Famous People with Name Anderson

Anderson Javier Machado            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Anderson Javier Machado: (born January 25, 1981 in Caracas, Venezuela) is a shortstop in Major League Baseball playing in the New York Mets organization.

Anderson França Varejão            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Anderson França Varejão: is a Brazilian professional basketball player, who currently plays for the Cleveland Cavaliers. He won the gold medal with the Brazil national basketball team at the 2003 Pan American Games.Varejão also played in nine Euroleague games for FC Barcelona. In three regular season games Varejão averaged averaged 2.3 points and 2.3 rebounds. In six "Top 16" playoff games, he averaged 5.8 points and 4.8 rebounds, including a season high 10 points against Benneton Treviso.

Anderson Hays Cooper            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Anderson Hays Cooper: Cooper was born on June 3, 1967 in New York City, the younger son of the writer Wyatt Emory Cooper and the artist, designer, writer, and heiress Gloria Vanderbilt, granddaughter of Cornelius Vanderbilt II of the prominent Vanderbilt Family of New York. Hi

Anderson Ruffin Abbott            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Anderson Ruffin Abbott: was the first Black Canadian to become a physician after being granted a medical licence from the medical board of Upper Canada in 1861. His career included participation in the American Civil War and attending the death bed of Abraham Lincoln and being i

Broncho Billy Anderson            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Broncho Billy Anderson: was an American actor, writer, director, and producer, who is best known as the first star of the Western film genre. [1]In Porter's early motion picture The Great Train Robbery (1903), Anderson played three roles. After seeing the film for the first time at a vaudeville theater and, being overwhelmed by the audiences reaction, Anderson decided the film industry was for him. Using the stage name Gilbert M. Anderson, he began to write, direct, and act in his own Westerns. He became the first cowboy star of movies through a large collection of silent shorts in which he was known as "Broncho Billy".

Alfred Anderson            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Alfred Anderson: was a Scottish joiner and veteran of the First World War. He was the last known holder of the Mons Star (the Old Contemptibles), the last known combatant to partake in the 1914 WWI Christmas truce, Scotland's last known World War I veteran, and Scotland's oldest man for more than a year.In October 1914 Anderson left his home and, with the 1/5th (Angus and Dundee) Battalion of the Black Watch, travelled by train from Dundee to Southampton and took a ferry to Le Havre. Surrounded by a group of friends with whom he had joined the Territorial Army in 1912 (aged 16), he thought he was going on a grand adventure; they had volunteered to go and fight on the Western Front.

John August Anderson            Origin/Culture/Country: American

John August Anderson: was an American astronomer. He was born in Rollag, a small community in Clay County, Minnesota to the south of Hawley.Anderson received his Ph.D. at Johns Hopkins University in 1907, and remained on the staff after graduation. In 1908 he became professor of astronomy at the university. In 1909 he was also given the responsibility for the Rowland ruling engines that were used for creating diffraction gratings, and the quality of these was considered excellent, especially the concave gratings.he was married to a woman named maria.In 1916 he left to work at the Mt. Wilson observatory. He remained on the Mt. Wilson staff until 1956. His most notable contribution was his adaptation of the Michelson's interferometer technique for measuring close double stars. He used a rotating mask at the focus to measure the separation of Capella.

Edgar Anderson            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Edgar Anderson: was an American botanist. His 1949 book Introgressive Hybridization was an original and important contribution to botanical genetics.He accepted a position as a geneticist at the Missouri Botanical Garden and was appointed assistant professor of botany at Washington University in St. Louis. His research was focused on developing techniques to quantify geographic variation in Iris versicolor. In 1929 he received a fellowship to undertake studies at the John Innes Horticultural Institute in Britain, where he worked with cytogeneticist C. D. Darlington, statistician R. A. Fisher, and geneticist J. B. S. Haldane.

William French Anderson            Origin/Culture/Country: American

William French Anderson: a U.S. physician, geneticist and molecular biologist. He is considered a pioneer of gene therapy. He graduated from Harvard College in 1958 and from Harvard Medical School in 1963. In 1990, he claimed to be the first person ever to succeed in gene therapy of a 4-year-old girl suffering from SCID (a form of an immuno-deficiency disorder called "bubble boy disease"). His claims may have been exaggerated, albeit, he was not alone.[1][2] In 2006, he was convicted of sexual abuse of a minor, the daughter of an employee.