- Edgar A. Singer Jr.
Edgar Arthur Singer, Jr. (November 13, 1873 - April 4, 1954/1955) was an American philosopher. He taught as a professor at the Pennsylvania University (1909-1943). His pupils included Henry Bradford Smith and C. West Churchman - Britney Spears
The youngest Spears stepped out on her own in 2002 as a cast member of Nickelodeon's All That . After becoming a fan favorite - like former All That stars Amanda Bynes and Nick Cannon - the then 13-year-old got her own series , Zoey 101 , which became the second highest-rated show among tweens, after TV juggernaut American Idol . - Peter Singer
Peter Albert David Singer (born July 6, 1946 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia) is a Jewish-Australian philosopher. He is the Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University, and laureate professor at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, University of Melbourne. He specializes in practical ethics, approaching ethical issues from a preference utilitarian perspective. In addition, he holds an atheistic view of the world. - Bryan Singer
Bryan Singer (born September 17 1965) is an American film director. Singer won critical acclaim for his work on "The Usual Suspects", and is especially popular among fans of the sci-fi and comic book genres, for his work on the first two "X-Men" films and "Superman Returns". - Fred Singer
Siegfried Frederick Singer (born September 27, 1924 in Vienna) is an electrical engineer and physicist. He is best known as President and founder (in 1990) of the Science & Environmental Policy Project, which disputes the prevailing scientific opinion on climate change. Singer is also skeptical about the connection between CFCs and ozone depletion, between UV-B radiation and melanoma and between second hand smoke and lung cancer. - Lori Singer
Lori Singer (born November 6, 1957) is an American actress. She is perhaps best known for her role of Ariel Moore, the daughter of Reverend Shaw Moore (played by John Lithgow) in the 1984 film "Footloose", which also starred Kevin Bacon. - Margaret Singer
Margaret Thaler Singer, Ph.D. was a clinical psychologist and adjunct professor emeritus of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, USA. Dr. Singer's main areas of research included schizophrenia, family therapy, brainwashing and coercive persuasion. Singer performed research at the University of Colorado’s School of Medicine, Walter Reed Army Medical Center Institute of Research, the National Institute of Mental Health, … - Isaac Bashevis Singer
Isaac Bashevis Singer (November 21, 1902 (see notes below) – July 24, 1991) was a Nobel Prize-winning Polish born American writer of both short stories and novels. He wrote in Yiddish. - Christian Bernard Singer
Christian Bernard Singer (born 1962) is a contemporary environmental installation artist born in Paris, France. He currently lives and works in Toronto, Canada. - Tovia Singer
Tovia Singer (b. 1965) is the host of The Tovia Singer Show, a radio show that was launched in 2002, as well as a public lecturer who devotes his time to countering missionary work undertaken by such messianic organizations as Jews for Jesus. In that capacity he heads Outreach Judaism, which aims to provide educational resources to individuals targeted for conversion by missionary groups. - Marc Singer
Marc Singer is a Canadian actor known for his roles in science fiction films and television. - Hans Singer
Sir Hans Wolfgang Singer (29 November 1910 - 26 February 2006) was a development economist best known for the Singer-Prebisch thesis, which states that the terms of trade move against producers of primary products. He is one of the primary figures of heterodox economics. - Bill Singer
William Robert Singer (born April 24, 1944 in Los Angeles, California) is a former baseball pitcher with a 14-year career from 1964 to 1977. He played primarily for the Los Angeles Dodgers (1964-72) and the California Angels (1973-75), spending his final two seasons with the Texas Rangers (1976), Minnesota Twins (1976) and Toronto Blue Jays (1977). Singer won 20 games for the Dodgers in 1969, and again for the Angels in 1973, and was an All-Star both years. - Winnaretta Singer
Winnaretta Singer, Princess Edmond de Polignac (8 January 1865-26 November 1943), was an important musical patron and heir to the Singer sewing machine fortune. She was the 18th of the more than 20 children of Isaac Singer. Her mother was his second wife, Isabelle Eugenie Boyer Summerville. - Randi Mayem Singer
