Famous People with Name Bert

Bert Lahr            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Bert Lahr: was a Tony Award-winning American comic actor. Born in New York City, he is best remembered today for his role as the Cowardly Lion and the Kansas farmworker Zeke in the classic 1939 movie The Wizard of Oz, but known during his life for a career in burles

Bert Wheeler            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Bert Wheeler: were a famous American film comedy team of the 1930s who are almost totally unknown by today's public, although vintage-film buffs have rediscovered the team via cable television and home video.

Bert Parks            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Bert Parks: was an American actor, singer, and radio and television announcer and host, is best known as the longtime host (1955-1979) of the annual Miss America telecast.Parks was born Bertram Jacobson in Atlanta, Georgia, the son of Hattie (née Spiegel) and Aaron Jacobson, who was a merchant. Parks got his first broadcasting job at age sixteen, for Atlanta's WGST radio. He moved to New York when he was nineteen. He was hired as a singer and straight man on The Eddie Cantor Show before becoming a CBS radio staff announcer. Parks became the host of Break the Bank, which premiered on radio in 1945 and went on to television from 1948-1957, and Stop the Music on radio in 1948, and on television 1949-1952.

Bert Vogelstein            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Bert Vogelstein: a noted cancer researcher at The Johns Hopkins University. His first degree was in mathematics graduating summa cum laude in 1970 from the University of Pennsylvania. His interest was more in medicine and he received his M.D. from The Johns Hopkins University four years later. He was subsequently a resident in pediatrics at The Johns Hopkins Hospital. He has received the Gairdner Foundation International Award, Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize from Columbia University in 1998, Prince of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research, and other awards for his research. His recent work has often concerned oncogenes. His observation that colon cancer progresses from benign polyps to malignant cancers has revolutionized screening for colon cancer by colonoscopy.

Bert Vaux            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Bert Vaux: teaches phonology and morphology at the University of Cambridge. Previously, he taught for nine years at Harvard. Vaux specializes in phonological theory, dialectology, field methodology, and languages of the Caucasus. Vaux was Editor of the journal Annual of Armenian Linguistics from 2001-2006 and is co-editor of the book series Oxford Surveys in Generative Phonology.