Armitage (surname)
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The Armitage surname
may refer to:
Surname
A surname is a name added to a given name and is part of a personal name. In many cases, a surname is a family name. Many dictionaries define "surname" as a synonym of "family name"...
may refer to:
- Alan ArmitageAlan ArmitageAlan Kenneth Armitage is a former English cricketer. Armitage was a right-handed batsman who occasionally fielded as a wicket-keeper. He was born at Nottingham, Nottinghamshire....
(born 1930), English cricketer - Albert Borlase ArmitageAlbert ArmitageAlbert Borlase Armitage was a Scottish explorer of Antarctica and captain in the Royal Navy.He was first a member of the Jackson-Harmsworth Expedition exploring Franz Josef Land...
(1864–1943), Scottish explorer - Alison Armitage (born 1965), British actress
- Allan M. ArmitageAllan ArmitageAllan M. Armitage , most famously known for his Tilley hat, is professor of horticulture at the University of Georgia, where he teaches, conducts research, and runs the University of Georgia Horticulture Gardens—producing annual guidelines for annuals and perennials suitable for heat and...
, professor of horticulture - Arnold ArmitageArnold ArmitageArnold Armitage was a British-born artist and illustrator, best known for his work with pin-up art. He moved to the United States around 1925 and settled in Hollywood, California, working for the Foster and Kleiser Company, which produced billboards...
, British-American artist and illustrator - Charles Ingram ArmitageCharles ArmitageCharles Ingram Armitage was an English amateur cricketer, who played first-class cricket for Yorkshire County Cricket Club. Although he appeared only three times, his career spanned six years, from 1873 to 1878. His father-in-law was the first-class cricketer, J. W...
(1849–1917), English cricketer - David ArmitageDavid Armitage (footballer)David Armitage is an Australian rules footballer who plays for the St Kilda Football Club in the Australian Football League .- AFL career :Armitage was drafted by the Saints with pick Number 9 in the 2006 AFL Draft...
(born 1988), Australian footballer - David Armitage (historian)David Armitage (historian)- Life and research :Armitage studies imperial, international, and intellectual history at Harvard University where he is the Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History. Armitage graduated from the University of Cambridge, and spent 2000 and 2001 on a fellowship at Harvard, before moving there from...
- Delon ArmitageDelon ArmitageDelon Anthony Armitage is a rugby union footballer who plays at wing or fullback for London Irish and England. He also occasionally plays centre and often does place kicking, mainly from a distance or if the regular kicker is unable to take it.From 1996 to 2002, Armitage lived in...
(born 1983), rugby union footballer - Edward ArmitageEdward ArmitageEdward Armitage was an English Victorian era painter whose work focussed on historical, classical and biblical subjects.-Family background:...
(1817–1896), English painter - Edward Leathley ArmitageEdward Armitage (cricketer)Edward Leathley Armitage was an Irish born English cricketer, the son of John Leathley Armitage and his wife Annie Jessie, née Nicholas...
(1891–1957), English cricketer - George ArmitageGeorge ArmitageGeorge Armitage is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer who got his start as part of the stable of up-and-coming filmmakers who broke into the business thru Roger Corman's New World Pictures...
(born 1942), American film director - Harry ArmitageHarry ArmitageHarold A. 'Harry' Armitage was a footballer who played professionally for Sheffield Wednesday, Bristol Rovers and Lincoln City.Armitage started out playing for Hathersage, with whom he won the Sheffield Amateur League during the 1919–20 season, before joining Sheffield Wednesday in 1920...
, English footballer - Heather Joy ArmitageHeather ArmitageHeather Joy Armitage is a British athlete who competed in sprint events.She competed for Great Britain in the 1956 Summer Olympics held in Melbourne, Australia where she won the silver medal in the 4 x 100 metres with her team mates Anne Pashley, Jean Scrivens and June Foulds...
(born 1933), British athlete - Jill ArmitageJill ArmitageJill Armitage is an English journalist and paranormal writer. She is the author of many books related to haunted places in Derbyshire. Her works include Haunted Pubs, Inns & Hotels of Derbyshire, Haunted Peak District, Haunted Places of Derbyshire, Haunted Derbyshire, Paranormal Derbyshire,...
