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(Rowers/Scullers/Coxswains Who Became Famous)
Occasionally, people ask about rowers/scullers/cox'ns who became
famous people. The following is an attempt to develop a list. If you can think of anyone to add, please send a message with name,
place rowed/sculled/coxed and why they're widely known.
bmiller@rowinghistory.net
Dean Acheson (Secretary of State) rowed at Yale
Anderson Cooper (news journalist) coxed at Yale
Pierre deCourbertin (founded Modern Olympics)
Anita DeFranz (USOC/IOC) rowed at Conn. College
David T. de Varona (heart surgeon & father of Donna de Varona) rowed at
Cal-Berkeley with Gregory Peck
Charles Eliot (Harvard president) rowed at Harvard
Averill Harriman (statesman) rowed at Yale
Stephen Hawking (physicist) coxed at Oxford
Graham Hill (Formula One champion) stroked London RC VIII 1953
Richard Hillary (UK WWII pilot/hero, author) rowed at Oxford
Hugh Laurie (actor/comedian) rowed at Eton/Cambridge/Henley RR/Jr. Worlds
John Lehman (Secretary of the Navy)
George Mallory (d. 1924 Mt. Everest expedition) rowed at Magdalene College
& Andrew Irvine (d. 1924 Mallory's climbing partner) rowed at
Merton College/Boat-Race 1923 & 1923
William Middendorf (Secretary of the Navy) rowed at Harvard
Lord Colin Moynihan (British Minister of Sport) coxswain, 1980 Olympic silver medallist
Admiral Chester Nimitz, stroked Navy 1905
Edward Norton (actor) rowed at Yale
Gregory Peck (film star) rowed at Cal-Berkeley
Admiral Robert E. Perry (explorer) rowed at Bowdoin College, 1877
Vincent L Price (actor) rowed freshman crew at Yale, Class of 1933
Robert Reich (Clinton administration Secretary of Labor) coxed at Dartmouth
Stanley Resor (Secretary of the Army) rowed at Yale
Teddy Roosevelt (U.S. President) sculled at Harvard
Leverett Saltonstall (Governor/US Senator of Massachusetts) rowed at Harvard
Capt. Alan B. Shepard, Jr. (astronaut) rowed at Navy
Dr. Benjamin Spock (baby MD/author) rowed at Yale-Gold Medal 1924
John L. Sullivan (boxer) sculler
Jake Kilrain (boxer) aka John Killion, 1883 stripped of NAAO sculling
championship
Steve "Crusher" Casey (wrestler) 1936 All-England rowing champ & disqualified
after winning GB Olympic trials
http://www.terracetalkireland.com/profiles/casey.htm
King Taufa'ahau Tupou IV (ruled Tonga 1967-2006) rowed "at school"
William Thomson (Lord Kelvin) rowed at Cambridge
Payne Whitney (investments) rowed at Yale
Dean Witter (investments) rowed at Cal-Berkeley
George A Selwyn (1st Bishop of New Zealand (1841-1867) rowed for Cambridge in
the 1st Boat-Race (1829)
Cameron & Tyler Winklevoss (Social Network movie fame) rowed Harvard/2008
US Olympic Team/2010 Boat Race
Lord Snowdon (UK photographer, married Princess Margaret) coxed Cambridge in
1950 Boat Race
Julian Clary (UK actor/entertainer) coxed for Kingston
Dan Snow (UK TV presenter/historian) rowed at Cambridge
Bradley Cooper (actor) rowed at Georgetown
Bram Stoker (actor of Dracula) Irish rowed
Rudolph Hess (Nazi deputy Furher) coxed in Germany
John F. Lehman, Jr. (Secretary of the Navy) rowed at Cambridge
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