Painter
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Painter may refer to:
- Occupations:
- Creative artist in the medium of paintingPaintingPainting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...
- House painter and decorator, a tradesman responsible for the painting and decorating of buildings
- Creative artist in the medium of painting
- Painter, VirginiaPainter, VirginiaPainter is a town in Accomack County, Virginia, United States. The population was 246 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Painter is located at ....
, Virginia, United States - Painter (rope)Painter (rope)A painter is a rope that is attached to the bow of a boat and used for tying up or for towing.Ideally, the length of the painter should be no longer than the length of the boat, especially on small craft, to prevent fouling the propeller of an outboard engine....
, a rope that is attached to the bow of a boat and used for tying up or for towing - Corel PainterCorel PainterCorel Painter is a raster-based digital art application created to simulate as accurately as possible the appearance and behavior of traditional media associated with drawing, painting, and printmaking. It is intended to be used in real-time by professional digital artists as a functional creative...
, software - The PainterThe PainterThe Painter is the eighth studio album released in 1981 by KC and the Sunshine Band. The album, like its predecessor, generated fairly little success, as the band turned to a more pop-focused music. A notable track on this album is the ballad, All Through The Night.This song co-written by Donna...
, 1981 album by KC and the Sunshine Band - Sweatt v. PainterSweatt v. PainterSweatt v. Painter, , was a U.S. Supreme Court case that successfully proved lack of equality, in favor of a black applicant, the "separate but equal" doctrine of racial segregation established by the 1896 case Plessy v. Ferguson. The case was also influential in the landmark case of Brown v...
, legal case - Painter, or Cougar, mammal
- Painter (band)Painter (band)Painter was a Canadian rock band, formed in the early 1970s in Calgary.-Band history:Painter experienced a number of personnel changes. Their big hit "West Coast Woman", from the album Painter, was released in 1973. Other bands that came out of Painter include Hammersmith, 451 and...
, a Canadian rock band
People
- William PainterWilliam PainterWilliam Painter was an English author and translator.William Painter was a native of Kent. He matriculated at St John's College, Cambridge, in 1554. In 1561 he became clerk of the ordnance in the Tower of London, a position in which he appears to have amassed a fortune out of the public funds...
(c. 1540–1594), English author - William Painter (inventor)William Painter (inventor)William Painter was the inventor of the crown cork and the founder of Crown Holdings, Inc., a Fortune 500 company. He was born in Tridelphia, Maryland and moved to the United States at the age of 20...
(1838–1906), American - Sidney PainterSidney PainterSidney Painter was a twentieth-century American medievalist at Johns Hopkins University.Painter was born in New York City; after the Taft School he attended Yale University . He wrote many influential books...
(1902–1960), American medievalist - Theophilus PainterTheophilus PainterTheophilus Shickel Painter was an American zoologist known for his work in identifying genes in fruit flies...
(1889–1969), American zoologist - John PainterJohn PainterJohn George Painter was posthumously recognized as the world's oldest man and oldest American veteran, as a result of the United States's SSA supercentenarian study. Painter was also the last surviving American veteran of the First World War to be born in the 1880s. Only recently he was also...
(1888–2001), American soldier & long survivor - Roy PainterRoy PainterRoy Painter is a British Conservative politician and once candidate who for a time became one of the leading figures on the British far right....
(born c. 1930), British politician - Kevin PainterKevin PainterKevin Painter is an English professional darts player who plays in Professional Darts Corporation tournaments, where he is known as "The Artist"...
(born 1967), British darts player - Lance PainterLance PainterLance Telford Painter is a former Major League Baseball left-handed pitcher who played for the Colorado Rockies , St. Louis Cardinals , Toronto Blue Jays , and Milwaukee Brewers . Although he started 28 games, Painter is most known as a reliever.-Professional career:Painter played college baseball...
(born 1967), British baseball coach - Matt PainterMatt PainterMatt Painter is the current head coach of the Purdue Boilermakers basketball team.-Playing career:Matt Painter attended Delta High School in Muncie and played basketball for current basketball coach and former athletic director, Stan Daugherty...
(born 1970), American basketball coach - Robbie PainterRobbie PainterRobbie Painter is a former English professional footballer. He played in The Football League for six clubs between 1987 and 2001, usually as a striker.-Playing career:...
(born 1971), English footballer - Curtis PainterCurtis PainterCurtis Jeffrey Painter is a quarterback for the Indianapolis Colts. He was drafted in the sixth round of the 2009 NFL Draft. He played college football for the Purdue Boilermakers.-High school career:...
(born 1985), American footballer - Marcos PainterMarcos PainterMarcos David Painter is a footballer who is currently contracted to Brighton & Hove Albion.-Career:Born in Birmingham, Painter was brought up in the Chelmsley Wood area of Solihull and attended the Archbishop Grimshaw secondary school....
(born 1986), English footballer - Joe PainterJoe PainterJoe Painter is a British geographer and academic.He is as of 2006 a professor in the Department of Geography and Associate Director in the International Centre for Regional Regeneration and Development Studies at the University of Durham in the U.K.-Education:Painter was born and matured in st...
(born 1965), British geographer & academic - John Mark PainterJohn Mark PainterJohn Mark Painter is an American musician and songwriter. He is best known for his role, with his wife, singer Fleming McWilliams, in the rock and roll duo, Fleming and John....
(born 1967), American musician - George PainterGeorge PainterGeorge Duncan Painter, OBE known as George D. Painter, was an English author most famous as a biographer of Marcel Proust....
(1914-2005), British author and biographer of Marcel Proust