Famous People with Name Alvan

Alvan Leigh Adams            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Alvan Leigh Adams: American professional basketball player.

Alvan Clark            Origin/Culture/Country: English

Alvan Clark: the descendant of a Cape Cod whaling family of English ancestry,[1] was an American astronomer and telescope maker. He was a portrait painter and engraver, but at the age of 40 become involved in telescope making. Using glass blanks made by Chance Brothers of Birmingham and Feil-Mantois of Paris, his firm Alvan Clark & Sons ground lenses for refracting telescopes, including the largest in the world at the time: the 18.5-inch (470 mm) at Dearborn Observatory at the Old University of Chicago (the lens was originally intended for Ole Miss), the 26-inch (660 mm) at the United States Naval Observatory, the 30-inch (760 mm) at Pulkovo Observatory (destroyed in the Siege of Leningrad;

Alvan Fisher            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Alvan Fisher: was one of the United States's pioneers in landscape painting and genre works.In 1814, at the age of twenty-two, he began his professional career, opening a studio on School Street in Boston. During his first ten years as a painter, he set the tone of his

Alvan Flanders            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Alvan Flanders: was a Delegate from the Territory of Washington.Flanders was elected as a Republican to the Fortieth Congress (March 4, 1867-March 3, 1869). He was not a candidate for renomination in 1868. He was appointed by President Grant as Governor of the Territory

Alvan Henry Lafargue, Sr.            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Alvan Henry Lafargue, Sr.: was a Louisiana physician, politician, and civic leader. His medical practice exceeded fifty years. He was also the mayor of his adopted city of Sulphur, located in Calcasieu Parish in the southwestern portion of the state. Lafargue was a member of the me

Cyrus Alvand            Origin/Culture/Country: Iranian

Cyrus Alvand: a director and screenwriter who was born in 1950 in Tehran, Iran. He began his career as film critic and screenwriter and directed his debut film Sanjar in 1971. He’s among few filmmakers of pre-Revolution era who is still working. Some of his films were among box office hits.

Louis Demetrius Alvanis            Origin/Culture/Country: Greek

Louis Demetrius Alvanis: Alvanis performs the full range of keyboard repertoire from the Baroque masters to contemporary serious music. He is particularly noted for his performances of the Romantics, especially Chopin, Schumann and Brahms some of which have been recorded on CD with Meridian Records.