Carr is a common surname

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"...

 in northern England, deriving from the Old Norse

Old Norse

Old Norse is a North Germanic language that was spoken by inhabitants of Scandinavia and inhabitants of their overseas settlements during the Viking Age, until about 1300....

 kjarr, meaning a swamp. Kerr is a Scottish variant. Carr is also a common surname in Ireland, where it often derives from the nickname, gearr, meaning short (of height). In some cases it is thought to come from the old Welsh word "Cwarr", meaning giant.

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• Adriane Carr
  Adriane Carr
  Adriane Carr is a Canadian academic, activist and politician with the Green Party in British Columbia and Canada. She is also a Councillor-elect on Vancouver City Council. She was a founding member and the Green Party of British Columbia's first leader from 1983 to 1985, whereafter the party...
  
   (born 1952), Canadian academic, activist, & British Columbia Green Party politician
• Alan Carr
  Alan Carr
  Alan Carr is an English comedian and television personality. Born in Weymouth, he was raised in Northampton before moving to Manchester during his early 20's....
  
   (born 1976), British stand-up comedian & TV presenter
• Allan Carr
  Allan Carr
  Allan Carr was an American producer and manager of stage and screen. Carr was nominated for numerous awards, winning a Tony Award and two People's Choice Awards, and was named Producer of the Year by the National Association of Theatre Owners.-Early career:Born Allan Solomon in Chicago, Illinois,...
  
   (aka Allan Solomon; 1937–1999), American film producer and manager of actors & musicians
• Allen Carr
  Allen Carr
  Allen Carr was an author of books about quitting smoking and other psychological dependencies including alcohol addiction. He quit smoking after 33 years as a hundred-a-day chain smoker.-Biography:...
  
   (1934–2006), British author of books on how to stop smoking
• Anne Carr
  Anne Carr
  Sister Anne Carr was a feminist theologian at the University of Chicago Divinity School, where she was the first female permanent member of the faculty....
  
   (1934–2008), American nun, theologian, and university professor
• Antoine Carr
  Antoine Carr
  Antoine Labotte Carr is a retired American basketball player. A 16-year NBA journeyman, he was known for the goggles he wore onto the court.-Early life:Antoine Carr was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma...
  
   (born 1961), American NBA basketball player, power-forward "Big Dog"
• Anthony J. Carr
  Anthony J. Carr
  The Right Revd. Dr. Anthony J. Carr is a British nurse and clergyman.Carr was born in Birmingham, England, the eldest of three boys...
  
   FRCN (born 1932), British nurse and clergyman
• Archie Carr
  Archie Carr
  Archie Fairly Carr, Jr. was an American herpetologist, ecologist and a pioneering conservationist. He was a Professor of Zoology at the University of Florida. In 1987 he was awarded the Eminent Ecologist Award by the Ecological Society of America...
  
   (1909–1987), American biologist and zoologist, professor, & conservationist
• Arthur Carr (1893–1963), English cricketer, Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club & English cricket team
• Arthur Wesley Carr
  Arthur Wesley Carr
  Arthur Wesley Carr KCVO is an Anglican priest who was the Dean of Westminster from 1997 to 2006.-Early life:Carr was educated at Dulwich College and then at Jesus College, Oxford....
  
   (The Very Reverend Wesley Carr, KCVO; born 1941), British Anglican divine who was Dean of Westminster 1997–2006
• Austin Carr
  Austin Carr
  Austin George Carr is a retired American professional basketball player for the National Basketball Association. He is known by Cleveland basketball fans as "Mr. Cavalier".-Early years and high school career:...
  
   (born 1948), American NBA basketball player, guard
• Austin Carr (cricketer)
  Austin Carr (cricketer)
  Austin Michael Carr was an English cricketer who played six first-class matches for Worcestershire in the 1920s.Carr had an unusual introduction to first-class cricket...
  
   (1898–1946), English cricketer - Worcestershire

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• Bernard Carr, British professor of mathematics & astronomy at Queen Mary, University of London (QMUL)
• Bill Carr
  Bill Carr
  William Arthur Carr was an American athlete, a double Olympic champion in 1932.Born in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, Carr studied at Mercersburg Academy and the University of Pennsylvania, where he was coached by 1904 Olympian Lawson Robertson...
  
   (aka William Arthur Carr; 1909–1966), American track & field sprinter, Olympic champion - 1932 Los Angeles
• Bob Carr (disambiguation)
  Bob Carr (disambiguation)
  Bob Carr may refer to:*Bob Carr, former Premier of New South Wales, Australia*Milton Robert Carr, commonly known as Bob Carr, U.S. Representative from the state of Michigan*Bob Carr , United States archaeologist...
  
  :
  • Robert John "Bob" Carr
    Bob Carr
    Robert John "Bob" Carr , Australian statesman, was Premier of New South Wales from 4 April 1995 to 3 August 2005. He holds the record for the longest continuous service as premier of NSW...
    
    , (born 1947), Premier of New South Wales, Australia
  • Milton Robert "Bob" Carr
    Milton Robert Carr
    Milton Robert Carr, commonly known as Bob Carr, is a lawyer and politician from the U.S. state of Michigan.Carr served in the U.S. House of Representatives from Michigan's 6th and 8th congressional districts for eight terms and one term, respectively. Carr's career in the U.S...
    
