Famous People with Name Lewis

Lewis Bernard (Lew) Krausse,            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Lewis Bernard (Lew) Krausse,: (born April 25, 1943) was a Major League Baseball pitcher from Media, Pennsylvania. He played for the Kansas City Athletics (1961-67), Oakland Athletics (1968-69), Milwaukee Brewers (1970-71), Boston Red Sox (1972), St. Louis Cardinals (1973) and the Atlanta Braves (1974).

Lewis Bernard (Lew) Krausse            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Lewis Bernard (Lew) Krausse: (June 12, 1912-September 6, 1988) was an American pitcher and scout in Major League Baseball from Media, Pennsylvania. He pitched from 1931 through 1932, only for the Philadelphia Athletics. When he was called up to the Athletics in 1931, he was the American League's youngest player.

Lewis Brown            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Lewis Brown: is a retired American basketball player.He was selected by the Milwaukee Bucks in the 4th round (69th pick overall) of the 1977 NBA Draft.

Lewis Kevin Lloyd            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Lewis Kevin Lloyd: is a retired American basketball player.A 6'6" guard/forward from Drake University, Lloyd played seven seasons (1981-1986; 1989-1990) in the NBA as a member of the Golden State Warriors, Houston Rockets, and Philadelphia 76ers.[1] In 1986, he tested positive for cocaine, incurring a two and a half year suspension from the NBA.[2] He averaged 13.2 points and 3.1 rebounds per game in his career.[1]

Lewis Rufus Hitch            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Lewis Rufus Hitch: was an American professional basketball player. He was born in Griggsville, Illinois.A 6'8" forward/center from Kansas State University, Hitch played six seasons (1951-1957) in the National Basketball Association as a member of the Minneapolis Lakers, Milwaukee Hawks, and Philadelphia Warriors. He averaged 5.0 points per game in his career and won two championships with the Lakers.

Jermaine Lewis            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Jermaine Lewis: is an American football wide receiver in the NFL.A star high school athlete at Eleanor Roosevelt High School, he was a two-time team MVP as a running back while also starring as a sprinter on the track team, setting a national high school record in the 200 meters in 1991.

Darryll Lamont Lewis            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Darryll Lamont Lewis: an American retired NFL player, who played as corner back.After going to high school at Nogales High School in La Puente, CA, he graduated in 1991 from the University of Arizona and was then drafted by the Houston Oilers (later the Tennessee Titans) in the second round (38th overall) of that years NFL Draft. He was then traded to the San Diego Chargers in 1999 and again in 2000. He was a pro bowler in 1995, but was released by the Denver Broncos in 2001, with which he did not play a single game.

Gilbert Newton Lewis            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Gilbert Newton Lewis: was a famous American physical chemist known for the discovery of the covalent bond (see his Lewis dot structures and his 1916 paper "The Atom and the Molecule"), his purification of heavy water, his reformulation of chemical thermodynamics in a mathematically rigorous manner accessible to ordinary chemists, his theory of Lewis acids and bases, and his photochemical experiments. In 1926, Lewis coined the term "photon" for the smallest unit of radiant energy. He was a brother of Alpha Chi Sigma, the professional chemistry fraternity.

Maud Lewis            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Maud Lewis: was a folk artist born in Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia, Canada.She suffered from disabilities as a result of juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, and lived most of her life in poverty with her husband in Marshalltown, Nova Scotia. She began her artistic career by hand-drawing Christmas cards. These proved popular with her husband's customers as he sold fish door to door and encouraged her to begin painting. She used bright colours in her paintings and subjects were often of oxen teams, horses, or cats. All of her paintings are of outdoor scenes. Her house was one-room with a sleeping loft and is now located in the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia in Halifax.

Laurie Lewis            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Laurie Lewis: is an American bluegrass musician. When not on tour, she makes her home in Berkeley, California.The bluegrass scene of Northern California was a powerful mix of the region's historic progressivism and ardent devotion to musical tradition. Nobody minded th