Famous People with Name Martin

Martin Joseph Kavanagh            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Martin Joseph Kavanagh: (June 13, 1891 - July 28, 1960) was a Major League Baseball infielder. Born in Harrison, New Jersey, he played 5 seasons with the Detroit Tigers (1914-16, 1918), Cleveland Indians (1916-17),

Martin John Krug            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Martin John Krug: (b. 10 September 1888 - d. 27 June 1966) was a Koblenz, Germany-born major league third baseman with the Boston Red Sox (1912) and Chicago Cubs (1922).

Martin Whiteford Marion            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Martin Whiteford Marion: (born December 1, 1917 in Richburg, South Carolina) is a former shortstop and manager in Major League Baseball. He batted and threw right-handed.

Martin Lewis Perl            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Martin Lewis Perl: American physicist, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1995 for his discovery of the tau lepton. His parents were Jewish emigrants to the US from the Polish area of Russia.

Martin William (Marty) Pattin            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Martin William (Marty) Pattin: (born April 6, 1943 in Charleston, Illinois) is a former pitcher in Major League Baseball who played from 1968 through 1980 for the California Angels (1968)

William Melville Martin            Origin/Culture/Country: American

William Melville Martin: served as the second Premier of the Canadian province of Saskatchewan from 1916 to 1922. Martin was elected to the House of Commons for Regina in the 1908 Canadian federal election, and re-elected in 1911. In 1916, he entered provincial politics to take over the leadership of the Saskatchewan Liberal Party and become Premier.

Joseph James Guillaume Paul Martin            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Joseph James Guillaume Paul Martin: was a noted Canadian politician. He was the father of Paul Martin (Jr.), who served as Prime Minister of Canada from 2003 - 2006. A member of the Liberal Party of Canada, he was first elected to the House of Commons in 1935 and entered the cabinet in 1945. He went on to serve as a noted member of the cabinets of four Prime Ministers: William Lyon Mackenzie King, Louis St. Laurent, Lester B. Pearson and Pierre Trudeau. Martin was viewed as one of the most left-wing members of the Liberal cabinet, and as Minister of National Health and Welfare from 1946 to 1957 he played an important role in the fight against polio and overseeing the creation of hospital insurance in Canada, and is sometimes recognized as a father of medicare. Martin served as Secretary of State for External Affairs in the Pearson government, and was instrumental in the acquisition of U.S. nuclear weapons for Canadian Forces.

Murdo William Martin            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Murdo William Martin: was a Canadian politician. He was one of only eight CCF MPs elected in the Diefenbaker landslide of 1958, and was re-elected in the general elections of 1962, 1963 and 1965. He sought re-election in 1968 and 1972 but was defeated by the Liberal candidate, Jean Roy. Martin was an advocate for assistance for the gold mines in the Porcupine camp. He also spoke against the arcane divorce laws that existed in Canada prior to 1968. After leaving the House of Commons, Martin went on to serve as a city councillor in Timmins. He was also a real estate broker and owned an operated the Parkview Motel in Timmins. He was married to Grace Mills. Martin died in Timmins in 1989.

Anthony A. "Tony" Martin            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Anthony A. "Tony" Martin: is a Canadian politician. He was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1990 to 2003, representing the riding of Sault Ste. Marie for the Ontario New Democratic Party (NDP). He was elected to the Canadian House of Commons for the federal NDP in 2004, again representing the Sault Ste. Marie riding. Martin first ran for the Ontario legislature in the provincial election of 1990 after Karl Morin-Strom, the sitting Member of Provincial Parliament (MPP) for Sault Ste. Marie, announced his retirement. Martin again retained his seat in the 1999 election, and was appointed as one of the legislature's Deputy Speakers on October 25, 1999. Martin was initially expected to be re-elected in the 2003 provincial election, but a late surge in Liberal support saw David Orazietti win the seat by a significant margin. Shortly after the loss, Martin was nominated as the federal NDP's candidate for the general election of 2004.

Alexander Munro Martin            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Alexander Munro Martin: was a businessman and political figure in Ontario, Canada. He represented Wellington North in the Canadian House of Commons from 1907 to 1911 as a Liberal. In 1883, Martin married Margaret Broadfoot. He served on the council for Mount Forest, also serving as reeve. Martin was first elected to the House of Commons in an 1907 by-election held following the death of his brother Thomas. He was reelected in the 1908 federal election but defeated when he ran for re-election in 1911.