Chamberlain may refer to:
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Chamberlain (office)
A chamberlain (Medieval Latin: ''cambellanus'' or ''cambrerius'', with charge of treasury ''camerarius'') is a senior royal official in charge of managing a royal household. Historically, the chamberlain superintends the arrangement of domestic ...
, the officer in charge of managing the household of a sovereign or other noble figure
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Chamberlain (surname) Chamberlain is an English-language, English surname. In English, it means an attendant for a sovereign or lord in his bedchamber, or a chief officer in the household of a king or nobleman.
List of people
Notable people with this surname include:
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Houston Stewart Chamberlain
Houston Stewart Chamberlain (; 9 September 1855 – 9 January 1927) was a British-German philosopher who wrote works about political philosophy and natural science. His writing promoted German ethnonationalism, antisemitism, and scientific ra ...
(1855–1927), German-British philosopher and racialist writer
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Joshua Chamberlain
Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain (born Lawrence Joshua Chamberlain, September 8, 1828February 24, 1914) was an American college professor from Maine who volunteered during the American Civil War to join the Union Army. He became a highly respected and ...
(1828–1914), Brigadier General of American Civil War and Governor of Maine
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Neville Chamberlain
Arthur Neville Chamberlain (; 18 March 18699 November 1940) was a British politician of the Conservative Party who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from May 1937 to May 1940. He is best known for his foreign policy of appeasemen ...
(1869–1940), British Prime Minister at the outbreak of World War II
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Wilt Chamberlain
Wilton Norman Chamberlain (; August 21, 1936 – October 12, 1999) was an American professional basketball player who played as a Center (basketball), center. Standing at tall, he played in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for 14 yea ...
(1936–1999), American basketball player
Places
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Chamberlains, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
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Chamberlain, Ontario, Canada
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Chamberlain, Saskatchewan
Chamberlain ( 2016 population: ) is a village in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan within the Rural Municipality of Sarnia No. 221 and Census Division No. 6.
Chamberlain is notable for being the last community between Regina and Saskatoon ...
, Canada
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Chamberlain Township, Brule County, South Dakota
Chamberlain may refer to:
Profession
*Chamberlain (office), the officer in charge of managing the household of a sovereign or other noble figure
People
*Chamberlain (surname)
**Houston Stewart Chamberlain (1855–1927), German-British philosop ...
, a
township
A township is a kind of human settlement or administrative subdivision, with its meaning varying in different countries.
Although the term is occasionally associated with an urban area, that tends to be an exception to the rule. In Australia, Ca ...
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Chamberlain, South Dakota
Chamberlain is a city in Brule County, South Dakota, United States. It is located on the eastern bank of the Missouri River, at the dammed section of the Lake Francis Case, close to where it is crossed by Interstate 90.
The population of Chambe ...
, United States, a city
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Chamberlain, Uruguay
Chamberlain is a village or populated centre of Tacuarembó Department, in northern Uruguay. It is connected by railway with the city of Paysandú
Paysandú () is the capital of Paysandú Department in western Uruguay.
Location
The city is loc ...
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Chamberlain Basin
Chamberlain Basin is a drainage basin that contains a chain of ten alpine and glacial Paternoster lakes in Custer County, Idaho, United States, located in the White Cloud Mountains in the Sawtooth National Recreation Area. Lakes are located on ...
, Custer County, Idaho
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Chamberlain Square
Chamberlain Square or Chamberlain Place is a public square in central Birmingham, England, named after statesman and notable mayor of Birmingham, Joseph Chamberlain. The Victorian square was drastically remodelled in the 1970s, with most of th ...
in Birmingham, England
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D.S. Chamberlain Building
The D.S. Chamberlain Building, also known as the L. W. Taylor Motor Company and Payne Motor Company Building, is a historic building located in Des Moines, Iowa, United States. The two-story brick structure was designed by the prominent Des Moine ...
, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Polk County, Iowa
Arts, entertainment, and media
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Chamberlain (band)
Chamberlain is an American indie rock band from Indianapolis and Bloomington, Indiana, United States, previously having been known as Split Lip. They changed their name and their general sound away from post-hardcore punk in October 1995. The b ...
, an American indie rock band from Indiana, active since 1996
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Lord Chamberlain's Men
The Lord Chamberlain's Men was a company of actors, or a "playing company" (as it then would likely have been described), for which Shakespeare wrote during most of his career. Richard Burbage played most of the lead roles, including Hamlet, Othe ...
'', William Shakespeare's playing company
Law
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Chamberlain v. Skylink''
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Chamberlain v. Surrey School District No. 36 ''Chamberlain v Surrey School District No 36'', 0024 S.C.R. 710, 2002 SCC 86, was a case in which the Supreme Court of Canada held that a local school board could not impose its religious values by refusing to permit the use of books that sought ...
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*''Chamberlain v. The Queen (No.2)'', see:
Death of Azaria Chamberlain
Azaria Chantel Loren Chamberlain (11 June 1980 – 17 August 1980) was a nine-week-old Australian baby girl who was killed by a dingo on the night of the 17 August 1980 during a family camping trip to Uluru in the Northern Territory. Her body ...
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Chamberlain Hrdlicka
Chamberlain, Hrdlicka, White, Williams & Aughtry, PC, known as Chamberlain Hrdlicka, is a tax-focused American law firm founded in Houston, Texas with offices in Atlanta, Houston, Philadelphia, and San Antonio.
Founded in 1965, Chamberlain Hrdlic ...
, law firm
Other uses
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Chamberlain Engineering
Chamberlain Engineering was an engine building, automotive engine builder turned auto racing team founded by racing driver Hugh Chamberlain in 1972. The team moved through the British national sports car championships before becoming a competitor ...
, a former auto racing team
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Chamberlain Group
Chamberlain Group (CGI), the corporate parent company to LiftMaster, Chamberlain, Merlin, and Grifco, designs and engineers residential garage door openers, commercial door operators, and gate entry systems.
CGI is also the parent company to Contr ...
, a manufacturer of garage door openers
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Chamberlain Tractor
Chamberlain was a brand of tractors from Australia, produced initially by Chamberlain Industries Ltd.
While Bob Chamberlain was working as a tractor mechanic in Victoria he designed a tractor and built a prototype tractor around what he beli ...
, or Chamberlain John Deere, a brand of Agricultural Tractor and the company that made them
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Operation Chamberlain
Operation or Operations may refer to:
Arts, entertainment and media
* ''Operation'' (game), a battery-operated board game that challenges dexterity
* Operation (music), a term used in musical set theory
* ''Operations'' (magazine), Multi-Man ...
, an American military operation during the 2003 Invasion of Iraq
See also
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Chamberlayne (disambiguation)
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Chamberlin (disambiguation) Chamberlin is an electro-mechanical musical keyboard instrument.
Chamberlin may also refer to:
* Chamberlin (surname)
* The Chamberlin, a retirement community and historic hotel in Hampton, Virginia, formerly known as the Chamberlin Hotel
* Chamb ...
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