Thurston
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People
- Rev. Asa Thurston (1787-1868), Hawaiian missionary
- Baratunde ThurstonBaratunde ThurstonBaratunde Rafiq Thurston is an American comedian based in Boston and New York City. He is a graduate of Sidwell Friends School and a cum laude graduate of Harvard University....
(1977- ), American Comedian - Curt Thurston (late 20th century), European activist & businessman
- Darren ThurstonDarren ThurstonDarren Todd Thurston is a Canadian anarchist and animal rights activist.In July 2006, Thurston pleaded guilty to criminal conspiracy and related arson charges that occurred from 1996 through 2001 in Oregon and four other U.S. states, and which were claimed in the name of the Earth Liberation Front...
(late 20th century), Canadian animal rights activist - David ThurstonDavid ThurstonDavid Thurston is an American aircraft designer noted for his work on small amphibious aircraft, including the Grumman Duck, Colonial Skimmer, Lake Buccaneer, Thurston Teal and AeroMarine Seafire...
(b.1918), American aircraft designer - David Edwin Thurston (1955- ), British drug developer
- Ernest Temple Thurston (1879-1933), Irish author
- Fred ThurstonFred ThurstonFrederick Charles "Fuzzy" Thurston is a former American football guard in the National Football League who played for the Baltimore Colts and Green Bay Packers...
(born 1933), American football player - Howard ThurstonHoward ThurstonHoward Thurston was a stage magician from Columbus, Ohio.-Life:Thurston had the largest traveling magic show for the time, requiring more than eight entire train cars to transport his props across the country...
(1869–1936), American magician - John Thurston (basketball coach)John Thurston (basketball coach)John Thurston is an American college basketball coach and a current assistant women's basketball coach at Fordham University in New York City. Thurston played both college baseball and basketball He was born in the Bronx, New York.-Coaching career:...
(late 20th century) - Johnathan ThurstonJohnathan ThurstonJohnathan Dean Thurston is an Indigenous Australian professional rugby league footballer in the NRL with the North Queensland Cowboys whom he co-captains...
(born 1983), Australian rugby league footballer - John Mellen Thurston (1847–1916), American politician
- John Bates ThurstonJohn Bates ThurstonSir John Bates Thurston was a British colonial official who served Fiji in a variety of capacities, including Premier of the Kingdom of Viti and later as colonial Governor.- Early life :...
(1836-1897), British governor of Fiji - Katherine Cecil ThurstonKatherine Cecil ThurstonKatherine Cecil Thurston was an Irish novelist.-Life:She was born Katherine Cecil Madden in Cork, Ireland, the only daughter of banker Paul J. Madden and Catherine Madden...
(1875-1911), Irish author - Lorrin A. ThurstonLorrin A. ThurstonLorrin Andrews Thurston was a lawyer, politician, and businessman born and raised in the Kingdom of Hawaii. The grandson of two of the first Christian missionaries to Hawaii, Thurston played a prominent role in the overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom that replaced Queen Liliuokalani with the...
(1857–1931), American lawyer & leader of 1893 Hawaiian revolution - Lucy Goodale Thurston (1795-1876), Hawaiian missionary and author
- Mary Ann ThurstonMary Ann ThurstonMary Ann Thurston was head nurse at Buckingham Palace to the children of Queen Victoria. Born in Suffolk, she was married to Samuel Gallant ....
(1810-1896), British nurse to Queen Victoria - Paul Thurston, Canadian bridgeContract bridgeContract bridge, usually known simply as bridge, is a trick-taking card game using a standard deck of 52 playing cards played by four players in two competing partnerships with partners sitting opposite each other around a small table...
player and author - Robert ThurstonRobert ThurstonRobert Thurston is a science fiction author well known for his works in popular shared world settings, most notably his Clan Jade Falcon novels of the BattleTech universe and the novelizations of the original Battlestar Galactica television series....
