Kingsley
Encyclopedia

Places

In Australia:
  • Kingsley, Western Australia
    Kingsley, Western Australia
    Kingsley is a suburb of Perth, Western Australia, located within the City of Joondalup. Kingsley is bounded to the north by Whitfords Avenue, to the south by Hepburn Avenue, to the west by the Mitchell Freeway and to the east by Wanneroo Road....



In Canada:
  • Kingsley No. 124, Saskatchewan
    Kingsley No. 124, Saskatchewan
    Kingsley No. 124 is a rural municipality in south-eastern Saskatchewan, Canada encompassing 844.61 square kilometers in area. The rural municipality maintains it's office in Kipling, Saskatchewan . The rural municipality in conjunction with the provincial government is in charge of maintenance...



In England:
  • Kingsley, Cheshire
    Kingsley, Cheshire
    Kingsley is a civil parish and a village in the unitary authority of Cheshire West and Chester and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. It is approximately 5 miles south east of the town of Frodsham....

  • Kingsley, Hampshire
    Kingsley, Hampshire
    Kingsley is a village in the East Hampshire district of Hampshire, England. It is 2.1 miles north of Bordon, on the B3004 road. The village has a community centre and an inn, the Cricketers....

  • Kingsley, Staffordshire
    Kingsley, Staffordshire
    Kingsley is a small village in the Staffordshire Moorlands near to Cheadle, and situated on the A52 from Stoke on Trent to Ashbourne.Nowadays the village is a quiet rural village but 100 years ago the Village was the centre of the Churnet Valley Iron Mining Industry...



In the United States:
  • Kingsley, Iowa
    Kingsley, Iowa
    Kingsley is a city in Plymouth County, Iowa, United States. The population was 1,245 at the 2000 census. In the 1880s Herbert Hoover lived in the Kingsley community for a short time, following the deaths of his parents.-Geography:...

  • Kingsley, Kentucky
    Kingsley, Kentucky
    Kingsley is a city in Jefferson County, Kentucky, United States. The population was 428 at the 2000 census. It is roughly a triangle of land between Taylorsville Road, Tyler Lane and Byron Avenue. The city is directly southwest of Bowman Field....

  • Kingsley, Michigan
    Kingsley, Michigan
    Kingsley is a village in Paradise Township, Grand Traverse County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 1,517 as of 2009.-Geography:According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of , all land...

  • Kingsley Plantation
    Kingsley Plantation
    Kingsley Plantation is the site of a former estate in Jacksonville, Florida, that was named for an early owner, Zephaniah Kingsley, who spent 25 years there. It is located at the northern tip of Fort George Island at Fort George Inlet, and is part of the Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve...

    , Florida
  • Kingsley Township, Forest County, Pennsylvania

Surname

  • Adam Kingsley
    Adam Kingsley
    Adam Kingsley is a former Australian rules footballer who played for in the Australian Football League . He is currently an assistant coach at the St Kilda Football Club.-Early career:...

    , Australian rules footballer
  • Ben Kingsley
    Ben Kingsley
    Sir Ben Kingsley, CBE is a British actor. He has won an Oscar, BAFTA, Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild awards in his career. He is known for starring as Mohandas Gandhi in the film Gandhi in 1982, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor...

    , English actor
  • Bob Kingsley
    Bob Kingsley
    Bob Kingsley is an American country music radio personality and host of the nationally syndicated programs "Bob Kingsley's Country Top 40" and "Bob Kingsley with Today's Hit Makers."...

    , American radio personality
  • Calvin Kingsley
    Calvin Kingsley
    Calvin Kingsley was an American bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church elected in 1864.-Birth and Family:...

    , American Methodist bishop
  • Charles Kingsley
    Charles Kingsley
    Charles Kingsley was an English priest of the Church of England, university professor, historian and novelist, particularly associated with the West Country and northeast Hampshire.-Life and character:...

    , English novelist
  • Dorothy Kingsley
    Dorothy Kingsley
    Dorothy Kingsley was an American screenwriter, who worked extensively in film, radio and television.-Biography:...

    , American screenwriter
  • Emily Kingsley
    Emily Kingsley
    Emily Perl Kingsley is a writer who joined the Sesame Street team in 1970 and has been writing for the show ever since.Her son Jason Kingsley was born with Down Syndrome in 1974. At the time of his birth, it was commonly believed that children with Down Syndrome could never learn to walk or talk...

    , writer for Sesame Street
  • Gershon Kingsley
    Gershon Kingsley
    Gershon Kingsley a contemporary German American composer, is well known as a pioneer of electronic music and the Moog synthesizer and founder of the First Moog Quartet, as a partner in the famous electronic music duo Perrey and Kingsley, and for his rock-inspired compositions for Jewish religious...

    , Jewish German-American composer
  • Henry Kingsley
    Henry Kingsley
    Henry Kingsley was an English novelist, brother of the better-known Charles Kingsley.Kingsley was born at Barnack rectory, Northamptonshire, son of the Rev. Charles Kingsley the elder, Mary, née Lucas. Charles Kingsley came of a long line of clergymen and soldiers, and in addition to the two...

