Famous People with Name Rose

Rose Bampton            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Rose Bampton: was an American opera singer.She made her Metropolitan Opera debut as Laura in La Gioconda in November 1932. She sang the role of the Wood Dove in Arnold Schoenberg's Gurre-Lieder in the first American performances by Leopold Stokowski the same year, and

Rose Polenzani            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Rose Polenzani: an independent folk musician. She was raised in the Chicago area and attended Knox College before leaving to pursue a singing career. She is currently living in Boston, Massachusetts. Her singing style is distinctive and emotionally charged. At least one

Rose Stone            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Rose Stone: an African-American singer and keyboardist. She is best known as one of the lead singers in Sly & the Family Stone, a popular psychedelic soul/funk band founded by her brothers, Sly Stone and Freddie Stone. She often wore a grey wig while in performance w

Rose Mary Magers-Powell            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Rose Mary Magers-Powell: is a retired female volleyball player from the United States, who won the silver medal with the USA National Women's Team at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California under the guidance of coach Arie Selinger.

Rose Pitonof Weene            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Rose Pitonof Weene: was a marathon swimmer from Dorchester, Massachusetts. In 1911 she swam between Manhattan and Steeplechase Pier on Coney Island.

Alex Rose            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Alex Rose: was a labor leader in the American Hatters' Union, a co-founder of the American Labor Party, and vice-chairman of the Liberal Party of New York.In 1936, Rose assisted in founding of the American Labor Party and the Liberal Party of New York, becoming its

Patrick Michael Rose            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Patrick Michael Rose: was a Texas Democratic politician, who served as a member of the Texas House of Representatives from House District 45 which comprises Blanco, Caldwell and Hays counties in Central Texas. In 2010, he was defeated by Rep. Jason Isaac and was not reelected.

Fred Rose            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Fred Rose: was a Communist politician and trade union organizer in Canada. He was born in Lublin in what is now Poland, part of Russia at the time. He emigrated to Canada as a child in 1916. He became involved with the Young Communist League of Canada, and then joined the Communist Party of Canada while working in a factory. However, he is best known as the only Member of the Canadian Parliament ever convicted of spying for a foreign country. He was a candidate for the Communist Party of Canada in the working class Montreal-area riding of Cartier in the 1935 federal election, coming in second with 16% of the vote. Early in World War II, the Communist Party in Canada was formally banned, then reorganized as the Labor-Progressive Party. Rose, who was Jewish, won election to the House of Commons as an LPP candidate from Cartier in a 1943 by-election. He won with 30% of the vote in a tight four way race, beating among others, David Lewis of the social democratic Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF). Rose was re-elected in the 1945 election with 40% of the vote. Most of the riding's immigrant Jewish population voted for Rose, who benefitted from the perception that the Soviet Union was the main hope for saving Europe's Jews from Hitler; his main rival, Paul Massé, of the anti-war Bloc Populaire, who came second, was supported by the French Canadian population of the constituency. As a Member of Parliament, Rose proposed the first medicare legislation and the first anti-hate legislation.

Sir John Rose, 1st Baronet            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Sir John Rose, 1st Baronet: was a Canadian politician. From 1857 until 1867 he was a member of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada and was a member of the Executive Council from 1858 until 1861.

Robert D. (Bob) Rose            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Robert D. (Bob) Rose: is a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1988 to 1990, representing the Winnipeg riding of St. Vital for the Manitoba Liberal Party. He should not be confused with another Bob Rose, who sat as a Progressive Conservative in the Manitoba legislature from 1990 to 1995. Rose was elected to the Manitoba legislature in the 1988 provincial election, defeating Progressive Conservative candidate Paul Herriot. The Liberals increased their legislative strength from one to twenty in this election, and Rose sat as a member of the official opposition for the next two years. In the election of 1990, he was defeated by Tory Shirley Render. amid a general decline in support for his party. He has not sought a return to political life since this life.