Hurst
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People
- Alan Hurst (cricketer)Alan Hurst (cricketer)Alan George Hurst is a former Australian cricketer who played in twelve Tests and eight ODIs between 1975 and 1979...
- Alan Hurst (politician), British politician
- Brian Desmond HurstBrian Desmond Hurstthumb|right|200px|Portrait by [[Allan Warren]]Brian Desmond Hurst was a Belfast-born film director. Responsible for over 30 movies as director, Hurst was Ireland's most prolific movie director during the 20th century.-Early life:Hurst was born Hans Hurst in Ribble Street, East Belfast"". into a...
, an Irish film director - Bruce HurstBruce HurstBruce Vee Hurst is a former Major League Baseball left-handed starting pitcher. He is best remembered for his brilliant performance for the Boston Red Sox in the postseason. He was even named World Series M.V.P...
, a former Major League Baseball pitcher - Charles Angas HurstCharles Angas HurstCharles Angas Hurst AM, PhD, Hon DSc , was an Australian mathematical physicist noted for his work in Lattice models, Quantum field theory, Asymptotic expansions and Lie groups. His PhD was a seminal work on Quantum field theory, developing asymptotic expansions for perturbation expansions...
, an Australian Mathematical Physicist - Charles Chamberlain HurstCharles Chamberlain Hurst- Career :Hurst had hoped to read Natural Sciences at Cambridge University, but became ill at a critical time, possibly with tuberculosis, and this prevented him attending, although he recovered and led an active life thereafter....
, British Mendelian geneticist and botanist - Fannie HurstFannie HurstFannie Hurst was an American novelist. Although her books are not well remembered today, during her lifetime some of her more famous novels were Stardust , Lummox , A President is Born , Back Street , and Imitation of Life...
, an American novelist - Geoff HurstGeoff HurstSir Geoffrey Charles Hurst MBE is a retired England footballer best remembered for his years with West Ham. He made his mark in World Cup history as the only player to have scored a hat-trick in a World Cup final. His three goals came in the 1966 final for England in their 4–2 win over West...
, English footballer - Glynn HurstGlynn HurstGlynn Hurst is a former professional footballer who played as a striker.-Early and personal life:Born in Barnsley, South Yorkshire, Hurst moved to South Africa at a young age.-Early career:...
, a professional footballer - Greg HurstGreg HurstGreg Hurst is an American journalist. He is currently employed by CBS affiliate KHOU-TV in Houston, Texas, where he has been since leaving New York's WABC-TV in 1997. Hurst anchors KHOU's 5, 6, and 10 p.m...
, an American journalist - Harold Edwin HurstHarold Edwin HurstHarold Edwin Hurst was a British hydrologist. Hurst's study on measuring the long-term storage capacity of reservoirs documented the presence of long-range dependence in hydrology. Much of Hurst's research was motivated by his empirical observations of the Nile. The Hurst exponent, which has been...
(1880–1978), British hydrologist - James Hurst, a short story writer of The Scarlet IbisThe Scarlet Ibis"The Scarlet Ibis" is a short story written by novelist James Hurst. It was first published in The Atlantic Monthly in July 1960 and won the "Atlantic First" award...
- James Hurst (baseball)James Hurst (baseball)James Lavon Hurst is a former Major League Baseball pitcher who played in with the Texas Rangers.-External links:...
, former Major League Baseball player - John Fletcher HurstJohn Fletcher HurstJohn Fletcher Hurst was a bishop in the Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States and first Chancellor of the American University in Washington, D.C.-Biography:...
, a bishop in the Methodist Episcopal Church - Jonny HurstJonny HurstJonny Hurst , from Wanstead, north London, is England's first Chant Laureate.Barclaycard set up the competition to choose a Chant Laureate, who would be paid £10,000 to tour Premiership stadiums and compose football chants for the 2004–5 football season...
, England's first Chant Laureate - Kevan HurstKevan HurstKevan James D. Hurst is a footballer who currently plays for Walsall FC.A versatile player, he can play all across the midfield or forward line though his preferred position is left-wing...
, a footballer - Lee Hurst (comedian)
- Lee Hurst (footballer)Lee Hurst (footballer)Lee Hurst is a retired English football midfielder.He spent his whole English professional career at Coventry City, making his debut at the age of 20 on 2 February 1991 when they lost 1-0 to Wimbledon in the Football League First Division at Plough Lane...
- Lillian HurstLillian HurstLillian Hurst is a Puerto Rican actress and comedienne. Hurst made her debut as a television comedian in the early 1960s. She participated in various Off-Broadway and movie productions in the United States.-Early years:...
, a Puerto Rican actress and comedian - Michael HurstMichael HurstMichael Eric Hurst, ONZM is a New Zealand actor, director and writer, mostly on stage and television. He is probably best known internationally for playing Iolaus in the television programs Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and companion series Xena: Warrior Princess...
, an actor, director and writer - Mike Hurst (politician), Canadian politician
- Mike Hurst (producer)Mike Hurst (producer)Mike Hurst is an English musician and record producer.-Biography:...
, British singer and record producer - Murray HurstMurray Hurst-Early life:Hurst was born in Surat on a sheep and cattle property in the south west corner of Queensland and attended Marist Brothers College at Ashgrove in Brisbane...
, former coach of the North Queensland Cowboys - Nathan HurstNathan HurstNathan Hurst is an Australian programmer. He currently works as a software engineer at Google. Among the founders of the Inkscape project, he also contributes to projects such as gtkmathview, matplotlib, and the organ simulator aeolus. He maintains The Circle and libaffa, a C++ library for...
