Famous People with Name Priestley

Jason Priestley            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Jason Priestley: is a Canadian-born American actor and film director. He is best known as the virtuous Brandon Walsh on the television series Beverly Hills, 90210, a role which catapulted him to fame in the early 1990s

Jason Bradford Priestley            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Jason Bradford Priestley: a Canadian-born American actor and film director. He is best known as the virtuous Brandon Walsh on the television series Beverly Hills, 90210, a role which catapulted him to fame in the early 1990s.In 1990, Priestley was chosen as Brandon Walsh on the hit series Beverly Hills, 90210. He also directed fifteen of the show's episodes. He remained on the show until 1998, when Brandon moved to Washington, DC. Brandon was the last Walsh to leave the show, however, Priestly would continue to serve as an executive producer until the show's cancellation in 2000.

Joseph Priestley            Origin/Culture/Country: English

Joseph Priestley: was an 18th-century British theologian, Dissenting clergyman, natural philosopher, educator, and political theorist who published over 150 works. He is usually credited with the discovery of oxygen, having isolated it in its gaseous state, although Carl Wilhelm Scheele and Antoine Lavoisier also have a claim to the discovery.[2]During his lifetime, Priestley's considerable scientific reputation rested on his invention of soda water, his writings on electricity, and his discovery of several "airs" (gases), the most famous being what Priestley dubbed "dephlogisticated air" (oxygen). However, Priestley's determination to defend phlogiston theory and to reject what would become the Chemical Revolution eventually left him isolated within the scientific community.

Sir Arthur Alexander Priestley            Origin/Culture/Country: English

Sir Arthur Alexander Priestley: was an English politician and cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and occasional wicket-keeper. He was M.P. for Grantham from 1900 to 1918, having been defeated three times in Stamford in a By-Election in 1886 and then in 1892 and 1895. He toured the