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

Gale Ann Norton            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Gale Ann Norton: served as the 48th United States Secretary of the Interior from 2001 to 2006 under President George W. Bush. She was the first woman to hold the position. From 1991 to 1999, Norton served as Attorney General of Colorado. Prior to her election as Colorado

Patrick Daniel Norton            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Patrick Daniel Norton: was a U.S. Representative from North Dakota with the Republican Party.He served as the superintendent of the schools of Ramsey County from 1905 to 1907, and as the Chief Clerk of the North Dakota House of Representatives in 1907 and 1908. He moved to Hett

Mary Teresa Norton            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Mary Teresa Norton: was an American politician. The sixth woman in the United States Congress, she was the first from an Eastern state (New Jersey), and the first non-Republican (she was a Democrat). She went on to serve an unprecedented 13 consecutive terms in the United St

Ebenezer Foote Norton            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Ebenezer Foote Norton: was a U.S. Representative from New York. He moved to Buffalo, New York, in 1815. Attorney for the Niagara Bank. Held several local offices. He was one of the founders of the original Buffalo Harbor Co. in 1819. Norton was elected as a Jacksonian to the Tw

James Albert Norton            Origin/Culture/Country: American

James Albert Norton: was a U.S. Representative from Ohio. After the war Norton studied medicine and commenced practice in Iowa in 1867 and continued in that profession until 1879. He served as member of the State house of representatives 1873-1879, as speaker in 1877 and 1878