Famous People with Name Harvey

Harvey Banks Martin            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Harvey Banks Martin: was an American football defensive end in the NFL for the Dallas Cowboys from 1973 until 1983. He started playing football in high school, only because he overheard his father tell his mother that he was ashamed that his son didn't play like his friends' kids

Harvey Forbes Fierstein            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Harvey Forbes Fierstein: a Tony Award winning American actor, playwright, and screenwriter.The gravelly-voiced actor perhaps is known best for the play and film Torch Song Trilogy, which he wrote and starred in. The 1982 Broadway production won him two Tony Awards, for Best Play and Best Actor in a Play, two Drama Desk Awards, for Outstanding New Play and Outstanding Actor in a Play, and the Theatre World Award, and the film earned him an Independent Spirit Award nomination as Best Male Lead.

Harvey Cowen            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Harvey Cowen: an American pornographic actor and porn movie director who began his adult film career in 1974.[1]Savage has also launched a fledgling career as a stand up comedian, and appears frequently on the reality TV series Family Business.Herschel is a member of the XRCO[2], Legends of Erotica[3] and AVN[4] Halls of Fame.

Harvey Atkin            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Harvey Atkin: a Canadian actor who has worked in feature films and television. He has also done voice-overs, and has voiced animations.From an early age he was exposed to many things that would shape his view of life. His grandfather, an immigrant from Russia, steeped his young grandson in the old country's ways, which included the Yiddish language. Atkin claims that to this day, his late grandfather is still a major influence on him. He and his parents lived with him for several years before finally getting their own house – around the corner from his grandfather's.

Harvey Akio Itano            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Harvey Akio Itano: an American biochemist best known for his work on the molecular basis of sickle cell anemia and other diseases. In collaboration with Linus Pauling, Itano used electrophoresis to demonstrate the difference between normal hemoglobin and sickle cell hemoglobin; their 1949 paper "Sickle Cell Anemia, a Molecular Disease" (coauthored also with S. J. Singer and Ibert C. Wells)[1] was a landmark in both molecular medicine and protein electrophoresis.In 1979, Itano became the first Japanese American admitted to the United States National Academy of Sciences (in the Genetics section). Itano is currently an emeritus professor of pathology at the University of California, San Diego.[2]

Louis Powell Harvey            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Louis Powell Harvey: was an American politician and the seventh Governor of Wisconsin.He helped organize the Republican Party, and was a Republican member of the Wisconsin State Senate from 1854 to 1858, Wisconsin Secretary of State from 1860 to 1862, and finally Wisconsin's

Luc Harvey            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Luc Harvey: was a Canadian politician and the former Member of Parliament for the riding of Louis-Hébert in Quebec from 2006 to 2008. He currently serves as the leader of the Conservative Party of Quebec.In 2006, he ran for office as a member of the Conservative Party against Bloc Québécois politician Roger Clavet and won with 34.22% of the vote. He graduated from Université Laval with a Bachelor's degree in Political Science degree and studied English literature at the University of Guelph. Prior to being elected, he was in charge of business strategies at Centre Financier ASSEP, a life insurance broker.

André Harvey            Origin/Culture/Country: American

André Harvey: is a consultant, politician and former teacher in Quebec, Canada. Harvey was first elected to the Canadian House of Commons in the 1984 general election that brought Brian Mulroney to power. The Progressive Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Chicoutimi, Quebec remained a backbencher until January 1993 when he became parliamentary secretary to Prime Minister Mulroney. He returned to parliament as a PC MP in the 1997 general election by retaking Chicoutimi from the Bloc Québécois. He was appointed whip of the small Progressive Conservative caucus by the party leader Jean Charest. Charest moved to provincial politics in 1998, and was replaced by Joe Clark as party leader. Tory support in Quebec declined in the absence of a French-Canadian leader, and the party underwent a series of crises. In April, 2000, Harvey became one of a series of Tory MPs to leave the party. He sat as an independent MP until the fall when he and two other former Tory MPs, David Price and Diane St-Jacques, crossed the floor to join the Liberals. Harvey was re-elected as the Liberal MP for Chicoutimi—Le Fjord in the 2000 general election. In 2001, Prime Minister Jean Chrétien appointed Harvey Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Transport, and then Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for International Cooperation in 2003.

Ghislain Harvey            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Ghislain Harvey: was a member of the Quebec Provincial Parliament from 1973 to 1976. In 1973, Harvey was a candidate for the Liberal Party of Quebec in Dubuc and defeated Parti Québécois candidate André Desgagné and Union Nationale incumbent Roch Boivin. In 1976, PQ candidate Hubert Desbiens defeated Harvey. Harvey is currently the Executive Vice President and General Manager of Promotion Saguenay Inc. From 1997 to 2002, he successively occupied the position of Head of Municipal Administration for La Baie, Chicoutimi and Saguenay.

Ross Harvey            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Ross Harvey: is a Canadian politician and former member of the Canadian House of Commons from 1988 to 1993.He was elected in the 1988 federal election at the Edmonton East electoral district for the New Democratic Party. He served in the 34th Canadian Parliament but lost to Judy Bethel of the Liberal Party in the 1993 federal election. Among the issues he championed in the House of Commons were renewable energies and justice for the Lubicon Lake Cree nation. Until Linda Duncan's victory in the 2008 federal election, Harvey was the only member of the CCF or NDP ever elected to the Canadian House of Commons from Alberta.