Famous People with Name Russell

Russell Billiu Long            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Russell Billiu Long: was an American politician who served in the United States Senate as a Democrat from Louisiana from 1948 until 1987.

Russell A. Baze            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Russell A. Baze: Born to an American family, Russell Baze's father, Joe Baze, is a former jockey and trainer who was competing at Exhibition Park in Vancouver at the time of his birth giving him dual Canadian/American citizenship.Russell Baze began his racing career in Wa

Russell Tyrone Jones            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Russell Tyrone Jones: After establishing the Wu-Tang Clan, Ol' Dirty Bastard went on to a successful solo career. However, his professional success was hampered by his erratic personal behavior and frequent legal troubles, including incarceration. He died in late 2004 of conge

Russell Charles Means            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Russell Charles Means: is an American psychologist and sex researcher. While employed at various institutions including the University of Nebraska he conducted research on passive smoking and several other topics, but he is best known today for his claims about homosexuality.

Russell Ellington            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Russell Ellington: was an American basketball coach. He compiled nearly 900 wins (a record of 894-212) in his lifetime at the college level coaching Savannah State College, Savannah Tech and Morris Brown College. He also coached the world famous Harlem Globetrotters for nine years.

Darrell A. Russell            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Darrell A. Russell: was an American football defensive lineman for the Oakland Raiders and Washington Redskins of the National Football League who died in a car crash near Los Angeles after being indefinitely banned from the NFL for repeated violations of the league's substance abuse policy.

Charles Andrew "Andy" Russell            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Charles Andrew "Andy" Russell: wore number 34 as an outside linebacker for the Pittsburgh Steelers in 1963 and from 1966-1976. He was an early member of Pittsburgh's famed Steel Curtain defense, and was named the Steelers' MVP in 1971. He made seven Pro Bowl appearances--in 1969 and from 1971 through 1976--and earned two Super Bowl rings in Super Bowl IX and Super Bowl X.

Henry Norris Russell            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Henry Norris Russell: was an American astronomer who, along with Ejnar Hertzsprung, developed the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram (1910). In 1923, working with Frederick Saunders, he developed RS coupling which is also known as LS coupling.He co-wrote an influential two-volume textbook in 1927 with Raymond Smith Dugan and John Quincy Stewart: Astronomy: A Revision of Young’s Manual of Astronomy (Ginn & Co., Boston, 1926–27, 1938, 1945). This became the standard astronomy textbook for about two decades. There were two volumes: the first was The Solar System and the second was Astrophysics and Stellar Astronomy. The textbook popularized the idea that a star's properties (radius, surface temperature, luminosity, etc.) were largely determined by the star's mass and chemical composition,

Morgan Russell            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Morgan Russell: was a U.S. abstract painter. He was born and raised in New York City in 1886. He was along with artist Stanton Macdonald-Wright the founder of Synchromism an important modernist movement in early 20th century art.Initially he studied architecture and after 1903 he became friendly with the sculptor Arthur Lee for whom he posed as a model, and lived with for a while. During the period from 1903-1905 he studied sculpture at the Art Students League, with Lee and James Earle Fraser, (where he also posed as a model for the sculpture class). With financial help from Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney whom he met at the League in late January 1906 he traveled to Paris to study art. In 1907 after returning to New York City he studied painting at the League with Robert Henri among others. Returning to Paris in 1909 he studied at Matisse’s art school.[1][2] After meeting Stanton Macdonald-Wright in 1911, the two began developing theories about color and its relationship to pattern

Charles Marion Russell            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Charles Marion Russell: was an artist of the American West. Russell created more than 2,000 paintings of cowboys, Indians, and landscapes set in the Western United States, in addition to bronze sculptures. Russell was also a storyteller and author. The C. M. Russell Museum Compl