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 Newman may refer to many people:

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  • Abram Newman
    Abram Newman
    Abram Newman was a partner in one of the leading grocers in 18th century London that imported a wide range of produce including tea, coffee, sugar and spices....

  • Adrian Newman (bishop) (born 1958) Suffragan Bishop of Stepney
    Bishop of Stepney
    The Bishop of Stepney is an episcopal title used by a suffragan bishop of the Church of England Diocese of London, in the Province of Canterbury, England. The title takes its name after Stepney, an inner-city district in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets...

  • Al Newman
    Al Newman
    Albert Dwayne Newman is a former infielder in Major League Baseball who played for the Montreal Expos , Minnesota Twins and Texas Rangers...

  • Alan Newman
    Alan Newman
    Alan Spencer Newman is a former Major League Baseball pitcher. He played parts of two seasons in the majors, 1999 for the Tampa Bay Devil Rays and 2000 for the Cleveland Indians. He then went on to play three seasons in Japan, 2001-02 for the Yakult Swallows and 2003 for the Hiroshima Toyo Carp.-...

  • Alec Newman
    Alec Newman
    Alec Newman is a Scottish stage, television and film actor. He was born in Glasgow on 27 November 1974. Prior to joining the National Youth Theatre in London at age 17, he considered becoming a professional footballer...

  • Alfred Newman
    Alfred Newman
    Alfred Newman was an American composer, arranger, and conductor of music for films.In a career which spanned over forty years, Newman composed music for over two hundred films. He was one of the most respected film score composers of his time, and is today regarded as one of the greatest...

     (1901-1970), U.S. film score composer
  • Alfred Newman (New Zealand)
    Alfred Newman (New Zealand)
    Alfred Kingcome Newman was the Mayor of Wellington, New Zealand in 1909, and a Wellington City Councillor from 1881 to 1885.He was the Member of Parliament for Thorndon 1884-90, Hutt 1890-93, then Wellington Suburbs from 1893 to 1896 when he was defeated . Later he was MP for Wellington East, from...

    , N.Z. politician
  • Alfred Newman (sailor)‎, Albert Medal winner
  • Ali Newman, better known as rapper Brother Ali
    Brother Ali
    Ali Newman , better known by the stage name Brother Ali, is an American hip hop artist signed to Rhymesayers Entertainment.-Personal life:...

  • Alison Newman
    Alison Newman
    Alison Newman is a British actress, best known for her role in the hit ITV1 television series Footballers' Wives as Hazel Bailey.- Biography :...

  • Allen George Newman
    Allen George Newman
    Allen George Newman was an American sculptor. He was born in New York, where he studied with John Quincy Adams Ward and at the National Academy of Design...

     (born 1875), U.S. sculptor
  • Andrea Newman
    Andrea Newman
    Andrea Newman is an English author.An only child, mainly brought up by her grandmother, she taught at a grammar school after graduating with a degree in English from London University...

     (born 1938), British author
  • Arnold Newman
    Arnold Newman
    Arnold Abner Newman was an American photographer, noted for his "environmental portraits" of artists and politicians...

     (1918 - 2006), U.S. photographer
  • Augustus Charles Newman
    Augustus Charles Newman
    Lieutenant-Colonel Augustus Charles Newman VC, OBE, TD, DL was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces....


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  • Barnett Newman
    Barnett Newman
    Barnett Newman was an American artist. He is seen as one of the major figures in abstract expressionism and one of the foremost of the color field painters.-Early life:...

     (1905-1970), U.S. painter
  • Barry Newman
    Barry Newman
    Barry Foster Newman is an American film, television, and stage actor, famous for his interpretation of Kowalski in the movie Vanishing Point. He has been nominated for a Golden Globe and Emmy awards.- Life and career :...

  • Bernard Newman (author)
    Bernard Newman (author)
    Bernard Charles Newman was a British author of over 100 books, both fiction and non-fiction. An historian, he was considered an authority on spies, but also wrote travel books and on politics. His fiction included children's books, mystery novels and science fiction.-Biography:Bernard Newman was...

     (1897-1968), British author
  • Bernard Newman (designer)
    Bernard Newman (designer)
    Bernard Newman was head designer for Bergdorf Goodman and head costume designer for RKO Pictures. He designed costumes for some 35 movies, including costumes for Ginger Rogers, Katharine Hepburn, Lucille Ball and Helen Broderick...

