Famous People with Name Hicks

Thomas A. Hicks            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Thomas A. Hicks: was an American bobsledder who competed in the late 1940s.

Clarence Walter "Buddy" Hicks            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Clarence Walter "Buddy" Hicks: is a retired American professional baseball player and manager. Primarily a shortstop during his 17-year active career (1944; 1947-62), he also played third base and first base. Hicks was a switch hitter who threw right-handed, standing 5 feet 10 inches (1.78 m) tall and weighing 170 pounds (77 kg).Hicks had a 26-game trial with the 1956 Detroit Tigers of Major League Baseball, garnering ten hits in 47 at bats for a .213 batting average, with two doubles and five runs batted in.[1][2] The rest of his career was spent in minor league baseball, with the Brooklyn Dodgers, Tigers, Boston/Milwaukee Braves and Philadelphia Phillies organizations. In 1,854 minor league games, he batted .273 with 63 home runs.[3]

Elizabeth M. "Betty" Hicks            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Elizabeth M. "Betty" Hicks: was an American professional golfer, golf coach and teacher, aviator, and author. She also competed under her married name, Betty Hicks Newell.Hicks competed on the LPGA Tour, finishing second several times in the 1950s but never winning. She finished sec

Floyd Verne Hicks            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Floyd Verne Hicks: was a member of the United States House of Representatives. He served as a Democrat from the state of Washington.In 1964, Hicks was elected to Congress, where he served on the House Committee on Armed Services. He served five terms, leaving Congress in 19

Henry Davies Hicks            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Henry Davies Hicks: was a lawyer, university administrator, and politician in Nova Scotia.Hicks was elected to the Nova Scotia House of Assembly in 1945 as a Liberal for Annapolis County and served as Nova Scotia's first Minister of Education from 1949 to 1954 in the government of Angus L. Macdonald. When Macdonald died, Hicks ran for the Liberal party leadership against interim leader and then Premier Harold Connolly. The party was badly split along religious lines with Protestants uniting behind Hicks to defeat Connolly who was a Roman Catholic. As the new Premier, Hicks was unable to unite the party and his government was defeated in the 1956 election by Robert Stanfield's Progressive Conservatives.