Famous People with Name Davidson

Davidson Black,            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Davidson Black,: a Canadian paleoanthropologist, best known for his naming of Sinanthropus pekinensis (now Homo erectus pekinensis). He was Chairman of the Geological Survey of China and a Fellow of the Royal Society. He was known as ??? in China.

Davidson Black            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Davidson Black: was a Canadian paleoanthropologist, best known for his naming of Sinanthropus pekinensis (now Homo erectus pekinensis). He was Chairman of the Geological Survey of China and a Fellow of the Royal Society. He was known as ??? (pinyin: Bù Dásheng) in China.

Jo Davidson            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Jo Davidson: was an American sculptor of Russian-Jewish descent. Although he specialized in realistic, intense portrait busts, Davidson did not require his subjects to formally pose for him; rather, he observed and spoke with them. He worked primarily with clay, while the final products were typically cast in terra-cotta, marble and bronze.In 1911 Davidson secured his first solo gallery shows; in 1934 he won the National Academy of Design's Maynard Prize, and in 1947 the American Academy of Arts and Letters hosted a retrospective featuring nearly 200 of his works. He was one of 250 sculptors who exhibited in the 3rd Sculpture International held at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in the summer of 1949.

Donald Grady Davidson            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Donald Grady Davidson: was a U.S. poet, essayist, social and literary critic, and author. He is best known as a founding member of the Nashville circle of poets known as the Fugitives and of an overlapping group, the Southern Agrarians.

Bruce Davidson            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Bruce Davidson: is an American photographer. He has been a member of Magnum since 1958. His photographs, notably those taken in Harlem, have been widely exhibited and published in a number of books.

Lowell Davidson            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Lowell Davidson: was a jazz pianist from Boston, Massachusetts. After studying biochemistry at Harvard University, he moved to New York and played with Ornette Coleman who urged the ESP Disk record label to record and release an album featuring Davidson with bassist Gary

Bruce Oram Davidson            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Bruce Oram Davidson: is an American equestrian who competes in the sport of eventing.