A janitor (American English), (Scottish English) janitress (female), custodian "cleaner" or caretaker is a person who cleans and maintains buildings such as hospitals, schools and residential accommodation. Janitors' primary responsibility is as a cleaner. In some cases they will also carry out maintenance and security duties. This is a list of notable people who have been janitors. Australia *Frank Jenner (often misspelled Genor; 1903-1977), evangelist Cuba *Adela Hernández, politician Germany *Susianna Kentikian (born 1987), boxer Greece *Konstantina Kouneva (born 1964), trade unionist and Member of the European Parliament United Kingdom *Kim Woodburn (born 1942), television presenter and expert cleaner best known for How Clean Is Your House? United States *William Edmondson (1874-1951), African-American folk art sculptor *James Hampton (1909-1964), African-American janitor who secretly built a large assemblage of religious art from scavenged materials, and is considered an outsider artist *William Harvey Lillard (1856-1925), the first chiropractic patient *James Nyx Jr., Motown songwriter *William Quesse (1878-1927), union leader *William Rodriguez, winner of several awards for heroism for helping in the evacuation of the World Trade Center during the September 11, 2001 attacks *James M. Spangler (1848-1915), inventor of the first commercially successful portable electric vacuum cleaner *Seymour Stedman (1871-1948), civil liberties lawyer and politician *Vivien Thomas (1910-1985), African-American surgical technician, classified and paid as a janitor *Bill Walker (born 1951), attorney and politician *Ronnie Woo Woo (born 1941), local celebrity in Chicago
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