     (1903-1966), American fashion designer for Bergdorf Goodman and RKO Pictures
  • Bernard Newman (judge)
    Bernard Newman (judge)
    Bernard Newman was a judge on the United States Court of International Trade.-Biography:Bernard Newman was born in New York, at the same address as Louis Lefkowitz, the later New York State Attorney General, who would become his friend.Newman studied law at New York University...

     (1907/1908-1999), judge on the United States Court of International Trade
  • Bernard Newman (politician) (1914-1995), Canadian politician
  • Beryl Newman
    Beryl Newman
    Beryl R. Newman was a recipient of the Medal of Honor for his actions during World War II as a first lieutenant in the United States Army. He was a native of Baraboo, Wisconsin...

  • Byron Newman
    Byron Newman
    Byron Newman is a British photographer.He has been a glamour photographer for over 25 years. Most of the years in partnership with French actress Brigitte Ariel, his producer, stylist, muse and also wife....


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  • Campbell Newman
    Campbell Newman
    Campbell Kevin Thomas Newman is the leader of the Liberal National Party of Queensland. He was the 15th Lord Mayor of Brisbane from 2004 to 2011....

    , Lord Mayor of Brisbane
  • Cardinal Newman, English theologian
  • Carl Newman
    Carl Newman
    Allan Carl Newman is a Canadian musician and songwriter. He was a member of the indie rock bands Superconductor and Zumpano in the 1990s. Following the breakup of those bands, he reemerged as the leader of The New Pornographers in 2000....

  • Cecil Newman
    Cecil Newman
    Cecil Newman was an American civic leader and prominent businessman in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He founded the Twin Cities Herald about 1927 and published the Timely Digest in 1932. In 1934 Newman became editor and publisher of the Minneapolis Spokesman and the St...

     (1903–?), American civic leader and publisher
  • Charlie Newman
    Charlie Newman
    Charlie Newman was a Welsh international three-quarter who played club rugby for Newport. He was awarded ten caps for Wales and captained the team on six occasions. An original member of the Newport squad he captained the team in the 1882/83 season.-Personal life:Newman was born Newport in 1857 to...

    , Welsh international rugby player
  • Charles Newman, several people
  • Chris Newman (artist)
    Chris Newman (artist)
    Chris Newman is a contemporary composer, painter, author and performance artist.- Life and work :Chris Newman is an experimental interdisciplinary artist using the medium of music, painting, video, drawing and literature. From 1976 to 1979 he studied music at King’s College London, taking a...

  • Chris Newman (Australian rules footballer)
    Chris Newman (Australian rules footballer)
    Chris Newman is an Australian rules footballer, and currently the captain of the Richmond Football Club. He was drafted at Pick 55 in the 2000 AFL Draft from the Dandenong Stingrays in the TAC Cup....

  • Chris Newman (sound engineer)
  • Colin Newman
    Colin Newman
    Colin Newman is an English musician, record producer and record label owner.-Biography:Newman is a member of the rock band Wire. When the band temporarily split in 1980, Newman pursued a solo career. His first solo LP, A-Z, was released in 1980 on the Beggar's Banquet label...

  • Constance Berry Newman
    Constance Berry Newman
    Constance Ernestine Berry Newman was the United States Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs from June 2004 to April 2005.-Early life:...


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  • Daisy Newman
    Daisy Newman
    Daisy Newman was born in Britain to American parents. She wrote novels and non-fiction about Quakers in America. Ms. Newman was educated at Radcliffe College, Barnard College, and Oxford University. She married George Selleck late in life...

  • Dan Newman
    Dan Newman
    Dan Newman is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1995 to 2003, and was a cabinet minister in the governments of Mike Harris and Ernie Eves....

  • David Newman, several people including:
    • David Newman (composer)
      David Newman (composer)
      David Louis Newman is an American composer and conductor known particularly for his film scores. In a career spanning nearly forty years, he has composed music for nearly 100 feature films.-Life and career:...

      , American composer
    • David Newman (filmmaker)
      David Newman (filmmaker)
      David Newman was an American filmmaker. From the late 1960s through the early 1980s he frequently collaborated with Robert Benton. He was married to fellow writer Leslie Newman, with whom he had two children, until the time of his death...

      , an American filmmaker
    • David Newman (jazz musician)
      David Newman (jazz musician)
      David "Fathead" Newman was an American jazz saxophonist.-Biography:Born in Corsicana, Texas, Newman's professional career as a musician began in 1954 as a member of the Ray Charles Band....

