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Laura Wright
Laura Wright (née Sisk; September 11, 1970) is an American actress. She is perhaps best known for her roles as Ally Rescott on "Loving" and "The City" (1991–1997), Cassie Layne Winslow on "Guiding Light" (1997–2005) and Carly Corinthos on "General Hospital" (2005–present); the latter garnered her the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series in 2011.
Laura Bullion
Laura Bullion (October 1876 – December 2, 1961) was an outlaw of the Old West. Most sources indicate Bullion was born of German and Native American heritage in Knickerbocker, near Mertzon, in Irion County, Texas; the exact day of her birth is unclear. Data in the 1880 and 1900 federal census suggests a Laura Bullion might have been born on a farm in the township of Palarm near Conway in Faulkner County, Arkansas, and might have grown up in Tom Green County, Texas. Other sources claim Laura Bullion was born in Kentucky in 1873.
Laura Ruth Walker
Laura Ruth Walker (born November 19, 1957) is President and CEO of New York Public Radio, a nonprofit media organization that operates WNYC, WNYC Studios, classical WQXR-FM, Gothamist, New Jersey Public Radio, and The Jerome L. Greene Performance Space. The organization produces programs for local and national audiences, including "The Brian Lehrer Show, Radiolab, More Perfect, On The Media, Nancy, The New Yorker Radio Hour, Trump, Inc., Death, Sex & Money, Snap Judgment, Here’s the Thing with Alec Baldwin, All Of It, The Takeaway, Caught, The United States of Anxiety, Aria Code, Carnegie Hall Live, and 2 Dope Queens, reaching an average audience of 23.4 million people each month.
Susan Webber Wright
Susan Webber Wright (née Carter; born August 1, 1948) is a Senior United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas. Wright is a former judge on the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. She received national attention when she first dismissed the sexual harassment lawsuit brought by Paula Jones against President Bill Clinton in 1998, and then, in 1999, found Clinton to be in civil contempt of court.
Laura Kent Donahue
Laura Kent Donahue (born April 22, 1949) was an American businesswoman and politician. She served as a Republican member of the Illinois Senate from 1981 to 2003.
Louisa Van Vleet Spicer Wright
Louisa Van Vleet Spicer Wright (1862–1913) was the daughter of Washington pioneer Lewis Van Vleet and the first doctor in Clark County, Washington to have both a degree in medicine and a license to practice medicine having obtained both upon graduating from what was then the University of Michigan Medical School at Ann Arbor, Michigan in 1885.
Laurence Wright (physician)
Wright was the third son of John Wright of Wright's Bridge, near Hornchurch in Essex, was born in 1590.He matriculated a pensioner of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, in March 1608, and proceeded B.A. the following year. He entered as a medical student at Leyden on 22 August 1612, but graduated M.A. at Cambridge in 1618.
Laura Richards House
The house was built about 1810 by Ebenezer Byram, who had purchased the land from Robert Hallowell Gardiner. In 1878, it was purchased by Henry and Laura E. Richards. Laura Richards (1850-1943) was the daughter of Samuel Gridley Howe and Julia Ward Howe, and Henry Richard was Gardiner's grandson. The couple moved to Gardiner in 1876 after suffering financial reverses, and it was about that time that Laura Richards began her writing career. She is best known for a series of children's books, and was a corecipient of the inaugural Pulitzer Prize for a biography of her mother.
Katharine Wright
She was born on August 19, 1874, exactly three years after Orville Wright, as the only surviving girl of Milton Wright and Susan Koerner. She was especially close to Wilbur and Orville, and when their mother died in 1889, she took over the responsibility for the household.
Fielding L. Wright
Wright was born on May 16, 1895 in the town of Rolling Fork, in Sharkey County, Mississippi, into a politically active family, the son of Frances Foote (Clements) and Henry James Wright. Through his mother, he was a direct descendant of Fielding Lewis and his wife, Betty Washington Lewis, a sister of George Washington. After serving in the U.S. Army during World War I, he returned home vowing that he would never become a "dang politician". Wright studied law at the University of Alabama, then went on to open a law office in Rolling Fork, in partnership with his uncle.
Mary Tappan Wright
Wright was born Mary Tappan December 14, 1851, in Steubenville, Ohio, or December 18 of the same year, the daughter of Eli Todd Tappan, president of Kenyon College, and Lydia (McDowell) Tappan. She was educated at Auburn Young Ladies' Institute, Cincinnati, Ohio. She married, April 2, 1878, John Henry Wright, then an associate professor of Greek at Dartmouth College and later professor of classical philology and dean of the Collegiate Board of Johns Hopkins University, professor of Greek at Harvard University, and dean of Harvard's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. The couple had three children, Elizabeth Tappan Wright (who died young), Austin Tappan Wright, and John Kirtland Wright. They lived successively in Hanover, New Hampshire, Baltimore, Maryland and Cambridge, Massachusetts, aside from one period during which John was a professor at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, when they resided in Greece. Wright was a founding member of the Boston Authors Club in 1900. Her husband died November 25, 1908, and she herself died August 25, 1916 in Cambridge. She was survived by her two sons.
