Famous People with Name Lewis

Lewis Madison Terman            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Lewis Madison Terman: U.S psychologist, noted as a pioneer in cognitive psychology in the early 20th century at Stanford University. He is best known as the inventor of the Stanford-Binet IQ test. He was a prominent eugenicist and was a member of the Human Betterment Foundation.

Lewis John Stadler            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Lewis John Stadler: was an American geneticist. His research focused on the mutagenic effects of different forms of radiation on economically important plants like maize and barley.While Stadler spent almost all his academic life at the University of Missouri he was also involved in activities with a wider scope. During the 1930s Stadler was involved in efforts to bring European scientists to the U.S. to escape Nazism. In 1948 Stadler was appointed a delegate to the Eighth International Congress of Genetics, meeting in Stockholm. The U.S. Department of Agriculture, however, rejected his passport application and conducted a loyalty investigation; Stadler at first thought it was a State Department action.

Lewis Howard Latimer            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Lewis Howard Latimer: was an African American inventor and draftsman. Though Thomas Alva Edison is credited with the invention of the light bulb, Latimer made.George Latimer had been the slave of James B. Gray of Virginia. George Latimer ran away to freedom in Trenton, New Jersey in October, 1842, along with his wife Rebecca, who had been the slave of another man. When Gray, the owner, appeared in Boston to take them back to Virginia, it became a noted case in the movement for abolition of slavery, gaining the involvement of such abolitionists as William Lloyd Garrison. Eventually funds were raised to pay Gray $400 for the freedom of George Latimer.[3] One of Lewis's siblings was named William H. Latimer (1846-1892), who worked as a barber.

Lewis Baltz            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Lewis Baltz: is a visual artist, philosopher, and well known photographer who became an icon of the New Topographic movement of the late 1970s.His entire work is focused on the counter-aesthetic of photography, searching beauty in desolation and destruction. Baltz ima

Lewis Wickes Hine            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Lewis Wickes Hine: was an American photographer. For Hine, the camera was both a research tool and an instrument of social reform.In 1907, he became the photographer for the National Child Labor Committee (NCLC). Over the next decade, Hine documented child labor in American

Robert S. Lewis            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Robert S. Lewis: was a North Dakota Republican Party politician who served as the 7th Lieutenant Governor of North Dakota under John Burke. Lewis also served in the North Dakota Senate from 1901 to 1904.

Samuel S. Lewis            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Samuel S. Lewis: was the Republican Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania from 1939 to 1943.He also served as Pennsylvania State Auditor General and Pennsylvania State Treasurer.

John Francis Lewis            Origin/Culture/Country: American

John Francis Lewis: was an American plantation owner and politician from Rockingham County, Virginia. He served two terms as Lieutenant Governor of Virginia and represented Virginia as a Republican in the United States Senate during the Reconstruction period after the Civil

Lunsford L. Lewis            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Lunsford L. Lewis: was an American attorney and politician.He began practice in Culpeper, Virginia, and was soon designated by the United States Government as Commonwealth’s Attorney for several counties in the northern part of the state. When he was only twenty-seven, Lewi

James Hamilton Lewis            Origin/Culture/Country: American

James Hamilton Lewis: was the first Senator to hold the title of Whip in the United States Senate. Lewis was born in Danville, Virginia, and also grew up in Augusta, Georgia. He was educated at the University of Virginia and studied law in Savannah, Georgia before he served in