Graham
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Graham is a surname meaning grey house, grey armour and well health. It is the name of a famous family in Scotland, Clan Graham. (The 'h' is often silent, giving a pronunciation like 'grayum'.)
The original spelling, which has fallen into disuse outside Scotland and Australia, is Graeme.
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[edit] People
- See Graham (surname)
Graham (variant Graeme) is a given name:
- Alexander Graham Bell
- Graeme Base, Australian author and artist
- Graham Chapman, late member of the Monty Python comedy troupe
- Graham Coxon, English singer-songwriter
- Graham Greene, English novelist
- Graham Hill, racing driver in the 1960s and early 1970s
- Graham Kerr, English cooking personality
- Graham McNamee, pioneering broadcaster in the 1920s and 1930s
- Graham McPherson, known by stagename Suggs, singer of the ska band Madness
- Graham Nash, member of The Hollies and Crosby, Stills & Nash
- Graham Norton, Irish comedian
- Graham Stewart, track star for William Paterson University
- Graham (24 character), a character on the TV show 24
[edit] Geography
In the United States:
- Graham, Missouri
- Graham, North Carolina
- Graham, Texas
- Graham, Washington
- Graham County, Arizona
- Graham County, Kansas
- Graham County, North Carolina
- Graham Township, Indiana
- Graham Township, Kansas
- Graham Township, Minnesota
- Graham Township, Pennsylvania
- Graham Lakes Township, Minnesota
[edit] Other uses
- Graham (hill), a class of hill in Scotland
- Graham flour, a type of flour similar to whole wheat flour
- Graham cracker, a baked good made from Graham flour
- Graham factors, factors for determining ambiguity in US patent law (see Inventive step and non-obviousness)
- Graham Island, a member of the Charlotte Island group off the coast of British Columbia, Canada
- Graham's number, the largest number that has ever been seriously used in a mathematical proof
- Graham and Graham-Paige, automobile makers in Detroit, USA, between 1928 and 1940
[edit] And finally
- In one of his "Carnac" routines, Johnny Carson divined the answer, "Billy Graham, Virginia Graham, and Lester Maddox". The question: "Name two Grahams and a Cracker."
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