Famous People with Name Britten

Edward Benjamin Britten            Origin/Culture/Country: British

Edward Benjamin Britten: was a British composer, conductor, violist and pianist.

Roy Britten            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Roy Britten: an American molecular biologist known for his discovery of repeated DNA sequences in genomes of higher organisms.Britten attended the phage course at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and started working on DNA hybridization. Through this work, he showed that eukaryotic genomes have many repetitive, non-coding DNA sequences -- junk DNA.Britten has been at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) for many years. He was a Visiting Associate at from 1971-73, a Senior Research Associate at Caltech from 1973-81 and Distinguished Carnegie Senior Research Associate from 1981-99. In 1999 he became Distinguished Carnegie Senior Research Associate in Biology, Emeritus at caltech.

Sebastien Britten            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Sebastien Britten: is a Canadian figure skater. He is the 1995 Canadian national champion. He represented Canada at the 1994 Winter Olympics, where he placed 10th.

Frederick Albert Britten            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Frederick Albert Britten: was a U.S. Representative from Illinois. He was a Construction worker and a Business executive before his political career began. He served as member of the Chicago, Illinois, city council from 1908 to 1912. He served as member and chairman of the city ci