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n. (surname)

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Bradbury, CA -- U.S. city in California
Population (2000): 855
Housing Units (2000): 311
Land area (2000): 1.911659 sq. miles (4.951173 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.911659 sq. miles (4.951173 sq. km)
FIPS code: 07946
Located within: California (CA), FIPS 06
Location: 34.149306 N, 117.974319 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 91010
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
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Bradbury (surname)

Bradbury is an English toponymic surname, derived from Bredbury in historic Cheshire, or sometimes from Bradbury in County Durham. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Lady Joan Bradbury (née Leche) (c.1465–1530)
  • Baron Bradbury, a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, including three barons with the surname Bradbury
  • Bill Bradbury (born 1949), American politician and Oregon Secretary of State
  • Bettina F. Bradbury, American soap opera writer
  • Edward Kinder Bradbury (1881–1914), British soldier and recipient of the Victoria Cross
  • Edward P. Bradbury, pen name of Michael Moorcock (born 1939), English writer
  • Jack Bradbury (1914–2004), American animator and comic book artist
  • Jason Bradbury (born 1969), British television presenter
  • John Bradbury (naturalist) (1768–1823), Scottish botanist
  • John Bradbury, 1st Baron Bradbury (1872–1950), British economist and public servant
  • John Bradbury, 3rd Baron Bradbury (born 1940), British peer, grandson of the 1st Baron
  • John Bradbury (drummer) (19532015), English musician and record producer, best known as drummer with The Specials
  • John Bradbury (footballer) (born 1878), English footballer
  • Joshua B. Bradbury (1849-1918), American politician
  • Julia Bradbury (born 1970), British television presenter
  • Julie Bradbury (born 1967), English badminton player
  • Lee Bradbury (born 1975), English professional football player
  • Malcolm Bradbury (1932–2000), British author and academic
  • Martyn 'Bomber' Bradbury (born 1974), a magazine editor
  • Norris Bradbury (1909–1997), a former director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory
  • Randy Bradbury (born 1964), American punk rock musician
  • Ray Bradbury (1920–2012), American science fiction and fantasy writer
  • Steven Bradbury (speed skater) (born 1973), Australian short-track speed skater
  • Steven G. Bradbury (born 1958), an American lawyer
  • Stephen Bradbury (artist) (born 1954), British illustrator and painter
  • William Bradbury (disambiguation), any of several people by that name

Usage examples of "bradbury".

With the exception of Ray Bradbury, on whose career several monographs have been published, the material in this book represents the most complete biographical and critical treatment the several authors discussed have ever received.

While they conversed in low, eager tones, Peggy and Lieutenant Bradbury could be seen talking in another corner.

Vogt and Edmond Hamilton as well as Heinlein, and recommended that, in addition, teachers sample Ray Bradbury, Murray Leinster, and Clark Ashton Smith.

The final group includes three authors who developed independently of the main movement and achieved success on their own terms: Ray Bradbury, Arthur C.

She would write the first 9,000 words and Bradbury the remainder of a long novelette of a man who dies to find himself on Venus in the superb body of a character named Conan.

When Hamilton arrived in Los Angeles in 1946 he was greeted warmly by Leigh Brackett and Ray Bradbury, and, on December 31, 1946, Hamilton and Brackett were married in San Gabriel, California.

Asimov sent it to Doubleday editor Walter Bradbury, who suggested the story be lengthened to full novel size.

Unlike his close friend, Ray Bradbury, who has bared endless anecdotes concerning his tender years, Henry Kuttner in personal conversation and in print studiously bypassed the subject.

Ray Bradbury, and possibly for his whole series of childhood-centered stories.

At that time, Kuttner was personally helping Bradbury on his career, even to the extent of rewriting some of his stories.

When a new Ray Bradbury book appears it gets serious attention from the newspapers and periodicals that count.

Ray Douglas Bradbury shares with comedian Jack Benny the distinction of having been born in Waukegan, Illinois.

Many of the tales of the weird, horrifying, and supernatural written by Bradbury are derived from his childhood fears and are set in midwestern Waukegan.

This story was almost out of character for Bradbury at the time, who apparently played the role of the club clown.

Virtually every early description of teen-age Ray Bradbury by a personal acquaintance speaks of unfailing affability, puncture-proof good nature, constant buffoonery, and self-effacement.