Famous People with Name Norton

Norton Barnhill            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Norton Barnhill: is a retired American basketball player. A 6'5" guard, he played collegiately for the Washington State University.

Norton Juster            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Norton Juster: is an American architect and author. He is famous primarily for writing children's books; among them The Phantom Tollbooth and The Dot and the Line.Juster co-founded a small architectural firm, Juster Pope Associates, in Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts, in 1970. The firm was renamed Juster Pope Frazier after Jack Frazier joined the firm in 1978.

Norton Garfinkle            Origin/Culture/Country: South America

Norton Garfinkle: an economist and author.He received a BA with honors from Columbia University and did his graduate work at Columbia University and Princeton University. He was a professor of economics and economic history at Amherst College, where he edited the Journal of Economic History.On July 19, 2001, he appeared on the PBS show, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, to discuss the troubles with voting systems in the 2000 Presidential Election.On February 3, 2007, he was a guest on the Bloomberg on the Economy Radio Report on National Public Radio, in "Norton Garfinkle, Author, Discusses Rise of U.S. Middle Class".

Norton Zinder            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Norton Zinder: an American biologist famous for his discovery of genetic transduction. Zinder was born in New York City, received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and became a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1969. He currently heads a laboratory at Rockefeller University.Working as a graduate student with Joshua Lederberg, Zinder discovered that bacteriophage can carry genes from one bacterium to another. Initial experiments were carried out using Salmonella. Zinder and Lederberg named this process of genetic exchange transduction.

Norton Montresor Hughes-Hallett            Origin/Culture/Country: English

Norton Montresor Hughes-Hallett: was a British Army officer and a cricketer who played for Derbyshire in 1913 and 1914. He made his debut for Derbyshire in August 1913 in a match against Lancashire. Hughes-Hallett served with the King's Shropshire Light Infantry in World War I in France

Patrick Norton            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Patrick Norton: an interactive television program on TechTV geared toward the technology enthusiast. He is currently a managing editor at Revision3 where he hosts Systm and Tekzilla.After graduating from college, Norton tested products and wrote for PC Magazine, Computer

Peter Norton            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Peter Norton: is an American software publisher, author, and philanthropist.In the 1980s, Norton produced a popular tool to retrieve erased data from DOS disks, which was followed by several other tools which were collectively known as the Norton Utilities.

James Charles "Jim" Norton            Origin/Culture/Country: American

James Charles "Jim" Norton: was a professional football player. He was an original member of the Houston Oilers of the AFL, playing at strong safety and punter for their first nine seasons, 1960-68. Norton was an AFL All-Star for four seasons and holds the league's record for career interceptions. His jersey was the first retired by the Oilers.

Eunice Norton            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Eunice Norton: was an American pianist.Norton was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She studied as a child at the University of Minnesota with William Lindsay, who later introduced her to Dame Myra Hess. Hess was so impressed with the 15-year-old Norton's playing that she arranged for Norton to study in England in 1923 with Hess's own mentor, the famed pedagogue Tobias Matthay, with whom Norton would remain in association for 8 years.

Kenneth Howard Norton Sr.            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Kenneth Howard Norton Sr.: is a former WBC Heavyweight Champion of the World. He is best known for his 12-round split-decision victory over Muhammad Ali, on March 31, 1973. Norton started boxing when he was in the United States Marine Corps from 1963–1967, compiling a 24-2 record e