Famous People with Name Morgan

Morgan Fairchild            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Morgan Fairchild: is an American actress. Fairchild was born Patsy Ann McClenny in Dallas, Texas, the daughter of Martha Jane (née Hartt), a high school English teacher, and Edward Milton McClenny. Her first job was as a stand-in for Faye Dunaway during location filming for the movie Bonnie and Clyde (1967). She took her new first name, Morgan, from the 1966 David Warner film, Morgan: A Suitable Case For Treatment. Moving to New York City, she secured her first on-screen role, appearing as maniacal Jennifer Pace in the daytime soap opera Search for Tomorrow from 1973 until 1977. As a child, she suffered a bout with scarlet fever, which left her partially deaf.

Morgan Freeman            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Morgan Freeman: is an Academy Award-winning American actor, film director and narrator. Noted for his reserved demeanor and authoritative speaking voice, Freeman has become one of Hollywood's most popular and respected actors.[1]

Morgan Lee Lander            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Morgan Lee Lander: From the time of his entry into the league, Arenas's popularity soared. He transformed himself from being a relative unknown to being voted by fans as an All-Star starter for the Eastern Conference in 2007. Now considered to be one of the best point guards in the NBA, but still is known as a "shoot first" point guard. Arenas overcame a 213,000 vote deficit at one point to edge out Vince Carter by just over 3,000 votes for the second of the two starting guard spots, the other spot going to Dwyane Wade.[2] Arenas was most often nicknamed "Agent Zero,"

Morgan Elizabeth York            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Morgan Elizabeth York: York appeared in a ThermoScan Ear Thermometer commercial during her early years, but did not act again until her role in the 2003 film, Cheaper by the Dozen, which was a big success at the box office. In 2004, she appeared in episodes of the television shows, The Practice and Life with Bonnie.In 2005, York co-starred in The Pacifier, playing one of a family protected by Vin Diesel's character, and in Cheaper by the Dozen 2; both of the films did well at the box office, raising York's profile among pre-teen audiences.In 2006, Morgan began a 7 episode stint as Sarah, an animal loving nature girl on the Disney Channel series Hannah Montana, after which she became friends with Miley Cyrus, Emily Osment, and Mitchel Musso.

Morgan Russell            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Morgan Russell: was a U.S. abstract painter. He was born and raised in New York City in 1886. He was along with artist Stanton Macdonald-Wright the founder of Synchromism an important modernist movement in early 20th century art.Initially he studied architecture and after 1903 he became friendly with the sculptor Arthur Lee for whom he posed as a model, and lived with for a while. During the period from 1903-1905 he studied sculpture at the Art Students League, with Lee and James Earle Fraser, (where he also posed as a model for the sculpture class). With financial help from Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney whom he met at the League in late January 1906 he traveled to Paris to study art. In 1907 after returning to New York City he studied painting at the League with Robert Henri among others. Returning to Paris in 1909 he studied at Matisse’s art school.[1][2] After meeting Stanton Macdonald-Wright in 1911, the two began developing theories about color and its relationship to pattern

Stanley Douglas Morgan            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Stanley Douglas Morgan: is a former NFL wide receiver who played for the New England Patriots. Morgan was selected out of the University of Tennessee in the first round of the 1977 NFL Draft (25th overall). He also played one season for the Indianapolis Colts in 1990. He holds the all-purpose yards record for the University of Tennessee, which stands at 4,642.

William Wilson Morgan            Origin/Culture/Country: American

William Wilson Morgan: was an American astronomer.The principal theme in Morgan's work was the study of stellar and galaxy classification. Along with Philip Keenan he developed the MK system for the classification of stars through their spectra. He also developed several galaxy morphological classification systems, including the first systems to use the physical properties of galaxies, as opposed to simple eye-ball estimates favoured by Edwin Hubble. He invented the now widely used classification cD for massive galaxies in the centres of clusters.He worked at Yerkes Observatory. Along with Donald Osterbrock and Stewart Sharpless, he used distance measurements of O and B type stars to show the existence of spiral arms in the Milky Way Galaxy.

Thomas Hunt Morgan            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Thomas Hunt Morgan: was an American geneticist and embryologist. Morgan received his PhD from Johns Hopkins University in 1890 and researched embryology during his tenure at Bryn Mawr. Following the rediscovery of Mendelian inheritance in 1900, Morgan's research moved to the study of mutation in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. In his famous Fly Room at Columbia University Morgan was able to demonstrate that genes are carried on chromosomes and are the mechanical basis of heredity. These discoveries formed the basis of the modern science of genetics. When he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1933 he was the first person awarded the Prize in genetics, for his discoveries concerning the role played by the chromosome in heredity[1].

C. Lloyd Morgan            Origin/Culture/Country: American

C. Lloyd Morgan: British psychologist. He is best remembered for the experimental approach to animal psychology, now known as "Morgan's canon".

William Jason Morgan            Origin/Culture/Country: American

William Jason Morgan: an American geophysicist who has made seminal contributions to the theory of plate tectonics and geodynamics. He is Knox Taylor Professor emeritus of geology and professor of geosciences at Princeton University.After having received his BSc in physics from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1957, he went to Princeton University, where he completed his PhD in 1964 under the supervision of Bob Dicke. He joined the faculty of the university immediately afterwards.His first major contribution, made in the late 1960s, was to relate the magnetic anomalies of alternating polarity, which occur on the ocean bottom at both sides of a mid-ocean ridge, to seafloor spreading and plate tectonics.