Famous People with Name Booth

Booth Gardner            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Booth Gardner: an heir to the Weyerhaeuser fortune, was the 19th Governor of the U.S state of Washington between 1985 and 1993. He also served as the ambassador of the GATT. He is a Democrat. Before serving as governor, Gardner was Pierce County Executive. His service w

Boothby Graffoe            Origin/Culture/Country: English

Boothby Graffoe: is an English comedian, singer, songwriter and playwright. He is particularly known for his surreal sense of humour.He explained his reasons for increasingly irrelevant (to the song) titles as - essentially - ways to avoid giving away the key phrases or p

Calvin Lawerence Booth            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Calvin Lawerence Booth: is an American professional basketball player in the NBA currently with Philadelphia 76ers.Booth was drafted by the Wizards in the second round (35th overall) of the 1999 NBA Draft. He has played for the Wizards, the Dallas Mavericks, the Seattle SuperSonics and the Milwaukee Bucks throughout his NBA career, averaging 4.1 points, 3.3 rebounds and 1.2 blocks per game. During the 2006-07 NBA season, he played for the Washington Wizards again, providing play from off the bench and starting occasionally. On September 10, 2007 Booth signed as a free agent with the Philadelphia 76ers.[1]

Keith Eugene Booth            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Keith Eugene Booth: is a former professional basketball player. Booth played his college basketball at the University of Maryland from 1994 to 1997.Heavily recruited by Coach Gary Williams, he was the first player from Baltimore City in many years to play for Maryland. After the resignation of Williams' predecessor, Bob Wade, due to NCAA violations, a de facto boycott of the university was put in place by the high-school coaches in Baltimore. Because of this boycott, many star high-school players avoided Maryland as a choice to play their college ball. In becoming one of the members of Maryland's 1993 recruiting class, Booth broke the ice, and the school once again had access to talent-rich Baltimore City.c

Wayne Clayson Booth            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Wayne Clayson Booth: was an American literary critic. He was the George M. Pullman Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in English Language & Literature and the College at the University of Chicago. His work followed largely from the Chicago school of literary criticism.His major work was The Rhetoric of Fiction. In this book, Booth argues that all narrative is a form of rhetoric, that is, an argument on the part of author in defense of his or her "various commitments, secret or overt determine our response to the work" (The Rhetoric of Fiction 71). The majority of these commitments are based on morals and morality, Booth argues. The speaker in narrative is the author or, more specifically, the implied author, which Booth also calls an author's "second self" who "chooses, consciously or unconsciously, what we read; we infer him as an ideal, literary, created version of the real man; he is the sum of his own choices" (The Rhetoric of Fiction 74-75) (the term "second self" was actually created by Kathleen Tillotson).

Eugene Theodore Booth            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Eugene Theodore Booth: was an American nuclear physicist. He was a member of the historic Columbia University team which made the first demonstration of nuclear fission in the United States. During the Manhattan Project, he worked on gaseous diffusion for isotope separation. He was the director of the design, construction, and operation project for the 385-Mev synchrocyclotron at the Nevis Laboratories, the scientific director of the SCALANT Research Center, and dean of graduate studies at Stevens Institute of Technology.Booth joined the Columbia University faculty as a lecturer. He also helped professor John R. Dunning with his cyclotron construction and research. Thus began Booth’s lengthy professional collaboration with Dunning.[3] [4]

Melanie Booth            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Melanie Booth: is a defender who plays for the Canadian National women's soccer team.Booth was 17 years old when she won her first cap with Canada's senior team on 1 March 2002 at the Algarve Cup (a 3:0 win over Scotland)... won a silver medal with Canada at the FIFA U-19 Women's World Championship Canada 2002...