Famous People with Name Elliott

Elliott Maddox            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Elliott Maddox: (born December 21, 1947, in East Orange, New Jersey) is a former right-handed Major League Baseball American player from 1970 to 1980 for the Detroit Tigers, Washington Senators/Texas Rangers, New York Yankees, Baltimore Orioles, and New York Mets

Elliott Roosevelt            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Elliott Roosevelt: was a World War II hero and an author. He was also the son of President of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) and his wife Anna Eleanor Roosevelt.

Elliott Lydell Davis            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Elliott Lydell Davis: is an American professional basketball player who played center and power forward. He is 6'11" and weighs 252 pounds.In all, Davis started all 25 games he played for the Pacers in the 2004-05 regular season, contributing 6.9 points, 8.9 rebounds and 1.32 blocks per game. In June 2006, he became a co-owner in the NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series when he bought interest in R&J Racing.[1]

Edgar Domingo Evia Y Joutard            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Edgar Domingo Evia Y Joutard: was a Mexican-born American photographer.In a career that spanned the 1940s through the 1990s, his photography appeared in magazines and newspapers such as Town & Country, House & Garden, Look and The New York Times Magazine and advertising campaigns for Borden Ice Cream, Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corporation, Jell-O among other corporations.

Elliott Cook Carter Jr            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Elliott Cook Carter Jr: is an American composer from New York City. He studied with Nadia Boulanger in Paris in the 1930s, and then returned to the United States. After a neoclassical phase, he went on to write atonal, rhythmically complex music. His compositions, which have been performed all over the world, include orchestral and chamber music as well as instrumental and vocal works.

George Adam Elliott            Origin/Culture/Country: American

George Adam Elliott: was an Ontario farmer and political figure. He represented Middlesex West in the Canadian House of Commons as a Conservative member from 1911 to 1917 and in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1923 to 1926.

Andrew Charles Elliott            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Andrew Charles Elliott: was a British Columbian politician and jurist. Elliott's varied career in British Columbia included Gold Commissioner, stipendiary magistrate and, following the union of the Island and Mainland Colonies in 1866 was appoint High Sheriff of the province, resigning his magristracy to take the post. He was a member of the colony's appointed Legislative Council from 1865 to 1866 and after the colony became a province of Canada he was elected, in 1875, to the Victoria City seat in the provincial legislature and became leader of the opposition. Before his election to the House, he was a provincial magistrate in Lillooet. In 1876 Elliott became the fourth Premier of the province on the defeat of George Anthony Walkem's government in a Motion of No Confidence but his government was unstable, was unable to make progress with the federal government on the province's demands that Ottawa build a railway to the Pacific. Tax increases and the government's failure to secure a railway terminus for Victoria, British Columbia led to Elliott's defeat in his riding in the 1878 election as well as the defeat of his government.

Frederick Wellington Elliott            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Frederick Wellington Elliott: was a farmer and political figure in Ontario. He represented Bruce North in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1929 to 1933 as a Liberal member. He was born in Southampton, the son of Sidney M. Elliott and Margaret Spence. In 1900, he married Emma Crowe. Elliott served as clerk for Saugeen township from 1905 to 1930 and as county clerk from 1915 to 1930. He died in office at the age of 60.

Nelson Elliott            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Nelson Elliott: was a Progressive Conservative party member of the Canadian House of Commons. He was a farmer by career. He represented the London—Middlesex electoral district which he won in the 1979 federal election. After serving one term, the 31st Canadian Parliament, Elliott left national politics in 1980 and did not campaign in that year's election.

John Campbell Elliott            Origin/Culture/Country: American

John Campbell Elliott: was a Canadian lawyer and politician. J. C. Elliott was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in 1908 as the Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) for the London, Ontario area riding of Middlesex West and a member of the Ontario Liberal Party. The Liberals were out of government for the entire time Elliott was an MLA. In 1919, he ran in the first Ontario Liberal Party leadership convention, coming in a poor third, and left provincial politics shortly afterwards. Elliott moved to federal politics a few years later winning a seat in the Canadian House of Commons in the 1925 federal election as the Liberal Member of Parliament (MP) for the riding of Middlesex. In March 1926, he was appointed to the Canadian Cabinet by William Lyon Mackenzie King as Minister of Labour. In September of that year, he was moved to the position of Minister of Public Works, and remained in that portfolio until the Liberal government's defeat in the 1930 election. Elliott was personally re-elected and sat on the Opposition benches until the Liberals returned to power in the 1935 election.