Famous People with Name Murray

Murray Perahia            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Murray Perahia: is an American concert pianist. He is also a respected conductor. His recordings are characterized by a consistent quality of sound, technique and interpretation and a careful attention to dynamic and stylistic details.

Murray Fife Buell            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Murray Fife Buell: was an American ecologist and palynologist. He was born in New Haven, Connecticut. He attended Cornell University (B.S., 1930) and the University of Minnesota (M.A., 1934; Ph.D., 1935). After completing his Ph.D., studies with W.S. Cooper stimulated his interest in plant ecology.During graduate school, Buell married Helen Foot (Ph. D., Algology, U. Minn.); the Buells raised two children. Helen was his field companion as well as his wife, and the two worked as a team in research and publication of several papers.[1]Buell began his professional career at North Carolina State University in 1935, where he started his research on paleoecology of bogs and plant succession.

Murray Llewellyn Barr            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Murray Llewellyn Barr: was a Canadian physician and medical researcher who discovered with graduate student Ewart George Bertram, in 1948, an important cell structure, the "Barr body".[1]He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.In 1968, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. In 1959, he received the Royal Society of Canada's Flavelle Medal. In 1962, he won a Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. Foundation Award for his contributions to the understanding of the causes of mental retardation. In 1963, he received the Gairdner Foundation International Award. In 1998, he was inducted into Canadian Medical Hall of Fame.

Murray Barnson Emeneau            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Murray Barnson Emeneau: was an emeritus professor of linguistics at the Department of Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley, which he also founded. He was prominent in the field of sociolinguistics research in India, being the first to do fieldwork on non-literary Dravidian languages in India, and also initiated the field of areal linguistics. He was president of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) in 1949.

Murray Bernard Koffler            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Murray Bernard Koffler: a Canadian pharmacist, businessman, and philanthropist. He is best known for creating the Canadian pharmacy retailer, Shoppers Drug Mart.In 1946, he became a pharmacist at Koffler Drug Stores (established in 1921). From 1968 to 1971, he was President of Koffler Stores Ltd. From 1971 to 1986, he was Chairman of Shoppers Drug Mart. He was appointed an Honorary Chairman in 1986.He and Marvelle established the Koffler Centre of the Arts at the Bathurst Jewish Community Centre in 1974. The Koffler is home to the Koffler Gallery which presents cutting edge contemporary art exhibitions; the Helen and Stan Vine Canadian Jewish Book Awards; the Toronto Jewish Book Fair, and extensive educational programs in music, dance, and visual arts. A new Koffler Centre of the Arts is under construction at the same site as part of the new Sherman Campus of the UJA Federation of Greater Toronto and is to be completed in 2011 with greatly expanded galleries

Glen Murray            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Glen Murray: is a professional Canadian ice hockey player. He was bought out by the Boston Bruins on July 26, 2008 to free up salary cap room for the 2008–2009 season.Murray was raised in the Bridgewater, Nova Scotia area and played junior hockey for the Sudbury Wolves of the OHL. Murray was a first-round draft pick, 18th overall by the Bruins in the 1991 NHL Entry Draft. He spent four seasons with the Bruins before being traded to the Pittsburgh Penguins with Bryan Smolinski for Kevin Stevens and Shawn McEachern.

Chris Murray            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Chris Murray: a Canadian-born singer-songwriter and guitarist working primarily in the genre of ska. In Canada, he was a member of the now-defunct ska band King Apparatus during the late 1980s and early 1990s. He now lives in the Los Angeles, California area, where he

Joe Murray            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Joe Murray: is an animator, best known as the creator of Rocko's Modern Life and Camp Lazlo."My Dog Zero," released in 1992, was Murray's third independent film and first color film. Murray said that "My Dog Zero" was his "most gratifying" artistic project to date be

Hugh "Muzz" Murray            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Hugh "Muzz" Murray: was a professional ice hockey player. Murray played professionally in the Pacific Coast Hockey Association for the Seattle Metropolitans and Calgary Tigers.

Daniel Saffle Murray            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Daniel Saffle Murray: is a former Major League Baseball pitcher who played for two seasons. He pitched in one game for the New York Mets in 1999 and pitched in 14 games for the Kansas City Royals from 1999 to 2000.