Famous People with Name Watt

Wattanasap Jarernsri            Origin/Culture/Country: Thai

Wattanasap Jarernsri: a Thai footballer. He plays for Thailand Premier League clubside Chula United.

Alexander Stuart Watt            Origin/Culture/Country: English

Alexander Stuart Watt: was a British botanist and plant ecologist.He was appointed lecturer of forest botany and forest zoology at the University of Aberdeen. He continued his research on southern English beech forest in vacations and obtained a PhD from University of Cambridge in 1924. In 1929, he became lecturer of forestry at this university and, when this undergraduate subject was given up, lecturer of forest botany – “a title which scarcely reflected his wide interest in and influence on plant ecology”[1]. He retired from university in 1959, but continued work – publishing in the Journal of Ecology as late as 1982, 63 years after his first publication in this journal[2].

James Watt            Origin/Culture/Country: Scottish

James Watt: was a Scottish inventor and mechanical engineer whose improvements to the steam engine were fundamental to the changes brought by the Industrial Revolution in both Britain and the world.Watt attended school irregularly but instead he was mostly schooled at home by his mother. He exhibited great manual dexterity and an aptitude for mathematics, although Latin and Greek left him cold, and he absorbed the legends and lore of the Scottish people.When he was 18, his mother died and his father's health had begun to fail. Watt travelled to London to study instrument-making for a year, then returned to Scotland – to Glasgow – intent on setting up his own instrument-making business. However, because he had not served at least seven years as an apprentice, the Glasgow Guild of Hammermen (any artisans using hammers) blocked his application, despite there being no other mathematical instrument makers in Scotland.

Ben Watt            Origin/Culture/Country: English

Ben Watt: is a UK musician, DJ, and record producer, best known as one half of the duo, Everything but the Girl. Watt is the son of British bandleader Tommy Watt. He lives with his spouse and creative partner Tracey Thorn in North London. The couple have twin daugh

Kathryn ("Kathy") Ann Watt            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Kathryn ("Kathy") Ann Watt: is an Australian racing cyclist who won two medals at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain (gold in the road race, and silver in the pursuit). She was made a life member of Blackburn Cycling Club in 1990.The daughter of marathoner Geoff Watt, Kat

Howard Hugh Watt            Origin/Culture/Country: African

Howard Hugh Watt: was the last surviving pre-war Springbok and part of the legendary South African rugby team nicknamed 'The Invincibles.'Nicknamed Sparkle, he was both a talented Cricketer and Rugby player. He toured New Zealand with the Springboks in 1937 and although he participated in some tour games he didn't play a Test.He bowled Sir Donald Bradman twice in one match in Chicago in 1932 as a fast bowler. When Howard Watt met him again in 1937, Bradman remembered him as one of the few people to dismiss him so cheaply.