Scottish-Americans Scottish-Americans Alan Hovhaness ( March 8, 1911 – June 21, 2000) was an American composer of Armenian and Scottish descent. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alan Hovhaness"
Dr Alexander Anderson ( 21 April 1775 - January 17, 1870), was an American illustrator, born in New York City to Scottish parents. He is one of the earliest American wood-engravers. He produced works for books, periodicals, and newspapers. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alexander Anderson (illustrator)"
Alexander Calder ( July 22 1898 – November 11 1976), also known as Sandy Calder, was an American sculptor and artist most famous for inventing the mobile. In addition to mobile and stabile sculpture, Alexander Calder also created paintings, lithographs, and tapestry, and designed carpets. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alexander Calder"
Alexander Graham Bell ( March 3, 1847 – August 2, 1922) was a Scottish scientist and inventor. Today, he is still widely considered to be the inventor of the telephone, although this matter has become controversial, with a number of people claiming that Antonio Meucci was the 'real' inventor and others holding out for Elisha Gray, the founder of the Western Electric Manufacturing Company. In addition to his work in telecommunications technology, he was responsible for important advances in aviation and hydrofoil technology. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alexander Graham Bell"
Alexander Hamilton ( January 11, 1755 or 1757 – July 12, 1804) was an American politician, statesman, writer, lawyer, and soldier. One of the United States' most prominent and brilliant early constitutional lawyers, he was an influential delegate to the U.S. Constitutional Convention and the principal author of the Federalist Papers, which successfully defended the U.S. Constitution to skeptical New Yorkers. He also put the new United States of America onto a sound economic footing as its first and most influential Secretary of the Treasury, establishing the First Bank of the United States, public credit and the foundations for American capitalism and stock and commodity exchanges. To defend his programs against the criticisms of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, Hamilton founded the first political party in the United States, the Federalist Party, which he dominated until his death in a duel with political rival Aaron Burr. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alexander Hamilton"
Alexander Mackendrick ( September 8 1912 - December 22 1993) was a Scottish-American film director. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alexander Mackendrick"
Alexander McDougall ( 1731- 1786) was an American seaman, merchant, and leader from New York City during the Revolutionary War. He served as a Major General in the Continental Army, and as a delegate to the Continental Congress. After the war he was the president of the first bank in the state and served a term in the New York state senate. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alexander McDougall"
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Alexander McGillivray ( 15 December 1750 – 17 February 1793) was a leader of the Creek (Muscogee) Indians during and after the American Revolution who worked to establish a Creek national identity and centralized leadership as a means of resisting American expansion onto Creek territory. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alexander McGillivray"
Alexander Melville Bell ( March 1, 1819 - August 7, 1905), American educationalist, was born at Edinburgh, Scotland. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alexander Melville Bell"
Alexander Milne ( 1742 - 1838) was a Scottish-American entreprenuer and philanthropist. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alexander Milne"
Alexander Stirling Calder ( January 11 1870 – 1945) was an American sculptor, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Calder was the son of sculptor Alexander Milne Calder and the father of sculptor Alexander Calder. Calder first worked as a sculptor assisting his father in producing the extensive sculpture program on the Philadelphia City Hall and in 1886 is reported to have modeled the arm of one of the figures. In 1885 at age 16 he attended the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts where he studied under the renowned Thomas Eakins. In 1890 Calder moved to Paris where he studied at the Academie Julian under Henri Michel Chapu and then was accepted in the Ecole des Beaux-Arts where he entered the atelier of Alexandre Falguière. In 1902 he returned to Philadelphia and began his career as a sculptor in earnest. Throughout out his career Calder was frequently a teacher, variously teaching sculpture or anatomy at the Philadelphia Academy of the Fine Arts, the School of Industrial Art, in Phladelphia, the National Academy of Design in NYC and the Students Art League, also in NYC. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alexander Stirling Calder"
