Famous People with Name Allison

Allison Mleczko            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Allison Mleczko: is an American ice hockey player.

Allison Schmitt            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Allison Schmitt: is an American swimmer who won a bronze medal at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, China.

Allison Marie Wagner            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Allison Marie Wagner: is a former American college and international swimmer, Olympic silver medalist and world record-holder. Wagner won the silver medal in the 400-meter individual medley at the 1996 Olympics. She also held the world record in the short-course (25-meter) 200

Allison Jolly            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Allison Jolly: is an American sailor and Olympic champion. Jolly began sailing at the age of 10 and attended the University of Florida where she won the National Collegiate sailing championships in 1975 and 1976. In 1976 she placed second in the European women's champio

Allison Lynn Reed            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Allison Lynn Reed: is an American ice dancer who competes for Georgia. She began competing with Otar Japaridze in 2009. They qualified an entry for Georgia at the 2010 Winter Olympics at the 2009 Nebelhorn Trophy. Reed received a Georgian passport in January, 2010. Reed's m

Luther Allison            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Luther Allison: was an American blues guitarist. He was born in Widener, Arkansas and moved with his family, at age twelve, to Chicago, Illinois in 1951.[2] He had taught himself guitar whilst in Arkansas and began listening to blues extensively. Three years later he began hanging outside blues clubs with the hopes of being invited to perform. He played with Howlin' Wolf's band and backed up James Cotton.

Jim Allison            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Jim Allison: was an American college and professional football player. A running back, he played college football at San Diego State University, He was drafted with the seventh pick in the 12th round of the American Football League college draft in 1965, and played professionally in the AFL for the San Diego Chargers from 1965 through 1968.

Samuel King Allison            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Samuel King Allison: was an American physicist, most notable for his role in the Manhattan Project — where among other things he read the countdown for the detonation of the "Trinity" test — and his postwar work in the "scientists' movement".Samuel K. Allison was born in Chicago, Illinois, and attended the University of Chicago for his undergraduate degree as well as for his PhD (in chemistry, though his thesis was related to experimental physics). From 1923 until 1925 he was a research fellow at Harvard University and from 1925 until 1926 he was a research fellow at the Carnegie Institution From 1926 until 1928 he taught physics at University of California, Berkeley, after which he returned to the University of Chicago, where he studied the Compton effect and the dynamical theory of x-ray diffraction. He developed a high resolution x-ray spectrometer with a graduate student, John H. Williams.

Ray Allison            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Ray Allison: is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey forward who played 7 seasons in the National Hockey League for the Hartford Whalers and Philadelphia Flyers.Following a phenomenal junior career, Allison became the first ever draft pick in the history of the Hartford Whalers/Carolina Hurricanes franchise. He was expected to be a franchise player but failed to impress during his rookie season.

Dunkiny "Donnie" Allison            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Dunkiny "Donnie" Allison: is a former driver on the NASCAR Grand National/Winston Cup circuit, who won ten times during his racing career, which spanned the 1960s, 1970s and early 1980s. He was part of the "Alabama Gang," and is the brother of 1983 champion Bobby Allison and uncle of Davey Allison.