Blessing is both a surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include:
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Donald Blessing
Donald F. Blessing (December 26, 1905 – July 4, 2000) was an American coxswain who competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics, held in Amsterdam. Blessing was born in Hollister, California and attended Visalia Union High School.
In 1928, h ...
, American coxswain
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Karl Blessing
Karl Blessing (5 February 1900 – 25 April 1971) was a German banker. He was President of the Deutsche Bundesbank from 1958 to 1969.
Early life
He was born in Württemberg, joined the Reichsbank in 1920 and graduated in Business Administratio ...
, German banker
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Lee Blessing
Lee Knowlton Blessing (born October 4, 1949) is an American playwright best known for his 1988 work, '' A Walk in the Woods''. A lifelong Midwesterner, Blessing continued to work in regional theaters in and around his hometown of Minneapolis thro ...
, American playwright
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Lou Blessing
Louis W. Blessing Jr. (born August 1, 1948) of Cincinnati, Ohio, is an American politician of the Republican party.
Career
After graduation from the University of Cincinnati, he received a Juris Doctor degree from Northern Kentucky University l ...
, American politician
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Martin Blessing
Martin Blessing (born July 6, 1963) is a German banker and business person.
Education
Blessing received his high-school diploma at the Bischof-Neumann-Schule in Königstein im Taunus. After completing a banking apprenticeship at Dresdner Bank, ...
, German banker
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Tom Blessing IV, American film and television producer
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Blessing Afrifah
Blessing Akwasi Afrifah ( he, בלסינג אקווסי אפריפה, born 26 October 2003) is an Israeli track and field athlete who specializes in the sprints. He is the 200 metres gold medallist at the World Athletics U20 Championships in 2022. ...
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Israel
Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...
i track and field athlete
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Blessing Chinedu, Nigerian football player
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Blessing Chebundo, Zimbabwean politician
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Blessing Kaku
Blessing Kaku (born 5 March 1978 in Ughelli, Nigeria) is a former Nigerian international football player, who was a member of the national squad at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. He played for Enosis Neon Paralimni. He has also played for ...
, Nigerian football player
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Blessing Mahwire
Ngonidzashe Blessing Mahwire (born 31 July 1982) is a Zimbabwean cricketer who plays first-class cricket for Mashonaland and has also made appearances for the Zimbabwean cricket team in both the Test match and One Day International forms of the ...
, Zimbabwean cricketer
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Blessing Makunike
Blessing "YoGo-Yogo" Makunike (24 January 1977 – 13 March 2004) was a Zimbabwean international football player.
Club career
Blessing Makunike started his career in 1997 with Zimbabwe Premier Soccer League club CAPS United F.C., where he pla ...
, Zimbabwean football player
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Blessing Oborududu
Blessing Oborududu (born 12 March 1989, in Gbanranu) is a Nigerian freestyle wrestler. She is currently ranked as the world number two woman Wrestling, wrestler and also the first wrestler to win an Olympic medal representing Nigeria at the Oly ...
(born 1989), Nigerian wrestler
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Blessing Okagbare
Blessing Oghnewresem Okagbare-Otegheri (born 9 October 1988) is a former Nigerian track and field athlete who specialized in Long jump and sprints. She is an Olympic and World Championships medalist in the long jump, and a world medalist in th ...
, Nigerian athlete
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Blessing Okardi, Nigerian football player
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Blessing Ufodiama, Nigerian-American triple jumper
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