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Jay H. Neff (1854–1915), American newspaper publisher; mayor of Kansas City 1904–05

Marcus Neff (1826–1896), American settler in Oregon; respondent in the U.S. Supreme Court case of Pennoyer v. Neff


America's Music: The Roots of Country

America's Music: The Roots of Country is a 1996 three-part, six episode documentary about the history of American country music directed by Tom Neff and Jerry Aronson and written by Neff and Robert K. Oermann.

BlueBob

A music video for "Thank You, Judge" was featured on Lynch's official website, starring Naomi Watts as the wife, Eli Roth as her boyfriend, Lynch as Billy Groper and Neff as the main character.

Country Music: The Spirit of America

Country Music: The Spirit of America is a 2003 documentary film, in the IMAX format, written and co-produced by Tom Neff and co-directed by Neff, Steven Goldmann and Keith Melton.

Dorothea Neff

In 1979, Dorothea Neff was awarded to the list of Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem in recognition of the risk to her own life, in hiding a Jew during the Holocaust.

Frederic Remington: The Truth of Other Days

Frederic Remington: The Truth of Other Days is a 1991 documentary of American Western artist Frederic Remington made for the PBS series American Masters and produced and directed by Tom Neff It was written by Neff and Louise LeQuire.

Gombong

Jan Hamer (1927), Dutch survivor during Hurricane Katrina featured in the 2007 book Holding Out and Hanging On: Surviving Hurricane Katrina by Thomas Neff.

Hannah Duston

When their farm was attacked, Thomas fled with eight children, but Hannah, her newborn daughter Martha, and her nurse Mary Neff (nee Corliss) were captured and forced to march into the wilderness.

Jean-Marie Neff

Jean-Marie Neff (born September 29, 1961 in Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines, Haut-Rhin) is a retired male race walker from France, who competed for his native country at the 1988 Summer Olympics.

Louise Dahl-Wolfe: Painting with Light

It was written and directed by Tom Neff, and produced by Neff and Madeline Bell, who previously collaborated on the Oscar nominated short-documentary Red Grooms: Sunflower in a Hothouse (1986).

Matthew Deady

In 1874, in a district court case, Deady ruled in favor of Marcus Neff in a lawsuit against Sylvester Pennoyer concerning unpaid legal fees to John H. Mitchell and a sheriff's auction of Neff's land to Pennoyer.

Muuga, Lääne-Viru County

von Neff constructed the current neo-Renaissance building, intended not only as a home but also as a place to accommodate and display von Neff's large collection of art, which included both his own work and copies of old masters (now part of the Art Museum of Estonia).

von Neff designed the building himself, with the aid of St. Petersburg architect Ludwig Bohnstedt, as well as, reputedly, Otto Pius Hippius, Alexander Brullov and David Grimm, all active in St. Petersburg.

Pat Morris Neff

Neff was succeeded as governor by Miriam Wallace "Ma" Ferguson, wife of controversial former Governor James E. Ferguson, who defeated a stronger-than-usual Republican nominee, George C. Butte, an American jurist who had opposed James Ferguson's line item veto of the 1917 University of Texas appropriations bill.

Pennoyer v. Neff

Mitchell arranged for the sheriff to seize the land, purchased it at public auction, and subsequently assigned it to Sylvester Pennoyer causing Neff to sue Pennoyer in 1874 in federal court to recover his land.

Ray Neff

Dr. Ray Neff, a retired health sciences professor at Indiana State University with a chemistry background, is a leading proponent of an alternative history theory about the assassination of Abraham Lincoln and his killer John Wilkes Booth.

Red Grooms: Sunflower in a Hothouse

It was written by Tom Neff, co-directed by Neff and Louise LeQuire, and produced by Neff and Madeline Bell.


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