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- See Carpenter (surname)Carpenter (surname)Carpenter is a surname. Its use as a forename or middle name is rare. Within the United States, it is ranked as the 189th-most common surname. The English meaning of is one who makes wooden objects and structures by shaping wood.-Origin:...
for the etymologyEtymologyEtymology is the study of the history of words, their origins, and how their form and meaning have changed over time.For languages with a long written history, etymologists make use of texts in these languages and texts about the languages to gather knowledge about how words were used during...
, related names, and Y-DNA information on Carpenters. - See Carpenter (disambiguation)Carpenter (disambiguation)A carpenter is a person who engages in carpentry, the craft of woodworking.Carpenter or Carpenters may also refer to:-Communities and settlements:* Carpenter, Alabama* Carpenter, California* Carpenter, Colorado, a ghost town...
for Carpenter named communities, natural features, and manmade features. - See Historic Carpenter Houses for houses, homes, shops, homesteads, farmsteads, or other partially named or hyphenated named places with "Carpenter" or a similar meaning name.
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- Aaron CarpenterAaron CarpenterAaron Carpenter is a Canadian rugby player.Carpenter played his first international game for Canada vs. the United States on May 25, 2005, and has continued to be a strong member of the squad. Aaron played as a member of the Canadian team in the 2007 Rugby World Cup...
, Canadian rugby player - Alan CarpenterAlan CarpenterAlan John Carpenter is a former Australian politician. He was the 28th Premier of Western Australia, serving from 2006 to 2008. He took office following the resignation of Dr Geoff Gallop...
, Australian politician - Alexander CarpenterAlexander CarpenterAlexander Carpenter, Latinized as Fabricius , was the author of the Destructorium viciorum, a religious work popular in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries...
, Latinized as Fabricius (fl.1429) - Alfred Francis Blakeney Carpenter, British naval officer
- Allan CarpenterAllan CarpenterJohn Allan Carpenter was born in Waterloo, Iowa in 1917. Mr. Carpenter now lives in Chicago and “is one of the most respected non-fiction authors in American publishing history.” He is a prolific writer with more than 225 books to his credit...
, American non-fiction writer - Allie May "A.M." CarpenterAllie May "A.M." CarpenterAllie May "A.M." Carpenter, born January 4, 1887 at Prairie Home, Missouri, died in July 1978 at Denver, Colorado was a Twentieth Century artist and art educator. She worked in a wide variety of media, including oils, pastels, watercolor, printmaking, design, etching, china painting, interior...
, artist and art educator - Amanda CarpenterAmanda CarpenterAmanda B. Carpenter is an American author, political advisor, and speechwriter. She previously worked as a columnist for The Washington Times, and is the author of The Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy's Dossier on Hillary Rodham Clinton.-Life and career:...
, American author and columnist for The Washington TimesThe Washington TimesThe Washington Times is a daily broadsheet newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States. It was founded in 1982 by Unification Church founder Sun Myung Moon, and until 2010 was owned by News World Communications, an international media conglomerate associated with the... - Archibald Boyd Boyd-CarpenterArchibald Boyd Boyd-CarpenterMajor Sir Archibald Boyd Boyd-Carpenter was a British Conservative Party politician.The 4th son of Rt. Rev. Sir William Boyd-Carpenter , Bishop of Ripon and Canon of Westminster, Archibald Boyd-Carpenter was educated at Harrow School and at Balliol College, Oxford, where he was Secretary and...
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- Benajah CarpenterBenajah CarpenterBenajah Carpenter, founding member of the United States Army Field Artillery Corps under Henry Knox and veteran of the Siege of Boston and Battle of Long Island. Carpenter was born April 27, 1748 and was killed in action on Long Island on August 27, 1776. He was a descendant of the Rehoboth...
, founding member of the United States Army Field Artillery Corps - Benedict CarpenterBenedict CarpenterBenedict Carpenter is a British sculptor and artist based in the West Midlands.He works in traditional materials such as bronze, mild steel, as well as more modern substances such as polyurethane foam, bread, rubber and spray paint....
, British sculptor and artist - Bill CarpenterBill CarpenterWilliam "Bill" Stanley Carpenter, Jr., LTG, U.S. Army is an American former Army officer and college football player. While playing college football, he gained national prominence as the "Lonesome End" of the Army football team...
, American football player and army officer - Bobby Carpenter (ice hockey), aka Bob Carpenter, American ice hockeyIce hockeyIce hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...
player - Bob Carpenter (sportscaster)Bob Carpenter (sportscaster)Bob Carpenter is a long-time sportscaster and current television play-by-play announcer for Major League Baseball's Washington Nationals on MASN.-Biography:Bob Carpenter has been the Washington Nationals broadcaster since 2006....
, American radio personality - Bobby Carpenter (football player), American footballAmerican footballAmerican football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...
linebacker - Brianna Carpenter, Australian Idol finalist from BrisbaneBrisbaneBrisbane is the capital and most populous city in the Australian state of Queensland and the third most populous city in Australia. Brisbane's metropolitan area has a population of over 2 million, and the South East Queensland urban conurbation, centred around Brisbane, encompasses a population of...
, QueenslandQueenslandQueensland is a state of Australia, occupying the north-eastern section of the mainland continent. It is bordered by the Northern Territory, South Australia and New South Wales to the west, south-west and south respectively. To the east, Queensland is bordered by the Coral Sea and Pacific Ocean...
, AustraliaAustraliaAustralia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
. - Brittany Nicole Carpenter, stage name DiamondDiamond (rapper)For the D.I.T.C. rapper and producer, see Diamond D.Brittany Nicole Carpenter , better known by her stage name Diamond, is an American rapper and former member of the group Crime Mob.-Early life:...
, an American rapper and former member of the group Crime MobCrime MobCrime Mob was a hip hop/crunk group consisting of six members, M.I.G., Cyco Black, Princess, Lil' Jay, Diamond, and Killa C....
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- Cameron CarpenterCameron CarpenterCameron Carpenter is an American organist known for his virtuosity, showmanship, technique and arrangements for the organ.-Biography:...
, an American organistOrganistAn organist is a musician who plays any type of organ. An organist may play solo organ works, play with an ensemble or orchestra, or accompany one or more singers or instrumental soloists... - Carleton CarpenterCarleton CarpenterCarleton Carpenter is an American movie/television/stage actor, a magician, author and songwriter....
, movie, TV and stage actor, magician, author and songwriter - Catherine "Kate" CarpenterCatherine "Kate" CarpenterCatherine "Kate" Carpenter, born probably ca. 1730s, died 1784, was a frontier wife and mother for whom Kate's Mountain in Greenbrier County, West Virginia is named....
, Virginia pioneer wife and mother for whom Kate's MountainKate's MountainKate's Mountain, south of White Sulphur Springs in Greenbrier County, West Virginia, was named for Catherine "Kate" Carpenter, who in September 1756 took refuge with her child on the mountain's peak during an Indian attack in which her husband Nicholas Carpenter was killed near Fort Dinwiddie in...
is named - Chad CarpenterChad CarpenterChad Carpenter is an American cartoonist, well known for his comic panel Tundra. Carpenter launched the strip in the Anchorage Daily News in 1991, and since then he has self-syndicated it to over 330 newspapers, an unusually high amount for strips in self-syndication.-Early life:Carpenter was born...
, American cartoonist - Charisma CarpenterCharisma CarpenterCharisma Lee Carpenter is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Cordelia Chase in the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer and its spin-off Angel, for which she was nominated for four Saturn Awards. In her most recent film she starred opposite Sylvester Stallone and Jason...
, actress - Charles C. CarpenterCharles C. CarpenterCharles C. Carpenter was a Boomer who organized and instigated the first unauthorized attempt to homestead the Unassigned Lands in Oklahoma Territory in May 1879. Carpenter's Boomers established a nominal settlement called City of Oklahoma on Deep Fork River...
, Oklahoma Boomer - Charles Colcock Jones CarpenterCharles Colcock Jones CarpenterCharles Colcock Jones Carpenter D.D., LL.D was consecrated Bishop of the Alabama Episcopal Diocese on June 24, 1938 and served until 1968. He was one of the eight clergymen who sent a letter titled "A Call for Unity" to Martin Luther King Jr...
, Episcopal Bishop of Alabama - Charles Congden CarpenterCharles Congden CarpenterDr. Charles Congden Carpenter is an eminent naturalist and herpetologist who has won numerous awards for excellence as an educator, researcher, and communicator.-Education:...
, American herpetologist and naturalist - Charles K. Carpenter, Illinois Naturalist
- Charles Sydney 'Bubba' CarpenterBubba CarpenterCharles Sydney "Bubba" Carpenter is a former Major League Baseball player. He was an outfielder and designated hitter for the Colorado Rockies in the 2000 season. He attended college at the University of Arkansas and is 6 foot 1 and 185 pounds. Bubba was signed as an Amateur Free Agent by the New...
, Major League Baseball player - Charles T. CarpenterCharles T. CarpenterCharles Thomas Carpenter, born December 9, 1858 in Bedford County, Tennessee, died February 22, 1945 at Montgomery County, Kansas, was a pioneer banker who was taken hostage by the Dalton Gang in their last raid, October 5, 1892, in Coffeyville, Kansas....
, Kansas banker taken hostage by the Dalton GangDalton GangThe Dalton Gang, also known as The Dalton Brothers, was a family of both lawmen and outlaws in the American Old West during 1890-1892. They specialized in bank and train robberies. They were related to the Younger brothers, who rode with Jesse James, though they acted later and independently of... - Charles William Carpenter (1886-1971), 20th Century Baptist minister and Civil Rights activist
- Chris CarpenterChris CarpenterChristopher John Carpenter is a starting pitcher in Major League Baseball who has played for the St. Louis Cardinals since 2003, and is currently signed with the team until the 2011 season, with a club option for 2012.Carpenter was 22 years old and a highly-regarded prospect when he broke into the...
