Famous People with Name Almond

Almond Lee            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Almond Lee: is a horse trainer. He enjoyed his best season in 2006/07 with 44 winners, and he sent out 23 winners in 2010/11 for a total of 223 in Hong Kong.

Almondo Fricain            Origin/Culture/Country: African

Almondo Fricain: is a football player who currently plays as a defender for Petite Rivière Noire SC in the Mauritian Premier League. He has also represented Mauritius internationally with the Mauritius national football team. He is featured on the Mauritian national team

Paul Almond            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Paul Almond: a Canadian television and motion picture director and novelist.At the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, he worked primarily as a director and producer, and also wrote several scripts. He did similar work in England for the BBC and ABC-TV[disambiguation needed] (London) and Granada TV (where he created the ground-breaking documentary Seven Up!) before embarking on a career as a feature-length filmmaking.

Marc Almond            Origin/Culture/Country: English

Marc Almond: is a popular English singer, songwriter and recording artist, who originally found fame as half of the seminal synthpop/New Wave duo Soft Cell.As a child Marc listened to his parent's record collection, which included his mother's Let's Dance by Chris Montez and The Twist by Chubby Checker, also his father's collection of jazz including Dave Brubeck and Eartha Kitt. As an adolescent Marc listened to Radio Caroline and Radio Luxembourg. The first single he bought was The Green Manalishi by Fleetwood Mac, the first album the soundtrack to the stage musical Hair.

Robert "Bobby" Ronald Almond            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Robert "Bobby" Ronald Almond: was a football player who represented New Zealand.Almond emigrated to New Zealand in 1973 and pulled on the All White strip a total of 49 times between 1978 and 1982,although only 28 were full A-internationals.

Philips Van Almonde            Origin/Culture/Country: Danish

Philips Van Almonde: was a Dutch Lieutenant Admiral, who served in his nation’s maritime conflicts of the 17th and early 18th centuries. He was appointed lieutenant in 1664 by the Admiralty of the Maze. During the Battle of Lowestoft in the Second Anglo-Dutch War he in 1665 took over command from his incapacitated uncle and was on return confirmed in his command on 14 August. He distinguished himself in the Four Days Battle of June 11-14, 1666, where Lieutenant-Admiral Michiel de Ruyter defeated the British fleet under George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle. In 1667 he was made a full captain. In 1671 he was captain of the Harderwijk.