     (born 1943), American lawyer & politician, U.S. Representative from Michigan
  • Bob Carr (archaeologist)
    Bob Carr (archaeologist)
    Robert Carr is an American archaeologist and the current executive director of The Archaeological and Historical Conservancy, Inc. He specializes in Southeastern archaeology, with particular emphasis on archaeology in Florida. He has also conducted fieldwork in the Bahamas.-Early life and...
    
    , American archaeologist
  • Robert S. "Bob" Carr
    Bob Carr (Florida politician)
    Robert Spencer Carr was mayor of Orlando, Florida from 1956 to 1967. The Bob Carr Performing Arts Centre is named for him.Carr was born in 1899 in Toledo, Ohio to William C. and Cora Elizabeth Carr...
    
    , former mayor of Orlando, Florida, namesake of the Bob Carr Performing Arts Centre
• Brendan Carr, Irish politician
• Brendan Carr
  Brendan Carr (actor)
  Brendan Carr in is a British actor and film producer.-Life:Born in Great Yarmouth, England, Carr trained at Stagecoach School of Performing Arts while attending regular school at The Grange in his home town of Aylesbury....
  
  , (born 1980), British actor
• Bunny Carr
  Bunny Carr
  Bunny Carr is a former television presenter on RTÉ, who hosted such shows as Quicksilver and Going Strong and was a public supporter and fundraiser for the aid organisation Gorta...
  
  , former Irish TV presenter and public relations consultant

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• Caleb Carr
  Caleb Carr
  Caleb Carr is an American novelist and military historian.-Biography:A son of Lucien Carr, a former UPI editor and a key Beat generation figure, he was born in Manhattan and lived for much of his life on the Lower East Side. He attended Kenyon College and New York University, earning a B.A. in...
  
   (born 1955), American novelist & military historian, son of Lucien
• Carissa Carr (aka Ethel Stankiewicz), fictional actress in the Marvel Transformers comics
• Catherine Carr (1880–1941), American silent-film era screenwriter
• Cathy Carr
  Cathy Carr
  Angelina Helen Catherine Cordovano , known professionally as Cathy Carr, was an American pop singer.She was born in the New York borough of The Bronx...
  
   (1936–1988), American pop singer
• Catherine Carr (swimmer)
  Catherine Carr (swimmer)
  Catherine Carr is an American swimmer and Olympic champion. She competed at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, where she received a gold medal in the 100 m breaststroke and a gold medal in the 4 × 100 m medley relay. She now works teaching the fourth grade GATE class at Pioneer Elementary, a...
  
   (born 1954), American Olympic Swimmer, received two gold medals in 1972 Olympic Games
  1972 Summer Olympics
  The 1972 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XX Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event held in Munich, West Germany, from August 26 to September 11, 1972....
  
  .
• Charles Carr (disambiguation), multiple people
• Charmian Carr
  Charmian Carr
  Charmian Carr is an American actress and singer. She is mainly known for her role as Liesl, the eldest Von Trapp daughter in The Sound of Music where she starred with Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Nicholas Hammond, Heather Menzies, Duane Chase, Angela Cartwright, Debbie Turner, and Kym...
  
   (aka Charmian Farnon; born 1942), American actress, Liesl, the eldest Von Trapp daughter in The Sound of Music
• Chris Carr (disambiguation):
  • Chris Carr
    Chris Carr (motorcyclist)
    Chris Carr is an American motorcycle dirt-track racer and seven-time winner of the A.M.A. Grand National Championship. He has also competed as a motorcycle road racer at the national level and was a motorcycle land speed world record holder.-Racing career:Carr began his racing career as an amateur...
    
     (born 1967), American dirt-track & road motorcycle racer, and land speed record holder
  • Chris Dean Carr
    Chris Carr (basketball)
    Chris Dean Carr is an American professional basketball player who was selected by the Phoenix Suns in the 2nd round of the 1995 NBA Draft. Carr played six seasons in the NBA for the Suns, Minnesota Timberwolves, New Jersey Nets, Golden State Warriors, Chicago Bulls and Boston Celtics...
    
     (born 1974), American NBA, pro-basketball, player
  • Chris Carr (born 1983), American NFL football player, cornerback & kick-returner
• Cletis Carr
  Cletis Carr
  Cletis Carr is a singer-songwriter, guitarist and record producer. Carr was a founder of the Pacific Northwest 70's new wave music band Sneakers before embarking on an on-off solo career between forming other bands such as Big Whiskey and Hillbilly Moon.-Early life:Carr was born into a family of...
  
  , American singer-songwriter, acoustic guitarist, and record producer
• Clyde Carr
  Clyde Carr
  Rev Clyde Leonard Carr was a New Zealand politician of the Labour Party, and was a minister of the Congregational Church.Ordained as a minister in 1915, he was on the Christchurch City Council between 1923 and 1927 and the Hospital Board in the 1920s, after working in commerce and banking.He...
  
   (1886–1962), New Zealand politician
• Colin Carr
  Colin Carr
  Colin Carr is a British cello soloist, chamber musician, recording artist and teacher.-Biography:Born in Liverpool, Carr is a professor of the cello, currently at the Royal Academy of Music. Carr taught at the New England Conservatory in Boston for sixteen years before taking up his current job at...
  
