Famous People with Name Davidson

Davidson Black,            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Davidson Black,: a Canadian paleoanthropologist, best known for his naming of Sinanthropus pekinensis (now Homo erectus pekinensis). He was Chairman of the Geological Survey of China and a Fellow of the Royal Society. He was known as ??? in China.

Davidson Black            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Davidson Black: was a Canadian paleoanthropologist, best known for his naming of Sinanthropus pekinensis (now Homo erectus pekinensis). He was Chairman of the Geological Survey of China and a Fellow of the Royal Society. He was known as ??? (pinyin: Bù Dásheng) in China.

Amy Davidson            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Amy Davidson: is an American television actress who is best known for her role as Kerry Michelle Hennessy in 8 Simple Rules. Although her character on 8 Simple Rules is younger than her on-screen sister Bridget, (played by Kaley Cuoco), Davidson is six years older than Cuoco.A native of India, Colorado, Amy attended Shadow Mountain High School. Her dad is a principal at El Mirage elementary school. Amy began doing commercial work and her acting coach Gene Fowler encouraged her to move to Los Angeles, California at a young age.

Benjamin Earl Davidson            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Benjamin Earl Davidson: is a former American football player between 1961 and 1971, most notably in the American Football League for the Oakland Raiders from 1964 through 1969 and for the National Football League Oakland Raiders in 1970 and 1971. He had also played in the NFL for the Green Bay Packers (1961), and Washington Redskins (1962-63).

Paul Davidson            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Paul Davidson: an American macroeconomist who has been one of the leading spokesmen of the American branch of the Post Keynesian school in economics. He is a prolific writer and has actively intervened in important debates on economic policy (natural resources, international monetary system, developing countries' debt) from a position that is very critical of mainstream economics.Davidson did not originally choose economics as a profession. His primary training was in chemistry, for which he got a BSc from the University of Pennsylvania. In 1951 he worked in that same university as an instructor in physiology and chemistry. He soon switched to economics, receiving his MBA from the City University of New York in 1955, and completing his PhD at the University of Pennsylvania in 1959.

Jo Davidson            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Jo Davidson: was an American sculptor of Russian-Jewish descent. Although he specialized in realistic, intense portrait busts, Davidson did not require his subjects to formally pose for him; rather, he observed and spoke with them. He worked primarily with clay, while the final products were typically cast in terra-cotta, marble and bronze.In 1911 Davidson secured his first solo gallery shows; in 1934 he won the National Academy of Design's Maynard Prize, and in 1947 the American Academy of Arts and Letters hosted a retrospective featuring nearly 200 of his works. He was one of 250 sculptors who exhibited in the 3rd Sculpture International held at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in the summer of 1949.

Donald Grady Davidson            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Donald Grady Davidson: was a U.S. poet, essayist, social and literary critic, and author. He is best known as a founding member of the Nashville circle of poets known as the Fugitives and of an overlapping group, the Southern Agrarians.