Famous People with Name Avery

Avery Johnson            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Avery Johnson: is a retired American professional basketball player and former head coach of the NBA's Dallas Mavericks. Johnson is known as the "Little General" for his small (by NBA standards) stature, his leadership skills as a point guard and floor general, and his close friendship with former San Antonio Spurs teammate David "The Admiral" Robinson.

Avery Franklin Brooks            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Avery Franklin Brooks: is an American stage and television actor, jazz and opera singer, and college professor. Brooks is perhaps best known for his television roles as Benjamin Sisko on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and as Hawk on Spenser: For Hire and its spinoff A Man Called Hawk.

Avery John            Origin/Culture/Country: Jamaican

Avery John: is a Trinidadian soccer player. John has appeared in over 50 matches with the Trinidad and Tobago national team. In his first match at the 2006 FIFA World Cup, he was dismissed with his second yellow card for a rash tackle on Sweden's Christian Wilhelmsso

Avery F. Blake Sr.            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Avery F. Blake Sr.: was a college lacrosse player and coach. He served as the head lacrosse coach at his alma mater, Swarthmore College from 1931 to 1959. Blake also served as president of the United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association.

Frederick Bean Fred Avery            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Frederick Bean Fred Avery: was an American animator, cartoonist, and director, famous for producing animated cartoons during The Golden Age of Hollywood animation. He did his most significant work for the Warner Bros. and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios, creating the characters of Daffy Duck, Bugs Bunny, Droopy, Screwy Squirrel, and developing Porky Pig and Chilly Willy (this last one for the Walter Lantz Studio) into regular cartoon characters. His influence was found in almost all of the animated cartoon series by various studios in the 1940s and 1950s.

William Henry Avery            Origin/Culture/Country: American

William Henry Avery: was thirty-seventh Governor of Kansas, having served from 1965-1967.William H. Avery graduated from the University of Kansas in 1934. While attending the KU he joined Delta Upsilon Fraternity. He was a member of the Wakefield School Board, and served in the Congress for the Republican Party from 1955 to 1965.

Sean Avery            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Sean Avery: is a Canadian professional ice hockey player who currently plays for the Dallas Stars of the National Hockey League (NHL). He formerly played for the Detroit Red Wings, Los Angeles Kings, and New York Rangers. Prior to the NHL, Avery played for the Owen Sound Platers and the Kingston Frontenacs of the Ontario Hockey League.Avery is not a relatively large player (5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) and 185 lb (84 kg/13.2 st)) and he was not selected in the NHL Entry Draft. In 1999, Avery was signed by the Detroit Red Wings and broke into the NHL, playing 36 games with the Red Wings during the 2001-02 season. The Red Wings went on to win the Stanley Cup that season though Avery did not partake in the playoffs. Avery did not play the required 40 games, so his name was left off the cup.

Kenneth William Avery            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Kenneth William Avery: is a former college and professional American football player. He played college football at Southern Mississippi University, where he was a linebacker. He played professionally in the American Football League for the Cincinnati Bengals in 1969, as well as in the NFL for the New York Giants and Kansas City Chiefs.

Oswald Theodore Avery            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Oswald Theodore Avery: was a Canadian-born American physician and medical researcher. The major part of his career was spent at the Rockefeller University Hospital in New York City. Avery was one of the first molecular biologists and was a pioneer in immunochemistry, but he is best known for his discovery in 1944 with his co-workers Colin MacLeod and Maclyn McCarty that DNA is the material of which genes and chromosomes are made.The Nobel laureate Arne Tiselius said that Avery was the most deserving scientist not to receive the Nobel Prize for his work.[1]