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.

John Fitzgerald Clarke            Origin/Culture/Country: American

John Fitzgerald Clarke: was an Ontario physician and political figure. He represented Norfolk North in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1871 to 1879. He was born in Coventry, England in 1827, the son of a Congregational minister who was sent to Upper Canada as a missionary in 1837. He studied medicine at McGill College and settled in Vittoria. He moved to Simcoe in 1851. He served on the town council and was the coroner for Norfolk County from 1848 to 1870. Clarke was editor and owner of the Long Point Advocate. He was later named sheriff for Thunder Bay District and moved to Port Arthur (later part of the city of Thunder Bay), where he died in 1887.

Alfred Henry Clarke            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Alfred Henry Clarke: was a Canadian politician. Clarke was first elected to the Canadian House of Commons for the electoral district of Essex South in the general elections of 1904. Standing as a Liberal, he was re-elected in 1908 and 1911.

Cecil Phillip Clarke            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Cecil Phillip Clarke: is a politician in Nova Scotia, Canada. He represented the riding of Cape Breton North in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly, from 2001 to 2011. He served as a Progressive Conservative. Clarke was first elected in a March 2001 byelection and was re-elected in the 2003, 2006 and 2009 general elections. He served in the Executive Council of Nova Scotia as Minister of Economic Development, Minister of Energy, Attorney General and Minister of Justice. Clarke was Speaker of the House of Assembly of Nova Scotia from June 2006 to October 2007. Along with his various cabinet duties, Clarke was also the minister responsible for the Human Rights Act, the Regulations Act, and Part II of the Workers' Compensation Act.

Robert G. "Rob" Clarke            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Robert G. "Rob" Clarke: is a politician and career Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer. He was the Conservative Party of Canada's candidate in Desnethé—Missinippi—Churchill River for the March 17, 2008 federal by-election in which he defeated Liberal candidate Joan Beatty. A member of the Muskeg Lake First Nation, he grew up in Quesnel, British Columbia. At the time of his election to the Canadian House of Commons he had been a member of the RCMP for 17 years, all of which have been spent in Saskatchewan, and has attained the rank of sergeant.

Henry Joseph Clarke            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Henry Joseph Clarke: who sometimes used the middle names Hynes and O'Connell, was a lawyer and politician in Manitoba, Canada. Clarke ran for Province of Canada's parliament as a Liberal-Conservative in the 1863 election, losing to Liberal finance minister Luther Hamilton Holton in the riding of Chateauguay. In 1867, he wrote a short biography of fellow Irish Catholic politician Thomas D'Arcy McGee. He was elected by acclamation for the constituency of St. Charles in Manitoba's first general election, held on December 27, 1870. He was then appointed as the province's first Attorney General on January 3, 1871. In this capacity, he took a leading role in establishing the province's legal system.