Famous People with Name Ashton

Ashton Delilah Shepherd            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Ashton Delilah Shepherd: is an American country music singer-songwriter. She was first signed to Universal Music Group Nashville's MCA Nashville division in April 2007. Later that year, she released her debut single "Takin' Off This Pain", which peaked at #20 on the Billboard Hot

Ashton Sims            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Ashton Sims: is an Australian professional rugby league footballer for the North Queensland Cowboys in the National Rugby League competition. He primarily plays at prop forward. His brothers Korbin and Tariq plays in the Cowboys Under 20s. While attending Kiama High S

Ashton Cokayne Shallenberger            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Ashton Cokayne Shallenberger: was a Nebraska Democratic politician best known for being the 15th Governor of Nebraska from 1909 to 1911. He was first elected to the 57th United States Congress but failed to be reelected in 1902. He was elected governor from 1909–1911 and then was unsu

Ashton Chen            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Ashton Chen: is a Mainland Chinese actor and martial artist. He has been a disciple of Shi Yongxin, the current abbot of the Shaolin Temple, since he was two years old. Originally known as "Chen Xiao-long" , Ashton was given a Dharma name-- "Shi Xiao-long" by the abbot. He was taught with martial arts by his father and Shi Yongxin at a young age. He got attention from the Entertainment Industry after his performance in the International Shaolin Kung Fu Festival in Zhengzhou, China at the age of four. He had became a Kung Fu child actor in China and achieved great success in films such as the martial arts comedy "Shaolin Popey II: Messy Temple" in 1994. In 2003, he stopped filming and went to study in the United States. In 2005, he went back to China to star as Zhan Zhao, a legendary body guard in Northern Song Dynasty in the TV series Young Justice Bao III. In 2007, he continues his study in the United States and has graduated at high school in 2008. He continued his acting career in China since then. He starred as a Ip Man's student in the martial arts film Ip Man 2 released in April 2010.

Susan Ashton            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Susan Ashton: is a best-selling and award-winning American Contemporary Christian Music and country music artist who topped the Christian charts throughout the 1990s. In 1991 she began using her mother's maiden name, Ashton, when she recorded her first single, in order

Lyn Ashton            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Lyn Ashton: is an American slalom canoer who competed in the early 1970s. She finished ninth in the K-1 event at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich.

John Glyndwr Ashton            Origin/Culture/Country: American

John Glyndwr Ashton: was a provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1971 to 1975 sitting with the governing Progressive Conservative caucus.Ashton ran for a seat to the Alberta Legislature in the 1971 Alberta general election. He won the new electoral district of Edmonton-Ottewell in a landslide to pick it up for the Progressive Conservative party who went on to form government in that election.

Steve Ashton            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Steve Ashton: is a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He is a long-serving member of the Manitoba legislature, and is currently a cabinet minister in the New Democratic Party government of Greg Selinger. Ashton was first elected to the Manitoba legislature in the 1981 provincial election, defeating Progressive Conservative incumbent Ken MacMaster by 72 votes in the constituency of Thompson. At the time of his first election, Ashton was involved in an INCO strike in the Thompson area as a member of the United Steelworkers of America. He was re-elected in the 1986 election by a greater margin. Ashton did not serve in the cabinet of Howard Pawley.