Famous People with Name Allan

Allan Gotthelf            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Allan Gotthelf: is emeritus professor of philosophy at The College of New Jersey and visiting professor of history and philosophy of science at the University of Pittsburgh, where he has held the University's Fellowship for the Study of Objectivism since 2003[1]. He was one of the founders of the Ayn Rand Society (founded 1987), affiliated with the American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, and has held the position of secretary of the Society and chairman of its Steering Committee since 1990[2].

Allan Michael Rock            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Allan Michael Rock: is a lawyer, former Canadian politician, diplomat and now the President of University of Ottawa.

Allan Stewart Konigsberg            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Allan Stewart Konigsberg: an American film director, writer, actor, comedian, and playwright.Allen's distinctive films, which run the gamut from intense dramas to screwball sex comedies, have made him one of the most respected living American directors. He is also distinguished by his rapid rate of production and his very large body of work.[1] Allen writes and directs his movies and has also acted in the majority of them. For inspiration, Allen draws heavily on literature, sexuality, philosophy, psychology, Jewish identity, European cinema, and New York City, where he was born and has lived his entire life.

Allan Rex Sandage            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Allan Rex Sandage: an American astronomer.Allan R. Sandage is a famous scientist, most notably during the 1960s. Sandage graduated from the University of Illinois in 1948. By 1953 he earned his Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology. Sandage was a student of the famed cosmologist Edwin Hubble, and effectively continued Hubble's research program from the first part of the 20th century into the second half. Throughout the 1950s and well into the 1970s Sandage was regarded as the pre-eminent observational cosmologist. Sandage has made seminal contributions to all aspects of the cosmological distance scale from local calibrators within the galaxy to cosmologically distant galaxies.

Allan Richard Pred            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Allan Richard Pred: was an internationally-known American geographer and professor at the University of California at Berkeley [1] He wrote over 20 books and monographs, translated into seven languages, and over 70 articles and book chapters.Pred was born in the Bronx, New York City, in 1936, He enrolled at Antioch College in 1953, at age 16, and graduated first in his class in 1957. He received his Ph.D. in 1962 from the University of Chicago, and then became an Assistant Professor at Berkeley, and was appointed full professor in 1971 at the age of 34. He served as the chair of the UC Berkeley Department of Geography between 1979 and 1988, and was made a Professor of the Graduate School in 2005, the most senior Berkeley position.

Gary Allan            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Gary Allan: Gary Allan Herzberg was born and raised in La Mirada, California,[1] to Harley and Mary Herzberg.[2] To ensure that the family would focus on music, Allan's mother insisted that the family's guitars would aways remain visible in the home. At age thirteen,

Sir H. Montagu Allan            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Sir H. Montagu Allan: was a Canadian banker, ship owner, and a sportsman who donated the Allan Cup, the trophy symbolic of men's amateur ice hockey supremacy in Canada.Known by his first name, he eventually changed to using Montagu in order to avoid confusion with his cousin Hugh Andrew Allan (1857-1938). He studied at Bishop's College School in Lennoxville, Quebec then in Paris, France before joining his father's shipping business, the Allan Line, where he would eventually become chairman.

Johnnie Allan            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Johnnie Allan: real name John Allen Guillot, is a pioneer of the swamp pop musical genre.In 1956 he saw Elvis Presley perform live on the Louisiana Hayride music program, and shortly afterwards Allan began to play rock and roll music. In 1958 he left Walker to form the Krazy Kats, and in doing so helped to pioneer what became known as swamp pop music.

George William Allan            Origin/Culture/Country: American

George William Allan: was a Canadian politician. His mother Leah Tyrer, daughter of Dr. John Gamble, married Hon. William Allan, of York (Toronto), U.C. Allan's father, William, was a pioneer who settled what was then the Township of York during John Graves Simcoe's term as Governor. William Allan eventually became the city's first postmaster and was appointed to the Legislative Council of Upper Canada and was a supporter of the Family Compact.He was a Toronto alderman from 1849 until 1855, when he was elected the 11th Mayor of Toronto. In 1858, he entered national politics representing York on the Legislative Council until Canadian Confederation. In 1867 he was nominated to the Canadian Senate as one of its first members and sat as a Conservative. In 1869 he was appointed government trustee for municipal bond fund of the Toronto and Nipissing Railway. He was chairman of the Standing Committee on Banking and Commerce for many years and was Speaker from 1888 until 1891. He remained in the Upper House until his death in 1901.

Nancy Allan            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Nancy Allan: is a politician in Manitoba, Canada. She is currently a cabinet minister in the New Democratic Party government of Greg Selinger.In the 2003 election, Allan was re-elected with over 63% of the popular vote. On November 4, 2003, she entered cabinet as Minister of Labour of Immigration, with responsibility for Multiculturalism, Status of Women and administration of the Workers Compensation Act. Allan was re-elected in the 2007 provincial election.