Famous People with Name Marshall

Marshall Field III            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Marshall Field III: was an American investment banker, publisher, racehorse owner/breeder, philanthropist, heir to the Marshall Field department store fortune and a leading financial supporter and founding board member of Saul Alinsky's community organizing network Industria

Marshall Wayne            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Marshall Wayne: was an American diver who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics.In 1936 he won the gold medal in the 10 metre platform competition as well as the silver medal in the 3 m springboard event.

Marshall Jewell            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Marshall Jewell: was a U.S. political figure. He served as the 44th and 46th Governor of Connecticut between 1869 and 1870, and again from 1871 until 1873. Born in 1825 in Winchester, New Hampshire, he was first appointed by President Ulysses S. Grant as Minister to Russi

Marshall Johnson Wellborn            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Marshall Johnson Wellborn: was an American politician, lawyer and jurist.He began praciticing law in Columbus, Georgia, and was elected to the Georgia House of Representatives in 1833 and 1834. From 1838 through 1842, he was a Georgia superior court judge.Wellborn was elected in 18

Marshall F. Moore            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Marshall F. Moore: was the 7th Governor of Washington Territory.He served during the Civil War under George McClellan in Virginia and under Sherman. He was at Rich Mountain, Shiloh, Chickamauga, Jonesboro and Missionary Ridge. He rose to the rank of breveted major general o

Amanda Marshall            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Amanda Marshall: a Canadian pop-rock singer.Marshall studied music extensively in childhood, including at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto. While performing on the Queen Street West bar scene in her teens, she met guitarist Jeff Healey, who was struck by her powerful voice and took her on tour. She was offered a record deal by Columbia Records in 1991, but chose to wait a few years before releasing her debut album.

Alan G. Marshall            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Alan G. Marshall: an American academic chemist who has devoted his scientific career to developing a scientific technique known as Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance (FT-ICR) mass spectrometry, which he co-invented. He was born in Bluffton, Ohio, in 1944, and earned his Bachelor's in Chemistry from Northwestern University (1965) and Ph.D. in Chemistry from Stanford University (1970). His first academic appointment was at the University of British Columbia. In 1980, he moved to the Ohio State University where he remained until 1993. He is the Robert O. Lawton Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Florida State University and Director of the Ion Cyclotron Resonance Program at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

Frank James Marshall            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Frank James Marshall: was the U.S. Chess Champion from 1909-1936, and was one of the world's strongest chess players in the early part of the 20th century.Marshall was born in New York City, and lived in Montreal, Canada from ages 8 to 19. He began playing chess at the age of 10 and by 1890 was one of the leading players in Montreal.

John Marshall            Origin/Culture/Country: American

John Marshall: was an American statesman and jurist who shaped American constitutional law and made the Supreme Court a center of power. Marshall was Chief Justice of the United States, serving from February 4, 1801, until his death in 1835. He served in the United States House of Representatives from March 4, 1799, to June 7, 1800, and, under President John Adams, was Secretary of State from June 6, 1800, to March 4, 1801. Marshall was from the Commonwealth of Virginia and a leader of the Federalist Party.

Thurgood Marshall            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Thurgood Marshall: was an American jurist and the first African American to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States. Before becoming a judge, he was a lawyer who was best remembered for his high success rate in arguing before the Supreme Court and for the victory in Brown v. Board of Education.Marshall was born in Baltimore, Maryland, on July 2, 1908, as the great-grandson of a slave. His original name was Thoroughgood but he shortened it to Thurgood in second grade, because he disliked spelling it. His father, William Marshall, who was a railroad porter, instilled in him an appreciation for the Constitution of the United States and the rule of law.[1] Additionally, as a child, he was punished for his school misbehavior by being forced to write copies of the Constitution, which he later said piqued his interest in the document.