Famous People with Name Houston

Houston Summers IV            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Houston Summers IV: an American R&B singer best known for the hit single "I Like That". Houston grew up in Los Angeles, California and performed on the streets with his friends, who were fellow rappers; his niche was rapping freestyle, for which he had a talent.Summers comes from a very devout Christian background, and his family was open in their disdain for his choice to do "secular" music. His mother, LaTylanol Houston, had forbade him as a child to partake in rap or any other music that wasn't affiliated with God. Houston had a strong relationship with his mother, a Belize native whose skills include painting, sewing and, most significantly for Houston, singing. Always supportive, Houston's mother encouraged him to sing around the house

Houston Antwine            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Houston Antwine: an American college and professional football player from Southern Illinois University, was drafted by the American Football League's Houston Oilers, then traded to the Boston Patriots in 1961.

Houston Harris            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Houston Harris: was an American professional wrestler, better known by his ring name, Bobo Brazil. Harris was credited with breaking down barriers of racial segregation in professional wrestling. Harris is considered one of the first successful African-American professio

Houston Irving Flournoy            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Houston Irving Flournoy: was an American politician who served as a California legislator and State Controller. He later became a professor of public administration at the University of Southern California (USC). In 1956, he earned a Ph.D. in politics at Princeton University. Whi

Whitney Elizabeth Houston            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Whitney Elizabeth Houston: Whitney Houston was born in a rough neighborhood in the projects of Newark, New Jersey. She is the third and youngest child of John and gospel singer Cissy Houston.[17] Her mother, along with cousin Dionne Warwick and Godmother Aretha Franklin are all not

Marques Barrett Houston            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Marques Barrett Houston: is the starting left fielder for the Tampa Bay Rays of Major League Baseball. He bats and throws left-handed.Crawford was drafted by the Devil Rays in the second round (52nd overall) of the 1999 MLB Draft.In 2002, the Tampa Bay chapter of the BBWAA named Crawford the Devil Rays' Most Outstanding Rookie and he earned International League Rookie of the Year playing for the AAA Durham Bulls.Crawford entered the major leagues at the young age of 20 and played in 63 games for the Devil Rays in 2002, batting .259 with 9 stolen bases. He is the longest tenured member of the team.

Thelma Houston            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Thelma Houston: is a Grammy Award-winning American R&B and Club/Dance singer-songwriter and actress. She scored a #1 hit in 1977 with her cover of the song "Don't Leave Me This Way".

Kenneth Ray Houston            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Kenneth Ray Houston: is a former American football defensive back in the American Football League and National Football League. Houston was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1986.

William Vermillion Houston            Origin/Culture/Country: American

William Vermillion Houston: was an American physicist who made contributions to spectroscopy, quantum mechanics, and solid-state physics as well as being a teacher and administrator.After his study and research in Germany, Houston returned to Caltech and served as an assistant professor (1927 – 1929), associate professor (1929 – 1931), and professor (1931 – 1946). [8] He again took up his experimental work on spectroscopy and the theory of electrons in atoms and solids. His work on the Zeeman effect resulted in a correction to the accepted value of the e/m ratio, as well as stimulating R. T. Birge and J. W. M. Dumond to work up a consistent set of precise atomic constants. In solid-state physics he studied the surface photoelectric effect and made the first suggestion and analysis of the use of soft x-rays to investigate the energy bands of solids. At Caltech, and later at Rice University, he taught a course on mathematical physics, for which he wrote a textbook.