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of English origin. Notable people with the name include:

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Reade Baker Reade Baker (born April 30, 1947, in Port Dalhousie, Ontario) is a retired trainer of Thoroughbred racehorses who was voted the 2005 Sovereign Award for Outstanding Trainer in Canada and who in 2018 was inducted into the Canadian Horse Racing Hal ...

(born 1947), Canadian racehorse trainer *

Reade Seligmann The Duke lacrosse case was a widely reported 2006 criminal case in Durham, North Carolina, United States in which three members of the Duke University men's lacrosse team were falsely accused of rape. The three students were David Evans, Collin F ...

, defendant in Duke lacrosse case * Reade Stafford (1542–1605), English gentleman

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Bob Reade Bob Reade (July 22, 1932 – July 5, 2020) was an American football coach. He served as the head coach at Augustana College (Illinois), Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois from 1979 to 1994, compiling a record of 146–23–1. His Augustan ...

(1932–2020), former American football player and coach *

Brian Reade Brian Reade is a journalist and author who writes a weekly opinion column for the ''Daily Mirror''. He was born in Wavertree and grew up in Huyton. He began his journalism career working on the ''Reading Evening Post'' in 1980 and became a col ...

(born 1957), British journalist *

Charles Reade Charles Reade (8 June 1814 – 11 April 1884) was a British novelist and dramatist, best known for '' The Cloister and the Hearth''. Life Charles Reade was born at Ipsden, Oxfordshire, to John Reade and Anne Marie Scott-Waring, and had at leas ...

(1814–1884), English novelist *

Charles Reade (town planner) Charles Compton Reade (4 May 1880 – 28 October 1933) was a town planner who supported the garden city movement of the early twentieth century. Born in Invercargill, New Zealand in 1880, Reade became the major figure in disseminating garden city ...

(1880–1933), town planner * Dolores Reade, singer, entertainer, and philanthropist *

Duane Reade Duane Reade Inc. ( ) is a chain of pharmacy and convenience stores owned by Walgreens Boots Alliance. Its stores are primarily located in New York City, and known for high-volume, small store layouts in densely populated Manhattan locations. In 2 ...

, an American drugstore *

Edward Anderton Reade Edward Anderton Reade, (15 March 1807 – 12 February 1886), was a British civil servant in India who served in Bengal from 1826 to 1860. Career On 10 February 1835 Reade was appointed as Joint Magistrate and Deputy Collector of Belah. On 8 ...

(1807–1886), British civil servant in India *

Edwin Godwin Reade Edwin Godwin Reade (November 13, 1812 – October 18, 1894) was a U.S. congressman from North Carolina between 1855 and 1857. He later served in the Confederate Senate during the American Civil War. Biography Edwin Reade was born in Perso ...

(1812–1894), American politician *

Frank Reade Frank Reade was the protagonist of a series of dime novels published primarily for boys. The first novel, ''Frank Reade and His Steam Man of the Plains'', an imitation of Edward S. Ellis, Edward Ellis's ''The Steam Man of the Prairies'' (1868), w ...

, the protagonist of a series of dime novels published primarily for boys *

George Reade George Reade (1687 – 28 March 1756), of Shipton-under-Wychwood, Oxfordshire, was a British Army officer and Whig politician who sat in the British House of Commons, House of Commons from 1722 to 1734. Reade was the fourth son of Sir Edward Re ...

(1687–1756), British Army officer *

Herbert Taylor Reade Herbert Taylor Reade (20 September 1828, Perth, Upper Canada – 23 June 1897, Bath), was a Canadian born recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious British honour. The award was for gallantry in the face of the enemy.' ...

(1828–1897), Canadian military surgeon *

John Edmund Reade John Edmund Reade (1800–1870) was an English poet and novelist. Life Reade was born in 1800 at Broadwell, near Stow-on-the-Wold in Gloucestershire, the son of Thomas Reade of Barton Manor, Berkshire, and his wife Catherine, daughter of Sir Jo ...

(1800–1870), English poet and novelist *

John Reade John Reade (November 13, 1837 – March 26, 1919) was an Irish people, Irish-born Canadians, Canadian journalist, essayist, and poet once considered "the grand old man of Canadians, Canadian letters." He is best known as the literary editor of ...

(1837–1919), Irish-born Canadian journalist, essayist, and poet *

Joseph Reade (politician) Joseph Reade (1694 – March 2, 1771) was a merchant, vestryman, and politician from New York. Early life Reade was a second-generation English prominent merchant. He was the son of English merchant Lawrence Reade, who arrived in New York from S ...

