Gardiner (surname)
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Gardiner is a surname
, and 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"...
, and may refer to:
- Addison GardinerAddison GardinerAddison Gardiner was an American lawyer and politician who was the Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals from 1854 to 1855.-Early life and career:...
(1797–1883), New York Lieutenant Governor and Chief Judge - Sir Alan GardinerAlan GardinerSir Alan Henderson Gardiner was one of the premier British Egyptologists of the early and mid-20th century...
(1879–1963), English Egyptologist - Albert GardinerAlbert GardinerAlbert Gardiner was an Australian Labor Party politician. He held the distinction of being the party's sole Senator between 1920 and 1922....
, Australian politician - Alfred George GardinerAlfred George GardinerAlfred George Gardiner was a British journalist and author. His essays, written under the pen-name Alpha of the Plough, are highly regarded. He was also Chairman of the National Anti-Sweating League, a pressure group which campaigned for a minimum wage in industry.-Early life:Gardiner was born in...
(1865–1946), English journalist and essayist - Allen Francis GardinerAllen Francis GardinerAllen Francis Gardiner was a British Royal Navy officer and missionary to Patagonia.-Biography:Gardiner was the fifth son of Samuel Gardiner of Coombe Lodge, Oxfordshire, by Mary, daughter of Charles Boddam of Capel House, Bull's Cross, Enfield, Middlesex...
(1794–1851), English missionary - Anthony W. GardinerAnthony W. GardinerAnthony William Gardner served as the ninth President of Liberia from 1878 until 1883. He was the first of a series of True Whig presidents who held power uninterruptedly until 1980....
(1820–1885), President of Liberia - Antoinette Avril Gardiner (born 1941), known as Princess Muna al-Hussein, second wife of King Hussein of Jordan
- Asa Bird GardinerAsa Bird GardinerAsa Bird Gardiner was a controversial American soldier, attorney, and prosecutor. He received the Medal of Honor for his service in the American Civil War in 1872, it was rescinded when the supporting documentation was not found...
(1839–1919), American lawyer and politician - Barry GardinerBarry GardinerBarry Strachan Gardiner is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament for Brent North since 1997...
(born 1957), Scottish politician - Bernard GardinerBernard GardinerBernard Gardiner was an academic at the University of Oxford, serving as Warden of All Souls College, Oxford and also as Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University.-Life:...
(c.1668–1726), English academic administrator - Boris GardinerBoris GardinerBoris Gardiner is a Jamaican singer, songwriter and bass guitarist.-Career:Gardiner performed on the tourist circuit for much of the 1960s and was a member of Carlos Malcolm & the Afro Caribs and Byron Lee's Dragonaires...
(born 1943), Jamaican reggae musician - Charlie Gardiner (ice hockey player)Charlie Gardiner (ice hockey player)Charles Robert "Chuck" Gardiner was a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender who played for the Chicago Black Hawks in the National Hockey League. Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, Gardiner moved with his family to Canada as a child...
(1904–1934), Scottish-born Canadian ice hockey player - Chittampalam Abraham GardinerChittampalam Abraham GardinerSir Chittampalam Abraham Gardiner, KSS was a Sri Lankan businessman.-Early life:Chittampalam Abraham Gardiner was born on January 6, 1899 or 1896, son of Samuel Vairamuttu Gardiner and Salomapillai Vairamuttu Gardiner, daughter of Gabrielpillai Bastiampillai. The family was originally from...
, Sri Lankan businessman and prominent Roman Catholic activist - Frank GardinerFrank GardinerFrank Gardiner was a noted Australian bushranger of the 19th century. He was born in Scotland about 1827 and migrated from to Australia as a child with his parents in 1834,. His real name was Francis Christie, though he often used one of several other aliases including Gardiner, Clarke or Christie...
, Scottish-born Australian bushranger - Fred Gardiner, Toronto politician
- Sir George Gardiner (politician)George Gardiner (politician)Sir George Arthur Gardiner was a United Kingdom Conservative Party politician and journalist.- Early life :...
