keith

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Definition of keith in English English dictionary

A Scottish surname

A male given name transferred from the surname

given name, male

Chesterton Gilbert Keith Gordon Dexter Keith Haring Keith Jarrett Keith Kellogg John Harvey and Will Keith Murdoch Keith Rupert Lansdowne Henry Charles Keith Petty Fitzmaurice 5th marquess of

{i} male first name

Related Terms

Keith number

A repetitive Fibonacci-like integer which appears in a linear recurrence relation

Keith numbers

plural form of Keith number

Keith Haring

{i} (1958-1990) United States artist who was inspired by graffiti and comic strips

Keith Haring

born May 4, 1958, Reading, Pa., U.S. died Feb. 16, 1990, New York, N.Y. U.S. painter and draftsman. He studied at New York City's School of Visual Arts and developed a unique style inspired by graffiti, cartoons, and comic strips, which he displayed in works drawn clandestinely at night on subway station walls around the city. He also created paintings, drawings, and prints in a graffiti style, filling the works from edge to edge using signs, abstract symbols, and human and animal figures writhing in a spaceless, airless design. In the 1980s he executed murals in New York and exhibited internationally, achieving great commercial success

Keith Jarrett

born May 8, 1945, Allentown, Pa., U.S. U.S. jazz pianist, composer, and bandleader. He played with Art Blakey (1965-66) and with Miles Davis's jazz-rock group (1970-71) before making a series of solo recordings that won him broad popularity. His trio (from 1966) with bassist Charlie Haden (b. 1937) and drummer Paul Motian (b. 1931), later expanded to a quartet (1971-76), was highly regarded. By the 1980s his public performance had turned mainly to classical recitals

Keith Rupert Murdoch

born March 11, 1931, Melbourne, Vic., Austl. Australian-U.S. newspaper publisher and media entrepreneur. Son of a famous Australian war correspondent and publisher, he inherited two Adelaide newspapers in 1954 and boosted their circulation by emphasizing crime, sex, scandal, sports, and human interest stories, while taking an outspokenly conservative editorial stance. He used this approach with soaring success with papers bought in Australia, Britain, and the U.S. by his global media holding company, The News Corporation Ltd. He also acquired conventional and respected publications, including The Times of London. In the 1980s and '90s he expanded into book and electronic publishing, television broadcasting, and film and video production. His holdings include the New York Post; Fox, Inc. (see Fox Broadcasting Co.); HarperCollins Publishers; British Sky Broadcasting; Star TV, a pan-Asian television service; and the Los Angeles Dodgers

Dexter Keith Gordon

born Feb. 27, 1923, Los Angeles, Calif., U.S. died April 25, 1990, Philadelphia, Pa. U.S. tenor saxophonist, one of the most influential saxophonists in modern jazz. Gordon played in the big bands of Lionel Hampton and Billy Eckstine in the early 1940s, later working in small groups with Charlie Parker, Tadd Dameron, and fellow tenorist Wardell Gray. He was incarcerated on narcotics charges in the early 1950s and moved to Denmark in 1962. A starring role in the film 'Round Midnight (1986) revived his career

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

born May 29, 1874, London, Eng. died June 14, 1936, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire British man of letters. Chesterton was a journalist, a scholar, a novelist and short-story writer, and a poet. His works of social and literary criticism include Robert Browning (1903), Charles Dickens (1906), and The Victorian Age in Literature (1913). Even before his conversion to Roman Catholicism in 1922, he was interested in theology and religious argument. His fiction includes The Napoleon of Notting Hill (1904), the popular allegorical novel The Man Who Was Thursday (1908), and his most successful creation, the series of detective novels featuring the priest-sleuth Father Brown

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

{i} GK Chesterton (1874-1936), English essayist and writer known for his conservative political views

Henry Charles Keith Petty-Fitzmaurice 5th marquess of Lansdowne

born Jan. 14, 1845, London, Eng. died June 3, 1927, Clonmel, County Tipperary, Ire. Irish nobleman and British diplomat. He inherited his father's title and wealth in 1866 and served in William E. Gladstone's Liberal administration. In 1885, as governor-general of Canada (1883-88), he helped settle the rebellion led by Louis Riel. As viceroy of India (1888-94) under a Conservative government, he reorganized the police, reconstituted legislative councils, closed Indian mints to the free coinage of silver, and extended railway and irrigation works. As secretary of war (1895-1900), he was blamed for British unpreparedness in the South African War. As foreign secretary (1900-06), he concluded the Entente Cordiale

John Harvey and Will Keith Kellogg

born Feb. 26, 1852, Tyrone, Mich., U.S. died Dec. 14, 1943, Battle Creek born April 7, 1860, Battle Creek died Oct. 6, 1951, Battle Creek U.S. breakfast-cereal manufacturers. John was a physician and vegetarian who in 1876 helped found a Seventh-Day Adventist sanitarium in Battle Creek, Mich. There he developed various nut and vegetable products, including a flaked-wheat cereal to serve to patients, one of whom was C.W. Post. John's younger brother, W.K., founded the W.K. Kellogg Co. in 1906 to manufacture dry breakfast cereals, cornflakes being its sole product in the early years. It soon became a leading U.S. producer of these and other convenience foods; its current annual sales exceed $9 billion. The W.K. Kellogg Foundation is one of the country's largest philanthropic institutions

Roger Keith Barrett

{i} Syd Barrett (1946-2006), British guitarist and former member of the music band Pink Floyd

Hyphenation

Keith

Turkish pronunciation

kith

Pronunciation

/ˈkēᴛʜ/ /ˈkiːθ/

Etymology

() Place name in Scotland, probably from a Celtic word meaning "wood", or a forest.

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