Famous People with Name Neville

Neville Dickie            Origin/Culture/Country: British

Neville Dickie: is an English boogie-woogie and stride piano player. He has performed all over Europe and North America.After serving in the RAF, Dickie left Durham and moved to London, where he began playing piano for small wages in various pubs. It was only after Doree

Neville Edward Alexander            Origin/Culture/Country: African

Neville Edward Alexander: is a proponent of a multilingual South Africa and a former revolutionary who spent ten years on Robben Island with Nelson Mandela.Alexander by 1957 was already radicalised and a member of the Cape Peninsula Students' Union, an affiliate of the Unity Movement of South Africa[4]. He joined the African Peoples Democratic Union of Southern Africa (APDUSA) which was established in 1960. However he was ejected from APDUSA in 1961 and with Dulcie September, Abrahams, Fikile Bam, Andreas Shipinga, Marcus Solomon, Xenophon Pitt and others, formed a study group of nine members in July 1962, known as the Yu Chi Chan Club (YCCC). Yu Chi Chan is the Chinese name for guerrilla warfare, which Mao Tse-Tung used. The YCCC disbanded in late 1962 to be replaced by the National Liberation Front (NLF) of which Alexander was a founder.

Neville Godwin            Origin/Culture/Country: African

Neville Godwin: is a former tennis player from South Africa.Godwin turned professional in 1994. The right-hander won one singles title (2001 Newport) in his career, and reached his highest individual ranking on the ATP Tour on March 31, 1997, when he became World number 90.At the 1996 Wimbledon tournament Godwin had his best finish at a Grand Slam, when he reached the fourth round as a qualifier.

Neville Jelich            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Neville Jelich: is an is an Australian cricket player, who played first class cricket for Queensland and Tasmania. He debuted for Queensland in the 1985-86 season, but transferred to Tasmania the following summer, where he played until the end of the 1988-89 season. He was a Left-handed middle order batsman, and scored one first class century.

Neville Montague Ford            Origin/Culture/Country: English

Neville Montague Ford: was an English cricketer who played for Derbyshire, Oxford University, Middlesex and MCC between 1926 and 1934. He made his debut in August 1926 in a victory against Northamptonshire and followed it up with a draw against Kent. He played two games for Der

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.