(1935–2002), English politician - George Gardiner (soldier)George Gardiner (soldier)George Gardiner VC DCM was born in Clonallon, Warrenpoint, County Down and was an Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.-Details:He was about 34 years old, and a...
(1821–1891), Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross - Gerald Gardiner, Baron GardinerGerald Gardiner, Baron GardinerGerald Austin Gardiner, Baron Gardiner, CH, QC, PC , was a British Labour politician, who served as Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain from 1964 to 1970 and during that time he introduced into British law as many reforms as any Lord Chancellor had done before or since...
(1900–1990), Lord Chancellor of the United Kingdom - Harry GardinerHarry GardinerHarry H. Gardiner , better known as the Human Fly, was an American man famous for climbing buildings. He began climbing in 1905, and successfully climbed over 700 buildings in Europe and North America, usually wearing ordinary street clothes and used no special equipment.- Climbs :Some of the...
(born 1871), American buildings climber - Henry Balfour GardinerHenry Balfour GardinerHenry Balfour Gardiner was an English musician, composer, and teacher. Between his conventional education at Charterhouse School and New College, Oxford, where he obtained only a pass degree, Gardiner was a piano student at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt am Main where he was taught by Knorr...
(1877–1950), English composer - Herb GardinerHerb GardinerHerbert Martin Gardiner was a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman who played for the Calgary Tigers of the Western Canada Hockey League and the Montreal Canadiens and Chicago Black Hawks of the National Hockey League . Additionally, he was the head coach of the Black Hawks for part of...
(1891–1972), Canadian ice hockey player - James Gardiner (British Army officer) (1688–1745), Scottish soldier
- James Garfield GardinerJames Garfield GardinerJames Garfield "Jimmy" Gardiner, PC was a Canadian farmer, educator, and politician...
(1883–1962), Canadian politician - James Henry GardinerJames Henry GardinerJames Henry Gardiner was an early Australian rules football administrator, footballer and public servant. He is primarily known for the pivotal role he played in establishing the North Melbourne Football Club, which now competes in the Australian Football League.-Early life:For a man who played...
, early Australian Rules Footballer - James Terry GardinerJames Terry GardinerJames Terry Gardiner was an American surveyor and engineer.Gardiner was born in Troy, New York, the son of Daniel Gardiner and Ann Terry Gardiner. He briefly attended Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the Sheffield Scientific School. In 1863 he traveled on horseback to California with his...
(1842–1912), American surveyor - John Gardiner (Australia) (1873–1878), Irish-born settler in Australia
- Sir John Eliot GardinerJohn Eliot GardinerSir John Eliot Gardiner CBE FKC is an English conductor. He founded the Monteverdi Choir , the English Baroque Soloists and the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique...
(born 1943), English conductor - John Reynolds GardinerJohn Reynolds GardinerJohn Reynolds Gardiner was an American author and engineer. He is famous for writing Stone Fox in 1980 which was later adapted to an NBC movie. He has also edited children's stories for television.-Biography:...
, American novelist - John Sylvester John GardinerJohn Sylvester John GardinerJohn Sylvester John Gardiner , aka John S. J. Gardiner, was Rector of Trinity Church, Boston, Massachusetts, president of Boston's Anthology Club, and active in the Boston Athenaeum....
(1765–1830), Welsh-born American clergyman - Joseph GardinerJoseph GardinerJoseph Peter Gardiner was the Australian Labor Party member for the Western Australian Legislative Assembly seat of Roebourne from 1911 to 1915...
(1886–1965), Australian politician - Kyoko GardinerKyoko GardinerKyoko Gardiner is a Japanese poet, artist and theorist. Gardiner started writing poetry and making drawings at a young age, and started publishing works as a student at Tokyo University...
