Famous People with Name Homer

Homer Elliott Howell            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Homer Elliott Howell: (born April 24, 1920 in Louisville, Kentucky, died October 5, 1990) was a catcher in Major League Baseball. He played from 1947-1956 with the Pittsburgh Pirates, Cincinnati Reds and Brooklyn Dodgers.

Homer Estell Ezzell            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Homer Estell Ezzell: (February 28, 1896 - August 3, 1976) was a third baseman in Major League Baseball who played from 1923 through 1925 for the St. Louis Browns (1923) and Boston Red Sox (1924-25). Listed at 5' 10", 158 lb., Ezzell batted and threw right-handed. He was born in Victoria, Texas.

Homer Louis "Boots" Randolph III            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Homer Louis "Boots" Randolph III: was an American musician best known for his 1963 saxophone hit, "Yakety Sax." Randolph was a major part of the "Nashville Sound" for most of his professional career.At the end of World War II, Boots Randolph played saxophone, trombone, and vibraphone in the United States Army Band. After his service in the Army, he played with Dink Welch's Kopy Kats in Decatur, Illinois from 1948-1954. He briefly resided in Louisville, Kentucky before returning to Decatur to start his own group. He left Decatur in 1957. [2]

Homer Hadley Hickam, Jr            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Homer Hadley Hickam, Jr: is an American author, Vietnam veteran, and a former NASA engineer. His autobiographical novel Rocket Boys: A Memoir, was a #1 New York Times best-seller, is studied in many American and international school systems, and was the basis for the popular film October Sky. Hickam has also written a number of best-selling memoirs and novels, his latest the "Josh Thurlow" historical fiction novels. His books have been translated into several languages. He is married to Linda Terry Hickam, an artist and his first editor and assistant.

Homer Ransford Watson            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Homer Ransford Watson: was a Canadian landscape painter. He was "the man who first saw Canada as Canada, rather than as dreamy blurred pastiches of European painting," according to J. Russell Harper, a former curator of Canadian art at the National Gallery of Canada. He was a member and president (1918-1922) of the Royal Canadian Academy, as well as a founding member and first president (1907-1911) of the Canadian Art Club.

Winslow Homer            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Winslow Homer: was an American landscape painter and printmaker, best known for his marine subjects. He is considered one of the foremost painters in 19th century America and a preeminent figure in American art.

Michael J. Homer            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Michael J. Homer: was an American electronics and computer industry executive who played major roles in the development of the personal computer, mobile devices and the Internet.After Go closed in 1994, John Doerr of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Go's main venture capital backer, made the connection for Homer at Marc Andreessen's Netscape Communications Corporation.[1] Homer was a vice president at the Netscape in the 1990s at the dawn of the World Wide Web. There, Homer developed the company's initial business plan and played a pivotal role in obtaining the private financing necessary to allow the company to progress to its 1995 initial public offering.[2] He developed marketing plans for Netscape in 1994 at a time when few people had ever heard of the Internet.[1] During the period where Microsoft challenged Netscape's early browser dominance with its Internet Explorer product, Homer headed the firm's marketing department as it faced bitter competition from Microsoft, a challenge that ultimately resulted in an antitrust suit.[2] Homer helped argue that Microsoft had abused its monopoly power in the operating system market to push out Netscape's browser in favor of its own.[1]

Mark Homer            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Mark Homer: is a conservative Democratic politician and businessman from Paris, Texas who is the Texas State Representative for District 3 of the Texas House of Representatives. He was a member of the Committee on Culture, Recreation and Tourism and Vice-Chair of th

Joshua Attwood Reynolds Homer            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Joshua Attwood Reynolds Homer: was a Canadian Member of Parliament from British Columbia. In 1860, he married Sophie Wilson. In 1863, he was elected to the first Legislative Council for the Colony of British Columbia; Homer was reelected in 1864. In 1860, he married Sophie Wilson. In 1863, he was elected to the first Legislative Council for the Colony of British Columbia; Homer was reelected in 1864.

John Homer            Origin/Culture/Country: American

John Homer: was a merchant and political figure in Nova Scotia. He represented Barrington township in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1826 to 1836.