Famous People with Name Alison

Alison Streeter            Origin/Culture/Country: British

Alison Streeter: has conquered the English Channel 43 times, more than anyone in the world and earning her the title of Queen of the English Channel (The title was previously held by Cindy Nicholas - the King of the English Channel is currently held by Kevin Murphy with 34 successful crossings). This total includes a triple-channel swim.

Alison Sheppard            Origin/Culture/Country: British

Alison Sheppard: is a freestyle swimmer from Scotland, who competed in five consequentive Summer Olympics for Great Britain, starting in 1988. She was one of Britain's leading freestyle sprint swimmers for almost two decades, prior to her retirement early in 2005.

Alison Goring            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Alison Goring: a Canadian curler.Goring was a successful junior curler, having won the 1983 Canadian Junior Curling Championships.Goring won her first provincial championship in 1990. Her Ontario rink would with that years' Scott Tournament of Hearts, defeating the Nova

Alison McCallum            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Alison McCallum: an Australian rock singer who had a string of singles in her home country in the late 1960s and 1970s.McCallum's pop music career began in 1967 at the age of 16, as the singer to a succession of Sydney bands. She began with the Jeff Bulls Jazz Band soon leaving to join the Big Apple Union, a Sydney soul band, which evolved into Dr Kandy's Third Eye, in which she shared lead vocals with Gulliver Smith, later of Company Caine. Considered to be an "underground" band, they were one of the first psychedelic bands to use strobe lighting and smoke at their gigs.[citation needed] In June 1969 she joined the 7 piece blue eyed soul band This Hallelujah Chorus, sharing lead vocals with another male vocalist, Ed Mayne. It was also during 1969 she recorded a version of The Bee Gees song "To Love Somebody" with Tully for the ABC-TV show Fusions,

Alison Statton            Origin/Culture/Country: Welsh

Alison Statton: a Welsh singer. She presently works as a chiropractor in Cardiff, Wales, where she was born. Fans of the singer have included Kurt Cobain, Courtney Love and Belle and Sebastian.Statton is best known as the singer for the band Young Marble Giants. Her vocals are gentle, plaintive, and poetic. After Young Marble Giants, she formed the band Weekend with Simon Emmerson (Booth) and Spike Williams, releasing the LP La Variete in 1982 and a live EP, Live at Ronnie Scott's the following year.She released two recordings with the guitarist from Ludus, Ian Devine, The Prince of Wales and Cardiffians. After working with Devine, she released several records with Spike.

Charles Hugh Alison            Origin/Culture/Country: English

Charles Hugh Alison: was a first-class cricketer who played four matches for Somerset County Cricket Club between 1902 and 1905. He also appeared in the Minor Counties Championship for Buckinghamshire in 1911. He made his highest first-class score of 20 against Oxford University in 1904.