Famous People with Name Wright

Wright Marion Morris            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Wright Marion Morris: was an award-winning American novelist, photographer, and essayist. He is known for his portrayals of the people and artifacts of the Great Plains in words and pictures, as well as for experimenting with narrative forms.

Wright Brothers, Orville            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Wright Brothers, Orville: were two Americans who are generally credited[1][2][3] with inventing and building the world's first successful airplane and making the first controlled, powered and sustained heavier-than-air human flight on 17 December 1903. They are also officially credited worldwide through the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale, the standard setting and record-keeping body for aeronautics and astronautics, as "the first sustained and controlled heavier-than-air powered flight". In the two years afterward, the brothers developed their flying machine into the first practical fixed-wing aircraft. Although not the first to build and fly experimental aircraft, the Wright brothers were the first to invent aircraft controls that made fixed wing flight possible.

Michelle Wright            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Michelle Wright: a Canadian country music artist. She is one of the country's most widely recognised and awarded female country singers of the '90s, winning the Canadian Country Music Awards (CCMA) Fans' Choice Entertainer Of The Year Award twice in 1993 & 1995. Brian Fer

Priscilla Wright            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Priscilla Wright: a Canadian singer.Wright had a hit in the United States at the age of 14 with the song "Man in the Raincoat" in 1955. It sold over half a million copies in the U.S.[1] and hit #16 on the Billboard Singles Chart.[2] Following this she spent 14 years singin

Twila Paris Wright            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Twila Paris Wright: a Contemporary Christian Music songwriter, author, vocalist and pianist.Since 1981, Twila Paris has released 22 albums, amassed 33 number one Christian Radio singles, and was named the Gospel Music Association Female Vocalist of the Year three years in a

Wendy Alane Wright            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Wendy Alane Wright: a multi-racial actress and singer; and daughter of author W.D. Wright (Crisis of the Black Intellectual, Racism Matters). Wendy is married to James T. Smith whose daughter Taryn Smith is the great, great, great granddaughter of American abolitionist John

David McKee Wright            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

David McKee Wright: was an Irish-born poet and journalist, active in New Zealand and Australia.Wright went to New Zealand when he was about 18 and had some years of station life, during which he did much writing in both prose and verse. He studied for the Congregational ministry and attended university classes at Dunedin in 1897. He had done much private reading, but found that apart from English his education was generally below that of the other students. He won a university prize for a poem, and published about this period, Aorangi and other Verses (1896), Station Ballads and other Verses (1897), Wisps of Tussock (1900), and New Zealand Chimes (1900). None of these were important, though they contained some good popular verse. As a clergyman Wright was liked, but he found the work uncongenial and gave it up for journalism in which he had considerable experience in New Zealand.