Famous People with Name Wallace

Wallace Smith            Origin/Culture/Country: British

Wallace Smith: was an English footballer who played for six clubs during his career, including three league clubs.Smith was born in the Allerton area of Bradford in 1883. He moved to Northamptonshire with his family when he was five-years-old.

Wallace Norman "Wally" Harris            Origin/Culture/Country: British

Wallace Norman "Wally" Harris: was an English professional footballer. Born in Birmingham, he played as an outside right for Birmingham and Walsall in the Football League during the 1920s. Released by Birmingham due to health problems, he retired not long afterwards and died in a sanatorium in Davos, Switzerland, aged 33.

Wallace Hume Carothers            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Wallace Hume Carothers: was an American chemist, inventor and the leader of organic chemistry at DuPont, credited with the invention of Nylon.[1]Carothers was a group leader in DuPont’s Experimental Station laboratory, near Wilmington, Delaware, where most polymer research was done.[2] Carothers was a brilliant organic chemist who, in addition to first developing nylon, also helped lay the groundwork for Neoprene. After receiving his Ph.D, he taught at several universities before he was hired by the DuPont Company to work on fundamental research.He married the former Helen Sweetman on February 21, 1936. Wallace Carothers had been troubled by periods of mental depression since his youth

Wallace Smith Broecker            Origin/Culture/Country: South America

Wallace Smith Broecker: the Newberry Professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University and a scientist at Columbia's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory.Broecker's areas of research include Pleistocene geochronology, radiocarbon dating and chemical oceanography, including oceanic mixing based on stable and radioisotope distribution. This included research on the biogeochemical cycles of the element carbon and on the record of climate change contained in polar ice and ocean sediments.He attended Wheaton College and interacted with J. Laurence Kulp and Paul Gast. Broecker then transferred to Columbia University. At Columbia, he worked at the Lamont Geological Observatory with W. Maurice Ewing and Walter Bucher.

Wallace Berman            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Wallace Berman: was an American West Coast visual /assemblage artist.Instead of pursuing a formal art 'career' he worked in a factory finishing antique furniture. This work gave him the opportunity to salvage reject materials and scraps which he used to make sculptures. He began a mail art publication called SEMINA The format was a letterpress text printed on an assemblage of colored paper, photos, and essentially found material. Contributors included John Altoon, Antonin Artaud, Charles Brittin, Charles Bukowski, William S. Burroughs, Jean Cocteau, Allen Ginsberg, Marion Grogan, Walter Hopps, Larry Jordan, Philip Lamantia, Michael McClure, David Meltzer, Stuart Perkoff, and John Weiners.

George Corley Wallace, Jr.            Origin/Culture/Country: American

George Corley Wallace, Jr.: was the 45th Governor of Alabama, serving four terms: 1963–1967, 1971–1979 and 1983–1987. "The most influential loser" in 20th-century U.S. politics, according to biographers Dan T. Carter[1] and Stephan Lesher, he ran for U.S. president four times, runni

Cornelia Ellis Wallace            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Cornelia Ellis Wallace: was the First Lady of Alabama from 1971–1978, the second wife of Democratic Governor George C. Wallace, Jr. (1919–1998). A dark-haired beauty, Mrs. Wallace attracted national attention on May 15, 1972, when, at the age of thirty-three, she threw herself o

Lurleen Brigham Wallace            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Lurleen Brigham Wallace: was the 46th Governor of Alabama from 1967 until her death in 1968. She was the first wife of Alabama Governor George Wallace, whom she succeeded as governor. She succeeded her husband as he was forbidden by Alabama law to succeed himself. She was Alabama

George Corley Wallace, III            Origin/Culture/Country: American

George Corley Wallace, III: is an American politician from Alabama. In 1986, Wallace was elected Alabama State Treasurer, narrowly winning the Democratic Party primary and runoff over Jim Zeigler and facing no opposition in the general election.

Henry Agard Wallace            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Henry Agard Wallace: was the 33rd Vice President of the United States (1941–1945), the Secretary of Agriculture (1933–1940), and the Secretary of Commerce (1945–1946). In the 1948 presidential election, Wallace was the nominee of the Progressive Party.