, born Christopher John Carpenter, starting pitcher in Major League BaseballMajor League BaseballMajor League Baseball is the highest level of professional baseball in the United States and Canada, consisting of teams that play in the National League and the American League... - Claude E. CarpenterClaude E. CarpenterClaude E. Carpenter was an American set decorator. He was nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:...
, an American set decoratorSet decoratorA set decorator is in charge of the set dressing on a film set, which includes the furnishings, wallpaper, lighting fixtures, and many of the other objects that will be seen in the film. Props and set dressing often overlap, but are provided by different departments... - Connie Carpenter, 1966 MothmanMothmanMothman is a legendary creature reportedly seen in the Point Pleasant area of West Virginia from 15 November 1966 to 15 December 1967. The first newspaper report was published in the Point Pleasant Register dated 16 November 1966, entitled "Couples See Man-Sized Bird...Creature...Something"...
witness - Connie Carpenter-PhinneyConnie Carpenter-PhinneyConnie Carpenter Phinney is an American former racing cyclist and speed skater who won four medals in World Cycling Championship competitions in the late 1970s and early 1980s. She also won the Gold medal in the cycling road race at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, as well as twelve U.S...
, American professional cycle racer and speed skater who won four medals in World Cycling Championship competitions - Constance CarpenterConstance CarpenterConstance Emmeline Carpenter was an English-born American film and musical theatre actress.-Biography:Born in Bath, Somerset, Carpenter was the daughter of vaudevillians and began performing at an early age....
, English -born American film and musical theatre actress - Coy Cornelius CarpenterCoy Cornelius CarpenterCoy Cornelius Carpenter M.D., born April 24, 1900, died November 7, 1971, was dean of the School of Medicine of Wake Forest University from 1936–67 and vice president for health affairs from 1963-67. He guided the school through the transition from a two-year to a four-year program and the move...
, M.D., was the dean of the School of Medicine of Wake Forest UniversityWake Forest UniversityWake Forest University is a private, coeducational university in the U.S. state of North Carolina, founded in 1834. The university received its name from its original location in Wake Forest, north of Raleigh, North Carolina, the state capital. The Reynolda Campus, the university's main campus, is... - Cyrus C. CarpenterCyrus C. CarpenterCyrus Clay Carpenter was a Civil War officer, the eighth Governor of Iowa and U.S. Representative from Iowa's 9th congressional district.-Early life:...
, born Cyrus Clay Carpenter, a Civil War veteran, two-term Republican Governor of Iowa and U.S. Representative from Iowa
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- Dan CarpenterDan CarpenterDaniel Roy Carpenter is an American football placekicker for the Miami Dolphins of the National Football League...
, born Daniel Roy Carpenter, an American football placekicker - Dave CarpenterDave CarpenterDave Carpenter was an American bass player.After studying music at Ohio State University, he launched his professional career by moving to New York...
, bassist - Dave CarpenderDave CarpenderDave Carpender was the guitarist with The Greg Kihn Band from 1976 to 1983. They had a #2 US/#63 UK hit in 1983 with 'Jeopardy' and a #15 US hit in 1981 with 'The Breakup Song '.He died of heart failure in 2007....
, aka David Carpenter, guitarist with "The Greg Kihn BandThe Greg Kihn BandThe Greg Kihn Band is an American band that was started by frontman Greg Kihn and bassist Steve Wright. Their most successful singles include "The Breakup Song " and "Jeopardy" .-History:...
" - David Carpenter, early Texas settler—mentioned in Carpenters BayouCarpenters BayouCarpenters Bayou rises at the south end of Sheldon Reservoir in southeastern Harris County , Texas, USA, and runs southeast for about twelve miles until it joins Buffalo Bayou at the San Jacinto Battleground State Historic Site ....
- David Carpenter (historian)David Carpenter (historian)David Carpenter is an English historian and writer, currently Professor of Medieval History at King's College LondonHe is the son of Rev. E.F. Carpenter, renowned ecclesiastical historian and Dean of Westminster Abbey between 1974-1986, and Lillian Carpenter...
(born 1947), British historian - David Carpenter (writer)David Carpenter (writer)David C. Carpenter, born October 28, 1941 in Edmonton, Alberta, is a Canadian writer who lives in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. His oeuvre, which includes poetry, essays, short stories, novellas, and full-length books in fiction as well as non-fiction genres, focuses primarily on nature and his native...
(born 1941), Canadian novelist - David CarpenterDavid CarpenterDavid Carpenter may refer to:*David Carpenter, early Texas settler and namesake of Carpenters Bayou*David Aaron Carpenter, violist, *David Carpenter , British historian*David Carpenter , Canadian novelist...
, serial killer also known as the "Trailside Killer" - David Aaron CarpenterDavid Aaron CarpenterDavid Aaron Carpenter is a US-American violist and was the first Prize Winner of the 2006 Walter E. Naumburg Viola Competition. In June 2007, David was selected as the new Music Protégé in the , sponsored by Rolex...
(born 1986), violist - Davis CarpenterDavis CarpenterDavis Carpenter was a United States Representative from New York.Carpenter was born in Walpole, New Hampshire on December 25, 1799, where he studied medicine. He graduated from Middlebury College, Vermont in 1824, where he studied law...
(1799-1878), United States Representative from New York - Delphus E. CarpenterDelphus E. CarpenterDelphus E. Carpenter was the Commissioner of Interstate Streams for the State of Colorado at a time when Western States' water rights were becoming a legal battleground, and became the primary driver behind the Colorado River Compact of 1922....
, Colorado state senator and pioneering water rights lawyer - Don CarpenterDon CarpenterDon Carpenter was an American writer, best known as the author of Hard Rain Falling. He wrote numerous novels, novellas, short stories and screenplays over the course of a 22-year career that took him from a childhood in Berkeley, California and the Pacific Northwest to the corridors of power and...
, American writer - Doug CarpenterDoug CarpenterDoug Carpenter is a former head coach in the National Hockey League, the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League, the International Hockey League and the American Hockey League, and is a former hockey player in the Eastern Hockey League and the International Hockey League.As a player from 1964–1974, he...
, former hockey head coach in the National Hockey LeagueNational Hockey LeagueThe National Hockey League is an unincorporated not-for-profit association which operates a major professional ice hockey league of 30 franchised member clubs, of which 7 are currently located in Canada and 23 in the United States... - Drew Carpenter, born Andrew Carpenter, pitcher for the Philadelphia PhilliesPhiladelphia PhilliesThe Philadelphia Phillies are a Major League Baseball team. They are the oldest continuous, one-name, one-city franchise in all of professional American sports, dating to 1883. The Phillies are a member of the Eastern Division of Major League Baseball's National League...
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- Ed Carpenter (artist)Ed Carpenter (artist)Ed Carpenter is an artist specializing in large-scale public installations ranging from architectural sculpture to infrastructure design. Since 1973 he has completed scores of projects for public, corporate, and ecclesiastical clients...
, artist specializing in large-scale public installations - Ed Carpenter (racecar driver), an Indy Racing League driver
- Eddie CarpenterEddie CarpenterEverard Lorne Carpenter was an Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman who played two seasons in the National Hockey League for the Quebec Bulldogs and Hamilton Tigers....
, Canadian professional ice hockey defenseman - Edmund N. Carpenter, IIEdmund N. Carpenter, IIEdmund N. Carpenter, II was president of Richards, Layton & Finger, a law firm. He studied at Princeton, where he established the Edward N. Carpenter, II professorship, and at Harvard University. He earned a Bronze Star for his service in World War II, and was a past president of the Delaware Bar...
, law firm president and past president of the Delaware Bar Association - Edmund Snow CarpenterEdmund Snow CarpenterEdmund "Ted" Snow Carpenter was an anthropologist best known for his work on tribal art and visual media.-Early life:...
, aka "Ted" Carpenter, anthropologist - Edward CarpenterEdward CarpenterEdward Carpenter was an English socialist poet, socialist philosopher, anthologist, and early gay activist....
, socialist poet, anthologist, and early homosexual activist - Edwin Francis CarpenterEdwin Francis CarpenterEdwin Francis Carpenter was an American astronomer.He was born in Boston, Massachusetts and received his A.B. and A.M. from Harvard University. In 1925 he was awarded a Ph.D. from University of California at Berkeley. He became an instructor at the University of Arizona, and by 1936 he was heading...
, American astronomer - Elbert L. CarpenterElbert L. Carpenter HouseThe Elbert L. Carpenter House is a house in the Loring Park neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota. It was designed by notable local architect William Channing Whitney in the Colonial Revival style. The house is significant not only for its architecture, but also for its resident, a businessman...
, lumberman who helped organize the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra - Elizabeth CarpenterElizabeth CarpenterElizabeth Carpenter is an award-winning American writer, designer and game developer. She lives in New York City where she operates her own business, Mazeology LLP.-Background and education:...
, an award-winning AmericanUnited StatesThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
writerWriterA writer is a person who produces literature, such as novels, short stories, plays, screenplays, poetry, or other literary art. Skilled writers are able to use language to portray ideas and images....
, designerDesignerA designer is a person who designs. More formally, a designer is an agent that "specifies the structural properties of a design object". In practice, anyone who creates tangible or intangible objects, such as consumer products, processes, laws, games and graphics, is referred to as a...
and game developer - Ernie CarpenterErnie Carpenter (Fiddle Player)Ernest O. "Ernie" Carpenter, born April 10, 1907 at Sutton, West Virginia, died January 23, 1997, was a famous fiddle player, 1988 winner of the Vandalia Award, West Virginia's highest folklife honor, at the annual Vandalia Gathering. He is interred near Sutton, West Virginia.-References:...
