Davenport (surname)

Davenport is a surname, and may refer to:

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A

• Abraham Davenport (1715–1789), American politician
• Alan Garnett Davenport (1932–2009), Canadian wind engineer
• Arthur Davenport (a.k.a. Chaka Fattah) (b. 1956), American politician

B

• Bernard Davenport (b. c.1939), Irish ambassador
• Bill Davenport (1906–2001), American footballer

C

• Calum Davenport (b. 1983), English footballer
• Charles Davenport (1866–1944), American biologist and eugenicist
• Christopher Davenport (1598–1680), English Catholic theologian
• Claire Davenport (1933–2002), English actress
• Clay Davenport, American baseball statistician

D

• Dean Davenport (1918–2000), USAAF pilot
• Derrick Davenport (b. 1978), American male model
• Dorothy Davenport (1895–1997), American actress, screenwriter and film director

E

• Ed. J. Davenport (1899–1953), Los Angeles City Council member
• Edward Loomis Davenport (1816–1877), American actor
• Emily Davenport, American inventor

F

• Fanny Davenport (1850–1898), English-born American stage actress
• Franklin Davenport (1755–1832), American politician
• Frederick Davenport (1866–1956), American politician

G

• George Davenport (1783–1845), American frontiersman, trader and US Army colonel; Davenport, Iowa, was named in his honor
• Glorianna Davenport, documentary filmmaker and researcher
• Guy Davenport (1927–2005), American writer, intellectual, and teacher

H

• Harold Davenport (1907–1969), British mathematician
• Harriett Davenport, Los Angeles City Council member
• Harry Davenport (1866–1949), American film actor
• Harry J. Davenport (1902–1977), American politician
• Harry Davenport (1833–1895), English politician
• Herbert J. Davenport (1861–1931), American economist
• Homer Davenport (1867–1912), American political cartoonist
• Hugh Bromley-Davenport (1870–1954), English cricketer

I

• Ian Davenport (b. 1960), English painter
• Ira Davenport (politician) (1841–1904), American politician
• Ira Davenport (athlete) (1887–1941), American athlete and football player

J

• Jack Davenport (b. 1973), British actor
• Jack A. Davenport (1931–1951), United States Marine Medal of Honor recipient
• James Davenport (clergyman) (1716–1757), American clergyman
• James Davenport (Connecticut congressman) (1756–1797), American lawyer and politician
• James Davenport (professor) (b. 1953), British computer scientist
• Jean Margaret Davenport (1829–1903), Anglo-American actress
• Jessica Davenport (b. 1985), American basketball player
• Jim Davenport (b. 1933), former American baseball player
• John Davenport (Puritan) (1597–1670), Puritan clergyman and one of the founders of New Haven, Connecticut
• John Davenport (porn star), American pornographic actor

K

• Kiana Davenport, American-Hawaiian author
• Kim Davenport (b. 1955), American professional pool player

L

• Lindsay Davenport (b. 1976), American female professional tennis player
• Louis Davenport (1869–1951), American businessman

M

• Marcia Davenport (1903–1996), American author and music critic
• Marmaduke Davenport, pseudonym for British confidence trickster Alexander Day
• Mike Davenport (b. 1968), American musician
• Miriam Davenport (1915–1999), American painter and sculptor

N

• Najeh Davenport (b. 1979), American footballer
• N'Dea Davenport (b. 1966), American R&B/soul singer/songwriter
• Nigel Davenport (b. 1928), British actor

P

• Paul Davenport (b. 1946), 9th president of the University of Western Ontario
• Peter Davenport (b. 1961), former English professional footballer

R

• Richard Davenport-Hines (b; 1953), British writer
• Robert Davenport (fl. 1623-1639), English dramatist
• Ross Davenport (b. 1984), British swimmer
• Roy M. Davenport (1909–1987), United States Navy Rear Admiral, 5-time recipient of the Navy Cross
• Russell Davenport (1899–1954), American publisher and writer

S

• Samuel Davenport (1818–1906), early South Australian settler, landowner and parliamentarian
• Samuel Arza Davenport (1834–1911), American politician
• Stanley Woodward Davenport (1861–1921), American politician
• Stuart Davenport, New Zealand squash player

T

• Thomas Davenport (inventor) (1802–1851), blacksmith from Vermont, USA who was an inventor of DC electric motors
• Thomas Davenport (congressman) (died 1838), U.S. representative from Virginia
• Thomas H. Davenport (born 1954), American academic
• Thomas Davenport, UK Member of Parliament
• Tim Davenport (born 1961), founder of Mutant Pop Records

W

• William Davenport (no dates), a Staffordshire pottery entrepreneur.
• Wallace Davenport (1925–2004), American jazz trumpeter
• Willie Davenport (1943–2002), American athlete
• William Bromley-Davenport (1821-1884), British MP for Warwickshire North
• William Bromley-Davenport (1862-1949), British soldier, footballer and Conservative politician
• William Arthur Bromley-Davenport, High Sheriff of Cheshire and Lord Lieutenant of Cheshire since 1990
• Wink Davenport, American former volleyball player

Brothers

• Davenport Brothers (Ira Erastus and William Henry), noted frauds of spiritualism

See also

• Davenport (disambiguation)
• Bromley-Davenport
• Davenport, fictional family from the British television soap Family Affairs

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