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- Allan BoardmanAllan BoardmanProfessor Allan Boardman is well-known both in the UK and globally for his work on surface plasmons and guided wave optics, especially nonlinear waves, solitons, magneto-optics and negative refracting metamaterials...
, British physicist - Andrea BoardmanAndrea BoardmanAndrea Boardman is an English television presenter.-Presenting career:She started out presenting when ITV's Disney Club launched in the UK in 1988. Andrea was given the role as female presenter after 2000 hopefuls applied for the job...
(born 1967), English television presenter - Chris BoardmanChris BoardmanChristopher "Chris" Boardman MBE is a former English racing cyclist who won an individual pursuit gold medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics and broke the world hour record three times, as well as winning three stages and wearing the yellow jersey on three separate occasions at the Tour de France...
(born 1968), British cyclist - Christopher BoardmanChristopher Boardman100pxChristopher Alan Boardman was a British sailor who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics.In 1936 he was a crew member of the British boat Lalage which won the gold medal in the 6 metre class....
(1903–1987), British sailor - David Sherman BoardmanDavid Sherman BoardmanDavid Sherman Boardman was an American lawyer, judge, and state assemblyman in the early United States.The youngest child of Deacon Sherman and Sarah Boardman, he lived for nearly his entire life in New Milford. He was born at a farm near Housatonic, and suffered severe illness...
(1786–1864), American lawyer, judge, and politician - Dixon BoardmanDixon BoardmanDixon Boardman was an American track and field athlete who competed at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris, France.Boardman competed in the 100 metres event, placing 12th or 13th overall...
(1880–1954), American track and field athlete - Eleanor BoardmanEleanor BoardmanEleanor Boardman was an American film actress, popular during the era of silent movies.-Early life and career:...
(1898–1991), American film actress - Elijah BoardmanElijah BoardmanElijah Boardman was a United States Senator from Connecticut. Born to a noted and politically connected Connecticut family, he served in the United States Army before becoming a noted merchant and businessman. Becoming involved in property and land ownership in Connecticut and Ohio, he founded the...
(1760–1823), American politician - George BoardmanGeorge BoardmanGeorge Dana Boardman was born in Livermore, Maine, the son of the Rev. Sylvanus Boardman. He attended Colby College, and was the school's first graduate in 1822. He served as tutor for a year at Colby, then continued his education at Andover Theological Seminary. On February 16, 1825, he was...
(1801–1831), American missionary to Burma - George Boardman the YoungerGeorge Boardman the YoungerGeorge Dana Boardman the Younger was born in Burma, the son of the Baptist missionaries George Dana Boardman and Sarah Hall Boardman. He returned to the United States as a boy and attended first Worcester Academy from which he graduated in 1846, then Brown University, where he graduated in 1852...
(1828–1903), American theologian - Harold BoardmanHarold BoardmanHarold Boardman was a British Labour Party politician.Boardman worked as an official of the Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers and was a member of Derby Town Council for 25 years...
(1907–1994), British politician - Harry BoardmanHarry BoardmanHarry Boardman was a folk singer who was born in Failsworth, Lancashire.-Discography:*Owdham Edge, Topic Records *A Lancashire Mon, Topic Records *Golden Stream, AK Records *Personal Selection...
(1930–1987), English folk singer - John BoardmanJohn BoardmanJack Melton Boardman, commonly known as John Boardman, is an American former professor of physics at Brooklyn College.- Academic career :...
(born 1932), game player - John Boardman (art historian) (born 1927), British art historian and archaeologist
- John Joseph BoardmanJohn Joseph BoardmanJohn Joseph Boardman was Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Brooklyn, New York and Titular Bishop of Gunela.He was born on November 7, 1893 in Brooklyn and ordained a parish priest on May 21, 1921, aged 27. The Principal Consecrator was Archbishop Thomas Molloy....
(1893–1978), American Roman Catholic bishop - Jon BoardmanJon BoardmanJonathan George Boardman is an English footballer who plays for Hungerford Town.-Career:Boardman was born in Mortimer Common, Berkshire and joined Crystal Palace as a trainee in June 1999, turning professional on 7 July 2000...
(born 1981), English footballer - Joseph H. BoardmanJoseph H. BoardmanJoseph H. Boardman is the president of Amtrak and formerly Administrator of the United States Federal Railroad Administration.He was nominated by President George W. Bush on March 17, 2005 and confirmed by the United States Senate on April 28, 2005. He was the eleventh Federal Railroad...
, American government official - Josephine Porter BoardmanJosephine Porter BoardmanJosephine Porter Boardman Crane was an American socialite and patron of the arts.-Personal life:Boardman was from a well-to-do family. Her father, William Jarvis Boardman , a lawyer and active in politics, was the grandson of the Senator Elijah Boardman...
