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the electromagnetic burglar alarm Edwin Holmes (astronomer) (1839–1919), English amateur astronomer Edwin N. Holmes, head football coach for the Middlebury
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English astronomer
Edwin Alfred Holmes (1839–1919) was an English amateur astronomer who is best remembered as the discoverer of Comet 17P/Holmes. Edwin Holmes was born in
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Jupiter-family comet
Holmes /ˈhoʊmz/ (official designation: 17P/Holmes) is a periodic comet in the Solar System, discovered by the British amateur astronomer Edwin Holmes
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Category:Discoveries by astronomer. These categories do not contain discoveries for which no page on Wikipedia exists. Astronomers with only a few discoveries
List of minor planet discoverers
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American astronomer
Edwin Charles Krupp (born November 18, 1944) is an American astronomer, researcher, author, and popularizer of science. He is an internationally recognized
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23771 Emaitchar (Martin H. Robinson, British) 24898 Alanholmes (Alan W. Holmes, American) 29483 Boeker (Karolin Kleemann-Boeker and Andreas Boeker, German)
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German-British astronomer and composer (1738–1822)
1822) was a German–British astronomer and composer. He frequently collaborated with his younger sister and fellow astronomer Caroline Herschel. Born in
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Senator John Ciardi (1916–1986), poet, translator Alvan Clark (1804–1887), astronomer and telescope maker John M. Clark (1821–1902), sheriff of Suffolk County
List of burials at Mount Auburn Cemetery
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Confederate general and UVA law student Charles S. Venable, mathematician, astronomer, and UVA professor Henry "Pops" Lannigan, noted UVA coach Dumas Malone
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Christopher Hill (Balliol) Carole Hillenbrand (Somerville) Geoffrey Holmes (Pembroke) George Holmes (All Souls) Sir James Holt (Queens, Merton) Albert Hourani
List of University of Oxford people in academic disciplines
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on the JPL Small-Body Database (SBDB). Until his death in 2016, German astronomer Lutz D. Schmadel compiled these citations into the Dictionary of Minor
Meanings of minor-planet names: 5001–6000
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Upper class Bostonians
The phrase "Brahmin caste of New England" was coined by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., a physician and writer, in a January 1860 article in The Atlantic Monthly
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descendants of a number of English, Irish and Scottish families. Frank R. Holmes, in his Directory of the Ancestral Heads of New England Families, 1600-1700
Eddy_(surname)
Michael Sylvester – opera star Matt Wilson – jazz drummer Lincoln LaPaz – astronomer at University of New Mexico, pioneer in the study of meteors Adisak Mekkittikul
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on the JPL Small-Body Database (SBDB). Until his death in 2016, German astronomer Lutz D. Schmadel compiled these citations into the Dictionary of Minor
Meanings of minor-planet names: 7001–8000
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Laurie Cunningham, English former footballer Leland Cunningham, American astronomer and electronic computing authority Liam Cunningham, an Irish actor Loren
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Batten, Canadian astronomer at the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory in Victoria, British Columbia MPC · 3931 3932 Edshay 1984 SC5 Edwin L. Shay (1938–1998)
Meanings of minor-planet names: 3001–4000
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List of notable UK deaths in a year
English drummer (The Pogues). 11 February – Mike Cruise, 78, British astronomer. (death announced on this date) 12 February Gordon Brown, 95, English
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1943), English ornithologist of India. November 20 – Edwin Hubble (died 1953), American astronomer. November 24 – William Justin Kroll (died 1973), Luxembourgish
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Pythagorean philosopher. c. 150 BCE: Aglaonice became the first female astronomer to be recorded in Ancient Greece. 1st century BCE: A woman known only
Timeline_of_women_in_science
Annual prize by the MacArthur Foundation
medieval historian Mott T. Greene, historian of science James E. Gunn, astronomer Ramón A. Gutiérrez, historian John J. Hopfield, physicist and biologist
MacArthur_Fellows_Program
surgery was written by Imhotep, the vizier of Pharaoh Djoser, priest, astronomer, physician and first notable architect. So much was he famed for his medical
