Famous People with Name Urey

Urey Woodson            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Urey Woodson: was a Kentucky Democrat and a newspaper editor and publisher. He was a member of Democratic National Committee from Kentucky from 1896 to 1912, 1916-1918, 1924-1928. He was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention from Kentucky in 1932. Presbyteri

Harold Clayton Urey            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Harold Clayton Urey: American physical chemist whose pioneering work on isotopes earned him the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1934 and later led him to theories of planetary evolution.

Daniel Domingo Salamanca Urey            Origin/Culture/Country: South America

Daniel Domingo Salamanca Urey: was President of Bolivia from March 5, 1931 until he was overthrown in a coup d'état on November 27, 1934, during the country's disastrous Chaco War with Paraguay. Born in Cochabamba, Salamanca studied law, before being elected to Bolivia's Chamber of Deputies in 1899 for the Liberal Party. Two years later, President José Manuel Pando appointed him Finance Minister. Salamanca eventually split with the Liberals, however, and helped to found the new Republican Party, running unsuccessfully for Vice-President in 1917.