Carl Frederick Carlton Lewis, born 1961, U.S. track and field athlete.
C(live) S(taples) 1898–1963, English novelist and essayist, known for The Chronicles of Narnia. Pen names: Clive Hamilton, N. W. Clerk.
Edward, 1918–2004, U.S. biologist: shared Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1995.
Gilbert Newton, 1875–1946, U.S. chemist.
(Harry) Sinclair, 1885–1951, U.S. novelist, playwright, and journalist: Nobel Prize in Literature 1930.
Henry, 1932–96, U.S. orchestral conductor.
Isaac Newton, 1858–1931, U.S. soldier and inventor.
Jerry Lee, 1935–2022, U.S. country-and-western and rock-'n'-roll singer, musician, and composer.
John (Aaron), 1920–2001, U.S. jazz pianist, composer, and musical director.
John L(lewellyn), 1880–1969, U.S. labor leader.
Matthew Gregory Monk, 1775–1809, English novelist, dramatist, and poet, known for the genre of Gothic horror.
Meriwether 1774–1809, U.S. explorer: leader of the Lewis and Clark expedition 1804–06.
(Percy) Wyndham 1884–1957, English novelist, essayist, and painter who cofounded the movement of vorticism; born in Canada.
R(ichard) W(arrington) B(aldwin), 1917–2002, U.S. biographer, literary critic, and scholar.
a male given name.
Carl. full name Frederick Carleton Lewis . born 1961, US athlete; winner of the long jump, 100 metres, 200 metres, and 4 × 100 metres relay at the 1984 Olympic Games; winner of the 100 metres in the 1988 Olympic Games; winner of the long jump in the 1992 and 1996 Olympic Games
See Day-Lewis
C ( live ) S ( taples ). 1898–1963, English novelist, critic, and Christian apologist, noted for his critical work, Allegory of Love (1936), his theological study, The Screwtape Letters (1942), and for his children's books chronicling the land of Narnia
Lennox. born 1965, Canadian and British boxer; won Olympic gold (1988) for Canada in the superheavyweight division; won various professional heavyweight titles between 1994 and 2004
Matthew Gregory, known as Monk Lewis. 1775–1818, English novelist and dramatist, noted for his Gothic horror story The Monk (1796)
Meriwether. 1774–1807, American explorer who, with William Clark, led an overland expedition from St Louis to the Pacific Ocean (1804–06)
( John ) Saunders (ˈsɔːndəz). 1893–1985, Welsh poet, dramatist, critic, and politician: founder (1926) and president (1926–39) of the Welsh Nationalist Party
( Harry ) Sinclair. 1885–1951, US novelist. He satirized the complacency and philistinism of American small-town life, esp in Main Street (1920) and Babbitt (1922): Nobel prize for literature 1930
Wally. born 1959, Australian rugby league player; played 33 matches for Australia (1981–91), scoring 11 tries
( Percy ) Wyndham. 1884–1957, British painter, novelist, and critic, born in the US: a founder of vorticism. His writings include Time and Western Man (1927), The Apes of God (1930), and the trilogy The Human Age (1928–55)
First recorded in 1730–40; perhaps after the surname of the inventor
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"RIP jerry lewis, release 'the day the clown cried' immediately," wrote one Twitter user on Sunday.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2017
Matt Henry opined: "The Sainburys Christmas ad should win an award. Sorry John lewis you don't even come close."
From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2014
Gilbert Lewis , who created the lewis dot structures for chemistry, also studied photochemistry.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 14, 2013
Shame for Mclaren and a Shame for lewis should of yielded better results, but personalities got in the way.
From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2012
Provide for the method of handling the block so that dog or lewis holes will not come in the showing faces.
From Concrete Construction Methods and Costs by Gillette, Halbert Powers
Lewis Capaldi was born in Glasgow but grew up in Whitburn, West Lothian.
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026
The home textile manufacturing giant, among India's largest, supplies bedsheets and towels to several major British high-street retailers like John Lewis and Tesco among others.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
A production at Lincoln Center Theater expands the comedian’s star-making 1984 solo play into a five-actor ensemble piece, featuring Kerry Washington, Kara Young, Danielle Pinnock, Dominique Fishback and Kecia Lewis.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
Earlier this year former Tesco CEO Dave Lewis took the helm of Diageo, which produces Johnnie Walker and Guinness.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
Each of these embryonic segments, Lewis knew, gives rise to a congruent segment found in the adult fly.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
When it is not practicable to use dogs, two-pin lewises can be used.
From Concrete Construction Methods and Costs by Gillette, Halbert Powers
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