Famous People with Name Norton

Norton Barnhill            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Norton Barnhill: is a retired American basketball player. A 6'5" guard, he played collegiately for the Washington State University.

Norton Juster            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Norton Juster: is an American architect and author. He is famous primarily for writing children's books; among them The Phantom Tollbooth and The Dot and the Line.Juster co-founded a small architectural firm, Juster Pope Associates, in Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts, in 1970. The firm was renamed Juster Pope Frazier after Jack Frazier joined the firm in 1978.

Norton Garfinkle            Origin/Culture/Country: South America

Norton Garfinkle: an economist and author.He received a BA with honors from Columbia University and did his graduate work at Columbia University and Princeton University. He was a professor of economics and economic history at Amherst College, where he edited the Journal of Economic History.On July 19, 2001, he appeared on the PBS show, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, to discuss the troubles with voting systems in the 2000 Presidential Election.On February 3, 2007, he was a guest on the Bloomberg on the Economy Radio Report on National Public Radio, in "Norton Garfinkle, Author, Discusses Rise of U.S. Middle Class".

Norton Zinder            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Norton Zinder: an American biologist famous for his discovery of genetic transduction. Zinder was born in New York City, received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and became a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1969. He currently heads a laboratory at Rockefeller University.Working as a graduate student with Joshua Lederberg, Zinder discovered that bacteriophage can carry genes from one bacterium to another. Initial experiments were carried out using Salmonella. Zinder and Lederberg named this process of genetic exchange transduction.

Norton Montresor Hughes-Hallett            Origin/Culture/Country: English

Norton Montresor Hughes-Hallett: was a British Army officer and a cricketer who played for Derbyshire in 1913 and 1914. He made his debut for Derbyshire in August 1913 in a match against Lancashire. Hughes-Hallett served with the King's Shropshire Light Infantry in World War I in France

Rangitane Will "Tane" Norton            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Rangitane Will "Tane" Norton: is a New Zealand rugby union player. He played at the hooker position. In 1977 he captained the All Blacks to a series win over the British Lions and played 3 games for the World Invitation XV in South Africa. In 2006, Norton was made a Member of the New

Travis Norton            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Travis Norton: is an Australian retired professional rugby league footballer of the 1990s and 2000s. A Queensland State of Origin representative lock forward, he played his club football with the South Queensland Crushers, Bulldogs and North Queensland Cowboys, whom he

Albert Norton            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Albert Norton: was a Queensland politician and pastoralist. In 1866 he stood for the Port Curtis seat in the legislative assembly but was defeated, and in the following year was nominated to the legislative council. He resigned his seat in 1868 and did not attempt to en

James Norton            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

James Norton: was a solicitor and public figure in early colonial New South Wales. Admitted to practise in England, he arrived in Sydney in September 1818 where only four other attorneys were then practising. He was the founder of the first law firm in Sydney. He was a

John Norton            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

John Norton: was an English-born Australian journalist, editor and member of the New South Wales Parliament. He was a writer and newspaper proprietor best known for his Sydney newspaper the Truth. John Norton was arguably one of Australia's most controversial public f