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Alan Pilkington
Alan Pilkington (born 1966) is a British engineer and researcher known for his work in technology management, operations management, Manufacturing strategy and enterprise engineering. (born c. 1964), British engineer and Professor
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Alastair Pilkington (1920–1995), British industrialist
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Anthony Pilkington
Anthony Neil James Pilkington (born 6 June 1988) is an Irish people, Irish former professional Association football, footballer who played as a winger (association football), winger.
After playing non-league football briefly, he began his prof ...
(born 1988), English footballer who has represented Ireland
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Brian Pilkington (footballer)
Brian Pilkington (12 February 1933 – 7 February 2020) was an English professional footballer, who played as a left winger.
Burnley
Pilkington made his name with Burnley after he was recommended to the Clarets by his hometown team Leyland Mo ...
, English footballer
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Brian Pilkington (illustrator) (born 1950), English-Icelandic illustrator and artist
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Charles Pilkington (cricketer, born 1837), English cricketer and clergyman
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Charles Pilkington (cricketer, born 1876), English cricketer
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Charlie Pilkington
Charles Francis Pilkington (September 22, 1897 - May 20, 1974), known as Charlie Pilkington and The Meriden Flash, was an American professional boxer in the Featherweight division.
Background
Pilkington was born on September 22, 1897 in New ...
, Irish-American professional boxer
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Dianne Pilkington (born 1975), English theatre actress and singer
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Danny Pilkington
Daniel Luke Pilkington (born 25 May 1990) is an English semi-professional footballer who plays as a winger. He previously played for Atherton Collieries, Kendal Town, Chorley, Stockport County, York City, Kidderminster Harriers, Hereford Unit ...
, English footballer
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Declan Pilkington
Declan Pilkington (born 1969 in Birr, County Offaly) is an Irish sportsperson. He plays hurling with his local club Birr and was a member of the Offaly senior inter-county team between 1988 and 1996. Pilkington won All-Ireland minor medals ...
(born 1969), an Irish sportsman
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Doris Pilkington Garimara (born Nugi Garimara in 1937, and also known as Doris Pilkington), Australian author
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Elliot Pilkington, (1890–1945), English footballer
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Esther Pilkington
Esther Pilkington is a British performance artist and researcher based in Hamburg, Germany. Pilkington, along with Daniel Ladnar, is a founding member of the performance collective Random People. Her work within the practice of walking art consider ...
, British performance artist
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Florian Pilkington-Miksa (1950–2021), drummer in the original line-up of the British rock group Curved Air
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Francis Pilkington
Francis Pilkington (ca. 1565 – 1638) was an English classical composer, lutenist and singer, of the Renaissance and Baroque period. Pilkington received a B.Mus. degree from Oxford in 1595. In 1602 he became a ''singing man'' at Chester Cathed ...
(c. 1565–1638), English composer, lutenist and singer
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Frederick Thomas Pilkington
Frederick Thomas Pilkington (1832-1898), pupil of his father, was a "Rogue" British architect, practising in the Victorian architecture, Victorian Gothic Revival architecture, High Gothic revival style. He designed mostly churches and instituti ...
(1832–1898), British architect
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George Pilkington (born 1981), English footballer
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George Pilkington Mills (1867–1945), English racing cyclist
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Harry Pilkington
William Henry Pilkington, Baron Pilkington (29 April 1905 – 23 December 1983) was an English glass manufacturer and president of the Federation of British Industries, who is remembered politically as chairman of the Pilkington Committee that p ...
(1905–1983), British businessman and academic administrator
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Jackie Pilkington
Jackie Pilkington (born in New York City), known as Irish Jackie Pilkington, was a professional boxer in the Lightweight division.
Background
Pilkington was born in New York City to Irish American parents. After the death of his widowed mot ...
, Irish-American professional boxer
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James Pilkington (bishop) (1520–1576), Bishop of Durham
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Joel Pilkington (born 1984), English footballer
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Johnny Pilkington
Johnny Pilkington (born 31 July 1970) is an Irish former hurler who played as a right wing-forward for the Offaly senior hurling team.
