Manly is both a surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include:
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Alexander Manly (1866–1944), newspaper editor
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Charles Manly
Charles Manly (May 13, 1795May 1, 1871) was a lawyer who served as the 31st governor of the U.S. state of North Carolina from 1849 to 1851. He was the last member of the Whig Party to hold the office. After one two-year term, Manly was de ...
(1795–1871), US governor
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Charles M. Manly (1876–1927), aviation pioneer
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James Manly (born 1932), Canadian New Democratic MP
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John Matthews Manly John Matthews Manly (September 2, 1865 — April 2, 1940) was an American professor of English literature and philology at the University of Chicago. Manly specialized in the study of the works of William Shakespeare and Geoffrey Chaucer. His eig ...
(1865–1940), American professor of English literature
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Matthias Evans Manly (1801–1881), American justice
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Paul Manly (born 1964), Canadian Green MP, son of Jim
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William L. Manly
William Lewis Manly (April 6, 1820 – February 5, 1903) was an American pioneer of the mid-19th century. He was first a fur hunter, a guide of westward bound caravans, a seeker of gold, and then a farmer and writer in his later years.
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(1820–1903), 1849 California Gold Rush pioneer
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Manly Barton (born 1949), American politician
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Manly Palmer Hall (1901–1990), Canadian author and mystic
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Manly Miles (1826–1898), American zoologist and agriculturalist
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Manly Wade Wellman
Manly Wade Wellman (May 21, 1903 – April 5, 1986) was an American writer. While his science fiction and fantasy stories appeared in such pulps as ''Astounding Stories'', '' Startling Stories'', '' Unknown'' and '' Strange Stories'', Wellman ...
(1903–1986), American writer
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