  , American cello soloist, chamber musician, recording artist & teacher

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• Danielle Carr-McGrath
  Danielle McGrath
  Danielle McGrath is an Australian retired pair skater who currently works as a coach. With brother Stephen Carr, she is a nineteen time Australian national champion. They competed at the 1992 Winter Olympics, placing 13th, the 1994 Winter Olympics, placing 11th, and the 1998 Winter Olympics,...
  
   (born 1969), Australian national champion pairs ice-skater, Stephan's sister
• David Carr
  David Carr
  David Duke Carr is an American football quarterback for the New York Giants of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Houston Texans first overall in the 2002 NFL Draft...
  
   (born 1979), American NFL football Quarterback
• David Ronald Carr (born 1974), American drummer for Christian rock band Third Day
• David Carr
  David Carr
  David Duke Carr is an American football quarterback for the New York Giants of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Houston Texans first overall in the 2002 NFL Draft...
  
   (1933–1959) English, suspected first victim of AIDS in the West from Reddish, Manchester
• Donald Bryce Carr
  Donald Carr
  Donald Bryce Carr is a former English cricketer who played for Derbyshire from 1946 to 1967, for Oxford University from 1948 to 1951, and twice for England in 1951/52. He captained Derbyshire between 1955 and 1962, and scored over 10,000 runs for the county...
  
   (born 1926), English cricketer who played for Derbyshire, Oxford University & England
• Douglas Ward Carr
  Douglas Carr
  Douglas Ward Carr was an English amateur cricketer.Carr went to Brasenose College at Oxford University and while there played both football and cricket...
  
   (1872–1950), English amateur cricketer

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• Edward Hallett Carr (1892–1982; aka E. H. Carr), historian & international relations theorist
• Edwin Carr
  Edwin Carr (composer)
  Edwin Carr was a composer of classical music from New Zealand.-Biography:Edwin Carr was born in Auckland and was educated at Otago Boys' High School from 1940 to 1943. He studied music at Otago University from 1944-5 and Auckland University College from 1946, then left with his degree unfinished...
  
   (born 1926), New Zealander composer
• Edwin Carr (athlete), Australian track & field (440) athlete
• Elias Carr
  Elias Carr
  Elias Carr was the 48th Governor of the U.S. state of North Carolina from 1893 to 1897. A building on the campus of UNC-Chapel Hill is named after him....
  
   (1839–1900), Democratic governor of North Carolina 1893–1897
• Elizabeth Jordan Carr
  Elizabeth Jordan Carr
  Elizabeth Jordan Carr was the United States' first baby born from the in-vitro fertilization procedure and the 15th in the world. The technique was conducted at Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk under the direction of Doctors Howard Jones and Georgeanna Seegar Jones, who were the first to...
  
   (born 1981) first U. S. baby born from the in-vitro fertilization procedure, 15th in the world
• Emily Carr
  Emily Carr
  Emily Carr was a Canadian artist and writer heavily inspired by the indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast. One of the first painters in Canada to adopt a post-impressionist painting style, Carr did not receive widespread recognition for her work until later in her life...
  
   (1871–1945), Canadian artist & writer
• Eric Carr
  Eric Carr
  Paul Charles Caravello , also known as Eric Carr, was an American musician, best known as drummer for the rock band Kiss. Caravello was selected as the new Kiss drummer after Peter Criss left in 1980...
  
   (1950–1991), born Paul Charles Caravello, American musician, drummer for rock band Kiss
• Eric Carr
  Eric Carr (boxer)
  Eric Carr , is an American professional Heavyweight boxer.Carr’s amateur boxing career began at the impressionable age of 14. His amateur career produced a remarkable record of 56 wins with 6 losses. His powerful right punch grabbed the 1993 Golden Gloves championship, as a Light Heavyweight at the...
  
   (born 1975), American professional Heavyweight boxer
• Ernest Carr
  Ernest Carr
  Ernest "Ernie" Shoebridge Carr was an early twentieth century member of the Australian House of Representatives and the New South Wales Legislative Assembly....
  
   (1875–1956), member of Australian House of Representatives & New South Wales Legislative Assembly
• Eugene A. Carr
  Eugene Asa Carr
  Eugene Asa Carr was a soldier in the United States Army and a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Early life:...
  
   (1830-1910), American Civil War
  American Civil War
  The American Civil War was a civil war fought in the United States of America. In response to the election of Abraham Lincoln as President of the United States, 11 southern slave states declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America ; the other 25...
  
   general.

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• Francis Carr (District of Maine politician) (1751–1821), American politician, U.S. Representative from Massachusetts, father of James Carr
• Frank Osmond Carr
  Frank Osmond Carr
  Frank Osmond Carr , known as F. Osmond Carr, was an English composer who wrote the music for some of the earliest musical comedies.-Life and career:...
  
   (aka F. Osmond Carr; 1858–1916), English composer of musical comedy and comic opera

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• Gary Carr
  Gary Carr
  Gary Carr is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He served as a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1990 to 2003, and served in the Canadian House of Commons as a Liberal from 2004 to early 2006...
  
   (born 1955), Ontario, Canada politician
• Geoff Carr
  Geoff Carr
  Geoff Carr is the CEO of the Australian Rugby League as well as the New South Wales Rugby League. He is also a retired rugby league footballer, having played first grade in the NSWRL premiership with the St. George Dragons during the 1970s and reached the 1971 grand final with them.Carr was...
  
