Famous People with Name Creighton

Creighton Williams Abrams Jr.            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Creighton Williams Abrams Jr.: was a United States Army General who commanded military operations in the Vietnam War from 1968-72 which saw U.S. troop strength in Vietnam fall from 530,000 to 30,000. He served as Chief of Staff of the United States Army from 1972 until shortly before his death in 1974. In honor of Abrams, the U.S. Army named the XM1 main battle tank after him as the M1 Abrams.

John Oliver Creighton            Origin/Culture/Country: American

John Oliver Creighton: is a former NASA Astronaut who flew three space shuttle missions.

Harriet Baldwin Creighton            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Harriet Baldwin Creighton: was an American botanist, geneticist and educator.Creighton graduated from Wellesley College in 1929, and went on to complete her Ph.D. at Cornell University in 1933. During her time at Cornell she worked in the field of maize cytogenetics with Barbara McClintock, the pair published a very influential paper in 1931 in which they described chromosomal crossover for the first time. This paper provided key evidence that chromosomes carried and exchanged genetic information and hence that 'genes' for physical traits are carried on chromosomes.

Ernest Creighton            Origin/Culture/Country: English

Ernest Creighton: was a first-class cricketer who played four matches for Yorkshire County Cricket Club in 1888. A slow left-arm spinner, he took 10 wickets at the average of 18.1 with a best of 4 for 22 against Sussex CCC. A tail-end batsman, he scored 33 runs at 5.5 with a best of 10.

Tom Creighton            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Tom Creighton: is a Republican Party member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 37th District and was elected in 2000.Creighton was elected in 2000 to replace Rep. Katie True who retired from the House in order to run for Pennsylvania Auditor General. H

James Albert "Jimmy" Creighton            Origin/Culture/Country: American

James Albert "Jimmy" Creighton: was an ice hockey player and politician from Brandon, Manitoba. He served as an alderman in Brandon in 1946, 1948 and 1949, and was mayor of the city from 1952 to 1955 and from 1958 to 1961. Creighton won the Liberal-Progressive nomination for Brandon City in the 1953 provincial election, defeating W.A. Wood and J.C. MacDonald at a contested meeting. He lost to Progressive Conservative candidate Reginald Lissaman in the general election, receiving 3,063 votes (40.13%) on the first count and losing on the second. Provincial elections in Manitoba were conducted by the single transferable ballot in this period. Later in the same year, Creighton ran for the Canadian House of Commons in the 1953 federal election as a Liberal candidate in Brandon—Souris. He received 8,456 votes, and finished second to Progressive Conservative Walter Dinsdale. He ran for the Manitoba legislature a second time in the 1962, and lost to Lissaman again.