Pilkington made his first appearance for the team during the 1988–89 National League and subsequently beca ...
(born 1970), Irish sportsman
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Karl Pilkington
Karl Pilkington (born 23 September 1972) is an English presenter, comedian, actor, voice-artist, producer and author.
After working with Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant as producer on their XFM radio show, Pilkington became a co-host of '' ...
(born 1972), English radio producer and personality
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Kevin Pilkington
Kevin William Pilkington (born 8 March 1974) is an English football coach and former professional footballer who is now the goalkeeping coach at club Luton Town.
As a player, he had a 25-year career as a goalkeeper, playing 439 league and cup ...
(born 1974), English footballer
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Konnor Pilkington (born 1997), American baseball player
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Laetitia Pilkington
Laetitia Pilkington (born Laetitia van Lewen; ''c.'' 1709 – 29 July 1750) was an Anglo-Irish poet. She is known for her ''Memoirs'' which document much of what is known about Jonathan Swift.
Life
Early years
Laetitia was born of two dist ...
(c. 1709–1750), British poet
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Leonard Pilkington Leonard Pilkington (1527–1599) was an English academic and clergyman. A Marian exile, he became Regius Professor of Divinity at Cambridge and Master of St John's College, Cambridge at the start of the reign of Elizabeth I. In his subsequent churc ...
(1527–1599), English academic and clergyman
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Liam Pilkington (1894–1977), Irish activist
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Lorraine Pilkington
Lorraine Pilkington (born 18 April 1974) is an Irish actress from Dublin who is best known for her role as Katrina Finlay from '' Monarch of the Glen''.
Life
Born in Dublin, Pilkington grew up in the affluent suburban village of Malahide, and ...
(born 1975), Irish actress
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Luke Pilkington
Luke 'big fella' Pilkington (born 12 July 1990 in Canberra, Australia) is an Australian footballer, well known for winning the Foxtel Reality Television Show ''Football Superstar''.
Club career
Pilkington was previously the captain of Australi ...
, Australian football (soccer) player
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Mark Pilkington (golfer) (born 1978), Welsh professional golfer
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Mark Pilkington (writer) (born 1973), English writer
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Matthew Pilkington
Matthew Pilkington (1701–1774), Church of Ireland priest, writer, and art historian, was the author of a standard text on painters that became known as ''Pilkington's Dictionary''. His first wife was the poet and memoirist Laetitia Pilkington a ...
(1701–1774), Irish author of a standard text on painters which become known as ''Pilkington's Dictionary''
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Mary Pilkington (née Mary Hopkins) (1766–1839), English novelist and poet
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(1933–2011), British politician
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Rachel Pilkington
Rachel Carson Pilkington (born 28 November 1974) is an Irish actress.
Career
In 2004, Pilkington received an IFTA nomination in the Best Actress in a Supporting Role – Film/TV category for her role in '' The Clinic''. She has been playing th ...
(born 1974), Irish actress
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Richard Pilkington (politician, born 1908)
Sir Richard Antony Pilkington, (10 May 1908 – 9 December 1976) was a British Conservative Party politician and a soldier in the British Army.
Early life
Richard Pilkington was born in St Helens to the Chairman of the Pilkington glass works ...
(1908–1976), British Conservative politician
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Richard Pilkington (bowls), a former lawn bowls competitor for New Zealand
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Robert Pilkington
Robert Rivington Pilkington (8 February 1870 – 30 June 1942) was an Irish politician who sat in the Western Australian Legislative Assembly and the British House of Commons.
Robert Pilkington was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1870. He was educa ...
(1870–1942), Irish politician
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Roger Pilkington (disambiguation), several people
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William Pilkington (architect)
William Pilkington (1758–1848) was an English architect.
Life
Born at Hatfield, near Doncaster, Yorkshire, on 7 September 1758, he was elder son of William Pilkington of Hatfield, by his second wife, Elizabeth, daughter of William Barker of Tad ...
(1758–1848), English architect
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