  , rugby league administrator and former player
• Gerald P. Carr
  Gerald P. Carr
  Gerald Paul Carr is an engineer, retired United States Marine Corps colonel and former NASA astronaut. He was commander of Skylab 4, the third and final manned visit to the Skylab Orbital Workshop, from November 16, 1973 to February 8, 1974.-Biography:Carr was born in Denver, Colorado on August...
  
   (born 1932) retired U. S. Marine Corps Colonel & former NASA astronaut, commanded longest Skylab mission

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• Hank Earl Carr
  Hank Earl Carr
  Hank Earl Carr was a convicted criminal who, on May 19, 1998, shot his girlfriend's four-year-old son with a rifle, was arrested, and then escaped from his handcuffs and killed two Tampa detectives and a Florida state trooper...
  
   (died 1998) convicted criminal, on May 19, 1998 killed two Tampa detectives & a Florida State trooper
• Harvey A. Carr
  Harvey A. Carr
  Harvey A. Carr was an American Psychologist and developer of functionalism. Along with John Dewey and James Rowland Angell, he is credited with the development of functionalism as a school of thought, leading American psychology toward a functionalist approach...
  
   (1873-1954) American psychologist
• Helena Carr
  Helena Carr
  Helena Carr is an Australian businesswoman and the wife of former Premier of New South Wales, Bob Carr. As of 2004, she had extensive holdings in Australian printing corporations, making her a millionaire.-Early life:...
  
   (born 1946) Australian businesswoman, commercial printing
• Henry Carr
  Henry Carr
  Henry Carr is a former American track and field athlete who won two gold medals at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan.-Early life:...
  
   (bo. 1942), American athlete, two-time gold medalist (200 meters & 4x400m relay) - 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo
• Herbert Wildon Carr (1857-1931) British philosopher
• Howard Louis "Howie" Carr
  Howie Carr
  Howard Louis "Howie" Carr, Jr. is an American journalist, author, and conservative radio talk-show host based in Boston with a listening audience rooted in New England.-Radio:...
  
   (born 1952), American broadcaster, award-winning journalist, author, & talk-radio host in New England

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• Ian Carr
  Ian Carr
  Ian Carr was a Scottish jazz musician, composer, writer, and educator.-Early years:Carr was born in Dumfries, Scotland, the elder brother of Mike Carr...
  
   (born 1933), Scottish jazz musician, composer, writer, & educator
• Ian Carr (guitarist)
  Ian Carr (guitarist)
  Ian Carr is an English guitarist and producer from Yorkshire, who has performed with Swåp and The Kate Rusby Band.Until the late 1990s, Carr was a part of The Kathryn Tickell Band...
  
   English guitarist from Yorkshire, with Swåp & The Kate Rusby Band

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• J.L. Carr (aka "Jim" and "James"; 1912–1994), English novelist, publisher, teacher, and eccentric
• Jack Carr
  Jack Carr (footballer)
  John "Jack" Carr was a professional footballer with Newcastle United between 1899 and 1912, playing at full back and making 279 appearances and scoring 5 goals.-Career:...
  
   (1876–1948), English professional footballer - Newcastle United 1899–1912
• Jacky Carr
  Jacky Carr
  John "Jackie" Carr was an English professional footballer. He made 449 league appearances for Middlesbrough, scoring 81 times. He was also capped twice for England.-Club career:...
  
   (1892–1942), English professional footballer - Middlesbrough, Blackpool, and Hartlepool United
• James Carr (Massachusetts politician)
  James Carr (Massachusetts politician)
  James Carr , son of U.S. Congressman Francis Carr, was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Maine, then a District of Massachusetts....
  
   (1777–1818), American politician, U. S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts, son of Francis Carr
• James Carr (musician)
  James Carr (musician)
  James Carr , was an American Rhythm & Blues and soul singer.Born to a Baptist preacher's family in Coahoma, Mississippi, Carr began singing in church and was performing in gospel groups and making tables on an assembly line in Memphis, Tennessee, when he began recording in the mid-'60s for Goldwax...
  
   (1942–2001), American R&B and soul artist; The Dark End of the Street
• James G. Carr
  James G. Carr
  James G. Carr is a federal district judge for the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio.Carr was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He received a B.A. from Kenyon College in 1966, and an LL.B. from Harvard Law School in 1969. He was in private practice of law in Chicago,...
  
   (born 1940), chief judge for the U. S. District Court for Northern District of Ohio
• Jim Carr
  Jim Carr
  James Gordon Carr is a businessman and former politician in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. He was a member of the province's legislative assembly from 1988 to 1991, representing the Liberal Party....
  
   (born 1951) Canadian businessman and Liberal Party politician in Manitoba
• Jim Carr (US)
  Jim Carr (US)
  Jim Carr is a Digital strategist, Online producer, and Educator. An advocate for digital literacy, Carr serves on the Board of Directors for the Digital Literacy Institute, a non-profit organization that works to bridge the digital divide and promote access to Internet technologies for...
  
   (born 1965), American technologist, lecturer, and writer, advocate for digital literacy
• Jimmy Carr
  Jimmy Carr
  James Anthony Patrick "Jimmy" Carr is an English-Irish comedian and humourist. He is known for his deadpan delivery and dark humour. He is also a writer, actor and presenter of radio and television....
  
