Famous People with Name Russell

Russell Arms            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Russell Arms: is an American actor and singer.From 1952 to 1957, Arms was best known as a vocalist and host of Your Hit Parade, a NBC television series that reviewed the popular songs of the day and on which a regular cast of vocalists would perform the top seven songs of the week. Arms is the only one of the lead performers on that show who is still alive.

Russell Louis "Rusty" Schweickart            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Russell Louis "Rusty" Schweickart: is an American astronaut. Schweickart was born in Neptune, New Jersey. He earned an B.S. and an M.S. in Aeronautics/Astronautics from MIT in 1956 and 1963 respectively.

Russell Irving Webb            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Russell Irving Webb: is a retired water polo player from the United States. He played in two consecutive Summer Olympics for his native country, starting in 1968.

Russell Beiersdorf            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Russell Beiersdorf: is an American professional golfer who played on the Nationwide Tour and the PGA Tour.Beiersdorf played on the Nationwide Tour in 1990-1992 and 1995-1998 and he played on the PGA Tour in 1993 and 1994. Beiersdorf won three tournaments on the Nationwide To

Russell Donald Freeman            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Russell Donald Freeman: was a bebop and cool jazz pianist and composer.Freeman was initially classically trained, but later turned toward jazz of a largely bop style. His reputation as a jazz pianist grew in the 1940s when he did work with Art Pepper, Shorty Rogers, and Chet Bak

Kylee Russell            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Kylee Russell: an American child actress. She is best known for playing Karin in the movie Jump In!. She is the younger sister of Chelsea Tavares and the older sister of Halle Russell.

Leonard James Russell            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Leonard James Russell: is a former professional American football player who was selected by the New England Patriots in the 1st round (14th overall) of the 1991 NFL Draft. A 6'2", 235-lb. running back from Arizona State University, Russell played in 6 NFL seasons from 1991 to 1996 for the Patriots, the Denver Broncos, the St. Louis Rams, and the San Diego Chargers.

Darrell A. Russell            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Darrell A. Russell: was an American football defensive lineman for the Oakland Raiders and Washington Redskins of the National Football League who died in a car crash near Los Angeles after being indefinitely banned from the NFL for repeated violations of the league's substance abuse policy.

Charles Andrew "Andy" Russell            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Charles Andrew "Andy" Russell: wore number 34 as an outside linebacker for the Pittsburgh Steelers in 1963 and from 1966-1976. He was an early member of Pittsburgh's famed Steel Curtain defense, and was named the Steelers' MVP in 1971. He made seven Pro Bowl appearances--in 1969 and from 1971 through 1976--and earned two Super Bowl rings in Super Bowl IX and Super Bowl X.

Henry Norris Russell            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Henry Norris Russell: was an American astronomer who, along with Ejnar Hertzsprung, developed the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram (1910). In 1923, working with Frederick Saunders, he developed RS coupling which is also known as LS coupling.He co-wrote an influential two-volume textbook in 1927 with Raymond Smith Dugan and John Quincy Stewart: Astronomy: A Revision of Young’s Manual of Astronomy (Ginn & Co., Boston, 1926–27, 1938, 1945). This became the standard astronomy textbook for about two decades. There were two volumes: the first was The Solar System and the second was Astrophysics and Stellar Astronomy. The textbook popularized the idea that a star's properties (radius, surface temperature, luminosity, etc.) were largely determined by the star's mass and chemical composition,