Famous People with Name George

George Michael Biondo            Origin/Culture/Country: American

George Michael Biondo: was the bass guitarist of the American rock band, Steppenwolf, from April 1970 to October 1976.[5] Though born in New York, [6] he has been based in Southern California throughout his ongoing career as a session musician and songwriter.

George Canyon            Origin/Culture/Country: American

George Canyon: a country music singer from Canada. He grew up in Fox Brook, Pictou County, Nova Scotia and later lived in Hopewell, NS (where he still owns land) before he moved west. He currently lives in High River, Alberta. He also holds an appointment in the Canadia

George Evans            Origin/Culture/Country: American

George Evans: His parents are Dr. Robert K. Evans and Professor Lucile Villeneuve Evans, both long time faculty of the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM), Indiana University School of Music (opera department), and McGill University in Montréal

George Fox            Origin/Culture/Country: American

George Fox: a country/western music singer/songwriter raised in Cochrane, Alberta, the son of cattle ranchers Bert and Gert Fox.His debut single “Angelina” reached #8 on Canadian country music charts. In subsequent years, "Goldmine", “No Trespassing”, “Mustang Heart”

George London            Origin/Culture/Country: American

George London: was a Montreal-born concert and operatic bass-baritone. Son of a Russian Jewish family he grew up in Los Angeles.After extensive concertizing with tenor Mario Lanza and soprano Frances Yeend as part of the Bel Canto Trio in 1947-48, London was engaged by

Tate Claude George            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Tate Claude George: is an American former professional basketball player who was selected by the New Jersey Nets with the 22nd overall pick in the 1990 NBA Draft from the University of Connecticut. He played a total of four years in the NBA for the Nets and Milwaukee Bucks averaging 4.2 points per game in his career.

Dan George            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Dan George: was a chief of the Tsleil-Waututh, a Salish First Nations people located in Burrard Inlet, British Columbia. He was also an Academy Award-nominated actor and an author.In 1960, when he was already 60 years of age, he got his first job acting in a CBC Television series, Cariboo Country, as the character "Ol' Antoine". He performed the same role in a Walt Disney Studios movie, Smith!, adapted from an episode in this series (based on Breaking Smith's Quarter Horse, a novella by Paul St. Pierre). At the age of 71, George won several awards for his role in the film Little Big Man, including a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. He continued to act in other films, such as The Outlaw Josey Wales, Harry and Tonto and Americathon, and on television, including a role in the miniseries Centennial, based on the book by James A. Michener.

Henry George            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Henry George: was an American political economist and the most influential proponent of the "Single Tax" on land, also known as the land value tax. He inspired the philosophy and economic ideology known as Georgism, that holds that everyone owns what they create, but that everything found in nature, most importantly land, belongs equally to all humanity. He was the author of Progress and Poverty, written in 1879.In California, George fell in love with Annie Corsina Fox, an eighteen-year-old Australian girl who had been orphaned and was living with an uncle. The uncle, a prosperous, strong-minded man, was understandably opposed to his niece's penniless suitor. But the couple, defying him, eloped and married in late 1861,

Barbara George            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Barbara George: was an American R&B singer and songwriter.Born Barbara Ann Smith, she was raised in New Orleans and began singing in a church choir. She was discovered by singer Jessie Hill, who recommended her to record producer, Harold Battiste. Her first record on Bat

Dawn Denise George            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Dawn Denise George: better known plainly as Dawn George, is a former female boxer who has competed against some of women's boxing top athletes. George moved to Lowell, where Micky Ward, another retired boxer, was born. George's last fight was her second attempt to win a worl