Famous People with Name Churchill

Churchill Babington            Origin/Culture/Country: English

Churchill Babington: was an English classical scholar and archaeologist, born at Rothley Temple, in Leicestershire.He was first educated by his father, Matthew Drake Babington, and then studied under Charles Wycliffe Goodwin, the orientalist and archaeologist, entering St John's College, Cambridge in 1839 and graduating in 1843, seventh in the first class of the classical tripos and a senior optime. In 1845 he obtained the Hulsean Prize for his essay The Influence of Christianity in promoting the Abolition of Slavery in Europe. In 1846 he was elected to a fellowship and took orders. He proceeded to the degree of M.A. in 1846 and D.D. in 1879. From 1848 to 1861 he was vicar of Horningsea, near Cambridge, and from 1866 to his death he was vicar of Cockfield in Suffolk. From 1865 to 1880 he held the Disney professorship of archaeology at Cambridge. In his lectures,

Churchill Odia            Origin/Culture/Country: Nigerian

Churchill Odia: is a Nigerian college basketball player with the University of Oregon Ducks men's basketball team. In 2007, he played with the Nigeria national basketball team at the FIBA Africa Championship 2007.

Churchill Caldom Cambreleng            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Churchill Caldom Cambreleng: was an American politician from New York. Cambreleng was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the 17th, and was re-elected as a Crawford Democratic-Republican to the 18th, as a Jacksonian to the 19th, 20th, 21st, 22nd, 23rd and 24th, and as a Democrat to

Churchill Braz Alemao            Origin/Culture/Country: Indian

Churchill Braz Alemao: is a MP of the 14th Lok Sabha of India and an alleged gangster. He represents the Mormugao constituency of Goa and is a member of the Indian National Congress.

Ward LeRoy Churchill            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Ward LeRoy Churchill: is an American writer and political activist. He was a professor of ethnic studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder from 1990 to 2007. Primarily, his work focuses on the historical treatment of political dissenters and American Indians by the United States.

Owen Porter Churchill            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Owen Porter Churchill: was an American sailor who competed in the 1932 Summer Olympics. In 1940 Churchill designed and patented the swim fin improving it from the earlier version made by Louis de Corlieu in 1935. With skin-diving's low popularity in America, he sold under a tho

Ezra Churchill            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Ezra Churchill: was a merchant, shipbuilder and a Canadian Senator for the province of Nova Scotia. He represented Falmouth township in the provincial assembly from 1855 to 1859 and then represented the North division of Hants County from 1859 to 1867. Churchill was appointed February 3, 1871 to the Senate and represented the Liberal-Conservative Party.

Zach Churchill            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Zach Churchill: is a provincial politician, from Nova Scotia, Canada. He is a current member of the Legislative Assembly of Nova Scotia having served since June 2010. Churchill ran for a seat to the Legislative Assembly of Nova Scotia in a by-election held on June 22, 2010. He stood as the Liberal candidate in the electoral district of Yarmouth. The race was hotly contested between six mostly high profile candidates. Churchill took just over half the popular vote on election night, defeating a former MLA John Deveau, a former mayor of 20 years Charles Crosby and two minor party leaders to pick up the district for his party.

Gordon Minto Churchill            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Gordon Minto Churchill: was a Canadian politician. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1946 to 1949 as an independent representative, and in the Canadian House of Commons from 1951 to 1968 as a Progressive Conservative. He was a federal cabinet minister in the government of John Diefenbaker. Churchill's political career began in January 1946, when he was elected to the Manitoba legislature in a special by-election for Manitobans in the Canadian Army, who had not been able to cast ballots in the 1945 provincial election. Despite his ties to the Progressive Conservative Party, he served in the legislature as an independent member for the next four years. He resigned from the Manitoba legislature in 1949 to run for the Canadian House of Commons. Running in Winnipeg South Centre, he finished a distant second against Liberal candidate Ralph Maybank. Maybank resigned two years later, and Churchill was narrowly elected over Liberal Norman Wright to replace him. He was returned by a greater margin in the 1953 federal election, and by a significant majority in the 1957 election. Churchill was a key adviser to Progressive Conservative Party leader John Diefenbaker during this peiod, and was widely credited with developing the strategy that propelled Diefenbaker to victory in 1957. The Liberal Party of Louis St. Laurent had been in power since 1935, and appeared to have strong popular support. Prior to the 1957 election, Churchill wrote a confidential paper arguing that the Progressive Conservative Party could form government by targeting seats in the English-speaking provinces, and did not need to invest resources in Quebec. Diefenbaker followed this strategy, and won a minority government in 1957. In February 1968, Churchill attacked new Progressive Conservative leader Robert Stanfield for not forcing an election when the Liberal government of Lester Pearson was unexpectedly defeated in the house. He left the Progressive Conservative caucus on February 27, 1968 to sit as an Independent Progressive Conservative, and did not run for re-election in the 1968 campaign.