Famous People with Name Lewis

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

Lewis Burr Anderson            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Lewis Burr Anderson: was an American actor and musician, most famous for being the third and final actor to portray Clarabell the Clown on Howdy Doody between 1954 and 1960. He was also a musician. He famously gave Clarabell's one and only line on the program on the show's final episode in 1960, with a tear visible in his eye, "Goodbye, kids."

Lewis Furey            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Lewis Furey: a Canadian composer, singer, violinist, pianist, actor and director.Furey trained as a classical violinist, and at age 11 performed as a soloist in the Matinées pour la jeunesse concert series of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra. He later studied at the Ju

Reggie Lewis            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Reggie Lewis: was an American basketball player for the NBA's Boston Celtics from 1987 to 1993. He averaged 20.8 points per game in each of his last two seasons with the Celtics, and finished with a career average of 17.6 points per contest. He died suddenly during a Celtics practice in 1993. His #35 jersey was retired by the Celtics as a memorial to him -- one of only two Celtics to have a retired number but not a championship in the 62-year history of the franchise. The other was Ed Macauley.

Al Lewis            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Al Lewis: Lewis is thought of mostly as a Tin Pan Alley era lyricist; however, he did write music on occasion as well. Professionally he was most active during the 1920s working into the 1950s. During this time, he most often collaborated with popular songwriters Al Sherman and Abner Silver. Among his most famous songs are "Blueberry Hill" and "You Gotta Be A Football Hero".

George Lewis            Origin/Culture/Country: American

George Lewis: was an American jazz clarinetist who achieved his greatest fame and influence in his later decades of life. Gary Giddins describes him as "an affecting musician with a fat-boned sound but limited technique".George Lewis' legal name was George Louis Francois Zenon. He was born in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana. Lewis was playing clarinet professionally by 1917. He played with Buddy Petit and Chris Kelly regularly, and sometimes with trombonist Kid Ory and many other band leaders, seldom traveling far from the greater New Orleans area.

Huey Lewis            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Huey Lewis: is an American musician, songwriter and occasional actor. He sings lead vocals and plays harmonica for his band Huey Lewis and the News, in addition to writing or co-writing many of the band's songs. The band is perhaps best remembered in American popular culture for their third album Sports and their contribution to the soundtrack of the 1985 feature film Back to the Future. Huey Lewis also played with the band Clover from 1972 to 1979.

Bernard Lewis            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Bernard Lewis: is a British-American historian, Orientalist, and political commentator. He is the Cleveland E. Dodge Professor Emeritus of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University. He specializes in the history of Islam and the interaction between Islam and the West, and is especially famous in academic circles for his works on the history of the Ottoman Empire.Lewis is a widely-read expert on the Middle East, and James L. Abrahamson describes him as the West’s leading interpreter of that region. His advice has been frequently sought by policymakers, including the current Bush administration. In the Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing Martin Kramer, whose Ph.D. thesis was directed by Lewis, considered that, over a 60-year career, he has emerged as "the most influential postwar historian of Islam and the Middle East."