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- John CalvinJohn CalvinJohn Calvin was an influential French theologian and pastor during the Protestant Reformation. He was a principal figure in the development of the system of Christian theology later called Calvinism. Originally trained as a humanist lawyer, he broke from the Roman Catholic Church around 1530...
, theologian, founder of Calvinism - Idelette CalvinIdelette CalvinIdelette Storder de Bure Calvin was the only wife of the French reformer John Calvin .-Life:Idelette de Bure came from Gelderland and first married John Storder from Liège. At some stage they moved to Strasburg where they were recorded as being Anabaptists...
, wife of John Calvin, founder of Calvinism - Melvin CalvinMelvin CalvinMelvin Ellis Calvin was an American chemist most famed for discovering the Calvin cycle along with Andrew Benson and James Bassham, for which he was awarded the 1961 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He spent most of his five-decade career at the University of California, Berkeley.- Life :Calvin was born...
, American chemist - Samuel CalvinSamuel Calvin (geologist)Samuel Calvin was Iowa's first systematic geologist, helping to make the first bedrock and landform maps of Iowa, as well as leading geological research throughout the state. He was born in Scotland, attended Lenox College in Hopkinton, Iowa, where he later taught. One of his collaborators was...
, U.S. geologist - Susan CalvinSusan CalvinDr. Susan Calvin is a fictional character from Isaac Asimov's Robot Series. She was the chief robopsychologist at US Robots and Mechanical Men, Inc., the major manufacturer of robots in the 21st century...
, fictional robopsychologist - William H. CalvinWilliam H. CalvinWilliam H. Calvin, Ph.D., is an American theoretical neurophysiologist and professor at the University of Washington in Seattle. He is a well-known popularizer of neuroscience and evolutionary biology, including the hybrid of these two fields, neural Darwinism...
, American neurophysiologist
People with the first name Calvin
Calvin (name)
A few famous people named Calvin include:*Calvin Klein, fashion designer.*Calvin Harris, Scottish electro artist*The main character from Calvin and Hobbes, a retired comic strip.*Calvin Coolidge, the 30th President of the United States....
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- Calvin (Calvin and Hobbes)Calvin (Calvin and Hobbes)Calvin ' is a fictional character, and one of the two principal characters in the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson. Calvin demonstrates a level of wisdom, vocabulary and humor unusual for a six year-old boy...
, title character in the Calvin and Hobbes comic strip - Calvin Abrams, major league baseball outfielder
- Calvin BorelCalvin BorelCalvin H. Borel is an American jockey in thoroughbred horse racing and rode the victorious mount in the 2007 Kentucky Derby, the 2009 Kentucky Derby and the 2010 Kentucky Derby...
, thoroughbred horse jockey - Calvin Broadus, rapper known as Snoop DoggSnoop DoggCalvin Cordozar Broadus, Jr. , better known by his stage name Snoop Dogg, is an American rapper, record producer, and actor. Snoop is best known as a rapper in the West Coast hip hop scene, and for being one of Dr. Dre's most notable protégés. Snoop Dogg was a Crip gang member while in high school...
- Calvin ChenCalvin ChenCalvin Chen Yi Ru is a Taiwanese singer and actor. He is currently a member of the boy band Fahrenheit. His stage name is a homophone of his birth name....
, a member of the Taiwanese boyband Fahrenheit - Calvin ChengCalvin ChengCalvin Ern-Lee Cheng is a Nominated Member of Parliament in Singapore, and a leading figure in the fashion modelling industry in Asia, having had senior roles in Elite Model Management, Ford Models, the world's two best known and oldest model agencies...
, fashion mogul - Calvin CoolidgeCalvin CoolidgeJohn Calvin Coolidge, Jr. was the 30th President of the United States . A Republican lawyer from Vermont, Coolidge worked his way up the ladder of Massachusetts state politics, eventually becoming governor of that state...
, 30th president of the United States of America - Calvin GotliebCalvin GotliebCalvin Carl "Kelly" Gotlieb, CM, FRSC is a Canadian professor and computer scientist who has been called the "Father of Computing" in Canada. He is the Professor Emeritus in Computer Science at the University of Toronto....
(born 1921), Canadian professor - Calvin HarrisCalvin HarrisCalvin Harris is a Scottish singer-songwriter, record producer and DJ. His gold-selling debut album, I Created Disco, was released in 2007 and contained the top ten singles "Acceptable in the 80s" and "The Girls"...
, Scottish electro singer - Calvin HillCalvin HillCalvin G. Hill is a retired American football running back who had a 12-year NFL career from 1969 to 1981. He played for the Dallas Cowboys, Washington Redskins and Cleveland Browns...
, former NFL player - Calvin Johnson (American football)Calvin Johnson (American football)Calvin Johnson, Jr. is an American football wide receiver for the Detroit Lions of the National Football League . He was drafted by the Lions second overall in the 2007 NFL Draft. He played college football at Georgia Tech....
, current NFL player - Calvin Klein (fashion designer)
- Calvin Murphy, former NBA player
- Calvin Cameron Ontario Amateur Softball AssociationOntario Amateur Softball AssociationThe Ontario Amateur Softball Association is a division of Softball Ontario designed to promote the developement of amateur softball in Ontario.- History :...
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Places and institutions:
- Calvin CollegeCalvin CollegeCalvin College is a comprehensive liberal arts college located in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Founded in 1876, Calvin College is an educational institution of the Christian Reformed Church and stands in the Reformed tradition of Protestantism...
, a college in Grand Rapids, Michigan - Calvin, ArkansasCalvin, ArkansasCalvin is a hamlet within Lawrence County, Arkansas.It is at the intersection of U.S. Route 67 and Lawrence Road 548 to the west and Lawrence Road 730....
, a hamlet in Arkansas, United States - Calvin, LouisianaCalvin, LouisianaCalvin is a village in Winn Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 236 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Calvin is located at .According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of , all land....
, a town in Louisiana, United States
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- "For Calvin", a song by Frank Zappa from the album The Grand WazooThe Grand WazooThe Grand Wazoo is a 1972 jazz fusion album by Frank Zappa. Composed and recorded during Zappa's period of convalescence following his assault in London, the album, along with its "twin brother" Waka/Jawaka, represent Zappa's foray into big band fusion, the logical progression from Hot Rats, which...
- Calvin CycleCalvin cycleThe Calvin cycle or Calvin–Benson-Bassham cycle or reductive pentose phosphate cycle or C3 cycle or CBB cycle is a series of biochemical redox reactions that take place in the stroma of chloroplasts in photosynthetic organisms...
, a biochemical system involved in production of sugars - Calvin (horse)Calvin (horse)Calvin was an American Thoroughbred racehorse, winner of the 1875 Belmont Stakes.-Background:Calvin was foaled in 1872, and was a brown stallion sired by Tipperary. He was bred by Price McGrath. Tipperary was sired by Ringgold and his dam was Roxana by the imported stallion Chesterfield. Calvin's...
, an American Thoroughbred racehorse and winner of the 1875 Belmont StakesBelmont StakesThe Belmont Stakes is an American Grade I stakes Thoroughbred horse race held every June at Belmont Park in Elmont, New York. It is a 1.5-mile horse race, open to three year old Thoroughbreds. Colts and geldings carry a weight of 126 pounds ; fillies carry 121 pounds...