   (born 1972), English comedian known for his deadpan, satirical humour
• Janet Carr, Australian television producer best known for creating the video game talk show Good Game
  Good Game
  Good Game is an Australian video gaming talk show television programme created by Janet Carr and Jeremy Ray currently on ABC2. It premiered on ABC on 19 September 2006...
  
  and its spin-off Good Game: Spawn Point
• Jody Carr
  Jody Carr
  Jody Rochelle Carr is a Canadian politician. He is the current member of the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick for the riding of Oromocto and served in the cabinet for part of 2006....
  
   B.B.A. (born 1975), Canadian, New Brunswick politician
• Joe Carr (1922–2004), Irish amateur golfer
• John Carr (architect) (1723–1807), English architect
• John Carr (cricketer) (born 1963) English cricket executive, father of D.B. Carr
• John Carr (merchant), 16th century merchant & founder of Queen Elizabeth's Hospital School
• John Carr (military lawyer), Captain, prosecutor of suspected terrorists imprisoned at the Guantanamo Bay detainment camp
• John Dickson Carr
  John Dickson Carr
  John Dickson Carr was an American author of detective stories, who also published under the pen names Carter Dickson, Carr Dickson and Roger Fairbairn....
  
   (1906–1977), American author of detective stories (pen names: Carter Dickson, Carr Dickson, and Roger Fairbairn)
• Joseph Bradford Carr
  Joseph Bradford Carr
  Joseph Bradford Carr was a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Early life:Carr was born in Albany, New York, the son of Irish immigrants, and worked as a tobacconist...
  
   (1828–1895), American general in the Union Army during the American Civil War, New York Secretary of State, (1879–1885)
• Joseph F. Carr (1879–1939) American pro football pioneer, President of the National Football League 1921–1939
• Josh Carr
  Josh Carr
  Joshua "Josh" Carr is a former Australian rules footballer who played as a midfielder for Port Adelaide and Fremantle in the Australian Football League. After originally being drafted by Port Adelaide and playing in their 2004 premiership side he returned to Western Australia to play with his...
  
   (born 1980) Australian rules footballer, midfielder
• Judy Feld Carr
  Judy Feld Carr
  Judith Feld Carr, CM is a Canadian Jewish musician and human rights activist known for secretly smuggling thousands of Jews out of Syria over a period of 28 years.-Biography:...
  
  , CM, LL.D (born 1939) Canadian musician and humanitarian
• Julian Carr (Australian politician)
  Julian Carr (Australian politician)
  Julian George Charles Carr was a Member of the Western Australian Legislative Council from 1868 to 1873.The son of William Carr, gentleman, Julian Carr was born in England around 1824. Nothing is known of his early life, but on 11 May 1846 he married Katherine Agnes Francisco, a cousin of Sir...
  
   (c. 1824–1886), Australian politician, Member of Western Australian Legislative Council from 1868 to 1873
• Julian Carr (industrialist)
  Julian Carr (industrialist)
  Julian Shakespeare Carr was a North Carolina industrialist and philanthropist. He was married to Nannie Carr, with whom he had two daughters and three sons....
  
   (1845–1924) American industrialist & philanthropist
• Lou Busch
  Lou Busch
  Louis Ferdinand Busch was a music producer, musician and songwriter who was best known for performing as a pianist under the nickname Joe "Fingers" Carr.-Biography:...
  
   (pseudonym for Louis Ferdinand "Lou" Busch; 1910–1979), American pianist
• John Mark Karr
  John Mark Karr
  Alexis Valoran Reich is an American male-to-female transgender person formerly known as John Mark Karr who in 2006 falsely confessed to the unsolved murder of six-year-old JonBenét Ramsey. She has, on other occasions, faced a number of other criminal charges.-Childhood:Karr was born in Conyers,...
  
   (born 1964), American criminal who confessed to the murder of JonBenét Ramsey, but was later cleared

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• Kenneth "Kenny" Alan Carr
  Kenny Carr
  Kenneth Alan Carr is a retired American basketball player.A 6'7" forward from North Carolina State University, Carr won a gold medal with the United States national basketball team at the 1976 Summer Olympics...
  
   (born 1955), American power-forward NBA basketball player
• Kim John Carr
  Kim Carr
  Kim John Carr is an Australian politician. He has been an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian Senate since April 1993, representing the state of Victoria. He was elected to the Senate at the March 1993 election, and was due to take his seat on 1 July...
  
   (born 1955), Australian Labor Party member of the Australian Senate representing the state of Victoria

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• Laurie Carr (born 1965), American model & actress, Playboy's 1986 December "Playmate of the Month"
• Leroy Carr
  Leroy Carr
  Leroy Carr was an American blues singer, songwriter and pianist, who developed a laid-back, crooning technique and whose popularity and style influenced such artists as Nat King Cole and Ray Charles. He first became famous for "How Long, How Long Blues" on Vocalion Records in 1928.-Life and...
  
   (1905–1935), American blues singer, songwriter and pianist
• Lloyd H. Carr
  Lloyd Carr
  Lloyd H. Carr is a former American football player and coach. He served as the head coach at the University of Michigan from 1995 through the 2007 season. Under Carr, the Wolverines compiled a record of 122–40 and won or shared five Big Ten Conference titles...
  
