Lista de Personas Famosas con el apellido Blackwell
Elizabeth Blackwell
Elizabeth Blackwell fue una médica británica, la primera mujer en recibir un título médico en los Estados Unidos y la primera mujer en el Registro Médico del Consejo Médico General. Tanto en Estados Unidos como en Inglaterra desempeñó un destacado papel como concienciadora social e impulsora de la educación de la mujer en medicina. Sus contribuciones siguen siendo celebradas con la medalla Elizabeth Blackwell, que cada año se otorga a una mujer que haya contribuido significativamente en la promoción de la mujer en la medicina.
Nick Blackwell
Nick Blackwell is a British former professional boxer who was born in Trowbridge and was taught at the John of gaunt school, he competed from 2009 to 2016. He won the English middleweight title in 2010, at the age of twenty, becoming the youngest boxer to do so. In 2011 and 2012 he challenged for the Commonwealth middleweight title, and won the British middleweight title in 2015. Blackwell's career was cut short in 2016 after he was forced to retire due to a serious head injury sustained in the ring.
John Blackwell
John Blackwell Jr. was an American contemporary R&B, funk, jazz, fusion, and pop drummer, best known for his work with Prince. Later, he was a member of D'Angelo's backing band, The Vanguard.
Unita Blackwell
Unita Zelma Blackwell was an American civil rights activist who was the first African-American woman to be elected mayor in the U.S. state of Mississippi. Blackwell was a project director for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and helped organize voter drives for African Americans across Mississippi. She was also a founder of the US China Peoples Friendship Association, a group dedicated to promoting cultural exchange between the United States and China. Barefootin', Blackwell's autobiography, published in 2006, charts her activism.
Chris Blackwell
Chris Blackwell es el fundador de Island Records. Nacido en Londres de padre irlandés y madre judía sefardí costarricense, Blackwell pasó su infancia en Reino Unido. Enviado a Inglaterra para continuar con su educación, decidió no acudir a la universidad, volviendo a Londres para convertirse en ayudante de campo del gobernador de la isla Sir Hugh Foot. Tras el traslado de Sir Hugh Foot a Chipre, abandonó Kings House y se introdujo en el mercado inmobiliario y otros negocios que le pusieron en contacto con la comunidad musical Británica. Fundó Island Records en 1959, siendo de los primeros en grabar música popular Británica, la cual pasó a conocerse como ska.
Henry Browne Blackwell
Henry Browne Blackwell, sometimes written Brown, was an American advocate for social and economic reform. He was one of the founders of the Republican Party and the American Woman Suffrage Association. He published Woman's Journal starting in 1870 in Boston, Massachusetts with Lucy Stone.
Rebecca Blackwell
Basil Blackwell
Sir Basil Henry Blackwell was born in Oxford, England. He was the son of Benjamin Henry Blackwell (1849–1924), founder of Blackwell's bookshop in Oxford, which went on to become the Blackwell family's publishing and bookshop empire, located on Broad Street in central Oxford. The publishing arm is now part of Wiley-Blackwell.
Sylvestra Blackwell
Emily Blackwell
Emily Blackwell fue la segunda mujer en obtener un título médico en la que ahora es la Universidad Case Western Reserve y la tercera mujer graduada en medicina en los Estados Unidos, después de Elizabeth Blackwell y Lydia Folger Fowler. Fue elegida para formar parte del National Women's Hall of Fame en 1993.