Famous People with Name Harvey

Harvey T. Dunn            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Harvey T. Dunn: was a famous American painter. He is best known for his prairie-intimate masterpiece, The Prairie is My Garden. In this painting, a mother and her son and daughter are out gathering flowers from the quintessential prairie of the Great Plains.

Harvey Jerome Pulliam            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Harvey Jerome Pulliam: is a former outfielder in Major League Baseball for the Kansas City Royals (1991-1993) and Colorado Rockies (1995-1997). He also played two seasons in Japan for the Orix BlueWave (1998-1999)

Harvey Francis Crosby            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Harvey Francis Crosby: was an American featherweight boxer and Union Boilermaker. Crosby fought from 1914-1921 with a professional fighting record of 5 wins, 6 losses, and 2 draws prior to retiring with what was called at the time a 'creeping paralysis' that gradually took away

Harvey L. Vanier            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Harvey L. Vanier: is a trainer of Thoroughbred racehorses. With his wife Nancy Aiken-Vanier, they own and breed racehorses on their Fairberry Farm in Waterloo, Illinois.

Harvey Guy Bedwell            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Harvey Guy Bedwell: was an American Hall of Fame Thoroughbred racehorse trainer and owner who was the first trainer to win the U.S. Triple Crown. He raced Thoroughbreds from a base at tracks in Maryland and at Empire City Race Track in New York as well as at Old Woodbine Rac

Luc Harvey            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Luc Harvey: was a Canadian politician and the former Member of Parliament for the riding of Louis-Hébert in Quebec from 2006 to 2008. He currently serves as the leader of the Conservative Party of Quebec.In 2006, he ran for office as a member of the Conservative Party against Bloc Québécois politician Roger Clavet and won with 34.22% of the vote. He graduated from Université Laval with a Bachelor's degree in Political Science degree and studied English literature at the University of Guelph. Prior to being elected, he was in charge of business strategies at Centre Financier ASSEP, a life insurance broker.

André Harvey            Origin/Culture/Country: American

André Harvey: is a consultant, politician and former teacher in Quebec, Canada. Harvey was first elected to the Canadian House of Commons in the 1984 general election that brought Brian Mulroney to power. The Progressive Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Chicoutimi, Quebec remained a backbencher until January 1993 when he became parliamentary secretary to Prime Minister Mulroney. He returned to parliament as a PC MP in the 1997 general election by retaking Chicoutimi from the Bloc Québécois. He was appointed whip of the small Progressive Conservative caucus by the party leader Jean Charest. Charest moved to provincial politics in 1998, and was replaced by Joe Clark as party leader. Tory support in Quebec declined in the absence of a French-Canadian leader, and the party underwent a series of crises. In April, 2000, Harvey became one of a series of Tory MPs to leave the party. He sat as an independent MP until the fall when he and two other former Tory MPs, David Price and Diane St-Jacques, crossed the floor to join the Liberals. Harvey was re-elected as the Liberal MP for Chicoutimi—Le Fjord in the 2000 general election. In 2001, Prime Minister Jean Chrétien appointed Harvey Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Transport, and then Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for International Cooperation in 2003.

Ghislain Harvey            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Ghislain Harvey: was a member of the Quebec Provincial Parliament from 1973 to 1976. In 1973, Harvey was a candidate for the Liberal Party of Quebec in Dubuc and defeated Parti Québécois candidate André Desgagné and Union Nationale incumbent Roch Boivin. In 1976, PQ candidate Hubert Desbiens defeated Harvey. Harvey is currently the Executive Vice President and General Manager of Promotion Saguenay Inc. From 1997 to 2002, he successively occupied the position of Head of Municipal Administration for La Baie, Chicoutimi and Saguenay.

Ross Harvey            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Ross Harvey: is a Canadian politician and former member of the Canadian House of Commons from 1988 to 1993.He was elected in the 1988 federal election at the Edmonton East electoral district for the New Democratic Party. He served in the 34th Canadian Parliament but lost to Judy Bethel of the Liberal Party in the 1993 federal election. Among the issues he championed in the House of Commons were renewable energies and justice for the Lubicon Lake Cree nation. Until Linda Duncan's victory in the 2008 federal election, Harvey was the only member of the CCF or NDP ever elected to the Canadian House of Commons from Alberta.

William Bruce Harvey            Origin/Culture/Country: American

William Bruce Harvey: was a Canadian politician, who represented the electoral district of Nipissing in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1948 to 1954. He was a member of the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party.He was elected as a Progressive Conservative MPP on June 7, 1948 and served the majority of his office in the government of Leslie Frost. He was appointed Vice Chairman of the Ontario Northland Transportation Commission in 1949 as well as Industrial Commissioner for Northern Ontario. The city of North Bay named Harvey Street and Harvey Street School in his honour.