Neville

Neville : From Néville, a village meaning "Njàll 's farm" (ville in old French, Gaelic Niall > Hiberno-Norse Njàll > Norman name Néel > English Nigel ) or from Neuville, a village meaning "new village", may refer to the following:

• Places:
  • Néville, France, a commune of the Seine-Maritime département, Haute-Normandie
  • Néville-sur-Mer, a commune of the Manche department, Basse-Normandie
  • Neville, New South Wales
  • Neville, Ohio
  • Neville Park Loop, the eastern terminus of the 501 Queen (TTC) streetcar line in Toronto, Canada
  • Neville Township, Pennsylvania
  • Neville, Saskatchewan, village in Saskatchewan, Canada
  • Fifehead Neville, a village in Dorset, England
  • Tarring Neville, a village in East Sussex, England

• People with the family name "Neville":
  • Aaron Neville, American singer and songwriter
  • Anita Neville, Canadian politician
  • A. O. Neville (1875-1954), Australian civil servant, well-known as second Chief Protector of Aborigines
  • Arthel Neville, American TV personality
  • Charmaine Neville, lead singer of the Charmaine Neville band
  • Cynthia Neville, Professor of History, Dalhousie University
  • Dan Neville, Irish Fine Gael politician
  • John Neville, actor
  • General John Neville, soldier of the American Revolution and Whiskey Rebellion
  • Gary Neville - English footballer, brother of Phil.
  • Joseph Neville (1730-1819), American singer and statesman
  • Katherine Neville, American author.
  • Keith Neville (1884-1959), 21st governor of Nebraska
  • Michael Neville, former mayor of Cambridge, Massachusetts
  • Mike Neville, Canadian professional ice hockey player
  • Mike Neville (newsreader), former British television presenter.
  • Mike Neville, city councillor and mayor of Griffith, New South Wales, Australia
  • The Neville Brothers - Aaron, Art, Charles, Cyril and Ivan
  • Paul Neville, Australian national party politician
  • Peter Neville, sociologist, anarchist and pacifist
  • Phil Neville, English footballer, brother of Gary.
  • Presley Neville, soldier of the American Revolution and son of General John Neville
  • Richard Neville, British boy band singer
  • Richard Neville (writer)
  • Tracey Neville, England netball player
  • Wendell Cushing Neville, a general of the US Marine Corps.
  • William Neville (1843-1909), Nebraska politician

• The Neville family, originally of Raby Castle in County Durham, is a noble family of England which was particularly prominent in the medieval period. Its members include:
  • The Earls of Westmorland
  • The Earls of Salisbury
  • The Barons Abergavenny
  • The Earls and Marquesses of Abergavenny
  • The Barons Braybrooke
  • Alexander Neville (1340-1392), Archbishop of York
  • Anne Neville, Queen consort of Richard III of England
  • Cecily Neville, mother of Edward IV and Richard III of England
  • George Neville, Archbishop of York and chancellor of England
  • Sir Henry Neville (c.1562-1615), identified in 2005 as a possible candidate for the authorship of Shakespeare's plays
  • Isabel Neville, daughter of the Kingmaker
  • Ralph Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland
  • Ralph Neville (d.1244), Lord Chancellor of England and Archbishop of Canterbury
  • Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury
  • Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick (The Kingmaker)
  • William Neville, 1st Earl of Kent

• Neville is also an English forename. For instance:
  • Neville Chamberlain, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, May 1937-May 1940.
  • Neville Brand, American actor

• Fictional characters called Neville include:
  • Neville Longbottom, in the Harry Potter books by J. K. Rowling.
  • Neville, a fictional steam locomotive in Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends.
  • Neville Flynn, the character portrayed by Samuel L. Jackson in the 2006 film Snakes on a Plane.
  • Neville, the first portrait ghost that Luigi encounters in Luigi's Mansion
  • Robert Neville, protagonist of Richard Matheson's novel I Am Legend

• Other uses of Neville:
  • In mathematics, Neville's algorithm is an algorithm used for polynomial interpolation.
  • USS Neville (APA-9) was an attack transport ship for the US Navy during World War II.

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