(1907-1997), legendary West Virginia fiddle player
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- Flavius Josephus CarpenterFlavius Josephus CarpenterFlavius Josephus Carpenter, born March 24, 1851 in Franklin County, Georgia, died August 2, 1933, at home in Arkadelphia, Clark County, Arkansas, was an American Civil War veteran, steamboat captain, U.S...
, Arkansas veteran of the Civil War, steamboat captain, entrepreneur - Francis Bicknell CarpenterFrancis Bicknell CarpenterFrancis Bicknell Carpenter was an American painter born in Homer, New York. Carpenter is best known for his painting First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation of President Lincoln, which is hanging in the United States Capitol...
, 19th Century American painter - Frank G. CarpenterFrank G. CarpenterFrank G. Carpenter was an author, photographer, lecturer, collector of photographs. Carpenter was a writer of standard geography textbooks and lecturer on geography, and wrote a series of books called Carpenter's World Travels which were very popular between 1915 and 1930.With his daughter...
, 1920s travel guide author - Frank M. CarpenterFrank M. CarpenterFrank M. Carpenter received his PhD from Harvard University, and was curator of fossil insects at the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology for 60 years. He studied the Permian fossil insects of Elmo, Kansas, and compared the North American fossil insect fauna with Paleozoic taxa known from...
, 60-year curator of fossil insects at the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology - Franklin R. CarpenterFranklin R. CarpenterFranklin Reuben Carpenter , was a notable mining specialist. He received his advanced academic education at Ohio University, earning the Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy degrees...
, 19th Century American mining engineer - French CarpenterFrench CarpenterDavid French Carpenter, born June 7, 1899 in Clay County, West Virginia died May 22, 1965, was a noted West Virginia mountaineer Old time fiddle player. He is listed by the Library of Congress as a musician on two sound recordings: Elzics Farewell, Kanawha, 1976; and Old-time music from Clay...
(1899-1965), legendary West Virginia fiddle player
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- Gail CarpenterGail CarpenterGail Carpenter is a cognitive scientist, neuroscientist and mathematician. She is a Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems and a Professor of Mathematics at Boston University, and the director of the Boston University Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems Technology Lab.-Adaptive resonance...
, a cognitive scientist, neuroscientist, mathematician and adaptive resonance theoryAdaptive resonance theoryAdaptive Resonance Theory is a theory developed by Stephen Grossberg and Gail Carpenter on aspects of how the brain processes information. It describes a number of neural network models which use supervised and unsupervised learning methods, and address problems such as pattern recognition and...
pioneer - Geoffrey Douglas Hale CarpenterGeoffrey Douglas Hale CarpenterG.D. Hale Carpenter MBE MA DM FRS was a British entomologist and physician. He worked first at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and in Uganda, on tse-tse flies and sleeping sickness...
, British entomologist and evolutionary biologist - George Carpenter (Salvation Army) (1872–1948), fifth General of The Salvation ArmyThe Salvation ArmyThe Salvation Army is a Protestant Christian church known for its thrift stores and charity work. It is an international movement that currently works in over a hundred countries....
- George Carpenter, 1st Baron CarpenterGeorge Carpenter, 1st Baron CarpenterLieutenant-General George Carpenter, 1st Baron Carpenter was a British soldier who served as Governor of Minorca and as Commander-in-chief of all the forces in Scotland...
(1657–1732), British soldier, MP and ambassador - George Carpenter, 2nd Baron CarpenterGeorge Carpenter, 2nd Baron CarpenterLieutenant-Colonel George Carpenter, 2nd Baron Carpenter FRS was a British soldier and Member of Parliament.-Background:...
(died 1749), British politician - George Carpenter, 1st Earl of TyrconnellGeorge Carpenter, 1st Earl of TyrconnellGeorge Carpenter, 1st Earl of Tyrconnell , known as The Lord Carpenter between 1749 and 1761, was a British peer and politician.-Background:...
, 3rd Baron Carpenter (1723–1762), British politician. See also Earl of Tyrconnell. - George Carpenter, 2nd Earl of TyrconnellGeorge Carpenter, 2nd Earl of TyrconnellGeorge Carpenter, 2nd Earl of Tyrconnell , styled The Honourable George Carpenter until 1761 and Viscount Carlingford between 1761 and 1762, was a British nobleman...
(1750–1805) - George Carpenter, 3rd Earl of TyrconnellGeorge Carpenter, 3rd Earl of TyrconnellGeorge Carpenter, 3rd Earl of Tyrconnell , known as George Carpenter until 1805, was a British peer and soldier who died fighting the French forces led by Napoleon Bonaparte at Wilna, Russia in December 1812.-Background:...
(1788–1812) - George Albert CarpenterGeorge Albert CarpenterGeorge Albert Carpenter was a United States federal judge.Carpenter was born in Chicago, Illinois. He received a B.A. from Harvard University in 1888. He received an LL.B. from Harvard Law School in 1891. He was in private practice in Chicago, Illinois from 1891 to 1905...
(1867–1944), U.S. federal judge, Northern District of Illinois - George Herbert CarpenterGeorge Herbert CarpenterGeorge Herbert Carpenter was a British naturalist and entomologist, born in the Peckham district of southeast London in 1865, and died in Belfast on January 22, 1939. His main interests were in the study of insects and arachnids, zoogeography, and economic zoology...
(1865-1939), British naturalist and entomologist - George Moulton CarpenterGeorge Moulton Carpenter----George Moulton Carpenter, Junior was a newspaper reporter, lawyer, elected Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Providence Rhode Island and appointed as a United States District Judge for the District of Rhode Island.-Early life:...
(1844–1896), U.S federal judge, District of Rhode Island - George Rice CarpenterGeorge Rice CarpenterGeorge Rice Carpenter was a noted educator, scholar and author. He was a descendant of the Rehoboth Carpenter Family and Edmund Rice of Massachusetts.- Early life and education :...
, educator, scholar and author - George Washington CarpenterGeorge Washington Carpenter-Early life and education:Carpenter was born July 31, 1802 in Germantown, Pennsylvania, a son of Conrad and Ann Carpenter, of German-American heritage. He was educated at Germantown Academy, in Germantown, near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania...
(1802-1860), American mineralogist - Gordon CarpenterGordon CarpenterGordon "Shorty" Carpenter was an American basketball player, and part of gold medal winning American basketball team at the 1948 Summer Olympics....
, American basketball player
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- Harold Carpenter HodgeHarold HodgeHarold Carpenter Hodge was a well-known toxicologist who published close to 300 papers and 5 books. He was the first president of the Society of Toxicology in 1960. He received a BS from Illinois Wesleyan University and a PhD in 1930 from the State University of Iowa, publishing his first paper in...
, toxicologist who published close to 300 papers and 5 books. He was the first president of the Society of Toxicology in 1960. Also known as Harold Carpenter & Harold Hodge. - Harry CarpenterHarry CarpenterHarry Leonard Carpenter OBE was a British BBC sports commentator broadcasting from the early 1950s until his retirement in 1994. His speciality was boxing...
, BBC sports commentator from the early 1950s to the 1990s - Henry Bernard CarpenterHenry Bernard CarpenterHenry Bernard Carpenter, born April 22, 1840 in Dublin or near Enniskillen, Ireland of an ancient landed family, died July 17, 1890 at Sorrento, Maine, was a noted Unitarian clergyman, orator, author, and poet...
, Unitarian clergyman and poet - Hermon P. CarpenterHermon P. CarpenterHermon Palestine Carpenter, born September 5, 1877, died August 12, 1958, was an educator and founder of Montverde Industrial School, now Montverde Academy, in Montverde, Florida in 1912.-Personal:...
, early Florida educator - Hick CarpenterHick CarpenterWarren William "Hick" Carpenter was an American Major League Baseball third baseman from Grafton, Massachusetts. He travelled around the National League with several clubs before getting the starting third base job with the Cincinnati Red Stockings of the American Association...
, was an American Major League Baseball third baseman - Horace B. CarpenterHorace B. CarpenterHorace B. Carpenter was an American actor, film director and, screenwriter. He appeared in 334 films between 1914 and 1946. He also directed 15 films between 1925 and 1934...
, American actor, director, and screenwriter - Horace Thompson CarpenterHorace Thompson CarpenterHorace Thompson Carpenter, an illustrator, artist and art writer of the late 19th and early 20th century United States, was born in 1857 in Monroe, Michigan, and died in 1947 in Bala , Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.-Education:...
, artist and illustrator - Humphrey CarpenterHumphrey CarpenterHumphrey William Bouverie Carpenter was an English biographer, writer, and radio broadcaster.-Biography:...
, English biographer, author and radio broadcaster
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- Imogen CarpenterImogen CarpenterImogen Carpenter, born Mary Imogene Carpenter on February 2, 1912 in Hot Springs, Arkansas, died March 24, 1993 in Los Angeles California, was a musician, composer, music lecturer, and Broadway actress. In 1926 at age 14, she moved to Chicago to attend the Chicago Musical College and later the...
(born Mary Imogene Carpenter), American musician and actress - Isaac CarpenterIsaac CarpenterIsaac Carpenter is an American drummer, percussionist, producer, audio engineer and session musician. Carpenter is best known as the former drummer for the alternative rock group Gosling as well as its previous incarnation Loudermilk...
, American drummer, percussionist, producer, audio engineer and session musician
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- Jack Carpenter (actor) (born 1984), American film actor
- Jack Carpenter (American football)Jack Carpenter (American football)Jack C. Carpenter was an American football player. He played at the tackle position for the University of Michigan in 1946. He played professional football for the Buffalo Bills of the All-American Football Conference from 1947 to 1949 and for the San Francisco 49ers of the AAFC in 1949...
(1923–2005), American football player - Jake Burton CarpenterJake Burton CarpenterJake Burton Carpenter , also known as Jake Burton, is an American snowboarder and founder of Burton Snowboards. He grew up in Cedarhurst, New York.- Biography :...
