Famous People with Name Randolph

Randolph Hume Dean            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Randolph Hume Dean: is an American former handball player who competed in the 1976 Summer Olympics.In 1976 he was part of the American team which finished tenth in the Olympic tournament. He played all five matches and scored 24 goals.

Randolph Ruhland Veres            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Randolph Ruhland Veres: is a former Major League Baseball pitcher. He was 6'3" tall, weighed 210 pounds and was right-handed. He attended Cordova High School.Originally drafted in the 32nd round (740th overall) of the 1984 draft by the New York Mets, he did not sign at that time. After spending a season at Sacramento City College, he was drafted by the Milwaukee Brewers second overall in the 1985 January draft, and he did decided to sign.

Randolph Fitzgerald (Randy) Samuel            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Randolph Fitzgerald (Randy) Samuel: is a Canadian former soccer player who, with 82 caps, played a record number of times for the Canadian national team. Samuel, born in Trinidad, grew up in Richmond, British Columbia, graduating from McNair High School. After playing for Richmond South Warriors he was drafted by the Vancouver 86ers in the 1981 North American Soccer League draft, though he never signed with the club. Samuel earned his first cap for Canada in a 3-1 away loss to Honduras on 11 November 1983 and played his country's three matches in their only World Cup finals appearance, the 1986 World Cup finals.

Randolph L. "Randy" Smyth            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Randolph L. "Randy" Smyth: is a former American competitive sailor and two-time Olympic silver medalist.

Randolph Townsend            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Randolph Townsend: is a Republican member of the Nevada Senate, representing Washoe County District 4 (map) since 1982.

John Randolph            Origin/Culture/Country: American

John Randolph: Randolph was born Emanuel Hirsch Cohen in New York City, the son of Jewish immigrants Dorothy (née Shore), an insurance agent, and Louis Cohen, a hat manufacturer. His stepfather was Joseph Lippman, and as a result Randolph was briefly known as Mortimer Lippman during his childhood. In the 1930s he was active in politics as well as acting. He made his Broadway debut in 1938 in Coriolanus. Randolph joined the United States Army Air Force in World War II. He wound up blacklisted by the Hollywood studio bosses in 1955 after he refused to answer questions and claimed the Fifth Amendment before the HUAC relating to the Cold War Communist infiltration of our State Department. In 1988 he was elected president of the National Council of American-Soviet Friendship, which succeeded the National Council on Soviet Relations, founded in 1941. The NCSR grew out of the more overtly radical American-Soviet friendship movement of the 1930s, whose organizational center was the Friends of the Soviet Union founded in 1929. The Council, composed largely of professionals who were sympathetic to Socialism, believed that the USSR and the United States should join together in their common fight against fascism. In 1946, the House Un-American Activities Committee began a formal investigation of NCASF, and in 1947, it was indicted for failure to register with the Subversive Activities Control Board. Throughout its operation, the NCASF issued numerous pamphlets and bibliographies about life in the Soviet Union, as well as information on American-Soviet relations.

Lillian Randolph            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Lillian Randolph: was an American actress and singer, a veteran of radio, film, and television.A native of Louisville, Kentucky, she was the younger sister of actress Amanda Randolph. An African American, she worked in entertainment from the 1930s well into the 1970s, appe

Leo Randolph            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Leo Randolph: was an American boxer, who won the Flyweight Gold medal at the 1976 Summer Olympics. Randolph had an outstanding amateur career. Randolph was a product of the Tacoma Boys Club amateur program, along with fellow Olympic Gold Medalist Sugar Ray Seales, and

Richard L. Randolph            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Richard L. Randolph: is a longtime insurance agency owner in Fairbanks, Alaska who is best known as the first person to be elected to partisan office under the banner of the Libertarian Party with his election to the Alaska House of Representatives in 1978. He was re-elected

Asa Philip Randolph            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Asa Philip Randolph: was a homesteader, newspaper publisher and machinist who served as a Socialist member of the Common Council and of the Wisconsin State Assembly.