      , American jazz saxophonist
    • David Newman (politician)
      David Newman (politician)
      David Gerald Newman is a politician in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1995 to 1999, and was a cabinet minister under Gary Filmon from 1997 to 1999...

      , Canadian politician
    • David Albert Newman, Canadian polymath
  • Don Newman, several people
  • Donald J. Newman
    Donald J. Newman
    Donald J. Newman was an American mathematician and professor, excelling at the Putnam mathematics competition while an undergraduate at City College of New York and New York University, and later receiving his PhD from Harvard University in 1953.- Life and works :Newman was born in Brooklyn, New...

    , American mathematician

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  • Ed Newman
    Ed Newman
    Ed Newman is a former Offensive Guard who, from 1973 to 1984, played 12 seasons with the Miami Dolphins.-Early life:...

    , American All-Pro football player
  • Edward Newman, several people
  • Edwin Newman
    Edwin Newman
    Edwin Harold Newman was an American newscaster, journalist and author.-Early life and education:Newman was born on January 25, 1919 in New York City to Myron and Rose Newman. His older brother was M. W. Newman, a longtime reporter for the Chicago Daily News. Newman married Rigel Grell on August...

     (born 1919), U.S. journalist
  • Emil Newman
    Emil Newman
    Emil Newman was an American composer and conductor who worked on over 200 films and TV shows. He was nominated for an Oscar for musical direction on the classic Sun Valley Serenade ....

     (1911-1984), U.S. film music director
  • Ernest Newman
    Ernest Newman
    Ernest Newman was an English music critic and musicologist. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians describes him as "the most celebrated British music critic in the first half of the 20th century." His style of criticism, aiming at intellectual objectivity in contrast to the more subjective...

  • Ezra Ted Newman, physicist, co-discoverer of the Kerr-Newman black hole solution of general relativity

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  • Felice Newman
    Felice Newman
    Felice Newman is an American somatic coach, sex educator, and author. Newman is one of the founders of Cleis Press, the publisher of more than 200 books that survey the contemporary American sexual landscape...

  • Francis Newman
    Francis Newman
    Francis Newman was an English colonist in America and Governor of the New Haven Colony in 1658-59. He was born in England and emigrated to New Hampshire in 1634, but shortly thereafter removed to the Connecticut valley and became prominent in the affairs of the colony at New Haven.In 1653, he was...

     (? - 1660), English colonist in America, governor of New Haven Colony, 1658-59
  • Francis William Newman
    Francis William Newman
    Francis William Newman , the younger brother of Cardinal Newman, was an English scholar and miscellaneous writer.-Life:...

     (1805-1897), English man of letters, younger brother of Cardinal Newman
  • Francisco Papo Newman
    Papo Newman
    Francisco 'Papo' Newman is a Puerto Rican who was convicted of murder, after allegedly participating in the murder of the Puerto Rican television entertainer Luis Vigoreaux on January 17, 1983. Newman was arrested, confessed to the crime, and testified against his accomplices in exchange for a...

    , assassin
  • Fred Newman
    Fred Newman
    Frederick Delano "Fred" Newman was an American philosopher, psychotherapist, playwright and political activist, and creator of a therapeutic modality called Social Therapy.-Early life:...

    , psychotherapist
  • Fred Newman (actor)
    Fred Newman (actor)
    Frederick R. Newman is an American actor, voice actor, composer, and sound effects artist, as well as a former talk show host....


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  • George Newman, several people
  • Greatrex Newman
    Greatrex Newman
    Greatrex Newman was an English author and screenwriter.He was born in Manchester, England and died in Eastbourne.-External links:...

  • Garry Newman, creator of the Half-Life 2 mod, Garry's Mod
    Garry's Mod
    Garry's Mod is a sandbox physics game using the Source engine. Garry's Mod has been available on Steam's content delivery service since November 29, 2006...


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  • Jack Newman (New Zealand cricketer) (1902–1996), New Zealand cricketer
  • Jack Newman (doctor)
    Jack Newman (doctor)
    Dr. Jack Newman, MD is a Canadian physician specializing in breastfeeding support and advocacy.He has written many articles and produced many videos about breastfeeding which are distributed widely by breastfeeding resource centers and websites, opened the first hospital breastfeeding clinic in...

     (born 1946), Canadian breastfeeding expert
  • Jack Newman (English cricketer)
    Jack Newman (English cricketer)
    John Alfred 'Jack' Newman was an English cricketer who played for Hampshire...

