Famous People with Name Allen

Allen Edward Dekdebrun            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Allen Edward Dekdebrun: was an American Football quarterback in the All-America Football Conference, National Football League, and Canadian Football League. He played college football at Cornell University, where he was also a member of the Quill and Dagger society.

Allen Oldfather Whipple            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Allen Oldfather Whipple: was an American surgeon who is known for the pancreatic cancer operation which bears his name (the Whipple procedure) as well as Whipple's triad.Whipple was born in Urmia, Iran (then called Persia). He received his M.D. from the Columbia University Colleg

Allen Ruppersberg            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Allen Ruppersberg: one of the first generation of American Conceptual artists that changed the way art was thought about and made. His work includes paintings, prints, photographs, sculptures, installations, and books.Ruppersberg graduated with a BFA from the Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles (now California Institute of the Arts) in 1967. During his early years in Los Angeles, he began significant relationships with John Baldessari, Ed Ruscha, William Wegman, and Allan McCollum. He participated in the groundbreaking 1969 exhibition When Attitudes Become Form,[1] and is recognized as a seminal practitioner of installation art, having produced such influential works as Al's Cafe (1969), Al’s Grand Hotel (1971) and The Novel that Writes Itself (1978). Since the late 1960s,

Allen Walker Read            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Allen Walker Read: was an American etymologist and lexicographer, best known for his studies into the words "okay" and "fuck."Read was born in Winnebago, Minnesota, earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Northern Iowa (then called Iowa State Teachers College) in 1925, a master's degree from the University of Iowa in 1926, and studied at the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar from 1928-1931. He was a chaired professor at Columbia University in New York City from 1945 until 1975.[2] He is a past president of the Semiotic Society of America (1980).He was a repeated contributor to American Speech by 1931; his first extended work, Lexical Evidence from Folk Epigraphy in Western North America: A Glossarial Study of the Low Element in the English Vocabulary, was privately published in Paris in 1935 since its description of bathroom graffiti was considered too racy for American publishers.[citation needed] It was eventually published in the United States in 1977, under the title Classic American Graffiti, ISBN 0916500063.

Allen Newell            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Allen Newell: was a researcher in computer science and cognitive psychology at the RAND corporation and at Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Computer Science, Tepper School of Business, and Department of Psychology. He contributed to the Information Processing Language (1956) and two of the earliest AI programs, the Logic Theory Machine (1956) and the General Problem Solver (1957) (with Herbert Simon).

Michael Allen            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Michael Allen: is an American politician currently serving in the California State Assembly. He is a Democrat representing the 7th district, encompassing Napa County and parts of Solano and Sonoma counties. Prior to being elected to the state assembly, he was a member o

James Browning Allen            Origin/Culture/Country: American

James Browning Allen: was a Democratic U.S. Senator from Alabama. He practiced law in Gadsden from 1935 to 1968 and was a member of the Alabama State legislature from 1938 to 1942. He resigned from the state legislature to enter active duty in the United States Naval Reserve f

Dorathy Allen            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Dorathy Allen: was an American newspaper editor and publisher, and Democratic Party politician. Allen is most remembered as the first woman to be elected to the Arkansas State Senate. Allen represented District 26 which included Monroe, Lee, Arkansas, and Phillips count

Amos Lawrence Allen            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Amos Lawrence Allen: was a U.S. Representative from Maine.Allen was elected clerk of the courts for York County, Maine, in 1870, reelected three times, and served until January 1, 1883. He served as member of the State house of representatives in 1886 and 1887. He was private

Doris J. Allen            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Doris J. Allen: served in the California Assembly from 1982 to 1995, representing part of Orange County, and as Speaker of that body from June 5 to September 14, 1995, before being recalled from office. She was first elected to the California State Assembly in 1982 when