Famous People with Name Tucker

Tucker Fredricks            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Tucker Fredricks: is an American speed skater who competed at the 2006 Winter Olympics.Tucker is a 2002 graduate of Joseph A. Craig High School in Janesville. He began skating in 1994 when a friend of his father's took him skating in lieu of playing hockey. He considers hi

Tucker Murphy            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Tucker Murphy: is a Bermudian cross-country skier who has competed since 2006. He finished 88th in the 15 km event at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. Murphy's best career finish was 11th in a lesser known event at Spain in 2009.

Albert Ames Tucker            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Albert Ames Tucker: was an American professional basketball player.A 6'8" forward from Oklahoma Baptist University, Tucker played four seasons (1967-1971) in the National Basketball Association and one season (1971-1972) in the American Basketball Association as a member of the Seattle SuperSonics, Cincinnati Royals, Chicago Bulls, Baltimore Bullets, and The Floridians. He averaged 10.1 points per game in his career and earned NBA All-Rookie Honors at the end of the 1967-68 NBA season.

Anthony Leon P J Tucker Jr            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Anthony Leon P J Tucker Jr: is an American professional basketball player formerly in the NBA. He currently plays for Hapoel Holon in the Israeli Ligat Winner. A former college basketball player for the University of Texas, Tucker attended Enloe High School in Raleigh. In his three seasons at Texas, he scored 1,169 points, including a career-high 594 in the 2005-06 season. He also collected 714 rebounds and dished out 170 assists, including 107 in 2005-06. He posted 116 steals throughout his career.In that season, he was a Second Team All-American and the Big 12 Player of the Year.

James D Tucker            Origin/Culture/Country: American

James D Tucker: is an American former professional basketball player.A 6'7" forward from Duquesne University, Tucker played three seasons (1954-1957) in the National Basketball Association as a member of the Syracuse Nationals. He averaged 4.1 points per game in his career and won a league championship in 1955.

Kelvin Trent Tucker            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Kelvin Trent Tucker: is a retired American professional basketball player who played 11 seasons in the American National Basketball Association.A 6'5" shooting guard, Tucker attended the University of Minnesota from 1978 to 1982, leading them to a Big Ten Conference championship in his senior year. He was then selected by the New York Knicks with the 6th overall pick of the 1982 NBA Draft. One of the earliest three-point specialists, Tucker represented the Knicks in the first ever Three-point Shootout (1986), making it to the semifinals before being outpaced by Craig Hodges and eventual winner Larry Bird. Tucker would play nine seasons with the Knicks before joining the San Antonio Spurs in 1991, and after one season with the Spurs he joined the Chicago Bulls, who won the 1993 NBA Championship. He retired after that season, having tallied 6,237 career points and 1,532 career assists, and he currently ranks 9th all-time in career three-point field goal accuracy (40.8%).

Preston Thomas Tucker            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Preston Thomas Tucker: was an American automobile designer and entrepreneur.He is most remembered for his 1948 Tucker Torpedo, an automobile which introduced many features that have since become widely used in modern cars. Production of the torpedo was shut down amidst scandal and accusations of stock fraud on March 3, 1949. The 1988 movie, Tucker: The Man and His Dream is based around the car's production.