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Annette Snell Annette Snell (March 22, 1945 – April 4, 1977) was an American rhythm and blues singer who recorded in the 1960s and 1970s. She died in the Southern Airways Flight 242 crash. Biography She was born Annetta Snell in Sandersville, Georgia, a ...
(1945–1977), American R&B singer *
Belinda Snell Belinda Snell (born 10 January 1981) is an Australian women's basketball player. She is a member of the Australia women's national basketball team, and has won two silver medals in basketball at the 2004 & 2008 Summer Olympics, a bronze medal at ...
(born 1981), Australian basketball player * Benny Snell (born 1998), American football player *
Bertrand Snell Bertrand Hollis Snell (December 9, 1870 – February 2, 1958) was an American politician who represented upstate New York in the United States House of Representatives. He was a pro-business, low-tax, isolationist conservative Republican who ...
(1870–1958), American politician *
Blake Snell Blake Ashton Snell (born December 4, 1992), is an American professional baseball pitcher for the San Diego Padres of Major League Baseball (MLB). The Tampa Bay Rays selected Snell in the first round of the 2011 Major League Baseball draft. ...
(born 1992), American baseball player *
David Snell (disambiguation) David Snell may refer to: *David Snell (composer) (1897–1967), American composer of scores for 170 films *David Snell (musician) (born 1936), British harpist, composer and conductor *David Snell (screenwriter), Australian screenwriter, see AACTA ...
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Earl Snell Earl Wilcox Snell (July 11, 1895 – October 28, 1947) was an American politician, businessman, and member of the Republican Party, serving in the Oregon House of Representatives, as the Oregon Secretary of State, and as the 23rd Governor of Or ...
(1895–1947), American politician and Governor of Oregon * Edward Snell (cricketer) (1906–1973) English cricketer *
Edward Snell (engineer) Edward Snell (1820–1880) was a diarist, artist, civil engineer and surveyor, responsible for the design of the Geelong – Melbourne Railway for the Geelong and Melbourne Railway Company. Early life Snell was born 27 November 1820, in Barns ...
(1820–1880), British and Australian diarist, artist, engineer and surveyor * Frida Snell (born 1981), Swedish pop/rock singer * Edward Snell, mayor of Durban, South Africa (1856–1857, 1867–1868, 1868–1869) *
Gareth Snell Gareth Craig Snell (born 1 January 1986) is a British politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Stoke-on-Trent Central from 2017 to 2019. A member of the Labour and Co-operative parties, he was Leader of Newcastle-under-Lyme Borou ...
(born 1986), British politician *
George Davis Snell George Davis Snell NAS (December 19, 1903 – June 6, 1996) was an American mouse geneticist and basic transplant immunologist. Work George Snell shared the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Baruj Benacerraf and Jean Dausset ...
(1903–1996), American geneticist and Nobel Prize winner *
Hannah Snell Hannah Snell (23 April 1723 – 8 February 1792) was a British woman who disguised herself as a man and became a soldier. Hannah Snell was mentioned in James Woodforde's diary entry of 21 May 1778 selling buttons, garters, and laces. Biograp ...
(1723–1792), British soldier * Harold Snell (Darwin businessman) (1892–1949), Australian soldier, miner and businessman *
Harry Snell, 1st Baron Snell Henry Snell, 1st Baron Snell (1 April 1865 – 21 April 1944), was a British socialist politician and campaigner. He served in government under Ramsay MacDonald and Winston Churchill, and as the Labour Party's leader in the House of Lords i ...
(1865–1944), British politician *
Henry B. Snell Henry Bayley Snell (September 29, 1858 – January 17, 1943) was an American Impressionist painter and educator. Snell's paintings are in museum collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, the Albright–Knox Art Galle ...
(1858–1943), English-American painter *
Henry Saxon Snell Henry Saxon Snell (4 April 1831 – 10 January 1904) was a noted architect who specialised in health facilities and designed many London hospitals and other public buildings. He was the author of two significant architectural books: ''Hospital Co ...
(1831–1904), British architect * Howard Dunster Snell (born 1936), British trumpet player, composer and conductor *
Ian Snell Ian Dante Snell (born October 30, 1981) is an American former professional baseball right-handed pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Pittsburgh Pirates and Seattle Mariners. From 2001 to 2003, he went by the name Ian Oquendo ...
(born 1981), American baseball player * Joyce Snell (born 1930), British statistician * J. Laurie Snell (born 1928-2011), American mathematician *
John Snell (disambiguation) John Snell (died 1679) was founder of the Snell Exhibitions at the University of Oxford. John Snell may also refer to: *John Snell (MP for Stafford), Member of Parliament (MP) for Stafford (UK Parliament constituency), Stafford 1390 *John Snell ( ...
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Matt Snell Matthews Snell (born August 18, 1941) is a retired professional football player who played for the New York Jets. He was Jets' owner Sonny Werblin's first coup, prior to his 1965 acquisition of Joe Namath. A powerful fullback out of Ohio Stat ...
(born 1941), American professional football player * Nicholas Snell (disambiguation), English politicians * Peter Snell (1938–2019), New Zealand athlete * Peter Snell (producer), Canadian film producer *
Princess Snell Princess Tinkerbell Cristina Marjorie Pedere Snell (born 14 April 1992), later known by her stage name Nathalie Hart, is an Australian-Filipino actress who was one of the finalists in the fifth season of '' StarStruck''. Career Before auditi ...
(born 1992), Filipina actress * Richard Snell (disambiguation) *
Roderick Snell Roderick Saxon Snell is a British electronics engineer, born 1940, who co-founded Snell & Wilcox in 1973, working full-time for it from 1988. The company grew to about five hundred people in the late 1990s. Snell remained on the board during the ...
(born 1940), British electronics engineer * Roy J. Snell (1878–1959), American writer * Ted Snell (born 1946), Canadian ice hockey player * Tony Snell (RAF officer) (1922–2013), RAF pilot and
World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposing ...
escapee * Tony Snell (poet) (born 1938), Cornish teacher, linguist, scholar, singer, waterman, and poet *
Tony Snell (basketball) Tony Rena Snell Jr. (born November 10, 1991) is an American professional basketball player for the Maine Celtics of the NBA G League. He played college basketball for the New Mexico Lobos. He was drafted with the 20th overall pick in the 2013 N ...
(born 1991), American basketball player * Wally Snell (1889–1980), American baseball player and mycologist *
Willebrord Snellius Willebrord Snellius (born Willebrord Snel van Royen) (13 June 158030 October 1626) was a Dutch astronomer and mathematician, Snell. His name is usually associated with the law of refraction of light known as Snell's law. The lunar crater Sn ...
or Snell (1580–1626), Dutch mathematician ( Snell's law)


