Bellamy (surname)
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Bellamy is a surname of Norman origin, from beu/bel (good, fair, handsome) and ami (friend):
- Anthony "Tony" BellamyTony BellamyAnthony Bellamy or Tony "T-Bone" Bellamy, born as Anthony Avila on 12 September 1946 to parents James and Olga Bellamy, died 25 December 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada, was a Mexican-American Yaqui Indian, who became the lead guitarist, pianist and vocalist for the Native American rock band Redbone, in...
, lead guitarist, pianist and vocalist of the 1970s band RedboneRedbone (band)Redbone is a Native American rock group that was most active in the 1970s. They reached the Top 5 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1974 with the million-selling gold-certified single, "Come and Get Your Love".-History:... - Arthur BellamyArthur BellamyArthur Bellamy is a former footballer who played for Burnley and Chesterfield.-Football career:He signed for Burnley in 1959, making his debut against Manchester City in 1963. He went on to make a total of 250 appearances for the club in all competitions, scoring 29 goals...
(born 1942), English footballer - Ben BellamyBenjamin BellamyBenjamin Walter Bellamy was a professional cricketer who spent his entire career at Northamptonshire. His career spanned 16 years, retiring in 1935 by which time he had played 351 first-class matches, but returning in a crisis for two games two seasons later...
, English first-class cricketer - Bill BellamyBill BellamyWilliam "Bill" Bellamy is an American actor and stand-up comedian. He currently resides in California. Bellamy first gained national notoriety on HBO's Russell Simmons' Def Comedy Jam, where he is credited for creating or uttering before a televised audience, the phrase "booty call", described as...
, American actor - Carol BellamyCarol BellamyCarol Bellamy has been Director of the Peace Corps, Executive Director of the United Nations Children's Fund , and President and CEO of World Learning. In April, 2009, Bellamy was appointed as Chair of the International Baccalaureate Board of Governors...
, American activist - Charles BellamyCharles BellamyCharles Bellamy was an 18th century English pirate who raided colonial American shipping in New England and later off the coast of the Carolinas, to which he himself would later quote "making war on the whole world"...
, English pirate - Charlotte BellamyCharlotte BellamyCharlotte Bellamy is an English actress.-Early life:Bellamy attended Middlesex University studying Performance Arts, graduating in 1993.-Acting career:...
, English actress - Craig BellamyCraig BellamyCraig Douglas Bellamy is a Welsh footballer who plays as a striker for Liverpool and the Welsh national team. Born in Cardiff, Bellamy was the captain of the Welsh national side for four years after taking over from Ryan Giggs in 2007, but stood down in January 2011 due to constant injuries...
, Welsh footballer - Craig Bellamy (rugby league), Australian rugby league coach
- David BellamyDavid BellamyDavid James Bellamy OBE is a British author, broadcaster, environmental campaigner and botanist. He has lived in County Durham since 1960.-Career:...
, British botanist and writer - Denise BellamyDenise BellamyDenise Bellamy is a Canadian judge.Bellamy obtained a B.A. in Political Science from Carleton University, then obtained her law degree from Osgoode Hall Law School....
, Canadian judge - Dodie BellamyDodie BellamyDodie Bellamy is an American novelist, nonfiction author, journalist and editor. Her work is frequently associated with that of Dennis Cooper, Kathy Acker, and Eileen Myles...
, writer - Edward BellamyEdward BellamyEdward Bellamy was an American author and socialist, most famous for his utopian novel, Looking Backward, set in the year 2000. He was a very influential writer during the Gilded Age of United States history.-Early life:...
(1850-98), American journalist, utopian, and writer of speculative fiction - Elizabeth BellamyElizabeth BellamyElizabeth Kirbridge is a fictional character in the ITV period drama Upstairs, Downstairs, that was originally broadcast for five series from 1971 to 1975. She was portrayed by Nicola Pagett....
, a fictional character in Upstairs, Downstairs - Francis BellamyFrancis BellamyFrancis Julius Bellamy was an author, editor, and Baptist minister born in Mount Morris, New York. He attended Rome Free Academy in Rome, New York, the University of Rochester and the Rochester Theological Seminary . He was an American Baptist minister and Christian Socialist who wrote the...
, author of the U.S. Pledge of Allegiance; cousin of Edward Bellamy - Francis Rufus BellamyFrancis Rufus BellamyFrancis Rufus Bellamy was an American writer and editor.-Life:He was editor of Outlook from 1927 to 1932, and was executive editor of The New Yorker in 1933. He was editor of Fiction Parade from 1935 to 1938, and became editor of Scribner's Commentator in 1939...
, American writer and editor - Frank BellamyFrank BellamyFrank Bellamy was a British comics artist, best known for his work on the Eagle comic, for which he illustrated Heros the Spartan and Fraser of Africa. He reworked its flagship Dan Dare strip....
, British comics artist - George Bellamy (musician), guitarist with 60s band The Tornados
- George Anne BellamyGeorge Anne BellamyGeorge Anne Bellamy was an English actress. She was born, by her own account, at Fingal, Ireland. "George Anne" was a name given by mistake for Georgiana, who was the illegitimate daughter of Lord Tyrawley and was educated by him. Choosing, however, to live with her mother, she made the...
