Top Celebrity Names Starting With Neil

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   Neil Patrick Harris

   Age 37 Male
   

   Actor

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   Neil Patrick Harris is an American actor, singer, director, and magician. Prominent roles of his career include the title role in Doogie Howser, M.D. , the womanizing Barney Stinson in How I Met Your Mother, a fictionalized version of himself in the Harold & Kumar series, and the title role in Joss Whedon's musical web series Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog. He hosted the 63rd Tony Awards on June 7, 2009 and the 61st Primetime Emmy Awards on September 20, 2009.… read more

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   Neil Young

   Age 66 Male
   

   Singer-songwriter

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   Neil Percival Young, OC, OM is a Canadian singer-songwriter who is widely regarded as one of the most influential musicians of his generation. Young began performing as a solo artist in Canada in 1960, before moving to California in 1966, where he co-founded the band Buffalo Springfield along with Stephen Stills and Richie Furay, and later joined Crosby, Stills & Nash as a fourth member in 1969.… read more

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   Neil Diamond

   Age 71 Male
   

   Singer/songwriter/performing Artist

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   Neil Leslie Diamond is an American singer-songwriter with a career spanning over five decades from the 1960s until the present. As of 2001, Diamond had sold over 115 million records worldwide including 48 million in the United States alone. He is considered to be the third most successful adult contemporary artist ever on the Billboard chart behind Barbra Streisand and Elton John. His songs have been covered internationally by many performers from various musical genres.… read more

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   Neil Sedaka

   Age 73 Male
   

   Musician, Singer, Pianist

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   Neil Sedaka is an American pop/rock singer, pianist, and composer. His career has spanned nearly 55 years, during which time he has sold millions of records as an artist and has written or co-written over 500 songs for himself and other artists, collaborating mostly with lyricists Howard Greenfield and Phil Cody.… read more

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   Neil Armstrong

   Age 81 Male
   

   Astronaut, First Human To Set Foot On the Moon

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   Neil Alden Armstrong is an American former astronaut, test pilot, aerospace engineer, university professor, United States Naval Aviator, and the first person to set foot upon the Moon. Before becoming an astronaut, Armstrong was in the United States Navy and served in the Korean War.… read more

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   Neil Peart

   Age 59 Male
   

   Drummer , Lyricist, and Author

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   Neil Ellwood Peart, OC, is a Canadian musician and author. He is the drummer and lyricist for the rock band Rush. Peart grew up in Port Dalhousie, Ontario. During adolescence, he floated from regional band to regional band in pursuit of a career as a full-time drummer. After a discouraging stint in England to concentrate on his music, Peart returned home, where he joined a local Toronto band, Rush, in the summer of 1974.… read more

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   Neil Simon

   Age 84 Male
   

   Playwright, Writer, Academic

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   Neil Simon is an American playwright and screenwriter. He has written numerous Broadway plays, including Brighton Beach Memoirs, Biloxi Blues, and The Odd Couple. He won the 1991 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his play Lost In Yonkers. He has written the screenplays for several of his plays that were made into movies. He also has written the books for several musicals, including Sweet Charity.… read more

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   Neil Harvey

   Age 83 Male
   

   Cricketer

   
   

   Robert Neil Harvey MBE is a former Australian cricketer who represented the Australian cricket team between 1948 and 1963, playing in 79 Test matches. He was the vice-captain of the team from 1957 until his retirement. An attacking left-handed batsman, sharp fielder and occasional off-spin bowler, Harvey was the senior batsman in the Australian team for much of the 1950s and was regarded by Wisden as the finest fielder of his era.… read more

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   Neil Kinnock

   Age 70 Male
   

   Politician, Member of Parliament

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   Neil Gordon Kinnock, Baron Kinnock is a Welsh politician belonging to the Labour Party. He served as a Member of Parliament from 1970 until 1995 and as Labour Leader and Leader of Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition from 1983 until 1992 - his leadership of the party during nearly nine years (all in opposition) making him the longest serving opposition leader in British political history.… read more

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    Neil Morrissey

    Age 49 Male
    

    Actor, Voice, Producer

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    Neil Anthony Morrissey is an English actor, media personality and businessman. He is best known for his role as Tony in Men Behaving Badly. He also gained fame for his role as Rocky in Boon; the voice of Bob, Lofty and Farmer Pickles in Bob the Builder; and deputy head Eddie Lawson in Waterloo Road. In August 2009 he promoted a national tour of the play Rain Man.… read more

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    Neil Hamilton

    Age 63 Male
    

    Barrister, Politician, Teacher

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    Mostyn Neil Hamilton is a former British barrister, teacher and Conservative MP. Since becoming involved in the Cash-for-questions affair and losing his seat in 1997 and leaving politics, Hamilton and his wife Christine have become media celebrities. In Who's Who, Hamilton now describes himself as being a writer, actor, broadcaster and entertainer. In September 2011, Hamilton attended the UKIP conference and commented he is available to assist the party.… read more

