Top Celebrity Names Starting With Wallace

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   Wallace Shawn

   Age 68 Male
   

   Actor, Writer, Author, Voice Artist, and Comedian

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   Wallace Michael Shawn, sometimes credited as Wally Shawn, is an American stand-up comedian, actor, writer, author, voice artist, and intellectual. His best-known film roles include Wally Shawn in My Dinner with Andre (1981), Vizzini in The Princess Bride (1987), and debate teacher Mr. Hall in Clueless (1995). On television he played Grand Nagus Zek on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Shawn is well known for his distinctive and high pitched voice.… read more

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   Wallace G. Wilkinson

   1941 - 2002 Male
   

   Politician

   
   

   Wallace Glenn Wilkinson was an American businessman and politician from the Commonwealth of Kentucky. From 1987 to 1991, he served as the state's fifty-seventh governor. Wilkinson dropped out of college at the University of Kentucky in 1962 to attend to a book retail business he started.… read more

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   Wallace Lawler

   1912 - 1972 Male
   

   Politician, Member of Parliament, Fisherman

   
   

   Wallace Leslie Lawler was a British Liberal politician. He was elected a Member of Parliament (MP) by gaining Birmingham, Ladywood from Labour at a by-election on 26 June 1969. However, Lawler only served for one year, as Labour's Doris Fisher regained the seat from him at the 1970 general election. He was the last Liberal to serve as a Member of Parliament in Birmingham until Liberal Democrat John Hemming won election to the Birmingham, Yardley seat in 2005.… read more

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   Wallace Roney

   Age 52 Male
   

   Trumpeter, Musician, Composer

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   Wallace Roney is an American hard bop and post-bop trumpeter. Roney took lessons from Clark Terry and Dizzy Gillespie and studied with Miles Davis from 1985 until the latter's death in 1991. Wallace credits Davis as having helped to challenge and shape his creative approach to life as well as being his music instructor, mentor and friend; indeed he holds the distinction of being the only trumpet player Davis ever personally mentored.… read more

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   Wallace Fard Muhammad

   1934 Male
   

   Minister, Politician, Founder

   
   

   Wallace D. Fard was a minister and founder of the Nation of Islam. He established the Nation of Islam's first mosque in Detroit, Michigan in 1930, and ministered his distinctive religion there for three years, before mysteriously disappearing in June 1934. He was succeeded by his follower Elijah Muhammad. Fard's real identity is not definitively known. Alternative names on record include Wallace/Wallie Dodd Ford, Wallace Dodd, Wallie Dodd Fard, W.D.… read more

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   Wallace Huo

   Age 32 Male
   

   Actor, Singer

   
   

   Wallace Huo Chien-Hwa is a Taiwanese actor and singer, based in China. Wallace first joined the entertainment business at the age of 17. Setting the goal as a singer, he went through two years of training in vocal and dancing. Just before he was about to record his first album, however, he was mandated to enlist in the army. He became known for his cell phone commercial with Angelica Lee in 2000.… read more

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   Wallace Stevens

   1879 - 1955 Male
   

   Poet

   
   

   Wallace Stevens was an American Modernist poet. He was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, educated at Harvard and then New York Law School, and he spent most of his life working as an executive for an insurance company in Hartford, Connecticut.… read more

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   Wallace Carothers

   1896 - 1937 Male
   

   Organic Chemistry

   
   

   Wallace Hume Carothers was an American chemist, inventor and the leader of organic chemistry at DuPont, credited with the invention of nylon. Carothers was a group leader at the DuPont Experimental Station laboratory, near Wilmington, Delaware, where most polymer research was done. Carothers was an organic chemist who, in addition to first developing nylon, also helped lay the groundwork for Neoprene. After receiving his Ph.D.… read more

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   Wallace Souza

   1958 - 2010 Male
   

   Politician

   
   

   Wallace Souza was a Brazilian television presenter and politician. He was an elected member of the Legislative Assembly of Amazonas until his expulsion in October 2009. He is commonly known for presenting the controversial program Canal Livre. In 2009, he was subject to worldwide media coverage, when Amazonas State Police launched an investigation into the claims that murders had been ordered in order to boost ratings on his program.… read more

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    Wallace Stegner

    1909 - 1993 Male
    

    Historian, Novelist

    
    

    Wallace Earle Stegner was an American historian, novelist, short story writer, and environmentalist, often called "The Dean of Western Writers". He won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1972.