Whitfields of the World
Or maybe I'll just update you now.
Google Image Search has come through for me again. These are famous people who bear the surname "Whitfield." For the reader's convenience, I've arranged them in suitable categories.
British Women
June Whitfield
A distinguished British actress who made her mark on the world appearing in trashy BBC sitcoms about vain, rich, middle-aged women.
Canadian Athletes
Simon St. Quentin Whitfield
A 31-year-old with dual-Australian citizenship who won Canada an Olympic gold medal in triathlon at the 2000 games. His is one of the most memorable performances by an individual athlete in Canadian sporting history. His final time of...whatever it was is the record in Olympic triathlon to this day.
Trent Whitfield
A 30-year-old hockey player for the Peoria Rivermen in the AHL. He has some statistics on him, but I couldn't really be bothered to decipher them. As it stands, he's played 174 games, which sounds like not a lot. And he only has 11 goals. So there will be no inheritances from that distant relative.
Black Men
Evan Whitfield
An American soccer player, who coaches at DePaul University in Chicago.
Brent Whitfield
A 26-year-old American soccer player, who currently plays for Chivas USA.
Norman Jesse Whitfield
A 64-year-old American motown producer who wrote most of the material for The Temptations. He pushed the group into "psychedelic rock" and won a Grammy for it, and then three more after that. He eventually faced charges of tax evasion in 2005, and would have faced jail time but his severe diabetes got him six months of house arrest.
Middle-Aged White Men
Ed Whitfield
A 63-year-old Republican Congressman for Kentucky's 1st district. He's pro-life and "supports allowing students to engage in voluntary school prayer." Me, too, Ed. Me, too.
Raoul Whitfield
I grouped him in with "middle-aged" but he died at 46 in 1945. So that would put him at about middle-aged at the time of death. Anyway, he was an American reporter turned hard-boiled fiction writer who started getting published in 1927. Which means he was alive for the dustbowl, which is also awesome. His editor described his writing process, saying "he would place neat stacks of chocolate bars to the right of his typewriter, and a picket fence of cigarettes to his left. He wrote and chain-smoked and ate, all in one unified operation." He married twice, and his second wife committed suicide. After squandering his inheritance, he became increasingly sick until he died of tuberculosis in '45.
The Robs
Rob Whitfield
I'll just quote his About Me page, and highlight the relevant parts:
"George “Rob” Whitfield, III, son of Dr. and Mrs. Robert Whitfield of Paris, Tennessee, was among twenty students awarded an Honors Diploma, Murray State University’s most advanced undergraduate degree, during the May 13, 2006 commencement exercises at Murray State University, Murray, Kentucky. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree, Magna Cum Laude, with a double major in Political Science and Philosophy.
At Murray State, Whitfield participated in Student Government and served as the University Judicial Board Chairman. He was active in Alpha Sigma Phi social fraternity, serving as Phi President, and in Murray State’s Interfraternity Council. He also served as president of Pi Sigma Alpha Political Science Honors Society and was inducted into several other honors societies, including Omicron Delta Kappa Leadership Honors Society.
In fulfillment of Murray State’s Honors Program, Whitfield studied in Great Britain, Austria, Belgium, France, Italy, and Germany, and completed a Senior Honors Thesis entitled “The Organic State: An Analysis of Government Embodiment and Disembodiment." Whitfield will begin postgraduate studies at the University of Tennessee College of Law in Knoxville during the fall of 2006."
I'm actually a little bit speechless.
Google Image Search has come through for me again. These are famous people who bear the surname "Whitfield." For the reader's convenience, I've arranged them in suitable categories.
British Women
June Whitfield
A distinguished British actress who made her mark on the world appearing in trashy BBC sitcoms about vain, rich, middle-aged women.
Canadian Athletes
Simon St. Quentin Whitfield
A 31-year-old with dual-Australian citizenship who won Canada an Olympic gold medal in triathlon at the 2000 games. His is one of the most memorable performances by an individual athlete in Canadian sporting history. His final time of...whatever it was is the record in Olympic triathlon to this day.
Trent Whitfield
A 30-year-old hockey player for the Peoria Rivermen in the AHL. He has some statistics on him, but I couldn't really be bothered to decipher them. As it stands, he's played 174 games, which sounds like not a lot. And he only has 11 goals. So there will be no inheritances from that distant relative.
Black Men
Evan Whitfield
An American soccer player, who coaches at DePaul University in Chicago.
Brent Whitfield
A 26-year-old American soccer player, who currently plays for Chivas USA.
Norman Jesse Whitfield
A 64-year-old American motown producer who wrote most of the material for The Temptations. He pushed the group into "psychedelic rock" and won a Grammy for it, and then three more after that. He eventually faced charges of tax evasion in 2005, and would have faced jail time but his severe diabetes got him six months of house arrest.
Middle-Aged White Men
Ed Whitfield
A 63-year-old Republican Congressman for Kentucky's 1st district. He's pro-life and "supports allowing students to engage in voluntary school prayer." Me, too, Ed. Me, too.
Raoul Whitfield
I grouped him in with "middle-aged" but he died at 46 in 1945. So that would put him at about middle-aged at the time of death. Anyway, he was an American reporter turned hard-boiled fiction writer who started getting published in 1927. Which means he was alive for the dustbowl, which is also awesome. His editor described his writing process, saying "he would place neat stacks of chocolate bars to the right of his typewriter, and a picket fence of cigarettes to his left. He wrote and chain-smoked and ate, all in one unified operation." He married twice, and his second wife committed suicide. After squandering his inheritance, he became increasingly sick until he died of tuberculosis in '45.
The Robs
Rob Whitfield
I'll just quote his About Me page, and highlight the relevant parts:
"George “Rob” Whitfield, III, son of Dr. and Mrs. Robert Whitfield of Paris, Tennessee, was among twenty students awarded an Honors Diploma, Murray State University’s most advanced undergraduate degree, during the May 13, 2006 commencement exercises at Murray State University, Murray, Kentucky. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree, Magna Cum Laude, with a double major in Political Science and Philosophy.
At Murray State, Whitfield participated in Student Government and served as the University Judicial Board Chairman. He was active in Alpha Sigma Phi social fraternity, serving as Phi President, and in Murray State’s Interfraternity Council. He also served as president of Pi Sigma Alpha Political Science Honors Society and was inducted into several other honors societies, including Omicron Delta Kappa Leadership Honors Society.
In fulfillment of Murray State’s Honors Program, Whitfield studied in Great Britain, Austria, Belgium, France, Italy, and Germany, and completed a Senior Honors Thesis entitled “The Organic State: An Analysis of Government Embodiment and Disembodiment." Whitfield will begin postgraduate studies at the University of Tennessee College of Law in Knoxville during the fall of 2006."
I'm actually a little bit speechless.