Abrams (name)
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This is a list of people named Abrams:
- Albert AbramsAlbert AbramsAlbert Abrams was an American doctor, well known during his life for inventing machines which he claimed could diagnose and cure almost any disease. These claims were challenged from the outset...
(1863–1924), impostor - Cal AbramsCal AbramsCalvin Ross Abrams , nicknamed Abie, was an American left-handed Major League Baseball player.-Baseball career:...
(1924-97), major league baseball outfielder - Creighton Williams Abrams (1914-1974), U.S. Army general and Chief of Staff
- Dan AbramsDan AbramsDan Abrams is an American television host, legal commentator, web entrepreneur and best-selling author. He is currently Legal Analyst at ABC News Good Morning America , and a substitute anchor for the network. He formerly served as Chief Legal Analyst for NBC News, as General Manager of MSNBC and...
(born 1966), television talk show host - Elliott AbramsElliott AbramsElliott Abrams is an American attorney and neoconservative policy analyst who served in foreign policy positions for two Republican U.S. Presidents, Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush. While serving for Reagan and in the State Department, Abrams, Paul Wolfowitz, and retired U.S. Marine Corps officer...
(born 1948), U.S. foreign policy official - Elliot Abrams (meteorologist)
- Floyd AbramsFloyd AbramsFloyd Abrams is an American attorney at Cahill Gordon & Reindel. He is an expert on constitutional law, and many arguments in the briefs he has written before the United States Supreme Court have been adopted as United States Constitutional interpretative law as it relates to the First Amendment...
(born 1936), American attorney - Harry N. Abrams, American book publisher
- Herbert E. AbramsHerbert AbramsHerbert E. Abrams was an American artist. He was one of the leading portrait artists of his era known for his style of traditional realism. His works included the official White House portraits of former presidents Jimmy Carter and George H.W. Bush. During his prolific career, he painted many...
(born 1920), American painter and portrait artist - J. J. AbramsJ. J. AbramsJeffrey Jacob "J. J." Abrams is an American film and television producer, screenwriter, director, actor, and composer. He wrote and produced feature films before co-creating the television series Felicity...
(born 1966), film and television producer - John N. AbramsJohn N. AbramsJohn Nelson Abrams is a retired United States Army four star general who commanded the United States Army Training and Doctrine Command from 1998 to 2002. He is the son of former Army Chief of Staff Creighton Abrams.-Military career:...
, (born 1946), U.S. Army general and son of Creighton AbramsCreighton AbramsCreighton Williams Abrams Jr. was a general in the United States Army who commanded military operations in the Vietnam War from 1968–72 which saw U.S. troop strength in Vietnam fall from a peak of 543,000 to 49,000. He served as Chief of Staff of the United States Army from 1972 until shortly... - Mark Abrams, social scientist
- Morris AbramsMorris AbramsMorris Abrams was the founder of Arrow Fastener Company, a manufacturer of fastening tools that since 1999 has been a subsidiary of Masco Corporation.-History:...
(born 1929), American inventor - Morris N. AbramsMorris N. AbramsMorris Newton Abrams was a Louisiana educator who specialized in the field of vocational education....
(1919-1975, Louisiana educator - M. H. AbramsM. H. AbramsMeyer Howard Abrams is an American literary critic, known for works on Romanticism, in particular his book The Mirror and the Lamp. Under Abrams' editorship, the Norton Anthology of English Literature became the standard text for undergraduate survey courses across the U.S...
(born 1912), literary critic - Robert AbramsRobert AbramsRobert Abrams is an American lawyer and politician.-Life and career:He graduated from Columbia College and the New York University School of Law. He is considered a member of the reform wing of the Democratic Party.Abrams was a member of the New York State Assembly representing the Bronx from 1966...
(born 1938), New York politician - Ruth AbramsRuth AbramsRuth Abrams was the first female justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, where she served from 1978 to 2000, and the first female appellate justice in Massachusetts.-Notes:...
(born 1930), American judge - Stephen AbramsStephen AbramsStephen Irwin Abrams is an American scholar of parapsychology and a drug policy activist. He is best known for sponsoring and authoring the full page advertisement petitioning for cannabis law reform that appeared in The Times on 24 July 1967...
American scholar and activist