Flemming is a surname and a male given name referring, like the more common '' Fleming'', to an inhabitant (or descendant thereof) of
Flanders
Flanders (, ; Dutch: ''Vlaanderen'' ) is the Flemish-speaking northern portion of Belgium and one of the communities, regions and language areas of Belgium. However, there are several overlapping definitions, including ones related to cultu ...
,Flemming Behind the Name. a region overlapping parts of modern Belgium, France, and the Netherlands. Notable people with the name include:
Hugh John Flemming
Hugh John Flemming (January 5, 1899 – October 16, 1982) was a politician and the 24th premier of New Brunswick from 1952 to 1960.
He is always known as "Hugh John". Born in Peel, New Brunswick, Canada, the son of James Kidd Flemming, Premi ...
, Canadian politician
* James Kidd Flemming, Canadian businessman and politician
* Jane Flemming, Austrian track and field athlete
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Jimmy Flemming
Jimmy Flemming (born September 14, 1966) is a retired sprinter who represented the United States Virgin Islands. He competed in the men's 100 metres at the 1988 Summer Olympics
The 1988 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games ...
, U.S. Virgin Islands sprinter
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John Flemming
John Stanton Flemming CBE FBA (6 February 1941, Reading, Berkshire, England – 5 August 2003, Oxford, England) was an economist and Warden of Wadham College, Oxford.John Flemming (racing driver), Canadian racing driver
* Margot Flemming, Canadian curler
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Marilies Flemming
Marilies Flemming (born 16 December 1933 in Wiener Neustadt, Austria) was an Austrian Member of the European Parliament. In the European Parliament, she used the name Marialiese Flemming. She is a member of the European People's Party (Austrian Pe ...
, Austrian politician
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Michael Anthony Flemming
Michael Anthony Flemming (born 1948) is a British physicist. He was educated at King George V GS, Southport, from where he gained a place to read Physics at New College, Oxford, specializing in solid-state physics and electronics. He continued h ...
, British physicist
* Paul Flemming, Canadian curler
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Peter Flemming
Peter Flemming (born 1967) is a Canadian television actor best known for playing Agent Malcolm Barrett on Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis and Chuck Greene in Dead Rising 2.
Early life
Flemming was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where ...
, Canadian actor
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Peter Flemming (artist)
Peter Flemming (born 1973 in Burlington, Ontario) is a Canadian artist known for his site-variable kinetic and sound installation works using electronic, mechanical and robotic technologies. Flemming holds an AOCA diploma from the Ontario College ...
, Canadian installation artist
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Robert Flemming
Robert Flemming (died 1456), was dean of Lincoln.
Background
Robert Flemming, born in the diocese of York, was likely an illegitimate son of Robert Flemming, esquire, of Wath, near Ripon (d.1459). His aunt, Cecily Fleming, married, in 1407, Ro ...
, English cleric
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Robert F. Flemming Jr.
Robert Francis Flemming Jr. (July 1839 – February 23, 1919) was an American inventor and Union sailor in the American Civil War. He was the first crew member aboard the USS ''Housatonic'' to spot the H.L. Hunley before it sank the USS ''Hous ...
, American inventor and sailor
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Sarah Mae Flemming
Sarah Mae Flemming Brown (June 28, 1933 – June 16, 1993) was an African-American woman who was expelled from a bus in Columbia, South Carolina, seventeen months before Rosa Parks refused to surrender her seat on an Alabama bus in 1955. Flemm ...
, American civil rights activist
* Scott Flemming, American basketball coach
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Ted Flemming (footballer)
Edward Joseph Flemming (30 October 1902, date of death unknown) was an Australian rules football
Australian football, also called Australian rules football or Aussie rules, or more simply football or footy, is a contact sport played betw ...
Thomas Flemming
Thomas Flemming (born 14 July 1967, in Bad Schlema) is a former freestyle swimmer from East Germany, who competed for his native country at the 1988 Summer Olympics.
There he won the silver medal in the 4×200 m freestyle, alongside Uwe ...
, German swimmer
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Walther Flemming
Walther Flemming (21 April 1843 – 4 August 1905) was a German biologist and a founder of cytogenetics.
He was born in Sachsenberg (now part of Schwerin) as the fifth child and only son of the psychiatrist Carl Friedrich Flemming (1799–1880 ...
Flemming Flindt
Flemming Flindt (30 June 1936 – 3 March 2009) was a Danish choreographer born in Copenhagen. He studied at the Royal Danish Ballet and Paris Opera Ballet schools, joined the Royal Danish Ballet and was promoted to soloist in 1955. He guested wi ...
, Danish choreographer
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Flemming Hansen (disambiguation) Flemming Hansen may refer to:
*Flemming Hansen (politician)
Flemming Hansen (9 August 1939 – 30 April 2021Flemming Møller Mortensen
Flemming Møller Mortensen (born 3 July 1963 in Store Brøndum) is a Danish politician of the Social Democrats who has been serving as a member of the Folketing since the 2007 elections. He is currently serving as Minister for Development and ...