Famous People with Name Harvey

Harvey Lee Catchings            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Harvey Lee Catchings: is an American former professional basketball player in the NBA, best known for an incident where he mistakenly won a game for the other team he was facing.He also played for the New Jersey Nets, Philadelphia 76ers, and finished his career with the Los Angeles Clippers in 1985. He has career averages of 3.2 ppg and 5.0 rpg.

Harvey Marlatt            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Harvey Marlatt: was a professional basketball player for the Detroit Pistons from 1970-1973. Before joining the Pistons, he played basketball for Eastern Michigan University.

Harvey Wade Halbrook            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Harvey Wade Halbrook: was an American former NBA player who played from 1960-1962. He played in college for Oregon State University, and at 7 ft 3 in (2.21 m), was at the time the tallest player to ever play college basketball.[1]

Harvey Ross Ball            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Harvey Ross Ball: is the earliest known designer of the Smiley.Harvey Ball served 27 years in the National Guard, and was based in Asia and the Pacific during World War II. He retired as a Brigadier General in 1973 and then served six years in the Army Reserves. He retired as a full colonel in 1979. Ball was awarded the Bronze Star for heroism during the Battle of Okinawa. He was awarded the Veteran of the Year award from the Worcester Veterans Council in 1999.

Harvey Bernard Milk            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Harvey Bernard Milk: was an American politician and gay rights activist, and the first openly gay city supervisor of San Francisco, California.[1] He was, according to Time magazine, "the first openly gay man elected to any substantial political office in the history of the planet."As the "Mayor of Castro Street," he was active during a time of substantial change in San Francisco politics and increasing visibility of gay and lesbian people in American society.[1] He was assassinated in 1978, along with Mayor George Moscone, by recently resigned city supervisor Dan White, making him a LGBT community "martyr".[1] White's relatively mild sentence for the murders led to the White Night Riots, and eventually the abolition of diminished capacity defense in California.

Enrique Alberto Díaz Harvey            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Enrique Alberto Díaz Harvey: is considered one of the best Costa Rican football wingers during the 1980s, and is one of the most recognized sports figures in his country. He played most of his professional career for Deportivo Saprissa, as well as C.S. Herediano, San Ramon and his native A.D. Limonense. He was known as "El Zancudo" (The Mosquitoe), because of his very long legs.

Kenneth Eugene Harvey            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Kenneth Eugene Harvey: is a Major League baseball first baseman who is currently a free agent.Harvey played his rookie season in Kansas City in 2003. After an impressive first half of the 2004 season, featuring an early battle with Baltimore Orioles Melvin Mora for the AL lead in batting average, Harvey was selected as the Royals' lone representative in the All-Star Game. In interleague play, the Royals played Harvey in left field in order to keep both Harvey and 1B/DH Mike Sweeney, their two most productive bats, in the lineup.

Alex Harvey            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Alex Harvey: is a Canadian cross country skier who has competed since 2005. His best World Cup finish was third twice, both in 2009. Harvey also competed at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2009 in Liberec, finishing fifth in the 4 x 10 km, 22nd in the 15 km + 1

Pierre Harvey            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Pierre Harvey: is a Canadian sports athlete. He was the first Canadian male athlete to compete in both the 1984 Summer Olympics (cycling) and 1984 Winter Olympics (cross-country skiing). First competing as a cyclist at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Harvey finish

Louis Powell Harvey            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Louis Powell Harvey: was an American politician and the seventh Governor of Wisconsin.He helped organize the Republican Party, and was a Republican member of the Wisconsin State Senate from 1854 to 1858, Wisconsin Secretary of State from 1860 to 1862, and finally Wisconsin's