Famous People with Name Campbell

Campbell McGrath            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Campbell McGrath: is a notable modern American poet. He is the author of six full-length collections of poetry, including his most recent, Pax Atomica.McGrath was born in Chicago, Illinois, and grew up in Washington, D.C., where he attended Sidwell Friends School. He recei

William Wallace Campbell            Origin/Culture/Country: American

William Wallace Campbell: was an American astronomer.He was director of Lick Observatory from 1900 to 1930. He specialized in spectroscopy.Campbell was a pioneer of astronomical spectroscopy, he catalogued the radial velocities of stars, and was a director of Lick Observatory from 1901 to 1930. He served as 10th President of the University of California from 1923 to 1930. He committed suicide on June 14th, 1938 at the age of 76.

Lyle Richard Campbell            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Lyle Richard Campbell: a linguist and leading expert on American Indian languages—especially those of Mesoamerica—and on historical linguistics in general. He also has expertise in Uralic (Finno-Ugric) languages. He is presently Presidential Professor of Linguistics at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, and director of the University's Center for American Indian Languages (CAIL).Campbell grew up in rural Oregon. He received a B.A. in Archaeology and Anthropology in 1966, M.A. in Linguistics (University of Washington) in 1967, and Ph.D. in Linguistics (UCLA) in 1971.

Donald Thomas Campbell            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Donald Thomas Campbell: was an American social scientist. He is noted for his work in methodology. He coined the term "evolutionary epistemology" and developed a selectionist theory of human creativity.After serving in the U.S. Naval Reserve during World War II, he earned his doctorate in psychology in 1947 from UC Berkeley. He subsequently served on the faculties at Ohio State, the University of Chicago, Northwestern, and Lehigh.He taught at Lehigh University, which established the Donald T. Campbell Social Science Research Prizes. Prior to that he was on the faculty of Maxwell School of Syracuse University, 1979 - 1982, and Northwestern University from 1953 to 1979. He gave the William James Lecture at Harvard University in 1977. He served as President of the American Psychological Association.

Tevin Jermod Campbell            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Tevin Jermod Campbell: is a five-time Grammy-nominated American R&B singer-songwriter. Campbell scored a string of R&B chart hits as a teenager in the early to mid-1990s. Like Usher and Marques Houston, Campbell transitioned from child singer to adult R&B crooner, and he is a r

Jo Ann Campbell            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Jo Ann Campbell: is an American pop singer.Campbell began attending music school at the age of four, and won many honors as a drum majorette at Fletcher High School. In 1954 she travelled Europe as a dancer, then moved to New York, where she joined the Johnny Conrad Dance