Famous People with Name Alvin

Alvin Banks            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Alvin Banks: an American football running back who is currently a free agent. He was originally signed by the Jets as an undrafted free agent in 2007. He played college football at James Madison.

Alvin Raymond Collins            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Alvin Raymond Collins: was an American football defensive tackle who played for the National Football League's San Francisco 49ers and New York Giants, and for the American Football League's Dallas Texans.

Alvin Craig Harper            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Alvin Craig Harper: is a former American football player in the National Football League. After going 1-15 in 1989 and 7-9 in 1990, the Dallas Cowboys were poised to capitalize on some key draft opportunities.

Alvin Meyer Liberman            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Alvin Meyer Liberman: was an American psychologist whose ideas set the agenda for fifty years of research in the psychology of speech perception and laid the groundwork for modern computer speech synthesis and the understanding of critical issues in cognitive science. He took a biological perspective on language and his 'nativist' approach was often controversial as well as being influential. He was a professor of psychology at the University of Connecticut and of linguistics at Yale University. He was also President of Haskins Laboratories from 1975 through 1986. His paper on the "Perception of the Speech Code" in 1967 remains one of the most cited papers in the psychological literature. He is also known for his pioneering work with Dr. Franklin S. Cooper on the development of the reading machine for the blind in the early 1950s and for the development of the "motor theory" of speech perception with Ignatius Mattingly in the 1960s and 1970s. Along with his wife, Isabelle Liberman

Alvin Martin Weinberg            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Alvin Martin Weinberg: was a nuclear physicist and administrator at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). He came to Oak Ridge, Tennessee in 1945 and remained there until his death in 2006.He served as director of Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Physics Division from 1945 until 1948, when he became Research Director for the laboratory. He was named director of the laboratory in 1955. [1] Weinberg often sat in the front row at ORNL division information meetings and ask the first, often a very penetrating, question after each scientific talk. For young scientists giving their first presentation, the experience could be frightening but was also exciting and stimulating. When asked how he found the time to attend every meeting, Weinberg replied jokingly, "We didn't have a DOE in those days."

Anicée Alvina            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Anicée Alvina: was a French singer and actress.Born to a French mother and an Iranian father, Anicée made her first movie appearance in Elle boit pas, elle fume pas, elle drague pas, mais... elle cause ! in 1970 and became famous for her lead roles in Glissements progre