American Famous Names Starting with Letter C

Is a former American Major League Baseball player and member of the Baseball Hall of Fame. Yastrzems

Is a former American Major League Baseball player and member of the Baseball Hall of Fame. Yastrzemski played his entire 23-year career with the Boston Red Sox, primarily as a left fielder, with part of his later career played at first base and as a designated hitter. Yaz is an 18-time all-star, the possessor of seven Gold Gloves, a member of the 3000 hit club, and the first American League player in that club to also accumulate over 400 home runs.

Is a Democratic United States Senator from Michigan and is the Chairman of the Senate Committee on A

Is a Democratic United States Senator from Michigan and is the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Armed Services. He has been in the Senate since 1979 and Michigan's senior senator since 1995. He is the longest-serving US Senator ever to represent Michigan. Levin is currently running for a 6th term in the Senate.

Was an American artist. Morris was born in Yorba Linda, California and he studied at the Chicago Art

Was an American artist. Morris was born in Yorba Linda, California and he studied at the Chicago Art Institute and in Paris and Vienna. He opened the Spokane Art Center through the Federal Art Project during the Great Depression. He met his wife, sculptor Hilda Grossman (Deutsch) when he recruited her as a teacher for the center. Other notable teachers at the center include Guy Anderson and Clyfford Still. Moving to Seattle in 1940, they met Mark Tobey and became lifelong friends. In 1941, he was commissioned to paint murals for the Eugene, Oregon post office. The Morrises settled in Portland, Oregon and established important and influential artistic careers. They often visited New York to see friends such as Mark Rothko, Robert Motherwell, Joseph Campbell and Lionel Trilling but declined to relocate,

Was an American photographer who worked for the Farm Security Administration and Life magazine.Mydan

Was an American photographer who worked for the Farm Security Administration and Life magazine.Mydans became devoted to photography while in college at Boston University. While working on the Boston University News as an undergraduate, his first reporting jobs were for The Boston Globe and the Boston Herald. After college, he went to New York as a writer for American Banker and then in 1935 to Washington to join a group of photographers in the Farm Security Administration.

Was a Democratic member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1972-1992, known in part for

Was a Democratic member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1972-1992, known in part for his opposition to abortion.In 1991 Louisiana State Senator Allen Ray Bares (1936-2008)[6] (pronounced BAH REZ) of Lafayette sponsored a bill to outlaw most abortions in Louisiana. The National Organization for Women's national secretary, Kim Gandy, originally from Bossier City, directed a nine-month-long "grassroots organizing and recruiting effort" against the bill.

Was the American founder of the Carl's Jr. hamburger chain, now owned by parent company CKE Restaura

Was the American founder of the Carl's Jr. hamburger chain, now owned by parent company CKE Restaurants, Inc.Karcher was the son of Ohio natives Leo and Anna Maria (Kuntz) Karcher. Leo Karcher's grandparents had immigrated from Belgium; Anna Maria Kuntz was of German ancestry. Carl N. Karcher moved to Anaheim, California, where his uncle ran a small business. He was hired by his uncle and worked for him for three years, later he dropped that job to work at a bakery as a delivery boy which doubled his salary monthly. He married Margaret Magdalen Heinz Karcher in 1939.

Was an editor and publisher, oil baron, soldier in the Canadian Army and served as a Canadian federa

Was an editor and publisher, oil baron, soldier in the Canadian Army and served as a Canadian federal politician from 1951 to 1957.Nickle first ran for a seat in the Canadian House of Commons in a by-election held in the electoral district of Calgary West on December 10, 1951. Nickle won the by-election and his first term in office by a comfortable margin. Calgary's electoral boundaries would be redistributed at the drop of the writ for the 1953 federal election. He would run in the new electoral district of Calgary South and be re-elected defeating 4 other candidates. He retired from federal politics at the end of his second term in 1957.

He was the world middleweight champion between October 1953 and December 1955, the longest reign of

He was the world middleweight champion between October 1953 and December 1955, the longest reign of any champion in that division during the 1950s, although he is probably best remembered for his three knockout defeats at the hands of Sugar Ray Robinson.

Was an American geographer. He was born in Warrenton, Missouri and graduated from the University of

Was an American geographer. He was born in Warrenton, Missouri and graduated from the University of Chicago with a Ph.D. in 1915. Sauer was a professor of geography at the University of California, Berkeley from 1923 until becoming professor emeritus in 1957 and was instrumental in the early development of the geography graduate school at Berkeley. One of his most well known works was Agricultural Origins and Dispersals (1952). In 1927, Carl Sauer wrote the article "Recent Developments in Cultural Geography," which considered how cultural landscapes are made up of "the forms superimposed on the physical landscape."

(June 22, 1903 – November 21, 1988) was a left-handed screwball pitcher in Major League Baseball w

(June 22, 1903 – November 21, 1988) was a left-handed screwball pitcher in Major League Baseball who played with the New York Giants in the National League from 1928 to 1943.

Was an American professional wrestler. Stevens was a wrestling superstar since the early years of th

Was an American professional wrestler. Stevens was a wrestling superstar since the early years of the television era until he retired during the early 1990s. His performances and hard bumping style inspired generations of heel wrestlers who have attempted

Is an American actor, film director, producer, writer and comedian. He has won nine Emmy Awards duri

Is an American actor, film director, producer, writer and comedian. He has won nine Emmy Awards during his career.Reiner was born in the Bronx, New York, the son of Bessie (née Mathias) and Irving Reiner, who was a watchmaker. His parents were Jewish immigrants from the Austro-Hungarian Empire. When he was sixteen, his older brother Charlie read in the New York Daily News about a free dramatic workshop being put on by the Works Progress Administration and told him about it. He had been working as a machinist fixing sewing machines. He credits Charlie with changing his career plans. Reiner was educated at the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University and served in the United States Army during World War II.

