Famous People with Name Turpin

Randolph Adolphus ('Randy') Turpin            Origin/Culture/Country: English

Randolph Adolphus ('Randy') Turpin: known as the Leamington Larruper, was an English boxer who was considered by some to be Europe's best Middleweight boxer of the 1940s and 1950s. Born in Leamington Spa, to a black father who had emigrated from Guyana and a white British mother, he started

George Turpin            Origin/Culture/Country: British

George Turpin: is a former bantamweight boxer from the United Kingdom. Turpin was unbeaten as a senior amateur against British opposition and after winning the British ABA championship for 2 consecutive years (1971 & 1972) he won the [bronze] medal at the 1972 Summer Ol

Ludovic Turpin            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Ludovic Turpin: is a French professional road racing cyclist. He rides for Ag2r-La Mondiale on the UCI ProTour.

François Henri Turpin            Origin/Culture/Country: French

François Henri Turpin: was a French man of letters. His Histoire naturelle et civile du royaume de Siam (1771) is an interesting but faulty adaptation of the observations of a vicar-apostolic who had lived for a long time in that country, and who accused Turpin of having misrepresented his ideas. His chief work, La France illustre, ou Le Plutarque français, contains the biographies of generals, ministers, and eminent officers of the law (5 vols, 1777–1790), in which, however, as La Harpe said, he showed himself to be "ni Plutarque ni Français." He also wrote an Histoire des hommes publics tires du tiers etat (1789).

Franck Turpin            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Franck Turpin: is a French professional football player. Currently, he plays in the Championnat de France amateur for Gap FC.