Alexander Wilson ( July 6, 1766 – August 23, 1813) was a Scottish-born American poet, ornithologist, naturalist and illustrator. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alexander Wilson"
Alicia Keys (born January 25, 1980) is an American R&B/ soul singer, songwriter, composer, record producer, and pianist. Keys is a renowned artist who has sold over 20 million albums and singles worldwide and won numerous awards, including 9 Grammys,10 Billboard Music Awards and 3 American Music Awards. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alicia Keys"
Alicia Silverstone (born October 4, 1976) is an American actress. She first came to widespread attention in the music video for Aerosmith's Cryin and later starred in Crazy and several Hollywood motion pictures. According to critics, she has demonstrated a versatile acting talent in a range of parts, from femme fatale in The Crush to quirky comedy in Clueless. She is also noted for her strong views on animal welfare and is a committed vegan. In 2004, Silverstone was voted sexiest female vegetarian. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alicia Silverstone" Come again to shortopedia shortopedia
Allan McLeod Cormack ( February 23, 1924 – May 7, 1998) was a South African-born American physicist who shared a part of the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on the computerized axial tomography (CAT) scan. ...more on Wikipedia about "Allan McLeod Cormack"
Allan Pinkerton ( August 25, 1819 – July 1, 1884) was a U.S. detective and spy, best known for creating the Pinkerton Agency, the first detective agency. ...more on Wikipedia about "Allan Pinkerton"
Andrew Hamilton (c. 1676 – August 4, 1741) was a Scottish- American lawyer in the colonial era. ...more on Wikipedia about "Andrew Hamilton (lawyer)"
Andrew William Mellon ( March 24, 1855– August 27, 1937) was an American banker, industrialist, philanthropist, art collector and Secretary of the Treasury from March 4, 1921 until February 12, 1932. ...more on Wikipedia about "Andrew W. Mellon"
April Hunter (born September 24, 1971 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is a Scots-Irish American professional wrestler, professional wrestling valet and model. ...more on Wikipedia about "April Hunter"
Arthur MacArthur, Jr. ( June 2, 1845 – September 5, 1912), was a United States Army general. He became the military governor of the American-occupied Philippines in 1900 but his term ended a year later due to clashes with the civilian governor, future President William Howard Taft. ...more on Wikipedia about "Arthur MacArthur, Jr."
Arthur MacArthur, Sr. ( January 26, 1815– August 26, 1896) was an American lawyer, judge, and politician who served as the acting governor of Wisconsin for four brief days in 1856, in the midst of an election scandal. ...more on Wikipedia about "Arthur MacArthur, Sr."
Arthur St. Clair ( March 23, 1734- 1736?– August 31 1818) was the ninth President of the Continental Congress under the Articles of Confederation, holding office from February 2, 1787 to October 29, 1787. He was preceded in office by Nathaniel Gorham and succeeded by Cyrus Griffin. He was also a general in the Continental Army during the American Revolution, and the only territorial governor of Ohio. ...more on Wikipedia about "Arthur St. Clair"
Ava Gardner ( December 24, 1922 – January 25, 1990) was an American actress. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ava Gardner"
Barbara McClintock ( June 16 1902 – September 2 1992) was a pioneering American scientist and one of the world's most distinguished cytogeneticists. McClintock received her PhD in botany from Cornell University in 1927, where she was a leader in the development of maize cytogenetics; the field remained the focus of her research for the rest of her career. From the late 1920s, McClintock studied chromosomes and how they change during reproduction in maize. Her work was groundbreaking: she developed the technique to visualize maize chromosomes and used microscopic analysis to demonstrate many fundamental genetic concepts, including genetic recombination by crossing-over during meiosis—a mechanism by which chromosomes exchange information. She produced the first genetic map for maize, linking regions of the chromosome with physical traits, and she demonstrated the role of the telomere and centromere, regions of the chromosome that are important in the conservation of genetic information. She was recognized amongst the best in the field, awarded prestigious fellowships and elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1944. ...more on Wikipedia about "Barbara McClintock"
Benjamin Geza Affleck (born August 15, 1972) in Berkeley, California, is an American actor and Oscar-winning screenwriter. Affleck is the famous Boston Red Sox fan in Red Sox Nation. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ben Affleck"
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