Sankey, also spelled Sanchi, Zanchi may refer to: People: * Bishop Sankey (b 1992), American football running back * Ben Sankey (b 1976), American football quarterback * Ben Sankey (1907-2001), American baseball player * Clarence Sankey (1913-1996), Australian cricketer * David Sankey, Pennsylvanian state senator * Derek Sankey (b 1948), Canadian basketball player * Herbert Stuart Sankey (1854-1940), British barrister and politician * Ira D. Sankey (1840–1908), American gospel singer and composer *

Jay Sankey Jay Sankey is a Canadian close-up magician and a prolific creator of magic effects. He has been an active stage performer since the mid-1980s. Work He is known as a stand-up comedian and authored a book about the art of stand-up, ''Zen and the Ar ...

, Canadian magician * Jerome Sankey, English Civil War soldier and politician *

John Sankey, 1st Viscount Sankey John Sankey, 1st Viscount Sankey, (26 October 1866 – 6 February 1948) was a British lawyer, judge, Labour politician and Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, famous for many of his judgments in the House of Lords. He gave his name to ...

(1866–1948), British politician * John Sankey, Australian heavy metal drummer * Joseph Sankey (b 1826), founder of Joseph Sankey & Sons Ltd. later part of

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Matthew Henry Phineas Riall Sankey Matthew Henry Phineas Riall Sankey (9 November 1853 – 3 October 1925) was an Irish-born engineer and captain in the Royal Engineers, known as the creator of the Sankey diagram. Biography Sankey was born at Nenagh in County Tipperary in 1 ...

(1853–1926), Irish engineer and creator of the Sankey diagram * Maurie Sankey (1940-1965), Australian rules football player * Philip Sankey (1830–1909), English clergyman and cricketer *

Richard Hieram Sankey Lieutenant-General Sir Richard Hieram Sankey (22 March 1829 – 11 November 1908) was an officer in the Royal (Madras) Engineers in the East India Company's army in British India, later transferring to the British Army after the Indian Rebellio ...

(1829–1908), Irish engineer and major general in British India *

Sara Sankey Sara Sankey née Sara Halsall (born 29 September 1967) is a retired English badminton player. Badminton career In 1990, Sankey represented England when she attended the Commonwealth Games where she won gold medals in the mixed team event and w ...

(born 1967), English badminton player *

Stuart Sankey Stuart Sankey (December 31, 1927 – May 1, 2000) was a pedagogue of the double bass. His students included Gary Karr, the first bass player of the modern era to make a career as a solo artist, and Edgar Meyer. He taught for nearly 50 years at the ...

(1927-2000), American double bass player and teacher *

Tom Sankey Thomas P. Sankey (July 28, 1933 - August 26, 2010) was an American folk singer, playwright and actor known for the 1967 off Broadway production '' The Golden Screw''. In 1962, Sankey contributed to the folksongs in Jonas Mekas's film of Allen Gi ...

(1891-1974), English footballer *

(d 2010), American folk singer * Tommy Sankey (b 1980), Republican member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. *

Verne Sankey Verne Sankey (1890 – February 8, 1934) and Gordon Alcorn were a pair of Depression-era outlaws whose successful kidnappings of Haskell Bohn and Charles Boettcher II in 1932 made them two of the most wanted criminals in the United States, an ...

(1890-1934), American Depression-era outlaw * William Sankey (1822-1892), British army officer Places: * Great Sankey, Warrington, England *

Sankey Canal The Sankey Canal in North West England, initially known as the Sankey Brook Navigation and later the St Helens Canal, is a former industrial canal, which when opened in 1757 was England's first of the Industrial revolution, and the first moder ...

, Lancashire, England *

Sankey railway station Sankey railway station, also known as Sankey for Penketh, is a railway station in the west of Warrington, Cheshire, England, serving the Great Sankey, Penketh and Whittle Hall areas of the town. The station, and all trains serving it, are oper ...

, Warrington, England * Sankey Tank, a man-made lake in Bangalore, India Other uses: * Sankey brick, a brick made in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania *

Sankey Viaduct The Sankey Viaduct is a railway viaduct in North West England. It is a designated Grade I listed building and has been described as being "the earliest major railway viaduct in the world". In 1826, the Liverpool and Manchester Railway Company ( ...

, a railway viaduct at St Helens, Merseyside, England * GKN Sankey F.C., an English football club previously known as Sankeys of Wellington *

Sankeys (nightclub) Sankeys is a nightclub franchise with its first nightclub in Ancoats, Manchester, United Kingdom. The company formerly operated a nightclub in Playa d’en Bossa, Ibiza and opened a New York City venue in 2013. Sankeys Manchester Sankeys f ...

, a nightclub in Manchester *The standard coupler for commercial beer

keg A keg is a small barrel. Wooden kegs made by a cooper were used to transport nails, gunpowder, and a variety of liquids. A keg is normally now constructed of stainless steel, although aluminium can be used if it is coated with plastic on th ...

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