy advocate
- Nicholas J. SaundersNicholas J. SaundersNicholas J. Saunders is a British academic archaeologist and anthropologist. He was educated at the universities of Sheffield , Cambridge , and Southampton...
(b.1953), British academic archaeologist and anthropologist - Nigella SaundersNigella SaundersNigella Jekyll Saunders is a female badminton player from Jamaica, who won two medals at the 2003 Pan American Games. Saunders played badminton at the 2004 Summer Olympics, losing to Mia Audina of the Netherlands in the round of 32...
, Jamaican badminton player - Norman SaundersNorman SaundersNorman Blaine Saunders was a prolific commercial artist who produced paintings for pulp magazines, paperbacks, men's adventure magazines, comic books and trading cards...
, American illustrator - Norman Saunders (politician)Norman Saunders (politician)Norman B. Saunders is a former politician from the Turks and Caicos Islands. He served as the island territory's Chief Minister until March 1985, when he was arrested in Miami...
, politician from the Turks and Caicos Islands - Oliver SaundersOliver SaundersOliver Saunders is an Australian–Filipino rugby union player for the Philippines national rugby union team where his position is at fly half. Saunders is a former rugby league footballer with Norths in the Jersey Flegg Cup...
, jazz pianist - Pamela Saunders, American model
- Peter Saunders (disambiguation)
- Rachel SaundersRachel SaundersRachel Saunders is a beauty queen who has held the title Miss Kansas USA 2005 and competed at Miss USA. She is also known as 'Bissy' or 'Mwissy' but her official title is now Mrs Sunshine....
, American beauty queen - Raymond Saunders (disambiguation):
- Raymond Saunders (artist)Raymond Saunders (artist)Raymond Saunders is an American artist born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1934. He currently lives and works in Oakland, California. Saunders is currently a professor of Painting at California College of the Arts, Oakland, California. He is a visual artist, with a place in American art history...
- Raymond Saunders (clockmaker)Raymond Saunders (clockmaker)Raymond Saunders is a Canadian clockmaker who has designed and built more than 150 customized clocks that mainly serve as tourist-attracting public artworks. In 1977 he was commissioned to build a steam clock for the Gastown district of Vancouver, Canada...
- Raymond Saunders (artist)
- Rebecca SaundersRebecca Saunders-Biography:Saunders studied violin and composition at the University of Edinburgh. This was followed by a scholarship from the DAAD from 1991 to 1994 to study composition at the Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe with Wolfgang Rihm, and in 1997 a doctorate in composition with Nigel Osborne.She has...
, composer - Reg SaundersReg SaundersReginald Walter Saunders MBE was the first Aboriginal commissioned officer in the Australian Army. Enlisting as a soldier in 1940, he served during World War II in North Africa, Greece and Crete before being commissioned as a lieutenant and serving as a platoon commander in New Guinea in...
, Australian army officer - Richard Saunders (disambiguation)
- Robert Saunders, American mayor
- Robert Hood SaundersRobert Hood SaundersRobert Hood Saunders, Q.C., CBE was mayor of Toronto from 1945 to 1948, President of the Canadian National Exhibition, chairman of the Ontario Hydro ....
, Canadian mayor - Romulus Mitchell SaundersRomulus Mitchell SaundersRomulus Mitchell Saunders was an American politician from North Carolina.Saunders was born near Milton, Caswell County, North Carolina. He was the son of William Saunders and Hannah Mitchell Saunders, attended Hyco and Caswell Academies and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill...
, North Carolina politician - Ron SaundersRon SaundersRon Saunders is a retired English football player and former successful manager. He remains the only manager to have taken charge of Aston Villa, Birmingham City and West Bromwich Albion, normally bitter rivals....
, English football player and manager - Stephen Saunders (military attache)Stephen Saunders (military attache)Brigadier Stephen Saunders , the British military attaché in Athens, was killed on 8 June 2000 by motorcycle gunmen who were members of Revolutionary Organization 17 November...
, British military attache based in Greece - Thomas Harry SaundersThomas Harry SaundersThomas Harry Saunders , usually called T. H. Saunders, was a British paper-maker known especially for his watermarks, and also a philanthropist....
, British paper-maker - Tobias SaundersTobias SaundersTobias Saunders was a Deputy to the Rhode Island General Assembly , a Conservator of the Peace and a founding settler of Westerly, Rhode Island.-Early life in England:...
, Deputy to the Rhode Island General Assembly - Tony SaundersTony SaundersAnthony Scott "Tony" Saunders is a retired American Major League baseball pitcher for three seasons between 1997 and 1999. He was the first player selected by the-then Tampa Bay Devil Rays in the expansion draft....
, American baseball player - Turner SaundersTurner SaundersThe Rev. Turner Saunders , a noted Methodist preacher, was born in Brunswick County, Virginia.In 1830 he was elected President of the Board of Trustees of an academy for young women. This was LaGrange College, near Leighton, Alabama, which was burned during the Civil War. He served in that...
