Rawson (surname)

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• Albert Rawson was an English professional footballer who played as a forward in the Football League for Sheffield United, Birmingham and Barnsley.
• Amán Rawson was an American physician and merchant based in San Juan, Argentina, who was well known during the first half of the nineteenth century. He was the father of the Argentine interior minister Guillermo Rawson.
• Anna Rawson is an Australian professional golfer and model. She played on the Ladies European Tour and the LPGA Tour.
• Arturo Rawson, 20th century Argentine army officer and de facto president

  C

• Charles A. Rawson, was an unelected United States Senator from Iowa for nine months in 1922.
• Christopher Rawson is an American writer, university teacher and theater critic.
• Clayton Rawson was an American mystery writer, editor, and amateur magician.
• Sir Alfred Cooper Rawson was a British businessman and Conservative Party politician. After a decade in local government, he sat in the House of Commons from 1922 to 1944.

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• Don Rawson is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Footscray in the Victorian Football League.
• Donald Rawson was an American historian known for his scholarship of the 19th century United States.

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• Edward Rawson
• Elizabeth Rawson was a classical scholar known primarily for her work in the intellectual history of the Roman Republic and her biography of Cicero.
• Dr. Elvira Rawson de Dellepiane was a militant suffragist and the second woman to receive a medical degree in Argentina. She was an activist for women's and children's rights and was known as "the mother of women's rights in Argentina".

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• Farrend Rawson is a footballer who plays as a central defender for Derby County.
• Franklin Rawson was an Argentine painter who belonged to the first generation of Argentine painters called the "precursors".

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• Major-General Geoffrey Rawson CB OBE MC was a senior British Army officer who served in both the First and Second World Wars and had a notable cricket career, playing first-class cricket for the Army in 1921.
• George Rawson was an English hymnwriter and Congregationalist lay person, who was born in Leeds on 5 June 1807 and died in Clifton, Bristol on 25 March 1889. He qualified as a lawyer and practiced law in Leeds, but also lived in Bristol.
• Guillermo Rawson, 19th century Argentine politician

  H

• Harry Rawson Admiral Sir Harry Holdsworth Rawson GCB GCMG, is chiefly remembered for overseeing the British Benin Expedition of 1897 that burned and looted the city of the Kingdom of Benin, now in Nigeria.
• Herbert Rawson, was an English footballer who played once for England, and appeared in two FA Cup finals, winning the cup in 1875 as a member of the Royal Engineers.

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• James Rawson in Newark, Nottinghamshire is a British table tennis player who competed at every Summer Paralympic Games between 1984 and 2008, winning five medals. He has also competed at World Championships in Assen 1990,Taipei 2002 where he won Team silver with Neil Robinson and individual Bronze defeating Guertler from Germany
• Dame Jessica Rawson, DBE, FBA is an English art historian, curator and academic administrator, specializing in Chinese art.
• John Rawson, 1st Viscount Clontarf was an English-born statesman in sixteenth-century Ireland, who was regarded as one of the mainstays of English rule. He was the last Prior of the Kilmainham house of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem; this was a fighting order and Rawson himself was an experienced soldier who took part in the Siege of Rhodes. Despite taking holy orders, he was not celibate, and had several natural children. At the Reformation, with only a little reluctance, he surrendered all his Order's properties in return for a pension and the title of viscount.

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• Marion Nicholl Rawson was an author, illustrator, artist and lecturer.
• Mary Rawson is an American actress. She played Cousin Mary Owl on the Neighborhood of Make Believe on the children's television program Mr. Rogers Neighborhood.
• Mary Anne Rawson was an abolitionist. She was a campaigner with the Tract Society, the British and Foreign Bible Society, Italian nationalism, Child labour, but above all anti-slavery.
• Mike Rawson was a track and field athlete, who represented Great Britain in the men's 800 metres at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia.

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• Reverend Norman Rawson was a World War I veteran, attaining the rank of captain, and minister at Centenary Church in Hamilton, Ontario from 1937 until 1954. In 1938, he was a candidate in the 1938 Conservative Party of Ontario leadership convention receiving 22 votes and coming in last of four candidates behind the winner, George Drew.

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• Peletiah Rawson taught at the Oneida Institute of Science and Industry for several years after it opened in 1827.
• Peter Rawson is a former Zimbabwean cricketer. He played ten ODIs for Zimbabwe between 1983 and 1987.

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• Ray Rawson, is an American former politician who was a Republican member of the Nevada State Senate.
• Rawson W. Rawson KCMG CB was a British government official and statistician.
• Rebecca Rawson was the heroine of the 1849 book Leaves from Margaret Smith's Journal, in the Province of Massachusetts Bay.
• Richard Rawson
• Roger Rawson was an American teacher and politician from Utah.
• Ronald Rawson, British heavyweight boxer of the 1920s
• Roy Rawson was an Australian politician.

  S

• Stratton Rawson, an independent film producer, screenwriter and music critic, is a senior producer at WNED-FM in Buffalo, New York, where he has been called "Buffalo's Leonard Bernstein."

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• Wilhelmina Rawson was an Australian author and authority on culinary and domestic practices. She is recognised as the first female cookbook author in Australia, writing recipes and household hints for life in colonial Australia which first appeared in 1878.
• William Rawson was an amateur footballer who played at full-back for England in the 1870s, and was also an FA Cup Final referee in 1876.
• William H. Rawson was an American Republican Party politician from New Jersey who served six terms on the Essex County Board of Freeholders.

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• Z. B. Rawson was an American politician in the state of Washington. He served in the Washington House of Representatives.