Drinker is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
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Elizabeth Sandwith Drinker (ca. 1735–1807), American Quaker diarist
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Edith May (pseudonym of Anne Drinker; 1827–1903), American poet
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Edward Drinker Cope
Edward Drinker Cope (July 28, 1840 – April 12, 1897) was an American zoologist, paleontologist, comparative anatomist, herpetologist, and ichthyologist. Born to a wealthy Quaker family, Cope distinguished himself as a child prodigy interested ...
(1840–1897), American paleontologist and comparative anatomist
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Henry Sturgis Drinker (1850–1937), American mechanical engineer, lawyer and author, president of Lehigh University
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Catherine Ann Drinker (1841–1922), American artist and author
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Henry Sandwith Drinker (1880–1965), American lawyer and musicologist
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Sophie Drinker
Sophie Lewis Drinker ( Hutchinson; August 24, 1888 – September 6, 1967) was an American author, musician, and musicologist. She is considered a founder of women's musicological and gender studies.
Early life and marriage
Drinker was born So ...
(1888–1967), American amateur musician and musicologist
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Philip Drinker
Philip Drinker (December 12, 1894 – October 19, 1972) was an industrial hygienist. With Louis Agassiz Shaw, he invented the first widely used iron lung in 1928.
Family and early life
Drinker's father was railroad man and Lehigh University ...
(1894–1972), American industrial hygienist who invented the first iron lung
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Cecil Kent Drinker (1887–1956), American physician and founder of the Harvard School of Public Health
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Katherine Rotan Drinker Katherine Rotan Drinker (1889 – March 15, 1956) was an American physician.
Early life
Katherine Rotan was born in 1889 to mother Kate Sturm McCall Rotan and father Edward Rotan of Waco, Texas. She was one of nine children.
Education
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(1889–1956), American physician
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Catherine Drinker Bowen
Catherine Drinker Bowen (January 1, 1897 – November 1, 1973) was an American writer best known for her biographies. She won the National Book Award for Nonfiction in 1958.
Biography
Bowen was born Catherine Drinker on the Haverford College cam ...
, born Catherine Drinker (1897–1973), American biographer
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Ernesta Drinker Ballard
Ernesta Drinker Ballard (May 13, 1920 – August 11, 2005) was an American horticulturalist and feminist. Among the founders of the National Organization for Women, the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League, and Women's Way, Ba ...
, born Ernesta Drinker (1920–2005), American feminist and horticulturist
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