Ratcliffe
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Places

United Kingdom:
  • Ratcliffe or Ratcliff
    Ratcliff
    Ratcliff or Ratcliffe is a former hamlet lying by the north bank of the River Thames between Shadwell and Limehouse. It is now a district in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, and is located to the south of Stepney.-Etymology:...

    , Tower Hamlets, London
  • Ratcliffe-on-Soar
    Ratcliffe-on-Soar
    Ratcliffe-on-Soar is a village and civil parish in Nottinghamshire on the River Soar. It is part of the Rushcliffe district, and is the site of Ratcliffe-on-Soar Power Station. Nearby places are Kingston on Soar and Trentlock. With a population of around 100, the parish is too small to have a...

    , Nottinghamshire
  • Ratcliffe-on-the-Wreake, Leicestershire
  • Ratcliffe Culey
    Ratcliffe Culey
    Ratcliffe Culey is a hamlet near the border of Warwickshire and Leicestershire, England. It is part of the civil parish of Witherley.The Gate, a popular non-smoking pub is situated in Ratcliffe Culey along with a post office, greyhound kennels and an All Saints Church.The name Ratcliffe derives...

    , Leicestershire
  • Ratcliffe College
    Ratcliffe College
    Ratcliffe College is an independent Catholic boarding and day school in Leicestershire, England. The College, situated in of parkland on the Fosse Way about six miles north of Leicester, was founded on the instructions of Blessed Father Antonio Rosmini-Serbati in 1845 as a seminary. In 1847, the...

    , Leicestershire

United States
  • Ratcliff, Arkansas
    Ratcliff, Arkansas
    Ratcliff is a city in Logan County, Arkansas, United States. The population was 191 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Ratcliff is located at .According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all of it land....


People

  • Alexander Ratcliffe - scottish polician, former Scottish Protestant League
    Scottish Protestant League
    The Scottish Protestant League was a political party in Scotland during the 1920s and 1930s.The League was led by Alexander Ratcliffe, who founded it in 1920...

  • Arthur Ratcliffe
    Arthur Ratcliffe
    Arthur Ratcliffe was a British Conservative Party politician who served as the Member of Parliament for the Leek division of Staffordshire from 1931 to 1935....

     (1882–1963), British Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Leek 1931–1935
  • Derek A. Ratcliffe (died 2005), British ecologist
  • Francis Ratcliffe
    Francis Ratcliffe
    Francis Noble Ratcliffe OBE was an Australian zoologist and conservationist.Ratcliffe was born a British citizen in Calcutta, India. He was educated at Berkhamsted School and the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom, and at Princeton University in the USA...

     (1904-1970), Australian zoologist
  • J. A. Ratcliffe
    J. A. Ratcliffe
    John Ashworth Ratcliffe, FRS , "JAR or Jack", was an influential British radio physicist....

    , British ionospheric physicist and academic
  • John Ratcliffe (governor), second governor of the original Jamestown, Virginia, colony
  • John W. Ratcliff
    John W. Ratcliff
    John W. Ratcliff is a noted game developer, best known for creating the bestselling games 688 Attack Sub and SSN-21 Seawolf. -Biography:...

    , computer game developer
  • Kevin Ratcliffe
    Kevin Ratcliffe
    Kevin Ratcliffe is a former Welsh footballer who spent most of his career playing for Everton. He was born in Mancot, near Queensferry in North Wales.-Club career:...

    , (born 1960) Welsh footballer
  • Paddy Ratcliffe
    Paddy Ratcliffe
    Patrick Christopher "Paddy" Ratcliffe was an Irish footballer who played as a full back.His career as a professional started later than most because of the Second World War. He was injured in combat while serving for the Allies and spent two years in a Prisoner-of-war camp before returning home...

    , Irish footballer
  • Richard Ratcliffe
    Richard Ratcliffe
    Sir Richard Ratcliffe was a close confidant of Richard III of England. He came from a gentry family in the Lake District, and became a companion of Richard when the latter was still Duke of Gloucester. He was one of Richard's trustees in the lordship of Richmond, and was named steward of Barnard...

     (died 1485), English nobleman
  • Richard Ratcliffe (1751 - 1825), American public official considered to be the founder of the city of Fairfax, Virginia
    Fairfax, Virginia
    The City of Fairfax is an independent city forming an enclave within the confines of Fairfax County, in the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States. Although politically independent of the surrounding county, the City is nevertheless the county seat....

    , in 1805
  • Sandy Ratcliff
    Sandy Ratcliff
    Alexandria "Sandy" Ratcliff is an English former actress. Ratcliff made an impression as a model and film actress in the 1970s, but she is best known for being one of the original cast members in the BBC soap opera EastEnders in the 1980s...

    , British actress
  • Simon Ratcliffe, of house music duo Basement Jaxx
    Basement Jaxx
    Basement Jaxx are a British electronic dance music duo from London, England consisting of Felix Buxton born 1971 and Simon Ratcliffe born 1 December 1969. They first rose to popularity in the late 1990s...


In fiction
  • Governor Ratcliffe (Disney), a fictionalized representation in the animated film Pocahontas of John Ratcliffe of the Jamestown colony
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