Notable local Dissenters included John Bunyan, of Bedford, author of the Pilgrim's Progress, and another important hymn writer, Philip Doddridge ( 1702 – 51 ), of Northampton.

Notable features include coastal salt pans, elevated limestone formations ( the Dukhan anticline ) along the west coast under which lies the Dukhan oil field, and massive sand dunes surrounding Khawr al Udayd, an inlet of the gulf in the southeast known to local English speakers as the Inland Sea.

Notable contact was made with local peoples when the envoys of the Han Dynasty journeyed to this area in the 2nd century BC.

Notable local announcers include John Sterling ( New York Stars / Charlotte Hornets television ), Spencer Ross ( New York Stars radio ), Bob Sheppard ( New York Stars PA ), Mike Patrick ( Jacksonville Sharks ), Larry King ( Shreveport Steamer ), Larry Matson ( Birmingham Americans / Birmingham Vulcans ), Fred Sington ( Birmingham Americans / Birmingham Vulcans ) and Eddie Doucette and Vince Lloyd ( Chicago Fire radio and TV respectively ).

Notable local journalists to cover the team include John Canzano and Jason Quick of the Oregonian and Dwight Jaynes of the Portland Tribune.

Notable local buildings include Broomfield House and Truro House, both sadly in a state of some neglect.

See also Notable local politicians

* Notable places in the Prince Frederick area include Battle Creek Cypress Swamp -- a local nature preserve — and the Arthur Storer Planetarium, which is located on the grounds of Calvert High School.

Notable events include curling, carriage rides, ice sculptures, and live entertainment, plus BGSU Athletic events such as hockey and basketball games and figure skating exhibition with local stars such as Scott Hamilton.

Notable inhabitants of these properties were the Markwicks ( builders and carpenters, from 1700 ) at Coppinghall and Milton Cottage ( Interestingly, the current generation of notable Markwicks in Uckfield run the local picture house ), Edward Kenward ( 19th century maltster ) at the Malt House, Thomas Pentecost ( a Victorian leather cutter and local poet ) in a cottage near the Grammar School and General Sir George Calvert Clarke ( commander of the Royal Scots Greys at Balaclava ) at Church House.

Notable soccer players, such as Arne Larsen Økland, Geirmund Brendesæter and Gunnar Meling, started their careers in Bremnes IL, one of the local sports clubs.

Notable institutions located in Forest Hill are the local Montessori School, Upper Canada College, the Bishop Strachan School, and Forest Hill Public Library.

Notable local products include watermelon, musk melon, cucumber, northern plum, and wine.

Notable sights there include the church of St. Clement, the Öömrang Hüs-a museum of local history, a wind mill and the Cemetery of the Homeless.

* Notable local manufacturing industries

Notable among local attractions are the Italian Gardens on Garnish Island ( Ilnacullin ), which may be visited by boat trip.

Notable regular local broadcasts include:

Notable local places to visit are Awaji Yumebutai ( Kiseki No Hoshi Greenhouse ), Nojima Fault ( the focus of the Great Hanshin Earthquake ), Akashi Kaikyo National Government Park, Honpuku-ji Temple and Awaji World Park Onokoro.

Notable national initiatives include changes to electoral systems to allow universal postal voting on a trial basis, and the process introduced in the Local Government Act 2000 by which the public can, via petition, call for a referendum on whether there should be a local elected mayor.

Notable students include the local federal MP, Bruce Billson, football players Nathan Burke and Russell Greene, journalist Shaun Carney, and actress Jackie Woodburne.

Notable performances during the campaign came from the men between the posts: The previous seasons keeper David Hills ceased playing early in the season ; for several games a temporary replacement, former 1950's Chelsea goalie, Bob Robertson appeared ; new custodian Brian Gambrill signed-on for £ 300 from Canterbury City and conceded seven goals on his home debut ( in a 7 – 1 loss to Worcester City-David Gillingwater hitting the ' Town's ' lone marker ); mid-season he became injured and for several matches local amateur ' keeper Reg Gorham stepped in ( echoing the make-up of the original Ashford United club he worked for the local free-sheet newspaper ).

