Famous People with Name Nixon

Nixon Alexei McNamara McLean            Origin/Culture/Country: Jamaican

Nixon Alexei McNamara McLean: is a West Indian cricketer. He is a right-arm fast medium bowler and a left-handed batsman.

Nixon Aníbal Carcelén Chalá            Origin/Culture/Country: South America

Nixon Aníbal Carcelén Chalá: is a former Ecuadorian international footballer who played 40 times for the Ecuador national team between 1991 and 1999.Carcelén spent the majority of his club career with the two main teams from Quito, LDU Quito and Deportivo Quito, he also played for Ba

Nixon Perea            Origin/Culture/Country: South America

Nixon Perea: is a Colombian football player. He has played for LD Alajuelense (Costa Rica), Independiente Santa Fe (Colombia), Atlético Nacional (Colombia), and Vegalta Sendai (Japan). He played for the Colombia national team at 1993 FIFA World Youth Championship in A

Norman Ellard Nixon            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Norman Ellard Nixon: is a retired American professional basketball player for the NBA, who spent ten seasons with the Los Angeles Lakers and the San Diego/Los Angeles Clippers.Nixon was the 22nd overall pick in the 1977 NBA Draft by the Los Angeles Lakers out of Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He helped the Lakers to win NBA championships in 1980 and 1982, before he was traded to the San Diego Clippers prior to the 1983-84 season in exchange for the draft rights to guard Byron Scott.

Thelma Catherine Ryan Pat Nixon            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Thelma Catherine Ryan Pat Nixon: was the wife of former President Richard Nixon and the First Lady of the United States from 1969 to 1974. She was commonly known as Pat Nixon.As First Lady, Pat Nixon promoted a number of charitable causes including volunteerism and oversaw the collection of more than 600 examples of historic art and furnishings for the White House, an acquisition larger than that of any other administration. She also encouraged women to run for political offices and became the most traveled First Lady in U.S. history up to that time, visiting about eighty nations; she was the first First Lady to visit a combat zone. Her tenure ended when, after being re-elected in the landslide victory of 1972, President Nixon resigned two years later amid the Watergate scandal.

Richard Milhous Nixon            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Richard Milhous Nixon: was the thirty-seventh President of the United States (1969–1974) and the only American president to resign from that office.Nixon was born in Yorba Linda, California and developed an interest in music. In the mid-1930s, he passed the bar exam and practiced law with a family friend. Amidst the outbreak of war in the early 1940s, he joined the United States Navy and served as a lieutenant commander in the Pacific during World War II. He was elected to Congress following his military service, specifically the House of Representatives, first representing California's 12th Congressional district, and later the entire state as Senator. He was chosen by party nominee Dwight D. Eisenhower to be Vice President in 1952, a position he began serving in the following year, until 1961. After an unsuccessful presidential run in 1960 and an unsuccessful run for Governor of California in 1962, Nixon was elected to the presidency in 1968, and reelected four years later.

Marni Nixon            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Marni Nixon: is an American singer whose renown for dubbing the singing voices of featured actresses in well known movies earned her the sobriquet "The Ghostess with the Mostess", and also "The Voice of Hollywood".She was born Margaret McEathron in Altadena, California and began singing at an early age in choruses. At the age of 14, she became part of the newly formed Los Angeles Concert Youth Chorus -- whose other members included a 13-year old Marilyn Horne and a 19-year old Paul Salamunovich, among many others -- under famed conductor Roger Wagner; this choir evolved into the Roger Wagner Chorale in 1948, and later into the Los Angeles Master Chorale in 1964.

Christopher Trotman "Trot" Nixon            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Christopher Trotman "Trot" Nixon: a Major League Baseball outfielder for the New York Mets. He is best known as a member of the Boston Red Sox from 1996û2006. He was drafted by the Sox in the 1st round of the 1993 amateur draft, and was the seventh pick overall. He bats and throws left-handed.Trot had a career-best year in 2003 when he batted .306 with 24 doubles and 28 home runs. In game 3 of the American League Division Series, Nixon was called from the bench as a pinch hitter in the bottom of the 11th. With the Red Sox facing elimination, Nixon lined a two-run homer over the center field wall for a 3-1 Boston victory.