     (1884–1973), English cricketer
  • Jaime Ray Newman
    Jaime Ray Newman
    Jaime Ray Newman is an American actress and singer. Newman is best known for starring as Kristina Cassadine in soap opera General Hospital, as Kat Gardener in ABC's Eastwick, and as Dr. Tess Fontana in Syfy's Eureka....

     (born 1978), American actress and singer
  • James H. Newman
    James H. Newman
    James Hansen Newman is an American physicist and a former NASA astronaut who flew on four Space Shuttle missions..- Personal data :...

     (born 1956), American astronaut
  • James R. Newman
    James R. Newman
    James Roy Newman was an American mathematician and mathematical historian. He was also a lawyer, practicing in the state of New York from 1929 to 1941...

     (1907–1966), mathematician and mathematical historian
  • James W. Newman
    James W. Newman
    James W. Newman was a Democratic politician in the Ohio House of Representatives, Ohio Senate, and was Ohio Secretary of State from 1883 to 1885.-Biography:...

     (1841–1901), Democratic politician in Ohio
  • James Newman (actor) (born 1992), American actor
  • James Newman (Canadian politician)
    James Newman (Canadian politician)
    James Melvin Newman was an Ontario merchant and political figure. He represented Rainy River in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario as a Liberal-Labour member from 1945 to 1951....

     (1903–1963), Liberal-Labour politician in Ontario, Canada
  • James Newman-Newman (1767-1811), British naval officer
  • Jay Newman
    Jay Newman
    Jay Newman was a philosopher and Professor at the University of Guelph in Guelph, Ontario.-Biography:Newman was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Lou Newman and his wife, Kitty. He received his B.A. from Brooklyn College in 1968 before acquiring his master's degree from Brown University in...

     (1948–2007), philosopher
  • Jeff Newman (American baseball player)
    Jeff Newman (American baseball player)
    Jeffrey Lynn Newman is a former Major League Baseball catcher. He served as the interim manager of the Oakland Athletics in after Jackie Moore was fired and before Tony LaRussa was hired.-Early years:...

     (born 1948), American All Star baseball player and manager
  • Jeff Newman (musician)
    Jeff Newman (musician)
    Jeff Newman was an American country musician who played the pedal steel guitar. He was a veteran Nashville session player. A devoted teacher and player, Newman also wrote a column for the short-lived specialty magazine Steel Guitarist, appearing on the cover of the September 1979 issue...

     (1942–2004), a pedal steel guitar player and Nashville session musician
  • Jim Newman, several people
  • Jocelyn Newman
    Jocelyn Newman
    Jocelyn Margaret Newman was an Australian Senator for Tasmania for 15 years.Newman was born in Melbourne and was a Barrister and solicitor before entering Parliament. She married Kevin Newman in 1961. Her son Campbell Newman is the Lord Mayor of Brisbane.Newman was appointed to the Senate on 13...

     (born 1937), Australian Senator for Tasmania
  • Joe Newman (trumpeter)
    Joe Newman (trumpeter)
    Joseph Dwight Newman was an American jazz trumpeter, composer, and educator, best known for his time with Count Basie....

     (1922–1992), jazz musician
  • Joe Newman (basketball) (born 1937), co-founder and CEO of the American Basketball Association
  • Joey Newman
    Joey Newman
    Joey Newman is a Los Angeles-based film composer, orchestrator, arranger and conductor working in the fields of film and television. Joey was educated at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA.-Biography:...

     (born 1976), American film composer, orchestrator, arranger and conductor
  • John Newman, several people
  • Johnny Newman
    Johnny Newman
    John Sylvester Newman, Jr. is a retired American professional basketball player. A 6' 7" and guard/forward, Newman starred at the University of Richmond, before going on to play in the National Basketball Association...

     (born 1963), former American professional basketball player
  • Jon O. Newman
    Jon O. Newman
    Jon O. Newman is an United States federal judge. He has served on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit since 1979.-Education and legal training:...

     (born 1932), American federal judge
  • Joseph Newman (journalist)
    Joseph Newman (journalist)
    Joseph Newman was an American journalist and writer from New York.He worked for the New York Herald Tribune under George Cornish as a Japan correspondent, living in Japan with his wife Mary....

