Famous People with Name Temple

Temple Grandin            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Temple Grandin: is a professor at Colorado State University and a professional designer of "humane" slaughterhouses.

Temple W. Ashbrook            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Temple W. Ashbrook: was an American sailor who competed in the 1932 Summer Olympics.

John Ellis Temple            Origin/Culture/Country: American

John Ellis Temple: was a Major League Baseball second baseman who played for the Redlegs/Reds (1952-59; 1964); Cleveland Indians (1960-61), Baltimore Orioles (1962) and Houston Colt .45s (1962-63). Temple was born in Lexington, North Carolina. He batted and threw right-handed.

Shirley Jane Temple            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Shirley Jane Temple: is an Academy Award-winning actress and tap dancer, most famous for being an iconic American child actress of the 1930s, who enjoyed a notable career as a diplomat as an adult. After rising to fame at the age of six with her breakthrough performance in Bright Eyes in 1934, she starred in a series of highly successful films which won her widespread public adulation and saw her become the top grossing star at the American box-office during the height of the Great Depression. She went on to star in films as a young adult in the 1940s. In later life, she became a United States ambassador and diplomat.

William Temple            Origin/Culture/Country: American

William Temple: was an American merchant and politician from Smyrna, in Kent County, Delaware. He was a member of the Whig Party, and later the Democratic Party, who served in the Delaware General Assembly, as Governor of Delaware, and as U.S. Representative from Delawar

Anthony Robert (Bob) Temple            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Anthony Robert (Bob) Temple: was a Canadian politician based in Belleville, Ontario. Temple, a lawyer by profession, was the Liberal Party of Canada's candidate for the Canadian House of Commons in Hastings South throughout the 1960s. His first attempt to win a seat was in the 1962 federal election but he was elected in the 1963 federal election and served as a Member of Parliament for two years before being defeated in 1965. He attempted to regain his seat in the 1968 federal election but was unsuccessful. He was also active in the Ontario Liberal Party and was a candidate in the 1954 Ontario Liberal leadership convention placing third of three candidates with 46 votes.