Famous People with Name Emmett

Emmett Littleton Ashford            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Emmett Littleton Ashford: (November 23, 1914 – March 1, 1980), nicknamed "Ash", was the first African American umpire in Major League Baseball, working in the American League from 1966 to 1970.

Emmett Cary Middlecoff            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Emmett Cary Middlecoff: (January 6, 1921 – September 1, 1998)

Emmett Louis Hardy            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Emmett Louis Hardy: was an early jazz cornet player and one of the best regarded New Orleans musicians of his generation.Emmett Louis Hardy was born in the New Orleans suburb of Gretna, Louisiana, lived much of his life in the Algiers neighborhood of the west bank of New Orleans. Hardy was a child prodigy, described as already playing marvelously in his early teens. Some New Orleans musicians remembered as a musical highlight of their lives a 1919 cutting contest where after long and intense struggle Hardy succeeded in outplaying Louis Armstrong. (In fairness, it is likely that Armstrong, although 2 years older than Hardy, had not yet hit his full stride at that time.)

Emmett Williams            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Emmett Williams: was an American poet.Williams studied poetry with John Crowe Ransom at Kenyon College, studied anthropology at the University of Paris, and worked as an assistant to the ethnologist Paul Radin in Switzerland.As an artist and poet, Emmett Williams collaborated with Daniel Spoerri in the Darmstadt circle of concrete poetry from 1957 to 1959. In the 1960s, Williams was the European coordinator of Fluxus, and a founding member of the Domaine Poetique in Paris, France.

Emmett S. Davis            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Emmett S. Davis: was an American sailor who competed in the 1932 Summer

Andre Emmett            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Andre Emmett: is an American professional basketball player. He currently plays for the NBA Development League team the Los Angeles D-Fenders.Emmett played college basketball at Texas Tech University. He is currently the Red Raiders all-time leading scorer.[1] Emmett won the 2004 NCAA slam dunk contest, leaping over six children to take the title. Emmett earned the only perfect score of the night in the semifinals by tossing a bounce pass to himself off the back wall.

Paul Hugh Emmett            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Paul Hugh Emmett: was an American chemical engineer born in Portland, Oregon. After completing his baccalaureate at Oregon Agricultural College (now Oregon State University), Emmett went on to the California Institute of Technology, where he earned his Ph.D. He was also a classmate and close friend of Linus Pauling at both institutions. In 1976, Emmett married Pauling's sister, Pauline.

William Emmett Simms            Origin/Culture/Country: American

William Emmett Simms: was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky. He also served as a commissioner for the Confederate government of Kentucky and in several posts in the Confederate States government during the American Civil War.Simms served as a captain in the United States Arm