Famous People with Name Ralston

Ralston Burdett Hemsley            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Ralston Burdett Hemsley: (June 24, 1907 – July 31, 1972) was a Major League Baseball catcher. Born in Syracuse, Ohio, he played 19 seasons in the majors. He was nicknamed "Rollicking Rollie".

Ralston Crawford            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Ralston Crawford: was an American abstract painter, lithographer, and photographer.Crawford was best known for his abstract representations of urban life and industry. His early work placed him with Precisionist artists like Niles Spencer and Charles Sheeler. Here, the focus was on realistic, sharp portrayals of factories, bridges, and shipyards. Later work was geometrically abstract. In Spain, he observed bullfighting, and the religious procession during Holy Week in Seville. In New Orleans, he painted and photographed cemeteries and jazz musicians (requiring a permit to visit bars normally restricted to blacks). Fortune magazine sent Crawford to the Bikini Atoll in 1946 to record a nuclear weapon test.

Ralston Malcolm Otto            Origin/Culture/Country: Jamaican

Ralston Malcolm Otto: played cricket as a batsman for the Leeward Islands in the 1980s, and has subsequently coached and managed the team. He managed the Antigua and Barbuda team that competed in the 2008 Stanford 20/20 tournament.

Richard Dennis Ralston            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Richard Dennis Ralston: is an American former professional tennis player. He attended the University of Southern California and won NCAA championships under their legendary coach, George Toley.At the University of Southern California he won the NCAA singles championship in 1963, 1964; and the NCAA doubles championship in 1963 with Rafael Osuna and in 1964 with William Bond; he was on the University of Southern California NCAA-winning championship tennis teams in 1962, 1963, 1964

William "Billy" Chapman Ralston            Origin/Culture/Country: American

William "Billy" Chapman Ralston: was a San Francisco, California businessman and financier, and was the founder of the Bank of California. A biography of him is entitled "The Man Who Built San Francisco: ...".He built Ralston Hall in Belmont, California as a summer home. John Painter Gaynor is thought to have worked on it. Ralston Hall is on the National Register of Historic Places. It is now part of the campus of Notre Dame de Namur University.His dream was the construction of the Palace Hotel in San Francisco, California at the corner of New Montgomery and Market. He spent $5M on its construction, draining his banking empire in the process. John Painter Gaynor was the architect and engineer. The hotel had early elevators or "rising rooms" and electric call buttons in the rooms. There is still a Ralston Room in the hotel off the main corridor to the left.

Leslie John Ralston            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Leslie John Ralston: is an American boxer. Known as "Lightning" Les, Ralston began his professional career in 2002, and lost to Sergio Mora in 2004 before Mora's appearance on The Contender. He will be one of the featured boxers on the 3rd season of the boxing reality TV seri

Vera Ralston            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Vera Ralston: was a Czech figure skater and actress. She later became a naturalized American citizen. She worked as an actress during the 1940s and 1950s. Ralston was born Vera Helena Hrubá to a wealthy jeweler in Prague, Czechoslovakia. Her age was uncertain; Ralston

Samuel Moffett Ralston            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Samuel Moffett Ralston: was Democratic politician, the 28th Governor of and a United States Senator from the U.S. state of Indiana. Born into a large impoverished family, he took many jobs as a child including working in a coal mine. He taught school and studied law, becoming a