Famous People with Name Morris

Morris Louis Bernstein            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Morris Louis Bernstein: a United States abstract expressionist painter, one of the many such painters to emerge in the 1950s. From 1929 to 1933, he studied at the Maryland Institute of Fine and Applied Arts (now Maryland Institute College of Art) on a scholarship, but left shortly before completing the program. He worked at various odd jobs to support himself while painting and in 1935 was president of the Baltimore Artists’ Association. From 1936 to 1940, he lived in New York and worked in the easel division of the Works Progress Administration Federal Art Project. During this period, he knew Arshile Gorky, David Alfaro Siqueiros, and Jack Tworkov. He also dropped his last name.

Morris Halle,            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Morris Halle,: a Latvian-American Jewish linguist and an Institute Professor and professor emeritus of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was born in Liepaja, Latvia, in 1923, and moved with his family to Riga in 1929. They arrived in the United States in 1940.From 1941 to 1943, Halle studied engineering at the City College of New York. He entered the United States Army in 1943 and was discharged in 1946, at which point he went to the University of Chicago, where he got his master's degree in linguistics in 1948. He then studied at Columbia University under Roman Jakobson, became a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1951, and earned his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1955. He retired from MIT in 1996, but he remains active in research and publication. He is fluent in German, Yiddish, Latvian, Russian, Hebrew and English.

Morris Swadesh            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Morris Swadesh: was an American linguist. He was born in Holyoke, Massachusetts to Russian Jewish parents from whom he learned Yiddish. He received his B.A. from the University of Chicago and his Ph.D. from Yale University, where he studied with Edward Sapir. During the Second World War he worked on military projects to compile reference materials for Burmese, Chinese, Russian, and Spanish. In May 1949 Swadesh was fired by the City College of New York as the result of accusations that he was a Communist, making him one of a number of anthropologists to fall victim to harassment by anti-communists during the McCarthy Era. He continued to work in the United States with limited funding from the American Philosophical Society until 1954 when he took a position as Professor at the National School of Anthropology and History (Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia) in Mexico City, where he remained until his death.

Morris Herman DeGroot            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Morris Herman DeGroot: was an American statistician. Born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, Professor DeGroot graduated from Roosevelt University and earned master's and doctor's degrees from the University of Chicago. Professor DeGroot joined Carnegie Mellon in 1957 and became a Univ

Morris Nettles            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Morris Nettles: is a retired professional baseball player who played 2 seasons for the California Angels of Major League Baseball.

Anthony Morris, Jr.            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Anthony Morris, Jr.: was a brewer, Quaker preacher, judge, and mayor of Philadelphia.In addition to serving Philadelphia as one of its leading brewers, Anthony Morris served in a variety of judicial capacities during the 1690s and was described by William Penn as "one of the

Earle Morris            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Earle Morris: was an American Democratic politician.Morris served as Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina 1971-1975. Later he served as Comptroller General of South Carolina and was a member of both houses of the South Carolina General Assembly.

Gouverneur Morris            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Gouverneur Morris: was an American statesman, a Founding Father of the United States, and a native of New York City who represented Pennsylvania in the Constitutional Convention of 1787. He was also an author of large sections of the Constitution of the United States and on

James Remley Morris            Origin/Culture/Country: American

James Remley Morris: was a U.S. Representative from Ohio, son of Joseph Morris. He served two years' apprenticeship at the printing trade in 1833 and 1834. He studied under private tutor until 1839. He studied law. He was admitted to the bar in 1843 and commenced practice at

Jonathan David Morris            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Jonathan David Morris: was a U.S. Representative from Ohio, son of Thomas Morris and brother of Isaac N. Morris. He studied law. He was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Batavia, Ohio. He served as clerk of the courts of Clermont County. Morris was elected as a Demo