, owner of Burton Snowboards - James CarpenterJames CarpenterJames Carpenter was a British astronomer at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich.During the 1860s he performed the first observations of stellar spectra at the observatory, under the direction of the Astronomer Royal George Airy...
, British astronomer at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich - James Edward CarpenterJames Edward CarpenterJames Edward Carpenter served in the Union Army in 1861 as a private in the Eighth Pennsylvania Cavalry. In 1862 he became a second lieutenant and progressed in rank to first lieutenant, captain, then a brevet major of volunteers due to gallantry...
, American Civil War soldier & officer and noted attorney in Philadelphia. - James Edwin Ruthven Carpenter, Jr.James Edwin Ruthven Carpenter, Jr.James Edwin Ruthven Carpenter, Jr. was the leading architect of luxury residential high-rise buildings in New York City in the early 1900s. He studied at the University of Tennessee and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, from which he graduated in 1884...
, American architect - James Madison CarpenterJames Madison CarpenterJames Madison Carpenter, born in Blacklands, Mississippi in 1888, was a Methodist minister and scholar of American and British folklore. He received his bachelor and masters of arts degrees from the University of Mississippi, and a PhD from Harvard in 1929. He is most known for his substantial...
, Methodist minister, folklorist - Jay Hall CarpenterJay Hall CarpenterJay Hall Carpenter, born ca. 1961, is a professional sculptor, perhaps best known as creator of 500 sculptures for the Washington National Cathedral...
, sculptor - Jean Anne Carpenter, also known as Jean CarnahanJean CarnahanJean Anne Carpenter Carnahan is an American politician and writer who served in the United States Senate from 2001 to 2002. A Democrat, she was appointed to the Senate to fill the seat of her posthumously elected husband, becoming the first woman to represent Missouri in the Senate.-Biography:Born...
, an AmericanUnited StatesThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
politician and writer who served in the United States SenateUnited States SenateThe United States Senate is the upper house of the bicameral legislature of the United States, and together with the United States House of Representatives comprises the United States Congress. The composition and powers of the Senate are established in Article One of the U.S. Constitution. Each...
from 2001 to 2002 - Jeanne CarpenterJeanne CarpenterJeanne Carpenter was an American child actress of the silent era.Born Theo-Alice Jeanne Carpenter in Kansas City, Missouri, Carpenter started her film career at the age of three. Her fame grew in the early-1920s as she made a series of successful appearances in films such as, Helen's Babies with...
, American child actress of the silent era - Jennifer Leann CarpenterJennifer CarpenterJennifer Leann Carpenter is an American actress, known for her portrayal of Emily Rose in The Exorcism of Emily Rose, Debra Morgan on Dexter, and the lead role in the 2008 horror movie Quarantine.-Early life:...
, an American actress - Joseph Carpenter, founder of Glen Cove, New YorkGlen Cove, New YorkGlen Cove is a city in Nassau County, New York on the North Shore of Long Island. As of the United States 2010 Census, the city population was 26,964....
, the original proprietor of the "Musketa Cove Plantation" in 1668 - John Howard CarpenterJohn CarpenterJohn Howard Carpenter is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, editor, composer, and occasional actor. Although Carpenter has worked in numerous film genres in his four-decade career, his name is most commonly associated with horror and science fiction.- Early life :Carpenter was born...
(born 1948), American film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, and film music composer - John Carpenter (Who Wants to be a Millionaire winner), first winner of Who wants to be a Millionaire US
- John Carpenter (town clerk), town clerk of London in the early 15th century and author of Liber Albus
- John Condict Carpenter, American athlete who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics
- John Alden CarpenterJohn Alden CarpenterJohn Alden Carpenter was an American composer.-Biography:Born in Park Ridge, Illinois, Carpenter was raised in a musical household. He was educated at Harvard University, where he studied under John Knowles Paine, and was president of the Glee Club and wrote music for the Hasty-Pudding Club...
(1876–1951), American composer - John Boyd-Carpenter, Baron Boyd-CarpenterJohn Boyd-Carpenter, Baron Boyd-CarpenterJohn Archibald Boyd-Carpenter, Baron Boyd-Carpenter PC was a British Conservative politician.-Early life:...
, British politician - John Delaval Carpenter, 4th Earl of TyrconnellJohn Delaval Carpenter, 4th Earl of TyrconnellJohn Delaval Carpenter, 4th Earl of Tyrconnell GCH, FRS was a British peer. He served with the North York Corps of Yeomanry.-Background:Carpenter was the eldest son of Charles & Elizabeth Carpenter...
(1790–1853) - John Jo Carpenter, pseudonym of John H. ReeseJohn H. ReeseJohn Henry Reese was an American author of Western and Crime Fiction. He won the prestigious 1952 New York Herald Tribune award for his first children's book, Big Mutt. He produced more than 40 Western novels and well over three hundred short stories...
, American author of Western and crime fiction - John Stilley CarpenterJohn Stilley CarpenterJohn Stilley Carpenter, born 11 February 1849 at Centreville, Delaware, died 3 January 1925 at Kanab, Utah, was a pioneer settler of Utah and fifth LDS Church Bishop of Glendale, Utah in Kane County, Utah.-Church and Civil Works:...
, Utah pioneer and LDS Church bishop - John W. CarpenterJohn W. CarpenterJohn William Carpenter was an American businessman and agriculturist.-Early life:Carpenter was born to Thomas Wirt Carpenter and Ellen Isaphene Dickson in Corsicana, Navarro County, Texas. He was raised on the family's farm, which had been established after the Civil War...
, American agriculturist - John Wilson Carpenter IIIJohn Wilson Carpenter IIIJohn Wilson Carpenter III was a 1939 graduate of the U.S. Military Academy who served with a distinction in the U.S. Air Force as a pilot and commander, including significant combat service.-Education:...
, Lt Gen, USAF (1916-1996) - Johnny CarpenterJohnny CarpenterJohnny Carpenter was an American film actor, screenwriter and producer. He was known mostly for his work in Westerns and for his association with filmmaker Edward D. Wood Jr....
, American actor - Jot D. CarpenterJot D. CarpenterJot D. Carpenter, born March 19, 1938, in San Francisco, California, died February 17, 2000 in Columbus, Ohio, was a noted landscape architect and Professor of Landscape Architecture in the Knowlton School of Architecture at The Ohio State University...
, American landscape architect - Juliet Winters CarpenterJuliet Winters CarpenterJuliet Winters Carpenter is an American translator of modern Japanese literature. Born in the American Midwest, she studied Japanese literature at the University of Michigan and the Inter-University Centre for Japanese Language Studies in Tokyo...
, award-winning translator of modern Japanese literature into English
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- Karen CarpenterKaren CarpenterKaren Anne Carpenter was an American singer and drummer. She and her brother, Richard, formed the 1970s duo The Carpenters. She was a drummer of exceptional skill, but she is best remembered for her vocal performances of idealistic romantic ballads of true love...
, singer and musician, half of The Carpenters, sister of Richard - Keion CarpenterKeion CarpenterKeion Eric Carpenter is a former American football defensive back. He played for the Atlanta Falcons of the National Football League.-Football career:...
, American football defensive back for the Atlanta Falcons - Keith CarpenterKeith CarpenterKeith A. Carpenter was one of Canada's top men's tennis players during 1960s.-Overview:Carpenter's best result was winning the Canadian Open Mens Doubles Championship in 1966 along side his older brother, Michael Carpenter. It was their first and only Grand Slam Event win for both brother's...
, Canadian tennis player during the 1960s - Ken Carpenter (athlete) (1913–1984), 1936 Summer Olympics gold medalist in the discus throw
- Ken Carpenter (American football)Ken Carpenter (American football)Kenneth Leroy Carpenter is a former American and Canadian football player who played in the National Football League from 1950–1953, the Canadian Football League from 1954–1959, and the American Football League in 1960...
(born 1926), American and Canadian football player (1950–1960) - Ken Carpenter (cyclist)Ken Carpenter (cyclist)Kenneth Michael Carpenter is a retired road bicycle racer and track cyclist from the United States, who represented his native country at the 1988 and 1992 Summer Olympics. He won the Men's 200m Match Sprint at the 1987 Pan American Games. Carpenter was a professional rider from 1992 to...
, American track cyclist - Ken Carpenter (announcer)Ken Carpenter (announcer)Kenneth Lee Carpenter was a longtime TV and radio announcer, who was best known for being the announcer for singer and actor Bing Crosby for 27 years.- Early life and education :...
(1900–1984), NBC radio announcer - Ken Carpenter (actor), who appeared in Hellraiser III
- Kenneth CarpenterKenneth CarpenterKenneth Carpenter is a paleontologist. He is the museum director of the USU Eastern Prehistoric Museum and author or co-author of a number of books on dinosaurs and Mesozoic life...
, paleontologist at the Denver Museum of Natural History and author - Kent E. CarpenterKent E. CarpenterDr. Kent E. Carpenter is a professor of biological sciences at Old Dominion University, in Norfolk, Virginia who is notable for having two fish species named in his honor, Paracheilinus carpenteri Randall and Lubbock 1981, popularly known as "Carpenter's Flasher Wrasse", and Meganthias carpenteri...
, professor of biological sciences at Old Dominion University - Kip CarpenterKip CarpenterKip Carpenter is an American speedskater who competed in the 2002 Winter Olympics, as well as the 2006 Winter Olympics, winning a bronze medal in the 500 meter race at the 2002 games, while also skating the fastest lap in Olympic history in the 500 meter race with a time of 24.87 for a 400 meter...
, American speed skater - Kyle CarpenterKyle CarpenterLance Corporal Kyle Carpenter, United States Marine Corps, is a nominee for the award of the Medal of Honor for his actions in combat near Marjah, Helmand Province, Afghanistan on November 21, 2010....
