Snell is a Cornish surname.

People

* Annette Snell (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 Benjamin Snell Jr. (born February 26, 1998) is an American football running back for the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Kentucky. Snell is the great-nephew of former New York Jets runni ...

(born 1998), American football player * Bertrand Snell (1870–1958), American politician * Blake Snell (born 1992), American baseball player * David Snell (disambiguation) *

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) (1820–1880), British and Australian diarist, artist, engineer and surveyor *

Frida Snell Frida Snell (born 22 December 1981) is a Swedish pop/rock singer from Kiruna. She has roots in the village Erkheikki in Pajala municipality and now lives there. The debut album ''Black Trillium'' was released in 2002 and contains the hit single ...

(born 1981), Swedish pop/rock singer * Edward Snell, mayor of Durban, South Africa (1856–1857, 1867–1868, 1868–1869) * Gareth Snell (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 (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 ...

(1865–1944), British politician * Henry B. Snell (1858–1943), English-American painter * Henry Saxon Snell (1831–1904), British architect * Howard Dunster Snell (born 1936), British trumpet player, composer and conductor * Ian Snell (born 1981), American baseball player *

Joyce Snell Joyce may refer to: People * Joyce (name), list of people and fictional characters with the given name or surname * Joyce, (born 1948), Brazilian singer-songwriter * James Joyce (1882–1941), Irish modernist writer Places * Joyce, Washington, an ...

(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 1390 * John Snell (15th-century MP), MP for Winchester i ...

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 Sta ...

(born 1941), American professional football player *

Nicholas Snell (disambiguation) Nicholas Snell may refer to: * Nicholas Snell (died 1577), MP for Chippenham, Malmesbury and Wiltshire * Nicholas Snell (fl.1373-1388), MP for Stafford (UK Parliament constituency) Stafford is a constituency represented in the House of Comm ...

, English politicians *

Peter Snell Sir Peter George Snell (17 December 1938 – 12 December 2019) was a New Zealand middle-distance runner. He won three Olympic gold medals, and is the only man since 1920 to have won the 800 and 1500 metres at the same Olympics, in 1964. Snel ...

(1938–2019), New Zealand athlete * Peter Snell (producer), Canadian film producer * Princess Snell (born 1992), Filipina actress *

Richard Snell (disambiguation) Richard Snell may refer to: * Richard Snell (businessman), former Federal-Mogul CEO * Richard Snell (cricketer) (born 1968), South African cricketer * Richard Snell (criminal) Richard Wayne Snell (May 21, 1930 – April 19, 1995) was an Ame ...

* Roderick Snell (born 1940), British electronics engineer *

Roy J. Snell Roy Judson Snell (November 20, 1878 – September 21, 1959) was an American writer of fiction mainly for young readers. Biography Snell was born in Laddonia, Missouri on November 12, 1878 to James and Sarah Knight-Snell. Snell wrote several j ...

(1878–1959), American writer *

Ted Snell Harold Edward Snell (born May 28, 1946) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey forward who played 104 games in the National Hockey League for the Kansas City Scouts, Pittsburgh Penguins, and Detroit Red Wings between 1973 and 1975. The rest ...

(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 World War II by country, vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great power ...

escapee *

Tony Snell (poet) Tony Snell (born 1936) is a Cornish teacher, linguist, scholar, singer, waterman and poet born in England.https://www.freebmd.org.uk/ He spent many years teaching at St. Edward's School, Oxford. He became a member of Gorseth Kernow in 1954 u ...

(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 20 ...

(born 1991), American basketball player *

Wally Snell Walter Henry "Doc" Snell (May 19, 1889 – July 23, 1980) was a pinch-hitter/catcher in Major League Baseball who played briefly for the Boston Red Sox during the season. Following this brief baseball career he became a successful mycologist ...

(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 S ...

or Snell (1580–1626), Dutch mathematician (

Snell's law Snell's law (also known as Snell–Descartes law and ibn-Sahl law and the law of refraction) is a formula used to describe the relationship between the angles of incidence and refraction, when referring to light or other waves passing through ...

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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, in the 1974 novel ''Carrie'' by

Stephen King Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, crime, science-fiction, and fantasy novels. Described as the "King of Horror", a play on his surname and a reference to his high ...

*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" & "

A Royal Flush "A Royal Flush" is the fifth Christmas special episode of the BBC sitcom, ''Only Fools and Horses'', first screened on 25 December 1986. It was re-edited into a shorter version with added laughter track and released on DVD in 2004. In the episode ...

" *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 por ...

'', an American crime drama series on

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