Trask
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People with the surname Trask
- Diana TraskDiana TraskDiana Trask is an Australian and American country and pop singer born in Melbourne, Australia. She was a popular country singer during the 1970s in the United States and also was a popular star in her native Australia...
, a singer - Elbridge TraskElbridge TraskElbridge Trask was an American fur trapper and mountain man in the Oregon Country. Immortalized by a series of modern historical novels by Don Berry, he is best known as an early white settler along Tillamook Bay on the coast of the U.S. state of Oregon.-Biography:He was born in Beverly,...
, a mountain manMountain manMountain men were trappers and explorers who roamed the North American Rocky Mountains from about 1810 through the 1880s where they were instrumental in opening up the various Emigrant Trails allowing Americans in the east to settle the new territories of the far west by organized wagon trains... - Eliphalet TraskEliphalet TraskEliphalet Trask was an American politician who served as the third Mayor of Springfield, Massachusetts and as the Lieutenant Governor for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts from 1858 to 1861.-External links:*...
, a politician - Gustavus TraskGustavus TraskGustavus D. S. Trask was the governor of Sailors' Snug Harbor. He had three sons: George S. D. Trask; John E. D. Trask; and Benjamin D. Trask. He died on March 15, 1914 in Orange, New Jersey.-References:...
, the governor of Sailors' Snug Harbor - Haunani-Kay TraskHaunani-Kay TraskHaunani-Kay Trask is a Native Hawaiian academic, activist, documentarist and writer. Trask is a professor of Hawaiian Studies with the Kamakakuokalani Center for Hawaiian Studies at the University of Hawaii at Manoa and has represented Native Hawaiians in the United Nations and various other...
, an activist and writer - Larry TraskLarry TraskRobert Lawrence "Larry" Trask was Professor of Linguistics at the University of Sussex and an authority on the Basque language and historical linguistics....
, a linguist - Katrina TraskKatrina TraskKatrina Trask , also known as Kate Nichols Trask, was an American author and philanthropist.- Life account :She was born Kate Nichols in Brooklyn, New York to George Little Nichols and Christina Mary Cole...
, an author and philanthropistPhilanthropistA philanthropist is someone who engages in philanthropy; that is, someone who donates his or her time, money, and/or reputation to charitable causes... - Keith TraskKeith TraskKeith Trask is a former New Zealand rower who won an Olympic Gold medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. Along with Les O’Connell, Shane O'Brien and Conrad Robertson he won Gold in the coxless four...
, a rower - Mililani TraskMililani TraskMililani Trask is a leader of the Hawaiian sovereignty movement and a political speaker and attorney. One of Trask's contributions to the Hawaiian sovereignty movement was her founding of Na Koa Ikaika o Ka Lāhui Hawaii, a native Hawaiian non-governmental organization.Outside of Hawaii, Trask has...
, an activist - Orville TraskOrville TraskOrville Trask is a former American collegiate and Professional Football player who played defensive tackle for three seasons, two with the American Football League's Houston Oilers, where he was on the first two AFL Championship teams in 1960 and 1961. In 1962 he was with the AFL's Oakland...
, an American footballAmerican footballAmerican football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...
player - Spencer TraskSpencer TraskSpencer Trask was an American financier, philanthropist, and venture capitalist. Beginning in the 1870s, Trask began investing and supporting entrepreneurs, including Thomas Edison's invention of the electric light bulb and his electricity network...
, a financier and philanthropist - Stephen TraskStephen TraskStephen Trask is an American musician and composer, who graduated from Wesleyan University.He was the music director and house band member at the New York club Squeezebox, where he performed with stars such as Debbie Harry, Lene Lovich and Joey Ramone.Trask composed the music and lyrics for the...
, a musician and composer
In fiction
- Oliver TraskOliver TraskOliver Trask is a fictional character on the FOX television series The O.C., portrayed by Taylor Handley. Oliver appeared in the series' first season as thorn in Ryan Atwood and Marissa Cooper's relationship, soon developing a severe obsession with the latter...
, a character on The O.C.The O.C.The O.C. is an American teen drama television series that originally aired on the Fox television network in the United States from August 5, 2003, to February 21, 2007, running a total of four seasons... - Father Trask, a minor character that appears in The Wedding from Hell, an episode of CharmedCharmedCharmed is an American television series that originally aired from October 7, 1998, until May 21, 2006, on the now defunct The WB Television Network. The series was created in 1998 by writer Constance M...
who is a part of a secret organization to stop HecateHecateHecate or Hekate is a chthonic Greco-Roman goddess associated with magic, witchcraft, necromancy, and crossroads.She is attested in poetry as early as Hesiod's Theogony...
. - Trask Ulgo-a character in Star Wars:Knights Of The Old Republic
- Reverend Trask, a character in the 1960s soap opera, Dark Shadows.
Marvel Comics
- Bolivar TraskBolivar TraskBolivar Trask is a fictional character and a military scientist in the Marvel Comics universe. He first appeared in Uncanny X-Men #14 . He is the creator of the Sentinels.-Fictional character biography:...
, a Marvel ComicsMarvel ComicsMarvel Worldwide, Inc., commonly referred to as Marvel Comics and formerly Marvel Publishing, Inc. and Marvel Comics Group, is an American company that publishes comic books and related media...
character - Larry TraskLarry Trask (comics)Larry Trask is a fictional character in the Marvel Comics universe. He is a mutant who is introduced as a villain for the X-Men.-Fictional character biography:...
- Simon Trask
See also
- Trask ColiseumTrask ColiseumTrask Coliseum is a 6,100-seat multi-purpose arena in Wilmington, North Carolina. It is home to the University of North Carolina at Wilmington Seahawks basketball team, as well as some graduations for New Hanover County high schools....
- Trask MountainTrask MountainTrask Mountain in the Northern Oregon Coast Range, is the tallest mountain in Yamhill County, Oregon.It is located in the northwest corner of the county....
- Trask RiverTrask RiverThe Trask River is in northwestern Oregon in the United States. It drains a mountainous timber-producing area of the Northern Oregon Coast Range west of Portland into Tillamook Bay and the Pacific Ocean...
- Trask Scout Reservation