Laura E. Richards
In 1871 Laura married Henry Richards. He would accept a management position in 1876 at his family's paper mill at Gardiner, Maine, where the couple moved with their three children. In 1917 Laura won a Pulitzer Prize for "Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910", a biography, which she co-authored with her sisters, Maud Howe Elliott and Florence Hall.
Teresa Wright
Muriel Teresa Wright (October 27, 1918 – March 6, 2005) was an American actress. She was nominated twice for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress: in 1941 for her debut work in "The Little Foxes", and in 1942 for "Mrs. Miniver", winning for the latter. That same year, she received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in "The Pride of the Yankees", opposite Gary Cooper. She is also known for her performances in Alfred Hitchcock's "Shadow of a Doubt" (1943) and William Wyler's "The Best Years of Our Lives" (1946).
Laura E. Richards
Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards (February 27, 1850 – January 14, 1943) was an American writer. She wrote more than 90 books including biographies, poetry, and several for children. One well-known children's poem is her literary nonsense verse "Eletelephony".
Laura Hickman
Laura Curtis was born in Long Beach, California to Clarence and Jenny Curtis. She grew up in Southern California until her parents moved to Provo, Utah just prior to her entering Junior High School. There while she was in 7th grade, she met Tracy Hickman in the lunch room of Farrer Junior High School. They dated off-and-on through their years at Provo High School until Tracy left to serve a church mission in Indonesia in 1975. Like her husband Tracy, Laura is a Latter-day Saint.
Barbara Wright (translator)
Barbara Winifred Wright (13 October 1915 – 3 March 2009) was an English translator of modern French literature.
Laura Pritchett
Laura Pritchett (born February 16, 1971) is an American writer. Pritchett is the author of five literary novels and one book of nonfiction. Her work is rooted in the American West and has been significantly influenced by her native Colorado. Both her fiction and nonfiction often focus on issues of ecology, conservation, climate change, and social justice issues. She has been awarded the PEN USA Award for Fiction, the High Plains Literary Award, the Milkweed National Fiction Prize, the WILLA Fiction Award, and others. She is the editor of three anthologies, all on environmental topics, and writes regularly for magazines.
Laura Lee Clark
Laura Lee Clark was born in 1964 in Greenville, Texas and graduated from Texas Christian University with a
Bachelor of Science in Interior Design in 1987 and Clark has studied at the Parsons School of Design in Italy. She
is married to John Falconer since 2004 and the couple has one daughter. Laura Lee is a Delta Delta Delta sorority alumna,
and a member of the Dallas Museum of Art, an American Society of Interior Designers Professional Member, a Registered Interior Designer with the State of Texas and a member of the Dallas Museum of Art.
Martha Coffin Wright
Martha's daughter Ellen Wright (1840–1931) was an advocate of women's rights, especially women's suffrage. In 1864, she married William Lloyd Garrison, Jr. (1838–1909), a prominent advocate of Henry George's single tax movement, free trade, woman's suffrage, and of the repeal of the Chinese Exclusion Act. William was the son of abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison.
Laura Croft
Laura Croft (born January 30, 1983) is an American model. She was the Playmate of the Month for the July 2008 issue of "Playboy" magazine.
Horace Kenton Wright
He was born in Chicago, Illinois, on February 21, 1915 to Jamaican parents Dr. Joseph and Maud Wright. At the age of two, his family relocated to The Bahamas. In 1931, Wright began his career with the Bahamas Board of Education as a teacher. After travelling to London to pursue studies in Art from 1948 to 1951, Wright became The Bahamas' only art teacher, serving in this post from 1951 to 1960. He was appointed Supervisor of Art for all schools in The Bahamas in 1961, and he then served as Inspector of Schools from 1964 to 1967.
Laura X
Laura X (born Laura Rand Orthwein, Jr.; in St. Louis, Missouri in 1940), is one of the world's leading advocates pertaining to the women's movement and a wide array of precursors and overlapping social movements from the second half of the 20th century.
Beatrice Wright
Wright was born in New Haven, Connecticut in the United States on 17 June 1910, her father was an international banker. She came to England as an exchange student at Christ Church, Oxford where she met and in 1932 married John Rathbone, with whom she had two children, including Tim, later MP for Lewes. Her husband was elected in 1935 as Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Bodmin, but was killed in December 1940 in the Battle of Britain, aged 30. In March 1941 she was elected unopposed as his successor, and sat in the Commons for the rest of World War II. She stepped down at the 1945 general election, after becoming the first sitting MP to give birth to a child.
