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List Of People With Surname Lee
This is a list of persons with the surname Lee. A * Agnes Lee, American poet * Alan Lee (footballer), former Irish footballer * Albert Lee, English guitarist * Alma Lee (1914-2000),, Swiss-born naturalised British philatelist * Alvin Lee (1944–2013), born Graham Barnes, English guitarist and lead singer of the band Ten Years After * Amasa Coleman Lee, American politician * Amos Lee, American singer * Amy Lee, American singer * Amy Freeman Lee, American artist, writer and lecturer * Anders Lee (born 1990), American ice hockey player * Andy Lee (American football), American football punter for the San Francisco 49ers of the NFL * Andy Lee (Korean singer), rapper/singer from boyband Shinhwa * Ang Lee, Oscar-winning Taiwanese film director * Ann Lee, leader of the Shaker movement * Ann Lee (actress) (1918–2003), American businesswoman and actress * Ann Lee (illustrator), botanical, insect and bird illustrator * Ann Lee (singer), English pop singer * Anna Lee, English actress, w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lee (English Name)
Lee is a common surname in English-speaking countries. In the United States during the year 2000 census, "Lee" was the 22nd-most-common surname.United States Census Bureau.Genealogy Data: Frequently Occurring Surnames from Census 2000". 27 Sept 2011. Accessed 29 Mar 2012. Origins China Lee is a common romanization of the Chinese surname 李, alternatively romanized as ''Li.'' in mandarin. England There are several distinct origins of the Lee surname. The most common is derived from Old English ''lēah'', meaning a meadow or forest clearing. This developed variously into the surnames Lee, Lea, and Leigh. Ireland The name in Ireland has several diverse origins, resulting in widely dispersed clusters of the name in South Western, Western (Galway) and North Eastern Counties.Michael C. O'Laughlin The Book of Irish Families: Great & Small – 2002 reprinted from Michael C. O'Laughlin Families of County Galway, Ireland – 1998 – Page 125 "Lea, Maclee, Macalea, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ann Lee (actress)
Ann Lee (August 8, 1918 - August 19, 2003) was an American businesswoman and actress. Early years Born August 8, 1918, in Amarillo, Texas, Lee was the daughter of James William Lee and DeMetres Thacker Lee. She grew up on the family's ranch north of Amarillo and was educated in Amarillo schools. She attended Amarillo Senior High High School and developed an interest in Little Theatre while she was a student there. She also studied violin and piano in high school and played in the Amarillo Symphony Orchestra. Lee's father opposed her desire to be an actress. In 1983, she said, "An actress was nearly the worst thing he could think of, and he said he'd rather see me herding sheep, which was definitely the worst thing a cattleman could think of." She attended Amarillo College and graduated from Northwestern University with a bachelor of science degree in speech. While Lee was a Northwestern student, she appeared in four University Theatre productions, one Studio Theatre production, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Lee (author)
William Lee (born October 8, 1954) is an American writer. He is the author of three books. He is a former member of the San Francisco Chinatown gang that was responsible for the 1977 Golden Dragon massacre. Biography Lee grew up in San Francisco's Chinatown, and went to Marina Middle School, Galileo High School and was a student majoring in psychology at San Francisco State University when he joined the Chung Ching Yee, also known as the Joe Boys. Although not indicted, he was questioned by homicide investigators about the 1977 Golden Dragon massacre. The massacre was one of the deadliest in San Francisco History, for which five other Joe Boys were jailed after injuring 15 people and killing 5 others. In 1988, Lee was an employee at ESL when former employee Richard Farley fatally shot seven people and wounded four others in a mass shooting at its headquarters. Lee recalled the tragedy in detail and his role in rescuing coworkers in his first book, ''Chinese Playground: A Memoi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernard Lee
