Garrie (surname)
Garrie is a British surname. Notable people with the surname include: * John Garrie (1923–1998), British actor * Nick Garrie Nick Garrie (born Nicholas Miansarow, 22 June 1949), Bio ...

John Garrie
John Garrie, later known as John Garrie Roshi (May 18, 1923 – September 22, 1998), was a British actor who later became a respected teacher of Zen Buddhism. Acting career As an actor, John Garrie played minor roles in a number of British television shows during the 1960s and 1970s, including '' The Avengers'', ''Z-Cars'' and ''UFO''. He was also a bartender at the Rovers Return Inn on the drama ''Coronation Street'' for one episode (Christmas Day, 1963). In the episode of ''Danger Man'' entitled "Koroshi", he played the role of an "Old Japanese Man" which foreshadows his later career as a teacher of Zen. He also appeared in the Vincent Price movie '' Madhouse''. Meditation teacher John Garrie Roshi's teaching drew on several traditions including Zen, Theravadan, Tibetan Buddhism as well as Taoism and martial arts. He described the mindfulness practice he taught as "Sati", drawing heavily from concepts within Theravadan Buddhist Satipatthana training. He founded the Sati ...
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Nick Garrie
Nick Garrie (born Nicholas Miansarow, 22 June 1949), Biography by Jason Ankeny, ''Allmusic.com''
Retrieved 16 September 2019 also known as Nick Hamilton or Nick Garrie-Hamilton, is a British singer-songwriter.

Life and career

Garrie was born in in the , to a Russian father and Scottish mother whose surname he adopted. After spending most of his teens in a boarding school in France, he attended the

Surnames Of British Isles Origin
In some cultures, a surname, family name, or last name is the portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family, tribe or community. Practices vary by culture. The family name may be placed at either the start of a person's full name, as the forename, or at the end; the number of surnames given to an individual also varies. As the surname indicates genetic inheritance, all members of a family unit may have identical surnames or there may be variations; for example, a woman might marry and have a child, but later remarry and have another child by a different father, and as such both children could have different surnames. It is common to see two or more words in a surname, such as in compound surnames. Compound surnames can be composed of separate names, such as in traditional Spanish culture, they can be hyphenated together, or may contain prefixes. Using names has been documented in even the oldest historical records. Examples of surnames are documented in the 11th ce ...
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