, nominee for award of the Medal of Honor for actions in combat in Operation Enduring Freedom
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- Lant CarpenterLant CarpenterLant Carpenter, Dr. was an English educator and Unitarian minister.Lant Carpenter was born in Kidderminster, the third son of George Carpenter and his wife Mary ....
, English educator and Unitarian minister - Larry CarpenterLarry CarpenterLarry Carpenter is an American theatre and television director, and producer. In the theatre, he has worked as an Artistic Director, Associate Artistic Director, a Managing Director and General Manager in both the New York and Regional Arenas. He also works as a theatre director and is known...
, American television soap opera director - Lemuel CarpenterLemuel CarpenterLemuel Carpenter, was one of the first Anglo-American settlers of what is now the Los Angeles, California metropolitan area.-Early life:Lemuel Carpenter was born ca. 1808 in Kentucky...
, Anglo-American California pioneer - Leonard CarpenterLeonard CarpenterLeonard Paul Carpenter is an American technical writer and author of fantasy and science fiction. An account identifying Carpenter as a pseudonym of a supposed Bulgarian author named Plamen Mitrev, appears to be false.-Works:...
, technical writer and author of fantasy and science fiction - Leonard Carpenter (rower)Leonard Carpenter (rower)Leonard Griswold Carpenter was an American rower who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics.In 1924 he was part of the American boat, which won the gold medal in the eights.-External links:*...
, an American rower who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics - Lester CarpenterLester CarpenterLester E. "Bubba" Carpenter, born September 1, 1970, is a Republican member of the Mississippi House of Representatives, representing the First District of Mississippi since 2008...
, Republican member of the Mississippi House of Representatives - Lew CarpenterLew CarpenterLewis Glen "Lew" Carpenter was an American football player and coach. He played college football at the University of Arkansas and professionally for ten seasons in the NFL as a halfback and fullback with the Detroit Lions, Cleveland Browns, and Green Bay Packers...
, born Lewis Carpenter, American football running back and an assistant coach in the NFL - Liz CarpenterLiz CarpenterMary Elizabeth "Liz" Sutherland Carpenter was a writer, feminist, former reporter, media advisor, speechwriter, political humorist, and public relations expert....
, writer, feminist, reporter, media advisor, speech-writer, political humorist, and public relations expert - Loren CarpenterLoren CarpenterLoren C. Carpenter is a computer graphics researcher and developer. He is co-founder and chief scientist of Pixar Animation Studios. He is the co-inventor of the Reyes rendering algorithm and is one of the authors of the PhotoRealistic RenderMan software which implements Reyes and which renders...
, computer graphics researcher and developer - Louisa d'Andelot CarpenterLouisa d'Andelot CarpenterLouisa D'Andelot Carpenter was a du Pont heiress, Jazz Age socialite, aviatrix, and bon vivant.-Early life:...
, du Pont heiress, Jazz Age socialite, and aviatrix - Louis Carpenter (judge), Kansas lawyer, victim of Quantrill's Raid on Lawrence, Kansas
- Louis H. CarpenterLouis H. CarpenterLouis Henry Carpenter was a United States Army brigadier general and a recipient of the Medal of Honor for his actions in the American Indian Wars....
, Civil War cavalry trooper and officer, Indian War officer, Spanish-American War general and Medal of HonorMedal of HonorThe Medal of Honor is the highest military decoration awarded by the United States government. It is bestowed by the President, in the name of Congress, upon members of the United States Armed Forces who distinguish themselves through "conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his or her...
winner - Lyn CarpenterLyn CarpenterLyn Carpenter is an English netball administrator and former representative player. Carpenter was the oldest player ever to be awarded a debut international cap in the England national netball team, which she received in December 1997 at the age of 32...
, English netball administrator and former representative player
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- Malcolm Scott CarpenterScott CarpenterMalcolm Scott Carpenter is an American engineer, former test pilot, astronaut, and aquanaut. He is best known as one of the original seven astronauts selected for NASA's Project Mercury in April 1959....
, astronaut - Margaret CarpenterMargaret CarpenterMargaret Mary Carpenter, born in Detroit, Michigan, was a Republican member of the North Carolina House of Representatives from the fifty-second district for one term...
, member of the North Carolina House of Representatives 2001–2002 - Margaret Sarah Carpenter, née Geddes, British artist
- Margaret Seymour CarpenterMargaret Seymour CarpenterMargaret Seymour Carpenter, born April 3, 1893, died March 30, 1987 at Boston, Massachusetts, was the author of the novel Experiment Perilous , a New York Times Bestseller in 1943. The novel was subsequently produced by RKO Radio Pictures as a film of the same name, Experiment Perilous, starring...
, novelist - Marion CarpenterMarion CarpenterMarion A. Carpenter, also known as Marion Anderson , was the first woman national press photographer to cover Washington, D.C. and the White House, and to travel with a US President. She broke the gender role stereotype in the 1940s but left Washington in 1949 after her second marriage.After...
, pioneer White House news photographer - Marion Carpenter YazdiMarion Carpenter YazdiMarion Bernice Yazdi, born October 9, 1902 at Marcellus, Cass County, Michigan, died February 2, 1996 at Natick, Middlesex County, Massachusetts or at Wellesley, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, was the first Bahá'í student at the University of California at Berkeley, and at Stanford University. ...
, Bahá'í writer - Martha (Carpenter) Meredith, mother of Samuel MeredithSamuel MeredithSamuel Meredith was an American merchant from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was a delegate for Pennsylvania to the Continental Congress from 1786 to 1788...
, first Treasurer of the United States - Mary CarpenterMary CarpenterMary Carpenter was an English educational and social reformer. The daughter of a Unitarian minister, she founded a ragged school and reformatories, bringing previously unavailable educational opportunities to poor children and young offenders in Bristol.She published articles and books on her work...
, English educational and social reformer - Mary Chapin CarpenterMary Chapin CarpenterMary Chapin Carpenter is an American folk and country music artist. Carpenter spent several years singing in Washington, D.C. clubs before signing in the late 1980s with Columbia Records, who marketed her as a country singer...
, country music singer-songwriter - Matt Carpenter (runner), American trail runner
- Matt Carpenter (baseball), Major League Baseball third baseman for the St. Louis Cardinals
- Matthew H. CarpenterMatthew H. CarpenterMatthew Hale Carpenter , was a member of the Republican Party who served in the United States Senate for the state of Wisconsin from 1869–1875 and again from 1879 - 1881....
, 19th century Republican Senator for Wisconsin - Meriva M. CarpenterMeriva M. CarpenterMeriva M. Carpenter, born April 28, 1802 in Ellington, Connecticut, was a noted Nineteenth Century painter of landscapes and miniature portraits.-Personal:...
, American artist - Merlin CarpenterMerlin CarpenterMerlin Carpenter is an English visual artist. Writing in Frieze art critic Katie Sonnenborn stated that a recent exhibition "continued his nuanced critique of the condition of contemporary art-making," and that, "working within the framework of the gallery, he presented a suite of canvases that...
, artist - Michael Carpenter (politician), 19th-century mayorMayorIn many countries, a Mayor is the highest ranking officer in the municipal government of a town or a large urban city....
of Lancaster, PennsylvaniaLancaster, PennsylvaniaLancaster is a city in the south-central part of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. It is the county seat of Lancaster County and one of the older inland cities in the United States, . With a population of 59,322, it ranks eighth in population among Pennsylvania's cities... - Michael Carpenter (tennis, born 1895-1912), CanadianCanadaCanada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
tennis player who reached the second round in singles at the 1930 Australian Championships - Michael Carpenter (tennis, born 1936)Michael Carpenter (tennis, born 1936)Michael Arthur Carpenter is a former Canadian tennis player.Carpenter won the Canadian Open 1966 doubles title playing along side his younger brother, and more accomplished player, Keith....
, Canadian tennis player who won the doubles title at the 1966 Canadian Open
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- Nathanael CarpenterNathanael CarpenterNathanael Carpenter was an English author, philosopher, and geographer.-Life:He was son of John Carpenter, rector of Northleigh, Devon, and was born there on February 7, 1589. He matriculated at St. Edmund Hall, Oxford, on June 7, 1605; but was elected, on a recommendatory letter of James I, a...
(1588/9?-1628), English author and geographer - Nathaniel L. CarpenterNathaniel L. CarpenterNathaniel L. Carpenter, born November 18, 1805 at Randolph, Vermont, died December 23, 1892 at Natchez, Mississippi, was a prominent entrepreneur, builder, owner of a steamboat line, and successful cotton trader of antebellum and postbellum Natchez, Mississippi....
, entrepreneur and businessman of antebellum Natchez, Mississippi - Neil CarpenterNeil CarpenterNeil B. Carpenter is a Canadian former pair skater. With partner Linda Ann Ward, he won a bronze medal at the Canadian Figure Skating Championships in 1963, captured a silver the following year, and competed at the 1964 Winter Olympics.-Results:pairs with Linda Ann Ward-References:...
, Canadian pair skater - Nicholas Andre CarpenterNicholas CarpenterNicholas Andre Carpenter is an American film director. He worked as a set production assistant on TV and on films such as Thank You for Smoking before going on to direct the 2009 horror anthology The Telling.-Early life:...
, film director, son of Scott CarpenterScott CarpenterMalcolm Scott Carpenter is an American engineer, former test pilot, astronaut, and aquanaut. He is best known as one of the original seven astronauts selected for NASA's Project Mercury in April 1959.... - Novella CarpenterNovella CarpenterNovella Carpenter is the author of the 2009 memoir Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer. The book describes her extensive garden in Ghost Town, a run down neighborhood a mile from downtown Oakland, California....
, writer and gardener, or gardener and writer
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- Paul Carpenter (actor)Paul Carpenter (actor)Paul Carpenter was an Canadian actor and singer.He sang with Ted Heath and His Music in the 1940s.-Selected filmography :* Landfall * Albert R.N. * The House Across the Lake...
