Famous People with Name Harrison

Harrison Ford            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Harrison Ford: is a BAFTA- and Academy Award-nominated, as well as Golden Globe-winning, American actor. Ford is best known for his performances as the tough, wisecracking space pilot Han Solo in the original Star Wars trilogy and as the adventurous archaeologist and ac

Harrison Potter            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Harrison Potter: was an American pianist and educator.Potter's recording of Charles Tomlinson Griffes' Piano Sonata is referenced in the 1943 first edition of Edward Maisel's biography of Griffes, though due to its unavailability at the time of the second edition, other recordings were referenced instead.[2]From 1946 to 1957, Potter taught at Mount Holyoke College. He was also the Chautauqua Institution's Choral Director from 1948 to 1952.[3] Potter also taught at the Felix Fox School of Pianoforte Playing in Boston, Massachusetts and Sarah Lawrence College.

Harrison Smith "Harry" Glancy            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Harrison Smith "Harry" Glancy: was an American swimmer who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics.

Harrison Ludington            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Harrison Ludington: was an American Republican politician who served as the 13th Governor of Wisconsin and a mayor of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.In a capacity of a governor, Harrison Ludington facilitated promotion of commercial activity. He also undid changes made in the financia

Harrison H. Dodd            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Harrison H. Dodd: was a founder of the 1860s-era Sons of Liberty, whose goal was to thwart the war effort of Abraham Lincoln while remaining citizens of the United States.Returning from Canada after the trials, he served several terms as mayor of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin as

Hubert Henry Harrison            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Hubert Henry Harrison: was a West Indian-American writer, orator, educator, critic, and radical socialist political activist based in Harlem, New York. He was described by activist A. Philip Randolph as “the father of Harlem radicalism” and by the historian Joel Augustus Rogers

Adlene Harrison            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Adlene Harrison: was acting mayor of Dallas in 1976, and its first female mayor. Harrison, a Democratic city councilwoman since 1973, succeed Wes Wise as mayor when he resigned to run for the United States Congress. She served until the election of a new mayor, Robert Fol

James Thomas Harrison            Origin/Culture/Country: American

James Thomas Harrison: was an American politician and a signatory of the Confederate States Constitution. He was born in Anderson County, South Carolina and later moved to Columbus, Mississippi. He represented Mississippi in the Provisional Confederate Congress from February 18

Byron Patton "Pat" Harrison            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Byron Patton "Pat" Harrison: was a Mississippi politician who served as a Democrat in the United States House of Representatives from 1911 to 1919 and in the United States Senate from 1919 until his death. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1902, and practiced in Leakesville,

Robert Dinsmore Harrison            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Robert Dinsmore Harrison: was a Nebraska Republican politician.He elected as a Republican to the Eighty-second United States Congress, December 4, 1951, in a special election to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Karl Stefan. He was reelected to the three succeeding Congresse