Famous People with Name Florence

Florence Anthony            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Florence Anthony: is an American poet who legally changed her name to Ai.Currently based in Stillwater, Oklahoma at Oklahoma State University, she has received awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and various universities; she has also been a frequent reader-performer of her work. Ai holds an M.F.A. from the University of California at Irvine

Florence Bascom            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Florence Bascom: was the first woman hired by the United States Geological Survey. She was of Huguenot and Basque ancestry.She received her position at the USGS in 1896 and continued there until 1936. She also had three students who would also become members of the USGS. Two of those students, Eleanora Bliss and Anna Jonas Stose, were also important in other respects to her story.A great deal of her work involved the crystalline rocks and geomorphology of the Piedmont. This led to an unusual, for the time, example of a scientific dispute solely among women. The two students of Florence Bascom's mentioned above came to a different conclusion than her regarding the age of Wissahickon schist/gneiss. She contradicted them in a dispassionate way and the dispute is recorded as civil on the part of the three. That said by the 1930s it had broadened to most of those studying Appalachian geology and at times these individuals became more vehement than the original disputants.

Florence Laura Goodenough            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Florence Laura Goodenough: was an American psychologist and professor at the University of Minnesota who is noted for developing the Minnesota Preschool Scale and the Goodenough Draw-A-Man test (now the Goodenough-Harris Draw-A-Person Test). She wrote Handbook of Child Psychology in 1933, and she became president of the National Counsel of Women Psychologists in 1942. She is also noted for her instruction of Ruth Howard, the first African American woman to earn a Ph.D. in Psychology.

Florence Glenda Ballard Chapman            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Florence Glenda Ballard Chapman: was an American singer, and one of the co-founders of the Hall of Fame Motown group The Supremes.During their early years, members of The Supremes (originally called The Primettes) enjoyed a generally democratic distribution of leads on songs. However, by

Florence Foster Jenkins            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Florence Foster Jenkins: was an American soprano who became famous for her complete lack of rhythm, pitch, tone, and overall singing ability.Jenkins received music lessons as a child, and expressed a desire to go abroad to study music. Her wealthy father refused to pay the bill,

John John Florence            Origin/Culture/Country: American

John John Florence: Florence is the oldest of three children, and grew up in Haleiwa, Hawaii, in an ocean side house at the Banzai Pipeline. His parents split up after a bad marriage, and he resides with his mother, Alexandra, and his two younger brothers Nathan and Ivan.[3] He was introduced to surfing by Alexandra, who is a surfer herself.[1] She brought up John John and his two brothers alone, and she has described how she raised the family in their "own little world" on the beach. She has said John John's progression seemed natural to her.[4] Florence claims he rode a surf board with his mother at the age of six months, who put him in a life vest on her own board,[1] and he was riding on his own by the age of five.[2]

Bob Florence            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Bob Florence: was an American jazz arranger and pianist. He began taking piano lessons at five and initially intended to be a concert pianist. However, on taking classes with Bob McDonald he changed direction toward jazz.At the beginning of his career Florence worked a

JJ Florence            Origin/Culture/Country: American

JJ Florence: is an American surfer. Florence became well known in the winter of late 2005 and early 2006 when he became the youngest ever surfer to compete in the Vans Triple Crown of Surfing. He had previously won five amateur awards, the 2003 1st NSSA Nationals Open

David Florence            Origin/Culture/Country: English

David Florence: is a British slalom canoeist. He won a silver medal in the men's slalom C-1 at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.