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).

Kim Althea Gordon            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Kim Althea Gordon: is an American musician, vocalist, and artist. She sings, plays bass and guitar in the alternative rock band Sonic Youth. She also plays in the band Free Kitten with Julia Cafritz (of Pussy Galore), and she has collaborated with many musicians, including

Nina Rachel Shapiro Gordon            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Nina Rachel Shapiro Gordon: is an American rock singer. Co-founder of the band Veruca Salt, Gordon pioneered and revived Bangles-inspired pop rock for the mid-'90s grunge generation. She quickly became known for her instantly infectious power-pop hooks and melodies, writing Veruca S

Joseph Lowell "Joe" Gordon            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Joseph Lowell "Joe" Gordon: was an American second baseman and manager in Major League Baseball who played for the New York Yankees and Cleveland Indians from 1938 to 1950. He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2009.Gordon was the outstanding player at his position during the 1940s, winning the 1942 American League MVP Award and being named to The Sporting News Major League All-Star Team in nine of his eleven seasons. Known for his acrobatic defense, he led the AL in assists four times and in double plays three times. He was the first AL second baseman to hit 20 home runs in a season, doing so seven times, and holds the league mark for career HRs at second base (246); he held the single-season record until 2001. He played a major role on the 1948 champion Indians, leading the team in homers and runs batted in. He ranked sixth in major league history in double plays (1,160) upon retiring, and was sixth in AL history in games (1,519), putouts (3,600), assists (4,706) and total chances (8,566) and seventh in fielding percentage (.970).

Philip Stewart Gordon            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Philip Stewart Gordon: is an American professional poker player, author, and commentator, based in Las Vegas, Nevada. As of 2010, Gordon's total live tournament winnings exceed $2,200,000. Gordon graduated from Georgia Tech with a degree in computer science in 1991. After stints working at Santa Cruz Operation and Lockheed, Gordon joined start-up Netsys Technologies as their first hired employee. In 1996, Netsys was acquired by Cisco Systems, making him a millionaire, and in 1997 he retired from the high-tech industry to travel the world and to play poker. Gordon was first taught poker by his aunt, who died of liver cancer. [5] He is on the Board of Directors for the Cancer Research and Prevention Foundation, for which he is an active fundraiser.

ST Gordon            Origin/Culture/Country: American

ST Gordon: was an American professional boxer who won the World Boxing Council cruiserweight title in 1982. Gordon became a professional boxer in 1977. He faced undefeated heavyweight prospect Gerry Cooney in 1978 but lost via a fourth-round disqualification.