Celebrity supporters include Brian Blessed, Karren Brady, Jeff Brazier, Cerrie Burnell, Warwick Davis, Ben Elton, Tanni Grey-Thompson, Nicolas Hamilton, Nick Hewer, Lorraine Heggessey, Richard Herring, John Inverdale, Gabby Logan, Francesca Martinez and Tony Parsons.

* TV presenters Toby Anstis, Pat Sharp, Joel Defries, Cerrie Burnell and Sarah-Jane Honeywell

Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell DBE FRS, the British astrophysicist known for first discovering radio pulsars, is currently a visiting professor.

Dr Arthur Coke Burnell observes: " In the West, there were the Kambojas and the Katas ( Kathas ) with a high reputation for courage and skill in war, the Saubhuties, the Yaudheyas, and the two federated peoples, the Sibis, the Malavas and the Kshudrakas, the most numerous and warlike of the Indian nations of the days ".

In addition, from 1973 to 1987, Bell Burnell was also a tutor, consultant, examiner, and lecturer for the Open University.

Yule and Burnell were looking for a catchy title for their dictionary and decided upon this since it was a " typical and delightful example " of the type of the highly domesticated words in the dictionary and at the same time conveyed " a veiled intimation of dual authorship ".

There is no contemporary evidence for the assertion, first recorded in the seventeenth century, that he had an earlier wife called Joanna Burnard ( or Burnet or Burnell ); if indeed a Hugh Bigod married Joanna, it probably was his father that did so.

In their 1886 dictionary, Hobson-Jobson, Sir Henry Yule and Arthur C. Burnell explained that the word came to be used in British India for several things the British had brought into the country, such as the tomato and soda water.

When Hewish and Martin Ryle received the Nobel Prize in physics in 1974 for their work in radio-astronomy and pulsars, Hoyle argued that Bell Burnell should have been a co-recipient of the prize.

The Barony of Castleknock was originally a feudal lordship created in the 12th century for the Tyrell family ; it passed by inheritance to the Burnell family.

Upon the death of Henry III on 20 November 1272 the Great Seal was delivered to the Archbishop as first Lord of the Council — in order for him, Roger Mortimer and Robert Burnell to be appointed to govern the Kingdom until the new King's return to the country.

* Lawrence Southwick and his wife Cassandra Burnell Southwick, early immigrants to the American colonies and devout Quakers who were persecuted for their beliefs in Salem, Massachusetts

Burnell agreed with Ellis, saying that " Eluttachchan lived in the 17th century ; there is no reason for supposing that he was a Brahman father's illegitimate son ; he was certainly an Eluttachchan ( or schoolmaster ) by caste.

In 1967, Jocelyn Bell Burnell and Antony Hewish of the University of Cambridge, UK dubbed the first discovered pulsar LGM-1 for " little green men " because the regular oscillations of its signal suggested a possible intelligent origin.

His brother Arthur was one of the translators the King James Bible appointed in 1604 — the year that the reversion of Great Stanmore Manor in Middlesex was granted to Lake although it seems that he never took possession for the lordship remained in the name of the Burnell family until his son Thomas assumed possession in 1631.

Cassandra Burnell Southwick ( c. 1600-1660 ) was an early immigrant to the American colonies and a devout Quaker ( member of the Religious Society of Friends ), who was persecuted for her beliefs.

They settled for some 20 years as guests of Sir Edward Smythe at Acton Burnell, Shropshire, before finally settling at Mount Pleasant, Downside, in Somerset, in 1814.

In 1874, Burnell published a Handbook of South Indian Palaeography, characterized by Max Müller as indispensable to every student of Indian literature, and in 1880 issued for the Madras government his greatest work, the Classified Index to the Sanskrit Manuscripts in the Palace at Tanjore.

Bell Burnell was the subject of the first part of the BBC Four 3-part series Beautiful Minds, directed by Jacqui Farnham, in which her career and contributions to astronomy were explored.

Another theory by Yule and Burnell ( 1886 ) is based on an entry in the Catalogue of Indian Serpents from the Leyden Museum ( Ray, 1693 ) that reads: Anacondaia Zeylonensibus, id est Bubalorum aliorumque jumentorum membra conterens, meaning " the anacondaia of the Ceylonese, i. e. he that crushes the limbs of buffaloes and yoke beasts.

* Yule H, Burnell AC.

In Edward's absence, the country was governed by a royal council, led by Robert Burnell.

The most important of these was the appointment of Robert Burnell as chancellor, a man who would remain in the post until 1292 as one of the king's closest associates.

The age of the great statutes largely ended with the death of Robert Burnell in 1292.

In 1278 he assigned an investigating commission to his trusted associates Otto de Grandson and the chancellor Robert Burnell, which caused the replacement of the seneschal Luke de Tany.

In 1913, a participant in the Labor discussion groups, Eliza Burnell, introduced him to her 15 year-old daughter, Enid Burnell, a trainee teacher and they were married two years later.

