Famous People with Name Parker

Parker Christian Posey            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Parker Christian Posey: Posey was born in Baltimore, Maryland, the daughter of Lynda, a chef, and Chris Posey, who owned a Chevrolet dealership. She has a fraternal twin brother, Christopher. Posey's unisex first name was a tribute by her father to 1950s supermodel Suzy Parker.

Parker McKenna Posey            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Parker McKenna Posey: an American child actress.Posey is best known for her performance as the precocious "Kady Kyle" on the ABC sitcom My Wife and Kids.Posey resides in Los Angeles with her mother, Heather Stone. She keeps her middle name professionally so as not to be confused with actress Parker Posey.Posey has 3 half-siblings, 2 brothers, Khari & Jake and a sister named Dilynne.She has also performed onstage at the Blank Theatre Company in productions of Restless Peace by Jessica Juhrend and Shock Therapy by Rachel Leopold.

Parker Blair Pennington            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Parker Blair Pennington: is an American figure skater. He is the only man to have achieved the distinction of winning Nationals on all those levels.

Raymond Parker            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Raymond Parker: He was known as an Abstract expressionist, painter who also is associated with Color Field painting and Lyrical Abstraction. Ray Parker was an influential art teacher and an important Color Field painter[1] and an instrumental figure in the movement coined by Clement Greenberg called Post-Painterly Abstraction.[2] Originally from South Dakota, Ray Parker entered the University of Iowa in Iowa City in 1940; he earned his MFA in 1948. From 1948 to 1951 he taught painting at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. During the 1940s his paintings were heavily influenced by cubism. In the early 1950s, however, Parker became associated with the leading abstract expressionists of the day, including Mark Rothko and Willem de Kooning. Parker soon began to simplify and refine his works realizing that through abstraction, and color his paintings could convey and express emotion.

Dorothy Parker            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Dorothy Parker: was an American writer and poet, best known for her caustic wit, wisecracks, and sharp eye for 20th century urban foibles.From a conflicted and unhappy childhood, Parker rose to acclaim, both for her literary output in such venues as The New Yorker and as

Jason Parker            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Jason Parker: is a Canadian speed skater who won a silver medal in the Team Pursuit at the 2006 Winter Olympics.

Michael Scott Parker            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Michael Scott Parker: an American musician, songwriter, and visual artist currently residing in Austin, Texas. She had an international upbringing[1] as the elder of Hollywood stuntwoman Ramsey Scott's two children. Her 4th full-length album Naked has established her position

Robert Allan Ridley Parker            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Robert Allan Ridley Parker: is the former director of the NASA Management Office at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and NASA astronaut.Parker was selected as a scientist-astronaut by NASA in August 1967. He was a member of the astronaut support crews for the Apollo 15 and 17 missions