Bigelow is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
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Abijah Bigelow
Abijah Bigelow (December 5, 1775 – April 5, 1860) was a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts.
Born in Westminster in the Province of Massachusetts Bay, the son of Elisha and Sarah (Goodridge) Bigelow, Abijah Bigelow studied at Leicester ( ...
(1775–1860), US Representative from Massachusetts
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Albert Bigelow (1906–1993), former US Navy officer turned peace activist and Quaker
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Bob Bigelow (born 1953), retired National Basketball Association player
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Charles A. Bigelow (1862-1912), American actor
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Charles Bigelow (type designer) (born 1945)
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Daniel Bigelow
Daniel Bigelow (24 March 1824 – 15 September 1905) was a American pioneer, pioneer lawyer and politician in Olympia, Washington.
Biography
Daniel Richardson Bigelow was born March 24, 1824, in Belleville a hamlet in the township of Ellisburg, ...
(1824–1905), American lawyer and politician
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Doug Bigelow (1928–1996), Australian rules footballer with Essendon Football Club
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Edward Manning Bigelow (1850–1916), Pittsburgh City Engineer, Director of Public Works and "father of Pittsburgh's parks"
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Ella A. Bigelow (1849–1917), American author and clubwoman
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Elliot Bigelow (1897–1933), Major League Baseball player
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Elmer Charles Bigelow (1920–1945), US Medal of Honor posthumous recipient
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Erastus Brigham Bigelow
Erastus Brigham Bigelow (April 2, 1814 – December 6, 1879) was an American inventor of weaving machines.
Beginnings
Erastus Bigelow was born in West Boylston, Massachusetts. He was the son of a cotton weaver, and it was his parents' desire tha ...
(1814–1879), American inventor of weaving machines
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Frank Hagar Bigelow (1851–1924), United States astronomer and meteorologist
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Frederick Ellsworth Bigelow (1873–1929), American bandmaster and composer
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Harry Bigelow (1874–1950), American lawyer and big-game hunter
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Henry Bryant Bigelow
Henry Bryant Bigelow (October 3, 1879 – December 11, 1967) was an American oceanographer and marine biologist.
He is the grandson of Henry Bryant who was an American physician and naturalist.
After graduating from Harvard in 1901, he beg ...
(1879–1967), American oceanographer and marine biologist
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Henry Jacob Bigelow (1818–1890), American surgeon and Harvard University professor
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Herbert S. Bigelow (1870–1951), US Representative from Ohio
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Hobart B. Bigelow (1834–1891), American politician and 50th Governor of Connecticut
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Horace Bigelow (1898–1980), American chess master and organizer
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Howard E. Bigelow (1923–1987), American mycologist
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Iva Bigelow
Iva Bigelow Weaver (October 8, 1875 — October 4, 1932) was an American soprano singer in oratorios and recitals, clubwoman, and music educator based in Chicago and Milwaukee.
Early life
Iva Bigelow was from Palmyra, Wisconsin, the daughter o ...
(later Iva Bigelow Weaver; 1875–1932), American singer
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Jacob Bigelow
Jacob Bigelow (February 27, 1787January 10, 1879) was an American physician, botanist and botanical illustrator. He was architect of Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts (in which he is interred), husband to Mary Scollay, and the f ...
(1787–1879), American physician, botanist, architect and professor
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John Bigelow
John Bigelow Sr. (November 25, 1817 – December 19, 1911) was an American lawyer, statesman, and historian who edited the complete works of Benjamin Franklin and the first autobiography of Franklin taken from Franklin's previously lost origina ...
(1817–1911), American lawyer
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John Bigelow Jr.
John Bigelow Jr. (May 12, 1854 – 1936) was a United States Army lieutenant colonel. He was the subject of many articles on military frontier life in ''Outing Magazine'' published by his brother Poultney Bigelow and with sketches drawn in th ...
(1854–1936), US Army officer and son of John Bigelow
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John Milton Bigelow
John Milton Bigelow (June 23, 1804 – July 18, 1878) was an American physician and botanist. He had a successful medical practice, and also, a keen interest in botany - especially native plants with medical applications. He participated as a bot ...
(1804–1878), American physician and botanist
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John P. Bigelow (1797–1872), mayor of Boston, Secretary of State of Massachusetts and member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives
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Julian Bigelow
Julian Bigelow (March 19, 1913 – February 17, 2003) was a pioneering American computer engineer. Life
Bigelow was born in 1913 in Nutley, New Jersey. He obtained a master's degree at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, studying electrica ...
(1913–2003), American pioneering computer engineer
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Kathryn Bigelow
Kathryn Ann Bigelow (; born November 27, 1951) is an American filmmaker. Covering a wide range of genres, her films include '' Near Dark'' (1987), '' Point Break'' (1991), '' Strange Days'' (1995), '' K-19: The Widowmaker'' (2002), ''The Hurt Loc ...
(born 1951), American film director
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Lettie S. Bigelow (1848/49 – 1906), American author
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Lewis Bigelow
Lewis Bigelow (August 18, 1785 – October 2, 1838) was a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts.
Born in Petersham, Massachusetts, Bigelow graduated from Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts, in 1803. He was admitted to the bar and ...
(1785–1838), US Representative from Massachusetts
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Lisa Jenn Bigelow, American writer of children's books and young adult novels
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Lucius A. Bigelow (1892–1973), American chemistry professor
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Poultney Bigelow
Poultney Bigelow (10 September 1855 – 28 May 1954) was an American journalist and author.Bigelow, Patricia, ''The Bigelow Family Genealogy'', the Bigelow Society, Flint, Michigan, 1986, vol II, p. 492; #16312.744.
He was born in New York City, ...
(1855–1954), American journalist and author
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Robert Bigelow (born 1945), hotel magnate
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Rolla Bigelow (1878–1952), American banker
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Bam Bam Bigelow
Scott Charles Bigelow (September 1, 1961 – January 19, 2007) was an American professional wrestler, better known by the ring name Bam Bam Bigelow. Recognizable by his close to 400-pound frame and the distinctive flame tattoo that spanned most ...
(1961–2007), American professional wrestler
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Stephen Bigelow, Australian mathematician and professor of mathematics at the University of California, Santa Barbara
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Timothy Bigelow (soldier) (1739–1790), Continental Army colonel in the American Revolutionary War
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Timothy Bigelow (lawyer) (1767–1821), Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives
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Tom Bigelow
Thomas Allan Bigelow (born October 31, 1939 in Whitewater, Wisconsin) is a former driver in the USAC and CART Championship Car series.
Racing career Midget car racing
He began his racing career at the Badger Midget Racing Association at Angel ...
(born 1939), former racing driver
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Wilfred Gordon Bigelow
Wilfred Gordon "Bill" Bigelow (June 18, 1913 – March 27, 2005) was a Canadian heart surgeon known for his role in developing the artificial pacemaker and the use of hypothermia in open heart surgery.
Born in Brandon, Manitoba, the son of Dr ...
(1913–2005), Canadian surgeon known for his role in developing the artificial pacemaker
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William Sturgis Bigelow
William Sturgis Bigelow (1850–1926) was a prominent American collector of Japanese art. The art collection trips he funded in the 1880s helped to form the standards by which Japanese art and culture were appreciated in the West.
In 1909, Bigelo ...
(1850–1926), American physician and collector of Japanese art
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