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American scientist, surveyor and farmer (1731–1806)
1731 – October 19, 1806) was an American naturalist, mathematician, astronomer and almanac author. A landowner, he also worked as a surveyor and farmer
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English army officer, author, astronomer (1827–1901)
Drayson (also Wilkes) (1827–1901) was an English army officer, writer and astronomer. He was a personal friend of Arthur Conan Doyle, who dedicated to him
Alfred_Wilks_Drayson
literature of the century, being republished multiple times. As early as 1830, astronomer John Herschel had already recognised the need for the genre of popular
Society and culture of the Victorian era
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Aethiopian princess in Greek mythology
in the Northern sky by the constellation Andromeda, mentioned by the astronomer Ptolemy in the 2nd century, which contains the Andromeda Galaxy. Several
Andromeda_(mythology)
present reputation that some very unusual stories are associated with astronomers of the past... In the strange death and near-death department... Marc
List of unusual deaths in the 20th century
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physicist and academic administrator Elisabeth Bardwell (1831–1899), American astronomer Elizabeth A. Barnes, American climate scientist Elizabeth Ann Bartholomew
Elizabeth_(given_name)
Name list
American farmer and politician Horace Dall (1901–1986), British amateur astronomer and telescope maker Horace Dalley (born 1950), Jamaican educator and politician
Horace_(given_name)
American judge, botanist, and amateur astronomer (1830–1913)
lesser degree as an astronomer. Obituaries noted his versatility and compared him to polymath poet and doctor Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Modern sources
Addison_Brown
Finnish-Swedish actress (Beck, Fallet, Rederiet). Adela Ringuelet, 93, Argentine astronomer. Alzira Rufino, 73, Brazilian writer and social activist. Samarveer Singh
Deaths_in_April_2023
English polymath (1635–1703)
English polymath who was active as a physicist ('natural philosopher'), astronomer, geologist, meteorologist, and architect. He is credited as one of the
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sign of his deification. Later eponymous comets were named after the astronomer(s) who conducted detailed investigations on them, or later those who discovered
Naming_of_comets
Public school in Rousdon, Lyme Regis, Devon, England
Quartermaster-General to the Forces Sir Richard van der Riet Woolley, Astronomer Royal Mark Lui (Chinese: 雷頌德), composer and producer of Cantopop music
Allhallows_College
Genus of plants, source of quinine
Pharmacopoeia in 1677. The "fever tree" was finally described carefully by astronomer Charles Marie de la Condamine, who visited Quito in 1735 on a quest to
Cinchona
and worked in German institutions. The award was named after the German astronomer and mathematician Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel and funded by the German Federal
Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award
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Lindsay Hollister (actress) (Columbus) John Holmes (adult entertainment performer) (Ashville) Katie Holmes (actor) (Toledo) Bob Hope (comedian, actor)
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American surveyor (1774–1829)
received the document prior to leaving the university in 1796 to assist the astronomer Andrew Ellicott with determining the Southern boundary of the United States
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(Species, The Godfather Part III, The Rock) and model Alan Hale, 68, astronomer, co-discovered the Comet Hale–Bopp William Hasley, 78, biographer and
2026 deaths in the United States
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Academy in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England
Bishop of Peru since 1998 Ralph Heathcote, writer Sir William McCrea, astronomer Geoff Miller, England cricketer Charles Newcombe, cricketer Ian Newton
Brookfield Community School, Chesterfield
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Alexander Graham Bell Medal (1976) See also IEEE Communications Society Edwin Howard Armstrong Achievement Award (1958), IEEE Eric E. Sumner Award (1997)
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Watson (disambiguation), multiple people Fred Watson (born 1944), British astronomer Fred Watson (Australian footballer) (1882–1968), Australian rules footballer
Watson_(surname)
List of terms created from a person's name
Haidinger's brush Edwin Hall, American physicist – Hall effect Monty Hall, Canadian TV presenter – Monty Hall problem Edmond Halley, British astronomer – Halley's
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Formanek, 100, Romanian German Nazi soldier. Priscilla Frisch, 81, American astronomer. Teresa González Murillo, 52–53, Mexican human rights activist, shot.
