Croll is the surname of:
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Alexander Angus Croll
Alexander Angus Croll (1811-1887) was a British civil engineer who patented a method of purifying town gas of ammonia. He was Sheriff of the City of London.
He is buried in Brookwood Cemetery
Brookwood Cemetery, also known as the London ...
, (1811-1887) British
civil engineer
A civil engineer is a person who practices civil engineering – the application of planning, designing, constructing, maintaining, and operating infrastructure while protecting the public and environmental health, as well as improving existing ...
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Dan Croll
Daniel Francis Croll (born 18 July 1990) is a British singer-songwriter. He began his career in 2011 when he was named Songwriter of the Year by the Musicians' Benevolent Fund while attending the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts. His deb ...
(born 1990), British singer-songwriter
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David Croll
David Arnold Croll, (born Davud Avrum Croll; March 12, 1900 – June 11, 1991) was a Canadian politician. He served as the mayor of Windsor, Ontario twice. He entered provincial politics in the 1930s, and served as minister of public works an ...
(1900–1991), Canadian politician
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Doña Croll
Doña Croll (born 29 August 1953) is a Jamaican-born British actress. She is best known for her roles in British television soap opera playing Pearl McHugh in Channel 5's ''Family Affairs'', Vera Corrigan in the BBC Vera Corrigan ''Doctors'', a ...
(born 1953), Jamaican-born British actress
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Hacker Croll François Cousteix, better known as Hacker Croll, is a French self-taught cracker who is notable for hacking Twitter in July 2009. He was in close contact with reporters from TechCrunch who published numerous articles about the information obtained ...
, real name François Cousteix, French computer hacker
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James Croll
James Croll, FRS, (2 January 1821 – 15 December 1890) was a 19th-century Scottish scientist who developed a theory of climate variability based on changes in the Earth's orbit.
Life
James Croll was born in 1821 on the farm of Little Whitefi ...
(1821–1890), Scottish scientist who developed a theory of climate change
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Jimmy Croll
Warren A. Croll, Jr. (March 9, 1920 – June 6, 2008), best known as Jimmy Croll, was an American Hall of Fame Thoroughbred race horse trainer.
Croll was born in 1920 in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. After finishing high school, he attended the U ...
(1920–2008), American race horse trainer
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Joan Croll
Una Joan Croll (née Holliday; 15 June 1928 – 14 February 2022) was an Australian physician and radiologist who specialised in ultrasound and mammography. Outside medicine, she was an environmental activist, one of the 13 women who saved K ...
(1928–2022), Australian physician and radiologist
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June Croll
June Croll (1901-1967) was a U.S. labor organizer most active during the interwar years.
Biography
June Croll was born Sonia Croll in 1901 in Odessa in the Ukraine region of Russia. During her girlhood, she emigrated illegally to Canada and then t ...
(1901-1967), U.S. labor organizer
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Maria de Croll
Maria de Croll, née Swart (died 3 November 1710) was a Swedish vocalist. She was singer of the first rank at Hovkapellet 1702-1710.
Maria de Croll was married to Reinhold de Croll, organist at the Hovkapellet. She was the first female employed ...
(died 1710), Swedish vocalist
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Oswald Croll
Oswald Croll or Crollius (c. 1563 – December 1609) was an alchemist, and professor of medicine at the University of Marburg in Hesse, Germany. A strong proponent of alchemy and using chemistry in medicine, he was heavily involved in writing book ...
or Crollius (c. 1563–1609), German physician, alchemist and botanist
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Sebastian Croll
Sebastian Croll was a Dutchman said to have been made the first commissary of Fort Orange in 1617, which was built on the site of the present-day city of Albany, New York.
He was also an elder in the "Church in the Fort," which was founded by t ...
, 17th-century Dutchman who introduced the cruller to the Americas
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William Martin Croll
William Martin Croll (April 9, 1866 – October 21, 1929) was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
William M. Croll was born in Upper Macungie Township, Pennsylvania. He attended Keystone State Nor ...
(1866–1929), U.S. politician from Pennsylvania
In other uses
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Croll Building
The Croll Building, in Alameda, California, was the site of Croll's Gardens and Hotel, famous as training quarters for some of the greatest fighters in boxing history from 1883 to 1914. James J. Corbett, Bob Fitzsimmons, Jim Jefferies, Jack Jo ...
in Alameda, California
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Petzl Croll
A Petzl Croll is an ascending device used in caving and industrial rope access made by the French company Petzl. Its name comes from the town Crolles where Petzl's company headquarters are located but might also be a reference to the nearby cave s ...
rope ascending device
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Croll Glacier a glacier in Antarctica
See also
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Kroll
Kroll is a German, Anglo-Saxon, and Scottish surname.
Notable people with the surname include:
* Colin Kroll (1983/4–2018), American businessman; co-founder of Vine and HQ Trivia
* Eric Kroll (born 1946), American photographer
* Fredric Kr ...
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