(1873–1972), American philanthropist - Larry BoardmanLarry BoardmanLarry Boardman is an American former lightweight boxer.-Biography:Board, who is Jewish, was managed by his father...
(born 1936), America boxer - Lee BoardmanLee BoardmanLee Boardman is an English actor and narrator.-Television:He is best known for playing Murray Priestman in Drop Dead Gorgeous as well as the drug dealer Jez Quigley in Coronation Street...
(born 1972), English actor - Leslie BoardmanLeslie BoardmanLeslie Boardman was an Australian freestyle swimmer of the 1910s, who won a gold medal in the 4 × 200 m freestyle relay at the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm....
(born 1889), Australian freestyle swimmer - Mabel Thorp BoardmanMabel Thorp BoardmanMabel Thorp Boardman was an American philanthropist involved with the American Red Cross. She led the Red Cross in the United States following its receiving congressional charter in 1905 until World War I, however she did not take up the post of chairman since she believed the organisation would...
(1860–1946), American philanthropist - Michael BoardmanMichael BoardmanJohn Michael Boardman is a mathematician whose speciality is algebraic and differential topology. He was formerly at the University of Cambridge, England; he is currently a full professor at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland USA...
, British mathematician - Paul BoardmanPaul BoardmanPaul Boardman is an English sports broadcaster currently working for Sky Sports News. He is the son of comedian Stan Boardman and twin brother of television presenter Andrea Boardman.-Football career:...
(born 1967), British television presenter - Paul Harris BoardmanPaul Harris BoardmanPaul Harris Boardman is an American film producer and screenwriter, best known as the co-writer and producer of The Exorcism of Emily Rose . He also co-wrote the screenplays for Hellraiser: Inferno and Urban Legends: Final Cut , and worked on production rewrites of Dracula 2000, The Messengers,...
, American film producer and screenwriter - Peter BoardmanPeter BoardmanPeter Boardman was a British climber, Everest summiteer, and author of several mountaineering books.-Early life:...
(1950–1982), British mountain climber - Sarah Hall BoardmanSarah Hall BoardmanSarah Hall Boardman , born in Alstead, New Hampshire, spent 20 years of her life in Burma doing missionary work. She and her husband George Boardman sailed to Burma in 1824, just one week after their wedding. She was widowed in 1831...
(1803–1845), American missionary to Burma - Seymour BoardmanSeymour BoardmanSeymour Boardman was a New York abstract expressionist. Since his first solo exhibition in Paris in 1951, Boardman developed a personal vision and style of his own, following his own path of abstraction...
(1921–2005), New York abstract expressionist painter - Stan BoardmanStan BoardmanStan Boardman is an English comedian.- Early life :Boardman was evacuated with his family to Wrexham during World War II, and after the family returned to their Merseyside home mistakenly thinking the area had escaped the German bombs, his elder brother Tommy was killed in a bombing raid.He had...
(born 1940), English comedian - Steve BoardmanSteve BoardmanStephen I. Boardman, MA, PhD, FRHistS, is a leading Scottish medieval historian. A graduate of the University of St Andrews, he held the Glenfiddich Research Fellowship and a Post-Doctoral Fellowship of the British Academy at St Andrews before, in 1995, he being appointed Lecturer of Scottish...
, Scottish historian - Thomas Volney Boardman, American businessman
- Tom Boardman, Baron BoardmanTom Boardman, Baron BoardmanLieutenant-Colonel Thomas Gray Boardman, Baron Boardman MC, TD, DL, PC was an English Conservative politician and businessman....
(1919–2003), British politician and businessman - Tom Boardman (racing driver)Tom Boardman (racing driver)Tom Boardman is a British auto racing driver. His greatest achievement to date is winning the 2005 SEAT Cupra Championship for the Triple R team which he runs with father, John, who was previously a rallycross driver in the 1970s.-Early years:Tom first started driving cars at a very young age on...
(born 1983), British racing driver - True BoardmanTrue BoardmanTrue Boardman was an American film actor of the silent era. He appeared in 137 films between 1911 and 1919 before falling victim to the 1918 flu pandemic.-True Boardman:...
(1882–1918), American film actor - Virginia True BoardmanVirginia True BoardmanVirginia True Boardman was an American actress of the silent era.Born Margaret Shields in Fort Davis, Texas, she began her theatrical career in 1906, as Virginia Eames and went on to appear in 52 films between 1911 and 1936...
(1889–1971), American actress - William BoardmanWilliam BoardmanWilliam Edwin Boardman was an American pastor and teacher, and the author in 1858 of The Higher Christian Life, a book which as a major international success and helped ignite the Higher Life movement. Boardman's work attracted international attention, especially in England, where Boardman...
