DeMille or De Mille is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
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Agnes De Mille
Agnes George de Mille (September 18, 1905 – October 7, 1993) was an American dancer and choreographer.
Early years
Agnes de Mille was born in New York City into a well-connected family of theater professionals. Her father William C. deMill ...
, American dance and choreographer
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Beatrice deMille
Matilda Beatrice deMille (January 30, 1853 – October 8, 1923) (born Matilda Beatrice Samuel; also known as ''Beatrice C. deMille, Agnes Graham, Tillie Samuel, Mrs. Henry deMille)'' was an English-American play broker, screenwriter, playwright, ...
, English-born American playwright and screenwriter
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Cecil B. DeMille
Cecil Blount DeMille (; August 12, 1881January 21, 1959) was an American film director, producer and actor. Between 1914 and 1958, he made 70 features, both silent and sound films. He is acknowledged as a founding father of the American cine ...
, American film director
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Constance Adams DeMille
Constance Adams DeMille (April 27, 1873 – July 17, 1960) was an American actress and wife of filmmaker Cecil B. DeMille.
Early life
Born in Orange, New Jersey, DeMille was the daughter of Judge Fredrick Adams, New Jersey Court of Errors an ...
, American actress
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Evelyn de Mille Evelyn de Mille (August 1, 1919 – October 31, 2013) is a Canadian known for being the first woman in Calgary, Alberta to own her own stand-alone bookstore.[Henry Churchill de Mille
Henry Churchill de Mille (September 17, 1853 – February 10, 1893) was an American businessman and Georgist, and the father of film pioneers Cecil B. de Mille and William C. de Mille, and the paternal grandfather of the dancer and choreograp ...]
, American playwright
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James De Mille
James De Mille (23 August 1833 – 28 January 1880) was a professor at Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, and an early Canadian novelist who published numerous works of popular fiction from the late 1860s through the 1870s.
Life
De Mille w ...
, Canadian writer
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Katherine DeMille
Katherine Lester DeMille (born Katherine Paula Lester; June 29, 1911 – April 27, 1995) was a Canadian-born American actress who played 25 credited film roles from the mid-1930s to the late 1940s.
The adopted daughter of director Cecil B. De ...
, Canadian-born American actress
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Nelson DeMille
Nelson Richard DeMille (born August 23, 1943) is an American author of action adventure and suspense novels. His novels include '' Plum Island'', '' The Charm School'', and '' The Gold Coast''. DeMille has also written under the pen names Jack ...
, American author
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Oliver DeMille
Oliver DeMille is an American author, educator and public speaker. He is the founder of an educational model known as TJEd, and the co-author of ''LeaderShift: A Call for Americans to Finally Stand Up and Lead'', which was published in 2013 and ...
, American author and educator
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Richard de Mille
Richard de Mille (February 12, 1922 – April 8, 2009) was an American author.
Early life and education
He was born in Monrovia, California, to William C. deMille and the Scottish author and screenwriter Lorna Moon, when William C. was s ...
, American journalist and author
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William C. deMille
William Churchill deMille (July 25, 1878 – March 5, 1955), also spelled de Mille or De Mille, was an American screenwriter and film director from the silent film era through the early 1930s. He was also a noted playwright prior to moving into ...
, American screenwriter and film director
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