Famous People with Name Taylor

Taylor Phillip Dent            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Taylor Phillip Dent: is a tennis player from the United States.He has won 4 ATP singles titles during his career: Newport (2002), Bangkok (2003), Memphis (2003), and Moscow (2003), and reached the finals of three other events on tour. However, he may be best known (at least in the US) as the opponent of a young boy playing the role of Jaden Agassi, the son of Andre Agassi and Steffi Graf, in a television commercial for insurer Genworth Financial.

Taylor Eigsti            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Taylor Eigsti: is an American jazz pianist, most associated with post-bop. He also incorporates elements of funk and soul music.At the same time he graduated from Woodside Priory School as a salutatorian in 2001 and he engaged in "normal" activities like basketball even

Taylor Wray            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Taylor Wray: is a Canadian lacrosse player who plays for the Philadelphia Wings of the National Lacrosse League. Taylor's older brother Devan Wray plays for the Calgary Roughnecks. Wray began his career with the Calgary Roughnecks in 2004, and won the NLL Championship

Taylor Ann Matheny            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Taylor Ann Matheny: is a retired American professional wrestler who competed in North American independent promotions including Ohio Valley Wrestling, a developmental territory of World Wrestling Entertainment. She is best known, however, as a contestant on MTV's Tough Enoug

Taylor Drysdale            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Taylor Drysdale: was an American former backstroke swimmer who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics. In 1936 he finished fourth in the 100 metre backstroke event.

Don L. Taylor            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Don L. Taylor: was a Progressive Conservative party member of the Canadian House of Commons. He was a teacher. He was first elected to Parliament at the Cowichan—Malahat—The Islands riding in the 1979 general election after an unsuccessful campaign at Nanaimo—Cowichan—The Islands in the 1974 federal election. After completing one term, the 31st Canadian Parliament, Taylor was defeated in the 1980 election by James Manly of the New Democratic Party. Taylor was a candidate in the 1984 federal election but again lost to Manly.

John Russell Taylor            Origin/Culture/Country: American

John Russell Taylor: was a Canadian politician. He was the Progressive Conservative Member of Parliament from Vancouver—Burrard from 1957 to 1962. Taylor was defeated in the 1963 general election. He was defeated in the 1974 general election when he ran in Vancouver Kingsway. Taylor was a member of the Law Society of British Columbia from 1946 until his retirement in 1988. He was one of the first lawyers in Canada to be involved in mostly immigration law matters. Taylor gained recognition in 1957 with his representation of William Hanna, "the man without a country," whose case was used by the opposition Progressive Conservative Party in the House of Commons to attack the then government's handling of immigration matters.

Brent Taylor            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Brent Taylor: is a educator, columnist and politician in New Brunswick, Canada. He was a member of the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick from 1991 to 1995 and was the Progressive Conservative Party's candidate for the Southwest Miramichi riding, which he previously represented, in the 2006 election when he was unsuccessful in being re-elected. Taylor first became involved in electoral politics in the early 1990s with the formation of the Confederation of Regions Party of New Brunswick. He was elected to the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick in the 1991 provincial election to represent the riding of Southwest Miramichi. Taylor was an ally of CoR leader Arch Pafford and was considered on the right of the already generally conservative CoR Party. Pafford did not win a seat in the legislature and as a result resigned the leadership in favour of Danny Cameron who became interim leader. Pafford then unsuccessfully tried to rescind his resignation, but a leadership convention was organized at which Taylor ran as the pro-Pafford candidate and won. His term as leader was brief however as Cameron's supporters on the party executive declared Taylor's victory void and Cameron returned to the leadership.

Brooke Taylor            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Brooke Taylor: is a politician in Nova Scotia, Canada. He was the Progressive Conservative Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Colchester-Musquodoboit Valley from 1993 to 2009. Prior to June 2009 he was Minister of Transportation and Infrastructure Renewal in the Executive Council of Nova Scotia. Taylor was born in Musquodoboit Valley. He did not reoffer in the 2009 election. At the time of his retirement he was the longest continuous serving Progressive Conservative MLA .

Charles Keith Taylor            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Charles Keith Taylor: was a Progressive Conservative party member of the Canadian House of Commons. He was a barrister and solicitor and lawyer by career. Keith Taylor was first elected at the Churchill riding in the 1972 general election. He served his term in the 29th Parliament, but did not campaign for a second term in that office in the 1974 election.