Famous People with Name Wharton

Arthur Wharton            Origin/Culture/Country: English

Arthur Wharton: is widely considered to be the first black professional association football player in the world. Though not the first black player outright - the amateur Andrew Watson predated him - Wharton was the first black professional and the first to play in the Football League.Wharton was an all-round sportsman - in 1886, he set a then world record of 10 seconds for a 100 yard sprint in the AAA championship.He was also a keen cyclist and cricketer, playing for local teams in Yorkshire and Lancashire.

Herb Wharton            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Herb Wharton: an Indigenous Australian former stockman and now internationally recognised poet and novelist.A Murri man, his maternal grandmother was Kooma, and both grandfathers Irish.[1] He was born in Yumba, an Aboriginal camp in the south-western Queensland town of Cunnamulla.Wharton has worked as a stockman, a drover and a labourer, but did not begin his writing career until in the 1980s, when he was around 50, he sat down under a tree and began to write. Through his writing he tried to answer questions about his people's past.

Lian James Wharton            Origin/Culture/Country: English

Lian James Wharton: is a former English cricketer who played for Derbyshire between 2000 and 2003. Wharton was born in Holbrook, Derbyshire. He appeared for three years as the leading spinner within the Derbyshire line-up, and has since taken his cricketing career into the r

Louis Edgar Wharton            Origin/Culture/Country: English

Louis Edgar Wharton: played first-class cricket in 12 matches in English cricket in the period from 1920 to 1922. He appeared once for Oxford University in 1920, and then 11 times for Somerset in 1921 and 1922.

Jesse Wharton            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Jesse Wharton: was an attorney who briefly represented Tennessee in each house of Congress.Wharton was born in Albemarle County, Virginia and studied law and was admitted to the Virginia bar. Moving to Tennessee, he was elected to the United States House of Representati