Famous People with Name Dean

Dean McDermott            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Dean McDermott: a Canadian actor best known for playing Constable Turnbull on the TV series Due South and for his marriage to Tori Spelling.McDermott has appeared in many TV and movie roles, including the Kevin Costner film Open Range. He received a Gemini Nomination for Best Supporting Actor in 1997 for his portrayal of small town boy Garet French in Lives of Girls and Women. In 2007, he and Spelling co-starred in the reality series, Tori & Dean: Inn Love.

Dean Baker            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Dean Baker: an American macroeconomist and co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research. He previously was a senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute and an assistant professor of economics at Bucknell University. He has a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Michigan. His B.A. is from Swarthmore College. He blogs for The American Prospect.

Dean Hamer            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Dean Hamer: an American geneticist. Hamer is the director of the Gene Structure and Regulation Unit at the U.S. National Cancer Institute (part of the National Institutes of Health). He obtained his BA at Trinity College, CT, U.S. and his Ph.D from Harvard Medical School. He has won numerous awards including the Maryland Distinguished Young Scientist Award and the Ariens Kappers Award for Neurobiology.In the 1990s Hamer began studies of the role of genes in human behavior. In 1993 he published a paper suggesting the existence of genes that predispose men towards homosexuality, and presented evidence that one of these genes was associated with the Xq28 marker on the X chromosome.[1] This finding was replicated in two studies in the United States but not in a study performed by researchers at the University of Western Ontario in Canada;

Dean L. Kamen            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Dean L. Kamen: an American entrepreneur and inventor from New Hampshire. Born in Rockville Centre, New York, he attended Worcester Polytechnic Institute, but dropped out before graduating. His father was Jack Kamen, an illustrator of Mad Magazine, Weird Science and other EC Comics.In 1989, Kamen founded FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology), for high school students. In 2005, it held over 30 regional competitions and one international competition. In 2007, 37 competitions were held in places across the world such as Israel, Brazil, Canada, and the United States. Kamen remains the driving force behind the organization, providing over 1,000 high schools with the tools needed to learn valuable engineering skills.[citation needed] FIRST has gained a great deal of publicity from companies such as Autodesk

Dean Potter            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Dean Potter: is an American free climber, alpinist, BASE jumper, BASEliner, and highliner. He has become noted for many free solo ascents, speed ascents and enchainments in Yosemite. Potter is now infamous for climbing Delicate Arch, for which he lost his sponsorship

James Dean            Origin/Culture/Country: American

James Dean: was a two-time Oscar-nominated American film actor. Dean's status as a cultural icon is best embodied in the title of his most celebrated film, Rebel Without a Cause, in which he starred as troubled high school rebel Jim Stark.

Jimmy Dean            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Jimmy Dean: is an American country music singer, television host, actor, and businessman. Although he may be best known today as the founder of the Jimmy Dean Food Company, he first rose to fame for his country crossover hits like "Big Bad John," and for his televisi

James Byron Dean            Origin/Culture/Country: American

James Byron Dean: was a two-time Oscar-nominated American film actor. Dean's status as a cultural icon is best embodied in the title of his most celebrated film, Rebel Without a Cause, in which he starred as troubled high school rebel Jim Stark. The other two roles that defined his star power were as the awkward loner Cal Trask in East of Eden, and as the surly farmer Jett Rink in Giant. His enduring fame and popularity rests on only three films, his entire starring output. His death at a young age helped guarantee a legendary status. He was the first actor to receive a posthumous Academy Award nomination for Best Actor and remains the only person to have two posthumous acting nominations (although other people had more than one posthumous nomination in other Oscar categories).

Frederick Rudolph "Fred" Dean            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Frederick Rudolph "Fred" Dean: is a Hall of Fame American football player in the National Football League. His career started with the San Diego Chargers in 1975 and ended with the San Francisco 49ers after the 1985 season. Dean was born in Arcadia, the seat of Bienville Parish in north Louisiana.

Raymond Dean            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Raymond Dean: he George and Frances Ball Distinguished Professor of Neuropsychology and professor of psychology at Ball State University.During his career, Dean has published numerous articles, books and tests in Neuropsychology. Most recently Dr. Dean co-authored the Dean-Woodcock Neuropsychological Assessment System (Dean & Woodcock, 2001) and the Dean-Woodcock Neuropsychological Sensory Motor Battery.[10] During his work Dean was elected Fellow of the American Psychological Association(Divisions: Clinical, Educational, School and Clinical Neuropsychology), the National Academy of Neuropsychology, and the American Psychopathological Association.