Famous People with Name Morgan

Morgan Scroggy            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Morgan Scroggy: is an American swimmer. At the 2010 US National Championships, the selection meet for both the 2010 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships and the 2011 World Aquatics Championships, Scroggy placed third in both the 200 m individual medley and 200 m backstroke

Morgan Adams            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Morgan Adams: was an American Olympic sailor. He competed in the 6 Metre event at the 1936 Summer Olympics.

Morgan Matthews            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Morgan Matthews: is an American ice dancer. She previously competed with Maxim Zavozin. They joined forces on the ice in 2001. The duo won the 2003 and 2004 U.S. Junior titles and captured the 2005 World Junior championships. After placing a disappointing fifth at the 200

Morgan Arritola            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Morgan Arritola: is an American cross country skier who has competed since 2005. Her best World Cup finish was 11th in a 4 x 5 km relay in Switzerland in 2007 while her best individual finish was 24th in a 7.5 km + 7.5 km double pursuit event in Canada in 2008. At the FIS

Morgan Smyth            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Morgan Smyth: is an American cross country skier who has competed since 2002. She won the 5 km qualification event at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2009 in Liberec, Czech Republic. This allowed her to competed in the 10 km event the following day where she fin

Jeffrey Dean Morgan            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Jeffrey Dean Morgan: Morgan was born in Seattle, Washington and attended Ben Franklin Elementary School, Rose Hill Junior High and Lake Washington High School in the Seattle suburb of Kirkland. Morgan was a basketball player in high school and university, until a knee injury

Joe Leonard Morgan            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Joe Leonard Morgan: is a former Major League Baseball second baseman, inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1990 after receiving votes on 81.76% of the ballots. Morgan is currently an Emmy-winning commentator for ESPN television and radio.

Stanley Douglas Morgan            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Stanley Douglas Morgan: is a former NFL wide receiver who played for the New England Patriots. Morgan was selected out of the University of Tennessee in the first round of the 1977 NFL Draft (25th overall). He also played one season for the Indianapolis Colts in 1990. He holds the all-purpose yards record for the University of Tennessee, which stands at 4,642.

William Wilson Morgan            Origin/Culture/Country: American

William Wilson Morgan: was an American astronomer.The principal theme in Morgan's work was the study of stellar and galaxy classification. Along with Philip Keenan he developed the MK system for the classification of stars through their spectra. He also developed several galaxy morphological classification systems, including the first systems to use the physical properties of galaxies, as opposed to simple eye-ball estimates favoured by Edwin Hubble. He invented the now widely used classification cD for massive galaxies in the centres of clusters.He worked at Yerkes Observatory. Along with Donald Osterbrock and Stewart Sharpless, he used distance measurements of O and B type stars to show the existence of spiral arms in the Milky Way Galaxy.

Thomas Hunt Morgan            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Thomas Hunt Morgan: was an American geneticist and embryologist. Morgan received his PhD from Johns Hopkins University in 1890 and researched embryology during his tenure at Bryn Mawr. Following the rediscovery of Mendelian inheritance in 1900, Morgan's research moved to the study of mutation in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. In his famous Fly Room at Columbia University Morgan was able to demonstrate that genes are carried on chromosomes and are the mechanical basis of heredity. These discoveries formed the basis of the modern science of genetics. When he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1933 he was the first person awarded the Prize in genetics, for his discoveries concerning the role played by the chromosome in heredity[1].