Bottomley and its homophone Bottomly are English surnames. They come from the placename formed by combining geographic terms " bottom" and " ley", and which refers to two small settlements each on opposite sides of a hill near Walsden and
Halifax, West Yorkshire
Halifax is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale, in West Yorkshire, England. It is in the eastern foothills of the Pennines. In the 15th century, the town became an economic hub of the old West Riding of Yorkshire, primarily in woo ...
. It first appears in written records from 1277. Notable people with these surnames include:
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Arthur Bottomley
Arthur George Bottomley, Baron Bottomley, (7 February 1907 – 3 November 1995) was a British Labour Party politician, Member of Parliament and minister.
Early life
Before entering parliament he was a trade union organiser of the National Un ...
(1907–1995), British Labour politician
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Christine Bottomley
Christine Bottomley (born 27 April 1979) is an English actress. Her television roles include playing Kirsty in ''EastEnders'' (2001), Melanie in '' Early Doors'' (2003–2004), Susie Ward in '' Heartbeat'' (2003), and Zoey Wyatt in '' Shameless ...
(born 1979), English actress
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Gordon Bottomley
Gordon Bottomley (20 February 187425 August 1948) was an English poet, known particularly for his verse dramas. He was partly disabled by tubercular illness. His main influences were the later Victorian Romantic poets, the Pre-Raphaelites and Wi ...
(1874–1948), English poet
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Horatio Bottomley
Horatio William Bottomley (23 March 1860 – 26 May 1933) was an English financier, journalist, editor, newspaper proprietor, swindler, and Member of Parliament. He is best known for his editorship of the popular magazine ''John Bull (maga ...
(1860–1933), British journalist, newspaper proprietor and fraudster, MP for Hackney South
* James Bottomley (diplomat) (1920–2013), British diplomat
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James Thomson Bottomley
James Thomson Bottomley (10 January 1845 – 18 May 1926) was an Irish-born British physicist.
He is noted for his work on thermal radiation and on his creation of 4-figure logarithm tables, used to convert long multiplication and division ca ...
(1845–1926), British physicist
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Jim Bottomley
James Leroy Bottomley (April 23, 1900 – December 11, 1959) was an American professional baseball first baseman, Scout (sport), scout and Manager (baseball), manager. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a first baseman from 1922 to 19 ...
(1900–1959), baseball player
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John Bottomley
John Bottomley (September 17, 1960 – April 6, 2011) was a Canadian singer-songwriter.
He started in music in the early 1980s with the band Tulpa, which also included his brother Chris,Bottomly v. Passamaquoddy Tribe
*John Wallace Bottomley (1934–2017), English television presenter, better known as
John Noakes
John Noakes (born John Wallace Bottomley; 6 March 1934 – 28 May 2017) was an English television presenter and actor. He co-presented the BBC children's magazine programme '' Blue Peter'' in the 1960s and 1970s and is the show's longest-servin ...
Norman Bottomley
Air Chief Marshal Sir Norman Howard Bottomley, (18 September 1891 – 13 August 1970) was the successor to Arthur 'Bomber' Harris as Commander-in-Chief of RAF Bomber Command in 1945.
RAF career
Born in Ripponden, West Riding of Yorkshire, Bott ...
, senior Royal Air Force commander
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Peter Bottomley
Sir Peter James Bottomley (born 30 July 1944) is a British Conservative Party politician who served as a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1975 until 2024, last representing Worthing West.
First elected at a by-election for the former consti ...
(born 1944), British Conservative politician
* Susan Bottomly (born 1950), aka International Velvet, American model and actress
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Virginia Bottomley
Virginia Hilda Brunette Maxwell Bottomley, Baroness Bottomley of Nettlestone, (née Garnett, born 12 March 1948) is a British Conservative Party politician and headhunter. She was a Member of Parliament (MP) in the House of Commons from 198 ...
Bottomley projection
The Bottomley map projection is a pseudoconical equal area map projection defined as:
:x = \frac, \qquad y = \frac - \rho \cos E \,
where
:\rho = \frac - \varphi, \qquad E = \frac
and ''φ'' is the latitude, ''λ'' is the longitude from th ...