Famous People with Name Vincent

Vincent Laforet            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Vincent Laforet: is an American photographer. Laforet shared the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography as a member of The New York Times staff's coverage of "the pain and the perseverance of people enduring protracted conflict in Afghanistan and Pakistan."[1] In 2006, Laforet became the Times' s first national contract photographer

Vincent Kennedy "Vince" McMahon Jr            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Vincent Kennedy "Vince" McMahon Jr: popularly known by the ring name Mr. McMahon, is an American professional wrestler, promoter, in-ring announcer, play-by-play commentator and film producer. He is also the Chairman of the World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) Board of directors and majority

Vincent Vallières            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Vincent Vallières: a Québécois singer from the city of Sherbrooke, Quebec.His first album, Trente Arpents, was released in 1999, followed by Bordel Ambiant in 2001 . He became well-known in Quebec in 2003 with the release of his third album, Chacun Dans Son Espace. On Augus

Vincent Ludwig Persichetti            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Vincent Ludwig Persichetti: was an American composer, teacher, and pianist. An important musical educator and writer, Persichetti was a native of Philadelphia. He was known for his integration of various new ideas in musical composition into his own work and teaching, and for training many noted composers in composition at the Juilliard School. His students at Juilliard included Philip Glass, Bruce Haack, Charles L. Bestor, Hall Overton, Karl Korte, Michael Jeffrey Shapiro, Larry Thomas Bell, Richard Danielpour, Kenneth Fuchs, Jing Jing Luo, William Schimmel, Robert Dennis, Peter Schickele, Louis Calabro, Ronald Caltabiano and Thelonious Monk[citation needed]. He also taught composition to conductor James DePreist at the Philadelphia Conservatory.

Vincent "Vince" Franklin Glionna            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Vincent "Vince" Franklin Glionna: was a Canadian boxer who competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics.

Beverly Mills Vincent            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Beverly Mills Vincent: was a Representative from Kentucky. During the First World War he served as a private in Battery A, Seventy-second Field Artillery, from August 27, 1918, to January 9, 1919. During his life, he was assistant attorney general of Kentucky in 1919 and 1920;

Clément Vincent            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Clément Vincent: was a Canadian politician and a Member of the House of Commons. He successfully ran as a Progressive Conservative candidate for the district Nicolet—Yamaska in the 1962 federal election. He was re-elected in the 1963 and 1965 elections, but resigned in 1966 to enter provincial politics. Vincent won a seat to the Legislative Assembly of Quebec in 1966 in the district of Nicolet. He supported the Union Nationale and was appointed to the Cabinet, serving as Minister of Agriculture and Colonization from 1966 to 1970. He was re-elected in the 1970 election, but was defeated in the district of Nicolet-Yamaska in the 1973 election.

Robert Vincent            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Robert Vincent: is a Quebec politician, formerly a Bloc Québécois Member of Parliament for the riding of Shefford. Born in Granby, Quebec, he was a foreman and union advisor before he was first elected in 2004.

Auguste Vincent            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Auguste Vincent: was a Liberal party member of the Canadian House of Commons. Born in Lorrainville, Quebec, he was a lawyer by career. He was first elected at the Longueuil riding in the 1953 general election and re-elected for a second term in 1957. In the 1958 election he was defeated by Pierre Sévigny of the Progressive Conservative party. Vincent also made an unsuccessful bid to return to Parliament at Longueuil in the 1962 election.

Pierre H. Vincent            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Pierre H. Vincent: is a tax lawyer and former Canadian politician. Vincent was first elected to the Canadian House of Commons in the 1984 electoral landslide that brought Brian Mulroney and the Progressive Conservative Party to power. Vincent, the PC Member of Parliament for Trois-Rivières served as Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of National Revenue from 1984 until 1985; Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Finance from 1985 to 1993, and was also Parliamentary Secretary to the Deputy Prime Minister of Canada from 1991 to 1993. In January 1993, Vincent was elevated to Prime Minister Mulroney's Cabinet as Minister of State for Indian Affairs and Northern Development and Minister of Consumer and Corporate Affairs. When Kim Campbell succeeded Mulroney as PC leader and prime minister, she promoted Vincent to Minister of the Environment. His appointment was criticized as the appointment of a relative neophyte to the position was seen as a message by Campbell that the Environment was no longer considered a senior portfolio.