     (1913–1995), American journalist who worked in Japan
  • Joseph M. Newman
    Joseph M. Newman
    Joseph M. Newman was an American film director most famous for his 1955 film This Island Earth. His credits include episodes of The Twilight Zone and The Alfred Hitchcock Hour....

     (1909–2006), American film director

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  • Kenneth Newman
    Kenneth Newman
    Sir Kenneth Leslie Newman, GBE, QPM was Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police from 1982 to 1987 and Chief Constable of the Royal Ulster Constabulary from 1976 to 1980...

     (born 1926), former Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police and Chief Constable of the Royal Ulster Constabulary
  • Kevin Newman (1933–1999), Australian soldier and politician
  • Kevin Newman (born 1959), Canadian journalist
  • Kim Newman
    Kim Newman
    Kim Newman is an English journalist, film critic, and fiction writer. Recurring interests visible in his work include film history and horror fiction—both of which he attributes to seeing Tod Browning's Dracula at the age of eleven—and alternate fictional versions of history...

     (born 1959), British journalist and novelist

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  • Laraine Newman
    Laraine Newman
    Laraine Newman is an American comedienne, actress, and writer, and was part of the original Saturday Night Live cast.-Personal life:...

     (born 1952), American comedian
  • Leopold C. Newman, American Brigadier General
  • Lesléa Newman
    Lesléa Newman
    Lesléa Newman, born in 1955 in Brooklyn, New York, is an American author and editor. She is Jewish, a feminist and openly lesbian.She has written and edited 57 books and anthologies. She has written about such topics as being a Jew, body image and eating disorders, lesbianism, gay parenting, and...

     (born 1955), American author and editor
  • Leslie Newman
    Leslie Newman
    Leslie Newman is a screenwriter who co-wrote the first three Superman films with husband David Newman, who died in 2003. They had two children together...

  • Lionel Newman
    Lionel Newman
    Lionel Newman was an American conductor, pianist, and film and television composer. He was the brother of Alfred Newman and Emil Newman, uncle of Randy Newman, David Newman and Thomas Newman, and grandfather of Joey Newman....

     (1916-1989), American film score composer

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  • Mark Newman
    Mark Newman
    Mark Newman is a British physicist and Paul A. M. Dirac Professor of Physics at the University of Michigan, as well as an external faculty member of the Santa Fe Institute...

  • Martin Newman
    Martin Newman
    Alban Martin James Newman is a UK based writer and adviser on leadership, communications and design. He was described by the Financial Times as the "secret weapon" behind Russia’s winning bid to host the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics....

     (born 1963), British writer and communications adviser
  • Max Newman
    Max Newman
    Maxwell Herman Alexander "Max" Newman, FRS was a British mathematician and codebreaker.-Pre–World War II:Max Newman was born Maxwell Neumann in Chelsea, London, England, on 7 February 1897...

     (1897-1984), British mathematician
  • Melvin Spencer Newman
    Melvin Spencer Newman
    Melvin Spencer Newman was an American chemist, best known for inventing the Newman projection. He was born in New York City, but shortly after his family moved to New Orleans, Louisiana. When he was 14, they moved back to New York, where he attended Riverdale County School. From 1925 to 1932 he...

  • Michael Newman, various people
  • Muriel Newman
    Muriel Newman
    Dr. Muriel Newman is a former New Zealand politician. She was the deputy leader of the ACT New Zealand.-Early years:Newman was born in northern England, but arrived in New Zealand at the age of eight. She was raised in Whangarei. She gained a BSc in mathematics from University of Auckland, and...


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  • Nancy Newman
    Nancy Newman
    Nancy Newman is an anchor and reporter on the YES Network. Having joined the network in 2005, she is a host/anchor for the New York Yankees Pre-Game Show and the New York Yankees Post-Game Show for New York Yankees telecasts, as well as the pregame and postgame shows for New Jersey Nets...

  • Nanette Newman
    Nanette Newman
    -Early life:Newman was born in Northampton, England. She was educated at Sternhold College, the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts stage school and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London.-Career:...

  • Nicholas Newman
    Nicholas Newman
    Nicholas Christian "Nick" Newman is a fictional character from the CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless. He has been portrayed by American actor Joshua Morrow since 1994, but was earlier portrayed by various child actors, including John Nelson-Alden, a son of the show's former writer, Kay...

  • Nick Newman
    Nick Newman
    Nick Newman is a satirical British cartoonist and comedy scriptwriter.The son of an RAF officer, Newman was born in Kuala Lumpur and schooled at Ardingly College where his satirical career began, working on revues with Ian Hislop...