John Bernard Lee (10 January 190816 January 1981) was an English actor, best known for his role as M in the first eleven Eon-produced James Bond films. Lee's film career spanned the years 1934 to 1979, though he had appeared on stage from the age of six. He was trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. Lee appeared in over one hundred films, as well as on stage and in television dramatisations. He was known for his roles as authority figures, often playing military characters or policemen in films such as ''The Third Man'', ''The Blue Lamp'', '' The Battle of the River Plate'', and '' Whistle Down the Wind''. He died of stomach cancer in 1981, aged 73. Early life Lee was born on 10 January 1908, the son of Nellie (née Smith) and Edmund James Lee. He was born in either County Cork in what is now the Republic of Ireland, or Brentford, Middlesex. Edmund, an actor, introduced his six-year-old son to the stage in 1914 in a sketch called "The Double Event" at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benjamin W
Benjamin ( he, ''Bīnyāmīn''; "Son of (the) right") blue letter bible: https://www.blueletterbible.org/lexicon/h3225/kjv/wlc/0-1/ H3225 - yāmîn - Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (kjv) was the last of the two sons of Jacob and Rachel (Jacob's thirteenth child and twelfth and youngest son) in Jewish, Christian and Islamic tradition. He was also the progenitor of the Israelite Tribe of Benjamin. Unlike Rachel's first son, Joseph, Benjamin was born in Canaan according to biblical narrative. In the Samaritan Pentateuch, Benjamin's name appears as "Binyamēm" (Samaritan Hebrew: , "son of days"). In the Quran, Benjamin is referred to as a righteous young child, who remained with Jacob when the older brothers plotted against Joseph. Later rabbinic traditions name him as one of four ancient Israelites who died without sin, the other three being Chileab, Jesse and Amram. Name The name is first mentioned in letters from King Sîn-kāšid of Uruk (1801–1771 BC), who called himself “Kin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barbara Lee
Barbara Jean Lee (née Tutt; born July 16, 1946) is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for . Now in her 12th term, Lee has served since 1998, and is a member of the Democratic Party. The district, numbered as the 9th district from 1998 to 2013, is based in Oakland and covers most of the northern part of Alameda County. According to the Cook Partisan Voting Index, it is one of the nation's most Democratic districts, with a rating of D+40. Lee is a former chair of the Congressional Black Caucus (2009–2011) and the chair emeritus and former co-chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus (2005–2009). She is the vice chair and a founding member of the Congressional LGBTQ+ Equality Caucus. Lee has also co-chaired the House Democratic Steering Committee since 2019. She has played a major role in the antiwar movement, notably in her vocal criticism of the Iraq War and for being the only member of Congress to vote against the authorization of use of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Auriol Lee
Auriol Lee (13 September 1880 – 2 July 1941) was a popular British stage actress who became a successful West End and Broadway theatrical producer and director. Biography She was born in Maddox Street in the London district of St George's Hanover Square, the daughter of Katie and Robert James Lee. Auriol Lee’s father was a medical doctor who, according to her ''New York Times'' obituary, was a distant relative of Robert E. Lee. Auriol was educated both in England and at schools in Europe where she also received her training for the stage at La Monnaie in Brussels before making her London debut at around the age of twenty. Auriol made her Broadway debut in November, 1903 with the Forbes-Robertson Company in Kipling’s '' The Light that Failed''. The previous month, while her troupe was in Boston, she played a round of golf with Alec Campbell, the golf pro at a prestigious Country Club in Brookline. Campbell later told the press that he was forced to play his best game t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Lee (musician)
Arthur Taylor Lee (born Arthur Porter Taylor; March 7, 1945 – August 3, 2006) was an American singer-songwriter who rose to fame as the leader of the Los Angeles rock band Love. Love's 1967 album '' Forever Changes'' was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame, and it is part of the National Recording Registry. Early years Lee was born in Memphis, Tennessee, on March 7, 1945, in John Gaston Hospital, to Agnes (née Porter), a school teacher, and Chester Taylor, a local jazz musician and cornet player. As an only child, Lee was known by the nickname "Po", short for Porter, and was looked after by additional family members so his mother could proceed with her teaching career. With his father being his first connection with a musician, Lee was fascinated by music at a young age. He would sing and hum along to blues musicians such as Howlin' Wolf and Muddy Waters on the radio. At the age of four, Lee made his debut on the stage at a Baptist church, reciting a small poem about a re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Lee (other)
