Lista de Personas Famosas con el apellido Wakefield
Mary Wakefield
Mary Elizabeth Lalage Wakefield is a British journalist, and a columnist and commissioning editor for The Spectator.
Ruth Graves Wakefield
Ruth Graves Wakefield fue una chef estadounidense, mejor conocida como la inventora de la Toll House Cookie, la primera galleta con chispas de chocolate, que ella creó. También era graduada universitaria, dietista, educadora, propietaria de una empresa y autora.
Andrew Wakefield
Andrew Jeremy Wakefield es un exinvestigador británico expulsado del registro médico por su artículo de investigación en apoyo de la tesis, ya desacreditada, que existe una relación entre la administración de la vacuna triple vírica y la aparición del autismo y ciertas enfermedades intestinales. Su publicación de 1998 en la influyente revista The Lancet y su tesis que la vacuna triple vírica podía causar autismo condujo a un abrupto descenso en los índices de vacunación y a consecuentes brotes de sarampión en el mundo. Su posterior activismo antivacuna ha contribuido a un clima de desconfianza hacia todas las vacunas y a la reaparición de otras enfermedades que se creían controladas.
Humphry Wakefield
Sir Edward Humphry Tyrrell Wakefield, 2nd Baronet, FRGS is an English baronet and expert on antiques and architecture.
Charity Wakefield
Charity Rose Wakefield is an English actress.
Edward Wakefield
Edward Wakefield (1774–1854) was an English philanthropist and statistician, chiefly known as the author of Ireland, Statistical and Political, and as the father of several controversial sons.
Edward Gibbon Wakefield
Edward Gibbon Wakefield is considered a key figure in the establishment of the colonies of South Australia and New Zealand. He also had significant interests in British North America, being involved in the drafting of Lord Durham's Report and being a member of the Parliament of the Province of Canada for a short time.
William Wakefield
William Hayward Wakefield was an English colonel, the leader of the first colonising expedition to New Zealand and one of the founders of Wellington. As a leader, he attracted much controversy.
Arthur Wakefield
Captain Arthur Wakefield served with the Royal Navy, before joining his brother, Edward Gibbon Wakefield, in founding the new settlement at Nelson, New Zealand.
Felix Wakefield
Felix Wakefield was an English colonist.