    , British cartoonist
  • Nikki Reed Newman
    Nikki Reed Newman
    Nicole "Nikki" Reed is a fictional character on the CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless. She has been played by actress Melody Thomas Scott since 1979...

  • Newman (Seinfeld)
    Newman (Seinfeld)
    Newman is a recurring character on the television show Seinfeld, played by Wayne Knight from 1991 until the show's finale in 1998.-Background:...


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  • Paul Newman
    Paul Newman
    Paul Leonard Newman was an American actor, film director, entrepreneur, humanitarian, professional racing driver and auto racing enthusiast...

     (1925-2008), American actor and racing driver
  • Paul S. Newman
    Paul S. Newman
    Paul S. Newman was an American writer of comic books, comic strips, and books, whose career spanned the 1940s to the 1990s...

    , American comic-book writer
  • Pauline Newman
    Pauline Newman
    Pauline Newman is a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.-Biography:Born in New York, New York, Newman received a B.A. from Vassar College in 1947, an M.A. from Columbia University in 1948, a Ph.D. in chemistry from Yale University in 1952 and an LL.B. from New York...

    , American judge
  • Peter Newman (actor)
    Peter Newman (actor)
    Peter Newman is famous for his voice work for Rankin/Bass. In ThunderCats he provided the voices of Tygra, Wilykat, Bengali, and Monkian. In SilverHawks he provided the voices of Quicksilver, Mumbo Jumbo, and Timestopper. He also played the evil Duke of Zill & Wack Lizardi in Felix the Cat: The...

    , American actor best known for his voice-over work for Rankin-Bass
  • Peter Newman (Australian)
    Peter Newman (Australian)
    Peter William Geoffrey Newman is an environmental scientist, author and educator based in Perth, Western Australia. He is currently Professor of Sustainability at Curtin University and since 2008 member of Infrastructure Australia....

    , writer on urban planning and sustainability
  • Peter C. Newman
    Peter C. Newman
    Peter Charles Newman, CC, CD is a Canadian journalist and writer.Born in Vienna, Austria, Newman emigrated from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia to Canada in 1940 as a Jewish refugee. His father, Oscar, was a self-made wealthy factory owner. Newman was educated at Upper Canada College, where he was...

     (born 1929), Austrian-born Canadian journalist
  • Peter Kenneth Newman
    Peter Kenneth Newman
    Peter Kenneth Newman was an English economist and historian of economic thought. He helped to edit The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics, to which he contributed several articles.-External reference:*...

     (1928–2001), English economist, historian of economic thought
  • Peter R. Newman
    Peter R. Newman
    Peter R. Newman was an English television screenwriter in the 1950s and 1960s. He was born in Essex. He wrote a television play, Yesterday's Enemy, which he later turned into a screenplay for Val Guest; the film version was released in 1959...

  • Phyllis Newman
    Phyllis Newman
    Phyllis Newman is an American actress and singer. She was nominated twice for the Drama Desk Award and won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical.-Early life:...


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  • Randy Newman
    Randy Newman
    Randall Stuart "Randy" Newman is an American singer-songwriter, arranger, composer, and pianist who is known for his mordant pop songs and for film scores....

     (born 1943), singer-songwriter, musician, film score composer
  • Richard Newman
    Richard Newman
    Richard Newman is a voice actor with numerous voice roles in Transformers cartoons.-Career:Newman started his career in voice acting in Beast Wars voicing Rhinox and the Vok...

  • Ricky Newman
    Ricky Newman
    Richard Bryan "Ricky" Newman is an English former footballer who played as a defensive midfielder.His career has spanned over 13 years, having started with Crystal Palace in 1992. He played for Palace until 1995 when he joined Millwall where he stayed until 1999 when he left for Reading...

  • Rob Newman (politician)
    Rob Newman (politician)
    Rob Newman is a politician in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He was the elected Deputy Leader of the Green Party of Ontario from 2004 to 2006 and also served as the party's Issue Advocate for Democratic Renewal...

  • Robert Newman (actor)
    Robert Newman (actor)
    Robert Newman is an American screen actor.- Guiding Light :Newman is best known for his role as Joshua Lewis on the American soap opera Guiding Light, a role he played from 1981 to 1984, and again from 1986 to 1991, and 1993 to Guiding Light series finale in September 2009.The character of Josh...

