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Personality/ Celebrity / Famous Name: Tom Courtenay

Sir Thomas Daniel Courtenay ( born 25 February 1937) is an English actor who came to prominence in the early 1960s with a succession of critically-acclaimed films including The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962), Billy Liar (1963) and Dr. Zhivago (1965). In the latter two films he appeared

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Courtenay Stewart     Courtenay Stewart       Origin/Culture/Country: American

Courtenay Stewart: is a Canadian synchronized swimmer.Her best finish at the 2003 world championships in Barcelona, Spain was a fourth place finish in the free routine combination. She was a member of the 2004 Canadian Olympic Team that placed 5th at the Games in Athens, Greece.

Courtenay Ilbert     Courtenay Ilbert       Origin/Culture/Country: Indian

Courtenay Ilbert: was a distinguished British lawyer and civil servant.Ilbert served as the legal adviser to the Viceroy of India's Council for many years until his eventual return from India to England. His later career included appointments as the Parliamentary Counsel to the British Treasury and as Clerk of the House of Commons from 1902 to 1921.

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Sir Thomas Daniel Courtenay     Sir Thomas Daniel Courtenay       Origin/Culture/Country: British

Sir Thomas Daniel Courtenay: is an English actor who came to prominence in the early 1960s with a succession of critically-acclaimed films including The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962), Billy Liar (1963) and Dr. Zhivago (1965). Since the mid-1960s he has been known primarily for his work in the theatre. Courtenay received a knighthood in February 2001 for forty years service to cinema and theatre. Tom Courtenay is the President of Hull City A.F.C.'s Official Supporters Club. In 1999 he was awarded an honorary doctorate by Hull University.

Bryce Courtenay     Bryce Courtenay       Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Bryce Courtenay: a South African-born Australian novelist. Born in Johannesburg, he spent most of his early years in a small village in the Lebombo Mountains in South Africa's Limpopo province.In 1955, while studying journalism in London, Bryce met his future wife, Benita, and eventually emigrated to Australia. They married in 1959 and had three sons, Brett, Adam and Damon. In 1991, Damon had haemophilia and died at age 24 from AIDS, contracted through a blood transfusion

Lionel Thomas Courtenay     Lionel Thomas Courtenay       Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Lionel Thomas Courtenay: was an Australian politician. Born in Sydney, where he was educated, he became a builder and a company director. He was involved in local politics, sitting on Mascot Council, Mosman Council and Sydney City Council. In 1932, he was elected to the New South

William Reginald Courtenay, 11th Earl Of Devon,     William Reginald Courtenay, 11th Earl Of Devon,       Origin/Culture/Country: British

William Reginald Courtenay, 11th Earl Of Devon,: known as Lord Courtenay from 1835 to 1859, was a British politician who served as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster from 1866 to 1867 and as President of the Poor Law Board from 1867 to 1868.

Marjorie Eileen Doris Courtenay-Latimer     Marjorie Eileen Doris Courtenay-Latimer       Origin/Culture/Country: African

Marjorie Eileen Doris Courtenay-Latimer: was the South African museum official who in 1938 brought to the attention of the world the existence of the coelacanth, a fish thought to have been extinct for sixty-five million years.She busily worked on collecting rocks, feathers, shells, and the like for her museum, and made her desire to see unusual specimens known to fishermen. On December 22, 1938, she received a telephone call that such a fish had been brought in. She went to the docks to inspect the catch of Hendrik Goosen. "I picked away at the layers of slime to reveal the most beautiful fish I had ever seen," she said. "It was five foot long, a pale mauvy blue with faint flecks of whitish spots; it had an iridescent silver-blue-green sheen all over. It was covered in hard scales, and it had four limb-like fins and a strange puppy dog tail.

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