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  • Alan Symonds
    Alan Symonds
    Alan Symonds was the Technical Director of the Harvard College Theaters for many years. He entered Harvard College in the 1960s, started participating in technical theater during his freshman orientation period, and soon found himself spending much more time on technical theater than on his studies...

     (died 2006), American theatre technical director
  • Andrew Symonds
    Andrew Symonds
    Andrew Symonds is a former Australian cricket team all-rounder. A two-time World Cup winner, Symonds is a right-handed middle order batsman and alternates between medium pace and off-spin bowling....

     (born 1975), Australian cricketer
  • Charles Symonds
    Charles Symonds
    Sir Charles Putnam Symonds KBE CB was an English neurologist.His initial medical training was at Guy's Hospital, followed by specialised training at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery...

     (1890-1978), English neurologist
  • Chas Symonds
    Chas Symonds
    Chas Symonds is an English welterweight boxer.He is the former BBBofC Southern Area welterweight title holder, but lost his title after losing to Ross Minter by TKO April 2005...

     (born 1982), English boxer
  • Craig Symonds
    Craig Symonds
    Craig Lee Symonds is a retired professor and chairman of the history department at the United States Naval Academy...

     (born 1946), American historian
  • Harry Symonds
    Harry Symonds
    Henry George Symonds , known as Harry Symonds, was a Welsh cricketer who played first-class cricket for Glamorgan and Wales in the 1920s, having made one previous first-class appearance, for South Wales, in 1912...

     (1889–1945), Welsh cricketer
  • James Symonds
    James Symonds
    Rear Admiral James A. Symonds is a member of the United States Navy and former Commanding Officer of the USS Ronald Reagan . He had a prominent, symbolic role in the state funeral of former United States President Ronald Reagan in 2004....

     (born 195?), American naval officer
  • John Symond
    John Symond
    John Symond is an Australian businessman. He is best known as the founder of Aussie Home Loans. -Early life:John Symond was born on 17 August 1947 in Crookwell, New South Wales and raised in Sydney, Australia. Growing up he spent most of his time between Brisbane, where his mother's family lived,...

    , Australian businessman
  • John Symonds
    John Symonds
    John Symonds was an English novelist, biographer, playwright and writer of children's books.- Early Life :...

     (1914-2006), English biographer, playwright and author
  • John Addington Symonds
    John Addington Symonds
    John Addington Symonds was an English poet and literary critic. Although he married and had a family, he was an early advocate of male love , which he believed could include pederastic as well as egalitarian relationships. He referred to it as l'amour de l'impossible...

     (1840-1893), English poet and literary critic and advocate of homosexual love
  • John Alexander Symonds
    John Alexander Symonds
    John Alexander Symonds is a British former Metropolitan police officer and KGB agent. He was born in the Soke of Peterborough, and was Commissioned in the Royal Artillery from 1953-56...

     (born 1935), British police officer who spied for the KGB
  • Joseph Symonds
    Joseph Symonds
    Joseph Bede Symonds was a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom. He was the Member of Parliament for the Whitehaven constituency in Cumberland from 1959 until he stood down at the 1970 general election...

     (1900-1985), British politician, MP for Whitehaven
  • Matt Symonds
    Matt Symonds
    Matt Symonds is a British entrepreneur. Founder of the QS World MBA Tour, an international organiser of business school events in over 40 countries, and MD of the graduate education consultancy, SymondsGSB...

     (born 1968), British entrepreneur
  • Nelson Symonds
    Nelson Symonds
    Nelson Symonds was a jazz guitarist from Hammonds Plains, Nova Scotia.-Biography:After pursuing the banjo at a young age, Symonds switched to the guitar...

     (1933–2008), Canadian jazz guitarist
  • Noel Symonds
    Noel Symonds
    Noel Parry Symonds was an English rower who won the Silver Goblets at Henley Royal Regatta.Symonds was born at Broomy Hill, Herefordshire. He was the fifth son of James Frederick Symonds, a solicitor, and his wife Mary Elizabeth Cleave. He was educated at Hereford Cathedral School under F. H....

     (1863-1943), English rower
  • Pat Symonds
    Pat Symonds
    Patrick Bruce Reith Symonds is the former Executive Director of Engineering of the Renault Formula One team....

     (born 1953), British motorsport engineer
  • Peter Symonds
    Peter Symonds
    Peter Symonds was a wealthy English merchant and benefactor, notable for the foundation of a number of almshouses in the South East of England. His most notable legacy is the foundation of an almshouse in Winchester which later developed into Peter Symonds College.-Family background:Symonds was...

     (c.1528–1586), English merchant and benefactor
  • Richard Symonds (diarist)
    Richard Symonds (diarist)
    Richard Symonds was an English royalist and antiquary, now remembered for an eye-witness diary he wrote of events of the First English Civil War.-Life:...

