Famous People with Name Lionel

Lionel James Simmons            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Lionel James Simmons: is a retired American professional basketball player. A 6'7" small forward from La Salle University (where he won the Naismith College Player of the Year and John R. Wooden Award as a senior), he was selected by the Sacramento Kings with the seventh pick of the 1990 NBA Draft. Simmons is third in all-time NCAA career points with 3,217. He trails only Pete Maravich and Freeman Williams. Simmons played seven seasons for the Kings, scoring 5,833 career points until prematurely retiring in 1997 due to chronic injuries.

Lionel Leo Hampton            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Lionel Leo Hampton: was an American jazz vibraphonist, percussionist, bandleader and actor. Like Red Norvo, he was one of the first jazz vibraphone players. Hampton ranks among the great names in jazz history, having worked with a who's who of jazz musicians, from Benny Goodman and Buddy Rich to Charlie Parker and Quincy Jones. In 1992, he was inducted into the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame.

Lionel Thomas Taylor            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Lionel Thomas Taylor: was an American football wide receiver who led the American Football League (AFL) in receptions each year for the first six years of the league's existence.

Lionel Pretoria Conacher            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Lionel Pretoria Conacher: nicknamed "The Big Train", was Canada's top all-around athlete in the 1920s, excelling in Canadian football, ice hockey, lacrosse, baseball, boxing and wrestling. He later became a politician and was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario and the Canadian House of Commons.

Lionel Wilfred McKenzie            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Lionel Wilfred McKenzie: is the Wilson Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Rochester. He was born in Montezuma, Georgia. He completed undergraduate studies at Duke University in 1939 and subsequently moved to Oxford that year as a Rhodes Scholar. McKenzie worked

Lionel Lord            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Lionel Lord: a Dutch football striker who currently plays for Eendracht Aalst in Belgium.