Olgivanna Lloyd Wright
Olgivanna Lloyd Wright (December 27, 1898 – March 1, 1985) was the third and final wife of Frank Lloyd Wright and had significant influence in his life and work, due in part to her extensive Theosophical associations. She was a Montenegrin dancer of Serbian origin. While her "language, cultural background and upbringing were almost exotically alien to his own," she was critical in introducing Wright to Greek-Armenian mystic George Gurdjieff, a man whom he alternately despised and admired. She is a principal character in T. C. Boyle's 2009 novel "The Women."
Laura Kerr
Born to George Hornickel and Cara Kerr in Dillonvale, Ohio, in 1902, Laura was an only child. She attended Vassar College and entered a career as a literary agent. All the while, she wrote original plays.
Laura Attrux
Laura Margaret Attrux, born June 28, 1909, in Duck Lake, Saskatchewan, Canada, was a nurse who received an Honorary Doctor of Laws Degree from the University of Alberta on June 19, 1970. 
Attrux had a career of forty-six years of nursing. Thirty-five of these were as a public health nurse employed by the Alberta government in northern Alberta. She worked mostly by herself as a district/municipal nurse in the remote communities of Valleyview, Whitecourt, Smith, Slave Lake, Wabasca, Swan Hills, Paddle Prairie, High Level, and Rainbow Lake. In 1967 at age 58 she took flying lessons and purchased an Cessna 150 airplane. She delivered 1031 babies during her career.
Jules Wright
Wright was born Alexandra Vesty in Melbourne on 25 February 1948. Adopted by a couple from Adelaide, she studied educational psychology at Adelaide University.
Laura Wright (disambiguation)
Laura Wright may also refer to:
Laura Legge
Legge was born on January 27, 1923.
Frances Wright
Frances Wright (September 6, 1795 – December 13, 1852) also widely known as Fanny Wright, was a Scottish-born lecturer, writer, freethinker, feminist, abolitionist, and social reformer, who became a US citizen in 1825. The same year, she founded the Nashoba Commune in Tennessee, as a utopian community to prepare slaves for emancipation, but it lasted only five years. Her "Views of Society and Manners in America" (1821) brought her to public attention as a critic of the new nation.
Laura Bridgman
Laura Dewey Lynn Bridgman (December 21, 1829 – May 24, 1889) is known as the first deaf-blind American child to gain a significant education in the English language, fifty years before the more famous Helen Keller. Bridgman was left deaf-blind at the age of two after suffering a bout of scarlet fever. She was educated at the Perkins Institution for the Blind where, under the direction of Samuel Gridley Howe, she learned to read and communicate using Braille and the manual alphabet developed by Charles-Michel de l'Épée.
Laura Benét
Laura Benét was born at Fort Hamilton, Brooklyn, New York, on 13 June 1884. Her brothers both won the Pulitzer Prize, the writer William Rose Benét and the poet Stephen Vincent Benét. She graduated from the Emma Willard School in 1903 and, four years later, from Vassar College with an A.B. degree. Benét was a settlement worker in New York City from 1913 to 1916 and then became an inspector for the Red Cross Sanitary Commission during World War I. After the war, she returned home in 1919 to help care for her brother William's three children after the death of his first wife, Theresa Thompson (sister of the novelist Kathleen Thompson Norris), during the flu pandemic. Benét occasionally wrote for the "Literary Review" and then began writing biographies for children and adults while working as a newspaper editor for the "New York Sun" and the "New York Times". She mostly wrote literary biographies, including ones on both of her brothers, and also compiled biographies like "Famous English and American Essayists". She wrote her memoir, "When William Rose, Stephen Vincent, and I Were Young", in 1976. Benét died in New York on 17 February 1979.
Laura Forster
Forster was born in the Sydney suburb of Ryde in 1858 to William Forster (1818-1882), a landowner, poet, politician and Premier of New South Wales during 1859–1860, and his wife Eliza Jane Wall (1828-1862). Laura was the fifth of six children to William and Eliza Forster. Eliza Wall Forster died in 1862 and William married Maud Julia Edwards (1846-1893). With Maud, William had five children, including three sons who were killed in World War I while with the Australian Imperial Force. Shortly after William Forster's death in 1882, Laura accompanied her stepmother and half sister, Enid, to England. Maud eventually married John Burn Murdoch, of Edinburgh, and a captain in the Royal Engineers. Laura remained in England. On Nov. 1, 1887, she entered Bern University in Switzerland, as a medical student. She graduated in 1894 and was certified to practice medicine in the United Kingdom the following year. At Bern University she studied 12 semesters at the Pathological Institute researching muscle spindle fibers.