   (born 1945) American head football coach, University of Michigan since 1995
• Lucien Carr
  Lucien Carr
  Lucien Carr was a key member of the original New York City circle of the Beat Generation in the 1940s; later he worked for many years as an editor for United Press International.-Early life:...
  
   (1925–2005), American, key figure in the Beat generation, later an editor for United Press International

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• M. L. Carr
  M. L. Carr
  Michael Leon Carr is an American former professional basketball player in the National Basketball Association and American Basketball Association, and former head coach and General Manager of the Boston Celtics...
  
   (born 1951), American NBA & ABA basketball player, and head coach & GM for the Boston Celtics
• Marina Carr
  Marina Carr
  Marina Carr is an Irish playwright.Born in Tullamore, County Offaly, Carr attended University College Dublin before holding posts as writer-in-residence at the Abbey Theatre and Trinity College Dublin. She served as Heimbold Professor of Irish Studies at Villanova University in 2003...
  
   (born 1964), Irish playwright
• Martin Carr
  Martin Carr
  Martin Carr , is a British musician and writer who was the chief songwriter and lead guitarist with the British band, The Boo Radleys.- Life and career :...
  
   (born 1968, chief songwriter & lead guitarist with the British band, The Boo Radleys
• Matthew Carr
  Matthew Carr
  Matthew Carr is a former Australian rules footballer who played for Fremantle and St Kilda in the Australian Football League . He played as a half-back flanker and began his football career at East Fremantle...
  
   (born 1978), Australian rules footballer
• Maxine Ann Carr (born 1977), English criminal, girlfriend of Ian Huntley (the Soham murderer)
• Michael Carr (disambiguation):
  • Michael Carr (Lib Dem politician)
    Michael Carr (Lib Dem politician)
    Michael Carr is a British teacher, lecturer and politician for the Liberal Democrats. Originally a teacher, Carr became active in politics as a Conservative councillor before joining the Social Democratic Party...
    
     (born 1946), British Liberal Democrat politician
  • Michael Carr (Labour politician)
    Michael Carr (Labour politician)
    Michael Carr was a British Labour Party politician who served as Member of Parliament for Bootle for 57 days in 1990 from his election until his death. He was a dockworker who later became a trade union official, but his political rise was assisted by the help he gave the Labour Party leadership...
    
     (1947–1990), British Labour Party politician
  • Mike Carr (born 1951), American writer and game designer
• Milton Robert Carr
  Milton Robert Carr
  Milton Robert Carr, commonly known as Bob Carr, is a lawyer and politician from the U.S. state of Michigan.Carr served in the U.S. House of Representatives from Michigan's 6th and 8th congressional districts for eight terms and one term, respectively. Carr's career in the U.S...
  
   ("Bob"; born 1943), American lawyer & politician from the state of Michigan, U.S. House of Representatives 1975–1995

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• Nicholas G. Carr
  Nicholas G. Carr
  Nicholas George Carr is an American writer who has published books and articles on technology, business, and culture. His book The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains was a finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction.-Career:Carr originally came to prominence with the...
  
   (born 1958), American business writer & speaker
• Norm Carr
  Norm Carr
  Norm Carr is an Australian former rugby league footballer of the 1970s and '80s. A Queensland State of Origin representative forward, he played his entire club career in the Brisbane Rugby League Premiership for Souths and Wests, winning grand finals with both.-Biography:Born in Coffs Harbour, New...
  
  , Australian rugby league footballer
• Norman Joseph Carr, MBE
  Norman Carr
  Norman Joseph Carr, MBE was a United Kingdom British conservationist working in Central and Southern Africa. He was influential in setting up National Parks in Malawi , Zambia and Zimbabwe in the 1950s and 1960s...
  
   (1912–1997), U.K., British conservationist working in Central & Southern Africa

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• Paul Carr (born 1979) London-based publisher, journalist & entrepreneur
• Paul Carr (actor)
  Paul Carr (actor)
  Paul Carr was an character actor who was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. Carr acted for some fifty years in television, film, and on-stage.-Beginnings:...
  
   (1934–2006) American character actor from New Orleans, Louisiana
• Paul Henry Carr
  Paul H. Carr
  Paul Henry Carr was a U.S. Navy Gunner's Mate Third Class who received a Silver Star posthumously for his actions aboard USS Samuel B. Roberts at the Battle off Samar during World War II. Carr served as the gun mount captain of the Roberts aft 5-inch gun...
  
   (1924–1944), U.S. Navy Gunner's Mate Third Class, posthumous Silver Star recipient in World War II
• Pearl Lavinia Carr & Edward Victor Johnson
  Pearl Carr & Teddy Johnson
  Pearl Carr and Teddy Johnson were a popular English husband-and-wife team of entertainers, during the 1950s and early 1960s.-Early days:They were both successful solo singers before their marriage in 1955...
  
   (born 1923) popular English husband-&-wife entertainers, 1950s & early 1960s
• Percifer Carr
  Percifer Carr
  Percifer Carr was a British allied Loyalist living in what is now Otsego County, New York around the time of the American Revolution....
  
   (died 1804), British allied Loyalist in Otsego County, New York during American Revolution.
• Philip Carr-Gomm
  Philip Carr-Gomm
  Philip Carr-Gomm is an author in the fields of psychology and Druidry, a psychologist, and one of the leaders of The Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids.-Biography:...
  
