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

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...

Bradley (Brad) Booth            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Bradley (Brad) Booth: is a Canadian professional poker player known for his appearances on the GSN series High Stakes Poker and buying in for a "cool million." He is one of the most successful high limit cash game players of the last decade. He was once referred to as a "poker savant" by Phil Laak and is rated as one of the best poker players in the world by Phil Hellmuth and Doyle Brunson. In November 2009, Booth left the fold of professional players at Full Tilt Poker to become the Spokesman and Director of Poker Programming at "GR88.com".

Frank Ewen Booth            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Frank Ewen Booth: was an American swimmer who competed in the 1932 Summer Olympics.