Famous People with Name Davis

Davis Milton Love III            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Davis Milton Love III: (born on April 13, 1964) is an American professional golfer.

Davis Rich Dewey            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Davis Rich Dewey: was an American economist and statistician.He was born at Burlington, Vermont, on 7 April 1858. Like his younger brother, John Dewey, he was educated at the University of Vermont and Johns Hopkins University. He later became professor of economics and sta

Davis Burrell            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Davis Burrell: is an American jazz instrumentalist, most notably on the piano. He has worked for many jazz musicians including Archie Shepp, Pharoah Sanders, Marion Brown and David Murray.Still touring, Burrell performs as a soloist and as a leader of a duo and African

Davis Joseph            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Davis Joseph: is a Canadian cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm fast medium pace bowler. A surprising tail-end batsman, he can occasionally stick it out at number ten for the team, while keeping up a powerful bowling attack. He was involved in the 2

Davis Elkins            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Davis Elkins: was a United States Senator from West Virginia. Born in Washington, D.C., he attended the Lawrenceville School, Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts and Harvard University. During the Spanish-American War he enlisted as a private in the First West V

Benjamin Oliver Davis, Jr.            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Benjamin Oliver Davis, Jr.: was a United States Air Force general and commander of the World War II Tuskegee Airmen.Davis was the first African-American general in the United States Air Force. During World War II, Davis was commander of the 332nd Fighter Group, which escorted bomber

Marc Fraser Davis            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Marc Fraser Davis: was a prominent American artist and animator for Walt Disney Studios. He was one of Disney's Nine Old Men, the famed core animators of Disney animated films.Davis, a brilliant draftsman, also designed the characters for many Disneyland ride and show anima

Ivan Davis            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Ivan Davis: an American classical pianist. He received his bachelor's degree in music from North Texas State University, and an Artist's Diploma from the Santa Cecilia Academy in Rome. Davis studied under Silvio Scionti, Carlo Zecchi and played regularly for Vladimir Horowitz. He debuted at New York City's Town Hall in 1959.Davis made his international debut at the Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto. He has toured the world with several major orchestras including the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Chicago Symphony, the Philadelphia Orchestra and the National Orchestra of Spain. He has performed under such world-famous conductors as Leonard Bernstein, Eugene Ormandy and Lorin Maazel. He is listed in the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, and has received the Handel Medallion from New York City for contributions to the city's cultural life.

Blind John Davis            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Blind John Davis: was an African American, blues, jazz and boogie woogie pianist and singer.Davis became an accomplished arranger as well as one of the best piano players in town. Around 1937, Lester Melrose's Wabash Music Company hired him as their house pianist. He recei

Suzanne Davis            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Suzanne Davis: is an American jazz pianist. She received her Bachelor of Arts from Wellesley College. She went on to do the score for the independent film In Between and worked with Grover Washington, Jr. among others. She headed the Suzanne Davis Quartet as well. She i