  , psychotherapist & author
• Philippa Carr
  Eleanor Hibbert
  Eleanor Hibbert was a British author who wrote under various pen names. Her best-known pseudonyms were Jean Plaidy, Victoria Holt, and Philippa Carr; she also wrote under the names Eleanor Burford, Elbur Ford, Kathleen Kellow, Anne Percival, and Ellalice Tate...
  
   pseudonym for English author Eleanor Alice Burford-Hibbert (1906–1993)

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• Ralph Lawrence Carr
  Ralph Lawrence Carr
  Ralph Lawrence Carr was the 29th Governor of Colorado from 1939 to 1943. Born in Rosita in Custer County, he grew up in Cripple Creek in Teller County and graduated from Cripple Creek High School in 1905. A Republican, Carr was committed to fiscal restraint in state government and opposed the...
  
   (1887–1950), Governor of Colorado from 1939 to 1943
• Sir Raymond Carr
  Raymond Carr
  Sir Albert Raymond Maillard Carr FBA FRHS FRSL , known as Raymond Carr, is an English historian specializing in the history of Spain, Latin America, and Sweden who was Warden of St Antony's College, Oxford, from 1968 to 1987....
  
   (born 1919), English historian
• Leonard Robert Carr, Baron Carr of Hadley, PC
  Robert Carr
  Leonard Robert Carr, Baron Carr of Hadley, PC is a British Conservative politician.Robert Carr was educated at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge where he read Natural Sciences, graduating in 1938....
  
   (born 1916), British Conservative politician
• Robert Carr, 1st Earl of Somerset
  Robert Carr, 1st Earl of Somerset
  Robert Carr, 1st Earl of Somerset, , was a politician, and favourite of King James I of England.-Background:Robert Kerr was born in Wrington, Somerset, England the younger son of Sir Thomas Kerr of Ferniehurst, Scotland by his second wife, Janet, sister of Walter Scott of Buccleuch...
  
   KG, PC (sometimes spelt Kerr; c. 1587–1645), Scottish politician, favorite of King James I
• Robert Carr, 1st Earl of Ancram
  Robert Carr, 1st Earl of Ancram
  Robert Kerr , 1st Earl of Ancram , was a Scottish nobleman and writer.-Biography:He descended from a third son of Sir Andrew Kerr of Ferniehurst, and entered public life as laird of Ancrum in Roxburghshire...
  
   (c. 1578–1654), 1st Earl of Ancram, was a Scottish nobleman and writer
• Robert Carr
  Robert Carr (Programmer)
  Robert Carr is credited as the architect of GO Corporation's PenPoint OS. He was profiled in the book Programmers at Work , where he was credited as the author of Framework....
  
   (born 1956), American computer programer, credited as the architect of GO Corporation's PenPoint OS
• Roderick Carr
  Roderick Carr
  Air Marshal Sir Charles Roderick Carr KBE, CB, DFC, AFC was a senior Royal Air Force commander from New Zealand. He held high command in World War II and served as Chief of the Indian Air Force.-Military career:...
  
   (1891–1971), Air Marshal, KBE, CB, DFC, AFC distinguished airman & military leader of New Zealand & India
• Rosamond Carr
  Rosamond Carr
  Rosamond Carr was an American humanitarian and author.She was born in South Orange, New Jersey. In 1942, she married the British explorer and film maker Kenneth Carr...
  
   (née Halsey; 1912–2006), American humanitarian and author
• Roy Carr
  Roy Carr
  Roy Carr is an English music journalist. He joined the New Musical Express in the late 1960s and has edited NME, VOX and Melody Maker magazines...
  
  , English music journalist

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• Sabin William Carr
  Sabin Carr
  Sabin William Carr was an American athlete who competed in the men's pole vault. He competed in Athletics at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam and won gold....
  
   (1904–1983), American Olympic pole vaulter, gold medal winner - 1928 Amsterdam
• Sally Carr
  Sally Carr
  Sally Carr is a Scottish singer who is mostly known for being the lead singer of the 1970s pop group Middle of the Road.-Personal life:...
  
  , (b 1945) lead singer of 1970s pop group Middle of the Road
• Sam Carr
  Sam Carr
  Sam Carr was an organizer for the Communist Party of Canada and, its successor, the Labour-Progressive Party in the 1930s and 1940s. He was born Schmil Kogan in Tomachpol, Ukraine in 1906 and immigrated to Canada in 1924, living in Winnipeg and Regina before settling in Montreal in 1925...
  
  , national organizer for the Communist Party of Canada & the Labour-Progressive Party in the 1930s & 1940s
• Samuel S. Carr
  Samuel S. Carr
  Samuel S. Carr was an American pastoral and landscape painter. Originally from England, he relocated to the U.S. around 1862. He is recorded as having lived in Brooklyn from 1879 to 1907, along with his sister, Annie, and her husband, John Bond. He never married...
  
   (1837–1908), American pastoral & landscape painter
• Shirley G.E. Carr
  Shirley Carr
  Shirley G.E. Carr, was a Canadian union leader who was the first woman president of Canada's largest labour organization, the Canadian Labour Congress....
  
