Famous People with Name Allen

Allen Alvarado            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Allen Alvarado: an American child actor. He played Lex Marin in the Discovery Kids series Flight 29 Down. He has appeared in 15 commercials.[1]

Allen Edward Dekdebrun            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Allen Edward Dekdebrun: was an American Football quarterback in the All-America Football Conference, National Football League, and Canadian Football League. He played college football at Cornell University, where he was also a member of the Quill and Dagger society.

Allen Oldfather Whipple            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Allen Oldfather Whipple: was an American surgeon who is known for the pancreatic cancer operation which bears his name (the Whipple procedure) as well as Whipple's triad.Whipple was born in Urmia, Iran (then called Persia). He received his M.D. from the Columbia University Colleg

Allen Ruppersberg            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Allen Ruppersberg: one of the first generation of American Conceptual artists that changed the way art was thought about and made. His work includes paintings, prints, photographs, sculptures, installations, and books.Ruppersberg graduated with a BFA from the Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles (now California Institute of the Arts) in 1967. During his early years in Los Angeles, he began significant relationships with John Baldessari, Ed Ruscha, William Wegman, and Allan McCollum. He participated in the groundbreaking 1969 exhibition When Attitudes Become Form,[1] and is recognized as a seminal practitioner of installation art, having produced such influential works as Al's Cafe (1969), Al’s Grand Hotel (1971) and The Novel that Writes Itself (1978). Since the late 1960s,

Allen Walker Read            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Allen Walker Read: was an American etymologist and lexicographer, best known for his studies into the words "okay" and "fuck."Read was born in Winnebago, Minnesota, earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Northern Iowa (then called Iowa State Teachers College) in 1925, a master's degree from the University of Iowa in 1926, and studied at the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar from 1928-1931. He was a chaired professor at Columbia University in New York City from 1945 until 1975.[2] He is a past president of the Semiotic Society of America (1980).He was a repeated contributor to American Speech by 1931; his first extended work, Lexical Evidence from Folk Epigraphy in Western North America: A Glossarial Study of the Low Element in the English Vocabulary, was privately published in Paris in 1935 since its description of bathroom graffiti was considered too racy for American publishers.[citation needed] It was eventually published in the United States in 1977, under the title Classic American Graffiti, ISBN 0916500063.

Peter Allen            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Peter Allen: was an Australian songwriter and entertainer. His songs were made popular by many recording artists, including Melissa Manchester and Olivia Newton-John, Elkie Brooks, and one, Arthur's Theme, won the Academy Award. In addition to recording many albums, he enjoyed a cabaret and concert career, including appearing at Radio City Music Hall riding a camel. His marriage to Liza Minnelli ended in divorce.

Katherine Jessie Jean Allen            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Katherine Jessie Jean Allen: an Australian-Austrian triathlete. She won the gold medal in the women's triathlon at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.From an early age her parents encouraged her to run, and she used to frequently jog to primary school some 3 kilometres from home. At the age of four Allen began participating in Little Athletics at Landy Field in Geelong.[1] She competed in junior athletics until the age of 14, winning a number of championships over 1500 m and 'cross-country' distance. Allen also enjoyed gymnastics in her early years, a sport that would prove important to her coordination skills during her triathlon career.[2][3]