Chenoweth is a name of
Cornish origin meaning "new house" (''Chy nowydh'') in the
Cornish language
Cornish (Standard Written Form: or ) , is a Southwestern Brittonic language, Southwestern Brittonic language of the Celtic language family. It is a List of revived languages, revived language, having become Extinct language, extinct as a livin ...
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Chenowith, Chinowith, Chernoweth, and Chernowith are alternative spellings.
People
Real
* Alice Chenoweth (1853–1925), birth name of American author and activist
Helen H. Gardener
Helen Hamilton Gardener (1853–1925), born Alice Chenoweth, was an American author, rationalist public intellectual, political activist, and government functionary. Gardener produced many lectures, articles, and books during the 1880s and 1890s ...
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Blair Chenoweth
The Miss Alaska competition is a scholarship pageant that selects the representative for the state of Alaska in the Miss America pageant. Unlike most state-level pageants in the Miss America system, Alaska allows any eligible woman to enter th ...
(born 1981), American dance instructor, former Miss Alaska
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Caroline Van Deusen Chenoweth (1846–1917), American educator and diplomat
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Ellen Chenoweth, contemporary American casting director
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Eric Chenowith
Eric Robert Chenowith (born March 9, 1979) is an American former professional basketball player.
As a high school player, he was selected to the McDonald's All-American Team in 1997. He played collegiately for Kansas and was drafted by the New ...
(born 1979), American basketball player
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Erica Chenoweth
Erica Chenoweth (born April 22, 1980) is an American political scientist, professor of public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. They are known for their research work on non-violent civil resista ...
(born 1980), American political scientist
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Florence Chenoweth
Florence Alletta Chenoweth (2 April 1945 – 26 June 2023) was a Liberian politician and agriculture and food security specialist. As minister of agriculture in Liberia, she was the first woman to hold such a position in Africa. She also held se ...
(born 1945), Liberian agriculture and food security specialist
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Francis A. Chenoweth (1819–1899), American politician
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Helen Chenoweth-Hage
Helen Margaret Palmer Chenoweth-Hage (born Helen Margaret Palmer; January 27, 1938 – October 2, 2006) was a Republican politician from the U.S. state of Idaho. She remains the only Republican woman to ever represent Idaho in the United States C ...
(1938–2006), American politician
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John Chenoweth (Colorado politician)
John Edgar Chenoweth (August 17, 1897 – January 2, 1986) was a Republican politician from the U.S. state of Colorado, serving as a member of the United States House of Representatives and as a state judge.
Early life
Chenoweth's parents were Th ...
(1897–1986), American politician
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(born 1968), American actress and singer
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Laura Chenoweth Butz Laura Chenoweth Butz (July 11, 1860 – September 1, 1939) was an American educator. She was the Superintendent of Wardner-Kellogg City Schools for eight years.
Early life
Laura Ann Chenoweth Butz was born in Danville, Illinois, on July 11, 1860, t ...
(1860–1939), American educator
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Lemuel Chenoweth
Lemuel Chenoweth (25 June 1811—26 August 1887) was a carpenter, legislator and self-taught architect. He is best known as one of 19th century America's master covered bridge builders.
Chenoweth and his brother Eli constructed 20 bridges durin ...
(1811–1887), American covered bridge builder
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Richard Chenoweth
The Chenoweth Massacre of July 17, 1789 was the last major Native American raid in present-day Jefferson County, Kentucky (Louisville Metro).
Captain Richard Chenoweth, builder of Fort Nelson, was stationed with his family northeast of present ...
(18th century), builder of Fort Nelson, Kentucky
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Vida Chenoweth
Vida Chenoweth (October 18, 1928 – December 14, 2018) was a solo classical marimbist, an ethnomusicologist, and a linguist.
Credited with being the first to perform polyphonic music on the marimba and for doing for the marimba what Pablo Casa ...
(1928-2018), ethnomusicologist, marimbist and linguist
Fictional
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Brenda Chenowith
The following is a list of descriptions for characters on the HBO television series '' Six Feet Under'', which aired for five seasons, from 2001 through 2005.
While the series ends in 2005, the finale (“Everyone's Waiting”) was met with univ ...
, on the television series ''Six Feet Under''
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Billy Chenowith, brother of Brenda Chenowith on ''Six Feet Under''
See also
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Chynoweth
References
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Surnames
Cornish-language surnames
Toponymic surnames