Famous People with Name Faith

Faith Bandler            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Faith Bandler: an Australian civil rights activist of South Sea Islander heritage. She is a campaigner for the rights of Indigenous Australians and South Sea Islanders. Bandler is best known for her leadership in the campaign for the 1967 referendum on Aboriginal Australians.bandy's father, Peter Mussing, had been blackbirded from Ambrym Island, part of Vanuatu, in 1883 , at the age of about twelve. He was then sent to Mackay, Queensland before being sent to work on a sugar cane plantation. He later escaped and married Bandler's mother, a Scottish-Indian woman from New South Wales. Bandler cites stories of her father's harsh experience as a slave labourer as a strong motivation for her activism.[1] Bandler grew up with her family on a farm near Murwillumbah, New South Wales. Her father died in 1924, when Bandler was just five years old. In 1934, Bandler left school and moved to Sydney, where she worked as a dressmaker's apprentice.

Faith Yvonne Leech            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Faith Yvonne Leech: is a former Australian freestyle swimmer .

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.