Worcester is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include:
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Alec Worcester
Alec Worcester (1887–1952) was a British stage and silent film actor. He played the lead role opposite Alma Taylor in '' The Cloister and the Hearth'' and was the lead in fifty shorts.Goble p.384 He was married to the actress Violet Hopson un ...
(1887-1952), British stage and silent film actor
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Alfred Worcester (1855-1951), American medical doctor, pioneer in patient care, appendicitis, Caesarean section
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Bevan Worcester (1925-1969), Australian sailor
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Dean Conant Worcester
Dean Conant Worcester, D.Sc., FRGS (October 1, 1866 – May 2, 1924) was an American zoologist, public official, and authority on the Philippines. He was born at Thetford, Vermont, and educated at the University of Michigan (A.B., 1889). He first ...
(1866–1924), American zoologist, public official, and businessman
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Donald E. Worcester
Donald E. Worcester (1915-2003) was an American historian who specialized in Southwestern United States and Latin American history. He was president of the Western History Association from 1974-1975.
Worcester graduated from Bard College in 1939 ...
(1915-2003), historian of the American Southwest
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Henry Aiken Worcester Henry Aiken Worcester (Sept. 25, 1802 – May 21, 1841) was a Yale University alumnus, a vegetarian, and a Swedenborgian minister who worked in Maine and Massachusetts. His "''Sermons on the Lord's Prayer''" was published posthumously in 1850 .
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(1802-1841), American Swedenborgian minister and vegetarian
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Jane Worcester (died 1989), American biostatistician and epidemiologist
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Joseph Emerson Worcester
Joseph Emerson Worcester (August 24, 1784 – October 27, 1865) was an American lexicographer who was the chief competitor to Noah Webster of ''Webster's Dictionary'' in the mid-nineteenth-century. Their rivalry became known as the "dictionary ...
(1784–1865), American lexicographer
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Kent Worcester
Kent Worcester (born 1959) is an American political scientist, historian, and songwriter. His work deals with popular culture, intellectual history, trade unions, and social democracy. He has written extensively on comics and graphic novels and w ...
(born 1959), political scientist, historian, critic, and songwriter
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Maud Worcester Makemson
Maud Worcester Makemson (September 16, 1891—December 25, 1977) was an American astronomer, a specialist on archaeoastronomy, and director of Vassar Observatory.
Early life and education
Maud Lavon Worcester was born in 1891 in Center Harbor, ...
(1891-1977), astronomer
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Noah Worcester Noah Worcester (November 25, 1758 – October 31, 1837) was a Unitarian clergyman and a seminal figure in the history of American pacifism.
Life
Worcester was born in Hollis, New Hampshire, to a father of the same name, who had been one of the f ...
(1758–1837), American peace activist
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Robert Worcester
Sir Robert Milton Worcester, (born 21 December 1933) is an American-born British Opinion poll, pollster who is the founder of Ipsos MORI, MORI (Market & Opinion Research International Ltd.) and a member and contributor to many voluntary organ ...
(born 1933), founder of Market and Opinion Research International Ltd.
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Samuel Worcester
Samuel Austin Worcester (January 19, 1798 – April 20, 1859), was an American missionary to the Cherokee, translator of the Bible, printer, and defender of the Cherokee sovereignty. He collaborated with Elias Boudinot (Cherokee) in Georgia to ...
(1798–1859), American missionary to the Cherokees
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Samuel Worcester (theologian) (1770–1821), Unitarian controversialist
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Samuel T. Worcester
Samuel Thomas Worcester (August 30, 1804 – December 6, 1882) was an American lawyer and politician who served one term as a United States House of Representatives, U.S. Representative from Ohio from 1861 to 1863.
Biography
Born in Hollis, Ne ...
(1804–1882), American politician
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Samuel Worcester Rowse (1822-1901), illustrator
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Thomas Worcester Hyde (1841-1899), Union brigadier general
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Thomas Worcester, American
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Tracy Worcester
Tracy Louise Somerset, Duchess of Beaufort (née Ward; born 22 December 1958) is a British duchess, environmental activist, and former actress. She is usually known as Tracy Worcester, the married style that she often used before 2017, and as an ...
(born 1958), English actress and environmental activist
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Wayne Worcester (born 1947), American journalist, author, and professor
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William Worcester
William Worcester, also called William of Worcester, William Worcestre or William Botoner (1415) was an English topographer, antiquary and chronicler.
Life
He was a son of another William of Worcester, a Bristol whittawer (worker in white leather ...
(c. 1415 – c. 1482), English chronicler and antiquary
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English toponymic surnames