Bastedo

Bastedo is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Alexandra Bastedo (1946–2014), British actress
  • Frank Lindsay Bastedo (1886–1973), Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan
  • Larry Bastedo, Canadian motorcycle racer
  • Walter Arthur Bastedo, Ph.D., M.D., early 1900s physician at New York's Columbia University, developer of the "Bastedo Formula" (a.k.a. "Bastedo Fraction") cited in early medical textbooks for deciding juvenile portions of previously-adult-tested medicine; author of the book "Bastedo's Materia Medica, Pharmacology, Therapeutics and Prescription Writing" (circa 1915)

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  • Walter Bastedo, Jr., aeronautical engineer, lead inventor of the patented "tip break" enabling the 1950s invention of the 1st one-man helicopter at Gyrodyne Co. of America, Saint James, Long Island, New York State
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  1. The last two listed persons of the five above are unrelated; but this man appears many times in early 20th-century issues of the Journal of the American Medical Association. He appears also in some old "Who's Who" volumes.
  2. Again, the last two listed persons here are unrelated; but this person is in Princeton University archives as graduating from that college in 1944-1945 and subsequently with an engineering graduate degree. Cited also in some "Who's Who" volumes.
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