Oliver Wright
Wright was born on 6 March 1921 in Hammersmith, London, England. He was the younger son of Arthur Wright, a catering manager and hotelier, and his wife, Ethel Louisa Hicks, (née Shearod). The family moved from London to the West Midlands when Wright was very young. He was educated at Solihull School, then an all-boys independent school in Solihull, West Midlands. He won a scholarship to Christ's College, Cambridge. There, he studied modern languages and specialised in German and French. Following graduation, he joined the military for service during World War II.
Laura Loomer
Laura Elizabeth Loomer (born May 21, 1993) is a far-right or alt-right American political activist, conspiracy theorist, and Internet personality. She was a reporter for Canadian far-right website The Rebel Media during the summer of 2017, resigning that September. Prior to June 2017, she worked for Project Veritas with James O'Keefe.
Cobina Wright
She was born on September 20, 1887, in Lakeview, Oregon to Benjamin M. Cobb and Della Holmes (1861—1943).
Laura, South Australia
Laura is a rural town in the Mid North region of South Australia, 12 km north of Gladstone on the Horrocks Highway and 40 km east of Port Pirie. The first European to explore the district was Thomas Burr in September 1842. His promising reports soon led to occupation of the district by pastoralists, one of whom was Herbert Bristow Hughes (c. 1821 – 18 May 1892). When the present town was surveyed he named it for his wife, Laura née White (c. 1829 – 5 January 1909).
Lawrence Wright (cricketer)
Lawrence Wright (born 11 May 1940) is a former English cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman who played for Hertfordshire. He was born in Hertford.
Luke Wright
Luke James Wright (born 7 March 1985) is an English cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium bowler. Born in Bottesford near Grantham, Wright joined Sussex in 2004, having started his career at Leicestershire. He was named in England's squad for the Under-19 World Cup in 2004, and joined the International Twenty20 squad for the 2007 Twenty20 World Championship in September 2007. He made his One Day International debut on 5 September 2007 against India.
Laura Wheelwright
Laura Wheelwright (born 10 September 1990) is an Australian actress best known for her role in the 2010 feature film "Animal Kingdom."
Laura Lee
Laura Lee (born Laura Lee Newton; 9 March 1945 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American soul and gospel singer and songwriter, most successful in the 1960s and 1970s and influential for her records which discussed and celebrated women's experience.
Laura Wright (singer)
Nominated for a Classical Brit Award, Wright went on to receive the PPL Classical Award at the Nordoff Robbins 02 Silver Clef Awards. Alongside her role as ambassador at Nordoff Robbins, Laura is an ambassador of Arthritis Research UK, having battled her own debilitating condition at a very young age. She is also an ambassador for SportsAid and for the Invictus Games.
Laura Recovery Center
The Laura Recovery Center is a non-profit organization that works to prevent kidnappings and abductions and to recover victims of such events. The center is located in Friendswood, Texas, USA, and is named for Laura Kate Smither (April 23, 1984 - April 3, 1997), a 12-year-old girl who was abducted near her Friendswood home and murdered.
Bertha Wright
Bertha Wright was born in San Francisco, on June 17, 1876, the daughter of Horatio Nelson Wright (1840–1925) and Frances Allen "Fanny" Cheever (1850–1917).
Laura Whittle
Laura Whittle (née Kenney on 27 June 1985) a Scottish long-distance runner.
Laura Moffatt
Born Laura Jean Field in London in 1954, she was educated at Hazelwick School in Crawley, West Sussex before attending the Crawley College of Technology (now renamed Central Sussex College).
Laura Ross Wolcott
In 1826, Laura was born in York, Maine. She was educated at George Emerson's School in Boston and later at the Horace Mann Normal School. She may also have studied in private with faculty at Harvard University. In 1856, she graduated with a medical degree from the Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania. She married Dr. Erastus B. Wolcott in 1869. In 1894 she moved to Ravenswood, Illinois. She died in 1915 in Ravenswood, Illinois.
Susan Wright (murderer)
Susan Lucille Wright (born April 24, 1976) is an American criminal from Houston, Texas, who made headlines in 2003 for stabbing her husband, Jeff Wright, 193 times and then burying his body in their backyard. She was convicted of first-degree murder in 2004, and is currently serving a 20-year sentence at the Crain Unit in Gatesville, Texas. She was denied parole on June 12, 2014 and July 24, 2017.
Laura Wright (author)
Wright was born in Minnesota. As an adult, she pursued a career as an actress, singer and competitive ballroom dancer, teaching ballroom dancing and Latin dancing for more than ten years. After many years of reading romance novels, Wright left dancing and attempted to write romantic fiction. After three years of writing, she sold a manuscript to Harlequin books for their Silhouette Desire line of category romances.