Randi Mayem Singer is a writer and producer. Singer was raised in Palos Verdes, California. She studied political science at the University of California, Berkeley, and earned an M.A. in broadcast journalism from the University of Missouri. Pursuing a newscasting career, Singer worked on air in the Los Angeles on such radio stations as KRLA, KRTH and KFI, using the name Randi Allison. During this time, she began writing screenplays. - Eric Singer
Eric Singer (born Eric Doyle Mensinger on May 2 1958 in Cleveland, Ohio) is best known as a drummer for the rock band Kiss and for his work with Alice Cooper. - Isaac Singer
Isaac Merritt Singer was an American inventor, actor, and entrepreneur. He made important improvements in the design of the sewing machine and was the founder of the Singer Sewing Machine Company. - Burns Singer
Burns Singer (1928 - 1964), born James Hyman Singer in New York and an American citizen all his life, was a poet usually identified as Scottish. He was brought up in Scotland from a young age, and educated in Glasgow. He had Polish, Jewish and Irish ancestry, and showed considerable interest in Polish poetry. His collaborative translations of Polish poets included Ignacy Krasicki, Juliusz Slowacki, Cyprian Norwid and Jerzy Peterkiewicz. - Daniel Singer
Daniel Singer (September 26, 1926 - December 2, 2000) was a socialist writer and journalist. He was, perhaps, best known for his articles for "The Nation" in the United States and for "The Economist" in Britain. His posthumous book "Deserter from Death" is published by Nation Books. The Guardian's obituary reported, that: 'At his request, the announcement of his death was accompanied by a quotation from Rosa Luxemburg : "Tomorrow, … - Rory Singer
Rory Michael Singer (born May 28, 1976) is a USA mixed martial arts fighter. He currently fights as a middleweight in the Ultimate Fighting Championship. - Israel Joshua Singer
Israel Joshua Singer was a Yiddish novelist. He was born Yisroel Yehoshua Zinger the son of Pinchas Mendl Zinger, a rabbi and author of rabbinic commentaries, and Basheva Zylberman. He was the brother of Nobel Prize-winning author Isaac Bashevis Singer and novelist Esther Kreitman. Singer contributed to the European Yiddish press from 1916, and in 1921 became a correspondent for the leading American Yiddish newspaper "The Forward". - Isadore Singer
Isadore Manual Singer is an Institute Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is noted for work with Michael Atiyah on the Atiyah–Singer index theorem. He was born in Detroit, and received his undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan in 1944. After obtaining his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1950, he went to MIT, where he has spent nearly all his career. - Peter A. Singer
Peter A. Singer, MD, MPH, FRCPC, is Senior Scientist and Co-Director of the Program on Life Sciences, Ethics and Policy at the McLaughlin-Rotman Centre for Global Health, University Health Network; Professor of Medicine, University of Toronto; and a Distinguished Investigator of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. - Jonathan Singer
Jonathan Hershel Singer (born April 15, 1984 in Vancouver, British Columbia) is the senior writer for the popular progressive blog MyDD, which has been credited as being "the first major liberal blog." Singer is perhaps best known for his various interviews with prominent politicians, first for his own site, "Basie!", and then later for MyDD, where he has been an editor since November 2005. - Ed Singer
Ed Singer is a Hollywood screenwriter and TV producer whose credits include many popular non-fiction TV series, including "A & E's Biography", Blind Date (US television), "Animals Are People Too", World's Wildest Police Videos, and Pat Croce: Moving In. He has also written a number of Documentary film specials, including the award-winning feature Empire of Dreams, … - Washington Singer
Washington Merritt Grant Singer (1866-1934) was an English philanthropist and prominent racehorse owner. Born in Yonkers, New York he was the third child of Isabella Eugenie Boyer and sewing machine magnate, Isaac Singer. The family moved to England when Washington Singer was still a child. He was raised at Oldway Mansion at Paignton on the Devon coast. He married Daphne Helen Travers and they adopted a son, Grant Allen Singer (1915-1942). - Hal Singer
Hal Singer is an American R&B and jazz bandleader and saxophonist. He studied violin as a child, but as a teenager switched to clarinet and then tenor saxophone, which became his instrument of choice. From the late 1930s he began playing in local bands, including that of Ernie Fields, before joining Jay McShann's orchestra in 1943 and then moving to New York. After working in various other bands, he joined Oran "Hot Lips" Page’s band in 1947, … - Judy Singer
