* According to Nicholas Rankin ( Telegram from Guernica, Faber and Faber, London 2003, page 121 ):

The film's cast also includes Mary Walsh, Nicholas Campbell, Cathy Moriarty, Andrew McCarthy, Mark McKinney, Bette MacDonald, Ashley MacIsaac, Krista MacDonald, Cassie MacDonald, Heather Rankin and Patrick Joyce.

* 1945 – Judy Rankin, American golfer

* 2009 – Kenny Rankin, American singer-songwriter ( b. 1940 )

* 1949 – Robert Rankin, English novelist

* 2000 – John Morris Rankin, Canadian musical entertainer ( b. 1959 )

* 1924 – Arthur Rankin, Jr., American writer, producer, and director

* 1917 – Jeannette Rankin of Montana becomes the first female member of the United States House of Representatives.

* 1916 – Jeannette Rankin is the first woman elected to the United States Congress.

* 1983 – Chris Rankin, New Zealand actor

* November 27 – The Rankin / Bass made-for-TV animated film The Hobbit premieres on NBC in the United States.

* Adam Rankin Alexander ( 1772 – 1851 ), born in Rockbridge County, United States Congressman from Tennessee

* John E. Rankin ( 1882 – 1960 ) sixteen term United States Congressman, died in Tupelo

David Rankin ( 1825 – 1910 ), the so-called " Missouri Corn King ", was a resident of Tarkio.

Jeannette Pickering Rankin ( June 11, 1880 – May 18, 1973 ) was the first woman in the United States Congress.

Rankin was born on a ranch near Missoula, Montana Territory, the first of seven children ( one of whom died in childhood ) born to Olive Pickering Rankin ( 1853 – 1947 ) and Canadian immigrant and rancher John Rankin ( 1840 – 1904 ).

* Suffragists Oral History Project at Berkeley – 1971 – 72 interviews with Rankin

* January 3 – Nell Rankin, operatic mezzo-soprano ( d. 2005 )

** Star Trek – Mark Stoeckinger and Alan Rankin

* April 28 – Ian Rankin, crime novelist

The place can almost only be reached by a hired plane – usually one would depart from Baker Lake, about away, where scheduled flights arrive from Rankin Inlet.

* Narrative footnotes, which continue the story while commenting on it ( e. g. Nabokov's Pale Fire, House of Leaves, Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke, Alan Moore's From Hell, Cable & Deadpool by Fabian Nicieza, An Abundance of Katherines by John Green, Shriek: An Afterword by Jeff VanderMeer, many books by Robert Rankin and the Discworld novels by Terry Pratchett ).

From 2008 to 2012, however, the Highway 69 designation continued to a southerly terminus at MacTier, rather than Nobel — the two highways shared a routing for 32 kilometres between Nobel and Rankin Lake Road, and then followed separate routes between Rankin Lake Road and Highway 69's southern terminus near MacTier.

From there the family could raise a lantern on a flagpole to signal fleeing slaves in Kentucky when it was safe for them to cross the Ohio River .< sup ></ sup > Rankin also constructed a staircase leading up the hill to the house for slaves to climb up to safety on their way further north .< sup ></ sup > For over forty years leading up to the Civil War, many of the 2000 slaves who escaped to freedom through Ripley stayed at the family's home, and none was ever recaptured there.

The Atlanta Falcons franchise began on June 30, 1965 when NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle granted ownership to 41 year-old Rankin Smith Sr .. Smith an Executive Vice President of Life Insurance Company of Georgia at the time, paid $ 8. 5 million the highest price in NFL history at the time 1965 for an NFL franchise.

Amy Crawford, in Smithsonian Magazine, stated that modern historians such as William Gilmore Simms and Hugh Rankin have written accurate biographies of Marion, including Simms ’ “ The Life of Francis Marion .” The introduction to the 2007 edition of Simms ' book was written by Sean Busick, a professor of American history at Athens State University in Alabama, who wrote,

* Studio Life, foreword by Ian Rankin, photographs by Jillian Edelstein, text by Tom Rawstorne, Pavilion Books on 28 March 2008 ( ISBN 978-1-86205-743-2 )

The Opinion of the Catholic Church, a translation of the Judicium, was published with a memoir of Bull's life by Thomas Rankin in 1825, and a full edition of all the works of Bull ( including the sermons and Nelson's Life ) revised by Edward Burton was published, in seven volumes, at the Clarendon Press, Oxford, in 1827.

