Borden (surname)

Borden is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *

Amanda Borden Amanda Kathleen Borden (born May 10, 1977) is a retired American gymnast. She was the captain of the gold medal-winning United States team in the 1996 Summer Olympics, the Magnificent Seven; a team medalist at the World Championships, and a mult ...

(born 1977), American gymnast *

Delyone Borden Delyone Charles Clarence Borden (born 4 March 1985) is a Bermudian cricketer, who has played in one One Day International with the Bermudian cricket team. He is a left-handed batsman and a right-arm off-break bowler, who has also represented B ...

(1985– ), Bermudan cricketer *

Eugene Borden Eugene Borden (born Élysée Eugène Prieur-Bardin, March 21, 1897 – July 2, 1971) was an American character actor in silent and sound films. Born in France, he immigrated to the United States as a teenager, and entered the film industry a sh ...

(1897–1971), American character actor *Sir

Frederick Borden Sir Frederick William Borden, (May 14, 1847 – January 6, 1917) was a Canadian politician. While he was the Minister for Militia and Defence, he was the father of the most famous Canadian casualty of the Second Boer War Harold Lothrop Borden. H ...

(1847–1917), Canadian Minister of Militia and Defence, 1896–1911 *

Gail Borden Gail Borden Jr. (November 9, 1801 – January 11, 1874) was a native New Yorker who settled in Texas in 1829 (then still Mexico), where he worked as a land surveyor, newspaper publisher, and inventor. He created a process in 1853 to make sweet ...

(1801–1874), inventor of condensed milk and founder of Borden, Inc. *

Gail Borden (figure skater) Gail Borden II (February 19, 1907 – September 11, 1991) was a 1932 Olympic figure skater in men's singles for the United States, and also placed in the World Figure Skating Championships of 1930 and 1934. He later became a radio and television fi ...

(1907–1991), American figure skater *

Harry Borden Harry Borden (born 1965) is a British portrait photographer based in London. His subjects have included celebrities and politicians. Examples of Borden's work are held in the collections of the National Portrait Gallery, LondonIain Borden Iain Borden (born in Oxford in 1962) is an English architectural historian and urban commentator. Career Educated at Magdalen College School, Oxford (MCS), Iain Borden graduated from University of Newcastle upon Tyne in 1985, and went on to comp ...

(b. 1962), English architectural historian * James W. Borden (1810–1882), judge and diplomat *

Laura Borden Laura Borden, Lady Borden (née Bond; November 26, 1861 – September 7, 1940) was the wife of Robert Borden, Sir Robert Laird Borden who was the eighth Prime Minister of Canada. She was born in Halifax (former city), Nova Scotia, Halifax, Nova ...

(1863–1940), wife of Canadian Prime Minister Robert Borden *

Lizzie Borden Lizzie Andrew Borden (July 19, 1860 – June 1, 1927) was an American woman tried and acquitted of the August 4, 1892 axe murders of her father and stepmother in Fall River, Massachusetts. No one else was charged in the murders, and despite ost ...

(1860–1927), American murder suspect; subject of an American nursery rhyme *

Lizzie Borden (director) Lizzie Borden (born 1950 or 1958) is an American filmmaker, and is best known for her early independent films ''Born in Flames'' (1983) and '' Working Girls'' (1986). Early life The daughter of a Detroit stockbroker, originally named Linda Eliz ...

(born Linda Borden, 1958– ) *

Mary Borden Mary Borden (May 15, 1886 – December 2, 1968) (married names: Mary Turner; Mary Spears, Lady Spears; pseud. Bridget Maclagan) was an American-British novelist and poet whose work drew on her experiences as a war nurse. She was the second of ...

(1886–1968), 20th century novelist *

Olive Borden Olive Mary Borden (July 14, 1906 – October 1, 1947) was an American film and stage actress who began her career during the silent film era. She was nicknamed "the Joy Girl", after playing the lead in the 1927 film of that same title. Borden ...

(1906–1947), American film actress *

Sir Robert Laird Borden Sir Robert Laird Borden (June 26, 1854 – June 10, 1937) was a Canadian lawyer and politician who served as the eighth prime minister of Canada from 1911 to 1920. He is best known for his leadership of Canada during World War I. Borde ...

(1854–1937), eighth Prime Minister of Canada, 1911–1920 *Steve Borden (born 1959), American professional wrestler better known as

Sting Sting may refer to: * Stinger or sting, a structure of an animal to inject venom, or the injury produced by a stinger * Irritating hairs or prickles of a stinging plant, or the plant itself Fictional characters and entities * Sting (Middle-eart ...

Walter Borden Walter Marven Borden, (born July 20, 1942) is a Canadian actor, poet and playwright. He is originally from New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, New Glasgow, Nova Scotia.

(born 1942), Canadian actor, poet and playwright *

William Alanson Borden William Alanson Borden (4 April 1853 – 31 November 1931) was an American librarian and an organizer of city libraries in India who was an innovator of cataloguing systems. He was invited to Baroda by its ruler Sayajirao Gaekwad III, Sayajirao Gae ...

(1853-1931), American librarian *

William Cline Borden William Cline Borden (May 9, 1858 – August 18, 1934) was an American surgeon who was a key planner behind the Walter Reed Army Medical Center. Borden was also dean of the School of Medicine at George Washington University. According to the med ...

(1858–1934), American surgeon and planner of Walter Reed Army Medical Center *

William L. Borden William Liscum Borden (1920October 8, 1985) was an American lawyer. As executive director of the United States Congress Joint Committee on Atomic Energy from 1949 to 1953, he became one of the most powerful people advocating for nuclear weapons d ...

(1920–1985), American congressional aide and figure in the Oppenheimer security case *

William Whiting Borden William Whiting Borden (November 1, 1887 – April 9, 1913) was an American philanthropist and millionaire Christian missionary candidate who died in Egypt before reaching his chosen field, Gansu province in China. Life and work Childhood an ...

(1887–1913), American philanthropist and missionary *

Win Borden Winston W. "Win" Borden (September 1, 1943 – January 20, 2014) was an American lawyer, businessman, and politician. Born in Brainerd, Minnesota, Borden received his bachelor's degree from St. Cloud State University, his master's degree from ...

(1943–2014), American politician, lawyer, and businessman Fictional characters: *Alfred Borden, a character in the book ''

The Prestige ''The Prestige'' is a 1995 fantasy novel by British writer Christopher Priest. It tells the story of a prolonged feud between two stage magicians in late 1800s England. It is epistolary in structure; that is, it purports to be a collection of ...

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film adaptation A film adaptation is the transfer of a work or story, in whole or in part, to a feature film. Although often considered a type of derivative work, film adaptation has been conceptualized recently by academic scholars such as Robert Stam as a dial ...

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