Famous People with Name Allen

Allen Alvarado            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Allen Alvarado: an American child actor. He played Lex Marin in the Discovery Kids series Flight 29 Down. He has appeared in 15 commercials.[1]

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.

Scott Ethan Allen            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Scott Ethan Allen: is an American figure skater. He is the 1964 Olympic bronze medalist, the 1965 World silver medalist, and the 1964 and 1966 U.S. national champion. Allen made his national debut at the age of 9, winning the silver medal in the novice men's division at the

Russell Allen            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Russell Allen: is an American cyclist who competed in at the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. There he placed fifth in the Men's Team Pursuit, 4,000 metres event alongside teammates Eddie Testa, Ruggero Berti and Harold Ade. Born in Orwell, Ohio, his family moved ar

Patrick Allen            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Patrick Allen: is one of the premiere left-handed ten-pin bowlers currently on the Professional Bowlers Association (PBA) Tour. He has won 13 PBA titles, including two majors (2005 Denny's World Championship and 2009 H&R Block Tournament of Champions). A long-time resid

Harvey A. Allen            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Harvey A. Allen: was an officer in the United States Army who served as the fourth commander of the Department of Alaska, from September 20, 1871 to January 3, 1873.

Byron Gilchrist Allen            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Byron Gilchrist Allen: was a Minnesota and Iowa politician who was the first nominee for governor of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party.In 1944, Allen was the first nominee for governor of Minnesota's newly formed Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, a merger of the state's