Notable local figures include:

Notable Nova Scotian folklorist and cultural historian Helen Creighton spent the majority of her lifetime recording the various Celtic musical and folk traditions of rural Nova Scotia during the mid-20th century, prior to this knowledge being wiped out by mass media assimilation with the rest of North America.

Notable musical partnerships in the ' 70s and ' 80s included Joe Henderson, Houston Person, Hank Jones, and Cedar Walton.

Notable events at the school district's campuses each year include a regional music student competition, a student musical theater production, and a community beauty pageant.

Notable residents of the city include many musical and literary artists as well as several professional athletes.

Notable musical roles include lead roles in The Phantom of the Opera ( as " The Phantom "), The Secret Garden ( as " Archibald Craven "), Annie ( as Daddy Warbucks ), Guys and Dolls ( as " Sky Masterson "), My Fair Lady ( as " Henry Higgins "), Jekyll and Hyde ( original gothic thriller cast recording only, as " Dr. Henry Jekyll / Edward Hyde "), Man of La Mancha ( as Don Quixote ), and A Little Night Music ( as Frederik Egerman ), as well as a significant supporting role in Les Misérables ( as Enjolras ).

Notable musical groups include the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, the Atlanta Symphony Chorus, Atlanta Opera, the Georgia Boy Choir, the Atlanta Boy Choir, New Trinity Baroque, the Atlanta Symphony Youth Orchestra, Atlanta Ballet, Gwinnett Ballet Theatre, as well as symphonies in the cities of Columbus, Macon, Augusta, and Savannah.

Notable musical assistants to RD Burman include Manohari Singh and Sapan Chakraborty.

Notable Broadway musicals that have played at the theater include My Fair Lady, Jesus Christ Superstar, and the Katharine Hepburn musical Coco.

Notable in his early musical output is a grand tragic opera, Mathilde.

Notable performances that reflect this mandate include the Last Empress with its dramatic, musical portrayal of an important figure in Korean history, the Virsky Ukrainian Dance Company, South Africa's Soweto Gospel Choir, Shaolin Warriors, Ricky Cheng, David Rudder & Friends and Club Tropicana.

Notable roles include The Club, How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying, ART, Born Yesterday, The Elocution of Benjamin Franklin, Chess ( the musical ), Love Letters, Blood Relations ( 1987 ), The Real Inspector Hound ’’, Strange Bedfellow The Musical and Stephen Sewell's It Just Stopped ( 2006 ).

Notable musical acts in Manchester have included Gene, Take That, 808 State, M People, Oasis, The Courteeners, The Durutti Column, A Certain Ratio, James, Badly Drawn Boy, Chameleons, Simply Red, Cleopatra, Michael McGoldrick, Monomania, I Am Kloot, Autechre, Lamb, Marconi Union, A Guy Called Gerald, Goldblade, Mr Scruff, Oceansize and Doves.

Notable among her other successes was Courtneidge's performance in Ivor Novello's musical Gay's the Word in 1951 – 52.

Notable as well, is Ferrar Fenton's restoration of the Psalms into the musical verse form as close to the original as he could get.

Notable productions include Joan Sims in Breath of spring by Peter Coke in 1958, Tommy Steele in Half a Sixpence in 1963 ( 678 performances ), Bruce Forsyth in Little Me in 1964 ( 334 performances ), The Black Mikado ( 1975 – 76 ), and in the late 1970s the Kander and Ebb musical Chicago ran for 590 performances.

Notable 20th century feature films are My Fair Lady ( 1964, based on the Broadway musical ); Trading Places, Ruby Sparks, Mighty Aphrodite by director Woody Allen ; Weird Science directed by John Hughes ; and the 1987 film Mannequin, a remake of the 1948 classic One Touch of Venus, the Julia Roberts hit movie Pretty Woman, She's All That with Freddie Prinze Jr., as well as S1m0ne ( featuring a computer-generated artificial intelligence as the love object ).