  , Canadian union leader, first woman president of Canada's largest labour organization, the Canadian Labour Congress
• Snapper Carr
  Snapper Carr
  Lucas "Snapper" Carr is a fictional character in the DC Comics universe, most famous as a supporting character to the superhero team the Justice League of America . He has often been referred to as the team's mascot...
  
   (Lucas "Snapper" Carr), fictional supporting character in the DC Universe
• Stephen Carr
  Stephen Carr (figure skater)
  Stephen Carr is an Australian retired pair skater who currently works as a coach. With sister Danielle, he is a nineteen time Australian national champion. They competed at the 1992 Winter Olympics, placing 13th, the 1994 Winter Olympics, placing 11th, and the 1998 Winter Olympics, again placing...
  
   (born 1966), Australian pairs ice skater & coach, Danielle's brother
• Stephen Carr
  Stephen Carr
  Stephen Carr is an Irish footballer who plays for and captains Birmingham City. He previously played for the Premier League teams Tottenham Hotspur and, for a shorter spell, Newcastle United. He is a former international player with the Republic of Ireland...
  
   (born 1976), Irish footballer for Birmingham City & the Republic of Ireland
• Stephen Carr
  Stephen Carr
  Stephen Carr is an Irish footballer who plays for and captains Birmingham City. He previously played for the Premier League teams Tottenham Hotspur and, for a shorter spell, Newcastle United. He is a former international player with the Republic of Ireland...
  
   (born 1975), English hockey player
• Terry Gene Carr
  Terry Carr
  Terry Gene Carr was a U.S. science fiction author, editor, and teacher.Terry Carr was born in Grants Pass, Oregon...
  
   (1937–1987), U.S. science fiction author & editor
• Thomas Joseph Carr
  Thomas Joseph Carr
  Thomas Joseph Carr was the second Roman Catholic archbishop of Melbourne, Australia.-Early life:Carr was born near Moylough, Galway, Ireland, and educated at St Jarlath's College, Tuam, and at St Patrick's College, Maynooth. He was ordained on 19 May 1866, was a curate for six years, and was then...
  
   (1839–1917), Catholic Archbishop of Melbourne, Australia, 1886–1917
• Tony Carr
  Tony Carr
  Anthony Carr MBE is an English sports coach, the current Director of Youth Development at the West Ham United football club's youth academy and is recognised as one of the most influential figures in English football. A former graduate of the academy himself, whose footballing career was cut short...
  
   (born 1950) Director of Youth Development at U.K. football (soccer) club West Ham United FC

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• Valerie Carr
  Valerie Carr
  Valerie Carr is an African-American singer. Her most fondly remembered single is probably "I Talk Too Much," her answer song to Joe Jones' 1960 hit, "You Talk Too Much".-Career:...
  
   (born 1936), American pop music singer
• Vikki Carr
  Vikki Carr
  Vikki Carr is an American singer and humanitarian from El Paso, Texas. She has performed in a variety of music genres, including jazz, pop and country, but has enjoyed her greatest success singing in Spanish.-Career:After taking the stage name 'Vikki Carr', she signed with Liberty Records in 1962...
  
   (born 1941), American singer in jazz, pop, country, & Spanish

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• William Carr CBE (1883–1966), surgeon, rear-admiral, Australian naval officer
• William Carr (biographer)
  William Carr (biographer)
  William Carr was a biographer for the Dictionary of National Biography, historian, magistrate and Deputy Lieutenant for Norfolk, England....
  
   (1862-1925), English biographer and magistrate
• William Carr (rower)
  William Carr (rower)
  William "Bill" John Carr was an American rower who competed in the 1900 Summer Olympics.He was part of the American boat Vesper Boat Club, which won the gold medal in the eights.-External links:*...
  
   (1876-1929), American Olympic rower
• William C. Carr
  William C. Carr
  William Curtis "Bill" Carr, III is an American college sports consultant. Carr is a former college football player, and previously served as the athletic director at the University of Florida and the University of Houston.- Early life :...
  
   (b.1946) American university athletic administrator
• William Compton Carr
  William Compton Carr
  William Compton Carr is a former Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom. In the 1959 landslide election, Carr was elected for the normally Labour seat of Barons Court. He served until the 1964 general election, when Labour regained the seat.-References:...
  
   (born 1918), former Conservative Party U.K. politician
• William Guy Carr
  William Guy Carr
  William James Guy Carr was a Canadian naval officer and an author. Though his accounts of wartime naval experiences found a general audience, he is best remembered today as a conspiracy theorist, "the most influential source in creating the American Illuminati demonology", according to the...
  
   (1895–1959; R.D. Commander R.C.N.) Canadian naval officer & author
• William Louis Carr
  William Louis Carr
  William L. Carr was an American Private serving in the United States Marine Corps during the Boxer Rebellion who received the Medal of Honor for bravery.-Biography:...
  
  , American Medal of Honor recipient
• Willie Carr
  Willie Carr
  William McInanny Carr is a former Scottish international footballer.-Career:Carr was born in Glasgow but spent part of his formative teenage years in Cambridge, where his family relocated in 1963...
  
   (born 1950), former Scottish football (soccer) player

See also

• Kerr (disambiguation)
• Ker (disambiguation)
• Car
  Čar
  Čar is a village in the municipality of Bujanovac, Serbia. According to the 2002 census, the town has a population of 296 people.-References:...
  
  
• Lord Carr (disambiguation)