- Frank M. Canton
Josiah Horner (September 15, 1849 - 1927), better known as Frank M. Canton, was a famous American Old West lawman, gunslinger, cowboy and at one point in his life, an outlaw. - Joanna Canton
Joanna Canton (born 1978) is an American actress. She had the recurring role of Nina, Fez's boss and love interest at the DMV on That '70s Show during its fifth season. - John Canton
John Canton (July 31, 1718 - March 22, 1772) was an English physicist. Canton was born in Middle Street Stroud, Gloucestershire, the son of a weaver John Canton (B.1687) and Esther (nee Davis.) At the age of nineteen, under the auspices of Dr Henry Miles, he was articled for five years as clerk to Samuel Watkins, the master of a school in Spital Square, London, with whom at the end of that time he entered into partnership. - Ten Tigers Of Canton
The Ten Tigers of Canton "Guangdong Sahp Fu" were a group of ten of the top Chinese martial arts masters in Guangdong (Canton) towards the end of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1912). *Wong Yan-Lam (Yale Cantonese: Wong4 Yan2 Lam4) *Wong Ching Ho *Sue Haak Fu *Wong Kei-Ying (Yale Cantonese: Wong4 Kei4 Ying1) *Lai Yun Chiu *So Chan, better known as So Haak Yee or "Beggar So" *Chow Tai *Tiit Kiu Saam (Yale Cantonese: Tit3 Kiu4 Saam1) *Tiit Chi Chan *Tam Chai Hok Wong Fei-Hung, … - William Canton
William Canton (1845 - 1926) was a British journalist and writer, now best known for his contributions to children's literature. These include his series of three books, beginning with "The Invisible Playmate" written for his daughter Winifred Vida (1891-1901). He was born at Chusan in China. He worked as a journalist in London and Glasgow. He also wrote poetry, and a substantial history of the Bible Society. - Yediel Canton
Yediel Canton (born October 01, 1986 in Jaca, Spain) is a Spanish figure skater. He is the 2004 Spanish national bronze medalist. - Sonny Landreth
Sonny Landreth (born February 1, 1951) is an American blues musician from southwest Louisiana who is especially known as a slide guitar player. He was born in Canton, Mississippi, but soon after, his family moved to Jackson, Mississippi, before settling in Lafayette, Louisiana. When he is not touring and performing, he resides in Breaux Bridge, Louisiana. - Neil Canton
Neil Canton is an American film producer from New York City. The films he has produced have affected their audiences widely. The film "Caddyshack II" was nominated for the unsolicited Razzie Award for Worst Picture. By contrast, "Back to the Future" (1985) was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Film.. - Ralph Regula
Ralph Regula (born December 3, 1924 in Beach City, Ohio) is a Representative in the United States Congress from the 16th District of the State of Ohio, elected to his 18th term in November 2006. He is a member of the Republican Party and is the second longest serving Republican member of the US House. The 16th district includes the city of Canton, containing Stark and Wayne counties, as well as the southern portions of Medina and Ashland counties. - Enoch Pratt
Enoch Pratt (1808 - 1896) was an American businessman in Baltimore, a Unitarian, and a philanthropist. Born in North Middleborough, Massachusetts, and educated at the Bridgewater Academy there, Enoch Pratt clerked in a Boston hardware firm before moving to Baltimore in 1831 to launch his own wholesale hardware business on South Charles Street. In 1851 Pratt and his partner invested in western Maryland coal mines and iron yards in the Baltimore neighborhood of Canton. - Todd Blackledge
Todd Alan Blackledge (February 25, 1961 in Canton, Ohio) was a three-year starter at Penn State, where he guided the Nittany Lions to 31-5 record including a national championship in 1982. Following the 1982 season, he won the Davey O'Brien Award for best quarterback in the nation. In 1983, he was selected in the first round of the NFL Draft by the Kansas City Chiefs, where he played for five seasons (1983-87) before ending his career with the Pittsburgh Steelers (1988-89). - Robert Morrison
Robert Morrison (Traditional Chinese: 馬禮遜; Simplified Chinese: 马礼逊; born January 5, 1782 in Bullers Green, near Morpeth, Northumberland; died August 1, 1834 in Canton) was a Scottish missionary, the first Protestant missionary in China. He married Mary Morton on February 20, 1809. They had children James Morrison (5 March, 1811, died on the same day), Rebecca Morrison (July 1812), and John Robert Morrison (17 April, 1814). Mary Morton died in 1821. - John Bailey
John Bailey was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts. Born in Stoughton, Massachusetts (later named Canton), he graduated from Brown University in 1807. Bailey worked as a tutor and librarian in Providence, Rhode Island from 1807 until 1814. Bailey was elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives and served from 1814 to 1817; he served as a clerk in the Department of State in Washington, D.C. from 1817 until 1823. - Boz Scaggs
Boz Scaggs (born William Royce Scaggs, 8 June 1944, Canton, Ohio) is an American singer, songwriter and guitarist. - Peter Parker
