Famous People with Name Royal

Royal Alexander Brink            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Royal Alexander Brink: was a Canadian-born plant geneticist and plant breeder at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Brink was instrumental to the beginning of the Wisconsin maize breeding program during the 1920s. He also served as chair of the Department of Genetics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison from 1939 through 1951.His scientific achievements include the discovery of paramutation in maize and the study of transposons. Brink was also very interested in agriculture, creating new varieties of clover and alfalfa during his career.Brink was awarded many honors during his lifetime. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1947. He was also an editor of the Genetics Society of America's journal, Genetics, from 1952 through 1957 and served as president of the society in 1957.

Royal Robbins            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Royal Robbins: was one of the early pioneers of American rock climbing. Learning his skill at Tahquitz he moved on to put up many of the early Yosemite routes. A prolific writer, Robbins has written numerous influential magazine articles emphasizing a philosophy of mini

Royal Skousen            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Royal Skousen: a professor of linguistics and English at Brigham Young University, is mainly known as the editor of the Book of Mormon Critical Text Project and as the founder of the Analogical Modeling approach to language modeling.Royal Skousen was born in Cleveland, Ohio. He received a B.A. degree from Brigham Young University, with a major in English and a minor in mathematics. Skousen went on to study linguistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, there earning his Ph.D. degree in 1972. He has also held the position of assistant professor at the University of Texas. He is the older brother of libertarian author Mark Skousen and survivalist/economist author Joel Skousen. He is the nephew of conservative author Cleon Skousen.

Royal Meeker            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Royal Meeker: was an American statistician, born at Quaker Lake, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Iowa State College in 1898, then studied at Columbia (Ph.D., 1906) and in Europe at the University of Leipzig (1903-04). From 1906 to 1913, he was profe

Jesse Royal            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Jesse Royal: is a former professional rugby league player who played for the Newcastle Knights and New Zealand Warriors in the National Rugby League. Jesse Royal's position of choice was as a prop. Royal was a chef in the New Zealand Army and has also played in the Ba