
Croft (surname)
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Croft is a surname
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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"...
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- Annabel CroftAnnabel CroftAnnabel Croft is a former professional tennis player and current radio and television presenter. As a tennis player she won the WTA Tour event Virginia Slims of San Diego and represented Great Britain in the Fed Cup and the Wightman Cup.After retiring from tennis, she turned to television...
, British tennis player - Chancy Croft (born 1937), American politician
- Colin CroftColin CroftColin Everton Hunte Croft is a former West Indian cricketer. He provides expert analysis on the British Broadcasting Corporation's Test Match Special.-Cricket career:...
, Guyanese cricketer - Darren CroftDarren CroftDarren Croft is an Australian ice hockey player currently playing for the Melbourne Ice in the Australian Ice Hockey League.-Playing career:...
, Australian ice hockey player - David Croft (TV producer), British TV sitcom writer
- Don Croft, follower of Wilhelm ReichWilhelm ReichWilhelm Reich was an Austrian-American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, known as one of the most radical figures in the history of psychiatry...
- Douglas CroftDouglas CroftDouglas Croft, born Douglas Malcom Wheatcroft was an early American child actor who is best remembered for being the first actor to portray the DC Comics character Robin the Boy Wonder, in the 1943 serial Batman, at 16 years of age.Croft was born in Seattle, Washington...
, American actor - Eric CroftEric CroftEric Croft was a Democratic State Representative from Anchorage, Alaska and was a candidate in the August 2006 Democratic gubernatorial primary election in Alaska...
(born 1964), son of Chancy, American politician - Gary CroftGary CroftGary Croft is a former English football player who played as a left back. He played as a professional between 1992 and 2008 notably for Grimsby Town, Blackburn Rovers and Ipswich Town, having also had spells with Wigan Athletic, Cardiff City and Lincoln City...
, English footballer - Henry CroftHenry CroftHenry Croft was an Australian-born lumber and mining magnate on Vancouver Island in the early 1900s. He founded the town of Crofton, British Columbia in 1902 as a place to house the smelter for his coal mine on Mount Sicker....
, Australian-Canadian businessman - Henry Herbert Stephen Croft (1842 – 1923), barrister and literary scholar
- Herbert Croft (disambiguation), multiple people
- Henry Page Croft, 1st Baron CroftHenry Page Croft, 1st Baron CroftHenry Page Croft, 1st Baron Croft was a British Conservative Party politician.-Early life and family:He was born at Fanhams Hall in Ware, Hertfordshire, England. He was the son of Richard Benyon Croft a naval officer and a major benefactor of the Richard Hale School, and Anne Elizabeth...
- James CroftJames CroftSir James Croft PC , Lord Deputy of Ireland and MP for Herefordshire in the Parliament of England.He was born the second but eldest surviving son of Richard Croft of Croft Castle, Herefordshire, inheriting the estate on his father's death in 1562.He was elected seven times as knight of the shire ...
, Lord Deputy of IrelandLord Deputy of IrelandThe Lord Deputy was the King's representative and head of the Irish executive under English rule, during the Lordship of Ireland and later the Kingdom of Ireland...
in the sixteenth century - June CroftJune CroftJune Alexandra Croft is a retired freestyle swimmer from the United Kingdom, who represented her native country at three consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1980...
, British freestyle swimmer - Lara CroftLara CroftLara Croft is a fictional character and the protagonist of the Square Enix video game series Tomb Raider. She is presented as a beautiful, intelligent, and athletic British archaeologist-adventurer who ventures into ancient, hazardous tombs and ruins around the world...
, fictional protagonist of the Tomb Raider seriesTomb Raider seriesTomb Raider is a media franchise consisting of video games, comic books, novels, theme park rides and movies, centring around the adventures of the fictional British archaeologist Lara Croft... - Lee CroftLee CroftLee Robert Croft is an English footballer who plays as a right winger in Championship side Derby County....
, English footballer - Lee B Croft, Teacher, Scholar, Author: Arizona Prof. of Russian
- Mary Jane CroftMary Jane CroftMary Jane Croft was an American actress best known for her roles as Betty Ramsey on I Love Lucy, Mary Jane Lewis on The Lucy Show and Here's Lucy, and Clara Randolph on The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet....
, American actress - Paddy CroftPaddy CroftPatricia "Paddy" Croft was born in Worthing, Sussex, England, daughter of an Irish mother and an English father. She is a character actress who almost always plays Irish roles onstage, in movies and on television. Croft was a friend of the late Irish-born American actress, Pauline Flanagan.Croft's...
, actress - Peta-Kaye CroftPeta-Kaye CroftPeta-Kaye Croft is an Australian politician.In 2001 she was elected to the Queensland Legislative Assembly in the seat of Broadwater for the Labor Party. She was born in Mount Isa and lived in Townsville and Brisbane during her early years...
, Australian politician - Robert CroftRobert CroftRobert Damien Bale Croft is a Welsh cricketer who has played international cricket for both England and Wales. He is an off-spin bowler who plays for Glamorgan and captained the county from 2003 to 2006...
, Welsh cricketer - Robert Croft, American US Navy Diver (retired), established free-divingFree-divingFreediving is any of various aquatic activities that share the practice of breath-hold underwater diving. Examples include breathhold spear fishing, freedive photography, apnea competitions and, to a degree, snorkeling...
record depths of 212 feet, 217 feet and 240 feet in 1967 and 1968 - Steven Croft, Bishop of Sheffield
- Steven Croft, English Cricketer
- William CroftWilliam CroftWilliam Croft was an English composer and organist.Croft was born at the Manor House, Nether Ettington, Warwickshire. He was educated at the Chapel Royal, under the instruction of John Blow, and remained there until 1698. Two years after this departure, he became organist of St. Anne's Church, Soho...
, English composer - William CroftWilliam Croft (linguist)William Croft is a professor of linguistics at the University of New Mexico, United States. From 1994 to 2005 he was successively research fellow, lecturer, reader and professor in Linguistics at the University of Manchester, UK....
, American linguist
See also
- Croft (disambiguation)
- CroftsCroftsCrofts is a surname of English origin. The name refers to:*Andrew Crofts , English writer*Andrew Crofts , Welsh professional football player...
- Baron CroftBaron CroftBaron Croft, of Bournemouth in the County of Southampton, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1940 for the Conservative politician Sir Henry Page Croft, 1st Baronet. He had already been created a Baronet in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom in 1924. Croft was the...
, a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom