Famous People with Name Hamp

Hampden Stanley Bray Love            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Hampden Stanley Bray Love: was an Australian cricketer who played in one Test in 1933. He replaced Bert Oldfield as wicket-keeper for the Ashes match played at Brisbane after Oldfield retired hurt in the course of the Adelaide match.

Hampton Lawrence Carson            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Hampton Lawrence Carson: was an eminent American biologist best known for his work on the chromosomes of new species of the fruit fly Drosophila and his contributions to our understanding of their evolution.Carson was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and studied zoology there at the University of Pennsylvania, receiving his A.B. degree in 1936 and his Ph.D. degree in 1943. His doctoral thesis on the cytogenetics of dark-winged fungus gnats was considered "definitive" by Dobzhansky.Carson spent virtually all of his career at two universities — Washington University in St. Louis (1943-1963) and the University of Hawaii (1963-1985) — except for sabbatical leaves to Brazil and Australia.

Hampton Neil Dansie            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Hampton Neil Dansie: is a former first-class cricketer and long term administrator for South Australia. Nicknamed "Nodder" due to his habit of nodding in agreement when in conversation, Dansie was born in Nuriootpa, South Australia, the grandson of Sam Dansie, a leading country cricketer who represented a Broken Hill team against the touring Marylebone Cricket Club side. In January 1949 Dansie was the last player to bat with Don Bradman in an official match, who played his final innings for Kensington against Port Adelaide Cricket Club at Alberton Oval. Dansie made his first-class cricket debut on 27 January 1950 on the WACA Ground against Western Australia, making 36 and 13. Dansie retired from first-class cricket in 1967, after 124 matches and was awarded honorary membership of the South Australian Cricket Association.

Hampton Pitts Fulmer            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Hampton Pitts Fulmer: was an American politician of the Democratic Party. He represented South Carolina in the United States House of Representatives from 1921 - October 19, 1944. After his death, his wife Willa L. Fulmer took over his seat.

Eric Pratt Hamp            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Eric Pratt Hamp: he received his PhD from Harvard University in 1950s and since then he taught at the University of Chicago where he is Robert Maynard Hutchins Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus, Departments of Linguistics, Slavic Languages and Literatures, Psychology (Cognition and Communication) and the Committee on the Ancient Mediterranean World. His field is Indo-European linguistics, particularly Celtic languages and Albanian. He is known for his interest in and expertise on the smaller Indo-European languages. Unlike many Indo-Europeanists, who work entirely on the basis of written materials, he has conducted extensive fieldwork on lesser-known Indo-European languages and dialects, such as Albanian, Breton, Welsh, Irish, and Scots Gaelic.