Famous People with Name Gregory

Gregory Marc Smith            Origin/Culture/Country: African

Gregory Marc Smith: is a South African cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-fast bowler who plays for Derbyshire. Smith's cricketing career began when he played in the Under-19 World Cup competition of 2002 for South Africa, debuting with a steady b

James Gregory            Origin/Culture/Country: Scottish

James Gregory: was a Scottish mathematician and astronomer. It has been said that "Of the British mathematicians of the seventeenth century, Gregory was only excelled by Newton."[1In 1663 he published his Optica Promota, in which the compact reflecting telescope known by his name, the Gregorian telescope, is described. His system of Gregorian optics is also used in radio telescopes such as Arecibo, which features a "Gregorian dome".[The telescope design attracted the attention of several people in the scientific establishment: Robert Hooke, the Oxford physicist who eventually built the telescope, Sir Robert Moray, polymath and founding member of the Royal Society and Isaac Newton, who was at work on a similar project of his own.

William King Gregory            Origin/Culture/Country: American

William King Gregory: was an American zoologist, renowned as a primatologist, paleontologist, and functional and comparative morphologist. He was an expert on mammalian dentition, and a leading contributor to theories of evolution. In addition he was active in presenting his ideas to students and the general public through books and museum exhibits.He developed an early interest in both fishes and the land vertebrates, publishing papers on both groups, including two in Science in 1903. By 1911 he had expanded his interests to encompass amphibians with a paper on the limb structure of the Permian Eryops. Despite his heavy workload he served as editor of the American Museum Journal (which would later become Natural History). He was formally appointed to the scientific staff at the American Museum of Natural History in 1911 and became part of the teaching faculty at Columbia in 1916, eventually rising to the post of Da Costa Professor in the Department of Zoology.

Derek Gregory            Origin/Culture/Country: English

Derek Gregory: an influential British geographer from the United Kingdom. He is currently professor of geography at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, having previously worked at Cambridge University.Gregory is best known for his book The Colonial Present:Afghanistan, Palestine and Iraq, published in 2004. This book discusses the actions of Israel, the United States of America and the United Kingdom in the Middle East after 9/11. It reflects how the popular discourses found in the media and in political circles indicates a continued Orientalism and colonialism. His writings are heavily influenced by the work of Edward Said. Gregory is said to be a post-modern geographer.

Horace Gregory            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Horace Gregory: was a prize-winning American poet, translator of classic poetry, literary critic and college professor. Husband of poet and editor Marya Zaturenska, he was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Glenn Gregory            Origin/Culture/Country: English

Glenn Gregory: is a English musician. A founder member of Heaven 17, he was partly responsible for hit records such as "Temptation".Gregory had known the founder members of The Human League for many years. He had been singing and playing bass in bands with Ian Craig Mar