Famous People with Name Merritt

Merritt Marwood Lovett            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Merritt Marwood Lovett: June 15, 1912 - September 19, 1995) was a player who appeared as a pinch-hitter in a single major league game for the Chicago White Sox on September 4, 1933. A native of Chicago, Illinois, USA, Lovett batted and threw right-handed. He went 0-for-1.

Merritt Ruhlen            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Merritt Ruhlen: an American linguist known for his work on the classification of languages and what this reveals about the origin and evolution of modern humans. In most regards, his work stands within the mainstream of standard comparative-historical linguistics. As the principal advocate and defender of Joseph Greenberg's ideas on language classification, Ruhlen has been the subject of numerous and withering attacks, which have not so far led to any change in his positions.Ruhlen studied at Rice University, the University of Paris, the University of Illinois and the University of Bucharest. He received his PhD from Stanford University in 1973 with a dissertation on the generative analysis of Romanian morphology. He subsequently worked for several years as a research assistant on the Stanford Universals Project directed by Joseph Greenberg and Charles Ferguson. Since 1994,

Merritt B. Curtis            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Merritt B. Curtis: Brigadier General, and lawyer who in 1960 ran for President of the United States in Washington with B. N. Miller and vice-president in Texas with Charles L. Sullivan under the Constitution Party banner. Curtis also ran for vice-president in Michigan with

William Edward "Bill" Merritt            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

William Edward "Bill" Merritt: was a cricketer who played for Canterbury, Northamptonshire and New Zealand. A leg break and googly bowler and a forceful lower order batsman, Merritt had played just four first-class matches when he was selected for the New Zealand tour to England in 192