Melvin
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As a surname
As a surname, Melvin is a modernized version of the Scottish clan name Melville (surname)Melville (surname)
Melville is a surname and a given name. The surname has two different origins: Scottish and Irish. The given name originates from England and Scotland.-Origins:Surname...
. The name Melville was shortened to “Melvin” during the Scottish Reformation
Scottish Reformation
The Scottish Reformation was Scotland's formal break with the Papacy in 1560, and the events surrounding this. It was part of the wider European Protestant Reformation; and in Scotland's case culminated ecclesiastically in the re-establishment of the church along Reformed lines, and politically in...
period.
- Allan MelvinAllan MelvinAllan Melvin was an American character actor who appeared in several television shows, including the roles of Corporal Henshaw on The Phil Silvers Show; Alice's boyfriend Sam the Butcher on The Brady Bunch; and Archie Bunker's friend Barney Hefner on All in the Family and Archie Bunker's...
(1923-2008), American actor - Bob MelvinBob MelvinRobert Paul Melvin is the manager of the Oakland Athletics, and a former Major League Baseball catcher.During a 10-year playing career, he played from 1985–94 for seven different teams...
(born 1961), Major League baseball player - Chasity MelvinChasity MelvinChasity Melvin is an American professional basketball player originally from Roseboro, North Carolina.A 6'3" forward, Melvin has played in the WNBA since 1999, competing for the Cleveland Rockers, the Washington Mystics, and the Chicago Sky. Through twelve seasons in the league, she holds career...
(born 1976), American basketball player - Doug MelvinDoug MelvinDouglas Robert Melvin is a Canadian front office executive in Major League Baseball who currently serves as the general manager of the Milwaukee Brewers of the National League...
(born 1952), Major League Baseball front office executive - Doug Melvin (rower)Doug Melvin (rower)Douglas V Melvin is a British rower who twice won the Wingfield Sculls, the amateur sculling championship of the River Thames.Melvin was born at Lancaster. He took a job there with the Electricity Board, and was working there and rowing for John O'Gaunt Rowing Club when he won the Wingfield Sculls...
(born 1928), British rower - Eric MelvinEric MelvinEric Scott Melvin is an American musician and the rhythm guitarist in the California punk band NOFX. He has been in the band from its beginnings in the early 1980s to the present day. Eric has been known for his dreadlocks that vary in color each time NOFX performs...
, guitarist in punk band NOFX - John MelvinJohn MelvinLieutenant John T. Melvin was an officer in the United States Navy.Born at Selma, Alabama, Melvin was appointed midshipman 6 July 1907 and commissioned ensign 7 July 1911...
(1887-1917), officer in the United States Navy - Leland D. MelvinLeland D. MelvinLeland Devon Melvin is an American engineer and a NASA astronaut. He served on board the Space Shuttle Atlantis as a mission specialist on STS-122, and as mission specialist 1 on STS-129...
, an African American NASA astronaut and University of Richmond wide receiver - Murray MelvinMurray MelvinMurray Melvin is an English stage and film actor.The son of Hugh Victor Melvin and Maisie Winifred Driscoll, he is best known for having created the role of Geoffrey in the Shelagh Delaney play, A Taste of Honey, a role which he recreated opposite Rita Tushingham in the 1961 film of the same name...
(born 1932), English stage and film actor - Rachel MelvinRachel MelvinRachel Melvin is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Chelsea Brady on Days of our Lives .- Personal life :...
(born 1985), American actress
As a given name
- Melvin BelliMelvin BelliMelvin Mouron Belli was a prominent American lawyer known as "The King of Torts" and by detractors as 'Melvin Bellicose'. He had many celebrity clients, including Zsa Zsa Gabor, Errol Flynn, Chuck Berry, Muhammad Ali, Sirhan Sirhan, the Rolling Stones, Jim Bakker and Tammy Faye Bakker, Martha...
