Famous People with Name Russell

Russell Lynes            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Russell Lynes: was an American art historian, photographer, author and managing editor of Harper's Magazine.He was graduated from Yale in 1932 and married Mildred Akin, a Vassar graduate, in 1934. He started as a clerk at Harper & Brothers, the publishing house, from 1932 to 1936 and was director of publications at Vassar in 1936 and 1937. He then took a job at the Shipley School in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, where he was assistant principal from 1937 to 1940, then principal until 1944. He then joined Harper's Magazine as an assistant editor and became managing editor in 1947, a position he would hold for the next twenty years.

Russell Potter Red Reeder Jr            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Russell Potter Red Reeder Jr: was a United States Army officer and author. Colonel Reeder’s military decorations include the Distinguished Service Cross, the Silver Star, the Legion of Merit, the Bronze Star, the Purple Heart, the Combat Infantryman Badge, and two decorations awarded by France: the Croix de Guerre avec Palm and the Légion d'honneur.

Russell David Johnson            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Russell David Johnson: is an American television and film actor best known as "The Professor" on the CBS television sitcom Gilligan's Island. He is a graduate of Girard College, a private boarding school in Philadelphia, PA.

Russell Albion Meyer            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Russell Albion Meyer: was an American motion picture director and photographer.Russ Meyer was born in San Leandro, California to William Arthur Meyer, a German-American police officer, and Lydia Lucinda Hauck Howe. His parents divorced shortly after he was born, and he was to have virtually no contact with his father during his life. When he was 14, his mother pawned her wedding ring in order to buy him an 8mm film camera. He made a number of amateur films at the age of 15, and served during World War II as a U.S. Army combat cameraman for the 166th Signal Photo Company. It was there that Meyer forged his strongest friendships, and would later ask many of his fellow combat cameramen to work with him on his films. Much of Meyer's work during World War II can be seen in newsreels and in the film Patton (1971). Upon returning to civilian life, he made industrial films, was a still photographer for mainstream films (he did the still photography for the film Giant), and became a well known glamour photographer, whose work included shoots for Hugh Hefner's newly launched Playboy magazine. Meyer would shoot three Playboy centerfolds during its early years, one of which included his wife Eve Meyer in 1955 and a pictorial of then-wife Edy Williams in March 1973.

Russell Billiu Long            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Russell Billiu Long: was an American politician who served in the United States Senate as a Democrat from Louisiana from 1948 until 1987.

Charles Marion Russell            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Charles Marion Russell: was an artist of the American West. Russell created more than 2,000 paintings of cowboys, Indians, and landscapes set in the Western United States, in addition to bronze sculptures. Russell was also a storyteller and author. The C. M. Russell Museum Compl

Thomas Russell            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Thomas Russell: was an American painter, also the grandfather of Kurt Russell, and father of actor Bing Russell.He had sold over 30 paintings in his home town, when earning money he became quite "a rich fella"; After a while he made an unpublished book called The Rich Little Fella, it was Thomas's only book made. Thomas was also interested in Business, and got a job doing all business people do.

Brenda Russell            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Brenda Russell: an African American singer-songwriter and keyboardist. Known for her eclectic musical style, her recordings have encompassed several different genres, including pop, soul, jazz and adult contemporary. As well as composing her own material, Russell's songw

Rosalind Russell            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Rosalind Russell: was an American actress of stage and screen, perhaps best known for her role as a fast-talking newspaper reporter in the Howard Hawks screwball comedy His Girl Friday, as well as originating the role of Auntie Mame on Broadway and in film. She won all 5 G

John Albert Russell            Origin/Culture/Country: American

John Albert Russell: was a pitcher in Major League Baseball. He pitched in six games for Brooklyn Robins in the 1917 & 1918 seasons and then in fifteen games for the Chicago White Sox in 1921-1922.