, English writer on the paranormal - John ArmitageJohn ArmitageJohn Lindsay Armitage, OAM was an Australian politician. Born in Sydney, he was educated at Sydney Technical High School before undergoing military service from 1942 to 1945...
(born 1920), Australian politician - John Austin Armitage, first U.S. ambassador to TehranTehranTehran , sometimes spelled Teheran, is the capital of Iran and Tehran Province. With an estimated population of 8,429,807; it is also Iran's largest urban area and city, one of the largest cities in Western Asia, and is the world's 19th largest city.In the 20th century, Tehran was subject to...
, former American Assistant Secretary of State for European affairs. - Karole ArmitageKarole ArmitageKarole Armitage is an American dancer and choreographer currently based in New York City. She is Artistic Director of Armitage Gone! Dance, a contemporary ballet company that performs several times annually in New York City as well as touring internationally...
(born 1954), American dancer and choreographer - Kenneth ArmitageKenneth ArmitageWilliam Kenneth Armitage CBE was a British sculptor known for his semiabstract bronzes.-Biography:...
, British sculptor - Michael Armitage, Australian politician
- Norman ArmitageNorman ArmitageNorman Armitage , was an American saber fencer. He was tall, willowy, and sported a "little waxed moustache."-College:...
(1907–1972), American Olympic fencer - Peter ArmitagePeter ArmitagePeter Armitage is a statistician specialising in medical statistics.Peter Armitage attended Huddersfield College and went on to read mathematics at Trinity College, Cambridge. Armitage belonged to the generation of mathematicians who came to maturity in the Second World War...
(born 1924), English medical statistician - Peter ArmitagePeter Armitage (actor)Peter Armitage is an English television actor who trained at the East 15 Acting School. He has been a regular on British screens since the 1970s. He has enjoyed three spells as the character Bill Webster on long-running soap opera Coronation Street, appearing in the role in 1984 , then from 1995...
, British actor - Reginald Moxon Armitage (1898–1954), British composer, better known as Noel GayNoel GayNoel Gay was born Reginald Moxon Armitage. He also used the name Stanley Hill professionally. He was a successful British composer of popular music of the 1930s and 1940s whose output comprised 45 songs as well as the music for 28 films and 26 London shows...
- Richard Armitage (1928-1986), British talent agent, son of Noel Gay
- Richard ArmitageRichard Armitage (politician)Richard Lee Armitage, GCMG AC CNZM was the 13th United States Deputy Secretary of State, the second-in-command at the State Department, serving from 2001 to 2005.-Early life and military career:...
(born 1945), United States Deputy Secretary of State - Richard ArmitageRichard Armitage (actor)Richard Crispin Armitage is an English actor famous for his roles as John Thornton in North and South, Guy of Gisborne in Robin Hood, and Lucas North in Spooks...
(born 1971), English actor - Robert Armitage (MP) (1866-1954), British Member of Parliament for Leeds Central
- Robert Perceval ArmitageRobert Perceval ArmitageRobert Perceval Armitage was a British colonial administrator who held senior positions in Kenya and the Gold Coast, and was Governor of Cyprus and then Nyasaland during the period when the former British colonies were gaining independence.-Early years:Armitage was born on 21 December 1906 in...
(1906-1990), British colonial administrator in Africa - Robert Selby ArmitageRobert Selby ArmitageLieutenant-Commander Robert Selby Armitage GC, GM, RNVR won both the George Cross and George Medal for his bomb disposal work during the Second World War, one of only eight people to have been awarded both....
(1905-1982), English George CrossGeorge CrossThe George Cross is the highest civil decoration of the United Kingdom, and also holds, or has held, that status in many of the other countries of the Commonwealth of Nations...
and George MedalGeorge MedalThe George Medal is the second level civil decoration of the United Kingdom and Commonwealth.The GM was instituted on 24 September 1940 by King George VI. At this time, during the height of The Blitz, there was a strong desire to reward the many acts of civilian courage...
winner - Rosemary ArmitageRosemary ArmitageRosemary Lois Armitage is an Australian politician, an independent member of the Tasmanian Legislative Council, representing the electoral division of Launceston since her election on 7 May 2011....
, Australian politician - S. H. ArmitageS. H. ArmitageEthel Isabel Armitage was a British archer. She competed at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London.Armitage competed at the 1908 Games in the only archery event open to women, the double National round. She took 6th place in the event with 582 points.-References:*...
