Famous People with Name Lewis

Lewis A. Swift            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Lewis A. Swift: was an American astronomer.He discovered or co-discovered a number of comets, including periodic comets 11P/Tempel-Swift-LINEAR, 64P/Swift-Gehrels, and 109P/Swift-Tuttle (parent body of the Perseids meteor shower). He also discovered comets C/1877 G2, C/1878 N1, C/1879 M1, C/1881 J1, C/1881 W1, C/1892 E1, D/1895 Q1 (a.k.a. D/Swift, whose debris stream Mariner 4 probably encountered on September 15, 1967[2]), C/1896 G1 and C/1899 E1, and co-discovered C/1883 D1 (Brooks-Swift). Note, however, comet 54P/de Vico-Swift-NEAT was discovered by his son Edward D. Swift rather than by him.

Lewis Madison Terman            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Lewis Madison Terman: U.S psychologist, noted as a pioneer in cognitive psychology in the early 20th century at Stanford University. He is best known as the inventor of the Stanford-Binet IQ test. He was a prominent eugenicist and was a member of the Human Betterment Foundation.

Lewis John Stadler            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Lewis John Stadler: was an American geneticist. His research focused on the mutagenic effects of different forms of radiation on economically important plants like maize and barley.While Stadler spent almost all his academic life at the University of Missouri he was also involved in activities with a wider scope. During the 1930s Stadler was involved in efforts to bring European scientists to the U.S. to escape Nazism. In 1948 Stadler was appointed a delegate to the Eighth International Congress of Genetics, meeting in Stockholm. The U.S. Department of Agriculture, however, rejected his passport application and conducted a loyalty investigation; Stadler at first thought it was a State Department action.

Lewis Howard Latimer            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Lewis Howard Latimer: was an African American inventor and draftsman. Though Thomas Alva Edison is credited with the invention of the light bulb, Latimer made.George Latimer had been the slave of James B. Gray of Virginia. George Latimer ran away to freedom in Trenton, New Jersey in October, 1842, along with his wife Rebecca, who had been the slave of another man. When Gray, the owner, appeared in Boston to take them back to Virginia, it became a noted case in the movement for abolition of slavery, gaining the involvement of such abolitionists as William Lloyd Garrison. Eventually funds were raised to pay Gray $400 for the freedom of George Latimer.[3] One of Lewis's siblings was named William H. Latimer (1846-1892), who worked as a barber.

Lewis Baltz            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Lewis Baltz: is a visual artist, philosopher, and well known photographer who became an icon of the New Topographic movement of the late 1970s.His entire work is focused on the counter-aesthetic of photography, searching beauty in desolation and destruction. Baltz ima

James Hamilton Lewis            Origin/Culture/Country: American

James Hamilton Lewis: was the first Senator to hold the title of Whip in the United States Senate. Lewis was born in Danville, Virginia, and also grew up in Augusta, Georgia. He was educated at the University of Virginia and studied law in Savannah, Georgia before he served in

James Taylor Lewis            Origin/Culture/Country: American

James Taylor Lewis: was an American lawyer and politician who served as the ninth Governor of Wisconsin.He held the positions of district attorney and county judge, and he was elected to terms in both the Wisconsin State Assembly and the State Senate. He also served as lieut

Vivian M. Lewis            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Vivian M. Lewis: was an American jurist and politician who was the Republican nominee for Governor of New Jersey in 1910 against Woodrow Wilson.In 1897 he was elected as a Republican to the New Jersey General Assembly. He was re-elected in 1899 and 1900, serving as majori

Joseph Horace Lewis            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Joseph Horace Lewis: was an American lawyer, military leader and politician. He served as a brigadier general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War, and later a U.S. Representative from Kentucky and justice of the Kentucky Court of Appeals, the court of

Lynwood W. Lewis, Jr.            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Lynwood W. Lewis, Jr.: is an American politician. A Democrat, he was elected to the Virginia House of Delegates in November 2003. He currently represents the 100th district, which consists of the Eastern Shore counties of Accomack and Northampton, and parts of the cities of Nor