Famous People with Name Elliott

Elliott Lydell Davis            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Elliott Lydell Davis: is an American professional basketball player who played center and power forward. He is 6'11" and weighs 252 pounds.In all, Davis started all 25 games he played for the Pacers in the 2004-05 regular season, contributing 6.9 points, 8.9 rebounds and 1.32 blocks per game. In June 2006, he became a co-owner in the NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series when he bought interest in R&J Racing.[1]

Edgar Domingo Evia Y Joutard            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Edgar Domingo Evia Y Joutard: was a Mexican-born American photographer.In a career that spanned the 1940s through the 1990s, his photography appeared in magazines and newspapers such as Town & Country, House & Garden, Look and The New York Times Magazine and advertising campaigns for Borden Ice Cream, Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corporation, Jell-O among other corporations.

Elliott Cook Carter Jr            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Elliott Cook Carter Jr: is an American composer from New York City. He studied with Nadia Boulanger in Paris in the 1930s, and then returned to the United States. After a neoclassical phase, he went on to write atonal, rhythmically complex music. His compositions, which have been performed all over the world, include orchestral and chamber music as well as instrumental and vocal works.

Elliott Gould            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Elliott Gould: an Academy Award-nominated American actor. He became known during the 1970s, having starred in many Hollywood films, and has since continued appearing in supporting roles.Gould was one of the most prominent American film actors in the early-1970s, best known for playing Trapper John in Robert Altman's satirical 1970 film M*A*S*H. Time magazine placed him on one of its covers in 1970, when he was at the brief height of his long career, calling him a "star for an uptight age". Other notable film roles include Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (which earned him an Oscar nomination), A Bridge Too Far, Capricorn One, and a remake of The Lady Vanishes. Gould played the detective Philip Marlowe in Altman's 1973 film The Long Goodbye (the role had previously been played by such distinguished actors as Humphrey Bogart and Robert Mitchum)

Elliott Coues            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Elliott Coues: was an American army surgeon, historian, ornithologist and author.He graduated at Columbian University, (now, George Washington University) Washington, D.C., in 1861, and at the Medical school of that institution in 1863. He served as a medical cadet in Washington in 1862-1863, an in 1864 was appointed assistant-surgeon in the regular army. In 1872 he published his Key to North American Birds, which, revised and rewritten in 1884 and 1901, did much to promote the systematic study of ornithology in America. His work was instrumental in establishing the currently accepted standards of trinomial nomenclature - the taxonomic classification of subspecies - in ornithology, and ultimately the whole of zoology. In 1873-1876 Coues was attached as surgeon and naturalist to the United States Northern Boundary Commission, and in 1876-1880 was secretary and naturalist to the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories, the publications of which he edited.

Brenda Elliott            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Brenda Elliott: is a politician in Ontario, Canada. She served in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario as a Progressive Conservative from 1995 to 2003, and was a cabinet minister in the governments of Mike Harris and Ernie Eves.Elliott was first elected to the Ontario legislature in the 1995 provincial election, defeating former Liberal Member of Provincial Parliament (MPP) Rick Ferraro and incumbent New Democrat Derek Fletcher in the Guelph constituency. The Tories won a majority government in this election under Mike Harris's leadership, and Elliott was appointed as Minister of Environment and Energy on June 26, 1995.

Preston Elliott            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Preston Elliott: was a Canadian farmer and politician from Ontario. Born in Chesterville, Ontario, he served in the Canadian House of Commons for the Dundas electoral district as a Progressive. Elected in 1921, he was defeated in 1926 as a Progressive and in 1935 as a Liberal. He was a member of the Ginger Group.

William Elliott            Origin/Culture/Country: American

William Elliott: was a Progressive Party member of the Canadian House of Commons. He was born in Galt, Ontario and became a farmer.Elliot served as a councillor for Waterloo County, Ontario and was reeve of North Dumfries Township.

George Adam Elliott            Origin/Culture/Country: American

George Adam Elliott: was an Ontario farmer and political figure. He represented Middlesex West in the Canadian House of Commons as a Conservative member from 1911 to 1917 and in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1923 to 1926.

Andrew Charles Elliott            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Andrew Charles Elliott: was a British Columbian politician and jurist. Elliott's varied career in British Columbia included Gold Commissioner, stipendiary magistrate and, following the union of the Island and Mainland Colonies in 1866 was appoint High Sheriff of the province, resigning his magristracy to take the post. He was a member of the colony's appointed Legislative Council from 1865 to 1866 and after the colony became a province of Canada he was elected, in 1875, to the Victoria City seat in the provincial legislature and became leader of the opposition. Before his election to the House, he was a provincial magistrate in Lillooet. In 1876 Elliott became the fourth Premier of the province on the defeat of George Anthony Walkem's government in a Motion of No Confidence but his government was unstable, was unable to make progress with the federal government on the province's demands that Ottawa build a railway to the Pacific. Tax increases and the government's failure to secure a railway terminus for Victoria, British Columbia led to Elliott's defeat in his riding in the 1878 election as well as the defeat of his government.