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Encyclopedia > Ramsey

Ramsey may refer to:

  • Ramsey reset test, a statistical test for model specification
  • Ramsey theory, a branch of mathematics that studies the conditions under which order must appear; named for Frank P. Ramsey
  • Baron de Ramsey, a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, created in 1887


Ramsey is also frequently used as either a placename or personal name. The Ramsey regression equation specification error test (Reset) test (Ramsey, 1969) is a general model (mis-)specification test for the linear regression model. ... Ramsey theory, named for Frank P. Ramsey, is a branch of mathematics that studies the conditions under which order must appear. ... Baron de Ramsey is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. ...


Places

In the United Kingdom:


In the United States: Location within the British Isles Ramsey is a small Cambridgeshire market town, north of Huntingdon and St Ives. ... What remains of Ramsey Abbey is a ruined abbey gatehouse, in Ramsey, Cambridgeshire, south east of Peterborough and north of Huntingdon. ... Ramsey (Rhumsaa) is a town in the Isle of Man. ... Ramsey Island lies one mile offshore of St Davids in Pembrokeshire, Wales. ...

Ramsey is a village located in Fayette County, Illinois. ... Ramsey is a city located in Anoka County, Minnesota. ... Map highlighting Ramseys location within Bergen County. ... Ramsey County [2] is a county located in the U.S. state of Minnesota. ... Ramsey County is a county located in the state of North Dakota. ...

People

An alternative form of "Ramsey" among surnames is "Ramsay"


As a surname:

  • Alexander Ramsey (1815–1903), American politician; second Governor of Minnesota
  • Alf Ramsey (1920–1999), English football manager; led the English national football team to a World Cup victory
  • Anne Ramsey (1929–1988), American actress
  • Bill Ramsey (born 1920), American baseball player
  • Charles H. Ramsey (born 1950), Washington, D.C. chief of police as of 1998
  • Dave Ramsey (born 1960), American talk radio personality
  • Frank P. Ramsey (1903–1930), early 20th century British mathematician; originator of Ramsey Theory
  • JonBenét Ramsey (1990–1996), famous murder victim
  • Logan Ramsey (1921 - 2000) American actor
  • Michael Ramsey (also known as "Arthur Michael Ramsey" and "Baron Ramsey of Canterbury"; 1904–1988), 100th Archbishop of Canterbury
  • Norman Foster Ramsey, Jr. (born 1915), American physicist
  • Patrick Ramsey (born 1979), American professional football player
  • Paul Ramsey, theologian
  • Steve Ramsey, British guitarist
  • Brian Ramsey Future Musician

As a given name: Alexander Ramsey (September 8, 1815 – April 22, 1903) was an American politician. ... Sir Alfred Ernest Ramsey (born January 22, 1920 in Dagenham, Essex; died April 28, 1999) was a footballer and manager of the English national football team from 1963 to 1974. ... Anne Ramsey (1 September 1929 - 11 August 1988) was an American actress who is most recognized for two roles: as Mama Fratelli in Steven Spielbergs The Goonies; and as Mrs. ... William Thrace Ramsey (born October 20, 1920 in Osceola, Arkansas) was a Major League Baseball outfielder who played for the Boston Braves in 1945. ... Charles H. Ramsey Charles H. Ramsey is the current chief of the Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia (MPDC). ... Dave Ramsey publicity photo Dave Ramsey (b. ... Frank Plumpton Ramsey (February 22, 1903 – January 19, 1930) one the most remarkable minds of all times (Kenneth Arrow, 1980), was a British mathematician of high order who made besides mathematics significant contributions in philosophy and economics. ... JonBenét Patricia Ramsey (August 6, 1990 – December 26, 1996) was a beauty pageant contestant who was found murdered in the basement of her parents home in Boulder, Colorado, United States, eight hours after being reported missing. ... Logan C. Ramsey Jr. ... Archbishop Ramsey (left) meets Pope Paul VI. Arthur Michael Ramsey, Baron Ramsey of Canterbury (1904- 23 April 1988) was Archbishop of Canterbury from June 1961 to 1974. ... Norman Foster Ramsey, Jr. ... Patrick Allen Ramsey (born February 14, 1979) is an American athlete, currently playing quarterback for the Washington Redskins of the National Football League. ... Steve Ramsey is a British guitarist who began his career with NWOBHM (New Wave of British Heavy Metal) band Satan in the early 1980s, releasing a single and an album, a second album under the band name Blind Fury, an EP and another album after changing the band name back...

  • Ramsey Campbell (born 1946), British writer of horror fiction
  • Ramsey Clark (born 1927), American lawyer and political activist; 66th United States Attorney General
  • Ramsey Dukes, pen name of writer and magician Lionel Snell
  • Ramsey Kanaan, Scottish anarchist and political activist now residing in the United States; founder of AK Press
  • Ramsey Lewis (born 1935), American jazz musician and radio host

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Frank P. Ramsey (377 words)
The Cambridge philosopher Frank P. Ramsey died tragically at the age of 26.
Ramsey's second contribution was his theory of taxation (1927), generating the famous "Boiteux-Ramsey" pricing rule.
Ramsey's third contribution was his exercise in determining optimal savings (1928), the famous "optimal growth" model -- what has since become known as the "Ramsey model" -- one of the earliest applications of the calculus of variations to economics.
Alf Ramsey: Information from Answers.com (1874 words)
Ramsey was using the 4-3-3 system and for each of the group games used a winger, John Connelly against Uruguay, Terry Paine against Mexico and Ian Callaghan against France.
Ramsey was sacked in 1974, after England failed to qualify for the World Cup tournament of that year; again while Ramsey's tactics were partly to blame (his inappropriate, mistimed substitutions, for example), England had also been spectacularly denied a win over Poland that would have secured qualification, by the Polish goalkeeper Jan Tomaszewski.
Ramsey was made an Inaugural Inductee of the English Football Hall of Fame in 2002 in recognition of his impact on the English game as a manager.
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