- Paul Carpenter (baseball player)Paul Carpenter (baseball player)Paul Calvin Carpenter was a minor league baseball player. He played for the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1916 and was the designated replacement for Jigger Statz, playing for the Los Angeles Angels in the Pacific Coast League, in the 1940 season.- External links :...
, minor league baseball player - Percy CarpenterPercy CarpenterPercy Carpenter , son of artists William Hookham Carpenter and Margaret Sarah Carpenter, was a painter active in the mid 19th Century.-Biography:...
, British artist - Philip Herbert CarpenterPhilip Herbert CarpenterPhilip Herbert Carpenter, M.A., D.Sc., F.R.S., born in February 1852 in London, fourth son of Dr. William Benjamin Carpenter, died October 21, 1891, at Eton College, England, in at age 39. He took his own life, by self-administration of chloroform during a bout of temporary insanity caused by...
, 19th Century British naturalist - Philip Pearsall Carpenter (1819–1877), malacologist
- Philo CarpenterPhilo CarpenterPhilo Carpenter was Chicago, Illinois' first pharmacist, and an outspoken abolitionist.Born in Savoy, Massachusetts, February 27, 1805, young Philo learned medicine and the pharmaceutical trade in Troy, New York in the drugstore of Amatus Robins, eventually gaining a half interest in the business...
, Chicago's first pharmacist, and an outspoken abolitionist - Preston CarpenterPreston CarpenterVerba Preston Carpenter was a professional American football player who played wide receiver, tight end, running back and special teams for eleven seasons for five different teams in the National Football League and the American Football League...
, born Verba Preston Carpenter, American football player
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- R. R. M. CarpenterR. R. M. CarpenterRobert Ruliph Morgan Carpenter was an American executive and member of the board of directors of DuPont.-Biography:...
, Robert Ruliph Morgan Carpenter, Sr., American business executive - R. R. M. Carpenter, Jr.R. R. M. Carpenter, Jr.Robert Ruliph Morgan Carpenter Jr. was an owner and club president of the Philadelphia Phillies of American Major League Baseball. When he took command of the Phils, in November 1943 after his father purchased the franchise, Carpenter became the youngest club president in baseball history, and he...
, Robert Ruliph Morgan Carpenter, Jr., owner and club president of the Philadelphia Phillies 1943-1972 - Ralph Emerson Carpenter, Jr.Ralph Emerson Carpenter, Jr.Ralph Emerson Carpenter, Jr., born in Woonsocket, Rhode Island, on October 6, 1909, died February 2, 2009, was a noted expert on Colonial American furniture and decorative art and a published author...
, expert on Colonial American design - Randolph CarpenterRandolph CarpenterWilliam Randolph Carpenter was a U.S. Representative from Kansas and a U.S. Army World War I veteran. He died in Topeka, Kansas, July 26, 1956 and was interred in Highland Cemetery, Marion, Kansas.-Biography:Carpenter attended local public and high schools in Marion, Kansas...
, born William Randolph Carpenter, U.S. Representative from Kansas - Rhys CarpenterRhys CarpenterRhys Carpenter was a classical art historian and professor at Bryn Mawr College.Carpenter was born in Cotuit, Massachusetts. He took his B.A. in Classics at Columbia University in 1909. Carpenter won a Rhodes scholarship at Oxford, studying at Balliol College. There he published his own poetry...
, classical art historian and professor at Bryn Mawr College - Richard Carpenter (theologian)Richard Carpenter (theologian)- Biography :He was probably born in Cornwall in 1575. A Richard Carpenter was baptized at Phillack, Cornwall, on 16 February 1575[/6], son of Thomas Carpenter. It is not certain, however, that he and this Richard Carpenter were the same person. He matriculated at Exeter College, Oxford, on 28 May...
(1575-1627), English clergyman and theological writer - Richard Carpenter (ca. 1700-1750), original owner of the BelvaleBelvaleBelvale is a historic home in present-day Fairfax County, Virginia built between 1763 and 1766 by George Johnston , member of the Virginia Assembly 1758-1766, friend of Patrick Henry, and legal advisor to George Washington, who was a frequent visitor to the home...
property in Fairfax County, Virginia - Richard Carpenter (architect)Richard Carpenter (architect)Richard Herbert Carpenter was an eminent Victorian architect from England.Richard was born 1841 in St. Pancras, London, Middlesex, England and died in 1893...
, British Victorian architect - Richard Carpenter (screenwriter), British screenwriter
- Richard Carpenter (musician)Richard Carpenter (musician)Richard Lynn Carpenter is an American pop musician, best known as one half of the brother/sister duo The Carpenters, along with his sister Karen Carpenter. He was a producer, arranger, pianist and keyboardist, and occasional lyricist, as well as joining with Karen on harmony...
, American musician, half of The Carpenters, brother of Karen - Richard Cromwell CarpenterRichard Cromwell CarpenterRichard Cromwell Carpenter was an English architect. He is chiefly remembered as an ecclesiastical and tractarian architect working in the Gothic style.-Family:...
, British 19th century architect - Rita (Carpenter) JenretteRita JenretteRita Jenrette, born Rita Carpenter, November 25, 1949 in San Antonio, Texas is an American celebrity, actor, television journalist, and real estate executive. She is most famous for the interview she gave about her marriage to disgraced U.S...
, American celebrity, actor, television journalist, and real estate executive - Robert Carpenter (Ohio politician)Robert Carpenter (Ohio politician)-References:...
- Robert C. CarpenterRobert C. CarpenterRobert C. Carpenter was a Republican member of the North Carolina General Assembly. He represented the state's fiftieth Senate district, including constituents in Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Haywood, Jackson, Macon, Swain and Transylvania counties. A retired bank executive from Franklin, North...
, Republican member of the North Carolina General Assembly - Robert P. Carpenter, professional cricketer for Cambridge and All-England Eleven
- Rolla C. CarpenterRolla C. CarpenterRolla Clinton Carpenter C.E. M.M.E. LL.D. was an American engineer, academic, and writer.Carpenter was born in Orion , Michigan. He earned a B.S. in 1873 from Michigan State Agricultural College and later received additional bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Michigan in 1875...
, American engineer - Rollo CarpenterRollo CarpenterRollo Carpenter is the British-born creator of Jabberwacky and Cleverbot, learning Artificial Intelligence software. Carpenter has worked as CTO of a business software startup in Silicon Valley, but returned to the UK to work at Icogno....
, creator of Jabberwacky AI software - Ron CarpenterRon CarpenterRonald Nelson Carpenter is a defensive tackle who played seven seasons in the National Football League for the Cincinnati Bengals. He attended North Carolina State University.-References:...
, aka Ronald Nelson Carpenter, former professional American football player - Ron Carpenter (designer)Ron Carpenter (designer)Ron Carpenter was born 1950 in Dorking, England and was trained as a cartographer. Later he became a designer of typeface. He is a noted British typographer.In 1986 Carpenter designed and developed his best known Calisto MT an old style serif for the Monotype...
, British type designer of Calisto (typeface)Calisto (typeface)Calisto MT is an old style serif typeface designed in 1986 for the Monotype foundry by Ron Carpenter, British typographer, born 1950.The Calisto face is intended to function as both a text and display face. Stroke contrast is minimal and maintenance of even color, especially in smaller point sizes,... - Ron Carpenter (safety)Ron Carpenter (safety)Ron Carpenter is a former professional American football player who played defensive back for five seasons for the Cincinnati Bengals, Minnesota Vikings. New York Jets, and St. Louis Rams....
, former professional American football player - Ruly CarpenterRuly CarpenterRobert Ruliph Morgan "Ruly" Carpenter III was the principal owner and president of the Philadelphia Phillies from 1972 to 1981.Carpenter was born in Wilmington, Delaware. He was only three years old when his grandfather, Robert Carpenter, Sr. bought the Phillies in 1943 and gave control of the...
, Robert Ruliph Morgan Carpenter III, principal owner and club president of the Philadelphia Phillies 1972-1981
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- Samuel CarpenterSamuel CarpenterSamuel Carpenter was a Deputy Governor of colonial Pennsylvania. He signed the historic document "The Declaration of Fealty, Christian Belief and Test" dated 10 September 1695; the original is in the Historical Society of Pennsylvania...
(1649–1714), First Treasurer and Deputy Governor of Pennsylvania - Scott CarpenterScott CarpenterMalcolm Scott Carpenter is an American engineer, former test pilot, astronaut, and aquanaut. He is best known as one of the original seven astronauts selected for NASA's Project Mercury in April 1959....
, born Malcolm Scott Carpenter, Mercury program astronaut and aquanaut - Scott Thomas CarpenterScott Carpenter (water polo)Scott Thomas Carpenter is a British water polo player. He competes in the Spanish Division D'Honor for Club Natacio Terrassa and the Great Britain National Team. He has spent time playing for Lancaster and Sedgefield Water Polo Clubs in the UK, and helped Melbourne's Victorian Tigers to the...
, British water polo player - Shawn CarpenterShawn CarpenterShawn Carpenter is an American Navy veteran and whistleblower who tracked down a Chinese cyberespionage ring that is code-named Titan Rain by the FBI...
, American Navy veteran - Shelt CarpenterShelt Carpenter (Fiddle Player)Shelton "Shelt" Carpenter, born February 7, 1862 at Sutton, West Virginia, died April 28, 1937, was an outdoorsman, fiddle player, and mountain folklife philosopher of note. He is interred in the Braxton County Memorial Gardens Cemetery at Sutton, West Virginia.-References:...
, West Virginia outdoorsman, fiddle player, and mountain folklife philosopher - Stanley Jennings CarpenterStanley Jennings CarpenterStanley Jennings Carpenter, Colonel, U.S. Army, retired, deceased, a noted medical Entomologist , was born December 9, 1904 in West Liberty, Morgan County, Kentucky, and died after an extended illness on August 28, 1984 at Santa Rosa, California at age 79...