  • Robert Newman (comedian)
  • Robert Newman (impresario)
    Robert Newman (impresario)
    Robert Newman was an English businessman and musical impresario. He is most celebrated as the founder of the series of classical music concerts that are now known as The Proms....

  • Robert Loftin Newman
    Robert Loftin Newman
    Robert Loftin Newman . was an American painter and stained-glass designer. He specialized in oil on canvas as his medium. He is sometimes associated with Albert Pinkham Ryder as a painter of mood...

  • Robert S. Newman
    Robert S. Newman
    Robert S. Newman is an anthropologist based in Marblehead, Massachusetts, USA, primarily known for his contribution to studying post-1961 Goa, India.-Early life and education:...

  • Rachael Newman, a character from the sequel spin-off American Psycho 2
    American Psycho 2
    American Psycho 2 is a stand-alone 2002 direct-to-video sequel/spin-off of Mary Harron's 2000 film adaptation of American Psycho. It is directed by Morgan J. Freeman and stars Mila Kunis as Rachael Newman, a driven criminology student who is drawn to murder. The film also features William Shatner...

    .
  • Ron Newman (computer programmer)
    Ron Newman (computer programmer)
    Ron Newman is a computer programmer. He is most famous for his work in the early development of the X Window System, from the first version in 1984 to X11R2 in 1988....

  • Ron Newman (footballer)
    Ron Newman (footballer)
    Ronald Vernon Newman is a former association football player and coach. He is a member of the National Soccer Hall of Fame....

  • Ryan Newman
    Ryan Newman
    Ryan Joseph Newman is a driver in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. He drives the #39 United States Army/Tornados/Haas Automation Chevrolet Impala for Stewart Haas Racing under crew chief Tony Gibson. Newman graduated from Purdue University in 2001 with a B.S. in vehicle structure engineering...

    , NASCAR driver
  • Ryan Newman (actress)
    Ryan Newman (actress)
    Ryan Whitney Newman is a 2010 Young Artist Award winning young actress, model, and singer. Newman is most famous for her roles as Ginger Falcone in Zeke and Luther and Cindy Collins in Zoom. Newman, as a child model has participated in many photo shoots such as Inspire Magazine, Kaiya Eve...


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  • Sam Newman
    Sam Newman
    John Noel William "Sam" Newman is a retired Australian rules football player and current television personality. He is a featured presenter on the AFL version of The Footy Show.-VFL career:...

  • Samuel Newman
    Samuel Newman
    Samuel Newman was a clergyman in colonial Massachusetts whose concordance of the Bible, published first in London in 1643, far surpassed any previous work of its kind....

  • Saul Newman
    Saul Newman
    Saul Newman is a political theorist and central post-anarchist thinker.Newman coined the term "post-anarchism" as a general term for political philosophies filtering 19th century anarchism through a post-structuralist lens, and later popularized it through his 2001 book From Bakunin to Lacan...

  • Scott Newman, several people
  • Sharon Collins Newman
    Sharon Collins Newman
    Sharon Newman is a fictional character on the CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless.The character made her debut on March 28, 1994. Sharon was played briefly by Monica Potter and followed by Heidi Mark, before Sharon Case began portraying the character on a regular basis in August of the same...

  • Sheila Newman
  • Stanley Newman
    Stanley Newman
    Stanley Newman is a U.S. puzzle creator, editor, and publisher. Newman has been the editor of the Newsday Sunday crossword puzzle since 1988 and the editor of the Newsday daily crossword puzzle since 1992...

  • Steve Newman
    Steve Newman
    Steve Newman is an accomplished South African acoustic guitarist, and was a founder member of the popular African group Tananas. For thirty years Newman has been collaborating with fellow South African guitarist, Tony Cox. He is also one of The Aquarian Quartet, consisting of Tony Cox, Syd Kitchen...

     acoustic guitarist
  • Steven M. Newman
    Steven M. Newman
    Steven M. Newman is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the first man to walk solo around the world. In 1983, the journalist set out from his Bethel, Ohio home, traversing 20 countries and hiking just over 15,000 miles in four years. Throughout his journey Steven would send letters to...

    , journalist and hiker
  • Stuart Newman
    Stuart Newman
    Stuart Alan Newman is a professor of cell biology and anatomy at New York Medical College in Valhalla, NY, United States. His research centers around three program areas: cellular and molecular mechanisms of vertebrate limb development, physical mechanisms of morphogenesis, and mechanisms of...