Deaths_in_April_2025
Creator deity in Inca mythology
person with superhuman power—a bearded, tall man dressed as a priest or astronomer. Spanish scholars and chroniclers provide many insights regarding the
Viracocha
Native American woman (c. 1596 – 1617)
Virginia, First Lady Edith Wilson, American actor Glenn Strange, and astronomer Percival Lowell. Pocahontas's birth year is unknown, but some historians
Pocahontas
Australian-born theatre director (1940–2026)
Parsons' Being Olivia. and the London revival of The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Rupert Holmes. While working with the Warehouse, he commissioned the Dick Barton
Ted_Craig
1976), complications from knee surgery. Wojciech Dziembowski, 84, Polish astronomer, member of the Polish Academy of Sciences. David Gillette, 78, American
Deaths_in_February_2025
candidate for the first known radio pulsar-black hole binary is reported by astronomers. The heavier of the two lies in the "mass gap" between neutron stars
2024_in_science
The Godfather Part III, The Rock) and model. Alan Hale, 67, American astronomer, co-discoverer of Comet Hale–Bopp. William Hasley, 78, American biographer
Deaths_in_June_2026
Calendar year
States Secretary of Defense James Forrestal resigns suddenly. English astronomer Fred Hoyle coins the term Big Bang (although describing the model as "unsatisfactory")
1949
States from 1933 to 1945 (died 1962) November 20 – Loyal Blaine Aldrich, astronomer (died 1965) December 2 – Ruth Draper, actress and monologist (died 1956)
1884_in_the_United_States
Fictional island in Plato's works
in 1940. Blavatsky was also inspired by the work of the 18th-century astronomer Jean-Sylvain Bailly, who had "Orientalized" the Atlantis myth in his mythical
Atlantis
Expedition for the International Geophysical Year. Philip Michael Brenan Astronomer, Royal Society Antarctic Expedition for the International Geophysical
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Hartsell Steve Hartsell, pair skater, brother of Danielle Hartsell Howdy Holmes, race driver Keiffer Hubbell, figure skater Madison Hubbell, figure skater
List of people from Ann Arbor, Michigan
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Spanish inventor (1553–1613)
Ayanz y Beaumont (1553 – 23 March 1613) was a Spanish soldier, painter, astronomer, musician and inventor. He pioneered the use and design of the steam engine
Jerónimo_de_Ayanz_y_Beaumont
Michael Waldman, 83, British palaeontologist. Yuri Yampolsky, 78, Ukrainian astronomer. Wallis Annenberg, 86, American philanthropist, president of the Annenberg
Deaths_in_July_2025
April 17, 2015. Retrieved October 6, 2019. "Biography of Oliver Wendell Holmes". Arlington National Cemetery.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival
List of Harvard University people
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reformer and commodore of the New York Yacht Club Benjamin Apthorp Gould – Astronomer Kelsey Grammer – Actor and comedian Reverend Samuel Harrison Greene -
List of members of the Sons of the American Revolution
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College, London University 20 May 1999 The Universe's Origins Martin Rees, Astronomer Royal and Royal Society Research Professor in Astronomy and Physics, Cambridge
List of In Our Time programmes
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Day of the year
L. Greenstein, American astronomer and academic (died 2002) 1909 – Robert Trout, American journalist (died 2000) 1910 – Edwin O. Reischauer, Japanese-American
October_15
British science fiction writer (1917–2008)
the universe is a machine designed for the perpetual astonishment of astronomers", reflecting the dialogue of the episode, in which he stated this concept
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Name list
and businessman Augustus William Smith (1802–1866), American educator, astronomer, and mathematician Augustus Williams (1842–?), American Civil War Navy
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Australian rugby league footballer. Lincoln LaPaz, 88, American astronomer. Aage Nielsen-Edwin, 87, Danish sculptor. Alfred Rouleau, 70, Canadian businessman
Deaths_in_October_1985
flight director for the International Space Station selected in 2005; as astronomer he worked at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) prior to joining
List of University of Michigan alumni
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the Firefly), pneumonia. Joe Busbey Hamiter, 86, American judge. Wilfred Holmes, 85, American naval officer. Suleiman Khater, 24–25, Egyptian mass murderer