Peter Parker, M.D., (1804 - 1888) was an American physician and a missionary who traveled extensively in Qing Dynasty China. Parker was born in Framingham, Massachusetts in 1804 to an orthodox Congregational family. His parents were farmers. Parker received his Bachelor of Arts from Yale University in 1831, and his Doctor of Medicine from the Yale Medical School, then called Medical Institution of Yale College, in 1834. - Brian A. Joyce
Brian A. Joyce is a Democratic politician from Massachusetts. He is currently serving his fifth term in the Massachusetts State Senate. He represents the Norfolk, Bristol and Plymouth district, which includes Avon, Braintree, Canton, East Bridgewater, Easton, Milton, Randolph, Sharon, Stoughton, and West Bridgewater. Joyce is a practicing attorney who has taught at both the graduate and undergraduate level. - Eddie Levert
Eddie Levert (born) is an American singer, and is the lead vocalist of the soul/funk band, The O'Jays. Levert was born in Bessemer, Alabama, but was raised in Canton, Ohio. While attending high school, he met buddies Walter Williams, Bill Isles, Bobby Massey, and William Powell. They were motivated to sing after seeing a performance from Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers. They formed in 1958. The O'Jays were originally known as The Triumphs and The Mascots. - Rainer Maria Rilke
Rainer Maria Rilke is considered one of the German language's greatest 20th century poets. His haunting images tend to focus on the difficulty of communion with the ineffable in an age of disbelief, solitude, and profound anxiety — themes that tend to position him as a transitional figure between the traditional and the modernist poets. He wrote in both verse and a highly lyrical prose. - Huldrych Zwingli
Huldrych (or Ulrich) Zwingli or Ulricus Zuinglius (January 1, 1484 - October 11, 1531) was the leader of the Protestant Reformation in Switzerland, and founder of the Swiss Reformed Churches. Independent of Martin Luther, who was "doctor biblicus", Zwingli arrived at similar conclusions, by studying the Scriptures from the point of view of a humanist scholar. Zwingli was born in Wildhaus, St. Gallen, Switzerland, … - H. R. Giger
Hans Ruedi Giger (born at Chur, Grisons canton, February 5, 1940) is an Academy Award-winning Swiss painter, sculptor, and set designer best known for his design work on the film "Alien". - James Wisniewski
James Wisniewski (b. February 21 1984, Canton, Michigan) is an American ice hockey player who plays for the Chicago Blackhawks. Wisniewski started his junior hockey career with the Plymouth Whalers of the OHL, in 2000. He improved every year significantly, and was drafted in the 4th round by the Blackhawks in 2002. At the start of the 2003-04 season, he was named captain of the Whalers. Wielding a rocket slap-shot (good for 17 goals, 11 on the power-play), … - Tony Anthony
Tony Anthony is a British Christian evangelist. He was born in London of an Italian father and a Chinese mother and raised in Canton, China by his grandparents. His grandfather trained him in Kung Fu and he became three times World Champion ‘master’ in martial arts (1987, 1988, 1989). Then, in his early twenties, Tony worked as an elite bodyguard, traveling the world protecting some of the world's richest, most powerful people. - Charles Elliot
Charles Elliot, also Charles Elliott was a British naval officer, diplomat, colonial administrator and drug-trafficker - a combination considered legitimate at the time. Born in England, he joined the British Royal Navy in 1816. He participated in the bombardment of Algiers, served in India, Africa and the West Indies and became an Admiral. He was appointed Chief Superintendent of Trade and British Minister to China in 1835 and was based in Macao, … - Rex Humbard
Rex Humbard (born on August 13, 1919) is a well-known American television evangelist whose "Cathedral of Tomorrow" show was shown on over 600 TV stations at the peak of its popularity. Starting in Akron, Ohio, Rex Humbard was one of the first evangelists (1952) to build a ministry that incorporated radio and television programming. Humbard's "Cathedral of Tomorrow" church in suburban Cuyahoga Falls was designed specifically to accommodate television equipment, … - Hugo Ball
Hugo Ball was a German author and poet. Hugo Ball was born in Pirmasens, Germany and was raised in a Catholic family. He studied sociology and philosophy at the universities of Munich and Heidelberg (1906–1907). In 1910, he moved to Berlin in order to become an actor and collaborated with Max Reinhardt. He was one of the leading Dada artists. - Juste Olivier
Juste Daniel Olivier, Swiss poet, was born near Nyon in the canton of Vaud; he was brought up as a peasant, but studied at the college of Nyon, and later at the academy of Lausanne. Though originally intended for the ministry, his poetic genius (foreshadowed by the prizes he obtained in 1825 and 1828 for poems on Marcos Botzaris and "Julia Alpinula" respectively) inclined him towards literary studies. He was named professor of literature at Neuchâtel (1830), … - Joseph Carr
Joseph F. Carr (October 23, 1879 - May 20, 1939) was an early figure in professional football. Carr was born in Columbus, Ohio. As a mechanic for the Pennsylvania Railroad in Columbus, he directed the Columbus Panhandles football team in 1907 until 1922. The "Panhandles" were one of the largest draws in early professional football, staring the Nesser brothers, and were nearly unbeatable at home in Indianola Park. - Chai Lee
