Famous People with Name Avery

Avery Johnson            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Avery Johnson: is a retired American professional basketball player and former head coach of the NBA's Dallas Mavericks. Johnson is known as the "Little General" for his small (by NBA standards) stature, his leadership skills as a point guard and floor general, and his close friendship with former San Antonio Spurs teammate David "The Admiral" Robinson.

Avery Franklin Brooks            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Avery Franklin Brooks: is an American stage and television actor, jazz and opera singer, and college professor. Brooks is perhaps best known for his television roles as Benjamin Sisko on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and as Hawk on Spenser: For Hire and its spinoff A Man Called Hawk.

Avery John            Origin/Culture/Country: Jamaican

Avery John: is a Trinidadian soccer player. John has appeared in over 50 matches with the Trinidad and Tobago national team. In his first match at the 2006 FIFA World Cup, he was dismissed with his second yellow card for a rash tackle on Sweden's Christian Wilhelmsso

Avery F. Blake Sr.            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Avery F. Blake Sr.: was a college lacrosse player and coach. He served as the head lacrosse coach at his alma mater, Swarthmore College from 1931 to 1959. Blake also served as president of the United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association.

Kenneth William Avery            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Kenneth William Avery: is a former college and professional American football player. He played college football at Southern Mississippi University, where he was a linebacker. He played professionally in the American Football League for the Cincinnati Bengals in 1969, as well as in the NFL for the New York Giants and Kansas City Chiefs.

Oswald Theodore Avery            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Oswald Theodore Avery: was a Canadian-born American physician and medical researcher. The major part of his career was spent at the Rockefeller University Hospital in New York City. Avery was one of the first molecular biologists and was a pioneer in immunochemistry, but he is best known for his discovery in 1944 with his co-workers Colin MacLeod and Maclyn McCarty that DNA is the material of which genes and chromosomes are made.The Nobel laureate Arne Tiselius said that Avery was the most deserving scientist not to receive the Nobel Prize for his work.[1]

Milton Avery            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Milton Avery: was an American modern painter. Although born in Altmar, New York, he moved to Connecticut in 1898 and later to New York City.In 1924 he met Sally Michel, a young art student, and in 1926 they married; her income as an illustrator enabled him to devote himself more fully to painting. For several years in the late 1920s through the late 1930s Avery practiced painting and drawing at the Art Students League of New York. Roy Neuberger saw his work and thought he deserved recognition. Determined to get the world to know and respect Avery's work, Neuberger bought over 100 of his paintings, starting with Gaspé Landscape, and lent or donated them to museums all over the world. With the work of Milton Avery rotating through high-profile museums, he came to be a highly respected and successful painter.

Ryan Avery            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Ryan Avery: is an American singer, comedian and performance artist, photobooth artist and Mormon missionary from Phoenix, Arizona. He has emerged as a prominent representative of the downtown Phoenix art, music, comedy, and improv scenes, taking his acts into California for performances with the Radioactive Chickenheads and Quintron and Miss Pussycat, as well as local performances with the The Aquabats, Peelander-Z, Good Riddance, Wild Man Fischer, and Thanksgiving.

Frederick Bean Avery            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Frederick Bean Avery: was an American animator, cartoonist, voice actor and director, famous for producing animated cartoons during The Golden Age of Hollywood animation. He did his most significant work for the Warner Bros. and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios, creating the charac