Famous People with Name Kelly

Kelly Rulon            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Kelly Rulon: is an American water polo player for the UCLA Bruins and the US National Team, who won the bronze medal at the 2004 Athens Olympics. Her position is driver.

Kelly Johnson            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Kelly Johnson: is a Canadian ice dancer with partner Kris Barber. With partner John Thomas, she placed 12th at the 1984 Winter Olympics.

Kelly David Miller            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Kelly David Miller: is a retired American National Hockey League player. He was one of three Miller brothers (Kevin and Kip were the others) who played in the NHL, and is a cousin of current Buffalo Sabres goaltender Ryan Miller and Ryan's brother Drew Miller who plays for t

Kelly Jay Paris            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Kelly Jay Paris: is a former Major League Baseball third baseman and shortstop. During his major league career, he played for the St. Louis Cardinals (1982), Cincinnati Reds (1983), Baltimore Orioles (1985–1986) and the Chicago White Sox (1988). He was born in Encino, California. He attended William Howard Taft High School in Woodland Hills (Los Angeles), California.Kelly Paris was drafted by the St. Louis Cardinals in the second round of the 1975 Major League Baseball Draft on June 3, 1975.[1] He made his major league debut on September 1, 1982 with the Cardinals. On that day, the Cardinals were playing against the Los Angeles Dodgers at Dodger Stadium with 45,529 people attending the game.[2] The game went into extra innings. At the top of the 13th inning, Paris was called to pinch hit for Doug Bair batting sixth.

Kelly Haxton            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Kelly Haxton: is a female football (soccer) defender, who won the silver medal with the Canadian women's national soccer team at the 2003 Pan American Games.Haxton was seventeen years old when she won her first cap with Canada’s senior team on May 7, 2000 in Portland, Oregon, and replaced Andrea Neil in the 74th minute of an 0:4 loss to the United States. She helped Canada finish fourth at the 1999 Pan American Games in Winnipeg.

Everett A. Kelly            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Everett A. Kelly: Kelly previously served as a Representative in the House of Representatives of the U.S. state of Florida. It should also be noted that he currently lives in Tavares, Florida with his family.

Richard Kelly            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Richard Kelly: was an American politician from Florida. He was the only Republican convicted of taking bribes in the 1980 Abscam scandal.In 1953, he became city attorney of Zephyrhills and worked from 1956 to 1959 as senior assistant to the United States Attorney for th

John Hall Kelly            Origin/Culture/Country: American

John Hall Kelly: was a Canadian lawyer, politician and diplomat.He was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Quebec for the riding of Bonaventure in 1904. A Liberal, he was re-elected in 1908 and 1912. He resigned in 1914 and was appointed to the Legislative Council of Quebec for the division of Grandville. He was name a Minister without Portfolio in the cabinet of Louis-Alexandre Taschereau in 1935. He resigned in 1939 and was named Canadian High Commissioner to Ireland.

Norman "Norm" Kelly            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Norman "Norm" Kelly: is a Canadian politician. He is a city councillor in Toronto, Ontario representing one of two municipal wards that make up the jurisdiction of Scarborough—Agincourt. He was elected as a federal Member of Parliament (MP) for Scarborough Centre in the 1980 election, defeating Progressive Conservative (PC) incumbent Diane Stratas. Kelly was twice appointed Parliamentary Secretary: first, to the Ministry of Supply and Services and then to the President of the Treasury Board. In this latter capacity, Kelly was given the responsibility of guiding the Government’s reorganization of its Crown Corporations, Bill C-124, through the House of Commons and its Committees. He attempted to win the Liberal nomination prior to the 1988 election, but quit the race when Odysseus Katsaitis emerged as the front runner. Instead, he decided to again run for mayor, but this time lost to Joyce Trimmer by over 4,000 votes. Prior to the 1993 federal election, he again tried for a Liberal nomination, but this time lost to John Cannis. In 1985, he ran for mayor of Scarborough, but lost to incumbent Gus Harris. Out of office, he worked as a real estate agent, first for Royal LePage and then for his own company.

William McDonough Kelly            Origin/Culture/Country: American

William McDonough Kelly: is a political strategist and retired Canadian Senator. He was appointed to the Senate in 1982 by Liberal Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau. At the time, the Liberals had been in power for almost all of the previous twenty years resulting in a steady decline in the number of Tory senators. Trudeau adopted a policy of replacing retiring Progressive Conservative Senators with other Progressive Conservatives in order to ensure the opposition caucus was large enough to be functional. The Leader of the Official Opposition would submit a short list of names from which the Prime Minister would choose an appointee for a vacant Tory Senate seat. Several senior Red Tories such as Joe Clark's chief of staff, Peter Harder as well as Norman Atkins, Hugh Segal and Davis himself lobbied Clark to include Kelly on the short list and lobbied the Prime Minister's Office to choose Kelly from the list. Kelly has also served as a director of the Council on Drug Abuse, chairman of the Board of Governors at Ryerson Polytechnic University and co-chairman of a 1984 task force on Crown corporations. He also served for a period as Chairman of the Board of Rothmans Benson & Hedges Inc.