Ivor

Ivor

Ivor may refer to:
* Ivor Novello Awards, a music award named after Ivor Novello
* Ivor, Virginia, a small U.S. town
* Ivor Wynne Stadium, a football stadium in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
* Ivor the Engine, a character on a British TV show for children
* Ivor Prime, a fictional planet in "Star Trek"

People named Ivor

Artists

* Ivor Gurney (1890-1937), an English composer and poet
* Ivor Novello (1893-1951), a British entertainer
* Ivor Mairants (1908-1998), a British-Polish guitarist
* Ivor Hele (1912-1993), an Australian painter
* Ivor Darreg (1917-1994), an American composer
* Ivor Roberts (1925-1999), a British actor and television presenter
* Ivor Cutler (1923-2006), a Scottish poet, songwriter and humorist
* Ivor Emmanuel (born 1927), a British opera singer

Politicians

* Ivor Churchill Guest, 1st Viscount Wimborne (1873-1939), a British politician
* Ivor Bertie Guest, 1st Baron Wimborne (1835-1914), father of Ivor Churchill Guest
* Joseph Ivor Linton (1900-1982), a Russian-Israeli diplomat
* Ivor Richard, Baron Richard (born 1932), a British politician
* David Ivor Young, Baron Young of Graffham (born 1932), a British politician and businessman
* Ivor Roberts (born 1946), the current British ambassador to Italy
* Ivor Callely (born 1958), an Irish politician
* Ivor Caplin (born 1958), a British politician

portsmen

* Ivor Jones (1901-1982), a Welsh rugby union player
* Ivor Bueb (1923-1959), a British Formula One driver
* Ivor Allchurch (1929-1997), a Welsh footballer

Other professions

* Ivor Wood (1932-2004), a British stop-motion animator
* Ivor Catt (born 1935), a British electronics engineer
* Ivor Grattan-Guinness, a British historian of mathematics and logic

Other

* Ivor, an affectionate name for the wind that blows from the East through the Dyfi Valley in Wales and into the Dyfi estuary
* Ivor the Engine Driver, the name of a man mentioned in the song "A Quick One, While He's Away" by The Who


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  • Ivor — Ivor, VA U.S. town in Virginia Population (2000): 320 Housing Units (2000): 152 Land area (2000): 1.089788 sq. miles (2.822539 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km) Total area (2000): 1.089788 sq. miles (2.822539 sq. km) …   StarDict's U.S. Gazetteer Places

  • Ivor, VA — U.S. town in Virginia Population (2000): 320 Housing Units (2000): 152 Land area (2000): 1.089788 sq. miles (2.822539 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km) Total area (2000): 1.089788 sq. miles (2.822539 sq. km) FIPS… …   StarDict's U.S. Gazetteer Places

  • Ivor — m 1 English: of Scandinavian origin, from an Old Norse personal name composed of the elements ýr yew, bow + herr army, warrior. 2 Scottish: Anglicized form of the ancient Gaelic name Éibhear. Cognates (of 1): Scandinavian: Ivar; Iver (Danish).… …   First names dictionary

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  • Ivor Mairants — (b.18 July 1908 c.20 February 1998) was a professional jazz and classical guitarist, teacher and composer. With his wife Lily in 1958 he created Ivor Mairants Musicentre, a specialist guitar store in London that was the first of its kind in the… …   Wikipedia

  • Ivor Gurney — (August 28, 1890 December 26, 1937) was an English composer and war poet.Born at 3 Queen Street, Gloucester in 1890, Gurney sang as a chorister at Gloucester Cathedral, from 1900 to 1906 when he became an articled pupil of Dr Herbert Brewer at… …   Wikipedia

  • Ivor Catt — (born 1935) is a British electronics engineer known principally for his alternative theories of electromagnetism. He received a B.A. degree from Cambridge University, and has won two major product awards for his innovative computer chip designs.… …   Wikipedia

  • Ivor Lott and Tony Broke — was a British strip which originally appeared in the comic book Cor!! in the early 1970s, before being in Buster when the two comics merged in June 1974. The strips revolved around two boys who lived close to each other. Tony Broke (a pun on the… …   Wikipedia

  • Ivor Bulmer-Thomas — CBE FSA, originally Ivor Thomas (30 November 1905 ndash; 7 October 1993) was a British journalist and author who served eight years as a Member of Parliament. His career was much influenced by his conversion to the Church of England in his youth …   Wikipedia

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