Twitchell (also spelled Twichell) is a

surname In many societies, a surname, family name, or last name is the mostly hereditary portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family. It is typically combined with a given name to form the full name of a person, although several give ...

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Chase Twichell Chase Twichell (born August 20, 1950) is an American poet, professor, publisher, and, in 1999, the founder of Ausable Press. ''Horses Where the Answers Should Have Been '' (Copper Canyon Press, 2010) earned her Claremont Graduate University's pres ...

, American poet * Jenny Twitchell Kempton (1835–1921), American operatic contralto * Rev. Dr.

Joseph Twichell Reverend Joseph Hopkins Twichell (November 30, 1838 – December 20, 1918) was a writer and Congregational minister from Hartford, Connecticut. He was a close friend of writer Mark Twain for over forty years and is believed to be the model for t ...

, New England reverend, friend of Mark Twain *

Karl Twitchell Karl Saben Twitchell (b. 1885 - d. 1968) was an American mining engineer. Twitchell was born in St. Albans, Vermont in 1885. After graduating from St. Albans High School, he attended the Kingston School of Mines at Queens University, Kingston, Ont ...

, American engineer and surveyor *

Kent Twitchell Kent Twitchell (born August 17, 1942, Lansing, Michigan) is an American muralist who is most active in Los Angeles. He is most famous for his larger-than-life mural portraits, often of celebrities and artists. His murals are realism not photore ...

, American artist *

Mark Twitchell Mark Andrew Twitchell (born July 4, 1979) is a Canadian convicted of first-degree murder in April 2011 for the murder of John Brian Altinger. His trial attracted particular media attention because Twitchell had allegedly been inspired by the fi ...

, Canadian filmmaker convicted of murder * Marshall H. Twitchell, Louisiana state senator and carpetbagger during the Reconstruction Era in the United States *

Paul Twitchell Paul Twitchell (born Jacob Paul Twitchell; October 22, 1908 or 1909 – September 17, 1971) was an American writer and spiritual teacher who created and directed the development of the new religious movement known as Eckankar. Twitchell describe ...

, American religious leader *

Ralph Twitchell Ralph Spencer Twitchell (July 27, 1890 – January 30, 1978) was one of the founding members of the Sarasota School of Architecture. He is considered the father of the group of modernist architecture practitioners, including Paul Rudol ...

, American architect *

Wayne Twitchell Wayne may refer to: People with the given name and surname * Wayne (given name) * Wayne (surname) Geographical Places with name ''Wayne'' may take their name from a person with that surname; the most famous such person was Gen. "Mad" Antho ...

, American baseball player

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