Edmund Dunch was created Baron Burnell of East Wittenham in April 1658, but this barony was not regranted.

In particular, it is 14 year-old Nichole Burnell, who was sitting at the front of the bus and is now is unable to move from the waist down ( but isn't paralysed ), whose deposition is all-important.

* CB Police-Ralph Burnell, Jr.

Atqasuk has one airport, Atqasuk Edward Burnell Sr. Memorial Airport, that is uncontrolled and has a single runway at an elevation of.

In 1279 he was appointed Archbishop of Canterbury by Pope Nicholas III who had prohibited the election of Robert Burnell, Edward I's preferred candidate.

In 1968, a Cambridge radio astronomy postgraduate student Jocelyn Bell Burnell and her doctoral adviser Antony Hewish discovered a pulsing radio source with a period of 1. 33 seconds.

On Edward's return in 1274, Walter was dismissed as Lord Chancellor in favour of Robert Burnell, but was rewarded with the Bishopric of Rochester.

Many of the world's leading astronomers have appeared on the show through the years, including Harlow Shapley ( the first to measure the size of the Milky Way galaxy ), Fred Hoyle, Carl Sagan, Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Samuel Tolansky, Harold Spencer Jones, Martin Ryle, Carlos Frenk, and Bart Bok.

She was the eldest child of William Smythe of Brambridge, Hampshire, younger son of Sir John Smythe, 3rd Baronet, of Acton Burnell, Shropshire.

He also brought out, in collaboration with Dr Arthur C. Burnell, Hobson-Jobson ( 1886 ), a dictionary of Anglo-Indian colloquial phrases.

In 2008, Marion Cotillard won the Academy Award for Best Actress and the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for her portrayal of legendary French singer Edith Piaf in La Vie en Rose, the first French-language performance to be so honored.

Actress and singer Carol Channing was featured during the halftime show that paid tribute to Mardi Gras in New Orleans.

Actress and singer Kathie Lee Gifford ( Frank Gifford's wife ) later sang the national anthem.

Actress and singer Vanessa Williams later sang the national anthem.

Already established as a nightclub singer and musical theatre actress, she first attracted critical acclaim for her dramatic performances in the movies The Sterile Cuckoo ( 1969 ), and Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon ( 1970 ); Minnelli then rose to international stardom for her appearance as Sally Bowles in the 1972 film version of the Broadway musical Cabaret, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role.

Actress Lynda Carter was the band's singer.

* 2004: Actress and singer Audra McDonald and actor Peter Graves

Nicholson is known for its " Daisy Festival " and several famous residents, including singer Kenny Rogers and Actress Tammy Luthi Retzlaff.

* Paige Price ( born 1964 ), actress and singer who was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Actress in Saturday Night Fever.

* Melissa Errico, Broadway Actress, songwriter, singer

Actress and singer Bethany Joy Galeotti, a star of the TV series One Tree Hill, resides in Battle Ground with her husband, Enation drummer Michael Galeotti, when she is not filming in Wilmington, North Carolina.

Tomlin made her dramatic debut in Robert Altman's Nashville, for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, she played Linnea Reese, a straitlaced, gospel-singing, mother of two deaf children who has an affair with a womanizing country singer ( played by Keith Carradine ).

** Fann Wong 范文芳 ( 1971 -; born in Singapore ; Hakka pronunciation: Fam Vun Fong ), Actress / singer / model

The following year she received a second Academy Award nomination for Best Actress for her role in Sarah and Son ( 1930 ), portraying an impoverished housewife who rises to fame and fortune as an Opera singer.

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* Taylor Momsen, Actress, singer ( Gossip Girl ( TV series ), The Pretty Reckless, How the Grinch Stole Christmas!

* Nancy Dussault, 1953, Actress and Broadway musicals singer and dancer, ABC's Good Morning America co-anchor

The show paid tribute to the R & B singer / Actress Aaliyah, who was supposed to present an award but died the weekend before from a small plane crash.

Performing arts Actress Kristin Scott Thomas, electronic musician Luke Vibert, baritone Benjamin Luxon, opera singer Alan Opie and the co founder of and drummer with Fleetwood Mac, Mick Fleetwood, were all born here.

Key Largo, the following year, gave Trevor the role of Gaye Dawn, the washed-up nightclub singer and gangster's moll, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.

Actress and singer Maria Doyle Kennedy is originally from the neighbourhood of Clontarf, as is Irish rugby international, Brian O ' Driscoll.

Actress and singer Millicent Martin was born in Mill Lane in 1934 and went to school in Romford.

Actress and singer Connie Stevens ( who appeared in the Warner TV series Hawaiian Eye ) sang the song's chorus, but although her record contract entitled her to a 5 percent royalty rate, the label arbitrarily defined her contribution to be a favour to Byrnes and assigned her just 1 % royalty on the song, despite the fact that, as she soon discovered, her name was being prominently displayed on the single's label.