(1907-1996), American lawyer known as 'The King of Torts' - Melvin BernhardtMelvin BernhardtMelvin Bernhardt is an American stage and television director. He was born and raised in Buffalo, New York, and much of his work has been in the New York City area. He is known for his productions of The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, Da, and Crimes of the Heart...
(born 1941), American stage and television director - Melvin BookerMelvin BookerMelvin Jermaine Booker is an American basketball player. A 6'1" , 185 lb point guard, he played collegiately for the Missouri Tigers....
(born 1972), American basketball player - Melvin Brown (footballer) (born 1979), Mexican football player
- Melvin BullittMelvin BullittMelvin Terry Bullitt is an American football defensive back for the NFL's Indianapolis Colts.-Early years:...
(born 1984), American football player - Melvin BurgessMelvin BurgessMelvin Burgess is a British author of children's fiction. His first book, The Cry of the Wolf, was published in 1990. He gained a certain amount of notoriety in 1996 with the publication of Junk, which was published in the shadow of the film of Irvine Welsh's Trainspotting, and dealt with the...
(born 1954), British author of children's fiction - 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...
(1911-1997), American chemist who discovered the Calvin cycle - Melvin DayMelvin DayMelvin "Pat" Day, CNZM is a New Zealand artist and art historian.Day was born in Hamilton, New Zealand. At the age of eleven, Day began Saturday morning classes at Elam School of Art, University of Auckland, under the tuteleage of Archie Fisher, John Weeks, Lois White and Ida Eise...
(born 1923), New Zealand artist and art historian - Melvin DummarMelvin DummarMelvin Earl Dummar is a Utah man who earned national attentionwhen he claimed to have saved reclusive business tycoon Howard Hughes in a Nevada desert in 1967, and to have been awarded part of Hughes' vast estate. Dummar's story was adapted into the Academy Award winning film Melvin and Howard, in...
(born 1944), American hoaxer and subject of film Melvin and Howard - Melvin ElyMelvin ElyMelvin Anderson Ely is an American professional basketball player who last played in the NBA for the Denver Nuggets....
(born 1978), American basketball player - Melvin Edmonds, member of R&B group After 7
- Melvin FowlerMelvin FowlerMelvin Thaddeus Fowler, Jr. is an American football center who is currently a free agent. He was drafted by the Cleveland Browns in the third round of the 2002 NFL Draft...
(born 1979), American football center - Melvin FrankMelvin FrankMelvin Frank was an American screenwriter, film producer and film director. He collaborated with a former schoolfriend, Norman Panama to form a writing partnership which endured for 3 decades...
(1913-1988), American screenwriter and film director - Melvin FranklinMelvin FranklinDavid Melvin English better known by the stage name Melvin Franklin, was an American bass singer. Franklin is best known for his role as a member of Motown singing group The Temptations from 1960 to 1994....
(1942-1995), stage name of American bass singer David Melvin English - Melvin GibbsMelvin GibbsMelvin Gibbs is an American bass guitarist, composer, and producer who has appeared on close to 200 albums in diverse genres of music. Gibbs has been called "the best bassist in the world" by Time Out New York magazine....
, American bass guitarist - Melvin GuillardMelvin GuillardMelvin Paul Guillard, Jr. is an American mixed martial artist currently fighting in the lightweight division for the Ultimate Fighting Championship . He debuted with the company on The Ultimate Fighter 2 television series, losing in the first welterweight elimination bout to Josh Burkman...
(born 1983), American mixed martial artist - Melvin HochsterMelvin HochsterMelvin Hochster is an eminent American mathematician, regarded as one of the leading commutative algebraists active today. He is currently the Jack E. McLaughlin Distinguished University Professor of Mathematics at the University of Michigan.Hochster attended Stuyvesant High School, where he was...
(born 1943), American mathematician - Melvin Jones (American football)Melvin Jones (American football)Melvin Earl Jones is a former American football offensive lineman in the National Football League for the Washington Redskins. He played college football at the University of Houston and was drafted in the seventh round of the 1980 NFL Draft....
