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).

William Franklin "Lovebird" Allen            Origin/Culture/Country: American

William Franklin "Lovebird" Allen: was an American businessman and politician from Seaford, in Sussex County, Delaware. He was a member of the Democratic Party, who served in the Delaware General Assembly and as U. S. Representative from Delaware. Allen was a public school commissioner in

Diane B. Allen            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Diane B. Allen: is an American Republican Party politician, who has been serving in the New Jersey State Senate since 1998, where she represents the 7th Legislative District. She served as the Deputy Republican Conference Leader from 2002 to 2003 and as the Majority Whip

Henry Justin Allen            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Henry Justin Allen: was the 21st Governor of Kansas (1919–1923) and U.S. Senator from Kansas (1929–31).

Clarence Emir Allen            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Clarence Emir Allen: was a U.S. Representative from Utah. He moved to Salt Lake City, Utah, in August 1881 and was an instructor in Salt Lake Academy until 1886, when he resigned to engage in mining pursuits. He served as member of the Territorial house of representatives in

Willis Allen            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Willis Allen: was a U.S. Representative from Illinois, and the father of William J. Allen. He was sheriff of Franklin County 1834–1838. He served as member of the Illinois House of Representatives 1838–1840. He served as prosecuting attorney of the 1st judicial circuit