Famous People with Name Faith

Faith Susan Alberta Watson            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Faith Susan Alberta Watson: Watson quit high school, East York Collegiate, when she was 15. She studied acting at Ryerson Polytech. When she was 16, FOG disbanded and she moved in with her 27-year old boyfriend to a farm where they lived with friends and other people from FOG. She broke up with her boyfriend and moved back to Toronto at age 17 to pursue acting. Her mother, Grace, died when she was 19 of Hodgkin's disease.

Faith Ringgold            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Faith Ringgold: an African American artist, best known for her painted story quilts.where she studied with Robert Gathmey and Yasuo Kuniyoshi. She received an M.A. from the college in 1959. She was greatly influenced by the fabric she worked with at home with her mother, who was a fashion designer, and has used fabric in many of her artworks. She is especially well-known for her painted story quilts which blur the line between "high art" and "craft" by combining painting, quilted fabric, and storytelling. Her work is in the permanent collection of many museums including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, and other museums, mostly in New York City.

Faith Nolan            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Faith Nolan: a Canadian social activist folk and jazz singer-songwriter and guitarist of mixed African, Mi'kmaq and Irish heritage. As stated on her website, "her music is her political work, a politics firmly rooted in her being working class, a woman, African Canadi

Faith Page            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Faith Page: an American singer, songwriter, and musician who is best known for her 1992 song Morning In Seattle.Her musical training began with the violin at five years old and the piano at six. Her first stage experience was at the age of seven when she played the B

Faith Prince            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Faith Prince: an American actress and singer known primarily for her work on Broadway.She was born in Augusta, Georgia and raised in Lynchburg, Virginia, where she dabbled in theater at E.C. Glass High School. She made her Broadway debut in Jerome Robbins' Broadway (19

Percy Faith            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Percy Faith: Canadian-born band-leader, orchestrator and composer, known for his lush arrangements of pop standards. He is often credited with creating the "easy listening" or "mood music" format which became staples of American popular music in the 1950s and continued well into the 1960s. Though his professional orchestra-leading career began at the height of the swing era, Faith refined and rethought orchestration techniques, including use of large string sections, to soften and fill out the brass dominated popular music of the 1940s.

Sally A. Faith            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Sally A. Faith: is a not-for-profit fundraiser and Republican member of the Missouri House of Representatives. She has one son, Howard, and is a resident of St. Charles, Missouri.She has been director of Development for the St. Charles Community College Foundation, direc

Henry Faithful            Origin/Culture/Country: English

Henry Faithful: was an English cricketer who played for Sussex. He was born in Kingsworthy and died in Hurst Row. Faithful made two first-class appearances during June 1823. His debut saw him take one catch and score one run in a Sussex victory. Faithful's second and fin

Marianne Evelyn Gabriel Faithfull            Origin/Culture/Country: British

Marianne Evelyn Gabriel Faithfull: is an English singer, songwriter, actress and diarist whose career spans over four decades. Her early work in pop and rock music in the 1960s was overshadowed by her struggle with drug abuse in the 1970s.

Marianne Faithfull            Origin/Culture/Country: English

Marianne Faithfull: an English singer, songwriter, actress and diarist whose career spans five decades. Her early work in pop and rock music in the 1960s was overshadowed by her struggle with drug abuse in the 1970s. After a long commercial absence, she returned late in 1979 with the landmark album, Broken English. Faithfull's subsequent work, very frequently the subject of great critical acclaim, has at times been overshadowed by her personal history.