    , English novelist
  • Jean-Pierre Kingsley
    Jean-Pierre Kingsley
    Jean-Pierre Kingsley was the President and CEO of the International Foundation for Electoral Systems. He was the Chief Electoral Officer of Elections Canada, before he stepped down in December 2006. On April 28, 2009 he announced his resignation as President of IFES. He was succeeded by Bill...

    , former Canadian Chief Electoral Officer
  • John Sterling Kingsley
    John Sterling Kingsley
    John Sterling Kingsley ) was an American professor of biology and zoology.-Earrly Life:John Kingsley was born on 7 April, 1854 at Cincinnatus, New York son of Lewis and Julia A. Kingsley. His father, who was then County Judge and Surrogate, moved to Norwich in 1856 where Kingsley was raised and...

    , American professor of biology
  • Mary Kingsley
    Mary Kingsley
    Mary Henrietta Kingsley was an English writer and explorer who greatly influenced European ideas about Africa and African people.-Early life:Kingsley was born in Islington, London on 13 October 1862...

    , English writer and explorer
  • Matt Kingsley
    Matt Kingsley
    Matthew "Matt" Kingsley was a football player who played as goalkeeper for Darwen and Newcastle United...

    , English footballer
  • Robert Kingsley
    Robert Kingsley
    Robert Kingsley was an American legal scholar and California judge. He graduated from the University of Minnesota, the University of Minnesota Law School, and Harvard Law School...

    , judge
  • Sidney Kingsley
    Sidney Kingsley
    Sidney Kingsley was an American dramatist. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his play Men in White in 1934.- Biography :...

    , American dramatist
  • Zephaniah Kingsley
    Zephaniah Kingsley
    Zephaniah Kingsley, Jr. was a plantation owner, slave trader, and merchant who built several plantations in the Spanish colony of Florida in what is now Jacksonville...

    , American plantation owner

Given name

  • Kingsley Amis
    Kingsley Amis
    Sir Kingsley William Amis, CBE was an English novelist, poet, critic, and teacher. He wrote more than 20 novels, six volumes of poetry, a memoir, various short stories, radio and television scripts, along with works of social and literary criticism...

    , English novelist
  • Kingsley Ng
    Kingsley Ng
    Kingsley Ng is an interdisciplinary artist working primarily on conceptual, site-specific and community-oriented projects...

    , Hong Kong artist
  • Kingsley A. Taft
    Kingsley A. Taft
    Kingsley Arter Taft was an American politician and distant relative of Ohio's more famous Taft family. He served as chief justice of the Ohio Supreme Court and also served briefly as a United States Senator. Kingsley's father, Frederick Lovett Taft, II was also a noted figure in the Ohio legal...

    , American politician
  • Kingsley Wood
    Kingsley Wood
    Sir Howard Kingsley Wood was an English Conservative politician. The son of a Wesleyan Methodist minister, he qualified as a solicitor, and successfully specialised in industrial insurance...

    , British politician

Fictional

  • Peter Kingsley
    Peter Kingsley
    Peter Kingsley may refer to:* Peter Kingsley , fictional terrorist in the television series 24* Peter Kingsley , British classical scholar...

    , character from 24
  • Kingsley Shacklebolt, character from the Harry Potter series
  • Kingsley the Lion, a puppet character created by Walker Edmiston
    Walker Edmiston
    -Career:Walker Edmiston was an American character actor and voice-over artist who was born in St. Louis, Missouri. Edmiston appeared on various television programs in character roles during the 1950s – 1970s, such as Gunsmoke, Mission: Impossible, Knots Landing, and The Dukes of Hazzard, all...


Other

  • Kingsley College, Melbourne, Australia, a school of theology
  • Kingsley College, Redditch, England, a high school
  • Kingsley Hall
    Kingsley Hall
    Kingsley Hall is a community centre in the East End of London. It dates back to the work of Doris Lester and Muriel Lester, who had a nursery school in nearby Bruce Road. Their brother, Kingsley Lester, died aged 26 in 1914, leaving money for work in the local area for "educational, social and...

    , London, England
  • The Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award
  • Perrey and Kingsley
    Perrey and Kingsley
    The musical duo Perrey and Kingsley are pioneers in the field of electronic music. Before their collaboration, starting in 1965, electronic music was considered to be purely avant-garde...

    , pioneers in electronic music
  • Kingsley Royal
    Kingsley Royal
    Kingsley, a bipedal lion, is the official mascot of Reading Football Club. He was first seen during the 1997-98 season. Up until the end of the 2005-06 season he was played by Noel Selby Armstrong, who has since been appointed assistant kit manager at Reading.The new man in the mask is...

    , mascot for Reading F.C.
  • Kingsley Field, airport located in Southern Oregon
  • Kingsley's Adventure
    Kingsley's Adventure
    Kingsley's Adventure is a third-person platformer–adventure game released for PlayStation in late 1999 by Psygnosis.The game is similar to The Legend of Zelda series, in the sense that players are given a quest and have to explore certain areas of the game's overworld using a sword and a crossbow...

    , video game
The source of this article is wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.  The text of this article is licensed under the GFDL.
 
x
OK