Famous People with Name Wallace

Wallace Norman "Wally" Harris            Origin/Culture/Country: British

Wallace Norman "Wally" Harris: was an English professional footballer. Born in Birmingham, he played as an outside right for Birmingham and Walsall in the Football League during the 1920s. Released by Birmingham due to health problems, he retired not long afterwards and died in a sanatorium in Davos, Switzerland, aged 33.

Wallace Hume Carothers            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Wallace Hume Carothers: was an American chemist, inventor and the leader of organic chemistry at DuPont, credited with the invention of Nylon.[1]Carothers was a group leader in DuPont’s Experimental Station laboratory, near Wilmington, Delaware, where most polymer research was done.[2] Carothers was a brilliant organic chemist who, in addition to first developing nylon, also helped lay the groundwork for Neoprene. After receiving his Ph.D, he taught at several universities before he was hired by the DuPont Company to work on fundamental research.He married the former Helen Sweetman on February 21, 1936. Wallace Carothers had been troubled by periods of mental depression since his youth

Wallace Smith Broecker            Origin/Culture/Country: South America

Wallace Smith Broecker: the Newberry Professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University and a scientist at Columbia's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory.Broecker's areas of research include Pleistocene geochronology, radiocarbon dating and chemical oceanography, including oceanic mixing based on stable and radioisotope distribution. This included research on the biogeochemical cycles of the element carbon and on the record of climate change contained in polar ice and ocean sediments.He attended Wheaton College and interacted with J. Laurence Kulp and Paul Gast. Broecker then transferred to Columbia University. At Columbia, he worked at the Lamont Geological Observatory with W. Maurice Ewing and Walter Bucher.

Wallace Berman            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Wallace Berman: was an American West Coast visual /assemblage artist.Instead of pursuing a formal art 'career' he worked in a factory finishing antique furniture. This work gave him the opportunity to salvage reject materials and scraps which he used to make sculptures. He began a mail art publication called SEMINA The format was a letterpress text printed on an assemblage of colored paper, photos, and essentially found material. Contributors included John Altoon, Antonin Artaud, Charles Brittin, Charles Bukowski, William S. Burroughs, Jean Cocteau, Allen Ginsberg, Marion Grogan, Walter Hopps, Larry Jordan, Philip Lamantia, Michael McClure, David Meltzer, Stuart Perkoff, and John Weiners.

Wallace Stevens            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Wallace Stevens: was a American Modernist poet. He was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, and spent most of his life working for an insurance company in Connecticut. His best-known poems include "Anecdote of the Jar," "The Emperor of Ice Cream," "The Idea of Order at Key West

Michael L. Wallace            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Michael L. Wallace: is a Canadian politician, currently representing the electoral district of Burlington in the Canadian House of Commons as a member of the Conservative Party of Canada. He was first elected to Burlington City Council in the fall of 1994, representing the southeast area of Burlington, now Ward 5. He was re-elected in 1997, 2000, and 2003. Before running for councillor, Wallace graduated from the University of Guelph, majoring in economics and political science. Wallace was nominated as the candidate for the newly formed Conservative Party for the 2004 federal election, running against long-time Liberal incumbent Paddy Torsney. A last-minute resurgence in Liberal support across Ontario resulted in a 4,000-vote victory for Torsney.

David Wardrope Wallace            Origin/Culture/Country: American

David Wardrope Wallace: was an Ontario physician and political figure. He represented Russell in the Canadian House of Commons as a Liberal member from 1903 to 1904. He was elected to the House of Commons in an 1903 by-election held after William C. Edwards was named to the Senate.

Clarence Wallace            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Clarence Wallace: was a Canadian shipbuilder and the 18th Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia. During World War II, he built ships for the war and was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1946. From 1950 to 1955, he was the Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia. He was also made a Knight of Grace in the Order of St. John of Jerusalem.

John D. Wallace            Origin/Culture/Country: American

John D. Wallace: is a Canadian politician and a Conservative member of the Canadian Senate. On 22 December 2008, it was announced that he would be appointed on the advice of Stephen Harper to the Senate. He assumed office on January 2, 2009.