Deaths_in_January_1986
Ward (living), novelist and critic Seth Ward (1617–1689), polemicist, astronomer and bishop Thomas Humphry Ward (1845–1926), writer and journalist William
List_of_English_writers_(R–Z)
Change in sea level due to gravity
tidal range and lunar phases. In the 2nd century BC, the Hellenistic astronomer Seleucus of Seleucia correctly described the phenomenon of tides in order
Tide
Day of the year
Arundel, English nobleman (died 1326) 1527 – Johannes Stadius, German astronomer, astrologer, mathematician (died 1579) 1545 – Franciscus Junius, French
May_1
2013 Dmitry Martynov (astronomer) [ru] WGPSN Martz 35°18′S 215°54′W / 35.3°S 215.9°W / -35.3; -215.9 (Martz) 97.0 1973 Edwin P. Martz WGPSN Marysville
List_of_craters_on_Mars:_H–N
LL.B. Lord of Preston; Ambassador Charles Alfred Post A.M. Lawyer and astronomer Thomas Brackett Reed LL.D. Statesman; Speaker of the House Minton Warren
List of Columbia University honorary degree and commencement prize recipients
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Bao Huiseng, 84, Chinese politician. Carlyle S. Beals, 80, Canadian astronomer. Joan Craven, 81, English photographer. Anthony Eustrel, 76, English actor
Deaths_in_July_1979
Alumni of a public school in Bedfordshire
archaeologist and astronomer Professor Charles Piazzi Smyth FRSE FRS FRAS FRSSA (1819–1900), Professor of Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, and Astronomer Royal
List_of_Old_Bedfordians
Italian freediver (born 1992)
Philippines. Asteroid 300124 Alessiazecchini, discovered by Italian amateur astronomer Silvano Casulli in 2006, was named in her honor. The official citation
Alessia_Zecchini
Day of the year
botanist (died 1596) 1565 – Scipione Chiaramonti, Italian philosopher and astronomer (died 1652) 1630 – Samuel Oppenheimer, German Jewish banker and diplomat
June_21
(1625–1678), English countess and writer Mary Rosse (1813–1885), Anglo-Irish astronomer, architect, furniture designer, and photographer; wife of William Parsons
List of people with given name Mary
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American scientist and activist (1901–1994)
scientists on this sheet of stamps included Gerty Cori, biochemist, Edwin Hubble, astronomer, and John Bardeen, physicist. California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger
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American lineage society
USNR - Lord of the manor of Gardiner's Island. Benjamin Apthorp Gould – Astronomer. Reverend Alexander Hamilton – great-grandson of Alexander Hamilton Commodore
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Day of the year
director and screenwriter (born 1921) 2010 – Allan Sandage, American astronomer and cosmologist (born 1926) 2012 – Erazm Ciołek, Polish photographer and
November_13
O'Connor, 79, Irish politician, TD (1961–1981). Zhang Yuzhe, 84, Chinese astronomer. Aurelian Andreescu, 44, Romanian singer, heart attack. Ted Baker, 85
Deaths_in_July_1986
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Henderson (disambiguation), several people Edwin Henderson (1883–1977), American educator and NAACP pioneer Edwin Hubert Henderson (1885–1939), Chief Architect
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Museum Winslow Upton (Sc.B. 1875) – astronomer, director of Ladd Observatory George Wallerstein (Sc.B. 1951) – astronomer, winner of the Henry Norris Russell
List of Brown University alumni
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(King's), protein scientist John Couch Adams (St John's), mathematician and astronomer Edgar Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian (Trinity), Nobel Prize winner, physiologist
List of University of Cambridge people
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Edward Washburn Hopkins (1878), professor of Sanskrit at Yale University Edwin Robert Anderson Seligman (1879), economist William Archibald Dunning (1881)
List of Columbia College people
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the British Empire. Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes collection The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (book publication 14 October). Michael Field's poetry
1892_in_the_United_Kingdom
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(1910–1968), Australian rules footballer Albert Holmes (1885–unknown), English footballer Albert Holmes (born 1942), English footballer Albert Holt (born
Albert_(given_name)