(late 20th century), American author - Robert Henry ThurstonRobert Henry ThurstonRobert Henry Thurston was the first professor of mechanical engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology . There he established Stevens’ mechanical engineering curriculum. Historians credit Thurston with establishing the first US mechanical engineering laboratory for conducting funded research...
(1839-1903), American engineer - Samuel Thurston (1815–1851), American politician
- Scott ThurstonScott ThurstonScott Troy Thurston is an American guitarist, keyboardist, songwriter, and session musician. He is currently a member of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, in which he sings harmony vocals and plays guitar, keyboards, and harmonica....
(born 1952), American musician - William ThurstonWilliam ThurstonWilliam Paul Thurston is an American mathematician. He is a pioneer in the field of low-dimensional topology. In 1982, he was awarded the Fields Medal for his contributions to the study of 3-manifolds...
(born 1946), American mathematician - Thurston MooreThurston MooreThurston Joseph Moore is an American musician best known as a singer, songwriter and guitarist of Sonic Youth. He has also participated in many solo and group collaborations outside of Sonic Youth, as well as running the Ecstatic Peace! record label...
(born 1958), American musician in Sonic Youth - Nicholas Thurston, (born 1990), Professional gamer/Lion Tamer
- Thurston Howe, (born 1983) Lead guituarist of Heavy Metal Band Flayed DiscipleFlayed DiscipleFlayed Disciple are an English death metal/thrash metal band from Taunton, UK. They are writing their debut album to be recorded early 2012 at Foel Studio, Wales, with producer Chris Fielding. They are signed to Grindscene Records....
Fictional people
- Thurston Howell, III, character on Gilligan's Island
- Renton ThurstonRenton Thurstonis the main protagonist of the Eureka Seven series. He is referred to in episode previews simply as "the boy".-Character outline:Renton thinks his life is mundane and dreams of doing the extraordinary. At the beginning of the series, he becomes a member of Gekkostate in order to be near his idol,...
, protagonist of Eureka Seven - Sid "The Snitch" Thurston, character played by Peter JurasikPeter JurasikPeter Jurasik is an American actor known for his television roles as Londo Mollari in the 1990s science fiction series Babylon 5 and Sid the Snitch on the 1980s series Hill Street Blues and its short-lived spinoff Beverly Hills Buntz.-Career:Among Jurasik's guest appearances are an entomologist in...
on Hill Street BluesHill Street BluesHill Street Blues is an American serial police drama that was first aired on NBC in 1981 and ran for 146 episodes on primetime into 1987. Chronicling the lives of the staff of a single police precinct in an unnamed American city, the show received critical acclaim and its production innovations ...
and its spin-off, Beverly Hills BuntzBeverly Hills BuntzBeverly Hills Buntz was a short-lived spinoff from Hill Street Blues. It aired on NBC during the 1987-88 season.-Overview:The show was a 30-minute 'dramedy', that was a hybrid between light private eye fare and a sit-com. The main character, Norman Buntz, was previously seen as a morally and...
United States
- Thurston County, NebraskaThurston County, Nebraska-History:Varying cultures of indigenous peoples lived along the rivers for thousands of years before European encounter.Thurston County was organized by European Americans in 1889 from land that had been divided between Dakota and Burt counties since the dissolution of Blackbird County in 1879. It...
- Thurston County, Washington
- Thurston, NebraskaThurston, NebraskaThurston is a village in Thurston County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 125 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Thurston is located at ....
- Thurston, New YorkThurston, New YorkThurston is a town in Steuben County, New York, United States. The population was 1,309 at the 2000 census. The town is named after early landowner William Thurston.The Town of Thurston is the east-central part of the county, northwest of Corning, NY....
- Thurston, OhioThurston, OhioThurston is a village in Fairfield County, Ohio, United States. The population was 555 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Thurston is located at ....
- Thurston, OregonThurston, OregonThurston, Oregon may refer to:*Thurston, Springfield, Oregon, a former unincorporated community now a neighborhood of Springfield* Thurston, a historic locale in Polk County* Thurston Post Office, a former post office in Linn County...