Famous People with Name Irving

Irving Fisher            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Irving Fisher: was an American economist, health campaigner, and eugenicist, and one of the earliest American neoclassical economists and, although he was perhaps the first celebrity economist, his reputation today is probably higher than it was in his lifetime. Several concepts are named after him, including the Fisher equation, Fisher hypothesis and Fisher separation theorem.Fisher's best subject was mathematics, but economics better matched his social concerns. He went on to write a doctoral thesis combining both subjects, on mathematical economics. Irving was granted the first Yale Ph.D. in economics, in 1891. His advisors were the physicist Willard Gibbs and the economist William Graham Sumner.

Irving Warren Jaffee            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Irving Warren Jaffee: was an American speed skater who won two gold medals at the 1932 Winter Olympics.Jaffee was born to Jewish parents who emigrated from Russia in 1896. He grew up in the Crotona Park section of The Bronx, where he played baseball with future Hall of Famer H

Irving Kaplansky            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Irving Kaplansky: was a Canadian mathematician. He was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada after his parents emigrated from Poland and attended the University of Toronto as an undergraduate. After receiving his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1941[1] as Saunders Mac Lane's first studen

Irving Reyna            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Irving Reyna: is a Honduran football player, who currently plays for Olimpia. He is also part of the U-23 Honduras national football team that won the 2008 CONCACAF Men's Pre-Olympic Tournament and qualified to the 2008 Summer Olympics.

Irving A. Aaronson            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Irving A. Aaronson: was a Jewish American jazz pianist and big band leader.The band having success signed with the Victor label company where prior to their second music publication the band name was changed to Irving Aaronson and his Commanders. In 1926, they thus made thei

John Winslow Irving            Origin/Culture/Country: American

John Winslow Irving: is an American novelist and Academy Award-winning screenwriter.Irving achieved critical and popular acclaim after the international success of The World According to Garp in 1978. Some of Irving's novels, such as The Cider House Rules and A Prayer for Owen Meany, have been bestsellers and many have been made into movies. Several of Irving's books (Garp, Meany, Widow) and short stories have been set in and around Phillips Exeter Academy

Edward A. "Ted" Irving            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Edward A. "Ted" Irving: a geologist and emeritus scientist with the Geological Survey of Canada. His studies of paleomagnetism provided the first physical evidence of the theory of continental drift. His efforts contributed to our understanding of how mountain ranges, climate, and life have changed over the past millions of years.Irving was born and raised in the Pennine Hills of northeast Lancashire, England. In 1945, he was conscripted into the British Army. Irving served in the Middle East infantry.

Keneil Donald Irving            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Keneil Donald Irving: is a Cayman Islands cricketer. A right-handed batsman, right-arm medium pace bowler and wicket-keeper, he has played for the Cayman Islands national cricket team since 2005. Irving made his debut for the Cayman Islands in the 2005 ICC Intercontinental Cup

Theodore Leonard Irving            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Theodore Leonard Irving: was a U.S. Representative from Missouri. Irving was elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-first and Eighty-second Congresses (January 3, 1949-January 3, 1953). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1952 to the Eighty-third Congress. Defeated fo

Sir Æmilius Irving            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Sir Æmilius Irving: was a Canadian lawyer and politician. He was a Liberal Member of the Canadian House of Commons for Hamilton in the 3rd Canadian Parliament. Irving served as clerk of the peace for Waterloo County and was Treasurer of the Law Society of Upper Canada from 1893 to 1913. He was knighted in 1906 and died in Toronto in 1913.