Famous People with Name Rand

Austin Loomer Rand            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Austin Loomer Rand: was a Canadian zoologist.In 1929, while still a graduate student at Cornell University, he travelled on an expedition to Madagascar as collector of birds. Rand published the results as his thesis for his Ph.D.. It was on this expedition that he met Richard Archbold, zoologist and philanthropist, with whom he became a lifelong friend. Archbold subsequently financed and led a series of biological expeditions to New Guinea in the 1930s in which Rand participated and co-led. In 1941 he assisted Archbold in the establishment of the Archbold Biological Station at Lake Placid, Florida, a place he eventually retired to.

Archie Rand            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Archie Rand: s an artist and academic from Brooklyn, New York, currently Presidential Professor of Art at Brooklyn College. [1]Rand's work as a painter and muralist is displayed around the world, including in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Bibliothèque Nationale de France in Paris, and the Tel Aviv Museum of Art.

William H. Rand            Origin/Culture/Country: American

William H. Rand: As a young man, he was an apprentice at his brothers' print shop in Boston. He was enticed west in September, 1849, by the California Gold Rush. He settled in Los Angeles and co-founded the state's first newspaper, the Los Angeles Star. In 1856, he returned to Boston for a short time before moving to Chicago and opening a print shop in June of that year. Two years later he hired an Irish immigrant, Andrew McNally, to work in his shop for $9 per week. The two formally established Rand, McNally & Co. in 1868 and became one of the biggest and best-known map publishers in history. Rand retired as president of Rand McNally in 1899 and returned to his boyhood home of East Milton, Massachusetts. He died in New Canaan, Massachusetts at his daughter's home after being ill for some time.

Richard Hilton Rand            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Richard Hilton Rand: was a Major League Baseball catcher. He played all or part of three seasons, 1953, 1955, and 1957, for the St. Louis Cardinals and Pittsburgh Pirates

Anthony E. "Tony" Rand            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Anthony E. "Tony" Rand: is an attorney and former Democratic member of the North Carolina General Assembly who represented the state's nineteenth Senate district from his appointment in 1981 until he unsuccessfully ran for Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina in 1988, and from