Noyes is an English surname of patronymic origin, deriving from the given name
Noah. Notable people with the surname include:
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Albertina Noyes (born 1949), American figure skater
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Alfred Noyes
Alfred Noyes CBE (16 September 188025 June 1958) was an English poet, short-story writer and playwright.
Early years
Noyes was born in Wolverhampton, England the son of Alfred and Amelia Adams Noyes. When he was four, the family moved to Ab ...
(1880–1958), English poet
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Arthur Amos Noyes
Arthur Amos Noyes (September 13, 1866 – June 3, 1936) was an American chemist, inventor and educator. He received a PhD in 1890 from Leipzig University under the guidance of Wilhelm Ostwald.
He served as the acting president of MIT between ...
(1866–1936), American chemist, inventor and educator
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Arthur Noyes (organist) (1862–1929), church organist in South Australia
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Arthur Percy Noyes (1880–1963), psychiatric administrator and educator
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Arthur H. Noyes (1853–1915), U.S. federal judge
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Beppie Noyes (1919–2007), American author and illustrator
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Blanche Noyes
Blanche Noyes (June 23, 1900 – October 6, 1981) was an American pioneering female aviator who was among the first ten women to receive a transport pilot's license. In 1929, she became Ohio's first licensed female pilot.
Biography
She was bo ...
(1900–1981), American pioneering female aviator
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Clara Noyes
Clara Dutton Noyes (October 3, 1869 – June 3, 1936) was an American nurse who headed the American Red Cross department of nursing during World War I. In 1998 she was inducted into the American Nurses Association Hall of Fame.
Early life and ...
(1869–1936), American nurse and Director of the Red Cross Nursing Service during World War I
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Crosby Stuart Noyes
Crosby Stuart Noyes (February 16, 1825 – February 21, 1908) was the publisher of the ''Washington Evening Star''.
Biography
Noyes was born on February 16, 1825, in Minot, Maine, USA, and is most known for publishing the ''Washington Evenin ...
(1825–1908), American newspaper publisher
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Dorothy Noyes (born 1960), American folklorist and ethnologist
* Edward Noyes (c. 1858–1920), co-founder of Australian engineering company
Noyes Brothers
Noyes Brothers is an Australian engineering firm established in 1888 by Edward and Henry Noyes.
History
Noyes Bros. was founded in Sydney in 1888 by Edward and Henry Noyes (see their biographies below), as importers of engineering products, the ...
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Edward Follansbee Noyes (1832–1890), Republican politician from Ohio
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Eliot Noyes
Eliot Fette Noyes (August 12, 1910 – July 18, 1977) was an American architect and industrial designer, who worked on projects for IBM, most notably the IBM Selectric typewriter and the IBM Aerospace Research Center in Los Angeles, California ...
(1910–1977), American architect and designer
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Florence Fleming Noyes (1871–1928), American classical dancer
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Frances Noyes Hart (1890–1943), American writer
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Frederick Bogue Noyes
Frederick Bogue Noyes (1872–1961) was an American dentist. His dental career began before the age of ten when he worked as an assistant to his dentist father. Noyes began dental practice before entering dental school (legal at the time), a ...
(1872–1961), American dentist
* Fred W. Noyes Jr. (1905–1987), American artist and entrepreneur, founder of the
Noyes Museum of Art
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George Lorenzo Noyes (1863–1945), American artist and mineralogist
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Haskell Noyes
Haskell Noyes (July 22, 1886 – December 8, 1948) was an American college basketball player and coach as well as a noted conservationist.
Born into a well-to-do family of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Noyes attended Yale University from 1904 to 1908. He ...
(1886–1948), American conservationist
* Henry Noyes (c. 1860–1922) co-founder of Australian engineering company
Noyes Brothers
Noyes Brothers is an Australian engineering firm established in 1888 by Edward and Henry Noyes.
History
Noyes Bros. was founded in Sydney in 1888 by Edward and Henry Noyes (see their biographies below), as importers of engineering products, the ...
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Henry Halsey Noyes Henry Halsey Noyes (1910 – June 22, 2005) was an American writer, publisher, teacher, and distributor of Chinese books and magazines.
Biography
Born in Guangzhou, China, he was the son of Presbyterian missionaries William D. Noyes and Mary Steve ...