(born 1955), American football player - Melvin Jones, founder of Lions Clubs InternationalLions Clubs InternationalLions Clubs International is a secular service organization with over 44,500 clubs and more than 1,368,683 members in 191 countries around the world founded by Melvin Jones Headquartered in Oak Brook, Illinois, United States, the organization aims to meet the needs of communities on a local and...
- Melvin Kaminsky (born 1926), given name of actor Mel BrooksMel BrooksMel Brooks is an American film director, screenwriter, composer, lyricist, comedian, actor and producer. He is best known as a creator of broad film farces and comic parodies. He began his career as a stand-up comic and as a writer for the early TV variety show Your Show of Shows...
- Melvin KonnerMelvin KonnerMelvin Konner, MD, PhD, is the Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Anthropology and Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology at Emory University. He studied at Brooklyn College , CUNY , where he met Marjorie Shostak, whom he later married and with whom he had three children. He earned his PhD...
, Professor of Anthropology - Melvin R. LairdMelvin R. LairdMelvin Robert Laird is an American politician and writer. Laird was a Republican congressman who also served as Richard Nixon's Secretary of Defense from 1969 to 1973. Laird urged Nixon to maintain a policy of withdrawing US soldiers from Vietnam...
(born 1922), American politician and writer - Melvin MaasMelvin MaasMelvin Joseph Maas was a U.S. Representative from Minnesota.-Biography:Melvin Joseph Maas was born in Duluth, Minnesota, May 14, 1898. He moved with his parents to St. Paul, Minnesota in 1898. Educated in the public schools, he graduated from St. Thomas College at St. Paul in 1919 and also...
(1898-1964), U.S. Representative from Minnesota - Melvin ManhoefMelvin ManhoefMelvin Manhoef is a Dutch-Surinamese Muay Thai kickboxer and mixed martial artist, trained by Mike Passenier and fighting out of Mike's Gym in Amsterdam, Netherlands. In kickboxing, he is the current It's Showtime 85MAX World Champion, and in MMA he was the Cage Rage Light Heavyweight World champion...
(born 1976), Dutch kickboxer - Melvin McQuaidMelvin McQuaidMelvin James McQuaid was a Progressive Conservative party member of the Canadian House of Commons. He was born in Souris, Prince Edward Island and became a lawyer and clerk by career....
(1911-2001), member of the Canadian House of Commons - Melvin MoraMelvin MoraMelvin Mora , affectionately nicknamed Melmo or Melvy, is a Venezuelan professional baseball infielder who is a free agent...
(born 1972), Major League baseball player - Melvin NievesMelvin NievesMelvin Nieves Ramos is a former professional baseball outfielder. He played all or part of seven seasons in Major League Baseball from 1992 until 1998, and two seasons in Nippon Professional Baseball in 1999-2000...
(born 1971), baseball player - Melvin O'Doom (born 1980), English comedian
- Melvin Ott (1909-1958), Major League Baseball right fielder
- Melvin ParkerMelvin ParkerMelvin Parker is a drummer, brother of saxophonist Maceo Parker and was an important member of James Brown's band. Parker's drumming style was a major ingredient in James Brown's funk music innovations in the late 1960s...
(born 1944), American drummer who played in James Brown's band - Melvin van PeeblesMelvin Van PeeblesMelvin "Block" Van Peebles is an American actor, director, screenwriter, playwright, novelist and composer.He is most famous for creating the acclaimed film, Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song, which heralded a new era of African American focused films...
(born 1932), American actor and director - Melvin PurvisMelvin PurvisMelvin Horace Purvis, Jr. was an American law enforcement official and Federal Bureau of Investigation agent. He was given the nickname "Little Mel" because of his short stature...
