Famous People with Name Kirkwood

Donald Paul Kirkwood            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Donald Paul Kirkwood: (born September 24, 1949, in Pontiac, Michigan) is a retired professional baseball player who played five seasons for the California Angels, Chicago White Sox, and Toronto Blue Jays of Major League Baseball.

Daniel Kirkwood            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Daniel Kirkwood: was an American astronomer.he graduated in mathematics from the York County Academy in York, Pennsylvania in 1838. After teaching there for five years, he became Principal of the Lancaster High School in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and after another five years he moved on to become Principal of the Pottsville Academy in Pottsville, Pennsylvania. In 1851 he became Professor of Mathematics at Delaware College and in 1856 Professor of Mathematics at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, where he stayed until his retirement in 1886, with the exception of two years, 1865-1867, at Jefferson College in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania.

Joseph Henry Kirkwood, Sr.            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Joseph Henry Kirkwood, Sr.: was a professional golfer who is acknowledged as having put Australian golf on the world map.He developed his skills to the point where he could compete in his country's most important golf tournaments. In 1920 he won the Australian Open and in that year'

Samuel Jordan Kirkwood            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Samuel Jordan Kirkwood: was an American politician best known as Iowa's American Civil War Governor. He also served in the U.S. Senate and as U.S. Secretary of the Interior.