Famous People with Name Archie

Archie William Dees            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Archie William Dees: is an American former professional basketball player.A 6'8" forward/center, Dees started his basketball career at Mount Carmel (IL) High School where he was named an All American his senior year

Archie Bleyer            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Archie Bleyer: was an American song arranger and bandleader.He was born in the Corona section of the New York City borough of Queens. He began playing the piano when he was only seven years old. In 1927 he went to Columbia College, intending to become an electrical engineer, but as a sophomore switched to a music major. Without graduating, he left to become an arranger.

Archie Mason Griffin            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Archie Mason Griffin: is a former American football running back and college football's only two-time Heisman trophy winner. Griffin won four Big Ten Conference titles with the Ohio State Buckeyes and is the only player ever to start in four Rose Bowls.

Archie Fairly Carr, Jr.            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Archie Fairly Carr, Jr.: was a Professor of Zoology at the University of Florida, a herpetologist, ecologist and a pioneering conservationist. In 1987 he was awarded the Eminent Ecologist Award by the Ecological Society of America. He made extraordinary contribution to sea turtle conservation by way of bringing attention to the world's declining turtle populations due to over-exploitation and loss of safe habitat.He wrote numerous books and articles, including Ulendo: Travels of a Naturalist in and out of Africa, High Jungles and Low, So Excellent a Fishe (about his green turtles), The Windward Road and several Time-Life books such as The Everglades and The Reptiles. He was also the author of the Handbook of Turtles, and with Coleman J. Goin, Guide to the Reptiles, Amphibians and Freshwater Fishes of Florida. While a serious scientific and nature writer, he also had a remarkable sense of humor,

Archie Rand            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Archie Rand: s an artist and academic from Brooklyn, New York, currently Presidential Professor of Art at Brooklyn College. [1]Rand's work as a painter and muralist is displayed around the world, including in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Bibliothèque Nationale de France in Paris, and the Tel Aviv Museum of Art.