Famous People with Name Earl

Earl Lauer Butz            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Earl Lauer Butz: was a United States government official who served as Secretary of Agriculture under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford.In 1948, Butz became vice president of the American Agricultural Economics Association, and three years later was named to the same post at the American Society of Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers. In 1954, he was appointed Assistant Secretary of Agriculture by President Dwight D. Eisenhower. That same year he was also named chairman of the United States delegation to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. He left both of the aforementioned posts in 1957, when he became the Dean of Agriculture at his alma mater, Purdue University. In 1968, he was promoted to the positions of Dean of Education and vice president of the university's research foundation.

Earl Smith            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Earl Smith: is an American National Basketball Association player currently with the Denver Nuggets.Smith played at Lakewood High School in Lakewood, New Jersey, and at St. Benedict's Preparatory School in Newark, New Jersey. He averaged over 27 points, 6 rebounds and 5 assists during his career there. In the fall of 2003, Smith signed a letter of intent to play at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Smith is one of the most heavily tattooed players in the NBA. Smith said it took 1 week to complete it, and that it's a story of his life.

Earl W Bascom            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Earl W Bascom: was an American painter, printmaker and sculptor, raised in Canada, who portrayed his own experiences cowboying and rodeoing across the American and Canadian West.Earl Bascom was born in a sod-roofed log cabin on the Bascom 101 Ranch in Vernal, Utah. His father, John W. Bascom, had been a deputy sheriff in Utah who chased Butch Cassidy and the Wild Bunch Gang. Both sets of Earl's grandparents (Joel A. Bascom and C.F.B. Lybbert) were Mormon pioneers, ranchers and frontier lawmen.

Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr: was an American pharmacologist and biochemist. Sutherland was born in Burlingame, Kansas.He received his bachelor's degree in chemistry in 1937 from Washburn University, Topeka, Kansas and earned his medical degree in 1942 from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. After serving as a doctor in World War II, he returned to Washington University as a researcher in the pharmacology laboratory of Nobel laureate Carl Ferdinand Cori. In 1953, he became director of the department of pharmacology at Case Western Reserve University (then Western Reserve University) in Cleveland, Ohio, where he discovered the role of cyclic AMP in mediating the action of certain hormones. In 1963, desiring to limit his duties to research, Sutherland moved to Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville where he was a professor of physiology until 1973.

Earl Eugene Scruggs            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Earl Eugene Scruggs: is a musician noted for perfecting and popularizing a 3-finger banjo style (now called Scruggs style) that is a defining characteristic of bluegrass music. Although other musicians had played in 3-finger style before him, Scruggs shot to prominence when he was hired by Bill Monroe to fill the banjo slot in the "Blue Grass Boys". Scruggs built on earlier styles to develop a truly new and readily identifiable style, involving: unprecedented smoothness, syncopation, and uninterrupted flow; a large vocabulary of unique and original licks or clichés; blues and jazz phrases, evident in backup and in solos such as "Foggy Mountain Special;" and an overall coherency and polish that other stylists lacked, which readily inspired imitation by newer generations of banjo pickers.

Acie Boyd Earl            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Acie Boyd Earl: is an American former professional basketball player in the NBA.Earl, a 6'10", 240 lb (110 kg) center, is an alumnus of The University of Iowa and was selected 19th overall in the 1993 NBA Draft by the Boston Celtics.

Kate Earl            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Kate Earl: is an American singer-songwriter.Earl's music has been likened to that of Meiko, Björk, Joni Mitchell, Fiona Apple, and fellow Alaskan Jewel. Her songs have a similar jazzy-soul feel and progression to them. However, Earl's influences also trace back to h

Anthony ("Tony") Scully Earl            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Anthony ("Tony") Scully Earl: is a United States politician and a member of the Democratic party and served as the 41st Governor of Wisconsin from 1983 until 1987. He graduated from Michigan State University and earned a J.D. from the University of Chicago. After four years in the Nav