Famous People with Name Gary

Gary "Big Daddy" Goodridge            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Gary "Big Daddy" Goodridge: a professional Super Heavyweight kickboxer and mixed martial artist of Trinidad and Tobago descent, now living and fighting out of Barrie, Ontario, Canada. Goodridge is known for his hard-hitting fighting style and showmanship. Besides martial arts, he is also renowned as one of the top ranked contenders in the world of professional arm wrestling.[1]

Gary Hill            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Gary Hill: an American artist who lives and works in Seattle, Washington.One of the pioneers of video art, Gary Hill has exhibited his video and video installations worldwide (Artfacts 2007). He is represented by Donald Young Gallery of Chicago.Gary Hill's work is especially significant due to his incorporation of text into video art, evident in works such as Incidence of Catastrophe 1977-78. Hill began working with video, text and sound in 1973. He was influenced by the intellectual orientation of conceptual art which dominated art of the 1970s. His reading of the writings of Maurice Blanchot, in particular, provided him with ideas relating to the way in which language impinges on phenomenological experience, and a notion of 'the other' stemming from the philosophy of Emmanuel Lévinas. Such reading informs Hill's visual-poetic explorations of the interrelationships between language

Gary England            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Gary England: the chief meteorologist for KWTV Channel 9, the CBS affiliate in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. England was possibly the first on-air meteorologist to alert its viewers of a possible tornado using a commercial Doppler weather radar . He is also known for contributing to the invention of the First Warning map graphic commonly used to show ongoing weather alerts without interrupting regular programming.England's first broadcasting job was a short stint at KTOK, an Oklahoma City talk radio station. England began working at KWTV in the fall of 1972.[1] A few months later, KWTV introduced the first radar system specifically designed for television and during a live cut-in by England on May 24, 1973 for a tornado warning in Canadian County. Channel 9 viewers saw the radar image of a damaging F4 tornado near Union City in Canadian County which resulted in extensive damage to that small town. The Union City tornado was also the first documented chase ever on a tornado

Gary Soto            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Gary Soto: is an American author and poet.Soto was born and raised in Fresno, born April 12,1952 California, to working-class Mexican-American parents. He had an older brother named Rick, and a younger sister named Debra. Soto lived in Fresno where he worked as a fa

Gary Snyder            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Gary Snyder: is an American poet (often associated with the Beat Generation and the San Francisco Renaissance), essayist, lecturer, and environmental activist (frequently described as the "poet laureate of Deep Ecology"[2] ). Snyder is a winner of a Pulitzer Prize for

Linda Gary            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Linda Gary: was an American voice-over artist who worked on many animated projects.Gary was one of the most popular voice-over artists in the modern era of animation. While viewers might not have remembered her face (in fact, she only appeared in two live-action films, 1977's Journey To Nowhere and 1980's Cruising with Al Pacino), they do remember her youthful voice.

Cleveland Everette Gary            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Cleveland Everette Gary: is a former professional American football player who was selected in the first round of the 1989 NFL draft by the Los Angeles Rams. Cleveland led the NFL in rushing touchdowns in 1990 scoring 14 rushing touchdowns.

James Albert Gary            Origin/Culture/Country: American

James Albert Gary: was a U.S. political figure. He served as the Postmaster General between 1897 and 1898. He spent much of his working life in textile manufacture in the Baltimore, Maryland, region, and was involved with cotton mills along the Patapsco and Patuxent Rivers,

John G. Gary            Origin/Culture/Country: American

John G. Gary: is an American politician and a Republican who served as County Executive of Anne Arundel County, Maryland, from 1994-1998.

Raymond Daniel Gary            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Raymond Daniel Gary: was the first Governor to be born in Oklahoma since statehood. His birth date was January 21, 1908, and his birthplace, a farm midway between Madill, Oklahoma and Kingston, Oklahoma. He was educated in the local schools and Southeastern State College. Aft