Famous People with Name Hugh

Hugh Hefner            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Hugh Hefner: is an American magazine publisher best known as the founder, majority owner,[1] and Chief Creative Officer of Playboy Enterprises.

Hugh Martin            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Hugh Martin: is an American theatre and film composer, arranger, performer, vocal coach, and playwright. He is best known for his score for the classic 1944 MGM musical Meet Me In St. Louis, in which Judy Garland sang three Martin songs, "The Boy Next Door," The Trolley Song, and Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas. The last of these has become a Christmas season standard in the United States and around the English-speaking world and is widely considered one of the ten or so classic Christmas songs of all-time. Martin became a close friend of Garland and was her accompanist at many of her concert performances in the 1950s including her legendary stint at the Palace.

Hugh Malcolm Downs            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Hugh Malcolm Downs: is a retired American broadcaster, television host, producer, and author. He served as anchor of 20/20, host of The Today Show, announcer for the Tonight Show with Jack Paar, host of Concentration game show, host of the PBS talk show Over Easy and co-host of the syndicated talk show Not for Women Only. He is not related to the well-known CBS broadcaster of the 1940s, Bill Downs.

Hugh Marston Hefner            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Hugh Marston Hefner: is an American magazine publisher, best known as the editor-in-chief of Playboy magazine, and founder and Chief Creative Officer of Playboy Enterprises.Hefner graduated from the University of Illinois in 1949 with a major in psychology and a double minor in creative writing and art. He explains that some of the ideas for the Playboy magazine came to him while he was a student there. Despite spending less than three years in college before graduating, Hefner found time to edit the magazine Shaft and sold cartoons to magazines. His first salaried job was with a firm that produced and printed cardboard cartons. In 1949 Hefner also completed a semester of graduate courses in sociology studies at Northwestern University, where he wrote a term paper examining U.S. sex laws in light of the newly published Kinsey Institute research on male human sexuality.

Hugh Kenner            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Hugh Kenner: was a Canadian literary scholar, critic and professor.Attending the University of Toronto, Kenner studied under Marshall McLuhan, who wrote the introduction to Kenner's first book Paradox in Chesterton. Kenner's second book, The Poetry of Ezra Pound (1951) was dedicated to McLuhan, who had introduced Kenner to Pound on June 4, 1948, during Pound's incarceration at St. Elizabeths Hospital, Washington, D.C., where Kenner and McLuhan had driven as a detour from their trip from Toronto to New Haven, Connecticut. (Pound, who became a friend of Kenner's, had suggested the book be titled The Rose in the Steel Dust.) Later, Kenner had said of McLuhan, "I had the advantage of being exposed to Marshall when he was at his most creative, and then of getting to the far end of the continent shortly afterward, when he couldn't get me on the phone all the time. He could be awfully controlling."