, an Australian programmer - Pat HurstPat HurstPat Hurst is an American professional golfer who plays on the U.S.-based LPGA Tour.Hurst's father is American and her mother is originally from Japan. She was born in San Leandro, California and raised in California.-Amateur career:...
, an American golfer - Paul HurstPaul HurstPaul Michael Hurst is a former English footballer who played in Football League Two in England, for Rotherham, where he played for over 10 years. He is currently joint manager of Conference National side Grimsby Town with Rob Scott.-Playing career:Hurst figured regularly on the left side of the...
, a former English footballer - Paul Hurst (actor)Paul Hurst (actor)Paul Causey Hurst was an American film actor and director.-Career:Born in Traver, California, and raised on a ranch, he appeared in hundreds of films during the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s. However, he got his start painting scenery as part of the backstage crew during the silent movie era...
- Rick HurstRick HurstRichard Douglas "Rick" Hurst an American actor who portrayed Deputy Cletus Hogg, Boss Hogg's cousin, in the 1980 to 1983 seasons of The Dukes of Hazzard....
, an American actor - Robert Hurst, various including:
- Robert Hurst (broadcaster), the president of CTV News
- Ryan HurstRyan HurstRyan Douglas Hurst is an American actor who perhaps most notably starred as Gerry Bertier, an All-American linebacker in Disney's Remember the Titans and as Alison's brother, Michael, in the show Medium. He also played the role of football player Lump Hudson in The Ladykillers, appeared in the...
, an American actor - William Hurst (disambiguation)
Places
- Hurst, BerkshireHurst, BerkshireHurst is a village in the civil parish of St Nicholas Hurst in the English county of Berkshire.-Geography:The parish of St Nicholas Hurst is situated at , north of Wokingham and south of Twyford in the county of Berkshire...
, England - Hurst, IllinoisHurst, IllinoisHurst is a city in Williamson County, Illinois, United States. The population was 805 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Hurst is located at .According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all of it land....
, USA - Hurst, North YorkshireHurst, North YorkshireHurst is a secluded hamlet in North Yorkshire, England about ten miles northwest of Richmond. It lies on a road in which it shares with another hamlet, Washfold. Hurst was a mining centre in the 19th century, but there is evidence that the Romans also produced lead here....
, England - Hurst, Somerset, England
- Hurst, TexasHurst, TexasHurst is a city in Tarrant County, Texas, United States. Hurst is one of the Mid-Cities between Fort Worth and Dallas, but is a suburb of Fort Worth. The city was founded by William Letchworth Hurst...
, USA - Hurst CastleHurst CastleHurst Castle on the south coast of England is one of Henry VIII's Device Forts, built at the end of a long shingle barrier beach at the west end of the Solent to guard the approaches to Southampton. Hurst Castle was sited at the narrow entrance to the Solent where the ebb and flow of the tides...
and the surrounding coast, Hampshire, England - Hurst HillHurst HillHurst Hill is a location on Anglezarke Moor, within the West Pennine Moors of Lancashire, England. Despite a modest height of 317 metres , the summit provides excellent views towards the Irish Sea. Of more note, however, is its location between Round Loaf and Pikestones, both of which are...
, Lancashire, England - Hurstbridge, VictoriaHurstbridge, VictoriaHurstbridge is a semi-rural town in Victoria, Australia, 26 km north-east from Melbourne's central business district, at the junction of Diamond Creek and Arthur's Creek. Its Local Government Area is the Shire of Nillumbik. At the 2006 Census, Hurstbridge had a population of 3448.- History...
, Australia - HurstpierpointHurstpierpointHurstpierpoint is a village in the Mid Sussex district of West Sussex, England. Together with Sayers Common it forms one of the Mid Sussex civil parishes, with an area of 2029.88 ha and a population of 6,264 persons....
, West SussexWest SussexWest Sussex is a county in the south of England, bordering onto East Sussex , Hampshire and Surrey. The county of Sussex has been divided into East and West since the 12th century, and obtained separate county councils in 1888, but it remained a single ceremonial county until 1974 and the coming...
, England - Cumnor HurstCumnor HurstCumnor Hurst, also known as Hurst Hill, is a wooded hill in the neighbourhood of the village of Cumnor, Oxfordshire, England. It lies to the north of Boars Hill. In 1974 it was transferred from Berkshire....
, Oxfordshire, England - Laurelhurst, Seattle, Washington, USA
- Laurelhurst, Portland, OregonLaurelhurst, Portland, OregonLaurelhurst is a neighborhood of vintage homes and undulating streets surrounding a park of the same name, straddling the NE and SE sections of Portland. Stone markers flank the entrances to the area...
, USA - Marylhurst, OregonMarylhurst, OregonMarylhurst, Oregon is an unincorporated community in Clackamas County, Oregon, United States. It is located approximately eight miles south of Portland, between Lake Oswego and West Linn on Oregon Route 43 near the Willamette River...
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Other uses
- Hurst exponentHurst exponentThe Hurst exponent is used as a measure of the long term memory of time series. It relates to the autocorrelations of the time series and the rate at which these decrease as the lag between pairs of values increases....
- Hurst PerformanceHurst PerformanceHurst Performance, Inc. of Warminster Township, Pennsylvania, manufactured and marketed products for enhancing the performance of automobiles, most notably for muscle cars.-Products:...
, products for automobiles, the name of more than one United States Navy ship
See also
- Hearst (disambiguation)
- Herst (disambiguation)
- Hirst (disambiguation)
- Horst (disambiguation)
- Hurt (disambiguation)
- Warhurst