Joshua Wright (Alaska politician)
Joshua J. Wright II (August 6, 1929 – November 2, 2017) was a dentist and politician in the United States who served as a member of the Alaska House of Representatives between 1970 and 1972. Born in Georgetown, South Carolina on August 6, 1929 to Joshua and Louise Wright, he attended Howard University where he studied zoology, chemistry, and later, dentistry. By 1956, Wright had moved to Mt. Edgecombe, Alaska, where he worked for the Public Health Service Hospital until 1958, when he moved to Anchorage.
Letitia Wright
Letitia Michelle Wright (born 31 October 1993) is a Guyanese-born British actress. Beginning her professional career in 2011, she has played roles in several British TV series, including "Top Boy", "Coming Up", "Chasing Shadows", "Humans", the "Doctor Who" episode "Face the Raven" and the "Black Mirror" episode "Black Museum"; for the latter she received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Movie.
Laura Wright (author)
She is married and lives in Los Angeles, California, with her husband and their two children.
Laura Walker
Laura Anne Walker (born July 1, 1970) is an American former competition swimmer and Olympic medalist.
Ann Wright
Mary Ann Wright (born 1947) is a retired United States Army colonel and retired U.S. State Department official, known for her outspoken opposition to the Iraq War. She received the State Department Award for Heroism in 1997, after helping to evacuate several thousand people during the civil war in Sierra Leone. She is most noted for having been one of three State Department officials to publicly resign in direct protest of the 2003 Invasion of Iraq. Wright was also a passenger on the "Challenger 1", which along with the "Mavi Marmara", was part of the Gaza flotilla.
Olgivanna Lloyd Wright
She was born as Olga Ivanovna (Olgivanna) Lazović in Montenegro on December 27, 1898, to Ivan Lazović and Milica Miljanov, daughter of the famous Serbian writer from Montenegro, leader of Serbian tribe Kuči, Montenegrin duke, and hero Marko Miljanov. A long-time pupil and devotee of G. I. Gurdjieff (even after her involvement with Wright), she was also a nurse to Katherine Mansfield on her deathbed at Gurdjieff's Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man at the Prieuré des Basses Loges on January 9, 1923. She had begun her career with Gurdjieff as a student of sacred dance, which she later mastered.
Laura Upthegrove
Laura was born Oct. 5, 1896, in Reddrick, near Ocala. At age 14 she married 26 year-old Calvin Collier and had two children with Collier by the time she was 18. In 1916 she divorced Collier and married Earnest Tillman, quickly bearing two children. In 1920 she left Tillman for John Ashley and took up a life of crime.
Lucilla Wright
Lucilla Mary Wright (born 24 December 1979 in Birmingham, West Midlands) is an English field hockey international, who was a member of the England and Great Britain women's field hockey team during the late 1990s and 2000s.
Laura Harring
Laura Elena, Countess von Bismarck-Schönhausen ("née" Martínez-Herring; March 3, 1964), commonly known as Laura Harring, is a Mexican-American actress. In 1985, Harring became the first Hispanic woman crowned Miss USA. She later began her acting career in television and film. She is best known for her dual roles as Rita and Camilla Rhodes in the 2001 postmodern neo-noir film "Mulholland Drive". She is also known for her roles in other films, including "The Forbidden Dance" (1990), "John Q" (2002), "Willard" (2003), "The Punisher" (2004), "The King" (2005), and "Love in the Time of Cholera" (2007).
Laura Wright (singer)
A royal favourite, HM The Queen cited Laura’s Diamond Jubilee Song ‘Stronger As One’ in her Commonwealth Day Message at Westminster Abbey where the song was premiered and secured a No1 chart position on Gary Barlow’s Sing EP. Laura enjoyed the privilege of performing more times for Her Majesty than any other artist that year.
All Angels
Laura Wright (born 17 June 1990) was a member of All Angels and left the group in 2010.
Laura Wright (singer)
Wright was born in Suffolk, and grew up in Framlingham. She won scholarships to attend the fee-paying Framlingham College along with her three brothers.
Nathaniel Wright
Wright married Laura Hoar on March 5, 1820.
Laura Bragg
Laura Mary Bragg was born in Massachusetts on October 9, 1881, one of three children of Rev. Lyman Bragg and Sarah Jane (Klotz) Bragg. She spent a few of her earliest years in Mississippi, where her father was a professor at Rust University, a college for freed slaves.
Laura Burt
Burt was born on the Isle of Man on September 16, 1872(?), and her family soon emigrated to the United States. Her mother was a temperance movement activist.
