Famous People with Name Neville

Neville Charsley Tufnell            Origin/Culture/Country: British

Neville Charsley Tufnell: was a cricketer. Born in 1887 in Simla, Punjab, India, Tufnell played first-class cricket for Cambridge University and the Marylebone Cricket Club in a not particularly notable first-class career that lasted from 1907 to 1924. He also played one Test match for England at Cape Town against South Africa in 1909/10. He played a single first-class match for Surrey in 1922 against Oxford University, captaining the side.

Neville Knox            Origin/Culture/Country: British

Neville Knox: was an English fast bowler of the late 1900s and effectively the successor to Tom Richardson and William Lockwood in the Surrey team. Because of his profession as a singer, Knox's career was short, but he was undoubtedly the fastest bowler of his time and one of the fastest bowlers ever to play for England - probably capable of speeds over 150 km/h (93 mph).

Neville Anthony Quinn            Origin/Culture/Country: African

Neville Anthony Quinn: Quinn played first-class cricket for Griqualand West and Transvaal, and played 12 Test matches for South Africa. Principally a bowler, he made his Test debut on the tour to England in 1929. He found the bowling conditions of a dry English summer suited hi

Neville Devonshire Sandelson            Origin/Culture/Country: British

Neville Devonshire Sandelson: was a British politician.Sandelson was educated at Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge. He was a barrister, called to the bar by Inner Temple in 1946, and director of a publishing company. He was elected to the London County Council in 1952

Neville Vernon Lindsay            Origin/Culture/Country: African

Neville Vernon Lindsay: was a South African cricketer who played in one Test in 1921

Aaron Neville            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Aaron Neville: is an American soul and R&B singer

John Neville            Origin/Culture/Country: American

John Neville: an English theatre and film actor who moved to Canada in 1972. He enjoyed a resurgence of international attention in the 1980s as a result of his starring role in Terry Gilliam's The Adventures of Baron Munchausen.During the 1950s he was a leading member of London's Old Vic Company, playing many classical leading roles including Romeo in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet (a role he repeated on American television for the anthology series Producers' Showcase) and an acclaimed Richard in Richard II, with Virginia McKenna as Queen Anne. He also alternated with Richard Burton the parts of Othello and Iago in Othello. He was a frequent visiting player at the Bristol Old Vic. He received good reviews in an otherwise disastrous musical adaptation of Lolita, called Lolita, My Love, which closed in Boston en route to Broadway.

M. Keith Neville            Origin/Culture/Country: American

M. Keith Neville: was a Nebraska Democratic politician best known for being the 18th Governor of Nebraska.As well as being elected as the governor of Nebraska from 1917 to 1919, he was a delegate to Democratic National Convention from Nebraska in 1932 and a failed candidat

Anita Neville            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Anita Neville: was a Canadian politician. She was elected to the Canadian House of Commons as a Liberal in the general election of 2000, and was re-elected in 2004 and 2006, before being defeated in 2011.In the 1995 provincial election in Manitoba, Neville was a Liberal candidate in the upscale west-Winnipeg riding of River Heights. This riding is usually considered as one of the few safe seats for the provincial Liberals, and was previously held by party leader Sharon Carstairs prior to her appointment to the Canadian Senate in 1994. Nevertheless, Neville was defeated by Progressive Conservative candidate Mike Radcliffe, 5429 votes to 4435.