     (1617-1692?), English royalist and Civil War diarist
  • Richard Symonds
    Richard Symonds
    Richard Symonds was an English academic and civil servant.He was born in Oxford, the son of neurologist Sir Charles Symonds. He was educated at the Dragon School, Rugby School, and Corpus Christi College.-References:*...

     (1918-2006), British UN administrator and academic
  • Robert Symonds
    Robert Symonds
    Robert Symonds was an American actor. He was the associate director of the Repertory Theatre of Lincoln Center from 1965 through 1972.-Career:...

     (1926-2007), American actor
  • Ross Symonds
    Ross Symonds
    Ross Symonds is a former news presenter for the Seven Network in Sydney from the 1980s until the early 2000s.Symonds began his career with ABC Radio in Brisbane in his teenage years, and then went to Sydney with ABC radio and television to become ABC's Senior National News Presenter...

     (born 1942), Australian news presenter
  • Thomas Symonds
    Thomas Symonds
    Captain Thomas Symonds, R.N. was a British naval captain of the American Revolutionary War.In 1780, in England, he replaced John Luttrell as captain of , and sailed for America with a naval force...

     (died 1793), British naval captain of the American Revolutionary War
  • Thomas Symonds (admiral)
    Thomas Symonds (admiral)
    Admiral of the Fleet Sir Thomas Matthew Charles Symonds, GCB was a British naval commander. The second son of William Symonds, he came from a naval dynasty - his grandfather was Thomas Symonds, and his elder brother William Cornwallis Symonds.-Naval career:Entering the navy on 25 April 1825, he...

     (1813-1894), British admiral
  • Thomas Powell Symonds
    Thomas Powell Symonds
    Thomas Powell Symonds was Member of Parliament for Hereford 1800 to 1819, and lieutenant colonel of the South Gloucester Militia....

     (died 1819), British politician, MP for Hereford, and lieutant colonel South Gloucester Militia
  • Tom Symonds
    Tom Symonds
    Thomas "Tom" Symonds is an Australian Rugby League Player for the Sydney Roosters in the NRL.He made his NRL debut in Round 11, 2009. He is currently studying Exercise Physiology at the University of New South Wales.- References :...

     (born 1989), Australian Rugby League Player
  • Tony Symonds
    Tony Symonds
    Anthony 'Tony' Symonds is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Hawthorn in the Victorian Football League and Glenelg in the South Australian National Football League ....

     (born 1962), Australian rules footballer
  • William Symonds
    William Symonds
    Sir William Symonds FRS was "Surveyor of the Navy" in the Royal Navy from 9 June 1832 to October 1847, and took part in the naval reforms instituted by the Whig First Lord of the Admiralty Sir James Robert George Graham in 1832.-Early life:He was the second son...

     (1782-1856), British ship designer and administrator, 'Surveyor of the Navy' 1832-1847
  • William Cornwallis Symonds
    William Cornwallis Symonds
    Captain William Cornwallis Symonds was a British Army officer who was prominent in the early colonisation of New Zealand. He was the eldest son of William Symonds, Surveyor of the Navy....

     (1810-1841), British army officer, Chief Magistrate of Auckland and Deputy Surveyor-General of New Zealand
  • William R. Symonds
    William R. Symonds
    William Robert Symonds was an English painter.Born in Yoxford, Suffolk, he studied in Antwerp and settled in London in 1881. He exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy in London from 1876....

     (1851–1934), English painter
  • William Samuel Symonds
    William Samuel Symonds
    William Samuel Symonds , English geologist, was born in Hereford.He was educated at Cheltenham College and Christ's College, Cambridge, where he graduated BA in 1842. Having taken holy orders he was appointed curate of Offenham, near Evesham in 1843, and two years later he was presented to the...

     (1818-1887), English geologist

Places

  • Peter Symonds College
    Peter Symonds College
    Peter Symonds College is a sixth form college in Winchester, Hampshire, in the south of England. It is one of the largest sixth form colleges in Britain.-Admissions:...

    , Winchester, Hampshire, England
  • Symonds Green
    Symonds Green
    Symonds Green is a neighbourhood within the English new town of Stevenage in Hertfordshire.Symonds Green is predominantly a residential area, dating mostly from the 1970s, with a mixture of public-sector, charitable, and private housing...

    , Stevenage, Hertfordshire, England
  • Symonds Yat
    Symonds Yat
    Symonds Yat is a village in the Forest of Dean and a popular tourist destination, straddling the River Wye and the borders of the English counties of Herefordshire and Gloucestershire, it is within a few miles of the Welsh border...

    , village within the Forest of Dean, England
  • Symonds Yat Rapids
    Symonds Yat Rapids
    Symonds Yat Rapids are a grade 2 man-made feature on the River Wye, near Symonds Yat on the Gloucestershire and Herefordshire border. They are most commonly used by canoeists and kayakers for whitewater training and playboating.-Construction:...

    , canoeing facility on the River Wye, England
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