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Waters (name) Waters is a surname, derived from "Wat", or "Wa'ter", an old pronunciation of Gaultier or Walter, and similarly derived from the surname Watson ("Wat's son"). [1] The name is common from an early date in Wales and Yorkshire, [2] [3] as well as Shropshire, England. P.
John Samuel Waters Jr. (born April 22, 1946) is an American filmmaker, writer, actor, and artist. He rose to fame in the early 1970s for his transgressive cult films, including Multiple Maniacs (1970), Pink Flamingos (1972) and Female Trouble (1974). Waters wrote and directed the comedy film Hairspray (1988), which was later adapted into a hit ...
Waters was born in Chester, Pennsylvania, on October 31, 1896 (some sources incorrectly state her birth year as 1900 [5] [1] [6]) as a result of the rape of her teenaged African-American mother, Louise Anderson (1881–1962), [1] by 17-year-old John Wesley (or Wesley John) Waters (1878–1901), [1] a pianist and family acquaintance from a middle-class African-American background.
Jesse Bailey Watters (born July 9, 1978) is an American conservative [1] political commentator and television host on Fox News.He frequently appeared on the political talk show The O'Reilly Factor and was known for his man-on-the-street interviews, featured in his segment "Watters' World", which became its own show in 2015.
Roger Waters. from the BBC programme Desert Island Discs, 29 May 2011. [ 1] George Roger Waters (born 6 September 1943) is an English musician and singer-songwriter. In 1965, he co-founded the rock band Pink Floyd as the bassist. Following the departure of the songwriter, Syd Barrett, in 1968, Waters became Pink Floyd's lyricist, co-lead ...
Watters (surname) Watters is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Andrée Watters (born 1983), Canadian singer. Charles J. Watters (1927–1967), chaplain in the United States Army. Clarence Watters (1902−1986), American organist. David E. Watters (1944–2009), American linguist who specialized in Tibeto-Burman languages.
Three line-ups of Pink Floyd performing in 1973, 1989 and 2005. Pink Floyd were an English rock band founded in late 1965 by Syd Barrett on guitar and lead vocals, Nick Mason on drums, Roger Waters on bass and vocals, and Richard Wright on keyboards and vocals. [ 1] Guitarist and vocalist David Gilmour would later join the band in December 1967 ...
Maxine Moore Waters (née Carr; born August 15, 1938) is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for California's 43rd congressional district since 1991. . The district, numbered as the 29th district from 1991 to 1993 and as the 35th district from 1993 to 2013, includes much of southern Los Angeles, as well as portions of Gardena, Inglewood and Torra