Famous People with Name Reed

Reed Cameron Johnson            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Reed Cameron Johnson: born December 8, 1976 in Riverside, California) is a Major League Baseball outfielder for the Chicago Cubs. He weighs 180 lb (82 kg) and is 5'10" tall. Johnson is right-handed and plays all outfield positions.

Reed B. Wickner            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Reed B. Wickner: an American yeast geneticist. Wickner proposed that the [PSI+] and [URE3][1] phenotypes in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, a form of budding yeast, were caused by prion forms of native proteins.Reed Wickner graduated from Cornell University with a B.A. degree in 1962. He then went to medical school at Georgetown University and received his M.D. degree in 1966. He is currently (as of 2007) Chief of the Laboratory of Biochemistry and Genetics at the National Institute of Diabetes & Digestive & Kidney Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health. His research interests pertain to prions and amyloid diseases.

Reed Pierce            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Reed Pierce: is an American professional pool player. Notable tournament wins include the 1995 US Open Nine-ball Championship, the 1998 Camel Tour Kasson Open, and the 1994 PBT Dallas Open. He was selected to represent the U.S. twice in the Mosconi Cup, in 1997 and 19

Reed Oldershaw            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Reed Oldershaw: is a Canadian sprint canoer who competed in the late 1970s. He was eliminated in the semifinals of the K-1 1000 m event at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal.

Reed Scowen            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Reed Scowen: is a Canadian business executive, author and politician born and living in the province of Quebec.Scowen was a Member of the National Assembly of Quebec from 1978 to 1987, representing the electoral district of Notre-Dame-de-Grâce as a member of the Quebec Liberal Party. He later acted as an economic adviser to former Premier Robert Bourassa, and as delegate general for Quebec in London, New York and Washington.

Kevin Bruce Reed            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Kevin Bruce Reed: Reed publishes through Presbyterian Heritage Publications, of Dallas. He has written extensively on Presbyterian worship practices, especially on the regulative principle of worship, which is the belief that the scriptures provide a complete guide for how Christian worship ought to be done, and that things not specifically taught or commanded (such as the use of musical instruments in worship) should be avoided. Some of his books on worship include Biblical Worship, and Biblical Church Government. He has also been instrumental in reprinting classic Reformed authors such as John Knox and Samuel Miller

Robert Reed            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Robert Reed: was an Emmy Award-nominated American stage and television actor.He first gained fame in the early 1960s for starring along with E.G. Marshall in the television drama series The Defenders from 1961 to 1965, but gained his greatest fame on the sitcom The Brady Bunch, on which he starred from 1969 to 1974. After winning the role of Mike Brady, he later became unhappy with the part, feeling that acting in the often silly sitcom was beneath his serious Shakespearean training. Despite his discontent with the show as a whole, by most accounts he genuinely liked and was beloved as a father figure by his fellow cast members on The Brady Bunch. As a result of his unhappiness with the Brady Bunch’s content, Reed constantly argued with the show's creator, Sherwood Schwartz, and he would frequently present Schwartz with multi-page memos detailing why a character's motivation did not make sense, or why it was wrong for one episode to combine elements of different styles, such as farce and satire. One such argument even resulted in his being completely written out of the show's final episode.[2] Reed was happy when the show ended, but he did return for The Brady Bunch Hour and the made-for-TV movies and series that reunited the Brady cast in the years to come.

Andre Darnell Reed            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Andre Darnell Reed: Reed was born in Allentown and began his football career at Allentown's Dieruff High School, where he played quarterback and competed in the East Penn Conference (now known as the Lehigh Valley Conference), which is known for producing top collegiate and

Lou Reed            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Lou Reed: is an American rock singer-songwriter and guitarist. He first came to prominence as the guitarist and principal singer-songwriter of The Velvet Underground (1965-1973). The band gained little mainstream attention during their career, but in hindsight became one of the most influential of their era

Willis "Jake" Reed            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Willis "Jake" Reed: is a former professional American football player who played for 12 seasons in the NFL as a wide receiver from 1991 to 2002 for the Minnesota Vikings and the New Orleans Saints. Reed played football collegiately at Grambling State University and was selected by the Vikings in the 3rd round of the 1991 NFL Draft.