Famous People with Name Murray

Murray Perahia            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Murray Perahia: is an American concert pianist. He is also a respected conductor. His recordings are characterized by a consistent quality of sound, technique and interpretation and a careful attention to dynamic and stylistic details.

Murray Fife Buell            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Murray Fife Buell: was an American ecologist and palynologist. He was born in New Haven, Connecticut. He attended Cornell University (B.S., 1930) and the University of Minnesota (M.A., 1934; Ph.D., 1935). After completing his Ph.D., studies with W.S. Cooper stimulated his interest in plant ecology.During graduate school, Buell married Helen Foot (Ph. D., Algology, U. Minn.); the Buells raised two children. Helen was his field companion as well as his wife, and the two worked as a team in research and publication of several papers.[1]Buell began his professional career at North Carolina State University in 1935, where he started his research on paleoecology of bogs and plant succession.

Murray Llewellyn Barr            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Murray Llewellyn Barr: was a Canadian physician and medical researcher who discovered with graduate student Ewart George Bertram, in 1948, an important cell structure, the "Barr body".[1]He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.In 1968, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. In 1959, he received the Royal Society of Canada's Flavelle Medal. In 1962, he won a Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. Foundation Award for his contributions to the understanding of the causes of mental retardation. In 1963, he received the Gairdner Foundation International Award. In 1998, he was inducted into Canadian Medical Hall of Fame.

Murray Barnson Emeneau            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Murray Barnson Emeneau: was an emeritus professor of linguistics at the Department of Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley, which he also founded. He was prominent in the field of sociolinguistics research in India, being the first to do fieldwork on non-literary Dravidian languages in India, and also initiated the field of areal linguistics. He was president of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) in 1949.

Murray Bernard Koffler            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Murray Bernard Koffler: a Canadian pharmacist, businessman, and philanthropist. He is best known for creating the Canadian pharmacy retailer, Shoppers Drug Mart.In 1946, he became a pharmacist at Koffler Drug Stores (established in 1921). From 1968 to 1971, he was President of Koffler Stores Ltd. From 1971 to 1986, he was Chairman of Shoppers Drug Mart. He was appointed an Honorary Chairman in 1986.He and Marvelle established the Koffler Centre of the Arts at the Bathurst Jewish Community Centre in 1974. The Koffler is home to the Koffler Gallery which presents cutting edge contemporary art exhibitions; the Helen and Stan Vine Canadian Jewish Book Awards; the Toronto Jewish Book Fair, and extensive educational programs in music, dance, and visual arts. A new Koffler Centre of the Arts is under construction at the same site as part of the new Sherman Campus of the UJA Federation of Greater Toronto and is to be completed in 2011 with greatly expanded galleries

Thomas Murray            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Thomas Murray: was a businessman and political figure in the Ottawa Valley. He represented Renfrew North in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1870 to 1871, from 1879 to 1882 and from 1883 to 1890 and Pontiac in the Canadian House of Commons as a Liberal member in 1891 and 1892 and from 1900 to 1904. He was elected to the 1st Parliament of Ontario after the death of John Supple; he was defeated in the election that followed in 1871 but elected again in 1879. He resigned his seat in the provincial parliament in 1882 to run unsuccessfully for a seat in the federal parliament; he was reelected in 1883. His younger brother William represented Renfrew North in the House of Commons. In 1884, Thomas and William registered a claim on a nickel deposit near Sudbury which became the Murray Mine, the first nickel mine established in the area.

Ian Munro Murray            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Ian Munro Murray: is a Canadian politician. He served in the Canadian House of Commons from 1993 to 2000, as a member of the Liberal Party. He had an extensive career in Canadian politics before running for office himself. Murray was a research assistant for a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1974 to 1976, and a special assistant to the parliamentary secretary to the Minister of Communications from 1976 to 1977. From 1977 to 1979 and 1980 to 1982, he served as special assistant to the Minister of Veterans Affairs. Murray served with Northern Telecom Ltd. from 1982 to 1993, and was director of Government Relations from 1987 to 1993. He won the Liberal nomination for Lanark—Carleton in 1993 under unusual conditions. After five counts on a preferential ballot, Murray and another candidate were deadlocked in support. The returning officer broke the tie by giving Murray the nomination, but his opponent appealed this decision to party headquarters. The nomination was finally decided by a coin toss. Murray disapproved of this selection method, but the decision nonetheless went in his favour and he was formally approved as a candidate. He was elected by a large margin in the 1993 federal election, defeating Progressive Conservative incumbent Paul Dick by over 18,000 votes in a riding that has not traditionally voted Liberal.[3] He served, as he desired, as a backbench MP.

Joyce Murray            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Joyce Murray: is a Canadian politician. She currently represents the electoral district of Vancouver Quadra as a Liberal Member of the Canadian House of Commons, and was previously a BC Liberal Member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 2001 to 2005. First elected to the provincial legislature in the 2001 provincial election, she was the first Liberal in 49 years to be elected to the electoral district of New Westminster. She served in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia as a cabinet minister from 2001 to 2005, serving as Minister of Water, Land and Air Protection to January 2004 and as Minister of Management Services until June 2005.

Lowell Murray            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Lowell Murray: is a former Canadian senator and long-time activist with the federal Progressive Conservative Party. He was appointed to the Senate on the recommendation of Prime Minister Joe Clark in 1979. In 1986, Prime Minister Mulroney appointed Murray to the Cabinet as Leader of the Government in the Senate, and variously as Minister of State for Federal-Provincial Relations (until April 21, 1991), Minister responsible for the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency (June 1987 to September 1988), and Acting Minister of Communications (December 1988 to January 30, 1989). Murray served as Government Leader in the Senate until the defeat of the government of Prime Minister Kim Campbell in 1993. Murray was the last senator appointed on the advice of Prime Minister Clark to sit in the Senate. He was the longest-serving member of the body upon his mandatory retirement from the Senate on September 26, 2011, when he attained the age of 75.

George Belcher Murray            Origin/Culture/Country: American

George Belcher Murray: was a political figure in Nova Scotia, Canada. He represented Cape Breton North in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1937 to 1941 as a Liberal member. Murray married Katherine Horan-Fulger. During World War I, he served as a captain in the Canadian Army and was awarded the Military Cross. During World War II, Murray served with the Veterans' Home Guard. He died at Burnside Magazine near Dartmouth, Nova Scotia at the age of 45.