Famous People with Name Harvey

Harvey Sacks            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Harvey Sacks: was an American sociologist influenced by the ethnomethodology tradition. He pioneered extremely detailed studies of the way real people actually used language in the real world. Despite his early death in a car crash and the fact that he did not publish widely, he founded the discipline of conversation analysis. His work has had significant influence on fields such as linguistics, discourse analysis, and discursive psychology.Sacks received his doctoral degree in sociology at the University of California, Berkeley (1966), an LL.B. at Yale Law School (1959), and a B.A. at Columbia College (1955). He lectured at the University of California, Los Angeles and Irvine from 1964-1975.

Harvey Williams Cushing            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Harvey Williams Cushing: was an American neurosurgeon and a pioneer of brain surgery. He is widely regarded as the greatest neurosurgeon of the 20th century, and often called the "father of modern neurosurgery".

Harvey Lee Hix            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Harvey Lee Hix: is an American poet and academic.Hix is the author of books of poetry, criticism and essays and has been awarded a fellowship from the NEA. He has also won the KCAI Teaching Excellence Award, and the T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry (from Truman State Universi

Harvey Phillip Pratt            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Harvey Phillip Pratt: is an American forensic artist and Native American artist, who has worked for over forty years in law enforcement, completing thousands of composite drawings and hundreds of soft tissue postmortem reconstructions.[1] To this end, his work has assisted in

Harvey Friedman            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Harvey Friedman: is a mathematical logician at Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. He is noted especially for his work on reverse mathematics, a project intended to derive the axioms of mathematics from the theorems considered to be necessary. In recent years this ha

Jeff Harvey            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Jeff Harvey: a Senior Scientist in the Department of Multitrophic Interactions at the Netherlands Institute of Ecology, and formerly an associate editor of Nature.

Enrique Alberto Díaz Harvey            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Enrique Alberto Díaz Harvey: is considered one of the best Costa Rican football wingers during the 1980s, and is one of the most recognized sports figures in his country. He played most of his professional career for Deportivo Saprissa, as well as C.S. Herediano, San Ramon and his native A.D. Limonense. He was known as "El Zancudo" (The Mosquitoe), because of his very long legs.

Kenneth Eugene Harvey            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Kenneth Eugene Harvey: is a Major League baseball first baseman who is currently a free agent.Harvey played his rookie season in Kansas City in 2003. After an impressive first half of the 2004 season, featuring an early battle with Baltimore Orioles Melvin Mora for the AL lead in batting average, Harvey was selected as the Royals' lone representative in the All-Star Game. In interleague play, the Royals played Harvey in left field in order to keep both Harvey and 1B/DH Mike Sweeney, their two most productive bats, in the lineup.

Alex Harvey            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Alex Harvey: is a Canadian cross country skier who has competed since 2005. His best World Cup finish was third twice, both in 2009. Harvey also competed at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2009 in Liberec, finishing fifth in the 4 x 10 km, 22nd in the 15 km + 1

Pierre Harvey            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Pierre Harvey: is a Canadian sports athlete. He was the first Canadian male athlete to compete in both the 1984 Summer Olympics (cycling) and 1984 Winter Olympics (cross-country skiing). First competing as a cyclist at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Harvey finish