Famous People with Name Rand

Archie Rand            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Archie Rand: s an artist and academic from Brooklyn, New York, currently Presidential Professor of Art at Brooklyn College. [1]Rand's work as a painter and muralist is displayed around the world, including in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Bibliothèque Nationale de France in Paris, and the Tel Aviv Museum of Art.

William H. Rand            Origin/Culture/Country: American

William H. Rand: As a young man, he was an apprentice at his brothers' print shop in Boston. He was enticed west in September, 1849, by the California Gold Rush. He settled in Los Angeles and co-founded the state's first newspaper, the Los Angeles Star. In 1856, he returned to Boston for a short time before moving to Chicago and opening a print shop in June of that year. Two years later he hired an Irish immigrant, Andrew McNally, to work in his shop for $9 per week. The two formally established Rand, McNally & Co. in 1868 and became one of the biggest and best-known map publishers in history. Rand retired as president of Rand McNally in 1899 and returned to his boyhood home of East Milton, Massachusetts. He died in New Canaan, Massachusetts at his daughter's home after being ill for some time.

Richard Hilton Rand            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Richard Hilton Rand: was a Major League Baseball catcher. He played all or part of three seasons, 1953, 1955, and 1957, for the St. Louis Cardinals and Pittsburgh Pirates

Anthony E. "Tony" Rand            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Anthony E. "Tony" Rand: is an attorney and former Democratic member of the North Carolina General Assembly who represented the state's nineteenth Senate district from his appointment in 1981 until he unsuccessfully ran for Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina in 1988, and from

John Langdon Rand            Origin/Culture/Country: American

John Langdon Rand: was an American politician and jurist in the state of Oregon. He served as the 22nd Chief Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court. Overall he was on Oregon’s highest court from 1921 to 1942 serving as chief justice three times. A native of New Hampshire, he s