Famous People with Name Norton

Norton Barnhill            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Norton Barnhill: is a retired American basketball player. A 6'5" guard, he played collegiately for the Washington State University.

Norton Juster            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Norton Juster: is an American architect and author. He is famous primarily for writing children's books; among them The Phantom Tollbooth and The Dot and the Line.Juster co-founded a small architectural firm, Juster Pope Associates, in Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts, in 1970. The firm was renamed Juster Pope Frazier after Jack Frazier joined the firm in 1978.

Norton Garfinkle            Origin/Culture/Country: South America

Norton Garfinkle: an economist and author.He received a BA with honors from Columbia University and did his graduate work at Columbia University and Princeton University. He was a professor of economics and economic history at Amherst College, where he edited the Journal of Economic History.On July 19, 2001, he appeared on the PBS show, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, to discuss the troubles with voting systems in the 2000 Presidential Election.On February 3, 2007, he was a guest on the Bloomberg on the Economy Radio Report on National Public Radio, in "Norton Garfinkle, Author, Discusses Rise of U.S. Middle Class".

Norton Zinder            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Norton Zinder: an American biologist famous for his discovery of genetic transduction. Zinder was born in New York City, received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and became a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1969. He currently heads a laboratory at Rockefeller University.Working as a graduate student with Joshua Lederberg, Zinder discovered that bacteriophage can carry genes from one bacterium to another. Initial experiments were carried out using Salmonella. Zinder and Lederberg named this process of genetic exchange transduction.

Norton Montresor Hughes-Hallett            Origin/Culture/Country: English

Norton Montresor Hughes-Hallett: was a British Army officer and a cricketer who played for Derbyshire in 1913 and 1914. He made his debut for Derbyshire in August 1913 in a match against Lancashire. Hughes-Hallett served with the King's Shropshire Light Infantry in World War I in France

Kenneth Howard Norton Sr.            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Kenneth Howard Norton Sr.: is a former WBC Heavyweight Champion of the World. He is best known for his 12-round split-decision victory over Muhammad Ali, on March 31, 1973. Norton started boxing when he was in the United States Marine Corps from 1963–1967, compiling a 24-2 record e

Scott Michael Norton            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Scott Michael Norton: is an American semi-retired professional wrestler. He is best known for his tenures in World Championship Wrestling and New Japan Pro Wrestling. After finally deciding to go the pro wrestling route, Norton was trained to wrestle by former Olympic wrestler

Fred C. Norton            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Fred C. Norton: was a Minnesota politician, a member of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, a Speaker of the Minnesota House of Representatives, and a judge of the Minnesota Court of Appeals.Norton worked in the office of the Minnesota Attorney General from 1955 to 1965,

Daniel Sheldon Norton            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Daniel Sheldon Norton: was an American politician. Norton was born in Mount Vernon, Ohio and served in the Mexican-American War. He moved to Minnesota in 1855. He served in both the Minnesota House of Representatives and the Minnesota State Senate. He was elected to the U.S. Se

Elijah Hise Norton            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Elijah Hise Norton: was a Representative from Missouri.He served as county attorney in 1850 and judge of the circuit court of Missouri 1852-1860. He was elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1861-March 3, 1863) and was an unsuccessful candidate for r