Famous People with Name Cory

Cory Jermaine Carr            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Cory Jermaine Carr: is an American basketball player, formerly of the Chicago Bulls and the Texas Tech Red Raiders. During his college career, he scored 1,904 career points and grabbed 411 rebounds. He also had 262 three-pointers made.

Cory Cross            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Cory Cross: who played twelve seasons in the National Hockey League. After being drafted by the Tampa Bay Lightning, Cross went on to spend time with the Toronto Maple Leafs, New York Rangers, Edmonton Oilers, Pittsburgh Penguins and Detroit Red Wings. A physically i

Cory Doctorow            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Cory Doctorow: He is an activist in favor of liberalizing copyright laws and a proponent of the Creative Commons organization, using some of their licenses for his books. Some common themes of his work include digital rights management, file sharing, Disney, and post-sc

Cory Gibbs            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Cory Gibbs: is an American football defender who currently plays for Colorado Rapids. He is of Jamaican descent via his parents.Gibbs played college soccer at Brown University, joining the team in 1997. During his career, Brown won three Ivy League Championships and participated in the NCAA Tournament all four years. In 2000, Gibbs led Brown to an Ivy League championship and the Elite Eight of the NCAA Tournament. He was named Ivy League Player of the Year,and a First-Team All-American. He was also one of three Brown soccer players, including Matthew Cross (Kansas City Wizards) and Scott Powers (Columbus Crew), to be drafted in the 2001 MLS SuperDraft.

Cory Justin Sauter            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Cory Justin Sauter: is a retired NFL quarterback.Cory was signed as a undrafted free agent by the Arizona Cardinals in 1998. He spent part of the season on the practice squad. The 1999 and 2000 seasons were spent with the Detroit Lions as the third quarterback. Cory also spent 2000 with the Barcelona Dragons in NFL Europe.

Charles Barney Cory            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Charles Barney Cory: was an American ornithologist and golfer.Cory briefly attended Harvard and the Boston University School of Law but soon left to continue his travelling. In 1883 he was one of the forty-eight ornithologists invited to become Founders of the American Ornithologists' Union. When Cory's collection of 19,000 bird specimens became too large to keep in his house he donated them to The Field Museum in Chicago, and he was given the position of Curator of Ornithology. Cory's collection of 600 ornithological volumes were purchased by Edward E. Ayer in 1894, and in turn donated to the museum.[1] Cory lost his entire fortune in 1906, and took a salaried position at the museum as Curator of Zoology, remaining there for the rest of his life.

James Herbert Cory            Origin/Culture/Country: Welsh

James Herbert Cory: was the owner of a Welsh shipping company.He was Sheriff of Glamorgan in 1913, and served as Conservative MP for Cardiff in 1915 and for Cardiff South from 1918 to 1923. He was created a baronet in 1919. In his time he was a director of 35 different companies, and gave much of his fortune to charity, particularly local hospitals.