Famous People with Name Hewitt

Hewitt Pearson Montague Beames            Origin/Culture/Country: Irish

Hewitt Pearson Montague Beames: was Chief Mechanical Engineer of the London and North Western Railway 1920-1922. A keen rugby union player, Beames played for Lancashire on several occasions, and was invited to tour Canada with the Irish national rugby union team, but was unable to go. B

Hewitt Leonidas Bouanchaud            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Hewitt Leonidas Bouanchaud: Mr. Bouanchaud was elected a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives in 1908. He was reelected in 1912 and 1916. In 1916 Bouanchaud was named Speaker of the House. In 1920 he was elected Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana as running mate to John M.

Hewitt Bostock            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Hewitt Bostock: was a Canadian publisher, businessman and politician.In 1904, he was appointed to the Canadian Senate by the prime minister, Wilfrid Laurier. A decade later he became Leader of the Opposition in the Canadian Senate. Bostock broke with the Laurier Liberals over the Conscription Crisis of 1917, and became a Liberal-Unionist, campaigning in favour of the Union government of Sir Robert Borden during the 1917 election.

John Napoleon Brinton Hewitt            Origin/Culture/Country: Scottish

John Napoleon Brinton Hewitt: was a linguist and ethnographer of Tuscarora and Scottish descent. He worked for the Bureau of American Ethnology, a part of the Smithsonian Institution, from 1886 to 1937. He specialized in Iroquoian languages, and was a prolific researcher. Hewitt is best known for his "Iroquois Cosmology" which was published in two parts, 1903 and 1928.

Donald Shepard Hewitt            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Donald Shepard Hewitt: was an American television news producer and executive, best known for creating 60 Minutes, the CBS television news magazine in 1968, which at the time of his death, was the longest-running prime-time broadcast on American television. Under Hewitt's leade

Angela Hewitt            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Angela Hewitt: a Canadian classical pianist who is generally regarded as one of the world's foremost Bach pianists. She also holds British nationality through her father, Godfrey, who was the cathedral organist in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.Angela Hewitt began her piano studies at age 3, performed in public at 4, and won her first music scholarship at 5. Aside from the piano, she also studied violin, recorder, and ballet (at Mme. Toumine's school in Ottawa). Her first recital was in The Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto at the age of 9. She studied at the Toronto Conservatory from 1964 to 1973. She then went on to study with the French pianist, Jean-Paul Sévilla, at the University of Ottawa. She placed first in the Gian Battista Viotti competition in 1978 and in 1985 won the Toronto International Bach piano competition.

John Hewitt            Origin/Culture/Country: Scottish

John Hewitt: is a Scottish former footballer and manager, who spent the majority of his playing career with Aberdeen F.C., but also had spells with Celtic and St. Mirren among others. He also spent a short time in management in Ireland with Dundalk before retiring from the game.

Simon James Hewitt            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Simon James Hewitt: is an English born former French cricketer. A right-handed batsman and right-arm medium pace bowler, he played more than 100 times for the France national cricket team between 1989 and 2001, most of the time captaining the side, having previously played f