, British archer - Simon ArmitageSimon ArmitageSimon Armitage CBE is a British poet, playwright, and novelist.-Life and career:Simon Armitage was born in Marsden, West Yorkshire. Armitage first studied at Colne Valley High School, Linthwaite, Huddersfield and went on to study geography at Portsmouth Polytechnic...
(born 1963), British poet, novelist and playwright - Steffon ArmitageSteffon ArmitageSteffon Armitage is a rugby union player for RC Toulon in the Top 14.- Career :Armitage plays as a flanker. He is of heavy build but of comparatively slight stature for a modern day flanker. A comparison with Neil Back has been made and like Back he is quick and particularly effective in ruck...
(born 1985), rugby union footballer - Steve ArmitageSteve ArmitageSteve Armitage is an English-born Canadian sports reporter for CBC Sports. He has covered such events as Hockey Night in Canada, the Canadian Football League and Grey Cup, the Olympics, and the World Cup of Football.Armitage won the 1982 ACTRA Foster Hewitt Award for Excellence in Sports...
, sports reporter - Thomas Rhodes ArmitageThomas ArmitageThomas Rhodes Armitage was a British physician, and founder of the Royal National Institute of Blind People.He was born on 2 April 1824 at Tilgate in Sussex into a family of wealthy Yorkshire industrialists, the son of James Armitage and Anne Elizabeth Armitage née Rhodes , of Farnley Hall, just...
(1824–1890), British physician and founder of the Royal National Institute of the Blind - Tom ArmitageTom ArmitageThomas Armitage was an English cricketer, who played in two Tests for England. He holds the distinction, alphabetically sorted, of being the first capped England player.-Life and career:...
(1848–1922), English cricketer - William Edmond ArmitageWilliam Edmond ArmitageWilliam Edmond Armitage was a clergyman of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America. Born in the City of New York, he graduated from Columbia College in 1849 and the General Theological Seminary in 1852. He was ordained Deacon in the Church of the Transfiguration, New York on June 27,...
(1830–1873), American clergyman
Fictional characters
- Armitage, a character in the novel NeuromancerNeuromancerNeuromancer is a 1984 novel by William Gibson, a seminal work in the cyberpunk genre and the first winner of the science-fiction "triple crown" — the Nebula Award, the Philip K. Dick Award, and the Hugo Award. It was Gibson's debut novel and the beginning of the Sprawl trilogy...
by William Gibson - Naomi Armitage, an android in the anime series Armitage
- Detective-Judge ArmitageDetective-Judge ArmitageDetective-Judge Armitage is a fictional Judge in the Judge Dredd setting. He was created by Dave Stone and Sean Phillips for the Judge Dredd Megazine, and is from Brit-Cit, rather than Dredd's Mega-City One. He is one of the main English characters in the comic.-Biography:Armitage is a tall, white...
, a character in a spin-off from Judge Dredd - Jake Armitage, a Shadowrunner in the SNESSuper Nintendo Entertainment SystemThe Super Nintendo Entertainment System is a 16-bit video game console that was released by Nintendo in North America, Europe, Australasia , and South America between 1990 and 1993. In Japan and Southeast Asia, the system is called the , or SFC for short...
RPG Shadowrun (SNES)Shadowrun (SNES)Shadowrun is a cyberpunk action role-playing video game for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System . It was adapted from the tabletop role-playing game Shadowrun by FASA... - Henry Armitage, a character in Howard P. Lovecraft's story The Dunwich HorrorThe Dunwich Horror"The Dunwich Horror" is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft. Written in 1928, it was first published in the April 1929 issue of Weird Tales . It takes place in Dunwich, a fictional town in Massachusetts...
- Willy Armitage, an IMF agent in the TV series Mission: ImpossibleMission: ImpossibleMission: Impossible is an American television series which was created and initially produced by Bruce Geller. It chronicled the missions of a team of secret American government agents known as the Impossible Missions Force . The leader of the team was Jim Phelps, played by Peter Graves, except in...
- Mrs Armitage, by Quentin BlakeQuentin BlakeQuentin Saxby Blake, CBE, FCSD, RDI, is an English cartoonist, illustrator and children's author, well-known for his collaborations with writer Roald Dahl.-Education:...