Eley is a surname and a given name. People with the name are as follows:
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Brian Eley (1946–2022), British chessplayer
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Bridget Cracroft-Eley
Bridget Katharine Cracroft-Eley CVO JP (29 October 1933 – 29 August 2008) was a British secretary, farmer and magistrate.
Born in Lincolnshire, she was the daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Weston Cracroft-Amcotts and his wife Rhona Clifton-Br ...
(1933–2008), British secretary and farmer and Lord Lieutenant of Lincolnshire
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Bryan Eley (born 1939), British racewalker
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Clifton Eley (born 1961), American football player
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Dan Eley
Daniel Douglas Eley OBE, FRS (1 October 1914 – 3 September 2015) was a British chemist and Professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of Nottingham. He is known for the Eley–Rideal mechanism in surface chemistry.
Biography
Eley obt ...
(1914–2015), British chemist and academic
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Donald Hill-Eley, American football coach and former player
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Sir Frederick Eley, 1st Baronet
Sir Frederick Eley, 1st Baronet (22 November 1866 – 7 February 1951) was an English banker.
Eley was born in Shrewsbury and educated at Shrewsbury School. He joined the National Provincial Bank and rose to the post of general manager with a ...
(1866–1951), English banker
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Frederick Eley (architect)
Frederick Eley (1884 in Colchester, England – 1979) was an American architect.
He was the first registered architect of Santa Ana, California and is regarded as the area's most prolific and finest early architect. He designed more than 30 ...
(1884–1979), American architect
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Geoff Eley
Geoffrey Howard eoffEley (born 4 May 1949) is a British-born historian of Germany. He studied history at Balliol College, Oxford, and received his PhD from the University of Sussex in 1974. He has taught at the University of Michigan, Ann Ar ...
(born 1949), British-born historian of Germany
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Geoffrey Eley
Sir Geoffrey Cecil Ryves Eley (18 July 1904 – 17 May 1990) was a British businessman and writer. He served as a director of the Bank of England, and as High Sheriff of both the County of London and the City of London.
Early life and educat ...
(1904–1990), British banker
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Gladys Pearl Baker Mortensen Eley (1902–1984), mother of American actress
Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn Monroe (; born Norma Jeane Mortenson; 1 June 1926 4 August 1962) was an American actress. Famous for playing comedic " blonde bombshell" characters, she became one of the most popular sex symbols of the 1950s and early 1960s, as wel ...
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Jim Eley
Jim Eley (5 November 1932 – 28 September 2014) was an Australian rules footballer who played with St Kilda in the Victorian Football League
The Victorian Football League (VFL) is an Australian rules football league in Australia servin ...
(1932–2014), Australian rules football player
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Jon Eley
Jon Eley (born 19 August 1984 in Solihull) is a British short track speed skater who competed at the 2006 Winter Olympics, the 2010 Winter Olympics and the 2014 Winter Olympics. Eley finished fifth in the 500 metres in Torino, and was a member ...
(born 1984), British speed skater
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Maxwell Eley (1902–1983), British rower
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Monroe Eley
Monroe Eley (April 17, 1949 – May 2, 2019) was a former running back who played in the Canadian Football League (CFL) and the National Football League (NFL).
Having played his college football with Arizona State University, Eley was not drafted ...
, American football player
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Robin Eley
Robin Eley (born in London, England in 1978) is an Australian hyperrealist painter.
Personal life
Eley was born to an Australian father and Chinese mother. In 1981 his family migrated to Australia where he completed his secondary education at P ...
(born 1978), Australian painter
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Stanley Eley
Stanley Albert Hallam Eley (1904–1990) was a British Anglican bishop who served as Bishop of Gibraltar (in the Church of England) from 1960 to 1970.
He was made a deacon by Harold Bilbrough, Bishop of Dover, on St Matthew's Day (21 ...
(1904–1990), British Anglican bishop
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Thalia C. Eley
Thalia Catherine Eley is a Professor of Developmental Behavioural Genetics at the Institute of Psychiatry's MRC Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, King's College London. Her work focuses on the interplay between genetic and e ...
, British academic and psychologist
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William Eley
William Eley was an English professional footballer who played as an outside right.
Career
Eley played for Matlock Town and Bradford City.
For Bradford City he made 1 appearance in the Football League
The English Football League (EFL) ...
, British football player
Given name
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Eley Williams
Eley Williams is a British writer. Her debut collection of prose, ''Attrib. and Other Stories'' (Influx Press, 2017), was awarded the Republic of Consciousness Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize 2018. With writing anthologised in ''The ...
, British writer
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Eley (disambiguation) Eley can mean:
* Eley (name), list of people with the name Eley
*Eley Industrial Estate, in Edmonton, London
* Eley Kishimoto, British fashion and design company
* Eley Limited (formerly Eley Brothers), ammunition manufacturer in Sutton Coldfield, ...
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English-language surnames