Famous People with Name Sargent

Sargent Claude Johnson            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Sargent Claude Johnson: was one of the first Californian African-American artists to achieve a national reputation.He was known for Abstract Figurative and Early Modern styles. He was a painter, potter, ceramist, printmaker, graphic artist, sculptor, and carver. He worked with a

Wallace Leslie William Sargent            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Wallace Leslie William Sargent: an American astronomer. He is often known as Wal Sargent. Although now a U.S. citizen, he was born in Elsham, England. He received his Ph.D. in 1959 from Manchester University before coming to work at Caltech where he has worked ever since (excepting an absence of four years during which he claims to have had to go back to England to find himself a wife, Anneila Sargent).Sargent is known for his studies of quasar absorption lines. He is currently the Ira S. Bowen Professor of Astronomy at Caltech.

Anneila Sargent            Origin/Culture/Country: Scottish

Anneila Sargent: a Scottish–American astronomer, who specializes in star formation.Sargent completed a BSc Honours degree in Physics at the University of Edinburgh in 1963 and is currently a professor of astronomy at Caltech and has served as director of the Owens Valley Radio Observatory and Combined Array for Research in Millimeter-wave Astronomy. She served as president of the American Astronomical Society from 2000 to 2002.Sargent won the NASA Public Service Medal in 1998. Asteroid 18244 Anneila is named in her honor.

Thomas John "Tom" Sargent            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Thomas John "Tom" Sargent: an American economist specializing in the fields of macroeconomics, monetary economics and time series econometrics. He is known as "one of the leaders of the rational expectations revolution" and the author of numerous path-breaking papers. Working with Neil Wallace, Sargent developed the saddle path stability characterization of the rational expectations equilibrium and also produced the Policy Ineffectiveness Proposition.Sargent earned his B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1964, being the University Medalist as Most Distinguished Scholar in Class of 1964, and his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1968. He held teaching positions at the University of Pennsylvania (1970-1971), University of Minnesota (1971-1987), University of Chicago (1991-1998), Stanford University (1998-2002)

John Singer Sargent            Origin/Culture/Country: American

John Singer Sargent: was the most successful portrait painter of his era. During his career, he created roughly 900 oil paintings and more than 2,000 watercolors, as well as countless sketches and charcoal drawings. His oeuvre documents worldwide travel, from Venice to the Ty

John Sargent            Origin/Culture/Country: American

John Sargent: is a former heavyweight professional boxer from Minnesota. Sargent is a Native American from White Earth Indian Reservation in northern Minnesota. His present residence is in Naytahwaush, Minnesota. Sargent turned professional in 1990 and began his career