, American Methodist preacher - William Saunders (botanist), American botanist
- William Saunders (photographer)William Saunders (photographer)William Thomas Saunders was a British-born photographer who settled in China and became one of the main commercial photographers in nineteenth century China.- Life and career :...
, British photographer - William Wilson SaundersWilliam Wilson SaundersWilliam Wilson Saunders was a British insurance broker, entomologist and botanist.Saunders was an underwriter at Lloyd's of London...
, British entomologist
Fictional characters with the surname Saunders include:
- Daniel (Danny) Saunders, in Chaim Potok's The ChosenThe Chosen (Chaim Potok)The Chosen is a novel written by Chaim Potok. It was published in 1969. It follows the main character Reuven Malter and his friend Daniel Saunders, as they grow up in New York in the 1940s. A sequel featuring Reuven's young adult years is titled The Promise.-Plot:The Chosen is set in the 1900s, in...
and The Promise - Finbarr SaundersFinbarr SaundersFinbarr Saunders is a comic strip in the British comic magazine Viz.The strip is about a boy who is always overhearing ambiguous conversations, usually between his divorced mother and their neighbour, Mr. Gimlet, with whom she always eventually ends up having sex...
, in Viz - Grace Saunders, in the Alone in the Dark seriesAlone in the Dark (series)Alone in the Dark is a series of survival horror computer games from Infogrames. In most of the series, the gamer plays as private investigator Edward Carnby, who usually goes to investigate a haunted mansion or town that is full of undead creatures. The story is based on the writings of H. P...
- Reb Isaac Saunders, in Chaim Potok's The ChosenThe Chosen (Chaim Potok)The Chosen is a novel written by Chaim Potok. It was published in 1969. It follows the main character Reuven Malter and his friend Daniel Saunders, as they grow up in New York in the 1940s. A sequel featuring Reuven's young adult years is titled The Promise.-Plot:The Chosen is set in the 1900s, in...
and The Promise - Saunders, a fellow MI6 Agent in the James Bond film The Living DaylightsThe Living DaylightsThe Living Daylights is the fifteenth entry in the James Bond series and the first to star Timothy Dalton as the fictional MI6 agent 007. The film's title is taken from Ian Fleming's short story, "The Living Daylights"...
- Speed SaundersSpeed SaundersCyrill "Speed" Saunders is a DC Comics character who first appeared in Detective Comics #1 . He was an adventurer and detective whose occupation was for a long time never specified. He seemed not to report to anyone, but was able to order people around. Eventually, it was revealed that he was a...
, in DC ComicsDC ComicsDC Comics, Inc. is one of the largest and most successful companies operating in the market for American comic books and related media. It is the publishing unit of DC Entertainment a company of Warner Bros. Entertainment, which itself is owned by Time Warner... - Stephen Saunders (24 character), in 2424 (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...
See also
- Saunders County, NebraskaSaunders County, Nebraska-History:Saunders County was established by an 1856 act of the Nebraska Territorial Legislature; its boundaries were redefined in 1858. The county was originally named after John C...
- Saunders-RoeSaunders-RoeSaunders-Roe Limited was a British aero- and marine-engineering company based at Columbine Works East Cowes, Isle of Wight.-History:The name was adopted in 1929 after Alliot Verdon Roe and John Lord took a controlling interest in the boat-builders S.E. Saunders...
British aero and marine-engineering company - Saunders (publisher)Saunders (publisher)Saunders is an American publisher. It is currently an imprint of Elsevier.Formerly independent, the W. B. Saunders company was acquired by CBS in 1968, who added it to their publishing division Holt, Rinehart & Winston. When CBS exited the publishing field in 1986, it sold the academic publishing...
, now part of ElsevierElsevierElsevier is a publishing company which publishes medical and scientific literature. It is a part of the Reed Elsevier group. Based in Amsterdam, the company has operations in the United Kingdom, USA and elsewhere.... - Saunders Secondary SchoolSaunders Secondary SchoolSaunders Secondary School is located at 941 Viscount Road in the Westmount suburb of London, Ontario, Canada. It is named after William Saunders and his family. William Saunders was a Canadian pioneer and an authority on all matters pertaining to agriculture and horticulture. Grades offered are...
, a school in the Thames Valley District School BoardThames Valley District School BoardThe Thames Valley District School Board is a public school board in southwestern Ontario. It was created on January 1, 1998 by the amalgamation of the Elgin County Board of Education, The Board of Education for the City of London, Middlesex County Board of Education, and Oxford County Board of... - Saunderstown, Rhode IslandSaunderstown, Rhode IslandSaunderstown is a small village and historic district in the towns of Narragansett and North Kingstown in Washington County, Rhode Island, United States....
, a village in the United States