Famous People with Name Osler

Benjamin Louwrens Osler            Origin/Culture/Country: African

Benjamin Louwrens Osler: was a rugby union footballer who played internationally for South Africa. Osler played mainly at fly-half for both South Africa, and his provincial team of Western Province.The next Springbok (as the South African team is known) series was hosting New Zealand's All Blacks in 1928. The teams had met once before in a Test series, drawn 1–1 (with 1 match drawn) in New Zealand in 1921. The first Test was played in Durban and the Springboks won 17–0, with Osler scoring a world record 14 points in the match.[4] Osler played in the remaining three Tests and the series was eventually drawn 2–2; just like in 1921.

Sir Edmund Boyd Osler            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Sir Edmund Boyd Osler: was a Canadian banker and politician. In 1896, Osler was elected to the Canadian House of Commons as a Conservative representative of West Toronto. He continued to serve until 1917. Together with Byron Edmund Walker and others, Osler participated in the campaign to found an art museum in Toronto initiated by George Agnew Reid. These efforts were crowned the passing of the Royal Ontario Museum Act in 1912 and on March 19, 1914 with the opening of the Royal Ontario Museum. Osler donated a large collection of paintings by Paul Kane, which he had bought in 1903 after the death of its former owner George William Allan, to the museum already in 1912. He was knighted in 1912.

Edmund Boyd Osler            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Edmund Boyd Osler: was a Liberal party member of the Canadian House of Commons. He was first elected in the 1968 general election at the Winnipeg South Centre riding and served one term, the 28th Canadian Parliament. Osler left Parliament after his defeated in the 1972 election to A. Daniel McKenzie of the Progressive Conservative party.