, also known as Kiki Gardiner (born 1975), Japanese-born artist/activist/writer - Lion GardinerLion GardinerLion Gardiner , an early English settler and soldier in the New World, founded the first English settlement in what became the state of New York on Long Island. His legacy includes Gardiners Island, which is held by his descendants.-Early life:...
(1599–1663), English settler in New York - Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington (1789–1849), Irish writer
- Michael GardinerMichael GardinerMichael S. Gardiner is a former Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League. He played for the West Coast Eagles from 1997–2006 and the St Kilda Football Club from 2007–2011.- Early life :...
, Australian rules footballer - Muriel GardinerMuriel GardinerMuriel Morris Gardiner Buttinger was an American psychoanalyst and psychiatrist.-Early Life and career:...
, American psychiatrist - Nevile GardinerNevile GardinerNevile Gardiner, was an English diplomat. He was brother of Baron Gerald Gardiner , his father was Sir Robert Septimus Gardiner and his mother was Alice von Ziegesar ....
(1902–1954), English diplomat - Pauline GardinerPauline GardinerPauline Gardiner is a former New Zealand politician.-Member of Parliament:Gardiner was a member of parliament from 1993 to 1996, representing first the National Party and then United New Zealand...
, New Zealand politician - Peter GardinerPeter GardinerPeter Clarence Gardiner is a Swedish actor and dancer.-Biography:Gardiner received his formal training as a contemporary ballet dancer at Balettakademien in Stockholm and has performed at all the large stages in Sweden and at Nye Carte Blanche and Isadora...
, Swedish actor and dancer - Reginald GardinerReginald GardinerReginald Gardiner was an English-born actor in film and television and a graduate of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in Britain. His parents wanted him to be an architect and he studied at it but he wanted to be an actor and eventually got his way.He started as a super on stage and eventually...
(1903–1980), English actor - Richard GardinerRichard GardinerSir Richard Gardiner, Knight, was, in 1478, Lord Mayor of London. He was Alderman of Walbrook Ward, and had been Sheriff of the City of London in 1469....
, Lord Mayor of London in the fifteenth century - Ricky GardinerRicky GardinerRicky Gardiner is a guitarist and composer.He has played in his own outfit, Beggars Opera, and also with David Bowie and Iggy Pop. For Bowie he played lead guitar on the 1977 album Low. He worked with Pop on Lust for Life the same year. The album included "The Passenger", regarded as one of Pop's...
, Scottish musician - Robert Gardiner (disambiguation), several people
- Samuel Rawson GardinerSamuel Rawson GardinerSamuel Rawson Gardiner was an English historian.The son of Rawson Boddam Gardiner, he was born near Alresford, Hampshire. He was educated at Winchester College and Christ Church, Oxford, where he obtained a first class in literae humaniores. He was subsequently elected to fellowships at All Souls ...
(1829–1902), English historian - Silvester Gardiner (1707–1786), American physician and land developer
- Stephen GardinerStephen GardinerStephen Gardiner was an English Roman Catholic bishop and politician during the English Reformation period who served as Lord Chancellor during the reign of Queen Mary I of England.-Early life:...
(c.1493–1555), English Lord Chancellor and bishop - Susan GardinerSusan GardinerSusan Gardiner is a Canadian water polo player.Gardiner is a former student at the University of British Columbia...
(born 1980), Canadian water polo player - William Guthrie GardinerWilliam Guthrie GardinerWilliam Guthrie Gardiner was a wealthy shipowner who was a generous benfactor to the University of Glasgow, endowing a number of chairs.-Biography:He was born in Stirling in 1848 or 1849 and married Agnes in 1889...
, ship owner and philanthropist - Wrey GardinerWrey GardinerCharles Wrey Gardiner was an English writer and poet, editor and publisher, born in Plymouth.Gardiner was a noted and well-connected literary figure, particularly in London in the years around Second World War, though very much in the tradition of the literary amateur...
(1901–1981), English writer, poet, editor and publisher