, US Army colonel and medical entomologist - Stephen CarpenterStephen CarpenterStephen Carpenter is an American musician known as the co-founder and lead guitarist of the alternative metal band Deftones. His guitar technique makes use of both ringing open strings and dissonant chord voicings, as well as stock power chords in polyrhythms...
, US musician - Stephen Cullen CarpenterStephen Cullen CarpenterStephen Cullen Carpenter was an author, reporter, editor and magazine founder.He was born in 1752 in Ireland and first worked in the journalism business in London as a reporter of Parliamentary proceedings....
, British-American journalist - Stephen Decatur CarpenterStephen Decatur CarpenterStephen Decatur Carpenter was a United States military officer from Maine. He served from 1840 to his death on the last day of 1862, through four major conflicts and one minor conflict.-West Point:...
(1818-1862), US Army officer - Sue CarpenterSue CarpenterSue Carpenter is a former United Kingdom newsreader and television presenter. Born on 17 May 1956, she graduated in English Literature at King's College London in 1977....
, former UK TV presenter
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- Teresa CarpenterTeresa CarpenterTeresa Carpenter is a Pulitzer prize winning, bestselling American author. She was born in Independence, Missouri, and lives with her husband Steven Levy in New York's Greenwich Village.-Awards:...
, Pulitzer prize winning, bestselling American author - Terry M. CarpenterTerry CarpenterTerry McGovern Carpenter was a Nebraska politician. Though he changed his party five times, he was elected as a Democrat to the United States House of Representatives and later served 22 years in the Nebraska Legislature. He also unsuccessfully ran for the Senate, Governor and Lieutenant...
, Nebraska politician - Thelma CarpenterThelma CarpenterThelma Carpenter was a jazz singer and actress, best known as "Miss One", the Good Witch of the North in the movie The Wiz.-Career:...
, jazz singer and actress - Thomas Carpenter (1752-1847)Thomas Carpenter (1752-1847)Thomas Carpenter, born November 2, 1752 at Salem, New Jersey, died July 7, 1847 at Carpenter's Landing, New Jersey, served as an Ensign and Adjutant in Colonel Samuel Dick's Regiment, 1776-1778, and Paymaster for the New Jersey Militia and Quartermaster of the First Battalion of Salem troops, New...
, American Revolutionary War officer and New Jersey glass manufacturer - Thomas Carpenter IIIThomas Carpenter IIIThomas Carpenter III was born October 24, 1733 in Rehoboth, Bristol County, Massachusetts and died April 26, 1807 in Rehoboth. He was an American Revolutionary War officer who served as a colonel in the Massachusetts Militia and commanded the "First Bristol Regiment" from 1776 to 1780.Carpenter...
, Commander of Carpenter's Regiment (First Bristol Regiment) in the Revolutionary War and builder of the Col. Thomas Carpenter III HouseCol. Thomas Carpenter III HouseCol. Thomas Carpenter III House is a historic house at 77 Bay State Road in Rehoboth, Massachusetts.The Georgian architecture style house was built in 1755 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.-Family:... - Thomas Glenn Carpenter, university educator and administrator
- Thomas Preston CarpenterThomas Preston CarpenterThomas Preston Carpenter, born April 19, 1804, died March 20, 1876, was an eminent lawyer and judge of the Supreme Court of New Jersey.-Personal:...
, lawyer and judge of the Supreme Court of New Jersey - Tim CarpenterTim CarpenterTimothy W. "Tim" Carpenter is a Democratic member of the Wisconsin Senate, representing the 3rd District since 2003. He earlier served in the Wisconsin State Assembly, representing the 20th District from 1985 through 2003.-Early life, education and career:...
, Democrat member of the Wisconsin Senate
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- Walter S. Carpenter, Jr.Walter S. Carpenter, Jr.Walter Samuel Carpenter, Jr. was an American corporate executive from Wilmington, Delaware who oversaw the DuPont company's involvement in the Manhattan Project to produce an atomic bomb for use during World War II...
, American corporate executive - Warren L. CarpenterWarren L. CarpenterWarren L. Carpenter, born August 12, 1931 at Little Rock, Arkansas, died July 7, 2003, at Colorado Springs, Colorado, was a veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps and the U.S...
(1931-2003), M.D., USAF Flight Surgeon - Warren William CarpenterHick CarpenterWarren William "Hick" Carpenter was an American Major League Baseball third baseman from Grafton, Massachusetts. He travelled around the National League with several clubs before getting the starting third base job with the Cincinnati Red Stockings of the American Association...
, (1855–1937) was an American Major League Baseball third baseman - Wendi B. CarpenterWendi B. CarpenterRear Admiral Wendi B. Carpenter, United States Navy flag officer and naval aviator, is currently president of the State University of New York Maritime College.-Background:...
, Rear Admiral, U.S. Navy - William CarpenterRehoboth Carpenter FamilyThe Rehoboth Carpenter family is an American family that helped settle the town of Rehoboth, Massachusetts in 1644.The first immigrant and founder of this line was William Carpenter The Rehoboth Carpenter family is an American family that helped settle the town of Rehoboth, Massachusetts in...
(born 1605 England), a founder and settler of Rehoboth, Massachusetts - William Carpenter (Rhode Island)William Carpenter (Rhode Island)William Carpenter William Carpenter William Carpenter (born about 1610 probably in Amesbury, Wiltshire, England - died September 7, 1685 at Providence (Pawtuxet section now in Cranston, Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations) was a co-founder of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations...
, English colonist, first surnamed Carpenter to settle permanently in America, in the mid 1630s - William Carpenter (Australian politician)William Carpenter (Australian politician)William Henry Carpenter was an Australian politician. He held seats in three parliaments: the South Australian Legislative Assembly, the Australian House of Representatives and the Western Australian Legislative Assembly....
- William Carpenter (painter)William Carpenter (painter)William Carpenter was a watercolour artist. He travelled for six or seven years in the 1850s painting scenes of India, its people and its life. The Victoria and Albert Museum bought over 280 of his paintings...
, water colours of India - William Carpenter, writer
- William Carpenter (1797-1874)William Carpenter (1797-1874)William Carpenter, born in 1797 at St James, Westminster, London, England, died on April 21, 1874 at Islington, London, was a 19th Century theological and political writer, journalist, and editor.-Early life:Carpenter was the son of a London tradesman...
, 19th Century English political reformer and writer - William Carpenter (1830-1896)William Carpenter (1830-1896)William Carpenter , an English printer and author was a proponent of the Flat Earth theory active in England and the United States in the Nineteenth Century...
, proponent of the Flat Earth theory - William Benjamin CarpenterWilliam Benjamin CarpenterWilliam Benjamin Carpenter MD CB FRS was an English physician, invertebrate zoologist and physiologist. He was instrumental in the early stages of the unified University of London.-Life:...
(1813–1885), English physiologist and naturalist - William Boyd CarpenterWilliam Boyd CarpenterWilliam Boyd Carpenter KCVO was a Church of England clergyman who became Bishop of Ripon and court chaplain to Queen Victoria.-Family:William Boyd Carpenter was the second son of the Rev...
, English clergyman - William Henry Carpenter (philologist)William Henry Carpenter (philologist)William Henry Carpenter was an American philologist.He was educated at Cornell, Johns Hopkins, Leipzig, and Freiburg universities. He became the provost of Columbia University and was chosen vice-president of the Germanistic Society of America...
, American philologist - William Hookham CarpenterWilliam Hookham CarpenterWilliam Hookham Carpenter was a British Keeper of Prints at the British Museum.-Biography:Carpenter was born in Bruton Street, London on 2 March 1792. He was the son of James Carpenter, a bookseller in Old Bond Street. In 1817 Carpenter married Margaret Sarah Geddes who was a noted...
, 19th century Keeper at the British Museum - William J. Carpenter (1827-1921)William J. Carpenter (1827-1921)William J. Carpenter, born April 17, 1827, died February 21, 1921, was a legendary West Virginia outdoorsman. He was said to have had "no equal" in skills at hunting and fishing, and to be the best long rifle marksman in his community in his younger years—his skill in hitting difficult targets in...
, legendary West Virginia outdoorsman - William Kenneth Carpenter (1913–1984), 1936 Summer Olympics gold medal discus winner
- William L. CarpenterWilliam L. CarpenterWilliam Lewis Carpenter, born January 13, 1844 at Dunkirk, Chautauqua County, New York, died July 10, 1898 at Madison Barracks, Jefferson County, New York. Carpenter was a U.S...
, soldier, naturalist, and geologist - William L. CarpenterWilliam L. Carpenter (Michigan jurist)William L. Carpenter was a member of the Michigan Supreme Court from 1902 until 1904. Carpenter was born in Lake Orion, Michigan. He studied at what is now Michigan State University and then went to the University of Michigan Law School....
, a jurist who was elected to the Third Judicial Circuit of Michigan in 1894, and member of the Michigan Supreme CourtMichigan Supreme CourtThe Michigan Supreme Court is the highest court in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is known as Michigan's "court of last resort" and consists of seven justices who are elected to eight-year terms. Candidates are nominated by political parties and are elected on a nonpartisan ballot...
from 1902 until 1904 - William Marbury CarpenterWilliam Marbury CarpenterDr. William Marbury Carpenter, a noted Southern natural scientist, was born on June 25, 1811 in Feliciana Parish, Louisiana.-Education:He was educated through private tutoring and attended the U.S. Military Academy, in West Point, New York , but resigned his military appointment due to ill health...
, American physician and natural scientist - William Randolph CarpenterWilliam CarpenterWilliam Carpenter may refer to:*William Carpenter , water colours of India*William Carpenter , Australian politician*William Carpenter, writer, American author...