Laura Smith (blues singer)
Laura Smith (March 1882 – February 1932) was an American classic female blues and country blues singer. Songs she recorded include "Gonna Put You Right in Jail" and her version of "Don't You Leave Me Here". She led Laura Smith and her Wild Cats and also worked with Clarence Williams and Perry Bradford. Details of her life outside the music industry are scanty.
Laura Wright
Wright married architect John Wright on October 7, 1995. They have two children, Lauren Beth Wright and John Michael Wright. In April 2016, Wright announced that she and John decided to end their marriage.
Margaret Wright (American politician)
Margaret Wright (born c. 1922 or 1923) was a third-party candidate for President of the United States and a community activist in Los Angeles, California.
Larry Bud Wright
Wright was born December 13, 1940, in Frankfort, Indiana, and is a 1963 Graduate of Ball State University. In his 48 years at Sheridan High through the 2013 season, he had a record of 384–169, including nine Indiana High School state championships. His nine titles are tied for first all-time in Indiana among coaches. Wright led Sheridan to the Class A title in 1980, 1984, 1987, 1988, 1992, 1998, 2005, 2006, and 2007. He has also led the Blackhawks to 10 semi-state, 14 regional, and 19 sectional championships. He was inducted into the Indiana High School Football Coaches Hall of Fame on September 28, 2002.Wright's teams and players from Sheridan High School hold multiple Indiana High School Athletic Association records.
Julia McNair Wright
Julia McNair Wright (May 1, 1840 – September 2, 1903) was a popular American domestic writer. She published numerous temperance and anti-Roman Catholic stories, among which were "Almost a Nun"; "Priest and Nun"; "The Gospel in the Riviera"; "The Heir of Athole", "Scenes of the Convent"; "A Wife Hard Won"; "A Million Too Much"; "The Complete Home"; "Bricks from Babel"; as well as scientific stories entitled, "The Sun and His Family"; "The Story of Plant Life"; "The Nature Readers, Seaside and Wayside". She was the main author of "Ladies' Home Cook Book: A Complete Cook Book and Manual of Household Duties... Compiled by Julia Mac Nair Wright, et al." (532 pages).
Narcissa Wright
Narcissa Wright (born Cosmo Wright, July 21, 1989) is an American speedrunner and cofounder of the website SpeedRunsLive, which allows speedrunners to race with one another in real time. She has previously held the records for the fastest completion of "" on the GameCube, "" on the iQue Player, "Paper Mario" on the Wii using Virtual Console, and "Castlevania 64" on the Nintendo 64.
Aloma Wright
Aloma Wright (born March 10, 1950) is an American actress, best known for her roles as Laverne Roberts on the NBC comedy series "Scrubs" (2001–2009), as Maxine Landis on the NBC daytime drama series "Days of Our Lives" (2008–2015), as Mildred Clemons on the ABC drama series "Private Practice" (2011–2013) and as Gretchen Bodinski on the USA Network drama series "Suits" (2015–).
Gabriella Wright
Wright was born on 19 June 1982 in Stoke Newington, London to a sculptor-painter father Paul David Wright and a teacher-writer mother Anne Catherine Wright. She moved to France with her parents at the age of 12, and graduated in English Literature and Social Economics. Currently living in Paris.
Elizabeth Wright (educator)
Wright was born on November 14, 1876 in Hartford, Connecticut. She obtained her Bachelor of Arts from Wesleyan University in 1897 where she was a member of the Delta Delta Delta sorority. and went on to teach at Portland (CT) High School and Hartford Public High School.
Laura Knight
Dame Laura Knight, ( Johnson), (4 August 1877 – 7 July 1970) was an English artist who worked in oils, watercolours, etching, engraving and drypoint. Knight was a painter in the figurative, realist tradition and who embraced English Impressionism. In her long career, Knight was among the most successful and popular painters in Britain. Her success in the male-dominated British art establishment paved the way for greater status and recognition for women artists.
Laura Wright (singer)
Wright first shot to fame as chorister of the year when she was just 14.
George Henry Wright
George Henry Wright (October 26, 1849 – April 15, 1912) was a significant business man and philanthropist in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He was born at Wright's Cove, Nova Scotia and died in the sinking of the "Titanic" at the age of 63. He established Write's World Business Directory in Boston and later returned to Halifax and invested in the city. His own house at 989 Young Ave, and two of his public buildings, the Marble Wright Building (1672 Barrington St.) and The Saint Paul Building, (1684 Barrington St., formerly the home of JW Doull's bookstore) still stand in downtown Halifax. They were all built by architect James Charles Philip Dumaresq.
Margaret Wright (British politician)
Margaret Elizabeth Wright (20 February 1940 – 22 June 2012) was a Green Party politician and from 2008 to 2012 a city councillor for Abbey Ward on Cambridge City Council in England. She was one of the Principal Speakers of the Green Party, a post she held with Darren Johnson, from 1999 to 2003.