Fictional characters

*Balso Snell, in the 1931 novel ''
The Dream Life of Balso Snell ''The Dream Life of Balso Snell'' is a 1931 novel by American author Nathanael West. West's first novel, it presents a young man's immature and cynical search for meaning in a series of dreamlike encounters inside the entrails of the Trojan Horse ...
'' by Nathanael West *Robert and Linda Snell, characters in ''The Archers'', a radio soap opera *
Sue Snell Susan D. Snell is a fictional character created by American author Stephen King in his first published 1974 horror novel, '' Carrie''. She is a popular teenage girl dating Tommy Ross. After tormenting Carrie White in the locker room, Sue begins ...
, in the 1974 novel ''Carrie'' by Stephen King *June Snell, appeared in ''
Only Fools and Horses ''Only Fools and Horses....'' is a British television sitcom created and written by John Sullivan (writer), John Sullivan. Seven series were originally broadcast on BBC One in the United Kingdom from 1981 to 1991, with sixteen sporadic Christmas ...
'' episodes "
Happy Returns "Happy Returns" is an episode of the BBC sitcom ''Only Fools and Horses''. It was the first episode of series 4, and was first broadcast on 21 February 1985. In the episode, when Del discovers that Rodney's latest girlfriend is the daughter of a ...
" & " A Royal Flush" *Jacob & Darlene Snell, characters in ''
Ozark The Ozarks, also known as the Ozark Mountains, Ozark Highlands or Ozark Plateau, is a physiographic region in the U.S. states of Missouri, Arkansas, Oklahoma and the extreme southeastern corner of Kansas. The Ozarks cover a significant porti ...
'', an American crime drama series on
Netflix Netflix, Inc. is an American subscription video on-demand over-the-top streaming service and production company based in Los Gatos, California. Founded in 1997 by Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph in Scotts Valley, California, it offers a fi ...


See also

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John Blashford-Snell Colonel John Nicholas Blashford-Snell (born 22 October 1936) is a former British Army officer, explorer and author. He founded Operation Raleigh and the Scientific Exploration Society. Early life and education John Nicholas Blashford-Snell was ...
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Snel Snel is a Dutch surname. ''Snel'' means "quick" in Dutch. The origin of the surname often was patronymic, as Snel and Snelle were short forms of the archaic Germanic given name Snellaard (which originally meant "lively and strong").Snellen Snellen is a Dutch surname. ''Snel'' means "quick" in Dutch and the original bearer of the name may have been a lively person. However, the origin of the surname often was patronymic, as Snel and Snelle were short forms of the archaic Germanic give ...
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Schnell Schnell is a surname of German origin meaning ''fast'' or ''quickly'' and may refer to: *Claude Schnell (contemporary), heavy metal keyboardist * Edward Schnell (fl. mid-19th century), German arms dealer in Japan; brother of Henry Schnell * F. Wolf ...
, German version of the surname


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