Famous People with Name Hyatt

Hyatt E. Covey            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Hyatt E. Covey: was lieutenant governor of South Dakota from 1927 to 1929. He was a member of the Republican Party and served with a Democratic Party governor. He was from Hamill, South Dakota. He commenced farming and stock raising and served in the state senate of the

Alpheus Hyatt            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Alpheus Hyatt: was an American zoologist and palaeontologist.He fought in the US Civil War, reaching the rank of Captain. Studied under Louis Agassiz. A proponent of Neo-Lamarckism with Edward Drinker Cope. He edited American Naturalist between 1867 and 1870. Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1870-1888. He established a laboratory for the study of Marine Biology in Annisquam, Massachusetts. The River Road building gave him access to the Annisquam River, a salt water estuary. This enterprise was moved to Woods Hole and became the Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory. Hyatt was the father of famed sculptor Anna Hyatt Huntington. His other children were his daughter Harriet Randolph Hyatt Mayor, who was also a sculptor though less well known, and his son Alpheus Hyatt III.

John Wesley Hyatt            Origin/Culture/Country: American

John Wesley Hyatt: was an American inventor. He is mainly known for simplifying the production of celluloid, arguably the first industrial plastic. Hyatt, a Perkin Medal recipient, is an inductee into the National Inventors Hall of Fame.and began working as a printer when he was 16. Later, he became an inventor, receiving several hundred patents. While researching a substitute for ivory to produce billiard balls, he experimented with Parkesine, a material first created by Alexander Parkes. The result was a commercially viable way of producing Celluloid which he patented in the USA in 1869. Hyatt formed the Celluloid Manufacturing Company (originally the Albany Dental Plate Company) in 1870.

Susan Hyatt            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Susan Hyatt: is an American Singer, Songwriter, and Recording Artist, and the lead vocalist and a founding member of Stimulator and Pillbox, and played guitar for The Pandoras. She is also a Television Celebrity, appearing as a VJ on the UK's MP3TV.

Megan Hyatt            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Megan Hyatt: is an American figure skater.

James William Hyatt            Origin/Culture/Country: American

James William Hyatt: was a United States businessman who was Treasurer of the United States from 1887 to 1889. He also worked as Vice President of the Danbury and Norwalk Railroad, and, in 1881, became its president. He represented Norwalk in the Connecticut House of Represen