Famous People with Name Glenn

Glenn Lawrence Burke            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Glenn Lawrence Burke: was a Major League Baseball player for the Los Angeles Dodgers and Oakland Athletics from 1976 to 1979. Burke was the first and only Major League Baseball player to be out to his teammates and team owners during his professional career.[citation needed] He died from AIDS-related causes in 1995.[citation needed]Burke was named Northern California's High School Basketball Player of the Year in 1970, and could run the 100 yard dash in 9.7 seconds.[citation needed] He was able to dunk a basketball using both hands - a remarkable accomplishment for someone who was just over six feet tall.[citation needed] He was considered capable of being a professional basketball player, but his first offer came from Major League Baseball.[citation needed] When he started his baseball career, many of the scouts described him as the next Willie Mays.[2]

Glenn Melvin Cox            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Glenn Melvin Cox: is a former Major League Baseball pitcher. He pitched in parts of four seasons in the majors, from 1955 until 1958, for the Philadelphia Athletics.

Glenn Roger Mickens            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Glenn Roger Mickens: was a pitcher in Major League Baseball. He pitched in four games (two of which were starts) for the 1953 Brooklyn Dodgers. He also played for five years in Japan, from 1959 until 1963 for the Kintetsu Buffaloes. There, he compiled a record of 45-53 with a 2.54 ERA.

Glenn Clark            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Glenn Clark: is the former head coach of the Toronto Rock of the National Lacrosse League, and also a former NLL player. Clark played in the NLL from 1998-2006 for both the Rock and the Philadelphia Wings. With the Rock, Clark won five NLL Championships.

Glenn Murray Pettinger            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Glenn Murray Pettinger: was a Canadian basketball player who competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics. He was part of the Canadian basketball team, which was eliminated after the group stage in the 1952 tournament. He played all six matches.

Joseph Charles (Joe) Glenn            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Joseph Charles (Joe) Glenn: (November 19, 1908 - May 6, 1985) was a backup catcher in Major League Baseball who played for the New York Yankees (1932-33, 1935-38), St. Louis Browns (1939) and Boston Red Sox (1940). Glenn batted and threw right-handed. He was born in Dickson City, Pennsylvania.

Mike Theodore Glenn            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Mike Theodore Glenn: is an American former professional basketball player.A 6'2" guard from Southern Illinois University, who graduated from Coosa High School(in Rome, Ga), where he was an all-state standout, still holding the school points record at over 2,400 points for a highschool career. Glenn played ten seasons (1977-1987) in the National Basketball Association as a member of the Buffalo Braves, New York Knicks, Atlanta Hawks, and Milwaukee Bucks.

Theodore Scott Glenn            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Theodore Scott Glenn: is an American actor known as a character actor with a deadpan and serious delivery and demeanor.His roles include Wes Hightower in Urban Cowboy (1980), astronaut Alan Shepard in The Right Stuff (1983), Commander Bart Mancuso in The Hunt for Red October (1990), and Jack Crawford in The Silence of the Lambs (1991).

John Herschel Glenn Jr.            Origin/Culture/Country: American

John Herschel Glenn Jr.: is a former astronaut and U.S. politician who became the third person and first American to orbit the Earth, and later, United States Senator. Glenn began his career as a Marine Corps fighter pilot before joining NASA's Mercury program, NASA's original as

John Thomas Glenn            Origin/Culture/Country: American

John Thomas Glenn: was the 31st Mayor of Atlanta from 1889 to 1891, and the son of another Atlanta mayor, Luther Glenn, and like his father an attorney at law.After the war, on April 23, 1873, he married Helen Augusta Garrard (1850–1924) of Columbus, Georgia, where her fath