(1903-1960), American FBI agent - Melvin Ragin (born 1951), American guitarist known as 'Wah-Wah Watson'
- Melvin RhyneMelvin RhyneMelvin Rhyne , is a jazz organist best known for his work with Wes Montgomery.-Early Years:Melvin Rhyne was born in Indianapolis in 1936 and started playing the piano shortly thereafter...
(born 1936), jazz organist - Melvin Rosen (born 1928), American track coach
- Melvin SchwartzMelvin SchwartzMelvin Schwartz was an American physicist. He shared the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physics with Leon M. Lederman and Jack Steinberger for their development of the neutrino beam method and their demonstration of the doublet structure of the leptons through the discovery of the muon neutrino.He grew up in...
(1932-2006), American physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1988 - Melvin SealsMelvin SealsMelvin Seals is an American musician, best known as a long time member of the Jerry Garcia Band.-Early life and career:...
(born 1953), American musician - Melvin SparksMelvin SparksMelvin Sparks was an American soul jazz, hard bop and jazz blues guitarist. He recorded a number of albums for Prestige Records, later recording for Savant Records...
(born 1946), American jazz guitarist - Melvin SteinbergMelvin SteinbergMelvin A. Steinberg, born , served as the fifth Lieutenant Governor of Maryland from 1987 to 1995 under Governor William Donald Schaefer. He was also President of the Maryland State Senate from January 1983 to 1987, and a member of the State Senate from 1967 until his election to the position of...
(born 1933), Governor of Maryland from 1987 to 1995 - Melvin StewartMelvin StewartMelvin Monroe Stewart is a retired American swimmer who won two gold medals and one bronze medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. Stewart graduated from Mercersburg Academy and the University of Tennessee.-Biography:Stewart was a prominent 200m butterfly swimmer of his era...
(born 1968), American swimmer and Olympic medal winner - Melvin TarleyMelvin TarleyDuncan "Melvin" Tarley is a Liberian footballer.-Professional:Tarley first came to prominence in 2005, during Minnesota Thunder's run to the semi finals of the 2005 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup...
(born 1982), Liberian footballer - Melvin B. TolsonMelvin B. TolsonMelvin Beaunorus Tolson was an American Modernist poet, educator, columnist, and politician. His work concentrated on the experience of African Americans and includes several long historical poems. His work was influenced by his study of the Harlem Renaissance, although he spent nearly all of...
(1898-1966), American modernist poet - Melvin Alvah TraylorMelvin Alvah TraylorMelvin Alvah Traylor , the eldest of seven children of James Milton Traylor and Kitty Frances Traylor née Harvey...
(born 1878), American banker - Melvin Alvah Traylor, Jr. (1915-2008), American ornithologist
- Melvin TurpinMelvin TurpinMelvin Harrison "Mel" Turpin was an American professional basketball player.-Basketball career:A 6'11" center, Turpin was born in Lexington, Kentucky and attended Fork Union Military Academy in Fork Union, Virginia from 1979–80...
(1960-2010), American basketball player - Melvin ValladaresMelvin Valladares-Career:Valladares currently plays for Dorados de Sinaloa. He is also a member for the Honduras national football team and made his debut for the national side in 2007. In November 2009, he went on a trial with Tottenham Hotspur after being recommended by Wilson Palacios1.- External links :* 1...
, Honduran football striker - Melvin WatkinsMelvin WatkinsMelvin Lenzo Watkins is an American college basketball coach and former player. He is an assistant coach under Mike Anderson at the University of Arkansas. He has also been the associate head coach at the University of Missouri...
(born 1954), American basketball coach - Melvin ZaisMelvin ZaisGeneral Melvin Zais was a United States Army general.General Zais attended the University of New Hampshire and graduated with a B.A. in Political Science. In 1937 he was commissioned a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Army Reserve. He attended the U.S...