  • Sue Newman
    Sue Newman
    Sue Newman is a former squash player from Australia. She won the British Open in 1978, beating her fellow Australian player Vicki Hoffman in the final 9-4, 9-7, 9-2. Newman was also runner-up at the British Open in 1976, when she lost in the final to Australia's Heather McKay.-References:...

  • Sydney Newman
    Sydney Newman
    Sydney Cecil Newman, OC was a Canadian film and television producer, who played a pioneering role in British television drama from the late 1950s to the late 1960s...

     (1917-1997), Canadian-British film and television producer

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  • Terence Newman
    Terence Newman
    Terence Newman is a starting American football cornerback for the Dallas Cowboys in the National Football League. He played in the 2008 pro-bowl and has 32 interceptions in his career....

  • Thomas Newman
    Thomas Newman
    Thomas Montgomery Newman is an American composer and conductor, best known for his many film scores. He is one of the more respected and recognized composers for modern film and has scored over fifty feature films in a career which spans nearly three decades.Newman has received a total of ten...

     (born 1955), U.S. film score composer
  • Thunderclap Newman
    Thunderclap Newman
    Thunderclap Newman were a British one-hit wonder band that Pete Townshend of The Who and Kit Lambert had formed circa December 1968 - January 1969 in a bid to showcase the talents of John "Speedy" Keen, Andy "Thunderclap" Newman and Jimmy McCulloch....

  • Tom Newman (billiards player)
    Tom Newman (billiards player)
    Tom Newman was an English professional player of snooker and English billiards.He established himself as one of the best billiards players of the 1920s, appearing in every World Professional Billiards Championship final between 1921 and 1930, and winning the title six times.Newman was a great...

  • Tom Newman (musician)
    Tom Newman (musician)
    Not to be confused with Thomas Newman.Tom Newman is an English record producer and musician...

  • Tom Newman (scientist)
    Tom Newman (scientist)
    Tom Newman, a graduate student at Stanford University in 1985, was one of the two people to solve one of a pair of challenges put forth by Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman at the annual meeting of the American Physical Society in 1959, in a talk titled "There's Plenty of Room at the...

  • Tony Newman (drummer)
    Tony Newman (drummer)
    Richard Anthony 'Tony' Newman is an English rock drummer. He was at various times a member of the bands Sounds Incorporated, May Blitz, Three Man Army and T...

  • Troy Newman
    Troy Newman
    Troy Newman is an American pro-life activist. Born in Anchorage, Alaska, Newman was adopted as an infant and raised in the Southern California area...


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  • Walter Newman (screenwriter)
    Walter Newman (screenwriter)
    Walter Newman was an American radio writer and screenwriter active from the late 1940s to the early 1990s. He was nominated three times for Academy Awards , but he may be best known for a work that never made it to the screen: his unproduced original script Harrow Alley.Newman's radio...

     (1916-1993), U.S. screenwriter
  • Walter Stephenson Newman
    Walter Stephenson Newman
    Walter Stephenson Newman was the tenth President of Virginia Tech, serving from 1947 until 1962.-References:...

     (1895-1978), Virginia Tech president
  • William S. Newman
    William S. Newman
    William Stein Newman was an American musicologist.He was born in Cleveland, Ohio. From 1945 he taught at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill...

     (1912-2000), U.S. musicologist

Fictional Newmans

  • Christopher Newman, the protagonist of Henry James's The American (novel)
  • Victoria Newman
    Victoria Newman
    Victoria Nicole Newman is a fictional character from the American soap opera The Young and the Restless...

    , along with the other Newmans (Victor, Nikki, and Nick), long-time characters in the U.S. soap opera The Young and the Restless
  • Newman (Seinfeld)
    Newman (Seinfeld)
    Newman is a recurring character on the television show Seinfeld, played by Wayne Knight from 1991 until the show's finale in 1998.-Background:...

     (first name not disclosed, played by Wayne Knight), the most frequently recurring non-cast member from the U.S. sitcom Seinfeld
  • D. Wire Newman, from "The Stormy Present", episode 98 of The West Wing

See also

  • Newman (disambiguation)
    Newman (disambiguation)
    -Places:Australia*Newman, Western AustraliaUnited States:*Newman, California*Newman, Illinois*Newman, Kansas*Newman, New Mexico*Newman, Texas*Newman Grove, Nebraska*Newman Township -Other uses:*Kerr–Newman black hole...

  • Neumann (disambiguation)
  • Numan (disambiguation)
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