Famous People with Name Byron

Byron Thomas Tom Tolbert            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Byron Thomas Tom Tolbert: is a retired American professional basketball player who played a total of seven seasons in the National Basketball Association. Since retiring, Tolbert has become a sports radio personality and a television color analyst. He currently hosts a sports radio call-in show called The Razor and Mr.T on San Francisco radio station KNBR. His show co-host is Ralph Barbieri.

Byron Janis            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Byron Janis: is an American pianist.He made several recordings for RCA Victor and Mercury Records, and occupies two volumes of the Philips Great Pianists series. His discography covers repertoire from Beethoven to David Guion and includes renditions of major piano concertos from Mozart to Rachmaninoff and Prokofiev. His pianism has been described as combining a Horowitzian technique with a sublime musicality akin to Alfred Cortot's. He has a special affinity for Chopin and made a French film on him that was shown around the world.

Byron Daniel Chamberlain            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Byron Daniel Chamberlain: was an American football tight end who played at two different colleges before playing 9 seasons in the National Football League, including the 2002 Pro Bowl with the Minnesota Vikings.

Byron Kurt Lichtenberg            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Byron Kurt Lichtenberg: is an American engineer who flew aboard two NASA Space Shuttle missions as a Payload Specialist.From 1978 to 1984 he was a researcher for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)/Canadian Vestibular experiments on Spacelab 1, Spacelab D-1, Spacelab

Byron Scott McLaughlin            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Byron Scott McLaughlin: is a former professional baseball player who played five seasons for the Seattle Mariners and Anaheim Angels of Major League Baseball.

Katharine Edgar Byron            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Katharine Edgar Byron: a democrat, was a U.S. Congresswoman who represented the 6th congressional district of Maryland from May 27, 1941 to January 3, 1943. She was the first woman elected to Congress from Maryland.Byron attended public schools, the Westover School of Middlebury, Connecticut, and Holton Arms School of Washington, D.C., and later moved to Williamsport, Maryland, in 1922. She was elected to Congress in a special election held May 27, 1941 to replace her husband, Representative William D. Byron, after his death in an airplane crash in Georgia on February 27, 1941. She was not a candidate for reelection and retired in Washington, D.C., where she died. She is interred in Riverview Cemetery of Williamsport, Maryland.

Kari Elizabeth Byron            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Kari Elizabeth Byron: Art and sculpting are important aspects of her life, and she has claimed that she creates some form of art every day, stating, "I would go crazy if I didn't." Some of her preferred sculpting materials are polymer clay, various found objects, acrylic gouache, wood and metals. Byron showcases some of her art on her personal website [1], and photography from her public exhibit debut Stray Doll in September 2004 is available at Anno Domini.[5] She believes being an artist is a hard career to choose, but has found inspiration in artists such as various SECCA award winners in the past. Preferring to make her audience think, she has had the following to say about her art:

Robert "Red" Byron            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Robert "Red" Byron: was a NASCAR driver who was successful in the sanctioning body's first years. He was NASCAR's first Modified champion (and its first champion in any division) in 1948 and its first Strictly Stock (predecessor to Sprint Cup) champion in 1949.

William Devereux Byron, II            Origin/Culture/Country: American

William Devereux Byron, II: a Democrat, was a U.S. Congressman who represented the 6th congressional district of Maryland from January 3, 1939 to February 27, 1941. After his death in an airplane crash in Georgia on February 27, 1941, his widow, Katharine Byron, a granddaughter of U