Famous People with Name Allison

Allison Glenn Scagliotti            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Allison Glenn Scagliotti: an American actress. She is best known for her role on Drake & Josh, as Mindy Crenshaw, Josh's girlfriend. She first appeared to hate Josh and Drake by trying to get Drake suspended, and ends up in a mental institution, all a spree for attention. She also appeared on an episode of Zoey 101 as Stacy, who stole Zoey's idea for backpacks. She loves to say "I hate you all." She has a guest role on One Tree Hill, as Abby Brown in the episodes "With Tired Eyes, Tired Minds, Tired Souls, We Slept", "You Call It Madness, But I Call It Love" and "The Runaway Found".She was also in an episode of CSI in 2003 being the sister of a murder victim.

Allison Higson            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Allison Higson: is a former international breaststroke and freestyle swimmer from Canada.She briefly held the women's 200-metre breaststroke world record in 1988. Higson also competed four years later, at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain, where she didn't win a medal.

Allison Baver            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Allison Baver: is an American short track speed skater. Baver trains with the US permanent winter sports Olympic team, in Salt Lake City, Utah. In the 2005-2006 season, she was ranked third overall in the World Rankings. She previously dated Apolo Anton Ohno.

Allison Pottinger            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Allison Pottinger: an American curler from Eden Prairie, Minnesota. She currently plays third for Debbie McCormick.In 1994, Pottinger was an alternate for Erika Brown's silver medal winning team at the World Junior Curling Championships. Pottinger picked up another silver m

Allison Louise Crowe            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Allison Louise Crowe: a Canadian singer, songwriter, guitarist and pianist from Nanaimo, British Columbia who now also lives in Corner Brook, Newfoundland and Labrador, communities spanning the breadth of Canada. Crowe records on her own record label, Rubenesque Records Ltd. (formed in 2003).Allison Crowe's first full-length albums, Secrets and Tidings, were released in 2004, when Crowe was 22. (Tidings was originally released in EP form in 2003.) Allison Crowe: Live at Wood Hall, a double concert album, was released in July 2005. A DVD featuring live-in-the-studio performances of Tidings songs was created for her fan club in November 2005.

Luther Allison            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Luther Allison: was an American blues guitarist. He was born in Widener, Arkansas and moved with his family, at age twelve, to Chicago, Illinois in 1951.[2] He had taught himself guitar whilst in Arkansas and began listening to blues extensively. Three years later he began hanging outside blues clubs with the hopes of being invited to perform. He played with Howlin' Wolf's band and backed up James Cotton.

Jim Allison            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Jim Allison: was an American college and professional football player. A running back, he played college football at San Diego State University, He was drafted with the seventh pick in the 12th round of the American Football League college draft in 1965, and played professionally in the AFL for the San Diego Chargers from 1965 through 1968.

Samuel King Allison            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Samuel King Allison: was an American physicist, most notable for his role in the Manhattan Project — where among other things he read the countdown for the detonation of the "Trinity" test — and his postwar work in the "scientists' movement".Samuel K. Allison was born in Chicago, Illinois, and attended the University of Chicago for his undergraduate degree as well as for his PhD (in chemistry, though his thesis was related to experimental physics). From 1923 until 1925 he was a research fellow at Harvard University and from 1925 until 1926 he was a research fellow at the Carnegie Institution From 1926 until 1928 he taught physics at University of California, Berkeley, after which he returned to the University of Chicago, where he studied the Compton effect and the dynamical theory of x-ray diffraction. He developed a high resolution x-ray spectrometer with a graduate student, John H. Williams.

Ray Allison            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Ray Allison: is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey forward who played 7 seasons in the National Hockey League for the Hartford Whalers and Philadelphia Flyers.Following a phenomenal junior career, Allison became the first ever draft pick in the history of the Hartford Whalers/Carolina Hurricanes franchise. He was expected to be a franchise player but failed to impress during his rookie season.

Dunkiny "Donnie" Allison            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Dunkiny "Donnie" Allison: is a former driver on the NASCAR Grand National/Winston Cup circuit, who won ten times during his racing career, which spanned the 1960s, 1970s and early 1980s. He was part of the "Alabama Gang," and is the brother of 1983 champion Bobby Allison and uncle of Davey Allison.