* CSI: Miami ( 1 episode, " 48 Hours to Life ", 2005 ) .... Gina Rankin

* 1983 – David Rankin – Life Along the Coast

More significant was the discovery of fossilised bones of " some quadruped much larger than the ox or buffalo " in the Wellington Caves in mid-1830 by bushman George Rankin and later by Thomas Mitchell.

Benson and Harriet Adams ( Stratemeyer's daughter ) are often credited as the primary writers of Nancy Drew books under the pseudonym Carolyn Keene ; other ghostwriters who used this name to write Nancy Drew mysteries included James Duncan Lawrence, Walter Karig, Nancy Axelrad, Priscilla Doll, Charles Strong, Alma Sasse, Wilhelmina Rankin, George Waller Jr., Margaret Scherf, and Susan Wittig Albert.

In the early 1900s, McCredy and George Rankin established the Wapato Development Company and laid out the town site.

The Flight of Dragons is a 1982 animated film produced by Jules Bass and Arthur Rankin, Jr. and loosely combining the speculative natural history book of the same name ( 1979 ) by Peter Dickinson with the novel The Dragon and the George ( 1976 ) by Gordon R. Dickson.

Wright appears in the first film, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, only in a small scene set at London King's Cross railway station, where her character meets Harry Potter ( played by Daniel Radcliffe ) with her mother Molly ( played by Julie Walters ) while watching four of her older brothers Percy ( played by Chris Rankin ), Fred and George ( played by James and Oliver Phelps ) and Ron ( played by Rupert Grint ) enter the magical platform barrier Platform 9¾ to board the Hogwarts express.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt ( center ) signs the Rural Electrification Act with Representative John E. Rankin | John Rankin ( left ) and Senator George William Norris ( right )

It was proposed by Representative John E. Rankin and Senator George William Norris.

The first book informed the 1982 animated movie The Flight of Dragons by Rankin / Bass, but was previously published as a short story, St. Dragon and the George.

They were James Allen ( 1 cap v England 1886-7 ); Nathaniel Brown ( 1 v England 1886-7 ); Oliver Devine ( 4 v England and Scotland 1885-6 Wales 1886-7, and 1887-8 ); George Forbes ( 1 v Wales 1887-8 ); Tom McLean ( 1 v Scotland 1884-5 ); James Rankin ( 2 v England and Wales 1882-3 ); Joe Sherrard ( 3 v Scotland 1884-5, Wales 1886-7 and 1887-8 ).

The club is also famous for the eclectic crowd it attracted, including the likes of ; Boy George, Gilles Peterson, Bobby Gillespie, Chemical Brothers, Rankin ( photographer ) and Jefferson Hack founders of Dazed & Confused ( magazine ), Paul Oakenfold, John Galliano, Rifat Ozbek, Gavin Rossdale from Bush ( band ), sommelier Jamie Drummond, artists Olly and Suzi, Trip City ( novel ) author Trevor Miller, Tim Simenon, Neneh Cherry, Mark Moore, George Michael, The Farm ( band ), Happy Mondays, The Stone Roses, Robert Elms, editor of The Face Sheryl Garrett, founder of Loaded ( magazine ) James Brown, and Ozwald Boateng.

FDR signs the Rural Electrification Act with Rankin and Senator George W. Norris in 1935.

Another maternal great grandfather, Dr. George Spalatin Easterday, was mayor of Albuquerque, New Mexico ; and her great uncle, John Rankin Rogers, was third governor of the state of Washington and supporter of the “ Barefoot School Boy Act .” Stiles ’ s father ’ s ancestry is all of Irish immigrants from Old Castle, County Cavan, but her grandfather William Joseph Dolan was born in Boston, trained in Italy as an interior decorator, and worked as a decorator of Catholic churches.