Famous People with Name Wallace

Wallace Hashim Chambers            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Wallace Hashim Chambers: is a former American football defensive tackle for the Chicago Bears and Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the 1970s. He was selected with the eighth overall pick by the Bears in the 1973 NFL Draft out of Eastern Kentucky University, and played previous to that for Mount Clemens High School, where he graduated in 1969.

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.

Colin Wallace            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Colin Wallace: is best known as a first class cricketer playing three games for Auckland in the 1978-79 season. Wallace was born in Auckland. He was also a right-hand batsman who had a first-class average of 14.66 as well as a wicket-keeper.

Edmond Wallace            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Edmond Wallace: was a French Olympic fencer. He competed in the individual épée event at the 1900 Summer Olympics.[1] He was the brother of fencer Richard Wallace.

Richard Wallace            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Richard Wallace: was a French Olympic fencer. He competed in the individual épée event at the 1900 Summer Olympics.[1] He was the brother of fencer Edmond Wallace.

John Henry Austin Wallace            Origin/Culture/Country: Zimbabwe

John Henry Austin Wallace: was a first-class cricketer who played for Rhodesia in the Currie Cup. Wallace, a right-handed batsman, was the only Rhodesian to pass 500 runs in the 1951/52 Currie Cup season. He had particular success against North Eastern Transvaal during his career,

Nesbit Willoughby Wallace            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Nesbit Willoughby Wallace: was a Canadian cricketer. Wallace was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm slow underarm. Wallace made his first-class debut in the 1863 for the Gentlemen of the South against Surrey. Wallace's final first-class match came against the Marylebone Cr