(c. 1731-88), English actress - Hans Schindler BellamyHans Schindler BellamyHans Schindler Bellamy was a researcher and author. His books investigate the work of Austrian cosmologist, Hans Hoerbiger and German selenographer, Philipp Fauth, whose now-defunct Cosmic Ice Theory :Bellamy's first book, Moons, Myths and Man, describes Hoerbiger's theory in detail, and its...
, Austrian author - Hazel Bellamy, a fictional character in Upstairs, Downstairs
- Jacobus BellamyJacobus BellamyJacob Bellamy was a Dutch poet.He was the son of a Swiss baker.- Works :* Gezangen mijner jeugd...
(1757-86), Dutch poet - James BellamyJames BellamyMajor The Honourable James Rupert Bellamy MC is a fictional character in the ITV period drama Upstairs, Downstairs, that was originally broadcast for five series from 1971 to 1975...
, a fictional character in Upstairs, Downstairs - Jay BellamyJay BellamyJay Bellamy is a former American football safety most notably for the New Orleans Saints of the National Football League. He was originally signed by the Seattle Seahawks as an undrafted free agent in 1994...
, American football player - Jerome BellamyJerome BellamyJerome Bellamy , of Uxenden Hall, near London, England, was a member of an old Roman Catholic recusant family noted for its hospitality to missionaries and fellow recusants.Bellamy was a warm sympathizer with Mary, Queen of Scots...
, English Catholic - John Dillard BellamyJohn Dillard BellamyJohn Dillard Bellamy was a Democratic U.S. Congressman from North Carolina between 1899 and 1903.Born in Wilmington, North Carolina, Bellamy attended local common schools, the Cape Fear Military Academy, Davidson College, graduating in 1873, and finally the University of Virginia at...
, U.S. congressman from North Carolina - John Haley BellamyJohn Haley BellamyJohn Haley Bellamy was a noted New England folk artist, known for his highly stylized carved wooden eagles and other decorative items for ships and homes. Bellamy was born in Kittery, Maine in 1836, and stayed there for much of his career. Later in his life he lived and worked elsewhere in New...
, American folk artist - Joseph BellamyJoseph BellamyJoseph Bellamy was an American Congregationalist pastor and a leading preacher, author, educator and theologian in New England in the second half of the 18th century.-Life:...
(1719-90), American theologian - Madge BellamyMadge BellamyMadge Bellamy was an American film actress who was a popular leading lady in the 1920s and early 1930s. Her career declined in the sound era, and ended following a romantic scandal in the 1940s.-Early life:...
, American actress - Lady Marjorie BellamyLady Marjorie BellamyThe Lady Marjorie Helen Sybil Bellamy was a fictional character in the ITV drama Upstairs, Downstairs...
, a fictional character in Upstairs, Downstairs - Matthew BellamyMatthew BellamyMatthew James Bellamy is an English musician, singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, best known as the lead vocalist, lead guitarist, pianist, and main songwriter of the alternative rock band Muse.-Early life:...
, singer and guitarist with the rock band MuseMuse (band)Muse are an English alternative rock band from Teignmouth, Devon, formed in 1994. The band consists of school friends Matthew Bellamy , Christopher Wolstenholme and Dominic Howard... - Mike BellamyMike BellamyMichael Sinclair "Mike" Bellamy, Jr. is a former American football wide receiver in the National Football League who played for the Philadelphia Eagles in 1990. He was drafted by the Eagles in the second round of the 1990 NFL Draft...
, American football player - Peter BellamyPeter BellamyPeter Franklyn Bellamy was an English folk singer. He was a founding member of The Young Tradition but also had a long solo career, recording numerous albums and touring folk clubs and concert halls...
, British musician - Ralph BellamyRalph BellamyRalph Bellamy was an American actor whose career spanned sixty-two years.-Early life:He was born Ralph Rexford Bellamy in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Lilla Louise , a native of Canada, and Charles Rexford Bellamy. He ran away from home when he was fifteen and managed to get into a road show...
, American actor - Ron BellamyRon BellamyThis article is about the professional boxer. For the American football player, see Ronald Bellamy."Rockin'" Ron Bellamy is an American professional boxer. He is the half-brother of former NBA center Walt Bellamy...
, American professional boxer - Samuel BellamySamuel BellamySamuel Bellamy , aka "Black Sam" Bellamy, was an English pirate who operated in the early 18th century....
, 18th century pirate - Steven BellamySteven BellamySteven John Bellamy is a British martial artist, author, and lecturer.-Biography:Steve Bellamy practiced judo and boxing at school. He began studying karate in the early sixties, crediting the seminal book Karate the Art of Empty Hand Fighting by Nishiyama and Brown as his inspirational source...
, British martial artist - Tom BellamyTom BellamyThomas Rhys Bellamy is the multi-instrumentalist responsible for contributing guitar, bass, synthesizer, keyboard, trumpet, programming, samples, melodica, harmonica, percussion, toy piano, bowed guitar, decks, FX/beats, vocals and lyrics in the band The Cooper Temple Clause...
, singer with The Cooper Temple Clause - Walt Bellamy, American basketball player