Famous People with Name Sterling

Sterling Allen Brown            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Sterling Allen Brown: was an African-American professor, author of works on folklore, poetry and literary criticism, and a poet. He was interested chiefly in black culture of the Southern United States.

Sterling Price Holloway Jr            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Sterling Price Holloway Jr: was a character actor who appeared in over 150 films and television shows, as well as a perennial voice actor for the Walt Disney Studios.In 1926, the 5 foot 9 inch (1.77m), 124 lb Holloway moved to Hollywood to begin a movie career that was to last for almost 50 years. During his lifetime he worked with the likes of Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Lon Chaney Jr, Clark Gable, Joan Crawford, Bing Crosby, David Carradine and many others. Though he was one of the busiest character actors in the movies (and a fantastic athletic dancer), he soon found his niche as a voice actor. Holloway served in World War II as a member of the Army's Special Services unit. He produced a show for servicemen and toured with it near the front lines in North Africa and Italy.

Sterling Sharpe            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Sterling Sharpe: is a former American football wide receiver and currently a NFL analyst for the NFL Network. He played from 1988 to 1994 with the Green Bay Packers.Growing up, Sharpe lived in Georgia with his grandmother and siblings, one being his brother, NFL Pro-Bowl tight end Shannon Sharpe

Sterling Price            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Sterling Price: was a lawyer, politician, and militia general from the U.S. state of Missouri, an American Army general during the Mexican-American War, and a Confederate Army major general during the American Civil War.

Michael Bruce Sterling            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Michael Bruce Sterling: His first novel, Involution Ocean, published in 1977, features the world Nullaqua where all the atmosphere is contained in a single, miles-deep crater; the story concerns a ship sailing on the ocean of dust at the bottom, which hunts creatures called dustwhales that live beneath the surface. It is partially a science-fictional pastiche of Moby-Dick by Herman Melville.

Ross Shaw Sterling            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Ross Shaw Sterling: was a U.S. political figure who was the 31st Governor of Texas, having served a single two-year term between January 20, 1931, and January 17, 1933.A Democrat, Sterling defeated former Governor Miriam "Ma" Ferguson and several other candidates in the 1930

William T. Sterling            Origin/Culture/Country: American

William T. Sterling: was an American politician and pioneer from Wisconsin.Sterling served as a clerk in the Wisconsin Territorial Legislature. In 1848 and 1850, Sterling served in the Wisconsin State Assembly. In 1852, Sterling platted what is now the village of Mount Sterli

Ansel Sterling            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Ansel Sterling: was a United States Representative from Connecticut. He was the brother of Micah Sterling who was a United States Representative from New York. He was born in Lyme, Connecticut where he attended the common schools. Later, he studied law and was admitted t

Norman William Sterling            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Norman William Sterling: is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He is one of the longest-serving members of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, having been first elected in 1977.Sterling ran unsuccessfully for a Progressive Conservative nomination in 1971, at age 29. He tried again, successfully, in 1977, and was elected to the Ontario legislature in the 1977 provincial election in the safe eastern Ontario riding of Carleton-Grenville. He served as parliamentary assistant to the Attorney General in 1978, but was not appointed to the cabinet of Bill Davis in his first term as a Member of Provincial Parliament (MPP).