Famous People with Name Stuart

Stuart Stu Burrell Lantz            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Stuart Stu Burrell Lantz: is a retired American basketball player and the current television commentator for the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He has been the Lakers' color commentator since 1987, sharing the mic with the legendary Chick Hearn and winning numerous awards for his work along the way. The Southern California Sports Broadcasters Association has named Lantz best radio commentator in six of the last seven years. Lantz played in the American Basketball Association and in the NBA from 1968 until 1976. He was drafted by the San Diego Rockets in the third round (1st pick) of the 1968 NBA Draft after attending the University of Nebraska.[1]

Stuart Allan Gray            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Stuart Allan Gray: is an American/Panamanian former professional basketball player.Gray attended University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and was selected with the 29th overall pick in the 1984 NBA Draft by the Indiana Pacers. He played with them for five seasons before moving on to the Charlotte Hornets (1989-90) and New York Knicks (1990-91). A 7'0" center, he holds career averages of 2.3 points and 2.6 rebounds per game.

Stuart Errol Ungar            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Stuart Errol Ungar: Stu Ungar was born to Jewish parents and raised on Manhattan's Lower East Side. His father, Isadore ("Ido") Ungar, was a loan shark who ran a bar/social club that doubled as a gambling establishment, exposing Stu to gambling at a young age. Despite Ido's attempts to keep his son from gambling after seeing the effects of it on his regular (losing) customers, Stu began playing tournament gin and quickly made a name for himself.

Stuart Alan Rice            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Stuart Alan Rice: is an American theoretical chemist and physical chemist[1]. He is well-known as a theoretical chemist who also does experimental research. He is currently the Frank P. Hixon Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus at The University of Chicago. He received the National Medal of Science in 1999[1].

Stuart Allen Roosa            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Stuart Allen Roosa: was a NASA astronaut, who was the command module pilot for the Apollo 14 mission. The mission lasted from January 31 to February 9, 1971 and was the third mission to land astronauts (Alan Shepard and Edgar Mitchell) on the Moon. While Shepard and Mitchell spent two days on the lunar surface, Roosa conducted experiments from orbit in the command module "Kitty Hawk". He was one of only 24 men to have flown to the Moon.

Andrew Stuart            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Andrew Stuart: was a U.S. Representative from Ohio.Stuart was elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-third Congress (March 4, 1853-March 3, 1855). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection. He engaged in the shipping business on the Gulf of Mexico and in the transpor

Archibald Stuart            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Archibald Stuart: was a nineteenth century politician and lawyer from Virginia. He was the first cousin of Alexander Hugh Holmes Stuart and the father of Confederate General James Ewell Brown "Jeb" Stuart. He became a member of the Virginia House of Delegates in 1830 and 1

George Okill Stuart            Origin/Culture/Country: American

George Okill Stuart: was a Quebec lawyer, judge and political figure. In 1843, he was elected to city council and he served as mayor from 1846 to 1850. In 1851, he was elected to the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada for Quebec City as an independent Conservative. He was defeated in 1854 but reelected in an 1857 by-election. Stuart was bâtonnier for the bar of Lower Canada from 1851 to 1853. In 1854, he was named Queen's Counsel. He was an assistant judge in the Superior Court of Lower Canada for a short time in 1855. Stuart served as a director for the Saint Maurice Railway and Navigation Company. He started a law firm with John Murphy around 1861 that operated until 1873. In 1873, he became an assistant to Henry Black, a judge in the Vice Admiralty Court at Quebec; when Black died later that year, Stuart was chosen as his replacement and served in that function until his death at Quebec City in 1884.

Charles Allan Stuart            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Charles Allan Stuart: was a Canadian politician and jurist in the province of Alberta. Born and educated in Ontario, he came west in 1897 and set up a law practice in Calgary. After a failed election bid to the Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories, he was elected to the Calgary City Council and then to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta. He resigned before the end of his term in the latter body to accept a judgeship on the Supreme Court of the Northwest Territories. He was later appointed to the new Supreme Court of Alberta. He was also the first Chancellor of the University of Alberta, serving in that capacity from 1908 until his death in 1926. Stuart first sought political office when he ran in West Calgary, a district in the Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories, in a by-election variously identified as taking place in March 1900 or on March 22, 1901. He was soundly defeated by future Prime Minister of Canada R. B. Bennett. Stuart was elected alderman on the Calgary city council in the December 1904 election, and served from January 2, 1905 until January 2, 1906.

John Stuart            Origin/Culture/Country: American

John Stuart: was a Scottish-born wholesale grocer and political figure in Ontario. He represented Norfolk South in the Canadian House of Commons in 1874 as a Liberal member. Stuart was elected in the 1874 federal election; his election was overturned after an appeal and he was defeated by William Wallace in the by-election held in December 1874. Stuart was also vice-president of the Bank of Hamilton and a director of the Wellington, Bruce and Grey Railway. He also served as president of the Hamilton and North-Western Railway.