Hannah Amelia Wright
Hannah Amelia Wright was born in New York City on August 18, 1836. She was the daughter of engraver and medalist Charles Cushing Wright (1796–1854) and Lavinia Delliber (died July 6, 1860), a Huguenot from Charleston, South Carolina.
Mary C. Wright
Wright was born Mary Oliver Clabaugh on September 25, 1917, in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. She attended Ramsay High School in Birmingham, Alabama. In 1934 she received a scholarship to Vassar College at Poughkeepsie, New York. After graduating in 1938, she went to Radcliffe College in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to study European history, but she was attracted by John K. Fairbank to investigate modern Chinese history instead. Fairbank recalled that when he first met her, "she seemed "at first glance tall, smooth and beautiful, a bit shy, with a soft southern accent," but "at second glance not so smooth as sharp, a "summa" from Vassar, tremendously quick and a ferocious worker, racing to keep up with her imagination." She received her Master of Arts in 1939.
Laura Wheeler Waring
Laura Wheeler Waring (May 16, 1887 – February 3, 1948) was an African-American artist and educator, best known for her paintings of prominent African Americans which she made during the Harlem Renaissance. She taught art for more than 30 years at Cheyney University in Pennsylvania.
Jessica L. Wright
Jessica Lynn Wright (née Garfola; born November 2, 1952) was the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness of the United States Department of Defense. She retired at the end of March 2015, succeeded by Brad Carson as Acting Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness. Laura Junor is the Principal Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness.
Laura Wright (singer)
Laura Kathryn Wright (born 17 June 1990) is an English soprano. She is a classical-popular crossover singer who performs classical and operatic music, popular songs, musical theatre and folk songs.
Teresa Wright
Muriel Teresa Wright was born on October 27, 1918, in Harlem, New York City, the daughter of Martha (née Espy) and Arthur Hendricksen Wright, an insurance agent. Her parents separated when she was young. She grew up in Maplewood, New Jersey, where she attended Columbia High School. After seeing Helen Hayes star in "Victoria Regina" at the Broadhurst Theatre in New York City in 1936, Wright took an interest in acting and began playing leading roles in school plays.
Lindsey Wright
Lindsey Elizabeth Wright (born 31 December 1979) is an Australian professional golfer playing on the LPGA Tour. She earned exempt status for the 2004 LPGA season in 2003, and has been competing full-time on the Tour since.
Rumatiki Ruth Wright
Rumatiki Ruth Wright (née Gray, 27 April 1908 – 15 December 1982) was a notable New Zealand community leader and Māori welfare officer. Of Māori descent, she identified with the Ngāti Kura iwi. She was born in Pipiriki, New Zealand in 1908.
Laura Richardson
Laura Richardson (born April 14, 1962) is an American politician who was the U.S. Representative for from 2007 to 2013. She is a member of the Democratic Party.
Laura Hughes
Laura Hughes was born in Toronto, Canada in 1886.
She was the daughter of James Laughlin Hughes and Adaline Marean Hughes, two well known educators and reformers in Toronto.
Her father was chief inspector of the schools in Toronto and her mother was the first kindergarten teacher in Toronto.
James Hughes supported the temperance movement, opposed corporal punishment in schools and was a strong believer in hygiene.
He passionately supported the British Empire, and launched the cadet movement in Canadian public schools.
Her uncle was Sir Sam Hughes, Minister of Militia during World War I.
Lucy Wright
Lucy Wright (February 5, 1760 – 1821) was the leader of the United Society of Believers in Christ’s Second Appearing, also known as the Shakers, from 1796 until 1821. At that time, a woman's leadership of a religious sect was a radical departure from Protestant Christianity.
Clarissa Dickson Wright
Clarissa Theresa Philomena Aileen Mary Josephine Agnes Elsie Trilby Louise Esmerelda Dickson Wright (24 June 1947 – 15 March 2014) was an English celebrity chef, television personality, writer, businesswoman, and former barrister. She was best known as one of the "Two Fat Ladies", with Jennifer Paterson, in the television cooking programme. She was an accredited cricket umpire and one of only two women to become a Guild Butcher.
Laura Wright
In 2009, Wright announced through her official Twitter page that she had signed a four-year contract with the series, ensuring her stay as Carly until sometime in 2013. At the fan club weekend in July 2013, Wright confirmed she had signed another four-year deal with the series. Should she fulfill the contract, it ensures her stay with the series until 2017, a total of 12 years time. In 2011, after 20 years on soaps, Wright was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award for her portrayal of Carly in the Outstanding Lead Actress category. Wright won the award at the 38th Daytime Emmy Awards. Wright was later nominated again in the Lead Actress category for the 39th Daytime Emmy Awards. She lost the award to Heather Tom for her portrayal of Katie Logan Spencer on "The Bold and the Beautiful". In 2015, Wright made a cameo appearance in the film, "Joy", alongside "General Hospital" co-stars Maurice Benard and Donna Mills. She will also star in the Lifetime film, "Stalked by My Patient", premiering December 14, 2018.