(1910–2005), American writer
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Henry Sanborn Noyes
Henry Sanborn Noyes (December 24, 1822 – May 24, 1872) was an American academic who served as interim president of Northwestern University from 1854 to 1856, and again from 1860 to 1867.
Biography
Noyes was born in Landaff, New Hampshire, on D ...
(1822–1870), president of Northwestern University
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Jansen Noyes, Jr. (1918–2004), American investment banker
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John Noyes (politician)
John Noyes (April 2, 1764October 26, 1841) was an American politician. He served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from Vermont.
Biography
Noyes was born in Atkinson in the Province of New Hampshire to Humphrey Noyes and ...
(1764–1841), Vermont politician
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John Noyes (entomologist)
John Stuart Noyes (born Cardiff 1949) is a Welsh entomologist.
At the age of 14 an article entitled "My Hobby has Wings" about Noyes appeared in his local newspaper, the ''Pontypridd Observer''; this 1963 article highlighted Noyes' interest in ent ...
(born 1949) Welsh entomologist
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John Humphrey Noyes
John Humphrey Noyes (September 3, 1811 – April 13, 1886) was an American preacher, radical religious philosopher, and utopian socialist. He founded the Putney, Oneida and Wallingford Communities, and is credited with coining the term "com ...
(1811–1886), founder of the Oneida Community in the US
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Joseph C. Noyes (1798–1868), United States Representative from Maine
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Kenny Noyes
Kenny Noyes (born 18 June 1979) is an American motorcycle road racer. His parents Dennis and Heidi Noyes are both American, but lived in Spain for over 20 years where Dennis raced winning the Spanish Endurance Championship and the Motociclismo Se ...
(born 1979), American motorcycle road racer
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Maty Noyes
Madeline Ashley "Maty" Noyes (born August 25, 1997) is an American singer-songwriter. Noyes rose to prominence in 2015 after a guest appearance on The Weeknd's ''Beauty Behind the Madness'' album, and contributing lead vocals to Kygo's 2015 track ...
(born 1997), American singer-songwriter
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Newbold Noyes, Jr. (1918–1997), American publisher
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Nicholas Noyes
Rev. Nicholas Noyes II (December 22, 1647 at Newbury, Massachusetts Bay Colony – December 13, 1717 at Salem, Massachusetts Bay Colony) was a colonial minister during the time of the Salem witch trials. He was the second minister, called the " ...
, colonial minister during the time of the Salem witch trials of 1692
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Paul Noyes
Marshall Paul Noyes (October 13, 1870 – September 6, 1946) was an American college football player and coach. He served as the first head football coach at Northwestern University
Northwestern University is a private research university ...
, American football coach in the 1893 season
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Peter Noyes, former Vice-Chancellor of University of Wales, Newport
* Peter Noyes, English MP for
Andover
Andover may refer to:
Places Australia
*Andover, Tasmania
Canada
* Andover Parish, New Brunswick
* Perth-Andover, New Brunswick
United Kingdom
* Andover, Hampshire, England
** RAF Andover, a former Royal Air Force station
United States
* Andove ...
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* Samuel Noyes (1754–1845), co-founder of the
Noyes Academy
The Noyes Academy was a racially integrated school, which also admitted women, founded by New England abolitionists in 1835 in Canaan, New Hampshire, near Dartmouth College, whose then-abolitionist president, Nathan Lord, was "the only seated ...
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Walter Chadwick Noyes (1865–1926), American judge
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William A. Noyes
William Albert Noyes (November 6, 1857 – October 24, 1941) was an American analytical and organic chemist. He made pioneering determinations of atomic weights, chaired the Chemistry Department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champ ...
(1857–1941), American analytical and organic chemist
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William Curtis Noyes (1805–1864), American jurist
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Win Noyes
Winfield Charles Noyes (June 16, 1889 – April 8, 1969) was an American professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Boston Braves, Philadelphia Athletics, and Chicago White Sox.
Minor league career
Noyes was ...
(1889-1969), American baseball pitcher
See also
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General Noyes (disambiguation)
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Kenneth Noye
Kenneth James Noye (born 24 May 1947) is an English criminal most recently sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering Stephen Cameron in a road rage incident while on licence from prison in 1996. He was arrested in Spain two years later and c ...
, British criminal
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Noyce, a variant of the surname
References
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English-language surnames
Patronymic surnames