Famous People with Name Norman

Norman Mack "Norm" Van Brocklin            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Norman Mack "Norm" Van Brocklin: Born in Parade, South Dakota to Mack and Ethel Van Brocklin, Norm became a career American football player and coach. Among his fans and fellow players, Norm was often called The Dutchman. As a quarterback he was known for brilliant field generalship and superb passing prowess. Although too slow to scramble outside the pocket, Van Brocklin was by some accounts the greatest long passer of all time. He was also a first rate punter in college and in the NFL. In 1971, ten years after retirement as a player, the Dutchman was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

Norman Levinson            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Norman Levinson: was an American mathematician. Some of his major contributions were in the study of Fourier transforms, complex analysis, non-linear differential equations, number theory, and signal processing. He worked closely with Norbert Wiener in his early career. He joined the faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1937

Norman Kingsley Mailer            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Norman Kingsley Mailer: was an American novelist, journalist, essayist, poet, playwright, screenwriter, and film director.Along with Truman Capote, Joan Didion, John McPhee, and Tom Wolfe, Mailer is considered an innovator of narrative nonfiction, a genre sometimes called New Journalism, but which covers the essay to the nonfiction novel. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize twice and the National Book Award once. In 1955, Mailer, together with Ed Fancher and Dan Wolf, first published The Village Voice, which began as an arts- and politics-oriented weekly newspaper initially distributed in Greenwich Village.

Norman Foster Ramsey, Jr.            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Norman Foster Ramsey, Jr.: is an American physicist. A physics professor at Harvard University since 1947, Ramsey also held several posts with such government and international agencies as NATO and the United States Atomic Energy Commission.

Norman Gary Finkelstein            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Norman Gary Finkelstein: whose primary fields of research are the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the politics of the Holocaust. A graduate of SUNY Binghamton, he received his Ph.D in Political Science from Princeton University. He has held faculty positions at Brooklyn College, Rutgers University, Hunter College, New York University

Fred Norman            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Fred Norman: (born August 20, 1942 in San Antonio, Texas), is a former professional baseball player who pitched in the Major Leagues from 1962-1964, 1966-1967, and 1970-1980.

Kenneth Darnel Norman            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Kenneth Darnel Norman: is an American former professional basketball player who was selected 19th overall by the Los Angeles Clippers of the 1987 NBA Draft. Norman played for the Clippers, Milwaukee Bucks and Atlanta Hawks in 10 NBA seasons. His best year as a pro came during the 1988-89 NBA season as a Clipper, when he averaged 18.1 points in 80 games. In his NBA career, Norman played in a total of 646 games and scored 8,717 points. He played collegiately at the University of Illinois.

Egerton Herbert Norman            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Egerton Herbert Norman: was a Canadian diplomat and historian.His first post was with the Canadian Legation in Tokyo. Following the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, Norman was interned by the Japanese authorities and he was not repatriated to Canada until mid-1942, where he continued to work in the Department of External Affairs. During the Allied occupation of Japan after its defeat in the war, Norman served as a Canadian representative to the Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers (SCAP) administration and worked under the direction of Douglas MacArthur. He also became the first post-war president of the Asiatic Society of Japan. Alongside his diplomatic activities, Norman remained an active scholar and wrote a number of works on Japanese history, which are still highly regarded by many historians.

Loulie Jean Norman            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Loulie Jean Norman: was a famous coloratura soprano who worked with famed arranger Gordon Jenkins. Jenkins and Norman collaborated on a number of albums.She provided the singing voice for the character of Clara in the film version of Porgy and Bess as portrayed by Diahann Ca

Nancy Norman            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Nancy Norman: was an American vocalist.Nancy Norman studied voice while attending Roosevelt High School. Then, World War II erupted. Many of her classmates of Japanese descent, along with their families, were sent to relocation facilities outside of Los Angeles. During