Famous People with Name Murray

Murray Gell Mann            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Murray Gell Mann: American physicist who received the 1969 Nobel Prize in physics for his work on the theory of elementary particles.

Murray Newton Rothbard            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Murray Newton Rothbard: was an influential American historian, natural law theorist, Aristotelian and economist of the Austrian School who helped define modern libertarianism and founded a form of free-market anarchism he termed "anarcho-capitalism". Rothbard took the Austrian School's emphasis on spontaneous order and condemnation of central planning to an individualist anarchist conclusion.

Murray Bookchin            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Murray Bookchin: was an American libertarian socialist, political and social philosopher, speaker and writer. For much of his life he called himself an anarchist. The founder of the social ecology movement within libertarian socialist and ecological thought, Bookchin is noted for his synthesis of the libertarian socialist tradition with modern ecological awareness. He was the author of two dozen books on politics, philosophy, history, and urban affairs as well as ecology.

Murray Gell-Mann            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Murray Gell-Mann: is an American physicist who received the 1969 Nobel Prize in physics for his work on the theory of elementary particles.is an American physicist who received the 1969 Nobel Prize in physics for his work on the theory of elementary particles.

Murray Foster            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Murray Foster: a Canadian musician. The first concert he went to was a Peter Frampton concert at age 12 with Jian Ghomeshi in 1978. He attended Thornlea Secondary School, where he formed Moxy Früvous.Murray started Moxy Früvous in 1990 with Jian Ghomeshi, Mike Ford and

Sir John Murray            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Sir John Murray: was a pioneering Scots-Canadian oceanographer and marine biologist.He returned to Edinburgh to complete his studies in geology under Sir Archibald Geikie and natural philosophy under Peter Guthrie Tait. Tait introduced Murray to Charles Wyville Thomson who had been appointed to lead the Challenger Expedition. In 1872, Murray joined Wyville Thomson as his assistant on this four-year expedition to explore the deep oceans of the globe. After Wyville Thompson succumbed to the stress of publishing the reports of the Challenger Expedition, Murray took over, and edited and published over 50 volumes of reports, which were completed in 1896. He was knighted (K.C.B.) in 1898. Murray was killed when his car overturned near his home on 16 March 1914 at Kirkliston, Edinburgh; he is buried at the nearby Dean Kirkyard.

Clark Murray            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Clark Murray: an American sculptor who is best known for his large outdoor constructions of welded and painted steel pipes.

Elizabeth Murray            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Elizabeth Murray: was an American Painter, printmaker and draughtsman. Her works are in many major public collections, including those of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Museum of Modern Art[1], the Whitney Museum of American Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art[2], and the Art Institute of Chicago.In 1967, Murray moved to New York and first exhibited in 1971 in the Whitney Museum of American Art Annual Exhibition. One of her first mature works included "Children Meeting", 1978 (now in the permanent collection of the Whitney Museum, New York), an oil on canvas painting evoking human characteristics, personalities, or pure feeling through an interaction of non-figurative shapes, colour and lines.[5] She is particularly noted for her shaped canvas paintings.[6]

Glen Murray            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Glen Murray: is a professional Canadian ice hockey player. He was bought out by the Boston Bruins on July 26, 2008 to free up salary cap room for the 2008–2009 season.Murray was raised in the Bridgewater, Nova Scotia area and played junior hockey for the Sudbury Wolves of the OHL. Murray was a first-round draft pick, 18th overall by the Bruins in the 1991 NHL Entry Draft. He spent four seasons with the Bruins before being traded to the Pittsburgh Penguins with Bryan Smolinski for Kevin Stevens and Shawn McEachern.

Chris Murray            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Chris Murray: a Canadian-born singer-songwriter and guitarist working primarily in the genre of ska. In Canada, he was a member of the now-defunct ska band King Apparatus during the late 1980s and early 1990s. He now lives in the Los Angeles, California area, where he