Famous People with Name Burr

Burr Folks            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Burr Folks: was an American canoer who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics. In 1936 he finished tenth in the folding K-1 10000 m event while being eliminated in the heats of the K-2 1000 m event.

Burr W. Jones            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Burr W. Jones: was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Wisconsin from 1883 - 1885. He was a Democrat.

Burrhus Frederic Skinner            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Burrhus Frederic Skinner: was an influential American psychologist, author, inventor, advocate for social reform and poet. He was the Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology at Harvard University from 1958 until his retirement in 1974. He invented the operant conditioning chamber, innovated his own philosophy of science called Radical Behaviorism, and founded his own school of experimental research psychology – the experimental analysis of behavior. His analysis of human behavior culminated in his work Verbal Behavior, which has recently seen enormous increase in interest experimentally and in applied settings. He discovered and advanced the rate of response as a dependent variable in psychological research. He invented the cumulative recorder to measure rate of responding as part of his highly influential work on schedules of reinforcement. In a recent survey, Skinner was listed as the most influential psychologist of the 20th century. He was a prolific author, publishing 21 books and 180 articles.

Burrill Bernard Crohn            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Burrill Bernard Crohn: was an American gastroenterologist and one of the first to describe the disease of which he is the namesake, Crohn's disease.In 1932, Dr. Crohn and his two colleagues, Dr. Leon Ginzburg and Dr. Gordon D. Oppenheimer, published an important paper describin

Burry Stander            Origin/Culture/Country: African

Burry Stander: is the UCI Mountain Bike World Cup under-23 men's cross-country 2009 world champion. He is third overall in the World Cup standings behind multiple Olympic and World Champion, Julien Absalon (FRA) and José Hermida (ESP).[1] In the 2008 Olympic Summer Game

George Elbert Burr            Origin/Culture/Country: American

George Elbert Burr: was an American printmaker and painter best known for his etchings and drypoints of the desert and mountain regions of the American West.Burr was born in 1859 in Monroe Falls, Ohio. He studied at the Art Institute of Chicago for one winter, his only forma

Frederick Bonham Burr            Origin/Culture/Country: English

Frederick Bonham Burr: was an English cricketer who played a single first-class game, for Worcestershire against Oxford University in 1911. He made 39 and 7 not out, and caught Ronald Lagden in the first innings. In World War I he joined the Worcestershire Regiment, and having attained the rank of Lieutenant he died in Belgium, at Kemmel, aged only 27 (although his gravestone erroneously gives his age as 28).

Charles E. "Charlie" Burr            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Charles E. "Charlie" Burr: was an American Champion Thoroughbred horse racing jockey. In 1951, he became the seventh jockey in American Thoroughbred racing history to ride 300 or more winners in a single year. Charlie Burr was raised on a farm at Arkansas City, Kansas where he lear

Jannette Weston Burr            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Jannette Weston Burr: is a former American alpine skier from Sun Valley, Idaho.

Frank W. Burr            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Frank W. Burr: was the mayor of Teaneck, New Jersey from 1970-1974. He was a Methodist and an advocate for the Glenpointe development at the intersection of the New Jersey Turnpike (a portion of Interstate 95) and Interstate 80. Burr served as a Trustee on the Teaneck B