Famous People with Name Gordon

Gordon Mackenzie            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Gordon Mackenzie: (born July 9, 1937 in St. Petersburg, Florida) was a major league baseball player. In 1956, he was signed as an amateur free agent by the Kansas City Athletics. Mackenzie made his major league debut on August 13, 1961 against the Chicago White Sox. He made it into eleven games that year as a catcher and never returned to the major leagues as a player.

Gordon Parks            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Gordon Parks: was a groundbreaking American photographer, musician, poet, novelist, journalist, activist and film director. He is best remembered for his photo essays for Life magazine and as the director of the 1971 film Shaft.

Gordon Rupert Dickson            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Gordon Rupert Dickson: was an American science fiction author. He was born in Canada, then moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota as a teenager. He is probably most famous for his Childe Cycle and the Dragon Knight series. He won three Hugo awards and one Nebula award.

Gordon Tullock            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Gordon Tullock: is currently Professor of Law and Economics at the George Mason University School of Law in Arlington, Virginia.A native of Rockford, Illinois, Tullock received his J.D. from the University of Chicago in 1947 and an honorary Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1994. He is a distinguished fellow of the American Economic Association (1998). He has published more than 150 papers and 23 books, including The Politics of Bureaucracy (1965), Private Wants, Public Means (1970), The Logic of the Law (1971), The Vote Motive (1976; 2006), Autocracy (1987), Rent Seeking (1993), The Economics of Non-Human Societies (1994) and On Voting: A Public Choice Approach (1998).

Gordon Meredith Lightfoot, Jr.,            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Gordon Meredith Lightfoot, Jr.,: is a Canadian singer and songwriter who achieved international success in folk, country, and popular music. As a singer-songwriter, he came to prominence in the 1960s, and broke through on the international music charts in the 1970s with songs such as "If You Could Read My Mind" (1970), "Sundown" (1974) and "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" (1976).

Phil Gordon            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Phil Gordon: is an American Democratic party politician, and the 58th and current mayor of Phoenix, Arizona. He was sworn in as mayor on January 2, 2004. The former city councilman was elected mayor in the non-partisan mayoral race on September 9, 2003, garnering 72 p

Richard S. Gordon            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Richard S. Gordon: is an American politician from Menlo Park, California who currently serves in the California State Assembly representing the 21st district. A Democrat, he formerly served for 13 years on the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors. Gordon first ran for publ

James Gordon            Origin/Culture/Country: American

James Gordon: was an American planter, writer, and politician from Okolona, Mississippi. He was a United States Senator for eight weeks, from December 27, 1909 to February 23, 1910.The day after his appointment by Governor Noel to the United States Senate, Gordon was i

Jack Gordon            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Jack Gordon: was an American Democratic politician from Mississippi.Gordon served in the Mississippi House of Representatives 1972-80. He later served in the Mississippi State Senate from 1980-92 and then again from 1996 until his death in 2011 from brain cancer at hi

Samuel Y. Gordon            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Samuel Y. Gordon: was a Minnesota legislator and the 19th Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota. Born in Lexington, Indiana, moved to Minnesota and became lieutenant governor under Governor Adolph Olson Eberhart from January 3, 1911 – January 7, 1913. He died in 1940 in St. Pau