Alfred Holmes "Fritz" Von Kolnitz illustrates ethnic ambivalence. Sensitive to his obviously Prussian-sounding name, he used the name "R. H. Holmes" when
List_of_German_Americans
Day of the year
satellite, is launched. 1966 – Saturn's moon Epimetheus is discovered by astronomer Richard Walker. 1972 – Vietnam War: President Richard Nixon announces
December_18
Austrian freediver and world record holder
2010. The asteroid 295471 Herbertnitsch, discovered by Italian amateur astronomer Vincenzo Casulli in 2008, was named in his honor. The official naming
Herbert_Nitsch
British physicist and mathematician
concept of continental drift as put forth by Alfred Wegener and Arthur Holmes. This opposition persisted even into the 1960s among his colleagues at Cambridge
Harold_Jeffreys
botanist Bignoniaceae Bu Romneya Thomas Romney Robinson (1792–1882), astronomer Papaveraceae Co Rondeletia Guillaume Rondelet (1507–1566) Rubiaceae St
List of plant genera named after people (Q–Z)
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William McCrea, astronomer John A. Peacock, astronomer, Shaw Prize laureate in 2014 Anneila Sargent, astronomer Charles Piazzi Smyth, astronomer Licia Verde
List of University of Edinburgh people
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American actor (1899–1986)
was translated by Charles Laughton, who would also star as the Italian astronomer. Lane was part of a supporting cast that included Joan McCracken, Wesley
Rusty_Lane
First edition works in Greek
Botley, Paul (2002). "Learning Greek in Western Europe 1476-1516". In Holmes, Catherine; Waring, Judith (eds.). Literacy, Education and Manuscript Transmission
List of editiones principes in Greek
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(1843–1917) – architect Russell Gerry Crook (1869–1955) – sculptor Cyrus Edwin Dallin (1861–1944) – sculptor; Olympic archer; namesake of Cyrus E. Dallin
List of people from Massachusetts
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Calendar year
Ferrier, Scottish neurologist (d. 1928) January 17 – Anton Thraen, German astronomer (d. 1902) January 18 – Fernand Pelez, French painter (d. 1913) January
1843
Titania, Oberon, Enceladus, Mimas by Sir William Herschel (German born astronomer, later in life British) Discovery of Triton and the moons Hyperion, Ariel
List of British innovations and discoveries
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National park in South West England
Doyle, Sherlock Holmes and Devon". devonassoc.org.uk. Retrieved 30 January 2024. John Van der Kiste. "Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes and Devon". thebookbag
Dartmoor
Griffith Thompson Pugh Sr. (Ph.D. 1905) – former president of Columbia College Edwin Richardson (B.S. 1900)* – 9th president of Louisiana Tech University Kevin
List of Vanderbilt University people
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Achievements, cultural change, and "breaking the color barrier"
Columbia Medicine. Retrieved September 3, 2025. "The First Black Woman PhD Astronomer: Barbara A. Williams". The Sky is Not the Limit. February 8, 2021. Retrieved
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EDWIN HOLMES-ASTRONOMER
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English (chiefly central and northern England)
English (chiefly central and northern England) : variant of Holme.Scottish : probably a habitational name from Holmes near Dundonald, or from a place so called in the barony of Inchestuir.Scottish and Irish : Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Thomáis, Mac Thómais (see McComb). In part of western Ireland, Holmes is a variant of Cavish (from Gaelic Mac Thámhais, another patronymic from Thomas).John Holmes came from England to Woodstock, CT, in 1686. His descendants include the Congregational clergyman and historian Abiel Holmes, born 1763 in Woodstock, and Abiel’s son Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809–94).
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of Holler.
Male
English
Middle English form of Anglo-Saxon Eadwine, EDWIN means "rich friend."Â
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from Holmer in Buckinghamshire and Herefordshire, both named with Old English hol ‘hollow’ + mere ‘pool’.English : topographic name for someone who lived either on a piece of slightly raised land lying in a fen or partly surrounded by streams or where holly grew, from a derivative of Middle English holm (see Holm 1 and 2).Swedish, Danish, and North German (Schleswig-Holstein) : topographic name for someone who lived on an island (see Holm).