Arthur Lee may refer to: *Arthur Lee (diplomat) (1740–1792), US envoy to France *Arthur Tracy Lee (1814–1879), U.S. Army Colonel, painter, and author *Arthur Lee, 1st Viscount Lee of Fareham (1868–1947), British soldier and diplomat * Arthur Lee (British Army officer) (1877–1954), British Army officer * Arthur Lee (sculptor) (1881–1961), American sculptor * Arthur Lee (RAF officer) (1894–1975), Royal Air Force Air Vice-Marshal * Arthur Lee (cricketer, born 1913) (1913–1983), English cricketer and judge * Arthur Lee (cricketer, born 1849) (1849–1925), English cricketer and clergyman *Arthur Lee (musician) (1945–2006), American psychedelic-rock musician *Art Lee (born 1947), Canadian politician and lawyer * Arthur Lee (basketball) (born 1977), US-born European basketball player See also *Arthur Li Arthur Li Kwok-cheung, GBM, GBS JP (; born 27 June 1945) is a Hong Kong doctor and politician. He is currently member of the Executive Council of the Hong Kong ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne Hill Carter Lee
Anne Hill Carter Lee (March 26, 1773 – June 26, 1829) was the First Lady of Virginia from 1791 to 1794 as the wife of the ninth governor, Henry Lee III. She was the mother of the general-in-chief of the Confederate States of America, Robert E. Lee. As a separated wife and then as a widow, she was the head of her household at Lee Corner, Alexandria, Virginia, in what is now known as the Robert E. Lee Boyhood Home. Her chronic pain and straitened circumstances play a significant role in her son Robert's biography. Early life Anne was born at the family seat, Shirley Plantation in Charles City County, on March 26, 1773. A member of the planter class, she was born into a patrician family of tidewater Virginia, and was the daughter of Charles Carter (1732–1806), the fifth generation owner of Shirley Plantation, and Anne Butler ( née Moore) Carter (1750–1809). Through her grandfather, John Carter (1696–1742), she was the great-granddaughter of Robert "King" Carter, the 25 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne Carter Lee
Anne Carter Lee (June 18, 1839 – October 20, 1862) was the fourth child and second daughter of General Robert E. Lee and Mary Anna Custis Lee. She grew up at Arlington House on her family's plantation. During the American Civil War, she stayed with relatives at Ravensworth Plantation and White House Plantation. She and her mother and sisters were placed under house arrest by Union troops in 1861 before being allowed to cross over Confederate lines to join her father in Richmond. Lee suffered from various health conditions throughout her life and died of typhoid fever at the age of twenty-three. She was buried in Warren County, North Carolina, where she died. In 1994, her body was interred at University Chapel of Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia. The Anne Carter Lee Monument stands at her original gravesite in Warrenton. Biography Anne Carter Lee was born on June 18, 1839 at Arlington Plantation in Virginia. She was the fourth child and second ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annabelle Lee
Annabelle Lee Harmon (January 22, 1922 – July 3, 2008) was an American female pitcher who played from through with four teams of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Listed at , 120 lb, Lee was a switch-hitter and threw left-handed. She was born in Los Angeles, California. She was the aunt of Bill Lee, a former Boston Red Sox and Montreal Expos pitcher. Early life and early career Anabelle Lee grew up in a home where baseball was considered of vital importance, as her father was an early 1920s baseball standout for the Hollywood Stars of the Pacific Coast League, while her nephew Bill Lee pitched in Major League Baseball for the Boston Red Sox and Montreal Expos. She entered the baseball record books in 1944 after pitching the first perfect game in AAGPBL history. Besides this, she hurled a no-hitter game the next season and posted a solid career 2.25 earned run average during her seven years in the league. Lee is also recognized as one of the few pitc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
