Famous People with Name Spencer

Spencer Eli Daniels            Origin/Culture/Country: American

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Spencer Nolan Rice            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Spencer Nolan Rice: Soon after this, Rice and Hotz, who had been friends since childhood, collaborated on the short film It Don't Cost Nothin' to Say Good Morning. They wrote further material, including an episode of the show Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles[citation needed]. Their first feature-length film was Pitch, which won Best Film Award from the Toronto Independent Arts Festival.

Spencer Fullerton Baird            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Spencer Fullerton Baird: was an American ornithologist and ichthyologist.After studying medicine for a time, Baird became professor of natural history at Dickinson College in 1845, assuming also the duties of the chair of chemistry, and giving instruction in physiology and mathematics. This variety of duties in a small college tended to give him that breadth of scientific interest which characterized him through life, and made him perhaps the most representative general man of science in America. For the long period between 1850 and 1878, he was assistant-secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, in Washington, D.C., where he encouraged the work of the young naturalists in the Megatherium Club. On the death of Joseph Henry he became secretary. From 1871 until his death, he was also U.S. Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries.

Spencer Wells            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Spencer Wells: a geneticist and anthropologist, and an Explorer-in-Residence at the National Geographic Society. He leads The Genographic Project.Wells did his Ph.D. work under Richard Lewontin, and later did postdoctoral research with Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza and Sir Walter Bodmer. His work, which has helped to establish the critical role played by Central Asia in the peopling of the world, has been published in journals such as Science, American Journal of Human Genetics, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Spencer Christian            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Spencer Christian: an American television broadcaster, best known as the former weather forecaster for ABC's Good Morning America from 1986 to 1998. He currently is the weather forecaster for ABC-owned KGO-TV in San Francisco. Christian is also the author of several children's books.Christian was born in Charles City, Virginia in 1947. He began his broadcasting career at WWBT in Richmond, Virginia as a news reporter, covering state and local politics, the public school system, and landmark cases in the Fourth US Circuit Court of Appeals. His first stint as a weatherman came in 1975, in Baltimore, Maryland, when he was hired by news director Ron Kershaw at WBAL-TV to join the Action News team which included Sue Simmons, Mike Hambrick, Ron Smith, Curt Anderson and Joe Krebs. In Baltimore, Christian quickly gained a respectable following because of his quick wit and not so dry humor.

James Clarence Spencer            Origin/Culture/Country: American

James Clarence Spencer: was a survivor of the Bataan Death March during World War II and a Democratic politician from Athens, the seat of Henderson County in east Texas.At the age of twenty-four, he entered the Texas House of Representatives, serving two nonconsecutive terms fro

Samuel R. Spencer            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Samuel R. Spencer: was an American politician who was the Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut from 1931 to 1933.

Henry Elvins Spencer            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Henry Elvins Spencer: was a Canadian politician.He was first elected to the Canadian House of Commons for the riding of Battle River in the 1921 federal election. A member of the United Farmers of Alberta, he was re-elected in 1925, 1926, and 1930. He belonged to the Ginger Group of radical MPs and was a founding member of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation in 1932. He was defeated as a CCF candidate in the 1935 election and again in 1940 and 1945.

Norman Leonard Spencer            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Norman Leonard Spencer: was a Progressive Conservative party member of the Canadian House of Commons. He was born in Howard Township, Ontario and became a lawyer by career. He was first elected at the Essex West riding in the 1958 general election after an unsuccessful attempt there in the 1957 election. Spencer was re-elected for a second term in the 1958 election but defeated by Herb Gray of the Liberal party in the 1962 election.

Hazelton Spencer            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Hazelton Spencer: was a soldier, political figure and judge in Upper Canada. In 1790, he was appointed justice of the peace in the Mecklenburg District. In 1792, he was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada, representing Lennox, Hastings & Northumberland. From 1793 to 1795, he served as a district judge of the surrogate court. He was appointed lieutenant for Lennox County, a position that oversaw the magistrates and militia for the county.