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    Neil Finn

    Age 54 Male
    

    Musician, Singer, Songwriter

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    Neil Mullane Finn OBE is a New Zealand recording artist. Along with his brother Tim Finn, he was the co-frontman for Split Enz and is now frontman for Crowded House. He has also recorded several successful solo albums and assembled diverse musicians for the 7 Worlds Collide projects. Finn rose to prominence in the late 1970s after replacing singer songwriter Phil Judd in his brother Tim Finn's band Split Enz.… read more

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    Neil Goldschmidt

    Age 71 Male
    

    Governor, Businessman, Politician

    
    

    Neil Edward Goldschmidt is an American businessman and former Democratic politician from Oregon who held local, state, and federal offices over three decades. After serving as the governor of Oregon, Goldschmidt is widely considered the most influential figure in the state's politics, both as an elected public official and as a lobbyist and policy consultant.… read more

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    Neil Perry

    Age 54 Male
    

    Chef

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    Neil Arthur Perry is an Australian chef, restaurateur, author and television presenter. He also is the co-ordinator for Qantas Flight Catering under his company Rockpool Consulting and has a food brand sold under his name, available at Woolworths Supermarkets. Perry co-owns and is executive chef of restaurants in Australia.… read more

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    Neil Carlill

    Age 45 Male
    

    Singer, Composer, Musician

    
    

    Neil Carlill, born in Ripon, England March 20, 1967, is an English singer, lyricist, poet, composer, and musician. He is known for his work with experimental and alternative rock bands including 1990s UK acts Delicatessen and Lodger, and more recently with bands and collaborations including Vedette, Shoosh, 5 Little Elephants, Me Me the Moth, Chicanery, and Three On A Match.… read more

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    Neil Murray

    Age 61 Male
    

    Musician, Bass, Songwriter

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    Philip Neil Murray is a Scottish bass player, best known for his work in Whitesnake and Black Sabbath.

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    Neil Harbisson

    Age 29 Male
    

    Musician, Performer, Actor

    
    

    Neil Harbisson is a Catalan raised, Northern Ireland born artist, musician and performer best known for his self-extended ability to hear colours and to perceive colours outside the ability of human vision. In 2004 he became the first person in the world to wear an eyeborg. The inclusion of the eyeborg on his passport photo has been claimed by some to be official recognition of Harbisson as a cyborg.… read more

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    Neil Gaiman

    Age 51 Male
    

    Fantasy Writer

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    Neil Richard Gaiman is an English author of short fiction, novels, comic books, graphic novels, audio theatre and films. His notable works include the comic book series The Sandman and novels Stardust, American Gods, Coraline, and The Graveyard Book. Gaiman's writing has won numerous awards, including Hugo, Nebula, and Bram Stoker, as well as the 2009 Newbery Medal and 2010 Carnegie Medal in Literature.… read more

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    Neil Innes

    Age 67 Male
    

    Musician, Writer, Performer

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    Neil James Innes is an English writer and performer of comic songs, best known for his collaborative work with Monty Python, and for playing in the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band and later The Rutles.

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    Neil Tennant

    Age 57 Male
    

    Musician

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    Neil Francis Tennant is an English musician, singer and songwriter, who, with bandmate Chris Lowe, makes up the electronic dance music duo Pet Shop Boys.

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    Neil Bush

    Age 57 Male
    

    Businessperson

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    Neil Mallon Bush is the fourth of six children of former President George Herbert Walker Bush and Barbara Bush (Barbara Lane Pierce). His five siblings are George Walker Bush, the former President of the United States; Jeb Bush, the former governor of Florida; Robin Bush, who died of leukemia in 1953 at the age of four; Marvin; and Dorothy. Bush is currently a businessman based in Texas.… read more

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    Neil LaBute

    Age 49 Male
    

    Scriptwriter, Dramatist, Saint

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    Neil N. LaBute is an American film director, screenwriter and playwright.

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    Neil Blaney

    1922 - 1995 Male
    

    Politician

    
    

    Neil Terence Columba Blaney was a senior Irish politician. He was first elected to Dáil Éireann in 1948 as a Fianna Fáil Teachta Dála (TD) representing Donegal East. Blaney served as Minister for Posts and Telegraphs (1957), Minister for Local Government (1957–1966) and Minister for Agriculture and Fisheries (1966–1970). He was at one time Father of the Dáil.… read more

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    Neil J. Gunther

    Age 61 Male
    

    Physicist,author

    
    

    Neil Gunther, is a computer information systems researcher best known internationally for developing the open-source performance modeling software Pretty Damn Quick and developing the Guerrilla approach to computer capacity planning and performance analysis. He has also been cited for his contributions to the theory of large transients in computer systems and packet networks, and his universal law of computational scalability.… read more

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    Neil Brooks

    Age 49 Male
    

    Australian Swimmer

    
    

    Neil Brooks is a former Australian sprint freestyle swimmer best known for winning the 4 × 100 m medley relay at the 1980 Olympics in Moscow as part of the Quietly Confident Quartet. Brooks was as much known for his swimming achievements as he was for disciplinary incidents. He often found himself in conflict with officialdom and threatened with sanctions.… read more