Famous People with Name Bishop

Bishop Perkins            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Bishop Perkins: was a United States Representative from New York.Perkins was a member of the State constitutional convention in 1846 and a member of the New York State Assembly in 1846, 1847, and again in 1849.He was elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-third Congress, se

Bishop Kilpatrick            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Bishop Kilpatrick: was a member of the Ohio General Assembly, serving for over three decades. He served as a representative from Northeast Ohio for many years, and resided in Trumbull County. With his father a political figure himself, Kilpatrick originally was elected as a

Bishop Walden Perkins            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Bishop Walden Perkins: was a United States Representative and Senator from Kansas. Born in Rochester, Ohio, he attended the common schools and Knox College (Galesburg, Illinois). He prospected for gold through California and New Mexico from 1860 to 1862 and served four years in

Bishop Abel Tendekayi Muzorewa            Origin/Culture/Country: Zimbabwe

Bishop Abel Tendekayi Muzorewa: served as Prime Minister of Zimbabwe Rhodesia from the Internal Settlement to the Lancaster House Agreement in 1979. A Methodist bishop and nationalist leader, he held office for only a few months. On 21 June 2007 Muzorewa said citizens, white and black alike, came to his house and asked him to run for president. He said Zimbabwe was "bleeding, economically and socially. It is painful to listen to them talk." He asked people to pray that negotiations between ZANU-PF and the MDC, mediated by South African President Thabo Mbeki, would be successful and for Zimbabwe's "salvation." Ultimately Muzorewa did not run in the 2008 presidential election.

Bishop Michael Fu Tieshan            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Bishop Michael Fu Tieshan: of Beijing was the top leader of the Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association.Fu was born in Hebei province. He served as a priest, and in 1979 was made a bishop by Beijing. The appointment lacked the approval of the pope. He was appointed chairman of the Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association in 1998. He was acting president of the government-recognized Bishops' Conference of the Catholic Church in China. He was named vice chairman of the standing committee of the National People's Congress, China's legislature, in 2003.

Glenn Andrew Bishop            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Glenn Andrew Bishop: is a former Australian and South Australian cricketer who represented Australia in two ODIs, playing as a right-handed batsman. He made his ODI debut in January 1987 against Pakistan at the WACA Ground in the Benson & Hedges Perth Challenge series as an opening batsman.

Scott Bishop            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Scott Bishop: is a football goalkeeper from New Zealand. Bishop played for Wigan Athletic in the English second division but an injury sustained in a training accident kept him out of football for an extended period. He had previously suffered a similar injury while pl

Abby Bishop            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Abby Bishop: is an Australian professional basketball player in the WNBA.

Bronwyn Kathleen Bishop            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Bronwyn Kathleen Bishop: an Australian politician, is a Member of the Australian House of Representatives for the Liberal Party representing the Division of Mackellar, New South Wales since 1994. Between 1989 and 1994, Bishop was a Senator for New South Wales, also representing t

Reginald Bishop            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Reginald Bishop: was an Australian politician. He was born in Adelaide and left school at fifteen and became a clerk in the South Australian Railways at the Islington Railway Workshops. He was an official of the Australian Railways Union from 1937 until 1956 and Secretary