Famous People with Name Pickens

Matt Pickens            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Matt Pickens: an American chef, best known as the winner of the second season of the Bravo television network's reality series Top Chef.Hall is a native of Great Neck, New York. His parents were both immigrants: his father from Scotland, and his mother from Israel.As a teenager, Hall worked at Marine Fishery, a seafood store in his hometown of Great Neck[1] and was later trained at Italy's Lorenzo de Medici Apicus Program[2][3] and at the Culinary Institute of America (CIA). He attended the CIA at the same time as his Top Chef runner-up Marcel Vigneron.[citation needed] At the time of his season two Top Chef competition, Ilan was a line cook at Casa Mono, a Spanish restaurant in Manhattan.

Carl McNally Pickens            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Carl McNally Pickens: is a former American football wide receiver in the NFL who played for the Cincinnati Bengals, Dallas Cowboys and Tennessee Titans.Before his NFL career, Pickens played college football for the University of Tennessee from 1989-1991, where he caught 109 passes for 1,875 yards and 13 touchdowns, and made the College Football All-America Team as a senior.

Madeleine A. Pickens            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Madeleine A. Pickens: is an American businesswoman who owns Del Mar Country Club in Rancho Santa Fe, California. She is also a Thoroughbred racehorse owner/breeder and an animal welfare activist and philanthropist who has earned a black belt in the martial art of Taekwondo. Ma

Israel Pickens            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Israel Pickens: was an American politician and lawyer, third Governor of the U.S. state of Alabama (1821?1825), member of the North Carolina Senate (1808?1810), and North Carolina Congressman in the United States House of Representatives (1811?1817).Pickens graduated fro

Francis Wilkinson Pickens            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Francis Wilkinson Pickens: was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 69th Governor of South Carolina when the state seceded from the United States during the American Civil War. Pickens served in Congress as a representative from South Carolina from 1834 until 1843 (5