Famous People with Name Bishop

Bishop Perkins            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Bishop Perkins: was a United States Representative from New York.Perkins was a member of the State constitutional convention in 1846 and a member of the New York State Assembly in 1846, 1847, and again in 1849.He was elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-third Congress, se

Bishop Kilpatrick            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Bishop Kilpatrick: was a member of the Ohio General Assembly, serving for over three decades. He served as a representative from Northeast Ohio for many years, and resided in Trumbull County. With his father a political figure himself, Kilpatrick originally was elected as a

Bishop Walden Perkins            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Bishop Walden Perkins: was a United States Representative and Senator from Kansas. Born in Rochester, Ohio, he attended the common schools and Knox College (Galesburg, Illinois). He prospected for gold through California and New Mexico from 1860 to 1862 and served four years in

Bishop Abel Tendekayi Muzorewa            Origin/Culture/Country: Zimbabwe

Bishop Abel Tendekayi Muzorewa: served as Prime Minister of Zimbabwe Rhodesia from the Internal Settlement to the Lancaster House Agreement in 1979. A Methodist bishop and nationalist leader, he held office for only a few months. On 21 June 2007 Muzorewa said citizens, white and black alike, came to his house and asked him to run for president. He said Zimbabwe was "bleeding, economically and socially. It is painful to listen to them talk." He asked people to pray that negotiations between ZANU-PF and the MDC, mediated by South African President Thabo Mbeki, would be successful and for Zimbabwe's "salvation." Ultimately Muzorewa did not run in the 2008 presidential election.

Bishop Michael Fu Tieshan            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Bishop Michael Fu Tieshan: of Beijing was the top leader of the Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association.Fu was born in Hebei province. He served as a priest, and in 1979 was made a bishop by Beijing. The appointment lacked the approval of the pope. He was appointed chairman of the Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association in 1998. He was acting president of the government-recognized Bishops' Conference of the Catholic Church in China. He was named vice chairman of the standing committee of the National People's Congress, China's legislature, in 2003.

Max Frederick Bishop            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Max Frederick Bishop: (September 5, 1899 - February 24, 1962) was a second baseman in Major League Baseball who played from 1924 through 1935 for the Philadelphia Athletics (1924-1933) and Boston Red Sox (1934-1935). Bishop batted left-handed and threw right-handed.

John Michael Bishop            Origin/Culture/Country: American

John Michael Bishop: American immunologist and microbiologist who won the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Ralph English Bishop            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Ralph English Bishop: was an American basketball player who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics.

Robert Gale Bishop            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Robert Gale Bishop: was an American basketball player.He played collegiately for the Washington State University.

Elizabeth Bishop            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Elizabeth Bishop: was an American poet and writer from Worcester, Massachusetts. She was the Poet Laureate of the United States from 1949 to 1950, and a Pulitzer Prize winner in 1956.