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The list Woodturners includes William H. Macy, Sam Maloof, Richard Raffan, Mel Lindquist and Bob Stocksdale. The list consists of 17 members.
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    William H. Macy
    American, Actor
    William H. Macy
    Overview: William Hall Macy Jr. (born March 13, 1950) is an American actor. His film career has been built on appearances in small, independent films, though he has also appeared in mainstream films. His starring ...
    Date of birth: 13 March 1950
    Age: 75
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Actor
    Gender: Male
    Height: 5' 9" (175 cm)
    Partner: Felicity Huffman (Married)
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    Actors from Cumberland, Maryland 5T
    American acting theorists 13T
    Practical aesthetics actors 1T
  • 2.

    Sam Maloof
    American woodworker
    Sam Maloof
    Overview: Sam Maloof (January 24, 1916 – May 21, 2009) was a furniture designer and woodworker, the first craftsman to receive a MacArthur fellowship. Maloof's work is in the collections of several major A ...
    Date of birth: 24 January 1916
    Date of death: 21 May 2009
    Age: 93 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Designer
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    American furniture makers 5T
    California people in design 36T
    20th-century American artists 945T
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    Richard Raffan
    Australian woodturner
    Richard Raffan
    Overview: Richard Raffan (born 1943) is a well-known woodturner, author, and instructor who has helped popularize the craft of woodturning since the 1970s. He was a part of the "art turning" movement that saw turned ...
    Date of birth: 1943
    Age: 81
    Nationality: Australian
    Occupation: Artist
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    1943 births 12,765T
    Living people 968,467T
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    Bob Stocksdale
    American woodturner
    Bob Stocksdale
    Overview: Bob Stocksdale (born 1913 in Warren, Indiana—died January 6, 2003 in Oakland, California) was an American woodturner, known for his bowls formed from rare and exotic woods. He was raised on his family ...
    Date of birth: 1913
    Date of death: 2003
    Age: 89 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Artist
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    Artists from Berkeley, California 70T
    People from Huntington County, Indiana 24T
    American woodworkers 63T
  • 5.

    Mark Lindquist
    American artist
    Overview: Mark Lindquist (born 1949) is an American sculptor in wood, artist, author, and photographer. Lindquist is a major figure in the redirection and resurgence of woodturning in the United States beginning ...
    Date of birth: 1949
    Age: 75
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Artist
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    Sculptors from California 187T
    Artists from Oakland, California 74T
    New England College alumni 21T
  • 6.

    Merryll Saylan
    American woodworker
    Overview: Merryll Saylan (born 1936) is an American woodturner. She is credited with helping pioneer the popularization of the woodturning field and the application of color in wood art. She is noted as being one ...
    Date of birth: 1936
    Age: 88
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    Noeline Gourley
    New Zealand field hockey player and hurdler
    Overview: Noeline Brokenshire (née Gourley; 1 December 1925 – 3 April 2022) was New Zealand sportswoman, who represented her country in field hockey, and as a hurdler at the 1950 British Empire Games. Later she ...
    Date of birth: 1 December 1925
    Date of death: 3 April 2022
    Age: 96 (age at death)
    Occupation: Field Hockey
    Gender: Female
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    Overview: Father Jim Cogley is a woodturner, psychotherapist and Catholic priest, from Cleariestown, Co. Wexford, Ireland. Born there in 1954, he studied at St. Patrick's College in Maynooth. There, he studied ...
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    Abe Rich
    Cuemaker
    Abe Rich
    Overview: Abe Rich (died November 25, 2008) was a wood craftsman and Holocaust survivor. He was inducted into the International Cuemakers Hall of Fame for the quality of the pool cue sticks he produced.
    Date of death: 25 November 2008
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    George Lailey
    BRitish artisan
    Overview: George Lailey (1869–1958) was a craftsman from the United Kingdom, noted as the last professional practitioner of the traditional craft of bowl-turning using a pole lathe.
    Date of birth: 1869
    Date of death: 1958
    Age: 88 (age at death)
    Nationality: British
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    British artisans 8T
    British woodworkers 17T
    People from Bucklebury 15T
  • 11.

    Mel Lindquist
    American artist
    Overview: Mel Lindquist (born Melvin Benjamin Lindquist, July 5, 1911 – November 24, 2000) was an American engineer and renowned pioneer of the American Studio Wood Turning movement. Foundational to the studio ...
    Date of birth: 5 July 1911
    Date of death: 24 November 2000
    Age: 89 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Artist
    Gender: Male
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    People from Kingsburg, California 13T
    American male sculptors 936T
    Sculptors from California 187T
  • 12.
    Overview: Nehemiah Wallington (1598–1658) was an English Puritan artisan (a wood turner) and chronicler from Eastcheap. He left over 2,500 pages and 50 volumes on himself, religion and politics, 8 of which survive ...
    Date of birth: 1598
    Date of death: 1658
    Age: 59 (age at death)
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Writer
    Gender: Male
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    17th-century male writers 1,224T
    17th-century English Puritans 47T
    17th-century English writers 612T
  • 13.
    Overview: The Moulthrop family are three generations of woodturners, starting with Ed Moulthrop, credited as the "father of modern woodturning". The family has been documented in the book Moulthrop: A Legacy in ...
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    Binh Pho
    Vietnamese-American artist (1955–2017)
    Overview: Binh Pho (September 19, 1955 – August 23, 2017) was a Vietnamese-American artist best known for his pierced and painted works in wood.
    Date of birth: 19 September 1955
    Date of death: 23 August 2017
    Age: 61 (age at death)
    Nationality: Vietnamese
    Occupation: Sculptor
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    Rude Osolnik
    American woodturner (1915–2001)
    Overview: Rude Osolnik (1915–2001), was an American woodturner, author, and educator. He is considered an important figure within the American studio woodturning movement and in contemporary woodturning in the United ...
    Date of birth: 1915
    Date of death: 2001
    Age: 85 (age at death)
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  • 16.
    Overview: John Jordan (1950 — February 28, 2023) was an American woodturner, known for his textured and carved hollow vessels and small necked bottles, his teaching and demonstrations around the world, and his ...
    Date of birth: 1950
    Date of death: 28 February 2023
    Age: 72 (age at death)
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    Bert Marsh
    British artist
    Overview: Bert Marsh (1932 — 22 May 2011) was a British woodturner, known for his beautiful forms and technical mastery. He was raised in Hove, England. "Bert was known throughout the woodturning world as a talented ...
    Date of birth: 1932
    Date of death: 22 May 2011
    Age: 78 (age at death)
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