List of Famous people named Horace

Similar names: Horacio. Here are some famous Horaces:

Horace Grant

Horace Junior Grant

Horace Junior Grant is an American former professional basketball player who is a special advisor for Michael Reinsdorf, the president and chief operating officer of the Chicago Bulls. He attended and played college basketball at Clemson University before playing professionally in the National Basketball Association (NBA), where he became a four-time champion with the Chicago Bulls and Los Angeles Lakers. Horace is the twin brother of former NBA player Harvey Grant.

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Horace de Vere Cole

First Name Horace
Born on May 5, 1881
Died on February 25, 1936 (aged 54)

William Horace de Vere Cole was an eccentric prankster born in Ballincollig, County Cork, Ireland. His most famous prank was the Dreadnought hoax where he and several others, pretending to be an Abyssinian prince and his entourage, were given a tour of the Royal Navy ship HMS Dreadnought.

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Horace Greeley

First Name Horace
Died on November 29, 1872

Horace Greeley was an American newspaper editor and publisher who was the founder and editor of the New-York Tribune. Long active in politics, he served briefly as a congressman from New York, and was the unsuccessful candidate of the new Liberal Republican party in the 1872 presidential election against incumbent President Ulysses S. Grant, who won by a landslide.

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Horace Wells

First Name Horace
Born on January 21, 1815
Died on January 24, 1848 (aged 33)

Horace Wells was an American dentist who pioneered the use of anesthesia in dentistry, specifically nitrous oxide.

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Horace Elgin Dodge

First Name Horace
Born on May 17, 1868
Died on December 10, 1920 (aged 52)

Horace Elgin Dodge Sr. was an American automobile manufacturing pioneer and co-founder of Dodge Brothers Company.

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Horace Clarke

First Name Horace
Born on June 2, 1939
Died on August 5, 2020 (aged 81)

Horace Meredith Clarke was an American Virgin Islander baseball second baseman who played ten seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB). He played for the New York Yankees and the San Diego Padres from 1965 to 1974. He was a switch hitter who threw right-handed.

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Horace Trumbauer

First Name Horace
Born on December 28, 1868
Died on September 18, 1938 (aged 69)

Horace Trumbauer was a prominent American architect of the Gilded Age, known for designing residential manors for the wealthy. Later in his career he also designed hotels, office buildings, and much of the campus of Duke University. Trumbauer's massive palaces flattered the egos of his "robber baron" clients, but were dismissed by his professional peers. His work made him a wealthy man, but his buildings rarely received positive critical recognition. Today, however, he is hailed as one of America's premier architects, with his buildings drawing critical acclaim even to this day.

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Horace Bénédict de Saussure

First Name Horace
Born on February 17, 1740
Died on January 22, 1799 (aged 58)

Horace Bénédict de Saussure was a Genevan geologist, meteorologist, physicist, mountaineer and Alpine explorer, often called the founder of alpinism and modern meteorology, and considered to be the first person to build a successful solar oven.

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Horace Walpole

First Name Horace
Born on September 24, 1717
Died on March 2, 1797 (aged 79)

Horatio Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford, also known as Horace Walpole, was an English writer, art historian, man of letters, antiquarian and Whig politician.

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Horace Parlan

First Name Horace
Born on January 19, 1931
Died on February 23, 2017 (aged 86)

Horace Parlan was an American hard bop and post-bop pianist and composer. He was known for his contributions to the Charles Mingus recordings Mingus Ah Um and Blues & Roots.

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