Famous People with Name Elmer

Elmer William Valo            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Elmer William Valo: was a Slovak-American right fielder, coach and scout in Major League Baseball, making his debut on September 22, 1940. He batted left-handed and threw right-handed.Playing in the major leagues for 20 years, Valo was a .282 hitter with 58 home runs and 601 RBI in 1806 games, with most of his time spent as a member of the Philadelphia & Kansas City Athletics (1940-43, 1946-56).

Elmer Bernstein            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Elmer Bernstein: was an Academy and two-time Golden Globe award winning American film score composer. He was famous for composing music for The Ten Commandments, The Man With the Golden Arm and The Magnificent Seven.

Elmer Angsman            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Elmer Angsman: was an American football running back in the NFL.He was born in Chicago in 1925, the son of Elmer and Helen Angsman. He starred for Notre Dame in college from 1943 to 1945 and played 7 seasons in the NFL, all with the Chicago Cardinals.

Elmer Kenneth Strong, Jr.            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Elmer Kenneth Strong, Jr.: was a college and professional American football player. After a college career as multi-year All-American at New York University, he went on to play professional football. As a halfback with a 14-year career he played from 1929-1937, 1939, (interrupted by war service) 1944-1947

Elmer Ray Noble            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Elmer Ray Noble: was professor of zoology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and an internationally recognized protozoologist and parasitologist.to American Methodist missionary parents, William Arthur Noble and Mattie Wilcox Noble. He lived with his family in Korea until 1927, when he and his identical twin brother, Glenn Arthur Noble, moved to the United States to attend the University of California, Berkeley, where he earned a B.A. in zoology, an M.A. in zoology, and a Ph.D. in protozoology and parasitology.

Jonas Elmer            Origin/Culture/Country: Swiss

Jonas Elmer: is a retired Swiss football goalkeeper, who played for FC Aarau, Grasshopper-Club Zürich and Lausanne Sports during his club career. He earned 34 caps for the Switzerland national football team from 1958 to 1966, and participated in the 1962 FIFA World Cup and the 1966 FIFA World Cup.

Rico Elmer            Origin/Culture/Country: Swiss

Rico Elmer: is a Swiss ski mountaineer and mountain runner.He first competed in the Patrouille des Glaciers event in 1996 and has been member of the national team since 2003. Professionally he is deployed in the Border Guard Corps.

Ebenezer Elmer            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Ebenezer Elmer: was an American physician from Bridgeton, New Jersey. He represented New Jersey in the U.S. Congress from the Democratic-Republican Party from 1801 to 1807. Elmer's older brother, Jonathan Elmer, and Ebenezer's nephew Lucius Elmer were members of the Unit