Famous People with Name Stanley

Stanley Kramer            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Stanley Kramer: was an Academy Award-nominated American film director and producer responsible for some of Hollywood's most famous "message" movies.Director Steven Spielberg once described him as "one of our great filmmakers, not just for the art and passion he put on screen, but for the impact he has made on the conscience of the world.

Stanley Tookie Williams III            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Stanley Tookie Williams III: Williams refused to aid police investigations with any information against his gang, and was implicated in attacks on guards and other inmates as well as multiple escape plots. In 1993, Williams began making changes in his behavior, and became an anti-gang activist while on Death Row in California.

Stanley Knapp Hathaway            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Stanley Knapp Hathaway: was a U.S. Republican politician who served as Governor of Wyoming from 1967 to 1975. Thereafter, he served four months as the United States Secretary of the Interior.From 1954 until his election in 1962 as state Republican Party chairman, he served as prosecuting attorney for Goshen County, Wyoming. He was party chairman for two years until 1964. After his two terms as governor, Hathaway joined the Cabinet of his fellow native Nebraskan, U.S. President Gerald Ford before resigning for health reasons. Following his tenure as Interior Secretary, he returned to Wyoming, and co-founded the law firm of Hathaway and Kunz, where he practiced until his death. He died at his home in Cheyenne from an undisclosed illness at the age of eighty-one.

Stanley "Stan" Lynch            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Stanley "Stan" Lynch: He started to work with various Florida bands, among them Styrofoam Soul and Road Turkey, and when he was 15 he met Ron Blair, who was considerably older than Lynch. "I remember he accused me of stealing an amp from him. Hell, I didn’t steal it. I was roadieing for him!" Alas, drums didn’t absorb all of Lynch’s feistiness as his parents had hoped. And he did stay in school long enough to graduate from P.K. Yonge School in 1973. By the time he moved to Los Angeles and hooked up with fellow Floridians to start Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers in 1976, he’d calmed down a little.

Stanley Gayetzky            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Stanley Gayetzky: usually known by his stage name Stan Getz, was an American jazz saxophone player. Known as "The Sound" because of his warm, lyrical tone, Getz's prime influence was the wispy, mellow tone of his idol, Lester Young. In 1986, however, Getz said: "I never consciously tried to conceive of what my sound should be..." Getz played a Selmer Mark VI tenor saxophone.

Charles Henry Stanley            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Charles Henry Stanley: was the first chess champion of the United States. When the first-ever U.S. championship match took place in 1845, Stanley defeated Eugéne Rousseau of New Orleans and thus claimed the title.

Richard Peter Stanley            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Richard Peter Stanley: He is the Norman Levinson Professor of Applied Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He received his Ph.D. at Harvard University in 1971 under the supervision of Gian-Carlo Rota. He is universally recognize

Julian C. Stanley Jr.            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Julian C. Stanley Jr.: was an American psychologist best known for his work on psychometrics.Born in Macon, Georgia, he graduated from West Georgia Junior College (1936) and Georgia Teachers College (1937), now Georgia Southern University. During World War II (1942–1945), he se

Aileen Stanley            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Aileen Stanley: was a United States popular singer.Stanley was born as Maude Elsie Aileen Muggeridge in Chicago, Illinois. In her childhood, with the urging of her widowed mother, she and her older brother Stanley sang and danced in vaudeville as Stanley and Aileen. Afte

Winston Ulysses Stanley            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Winston Ulysses Stanley: is a Canadian rugby union footballer. He played wing for University of British Columbia, in Canada, later moving to English club Leicester Tigers. He earned 66 caps for Canada. He made his debut on May 21, 1994 against the United States. He played at the