(1694 – 1771), American vestryman and politician *

Joseph Bancroft Reade Rev. Joseph Bancroft Reade FRS FRMS (5 April 1801 – 12 December 1870) was an English clergyman, amateur scientist and pioneer of photography. A gentleman scientist, Reade co-founded the Royal Microscopical Society and the Royal Meteorological ...

(1801–1870), English photographic pioneer * Lawrence Reade (disambiguation), cricketers *

Linda R. Reade Linda Rae Reade (born February 1, 1948) is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Iowa. Early life and education Born in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, Reade graduated from Drake Unive ...

(born 1948), United States District judge * Matthew Reade, several *

Nicholas Reade Nicholas Stewart Reade (born 9 December 1946) is a retired British Anglican bishop. He was the Bishop of Blackburn in the Province of York from 2004 to 2012. Early life and education Reade was born on 9 December 1946.Who's Who 2008: London, A & C ...

(born 1946), former Bishop of Blackburn *

Paul Reade Paul Geoffrey Reade (10 January 1943 – 7 June 1997) was an English composer. Born in Lancashire, he studied at the Royal Academy of Music and worked at English National Opera as a ''répétiteur''. In 1991 he received an Ivor Novello Award f ...

(1943–1997), English composer *

Pauline Reade The Moors murders were carried out by Ian Brady and Myra Hindley between July 1963 and October 1965, in and around Manchester, England. The victims were five children—Pauline Reade, John Kilbride, Keith Bennett, Lesley Ann Downey, and Edward E ...

, murder victim * Peter Reade (born 1939), British former sailor *

Reade baronets There have been two baronetcies created for members of the Reade (or Read) family, both in the Baronetage of England. Both creations are now extinct. The Reade Baronetcy, of Brocket Hall in the County of Hertford, was created in the Baronetage ...

, family, both in the Baronetage of England *

Richard Reade Sir Richard Reade (1511–1576) was an English-born judge in sixteenth-century Ireland, who held the office of Lord Chancellor of Ireland. Background and early career He was born at Nether Wallop in Hampshire, second son of Richard Reade (die ...

(1511–1575), English-born judge * Robert Reade, bishop *

Shanaze Reade Shanaze Danielle Reade (born 23 September 1988 in Crewe, Cheshire, United Kingdom) is a British former bicycle motocross (BMX) racer and track cyclist whose prime competitive years began in 2002. She has won the UCI BMX World Championships th ...

(born 1988), British professional BMX rider *

Sophie Reade ''Big Brother 2009'', also known as ''Big Brother 10'', was the tenth series of the British reality television series '' Big Brother''. The show followed a total of twenty-two contestants, who were isolated from the outside world for an extended ...

, game show contestant *

Tara Reade During the 2020 election campaign for President of the United States in March 2020, Tara Reade, a former staffer in Joe Biden's U.S. Senate office, alleged that Biden, the former U.S. vice president and Democratic nominee in the 2020 pres ...

, former U.S. Senate aide *

Teddy Reade Theodore Reade is an American professional wrestler who is known for his short-lived stint in World Championship Wrestling. As of 2013 Reade was working on the independent circuit. World Championship Wrestling In 1999 Reade went under the rin ...

, American professional wrestler *

Thomas Mellard Reade Thomas Mellard Reade FGS (1832 – 1909) was an English geologist, architect and civil engineer. Life Reade laid out the Blundellsands Estate in Liverpool in 1868. He also published geological works ''The Origin of Mountain Ranges'' (1886), ...

(1832–1909), English geologist, architect, and civil engineer *

Thomas Reade Sir Thomas Reade (1782 – 1 August 1849) was a British army officer during the Napoleonic Wars, known also as a collector. In 1799, at the age of sixteen, he ran away from home to enlist in the army and participate in campaigns in Holland, Egy ...

(1782–1849), British army officer *

Walter Reade ''Walter Reade'' was the name of a father and son who had an extensive career in the United States motion picture industry. Walter Reade Sr. Walter Reade, Sr. (1884–1952) was the man behind a chain of theatres which grew from a single theatre ...

(1884–1952), American theater founder *

William Reade (bishop) William Reade or William Rede (1315-1385) was a medieval bishop, theologian and astronomer. Education Reade was initially brought up, from boyhood to maturity, by his friend and protégé Nicholas of Sandwich. He was then educated at Exeter C ...

(1283–1385), medieval Bishop of Chichester *

William Winwood Reade William Winwood Reade (26 December 1838 – 24 April 1875) was a British historian, explorer, novelist and philosopher. His two best-known books, the universal history ''The Martyrdom of Man'' (1872) and the novel ''The Outcast'' (1875), were i ...

(1838–1875), English historian, explorer, and philosopher

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