Notable among the broadcasts at the time were the shows Folk Stew which showcased live Spokane, Washington regional folk and blues musicians, the Cork the Tuna's Skipped Grooves show on which Steve MacCorkle brought the edge of his bay area roots and love for alternative new wave and punk tunes, and John Hipp's show The Hippster Radio Identity Crisis which was a cornucopia of musical treasures & Dead Before Midnight featuring Live Grateful Dead bootlegs.

Notable acts as president included George Washington resigning his commission and the signing of the ratification of the Treaty of Paris on January 14, 1784 ( Ratification Day ) along with Charles Thomson, who served as Secretary.

Notable acts of resistance:

Notable acts that have played at the Snowball include Mumford and Sons, The Rumble Strips, Elliot Minor and The Who.

During their period of greatest celebrity, the band's influence on aspiring R & B-flavored white acts was without equal, especially in the northeastern U. S. Notable bands that incorporated ( sometimes to the point of parody ) the Rascals ' full-on stage demeanor and energy as well as the intense, hyper-dramatic vocalizing, drumstick-spinning gyrations and heavy bottom-end rhythm also achieved some prominence: the Vagrants ( featuring Leslie West, later of Mountain ), the Rich Kids, and the epitome of over-the-top funky psychedelia, the Vanilla Fudge, all owed their styles to the Rascals ' synthesis of show-biz and soul.

Notable acts included Rare Earth, R. Dean Taylor, The Pretty Things, Stoney & Meatloaf, Toe Fat, The Cats and Shaun Murphy.

Notable Desert Rock style acts include Queens of the Stone Age, Kyuss, Truckfighters, Eagles of Death Metal, Fatso Jetson.

Notable amongst these is a 1992 compilation release titled " BASIC Beats Sampler ", which features a remix of The Real Deal, a song by Lifers ' Group, as well as a 12-plus-minute " Mega Mix " of the rest of the album, including tracks by west-coast underground hip-hop act, Raw Fusion and east-coast acts, Organized Konfusion and Zimbabwe Legit.

Notable grime acts include Dizzee Rascal, Bashy, Wiley, Skepta, Sway DaSafo, Ghetto, M. A., Kano and Giggs.

High Street Records was a subsidiary label of Windham Hill Records from about 1990 to 1997. Notable acts who recorded for the label include John Gorka, Pierce Pettis, Patty Larkin, The Subdudes, and Dots Will Echo.

Notable examples of acts declared " valid but irregular " include:

Notable former retailers include Tesco ( who left in the 1980s ), Sainsbury's ( who moved to a far larger supermarket adjacent to the centre, and which still acts as an anchor retailer for the complex ), Woolworths ( in a unit facing Garratt Lane which was demolished in 2005 ), and Iceland ( who closed in 2009 to make way for redevelopment ).

Notable acts that have performed at previous editions include Sonic Youth, The Mission, Ramones, Nirvana, The Sisters of Mercy, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Neil Young, The Smashing Pumpkins, Radiohead, Metallica, Green Day, Blink 182, Guns N ' Roses, Anti-Flag, Pixies, Daft Punk, The Prodigy, Nine Inch Nails and Iron Maiden.

Notable acts that have performed at previous editions include Muse, The Prodigy, Arctic Monkeys, My Chemical Romance, Pendulum, Paramore, Morcheeba, Bullet for My Valentine, Kaiser Chiefs, The Offspring, Skunk Anansie, Parkway Drive, The Killers, Beatsteaks, Placebo, Ska-P, Manu Chao, Billy Talent, Basement Jaxx, Sum 41, Bloc Party, Static-X, The Hives, The Bloodhound Gang, Enter Shikari.

Notable artists releasing their music via CD Baby include American country acts Mary Gauthier, Gretchen Peters, Tom Russell and Anndrea Naidu, Canadian singer-songwriter Allison Crowe, instrumental musician Michael Aguilar, UK duo Nizlopi, and, Italian-born, American classical violinist Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, Music Director of the New Century Chamber Orchestra, American rock and alternative band Beyond the Element, Russian American opera singer Elena Zoubareva, and Big Sur, CA based reggae band RastaFarOUT.

Notable Baltimore-area rock acts from the 1970s and 1980s include Crack The Sky, The Ravyns, Kix, Face Dancer, Jamie LaRitz, and DC Star.