(1916-1981), United States Army general - Melvin Rincon (born 1985), Colombian Medical Doctor and Scientist
Fictional characters
- Melvin "Big Smoke" Harris, in the video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
- Melvin FrohikeMelvin FrohikeMelvin Frohike is a fictional character in the television shows The X-Files and The Lone Gunmen, played by Tom Braidwood.Frohike was born circa 1953 in Pontiac, Michigan. Prior to joining The Lone Gunmen, he was an acclaimed tango dancer in Miami...
, in the television shows The X-Files and The Lone Gunmen - Melvin Palmer, on the television show Boston Legal
- Melvin the Superhero Guy, a puppet of ventriloquist Jeff Dunham
- Melvin, evil alter-ego of Marik Ishtar, a villain in the manga and anime Yu-Gi-Oh!
- Melvin Sneedly, from Dav Pilkey's book series Captain UnderpantsCaptain UnderpantsCaptain Underpants by Dav Pilkey is a series of American children's books about two fourth graders, George Beard and Harold Hutchins, and the aptly named superhero they accidentally create by hypnotizing their principal, Mr. Benny Krupp...
- Melvin the Monster, a minor character from Tiny Toon AdventuresTiny Toon AdventuresSteven Spielberg Presents Tiny Toon Adventures, usually referred to as Tiny Toon Adventures or simply Tiny Toons, is an American animated television series created by Tom Ruegger and produced by Amblin Entertainment and Warner Bros. Animation. It began production as a result of Warner Bros....
Places
United States- Melvin, CaliforniaMelvin, CaliforniaMelvin is a former unincorporated community in Fresno County, California, now incorporated into Clovis. It lies at an elevation of 358 feet ....
- Melvin, IllinoisMelvin, IllinoisMelvin is a village in Ford County, Illinois, United States. The population was 452 at the 2010 census.-Geography:Melvin is located at .According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of , all of it land....
- Melvin, IowaMelvin, IowaAs of the census of 2000, there were 243 people, 117 households, and 67 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,403.5 people per square mile . There were 134 housing units at an average density of 774.0 per square mile...
- Melvin, MichiganMelvin, MichiganMelvin is a village in Sanilac County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2000 census, the village population was 160. The village is within Speaker Township.-Geography:...
- Melvin, TexasMelvin, TexasMelvin is a town in McCulloch County, Texas, United States. The population was 155 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Melvin is located at .According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , all of it land....
- Melvin RiverMelvin RiverThe Melvin River is an river located in the Lakes Region of central New Hampshire in the United States. It is a tributary of Lake Winnipesaukee, part of the Merrimack River watershed.The Melvin River lies entirely within the town of Tuftonboro, New Hampshire...
, New Hampshire
United Kingdom
- Melvin, Shrewsbury
- Lough MelvinLough MelvinLough Melvin is a lake which is internationally renowned for its unique range of plants and animals. It is located in the northwest of Ireland on the border between County Leitrim and County Fermanagh ....
, a lake on the border with the Republic of Ireland
Other uses
- USS Melvin (DD-335)USS Melvin (DD-335)The first USS Melvin was a Clemson-class destroyer in the United States Navy following World War I. She was named for Lieutenant John T. Melvin.-History:...
, Clemson-class destroyer in the United States Navy - USS Melvin (DD-680)USS Melvin (DD-680)USS Melvin , a Fletcher-class destroyer, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for Lieutenant, junior grade John T. Melvin ....
, Fletcher-class destroyer in the United States Navy - The MelvinsThe MelvinsThe Melvins are an American band that formed in 1983. They usually perform as a trio, but in recent years have performed as a four piece with two drummers. Since 1984, singer and guitarist Buzz Osborne and drummer Dale Crover have been the band's constant members...
, American rock band - The "Melvin", the national Scoutcraft Competition of Scouting Ireland (CSI)Scouting Ireland (CSI)Scouting Ireland was a WOSM affiliated National Scout Organisation in both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland from 1927 to December 31, 2003. It has since merged with Scouting Ireland S.A.I. to form Scouting Ireland...