Chai Lee is an actress, born in Canton, China. She is best known for her appearances in British films and television, particularly her uncredited role as a Moonbase Alpha operative in the science fiction series "Space 1999" and her performance in the crime drama "Gangsters" as Lily Li Tang. Her other TV appearances include: "The Benny Hill Show", "Angels", "Ripping Yarns" and "The Professionals". - George Chinnery
George Chinnery was an English painter who spent most of his life in Asia, especially India and southern China. Chinnery was born in London and after training in England became a famous portrait painter in Ireland by 1802. He married his wife Marianne on 19th April, 1799 in Dublin. His father owned several trading ships and his elder brother, William Chinnery, owned what is now Gilwell Park. Chinnery ran into debt and went to India in 1802 on a ship named Gilwell. - Christoph von Graffenried
Christoph von Graffenried (1661-1743) led a group of Swiss and Palatine Germans to North Carolina in 1710, and later authored "Relation of My American Project", an account of this unsuccessful attempt to settle in the New World. Graffenried was born November 15, 1661 in Bern, a German-speaking Canton of Switzerland, the eldest son of Anton von Graffenried (1639-1730) and Katharina Jenner (? -1669). - Paul Guilfoyle
Paul Guilfoyle (born April 28, 1948) is an American television and film actor known for playing Captain Jim Brass in the popular forensic television drama "CSI". Guilfoyle was born in Canton, Massachusetts. He attended Boston College High School and spoke at the 2005 commencement of the school's seniors. Guilfoyle appeared in "Howard The Duck" and in an early episode of "Crime Story" as a criminal who gets into a shootout with the MCU. - Hermann Müller
Hermann Müller was a Swiss botanist and oenologist from the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland. During his time working for the Geisenheim Grape Breeding Institute, he created the Müller-Thurgau in 1882, a variety of grape with high importance in winemaking and the most important breed of the last 125 years. - Michael Seymour
Admiral Sir Michael Seymour GCB RN (3 December 1802 - 23 February 1887 near Horndean) was a British admiral and the uncle of Sir Edward Hobart Seymour, also an admiral. He was the third son of another Michael Seymour (1768-1834) who rose to the rank of Rear-Admiral. Michael Seymour entered the Royal Navy in 1813. He made Lieutenant in 1822, Commander in 1824 and was posted Captain in 1826. From 1833 to 1835 he was captain of the survey ship HMS Challenger, … - Mark Slavens
Mark Slavens (born December 31 1954) is an American politician from Canton, Michigan. He is currently a Circuit Court Judge. Slavens attained a BGS from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. He received his Juris Doctor from the University of Toledo. He graduated from Ann Arbor Huron High in Michigan. - John Murray Forbes
John Murray Forbes (February 23 1813 - October 12 1898) was an American railroad magnate and abolitionist. He was president of both the Michigan Central railroad and the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad in the 1850s - Mikhail Borodin
Mikhail Markovich Borodin (July 9 1884, Yanovich, modern Belarus-May 29 1951, somewhere in Siberia) was the alias of Mikhail Gruzenberg; he was a Comintern agent. Borodin joined the Bolshevik party in Imperial Russia in 1903. In 1907, he was arrested and chose to depart for the United States in 1908. While there, he attended classes at Valparaiso University. After the October Revolution, he returned to his motherland in 1918, … - Alexander Dalrymple
Alexander Dalrymple (July 24, 1737 - June 19, 1808) was a Scottish geographer and the first Hydrographer of the British Admiralty. He was the main proponent of the theory that there existed a vast undiscovered continent in the South Pacific, Terra Australis Incognita. He produced thousands of nautical charts mapping a remarkable number of seas and oceans for the first time and contributing significantly to the safety of shipping. - Craig Bellamy
Craig Douglas Bellamy (born 13 July 1979 in Canton, Cardiff) is a Welsh international footballer. He currently plays for West Ham United in the Premier League. - Charles Follen
Charles Follen (September 6, 1796 - January 13, 1840) was a German poet and patriot, who later moved to the United States and became the first professor of German at Harvard University, a Unitarian minister, and a radical abolitionist. - Robert Dollar
Robert Dollar Called the “Grand Old Man” of the Pacific, Captain Robert Dollar was born in Falkirk, Scotland. He worked as a boy in the logging in the forests of Canada. In the process, he made money in the logging industry and bought up timberlands around the northwest, including what is now the Bohemian Grove In 1895 he acquired his first vessel, a single steam schooner called Newsboy, to move his lumber from the Pacific Northwest to markets down the coast.
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