Famous People with Name Rex

Rex Rolston Cecil            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Rex Rolston Cecil: (October 8, 1916 - October 30, 1966) was a starting pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the Boston Red Sox (1944-1945). Cecil batted left handed and threw right handed.

Rex Everett Chapman            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Rex Everett Chapman: is a retired American professional basketball player who played for four teams through his 12-year NBA career.Chapman was a star at Kentucky, named All-SEC during his freshman and sophomore years and scoring 1,073 points in only two years.

Rex Andrew Walters            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Rex Andrew Walters: is a retired American professional basketball player and current men's basketball coach at the University of San Francisco.Walters played collegiately at Northwestern University before transferring to the University of Kansas, where he helped lead the Jayhawks to the Final Four in 1993. The 6'4" shooting guard was selected by the New Jersey Nets with the 16th pick in the 1993 NBA Draft. Walters played in the National Basketball Association from 1993 until 2000. He was traded to the Philadelphia 76ers in his third season and also played with the Miami Heat. After leaving the NBA, Walters played for León and Gran Canaria in Spain. In addition to his playing career, Walters had a minor role in the 1994 film Blue Chips. Walters is multiracial; he is half white and half Japanese.

Rex Allen            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Rex Allen: was an American actor, singer, and songwriter who is particularly known as the narrator in many Walt Disney nature and Western productions. For contributions to the recording industry,Rex Allen was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame .Born Elvie Rex Allen to Horace E. Allen and Luella Faye Clark on a ranch in Mud Springs Canyon, forty miles from Willcox, Arizona, Rex Allen would grow up to become a popular entertainer known as "The Arizona Cowboy." As a boy he played guitar and sang at local functions with his fiddle-playing father until high school graduation when he toured the southwest as a rodeo rider. He got his start in show business on the East Coast as a vaudeville singer then found work in Chicago as a performer on the WLS Radio program, National Barn Dance. In 1948 he signed with Mercury Records where he recorded a number of successful country music albums until 1952 when he switched to the Decca label where he would continue making records into the 1970s. He also recorded one album for Buena Vista (Disney, pictured) in the 1960s, although sources vary on the date of issue.

Rex Daniel Grossman III            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Rex Daniel Grossman III: is a quarterback of the National Football League for the Chicago Bears. He graduated from Bloomington High School South and attended the University of Florida on an athletic scholarship.[1] Grossman led the Florida Gators to two championship games, and was the runner-up for the 2001 Heisman Trophy.[2]Grossman began his professional career with the Bears as the twenty-second overall selection in the 2003 NFL Draft, but spent most of his first three seasons sidelined with injuries. [3] He completed his first full season in 2006, leading the Bears to a National Football Conference Championship, and helping the team score the second most points in the league.

Simon Rex            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Simon Rex: an American actor, television personality and rapper.In 1995, MTV kept Rex on the air for over a year after his solo adult video (Brad Posey's Young, Hard & Solo) work became known as his fame and popularity increased. After being let go by MTV during an update to its VJ line-up, Simon began to pursue acting and in 1999 was cast in the television show Jack & Jill, which ran for two seasons. He appeared as "Eli" in the TV show Felicity and television guest appearances followed including Baywatch, Everwood, and Summerland. In 2002, the pilot for the show What I Like About You was picked up by The WB which now has become The CW

George Rex            Origin/Culture/Country: American

George Rex: was a Democratic politician in Wooster in the U.S. State of Ohio who was in the Ohio Senate and was an Ohio Supreme Court Judge 1874-1877. He studied there for two more years, and returned home the winter of 1833-1834 without graduating. He taught school