Bixby is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
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Anna Pierce Hobbs Bixby
Anna Pierce Hobbs Bixby, sometimes spelled Bigsby, born Anna Pierce ( – c. 1870), was a midwife, frontier doctor, dentist, herbologist, and scientist in southern Illinois.
Bixby discovered that white snakeroot (''Ageratina altissima'') cont ...
(1812–1873), American physician
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Bella Bixby (born 1995), American soccer player
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Bill Bixby (1934–1993), American actor and director
* Fanny Bixby (1879–1930), American philanthropist and activist better known as
Fanny Bixby Spencer
Fanny Weston Bixby Spencer (November 6, 1879 - April 30, 1930), also referred to as Fanny Bixby was an American philanthropist and antiwar writer. She joined the fledgling Long Beach police force in January 1908, making her one of the country's e ...
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Francis M. Bixby (born 1828), New York politician
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Horace Ezra Bixby (1826–1912), steamboat pilot and captain, inventor, teacher of Mark Twain
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James Thompson Bixby
James Thompson Bixby (July 30, 1843 – December 26, 1921) was a United States Unitarian minister and writer.
Biography
He was born at Barre, Massachusetts, and graduated from Harvard College (1864) and Harvard Divinity School (B.D., 1870). He ...
(1843–1921), Unitarian minister and writer
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Jaydee Bixby
Jaydee Bixby (born August 14, 1990) is a Canadian country musician who was the runner-up on the fifth season of '' Canadian Idol''. In 2008 he signed with Her Royal Majesty's Records and went on to release his debut album ''Cowboys and Cadil ...
(born 1990), Canadian country musician
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Jerome Bixby
Drexel Jerome Lewis Bixby (January 11, 1923 – April 28, 1998) was an American short-story writer and scriptwriter. He wrote the 1953 story " It's a Good Life", which was the basis of a 1961 episode of ''The Twilight Zone'' and was included ...
(1923–1998), American short story writer, editor and scriptwriter
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Jonathan Bixby
Jonathan Charles Bixby (June 21, 1959 – April 29, 2001) was a costume designer and a founding member of Drama Dept., a New York-based theater company.
Background
Bixby was born June 21, 1959, in Delaware County, Pennsylvania. He attended and ...
(1959–2001), American costume designer
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Lenore E. Bixby (died 1994), American statistician
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Maynard Bixby Maynard Bixby (June 28, 1853 – February 18, 1935) was an American mineralogist and mineral collector.
Early life
Bixby was born in Wyalusing, Pennsylvania and graduated from Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania in 1876. He worked for a tim ...
(1853–1935), American mineralogist
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Moses Bixby
Moses Bixby (1827–1901) was an American Christian missionary to Burma and founder of the Friendship Street Baptist Church in Providence, Rhode Island and The Old Buttonwoods summer colony.
Moses Homans Bixby was born in Warren, New Hampshire in ...
(1827–1901), American pastor
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Norma Bixby
Norma Bixby is a Democratic Party member of the Montana House of Representatives
The Montana House of Representatives is, with the Montana Senate, one of the two houses of the Montana Legislature. Composed of 100 members, the House elects i ...
(born 1941), member of the Montana House of Representatives (2000–present)
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Peter Bixby
Peter Bixby is a New Hampshire politician.
Education
Bixby graduated from Attleboro High School. Bixby earned a B.A. from Yale University in 1984 and a Ph.D. in comparative literature from Indiana University Bloomington in 1999.
Political care ...
, member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives (2012–present)
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Robert Bixby
Robert L. Bixby is the Executive Director of the Concord Coalition, a nonpartisan grassroots organization that educates the public about fiscal responsibility. The Coalition was founded in 1992, and Bixby was named the Executive Director in 1999. ...
(born 1955), executive director of the Concord Coalition
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Robert E. Bixby (born 1945), American mathematician
* Sarah Bixby (1871–1935), California writer better known as
Sarah Bixby Smith
Sarah Bixby Smith (1871–1935) was a California writer and an advocate of women's education. ''Adobe Days'', her memoir of growing up in southern California, is considered a classic of the genre.
Family and education
Sarah Hathaway Bixby was bor ...
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Tams Bixby (1855–1922), American newspaper editor and publisher
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William Herbert Bixby
William Herbert Bixby (December 27, 1849 – September 29, 1928) was a brigadier general in the U.S. Army. He graduated first in the United States Military Academy class of 1873 and was commissioned in the United States Army Corps of Engineer ...
(1849–1928), U.S. Army brigadier general and Chief of Engineers
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William K. Bixby
William K. Bixby (January 2, 1857 – October 29, 1931) was a collector of art and rare books, and is known for his significant philanthropic contributions around the St. Louis area.
Life
William Keeney Bixby was born on January 2, 1857, in Adr ...
(1857–1931), American art collector
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