(1894–1956), US Congressman - William (Bill) S. Carpenter, Jr.Bill CarpenterWilliam "Bill" Stanley Carpenter, Jr., LTG, U.S. Army is an American former Army officer and college football player. While playing college football, he gained national prominence as the "Lonesome End" of the Army football team...
(born 1937), American football player and US Army lieutenant general - William T. Carpenter, psychiatrist, at University of Maryland, College ParkUniversity of Maryland, College ParkThe University of Maryland, College Park is a top-ranked public research university located in the city of College Park in Prince George's County, Maryland, just outside Washington, D.C...
School of Medicine researching Schizoaffective disorderSchizoaffective disorderSchizoaffective disorder is a psychiatric diagnosis that describes a mental disorder characterized by recurring episodes of elevated or depressed mood, or of simultaneously elevated and depressed mood, that alternate with, or occur together with, distortions in perception.Schizoaffective disorder... - William Thomas CarpenterWilliam Thomas CarpenterWilliam Thomas 'Will Tom' Carpenter, born November 16, 1854 in Johnson County, Missouri, the youngest son of James and Cynthia Carpenter, was a legendary cowman who authored a book about his experiences.-Ancestry:...
, aka "Will Tom" Carpenter, American "cowman" and author - William the CarpenterWilliam the CarpenterWilliam the Carpenter , viscount of Melun, was a French nobleman who participated in the Reconquista in Spain and on the First Crusade...
(fl. 1087–1102), viscount of Melun, French nobleman who participated in the First Crusade
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- William Carpenter BompasWilliam Carpenter BompasWilliam Carpenter Bompas was a Church of England clergyman and missionary in northwestern Canada, first Anglican bishop of the Athabasca diocese, then of the Mackenzie River diocese and then of the Selkirk diocese as these dioceses were successively carved out of the original Rupert's Land diocese...
(1834–1906), a Church of England clergyman and missionary in northwestern Canada. - William Carpenter Lambert, aka Bill CarpenterWilliam C. LambertWilliam C. Lambert was an American fighter pilot who flew in World War I. He was probably the second-ranking American ace of World War I...
, (1894–1982) an American fighter pilot who flew in World War I and credited with 18 aerial victories.
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- Dr. Carpenter, British spy in Ice Station Zebra (novel) by Alistair MacLeanAlistair MacLeanAlistair Stuart MacLean was a Scottish novelist who wrote popular thrillers or adventure stories, the best known of which are perhaps The Guns of Navarone, Ice Station Zebra and Where Eagles Dare, all three having been made into successful films...
- "Mr. Carpenter", alias of Klaatu (The Day the Earth Stood Still)Klaatu (The Day the Earth Stood Still)Klaatu is the humanoid alien protagonist in the 1951 science fiction film The Day the Earth Stood Still and its 2008 remake. Klaatu is famous in part because of the phrase "Klaatu barada nikto!" used in the classic film and its re-use in the Bruce Campbell cult comedy film Army of Darkness, as well...
in the film The Day the Earth Stood Still - The Carpenter family, a protagonist family line in the 1987 novel Sarum by Edward RutherfurdEdward RutherfurdEdward Rutherfurd is a pen name for Francis Edward Wintle known primarily as a writer of epic historical novels...
- The Carpenter Clan, focuses on a group of women in the 1996 novel 'Shadow Ranch: A Novel' by Jo-Ann MapsonJo-Ann MapsonJo-Ann Mapson is the author of ten works of fiction, set mainly in the American Southwest. She was born and raised in Southern California, and now lives in Anchorage, Alaska....
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- Andy Carpenter, the lead character in a series of mystery books (7) by David RosenfeltDavid Rosenfelt (author)David Rosenfelt is an author who has written eleven novels and three TV movies. His main character in most of his mystery books is Andy Carpenter, attorney and dog lover.-Biography:...
. - Atticus Carpenter, the overriding antagonist in Insurrection (StarCraft).
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- Jack Carpenter, main character in a series of books by James SwainJames SwainJames Swain is an author who has written at least thirteen fiction and non-fiction books. He has used two main character in most of his crime related and mystery books. These are Tony Valentine, a private eye and Jack Carpenter, an ex-cop turned child rescuer...
- Jake Carpenter, main character from Pirate Diary: The Journal of Jake Carpenter by Richard PlattRichard PlattBritish author Richard Platt was born in Northumberland in 1953. He started writing when aged 27 with how-to articles and books about photography. By 1992 he had begun writing non-fiction books for children, initially collaborating with Stephen Biesty in a successful series that capitalized on the...
- Joe Carpenter, protagonist of Sole SurvivorSole Survivor (novel)Sole Survivor is a novel by the best-selling author Dean Koontz, published in 1997. It is about a woman named Rose, who is being pursued by a company called Teknologik.-Plot summary:...
by Dean KoontzDean KoontzDean Ray Koontz is a prolific American author best known for his novels which could be described broadly as suspense thrillers. He also frequently incorporates elements of horror, science fiction, mystery, and satire. A number of his books have appeared on the New York Times Bestseller List, with... - Joseph Carpenter, Codename: "Joker", supporting character from the Read or DieRead or Dieis a series of light novels authored by Hideyuki Kurata, published under Shueisha's Super Dash Bunko imprint. Read or Die follows Yomiko Readman, codename "The Paper", an agent for the Special Operations Division of the British Library. There are currently 11 Read or Die novels. In volume 11, a...
series of novels, mangaMangaManga is the Japanese word for "comics" and consists of comics and print cartoons . In the West, the term "manga" has been appropriated to refer specifically to comics created in Japan, or by Japanese authors, in the Japanese language and conforming to the style developed in Japan in the late 19th...
and animeAnimeis the Japanese abbreviated pronunciation of "animation". The definition sometimes changes depending on the context. In English-speaking countries, the term most commonly refers to Japanese animated cartoons....
created by Hideyuki Kurata.
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- Lauren CarpenterLauren CarpenterLauren Carpenter is a fictional character from the Australian soap opera Neighbours, played by Sarah Vandenbergh. She made her first on-screen appearance on 18 February 1993. Lauren is the youngest child of Kathy and Lou Carpenter and sister to Guy...
, in the Australian soap opera NeighboursNeighboursNeighbours is an Australian television soap opera first broadcast on the Seven Network on 18 March 1985. It was created by TV executive Reg Watson, who proposed the idea of making a show that focused on realistic stories and portrayed adults and teenagers who talk openly and solve their problems... - Lou CarpenterLou CarpenterLouis "Lou" Carpenter is a fictional character from the Australian soap opera Neighbours, played by Tom Oliver. He made his first on-screen appearance on 30 March 1988. Lou appeared for a brief time, before leaving and later returning in January 1992 as a regular cast member. He is the longest...
, from Neighbours - Louise CarpenterLouise CarpenterShannon Louise "Lolly" Allen is a fictional character from the Australian soap opera Neighbours, played by Adelaide Kane. She made her first on-screen appearance on 25 July 1994. Louise was previously played by Tessa Taylor from her birth, with Jiordan Anna Tolli taking over the role a few months...
, in Neighbours
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- Meg Carpenter, a genre fiction ghostwriterGhostwriterA ghostwriter is a professional writer who is paid to write books, articles, stories, reports, or other texts that are officially credited to another person. Celebrities, executives, and political leaders often hire ghostwriters to draft or edit autobiographies, magazine articles, or other written...
, book reviewer, and writing coach in the novel Our Tragic Universe by Scarlett ThomasScarlett ThomasScarlett Thomas, born 1972 in Hammersmith, is an English author. She has written eight novels, including The End of Mr. Y and PopCo, and teaches Creative Writing at the University of Kent.-Biography:...
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- O Be Joyful Carpenter, a Puritan character in the 1997 novel LondonLondon (novel)London is a historical novel by Edward Rutherfurd, published in 1997. The story begins with the birth of the River Thames. It then moves to 54 BC and details the life of the young boy Segovax, a curious character with slightly webbed hands and a flash of white hair...
by Edward RutherfurdEdward RutherfurdEdward Rutherfurd is a pen name for Francis Edward Wintle known primarily as a writer of epic historical novels...
; the genealogical chart in the front matter of the book extends the Carpenter family from the family of protagonists in his earlier book Sarum.
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- Patsy Carpenter, the main character of the 1970 novel Moving On by Larry McMurtryLarry McMurtryLarry Jeff McMurtry is an American novelist, essayist, bookseller and screenwriter whose work is predominantly set in either the old West or in contemporary Texas...
- Patsy Carpenter, a rival character in Terms of EndearmentTerms of EndearmentTerms of Endearment is a 1983 romantic comedy-drama film adapted by James L. Brooks from the novel by Larry McMurtry and starring Shirley MacLaine, Debra Winger, and Jack Nicholson...
and its sequel The Evening StarThe Evening StarThe Evening Star is a 1996 sequel to Academy Award for Best Picture-winning Terms of Endearment, starring Shirley MacLaine, who reprises the role of Aurora Greenway she played in the original film. The movie takes place about fifteen years after the original following the characters from 1988 to...
played by Miranda RichardsonMiranda RichardsonMiranda Jane Richardson is an English stage, film and television actor. She has been nominated for two Academy Awards, and has won two Golden Globes and a BAFTA during her career....
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- Sabina Carpenter, widow of a PinkertonPinkertonPinkerton may refer to:*Pinkerton , a 1996 album by Weezer*Pinkerton, Ontario*Pinkerton National Detective Agency, a detective agency founded in 1850 by Allan Pinkerton*Pinkerton Academy, a high school in Derry, New Hampshire...
detective in Bill PronziniBill PronziniBill Pronzini is an American writer of detective fiction. He is also an active anthologist, having compiled more than 100 collections, most of which focus on mystery, western, and science fiction short stories....
's 1890s Western detective short stories Carpenter and Quincannon, Professional Detective Services (1998)