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Our French Family
       
1.
Honorable Augustus Chaflin French, former Governor of
Illinois. Chart #4.
2.
Rear Admiral William D. French, Defense Superior Service Medal.
3.
William French Smith, American lawyer and the 74th Attorney
General of the U.S.
4.
Heather French,
former Miss America in 2000 from Augusta, Kentucky, Chart #36.
5.
Marilyn French,
American author known for her feminist novels and non-fiction.
6.
Daniel Chester French, sculptor of the Concord Minute Man,
Abraham Lincoln in the Lincoln Memorial, the John Harvard Monument, and more. Chart #4.
7.
Robert T. French, inventor (along with his sons George
and Francis), R.T. French & Co., French's Mustard, Chart #183.
8.
Victor French, actor in Lassie, Gunsmoke, Bonanza,
and Little House on the Prairie, b. 4 Dec 1934 Santa Barbara, CA, d. 15 Jun
1989.
9.
Melinda French, wife of Bill Gates of Microsoft, m. 1
Jan 1994.
10. Percy French, IrelandŐs foremost songwriter and
entertainer. Chart #IREB. More.
11. Bob French, jazz drummer and radio show host at
WWOZ from New Orleans, Louisiana, honored by Branford Marsalis.
12. Conrad OŐBrien-ffrench, artist, soldier, poet, adventurer,
spy, raconteur, teacher, lecturer, philosopher, and humanitarian. He was also
the man generally acknowledged to have inspired his friend, Ian Fleming, to
create the fictional sensation, James Bond. Chart
#IREH.
13. Frank
French,
Ragtime and Terra Verde pianist and composer. Chart
#3.
14. James
M. French,
businessman and community activist, used his wealth and influence to serve
the community and African-American youth. Believed to be the son of a former
slave of Sandusky, OH.
15. David
French, CNN Live,
who reported on the War in the Gulf in 1991 with Wolf Blitzer and President
George Bush as the weekend anchor for 12 years before his transition to the
CIA.
16. Peter French, of Frenchglen, Oregon, had a cattle
operation and built a round barn in the 1870s which is on the National
Register of Historic Places as of 1971.
17. George French,
leader of the George French Band in New Orleans, LA. He sings base jazz and
rhythm & blues and cut hit records in the 1960s.
18. Lizzie
Crozier French,
ca. 1890, was an educator and a leader in the movement for womenŐs suffrage
in Tennessee. Chart #129?
19. Bob French, Chief Meterorologist and weeknight
weather anchor at KBTX in Texas since 1990. Chart #8.
20. Lawrence
Herbert French,
played for the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Chicago Cubs, b. 1907 in CA, d. 9
Feb 1987, played between 18 Apr 1929 and 26 Sep 1942.
21. Samuel
French,
American playwright, b. 1821, d. 1898 NYC.
22. Jesse
French,
piano manufacturer, b. 1845, d. 1927 in New Castle, IN.
23. David
French,
Canadian playwright.
24. Benjamin Brown
French,
wrote dairies covering the Civil War period, and was a journalist for White
House History, Chart
#4. More.
25. Rosella
French Porterfield of Elsmere, KY, granddaughter of a slave, was
in the Hall of Fame in 2007.
26. Mara
French, Originator of the French Family Association Website. Chart
#6.
27. William
French, Dartmouth National scholarship winner, 2008, of Plymouth,
Minnesota, majoring in Asian and Middle Eastern languages.
28. Field
Marshal John Denton Pinkstone French, 1st Earl of Ypres, KP, GCB,
OM, GCVO, KCMG, PC (28 Sep 1852 – 22 May 1925) was a British Field
Marshal, the first commander of the British Expeditionary Force in WWI.
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