Laura Henderson
Laura Henderson (6 December 1863 – 29 November 1944) born Laura Forster, rose to prominence in the 1930s when, as a wealthy and eccentric widow, she founded the Windmill Theatre in London's Great Windmill Street, in partnership with Vivian van Damm. With Henderson as owner and van Damm as manager, they turned the theatre into a British institution, famed for its pioneering tableaux vivants of motionless female nudity, and for having "never closed" during the Blitz.
Irene Aloha Wright
Irene Wright was born on December 19, 1879, in Lake City, Colorado, to parents Henri Edward Wright and Letitia O. Wright. When she was sixteen, she left Lake City, and traveled to Mexico with $300. She studied Spanish and history while working as an English teacher for a wealthy Mexican family. In 1898, she graduated from the Virginia college for young ladies in Roanoke, Virginia, and from Stanford University six years later. From 1904-1905, she was a writer for the "Havana Post" in Havana, Cuba. The same year that she left the Post, she became a city editor of the Havana Telegraph, a post she would hold for three years. The next year, she purchased the "Cuban Magazine", which she would own until 1914.
List of The X Factor finalists (UK series 5)
Laura Jane White (born 30 August 1987), is a student from Atherton, Wigan. She had been singing and playing the piano since she was a young girl. Despite never having had a professional singing lesson, White began singing in jazz bars at the age of 15. She attended Fred Longworth High School in Tyldesley, the same school as actors Anthony Quinlan, Leah Hackett and Oliver Lee, and went on to study creative writing at The University of Bolton.
Sarah E. Wright
Sarah Elizabeth Wright (December 9, 1928 – September 13, 2009) was an American writer. Her novel "This Child's Gonna Live", published in 1969, was acclaimed by critics and "was among the first to focus on the confluence of race, class and sex". "The New York Times" named it "outstanding book of 1969" and it was called a "small masterpiece".
Louise Wright (activist)
Louise Gustave Dorothea Hildegard Wright née Bauditz (1861–1935) was a Danish philanthropist, feminist and peace activist. From 1913, she headed the philanthropic "Præmieselskabet for Plejemødre", an association for foster mothers which supervised over 600 foster children. She was also an active member of "Danske Kvinders Nationalråd" (the National Women's Council) where she served as vice-president. In 1915, she was one of the founding members of the "Danske Kvinders Fredskæde", the Danish chapter of the  Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, serving as a board member (1921–1924).
Laura Bromwell
Bromwell was born on May 17, 1897 in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Susan Wright (murderer)
Susan Lucille Wyche was born on April 24, 1976, in Houston, Texas, to Sue Wella (née Tschoepe) and Jimmy Lawrence Wyche. At the age of 17, she worked as a topless dancer at Gold Cup for two months. In 1997, while working as a restaurant waitress in Galveston, she met Jeff Wright and they married in 1998 while she was eight-and-a-half months pregnant with their first son, Bradley. In 2002, a daughter, Kailey was born. Mrs. Wright claims that her husband began to abuse her during the first few years of their marriage.
Laura Grant
Laura Grant (born 25 April 2001) is a Scottish cricketer. In July 2018, she was named in Scotland's squad for the 2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20 Qualifier tournament. She made her Women's Twenty20 International (WT20I) for Scotland against Uganda in the World Twenty20 Qualifier on 7 July 2018.
Laura Ainsworth
Laura Ainsworth (1885 – 1958) was a British teacher and suffragette. She was employed by the Women's Social and Political Union and was one of the first suffragettes to be force-fed. She left the WSPU in 1912 in protest at the ejection of the Pethick-Lawrences, but continued to work for women's suffrage.
Barbara Wright (Doctor Who)
Barbara Wright is a fictional character in the British science fiction television series "Doctor Who" and a companion of the First Doctor. She was one of the programme's very first regulars and appeared in the bulk of its first two seasons from 1963–65, played by Jacqueline Hill. In the film version of one of the serials, "Dr. Who and the Daleks" (1965), Barbara was played by actress Jennie Linden, but with a very different personality and backstory, which includes her being a granddaughter of "Dr Who". Barbara appeared in 16 stories (74 episodes).
George Washington Wright
George Washington Wright (June 4, 1816 – April 7, 1885) was a Californian politician. He was the leading vote getter in a November 1849 at-large election for California's first two Representatives in the 31st United States Congress serving from September 11, 1850, to March 3, 1851.