Boy/Male
Christian & English(British/American/Australian)
Valuable Friend
Male
Swedish
Old Swedish form of Old Norse Holmgeirr, HOLMGER means "spear island."
Female
English
Feminine form of English Edwin, EDWINA means "rich friend."
Surname or Lastname
Dutch and German (also North German von Holten)
Dutch and German (also North German von Holten) : habitational name from places so called, from Low German holt ‘holt’, ‘copse’, ‘small wood’. There is one in the Dutch province of Overijssel and another near Oberhausen in the Rhineland.Danish : variant of Holt.Norwegian : habitational name from any of several farmsteads so named, either from the definite singular form of holt ‘holt’, ‘small wood’ (see Holt), or from holt ‘hill’, ‘stony slope’.English : variant spelling of Holton.
Male
English
Variant spelling of Middle English Alwin, ELWIN means "elf friend."Â
Boy/Male
American, Anglo, British, Chinese, Christian, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Irish, Swedish
Prosperous Friend; Valued; Wealthy Friend; Blessed Friend; Rich Friend
Boy/Male
American, British, English, German
Form of Edwin
Male
English
Variant spelling of Middle English Edwin, EDWYN means "rich friend."
Male
English
Variant spelling of Middle English Aldwin, ELDWIN means "old friend."
Girl/Female
American, Anglo, Australian, British, Chinese, Christian, English, French, German, Indian, Irish, Jamaican
Rich Friend; Prosperous Friend; Female Version of Edwin; Friend of Riches; Blessed Friend; Wealthy Friend; Valuable Friend
Male
English
 Medieval English form of Anglo-Saxon Eoforwin, ERWIN means "boar friend." Compare with another form of Erwin.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : from the Middle English personal name Edwine, Old English Ēadwine, composed of the elements ēad ‘prosperity’, ‘fortune’ + wine ‘friend’.Indian (southern states) : name in the Christian community. It is only found as a given name in India (from the English personal name), but has come to be used as a family name among South Indian Christians in the U.S.
Male
Scandinavian
Scandinavian form of Old Norse Holmgeirr, HOLGER means "spear island."
Boy/Male
Anglo Saxon American English German
Valued.
Boy/Male
American, British, English, Scandinavian, Teutonic
From the River Island
Female
English
Anglicized form of Irish Gaelic ÉtaÃn, EDAIN means "face" or perhaps "against" or "opposite."
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n.
One who, or that which, holds.
n.
The representation of a helmet over shields or coats of arms, denoting gradations of rank by modifications of form.
adv.
To one's home or country; as in the phrases, go home, come home, carry home.
a.
Shaped like a helmet; galeate. See Illust. of Galeate.
n.
The home base; he started for home.
n.
One who holds land, etc., under another; a tenant.
v. i.
To go or get into a hole.
n.
Originally, a boundary stone dedicated to Hermes as the god of boundaries, and therefore bearing in some cases a head, or head and shoulders, placed upon a quadrangular pillar whose height is that of the body belonging to the head, sometimes having feet or other parts of the body sculptured upon it. These figures, though often representing Hermes, were used for other divinities, and even, in later times, for portraits of human beings. Called also herma. See Terminal statue, under Terminal.
a.
Of or pertaining to one's dwelling or country; domestic; not foreign; as home manufactures; home comforts.
n.
The flicker; -- called also high-hole.
a.
Close; personal; pointed; as, a home thrust.
n.
That which resembles a helmet in form, position, etc.
n.
A helmet-shaped hat, made of cork, felt, metal, or other suitable material, worn as part of the uniform of soldiers, firemen, etc., also worn in hot countries as a protection from the heat of the sun.
n.
To cut, dig, or bore a hole or holes in; as, to hole a post for the insertion of rails or bars.
n.
The payee of a bill of exchange or a promissory note, or the one who owns or holds it.
a.
Covered with a helmet.
n.
See Dolmen.
n.
A carrier pigeon remarkable for its ability to return home from a distance.
a.
Pierced with a hole or holes, or with pores; having transparent dots resembling holes.
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