Famous People with Name Clarke

Clarke Scholes            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Clarke Scholes: is an American swimmer. He won Olympic gold in 100 m freestyle in Helsinki 1952. He also won gold at the Pan American Games 1955.Scholes was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame in 1980. He studied at the Michigan State University and was coached to the Olympic gold by Matt Mann.

Clarke Isaac Hanson            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Clarke Isaac Hanson: is an English actress and television personality. She was educated at the Sylvia Young Theatre School and has been on stage and television since she was a child.Silva's first TV appearance was as Squeak in the 1989 Doctor Who story Survival. As a young girl she also appeared in Mr Majeika, The Bill and EastEnders.She is best known for playing the role of Kelly Windsor in the television soap opera Emmerdale. She first played this role from 1993 to 2000 before returning to the soap in 2005. Her plotlines have been amongst the most daring in the soap opera, including a relationship with her stepbrother and running off with one of her school teachers. When she returned in 2005, she promised to be the

Clarke Currie Scholes            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Clarke Currie Scholes: was an American swimmer who won an Olympic gold medal in the 100 meter freestyle at the 1952 Games of Helsinki; he also won gold at the 1955 Pan American Games.

Richard Henry Clarke            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Richard Henry Clarke: was a U.S. Representative from Alabama. He moved to Demopolis, Alabama, and continued the practice of law. State solicitor for Marengo County 1872-1876. He served as prosecuting attorney of the seventh judicial circuit in 1876 and 1877. He resumed the pra

James Clarke            Origin/Culture/Country: American

James Clarke: was the third Governor of Iowa Territory from November 18, 1845 until December 3, 1846, being appointed to the office, as a Democrat, by President James Polk. Iowa’s statehood was still a year away when Clarke was appointed the third governor of the Iowa

Joseph Andrew Clarke            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Joseph Andrew Clarke: was a Canadian politician and lawyer. He served twice as mayor of Edmonton, Alberta, was a candidate for election to the Canadian House of Commons and the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, and was a member of the Yukon Territorial Council (precursor to the Yukon Legislative Assembly). Clarke's first attempt at municipal office took place during the February 1912 election, when he ran for the position of alderman on Edmonton City Council. He was elected to a one year term. Rather than seek re-election in the next election, he ran for mayor, finishing in last place in a three candidate field. Clarke was re-elected mayor in the 1919 election, but a concerted effort by the Board of Trade and the two local papers saw him defeated by David Duggan in the 1920 election. His attempt to regain his old job in the 1922 election failed, as he finished second of six candidates. He was elected again as an alderman in the 1924 election for a two year term, but resigned one year in in order to run for mayor in the 1925 election. He finished third of six candidates. There followed a decade in the political wilderness, marked by unsuccessful runs for mayor (in 1926, 1927, 1932, and 1933) and alderman (in 1928, 1929, 1930, and 1931), before he was returned to the office of mayor in the 1934 election. While he had lost the office fourteen years earlier for being too friendly to organized labour, his opponents in 1934 included Knott and labour alderman Rice Sheppard. He was re-elected in 1935 and 1936 (defeating future mayor and labour advocate Harry Dean Ainlay on this second occasion). It was during this term that he laid the groundwork for a football stadium on the site of a closed federal prison. This stadium would eventually be named Clarke Stadium in his honour. Joseph Clarke was a perennial candidate for the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, running provincially five times. He first ran in the 1913 Alberta general election as a parachute candidate in the controversial Clearwater electoral district for Charles M. O'Brien's Socialist Party of Alberta. He was defeated by Liberal Henry William McKenney, the incumbent M.L.A. for Pembina.

George Johnson Clarke            Origin/Culture/Country: American

George Johnson Clarke: was a New Brunswick lawyer, journalist and politician.In 1891, Clarke was an unsuccessful candidate in the Charlotte riding for a seat in the Canadian House of Commons. He served as mayor of St. Stephen from 1898 to 1899 and was Warden of Charlotte County. He was elected to the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick for Charlotte County in 1903 and served as Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick from 1909 to 1914. On January 22, 1914 Clarke was appointed by Premier James K. Flemming to the province's Executive Council as Attorney General and Commissioner of Provincial Hospitals. He served until December 17 of that year when he was appointed Minister of Lands and Mines, a position he held until February 1, 1917.

Edward Frederick Clarke            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Edward Frederick Clarke: was an Ontario journalist and political figure. He represented Toronto in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1886 to 1894 and West Toronto from 1896 to 1904 and Toronto Centre from 1904 to 1905 in the Canadian House of Commons as a Conservative member. He apprenticed as a printer with the Toronto Globe, later working with The Toronto Mail. In 1872, he was one of the leaders of a printers' strike in the city. Clarke was the editor and publisher of the Sentinel, a weekly newspaper associated with the Orange Order, which was widely distributed throughout North America between 1877 and 1896. In 1884, he married Charlotte Elizabeth Scott. He also served as mayor of Toronto and was the manager of the Excelsior Life Insurance Company of Toronto.