Fenimore is both a given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include:
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Constance Fenimore Woolson
Constance Fenimore Woolson (March 5, 1840 – January 24, 1894) was an American novelist, poet, and short story writer. She was a grandniece of James Fenimore Cooper, and is best known for fictions about the Great Lakes region, the American ...
(1840–1894), American novelist and short story writer
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Fenimore Chatterton
Fenimore Chatterton (July 21, 1860May 9, 1958) was an American businessman, politician, and lawyer. He was the sixth Governor of Wyoming from April 28, 1903 until January 2, 1905.
Biography
Chatterton was born in Oswego County, New York, but ra ...
(1860–1958), American businessman, politician, and lawyer
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James Fenimore Cooper
James Fenimore Cooper (September 15, 1789 – September 14, 1851) was an American writer of the first half of the 19th century, whose historical romances depicting colonist and Indigenous characters from the 17th to the 19th centuries brought h ...
(1789–1851), American writer
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Susan Fenimore Cooper
Susan Augusta Fenimore Cooper (April 17, 1813 December 31, 1894) was an American writer and amateur naturalist. She founded an orphanage in Cooperstown, New York and made it a successful charity. The daughter of writer James Fenimore Cooper, sh ...
(1813–1894), American writer and amateur naturalist
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Bob Fenimore
Robert Dale Fenimore (October 6, 1925 – July 28, 2010) known as the Blonde Bomber or Blonde Blizard was a halfback for the Oklahoma A&M football team from 1943 to 1946. Member of the 1945 National Championship Oklahoma A&M team. He was the fi ...
(1925–2010), Oklahoma State Cowboys football player
Fictional characters:
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Lieutenant Fenimore, fictional character in a short story of the ''
Cosmicomics
''Cosmicomics'' ( it, Le cosmicomiche) is a collection of twelve short stories by Italo Calvino first published in Italian in 1965 and in English in 1968. The stories were originally published between 1964 and 1965 in the Italian periodicals ''I ...
'' by
Italo Calvino
Italo Calvino (, also , ;. RAI (circa 1970), retrieved 25 October 2012. 15 October 1923 – 19 September 1985) was an Italian writer and journalist. His best known works include the '' Our Ancestors'' trilogy (1952–1959), the ''Cosmicomi ...
See also
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Fenimore Art Museum
The Fenimore Art Museum (formerly known as New York State Historical Association) is a museum located in Cooperstown, New York on the west side of Otsego Lake. Collection strengths include the Eugene and Clare Thaw Collection of American Indian ...
, in Cooperstown, New York, United States
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Fenimore Pass
Fenimore Pass is a strait between the Bering Sea and the North Pacific Ocean in the Aleutian Islands in Alaska. It lies between Oglodak Island
Oglodak Island (russian: Оглодак остров) is an island in the U.S. State of Alaska. It ...
, strait in Alaska
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