Famous People with Name Philip

Philip James Villapiano            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Philip James Villapiano: is a former American football linebacker in the NFL. He played in four Pro Bowls and was a part of the Oakland Raiders Super Bowl XI winning team.

Philip “Fyvush” Finkel            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Philip “Fyvush” Finkel: an American actor best known as a star of Yiddish theater and for his role as lawyer Douglas Wambaugh on the television series Picket Fences, for which he earned an Emmy Award in 1994. He is also known for his portrayal of Harvey Lipschultz, a crotchety U.S. history teacher, on the Fox Broadcasting TV series Boston Public.

Philip Loeb            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Philip Loeb: was an American stage, film, and television actor who was blacklisted under McCarthyism and committed suicide.In 1949, Loeb joined Gertrude Berg on her radio show The Goldbergs, which Berg soon brought to television on CBS. Loeb became a viewer favorite as the sometimes exasperated but always loving husband Jake to Berg's sometimes meddlesome but always bighearted Molly Goldberg, and it looked as though he would become a television fixture.

Philip Akin            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Philip Akin: a Canadian actor who has been active for over thirty years in stage, film, and television. He has had featured roles in major American films such as The Sum of All Fears, S.W.A.T., and Get Rich or Die Tryin’. He has also done much voice work, including voicing the character of Bishop for the X-Men animated series and Tripp Hansen in Monster Force.Akin was born in Kingston, Jamaica as a middle brother of five sons. His parents moved to Oshawa, Ontario in 1953, and he and his brothers followed suit the next year. He has lived there ever since. Shortly after attending high school, Akin attended Toronto’s Ryerson Theatre School. In 1975, he became the school’s first acting graduate, landing a role just a few days later in a Shaw Festival production of Caesar and Cleopatra.

Philip Fox            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Philip Fox: was an American astronomer and an officer in the U.S. Army. He was the first director of the Adler Planetarium in Chicago, the first planetarium in the western hemisphere.While recovering, Fox earned a master's degree at Kansas State and taught math at St. John’s Military School in Salina, Kansas. Invited to Dartmouth College in 1901 by his cousin Ernest Fox Nichols, Fox soon departed for that school, where he earned a second B.S., this time in physics. While at Dartmouth, Edwin Brant Frost persuaded Fox to pursue a career in astronomy, and in 1903 Fox became a Carnegie Research Assistant at Yerkes Observatory of the University of Chicago. His primary interest at the observatory was in solar research.

Clifford Philip            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Clifford Philip: was an American lawyer and Republican Party politician who represented New Jersey's 6th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives (1945–1953) and the State of New Jersey in the United States Senate (1955–1979). In 1938, Case was

James "Scotty" Philip            Origin/Culture/Country: American

James "Scotty" Philip: was a South Dakota rancher, remembered as the "Man who saved the Buffalo" due to his role in helping to preserve the American Bison from extinction. Philip was elected as a Democrat to the South Dakota State Senate in 1898, representing Stanley County fro

James "Pate" Philip            Origin/Culture/Country: American

James "Pate" Philip: is a Republican from Wood Dale, Illinois. Philip was a member of the Illinois House of Representatives from 1966 to 1975, and the Illinois Senate from 1975 until his retirement in 2003. He was known as a highly influential politician in the Illinois state

Edward Thomas Philip            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Edward Thomas Philip: is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a New Democratic Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1975 to 1995, and was a cabinet minister in the government of Bob Rae. He was first elected to the Ontario legislature in the provincial election of 1975, defeating incumbent Liberal Leonard Braithwaite by 1,256 votes in the Toronto riding of Etobicoke. He was re-elected by a greater margin in the election of 1977, and fended off a stronger challenge from Progressive Conservative Aileen Anderson in the 1981 election. In the elections of 1985, 1987 and 1990, he was elected without difficulty. Philip supported Bob Rae for the provincial NDP leadership in 1982.