(1810–1886), American pastor, teacher, and author - William K. BoardmanWilliam K. BoardmanWilliam Knight Boardman was a Republican United States legislator who served as Speaker of the Alaska House of Representatives from 1967 to 1968.Born in Iowa, Boardman was a resident of Ketchikan, Alaska...
(1915–1993), American politician - William Whiting BoardmanWilliam Whiting BoardmanWilliam Whiting Boardman was a politician and United States Representative from Connecticut.He was born in New Milford, Connecticut, the son of Elijah Boardman and nephew of David Sherman Boardman. He was an early graduate of Bacon Academy in Colchester, CT...
(1794–1871), American politician
Places
United States- Boardman, FloridaBoardman, FloridaBoardman is an unincorporated community in Marion County, Florida, United States. It lies just east of U.S. Route 441 / Florida State Road 25, along Northwest 219th Street.-Location and demographics:...
, unincorporated community in Marion County, Florida - Boardman, North CarolinaBoardman, North CarolinaBoardman is a town in Columbus County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 202 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Boardman is located at ....
, town in Columbus County, North Carolina - Boardman, OhioBoardman, OhioBoardman is a census-designated place in Boardman Township, Mahoning County, Ohio, United States, just south of Youngstown. Boardman is considered to be a moderately affluent community and is one of two major retail hubs in the greater Youngstown area...
, census-designated place in Mahoning County, Ohio - Boardman, OregonBoardman, OregonBoardman is a city in Morrow County, Oregon, United States on the Columbia River and Interstate 84. As of the 2010 census the population was 3,220. It is part of the Pendleton–Hermiston Micropolitan Statistical Area.-History:...
, city in Morrow County, Oregon - Boardman, WisconsinBoardman, WisconsinBoardman is an unincorporated community in St. Croix County, Wisconsin located just southwest of New Richmond on County Road A, in the town of Richmond....
, unincorporated community in St. Croix County, Wisconsin - Boardman RiverBoardman RiverThe Boardman River flows into the west arm of Grand Traverse Bay in Traverse City, Michigan. The Boardman's upper tributaries rise near Kalkaska, Michigan, and its watershed drains an area of through of river and tributaries. The Boardman River is considered one of the top ten trout streams in...
in Michigan - Boardman Township, Clayton County, IowaBoardman Township, Clayton County, IowaBoardman Township is a township in Clayton County, Iowa, USA. As of the 2000 census, its population was 1,832.-Geography:Boardman Township covers an area of and contains one incorporated settlement, Elkader...
- Boardman Township, MichiganBoardman Township, MichiganBoardman Township is a civil township of Kalkaska County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2000 census, the township population was 1,373.- Communities :...
- Boardman Township, Mahoning County, OhioBoardman Township, Mahoning County, OhioBoardman Township is one of the fourteen townships of Mahoning County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 42,518 people in the township...
- Mount BoardmanMount BoardmanMount Boardman is located in the Diablo Range in California. The summit is near a point where Santa Clara, Alameda, Stanislaus, and San Joaquin counties meet. It was named for W. F...
in the Diablo Range, California
Other
- Boardman AirportBoardman AirportBoardman Airport , is a public airport located four miles southwest of the city of Boardman in Morrow County, Oregon, USA.-History:...
, airport in Boardman, Morrow County, Oregon, United States - Boardman BooksBoardman BooksFounded by Thomas Volney Boardman in the 1930s, T.V. Boardman, Ltd. , was but one of many London publishing houses turning out both paperback and hardcover books, pulp magazines, and comics. Boardman Books is best known for publishing the long-running monthly series of hardcover Bloodhound...
, English publishing company - Boardman Center Middle School, public middle school in Boardman, Ohio, United States
- Boardman High School (Mahoning County, Ohio)Boardman High School (Mahoning County, Ohio)Boardman High School is a public high school in Boardman, Ohio. It is the only high school in the Boardman Local School District. The first high school, located on Market Street, is now Boardman Center Middle School. In 1969, the new high school was built on Glenwood Ave...
, public high school in Boardman, Ohio, United States - Boardman House (disambiguation), various
- Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain LiteratureBoardman Tasker Prize for Mountain LiteratureThe Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature is an annual prize of £3000 awarded by the Boardman Tasker Charitable Trust to an author or authors for 'an original work which has made an outstanding contribution to mountain literature.' It was established in memory of Peter Boardman and Joe...
, British literary award - Boardman's Windmill, Norfolk, England
- Operation BoardmanOperation BoardmanDuring World War II, Operation Boardman was a deception operation that supported the Operation Avalanche invasion at Salerno, Italy.This deception continued the false threat of an Allied invasion of the Balkans....
, World War II Allied deception operation