Was a U.S. Representative from Illinois. He was admitted to the bar in 1900 and commenced the practi

Was a U.S. Representative from Illinois. He was admitted to the bar in 1900 and commenced the practice of law in Chicago, Illinois. He served as delegate to the Republican State conventions in 1904, 1908, 1912, and 1916. He was attorney for the Illinois S

An American microbiologist and Physicist who attended Deerfield Academy and Amherst College. He is f

An American microbiologist and Physicist who attended Deerfield Academy and Amherst College. He is famous for defining the Archaea (a new domain or kingdom of life) in 1977 by phylogenetic taxonomy of 16S ribosomal RNA, a technique pioneered by Woese and which is now standard practice.[1][2][3] He was also the originator of the RNA world hypothesis in 1967, although not by that name. He currently holds the Stanley O. Ikenberry Chair and is Professor of Microbiology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Was an abstract painter who was born in Freiburg, Germany and came to the United States as an infant

Was an abstract painter who was born in Freiburg, Germany and came to the United States as an infant. He grew up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Holty studied at the Art Institute of Chicago (1919), the National Academy of Design in New York (1920-21), and at the Hans Hofmann School in Munich (1926).The Addison Gallery of American Art (Andover, MA), the Allen R Hite Art Institute (University of Louisville, Louisville, KY), the Arkansas Arts Center (Little Rock, AR), the Brooklyn Museum (Brooklyn, New York), the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh, PA), the Columbus Museum (Columbus, GA), the Columbus Museum of Art (Columbus, OH), the Cress Gallery of Art (University of Tennessee, Chattanooga, TN), the Elvehjem Museum of Art (Madison, WI),

Is a former butterfly swimmer from the United States, who competed in two consecutive Summer Olympic

Is a former butterfly swimmer from the United States, who competed in two consecutive Summer Olympics for his native country, starting in 1964 in Tokyo, Japan. There he won the silver medal in the men's 200m butterfly, followed by the gold four years later in Mexico City, Mexico. During the early 1960s he broke the world record in that event four times.

Was an influential American psychologist and among the founders of the Humanistic approach to psycho

Was an influential American psychologist and among the founders of the Humanistic approach to psychology. Rogers is widely considered to be one of the founding fathers of psychotherapy research and was honored for his pioneering research with the Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions by the American Psychological Association in 1956.

Was the mayor of Duluth, Minnesota from 1937 - 1942. He was the youngest mayor of a U.S. city larger

Was the mayor of Duluth, Minnesota from 1937 - 1942. He was the youngest mayor of a U.S. city larger than 100,000 at 31 and Duluth's first native-born mayor. He is credited with helping secure the government funding for the construction of Duluth's Blatni

Was an American writer and editor, best known for his poetry. He won two Pulitzer Prizes, one for hi

Was an American writer and editor, best known for his poetry. He won two Pulitzer Prizes, one for his poetry and another for a biography of Abraham Lincoln. H. L. Mencken called Carl Sandburg "indubitably an American in every pulse-beat."

Is an architect of operating systems and computer languages. He brought multitasking to personal com

Is an architect of operating systems and computer languages. He brought multitasking to personal computers in 1985 with the creation of the Amiga Computer operating system kernel[citation needed], and he is currently the designer of the REBOL computer language as well as the CTO of REBOL Technologies.

Was a Canadian Olympic fencer. He competed in the individual foil event at the 1960 Summer Olympics.

Was a Canadian Olympic fencer. He competed in the individual foil event at the 1960 Summer Olympics.

Was a major American songwriter.He also wrote English language lyrics to many songs which were origi

Was a major American songwriter.He also wrote English language lyrics to many songs which were originally composed in other languages, such as Answer Me, Till, The Day The Rains Came and What Now My Love. During the big band era he composed works used by top band leaders such as Glenn Miller and Guy Lombardo. His songs were also hits for individual singing stars. Some of the best known include My Heart Cries For You, which was recorded by three different artists in 1951: Dinah Shore, Guy Mitchell and Vic Damone. Two years later Sigman's song Ebb Tide was a top hit for Frank Chacksfield and was a Billboard Top Ten hit in 1965 for the Righteous Brothers.

Was an American economist and statistician.Although he attended the University of Iowa and studied i

Was an American economist and statistician.Although he attended the University of Iowa and studied in Paris, he was chiefly self-taught. He began as a journalist; at the age of 20, he was editor of the Council Bluffs Nonparell, later writing editorials fo

Often called Stuart Hamblen, became one of radio's first singing cowboys in 1926, and was a recurrin

Often called Stuart Hamblen, became one of radio's first singing cowboys in 1926, and was a recurring candidate for political office.Stuart Hamblen was born to the family of an itinerant Methodist preacher on 20 October 1908, in Kelleyville, Texas, USA. He was married to Suzy Daniels and fathered two children with her. He was a pretty chill dude.

(born on 22 July 1967) is a professional golfer.

(born on 22 July 1967) is a professional golfer.