Famous People with Name Howard

Howard Gardsell Cann            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Howard Gardsell Cann: was an American sportsman best known as the long-time men's basketball coach at New York University. He was also an Olympic shot putter and a college basketball and football player.Howard first attended Barringer High School in Newark, New Jersey and then the High School of Commerce in New York City. At Commerce he was Captain of the Basketball Team, member of the Track Team and member of the Omega Gamma Delta Fraternity.He briefly attended Dartmouth College and then transferred to New York University. During his freshman year in 1914, Howard was the leading scorer on the NYU Violets men's basketball team. He was captain of the 1916-1917 football team, where he played as a tackle, a punter, and also played in the backfield.

Howard Tracy Hall            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Howard Tracy Hall: was an American physical chemist and the first person who grew a synthetic diamond according to a reproducible, verifiable and witnessed process, using a press of his own design.As with many important inventions, the circumstances surrounding Hall's synthesis is the object of some controversy. What is undoubted is that he produced synthetic diamond in a press of his own design on December 16, 1954 and that he could do it over and over in the following weeks. What is also undoubted is that Hall was one of a group of about a half dozen of researchers who had focused on the syntheses for almost four years. These years had seen a succession of failed experiments, an increasingly impatient management, and a complex blend of sharing and rivalries among the researchers.

Howard Mehring            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Howard Mehring: was a twentieth century painter born in Washington, D.C.Howard Mehring is associated with the Washington Color School and the artists at Jefferson Place Gallery. Mehring and Robert Gates both received grants from Woodward Foundation to travel in Europe during 1971 to broaden their art backgrounds. His connection with Vincent Melzac was instrumental in developing his work. Early in his career (1956-1958) he shared studio space with Thomas "Tom" Downing, with whom he had been a student of Kenneth Noland at Catholic University. Some of their paintings from that period are difficult to tell apart.

Howard Lasnik            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Howard Lasnik: a Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Maryland.He studied at the Carnegie Institute of Technology (B.S., 1967), Harvard University (M.A., 1969) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Ph.D., 1972). He joined the faculty of the University of Connecticut in 1972, and took up his present post at University of Maryland in 2002.He has been a prominent contributor to the syntax literature within a Chomskyan framework, and is one of few linguists to have co-written articles with Chomsky.[1][2] Describing himself as a "conservative", Lasnik says that he often finds himself "...trying to resurrect old analyses or maintain current analyses that are being supplanted." (p. 4) [3]

Howard Mason Georgi III            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Howard Mason Georgi III: is Harvard College Professor and Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics at Harvard University. He has, for many years, taught an advanced freshman physics course, "Physics 16" in the fall semester. He is also Director of Undergraduate Studies in Physics and Master of Leverett House, where he asks all students to endearingly call him "Chief," while his wife Ann Georgi commands the name "Coach." He graduated from Harvard in 1967 and obtained his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1971. He was Junior Fellow in the Harvard Society of Fellows from 1973-1976 and a Senior Fellow from 1982-1998. In 1995 he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences and received the Sakurai Prize; in 2000 he shared the Dirac Medal with Jogesh Pati and Helen Quinn. He has advised a number of notable students, including Andrew G. Cohen, Adam Falk, Benjamin Grinstein, John Hagelin, Lawrence J. Hall, David B. Kaplan, Michael Luke, Aneesh Manohar, Ann Nelson and Lisa Randall.

Dustin Howard            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Dustin Howard: is an American professional wrestler better known by his ring name Chuck Taylor. He is currently competing most notably in Chikara, Pro Wrestling Guerrilla, Evolve Wrestling and Dragon Gate USA.

Brian Howard            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Brian Howard: is an American rugby union player. Brian plays prop for his club, Old Puget Sound Beach RFC. He was selected to tour with the USA national rugby union team, the USA Eagles XV, for the Autumn 2010 tour of Europe. Brian was first selected to the Eagles XV s

Pierre Howard            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Pierre Howard: was the ninth Lieutenant Governor of the U.S. state of Georgia.In 1990, Howard ran for the office of Lieutenant Governor. He was elected to a four-year term and was re-elected in 1994. Howard focused on critical issues concerning Georgia families througho

Constance A. Howard            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Constance A. Howard: is a Democratic member of the Illinois House of Representatives, representing the 34th District since her election in 1994. She took office in January 1995. In 2008, Howard was named as one of Utne Reader magazine’s “50 Visionaries Who Are Changing the Wo

Glenn L. Howard            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Glenn L. Howard: is a Democratic member of the Indiana Senate, representing the 33rd District since 1992.