Judy Singer is an Australian disability rights activist, thinker and writer, specialising in the sociology of the autistic spectrum. Her interest in the Autistic Spectrum began with the diagnosis of her daughter with Asperger's Syndrome, and the realisation that both she and her mother shared AS traits with her daughter to varying degrees. - Al Singer
Al Singer (b. September 6, 1909, in New York, NY; d. April 20, 1961) was an American boxer. Singer captured the World Lightweight Championship in July, 1930, with a first round knockout (1:47) of champion Sammy Mandell. He surrendered the title four months later to Tony Canzoneri in a first round KO. Three years earlier, Singer and Canzoneri had battled to a 10-round draw. In his career, Singer won 61 of 72 pro fights (25 by KO), drawing twice, and losing nine. - Kurt Singer
Kurt Singer (May 12, 1886 - February 14, 1962) was a German philosopher. Born in Magdeburg, he was a professor at Hamburg University (1924-1933). He taught at Tokyo Imperial University since 1931. Singer died at Athens, Greece. - Kyle Singer
Kyle Singer (born August 6, 1980 in Plymouth, Minnesota) is an American soccer player, who last played goalkeeper for the New England Revolution of Major League Soccer. Singer played college soccer at the University of Virginia from 1998 to 2001, and Boston College in 2002. After three mediocre seasons (and one redshirt) at UVA, Singer transferred to BC for his senior season. Unable to earn a starting position at UVA, … - Vernon Singer
Vernon Milton Singer (1919 - September 20, 2003) was a politician in Ontario, Canada. After serving in World War II with the Royal Canadian Dragoons, Singer returned to Canada and became president of the Young Liberals in 1947. While practicing as a lawyer, he entered politics as an alderman in North York, Ontario serving ultimately as reeve during the 1950s. He ran for the leadership of the Ontario Liberal Party at the 1958 Ontario Liberal leadership convention, … - Aubrey Singer
Aubrey Singer (21 January 1927 - 26 May 2007) was a British broadcasting executive. He was the controller of BBC Two from 1974 until 1978, who replaced Robin Scott and was replaced himself by Brian Wenham. Prior to that appointment, he was head of the Features Group which included Science & Features, Arts Features, and General Features. This group made largely documentary programme material. - Jacques Singer
Jacques Singer was an American conductor born on May 9, 1910 in Przemyśl, Poland, and died August 11, 1980 in Manhattan. His father was Mark Eli, his mother Rachela (Bach). Jacques was trained in the violin from an early age, and began to give concerts in Poland at age seven. In 1921 (according to Jacques’ entry in Who’s Who in America) his family moved to the U.S. In 1925 Jacques made his American debut with a recital at The Town Hall, New York. - Simeon Singer
Simeon Singer (1846-1906) was a Jewish preacher, lecturer and public worker. He was born in London, and after a short stay at a Hungarian school, became a student at Jews' College, of which he was subsequently for a time the principal. In 1867 he became minister of the Borough Synagogue, London. In the following year he married. He moved to the New West End Synagogue in 1878, and remained the minister of that congregation until his death. - Avi Singer
Avi Singer (born Kiarash Novinshoar July 14, 1988) is a Persian-American novelist and founding member of the artist collective Something Dancey, as well as a head editor and writer for the magazine of the same name. He has written several novellas, including "Fairy Tale" and "Rolling". As well as his fictional work, he is highly respected for his essays and anaylitcal discussions on politics and government, … - Marcus George Singer
Marcus George Singer is an American philosopher, born in 1926. His works include "Generalization in Ethics - An essay in the Logic of Ethics, with the Rudiments of a System of Moral Philosophy" (1961). Singer focused on the concept of rational morality. - Linda Singer
Linda Singer (born September 14, 1966, in Cleveland, OH) is the Washington, DC Attorney General], having been appointed to that office by District of Columbia Mayor Adrian Fenty, in January 2007, and confirmed by the DC Council. - Peter Singer
Hon Sir Jan Peter Singer Kt (1993). Hon Mr Justice Singer. Born 10 September 1944. - David Singer
David Singer, DC, is a chiropractor, a Scientologist, and the founder, in 1981, of the controversial consulting firm now known as David Singer Enterprises. Singer is an accomplished speaker primarily engaged in training chiropractors to increase the efficiency and profitability of their practices. The firm and its predecessor Singer Consulting, however, have also brought hundreds of new members into the Church of Scientology, …
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