Texas Instruments was founded by Cecil H. Green, J. Erik Jonsson, Eugene McDermott, and Patrick E. Haggerty in 1951.

In 1951, ex-US Navy sailor Patrick Galvani, son-in-law of Express Dairies chairman, made a pitch to the board to open a chain of supermarkets across the country.

* Patrick Larley ( b. 1951 ), classical composer, conductor, organist and solo singer, was born in the town.

* Life in Thin Slices, 1951 ( with Patrick Campbell )

* Pringle, Patrick ( 1951 ).

Patrick Hall ( born 20 October 1951 ) is a British Labour Party politician, who was the Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Bedford and Kempston from 1997 to 2010.

The West Midlands Plan, commissioned by the Minister for Town and Country Planning from Patrick Abercrombie and Herbert Jackson in 1946, set Birmingham a target population for 1960 of 990, 000, far less than its actual 1951 population of 1, 113, 000.

David Patrick Paul Alton, Baron Alton of Liverpool ( born 15 March 1951 ) is a British politician.

* Guy Patrick Gilbert Crofton, 7th Baron Crofton ( 1951 – 2007 )

* Patrick Maitland, 17th Earl of Lauderdale ( 1911 – 2008 ), Member of Parliament for Lanark ( 1951 – 1959 )

* Patrick Buchan-Hepburn 1951 – 55

His books, mostly collections of humorous pieces that were originally published in newspapers and magazines, included Constantly in Pursuit, Come Here Till I Tell You, Life in Thin Slices ( 1951 ), An Irishman's Diary, Patrick Campbell's Omnibus ( 1954 ), A Short Trot with a Cultured Mind, A Long Drink of Cold Water, How to Become a Scratch Golfer ( 1963 ), The P-P-Penguin Patrick Campbell ( 1965 ), Brewing Up in the Basement, Rough Husbandry, All Ways on Sundays ( 1966 ), A Bunch of New Roses, The Coarse of Events, Gullible Travels, The High Speed Gasworks, Waving All Excuses, Patrick Campbell's Golfing Book, Fat Tuesday Tails ( 1972 ), 35 Years on the Job ( 1973 ), The Campbell Companion ( 1987 ) and an autobiography, My Life and Easy Times.

* Patrick Hall ( born 1951 ), MP for Bedford and Kempston from 1997 to 2010

* Patrick Magee ( Irish republican ) ( born 1951 ), member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army, convicted of planting a bomb in the Grand Hotel, Brighton in 1984

* The House in the Valley ( pseudonym Patrick Shone ) ( 1951 )

Patrick Levar ( born c. 1951 ) is alderman of the 45th ward of the City of Chicago.

In 1951, following his outstanding record at St. Patrick ’ s School, he was posted to head St. Bernard ’ s School, Okigwe.

* Missing or Dead ( 1951 ), featuring Patrick Dawlish

Paul Barber ( born Patrick Barber ; 18 March 1951 ) is an English actor from Liverpool, Merseyside.

James Patrick " Jamey " Sheridan ( born July 12, 1951 ) is an American actor.

* Joseph Patrick Dougherty ( 1951 – 1969 )

David Patrick Kelly ( born January 23, 1951 ) is an American actor and musician who has appeared in numerous films, including some major roles.

John Patrick " J. P ." McManus ( born 10 March 1951 ) is an Irish businessman and racehorse owner.

* To Martin Melcher, whom she married on April 3, 1951.

* 1951 – Dan Martin, American voice actor

* 1951 – Rick Martin, Canadian ice hockey player ( d. 2011 )

* 1951 – Dean Paul Martin, American singer and actor ( d. 1987 )

Other portrayals include Malcolm Keen ( Sixty Glorious Years, 1938 ), Stephen Murray ( The Prime Minister, 1941 ), Arthur Young ( The Lady with the Lamp, 1951 ), Ralph Richardson ( Khartoum, 1966 ), Graham Chapman ( Monty Python's Flying Circus, 1969 ), Michael Hordern ( Edward the Seventh, 1975 ) and Martin Wady ( Queen Victoria's Empire, 2001 ).

** Dean Paul Martin, American actor ( b. 1951 )

It was experimentally discovered by Martin Deutsch at MIT in 1951, and became known as positronium.

* Martin Brest ( born 1951 ), American filmmaker, producer, screenwriter, film editor, and actor

* 1951 Martin Deutsch discovers positronium

The couple had two children ; Martin ( born 1945 ) ( a Senior Lecturer in English and American literature at the University of Kent ) and Sarah ( born 1951 ).

James Richard Martin Hogg ( b. 1951 )

After Yarborough's death in 1951 ( and therefore Romero's, who also died of a heart attack, as acknowledged on the December 27, 1951 episode " The Big Sorrow "), Friday was partnered with Sergeant Ed Jacobs ( December 27, 1951-April 10, 1952, subsequently transferred to the Police Academy as an instructor ), played by Barney Phillips ; Officer Bill Lockwood ( Ben Romero's nephew, April 17, 1952-May 8, 1952 ), played by Martin Milner ( with Ken Peters taking the role for the June 12, 1952 episode " The Big Donation "); and finally Frank Smith, played first by Herb Ellis ( 1952 ), then Ben Alexander ( September 21, 1952-1959 ).

According to The Twilight Zone: Unlocking the Door to a Television Classic by Martin Grams, the entire production was originally filmed with Paul Douglas ( the manager in the 1951 film, Angels in the Outfield ) in the role, calling him " MacGarry " rather than " McGovern ".

In 1951, at a meeting of the Royal Astronomical Society, Gold proposed that the source of recent radio signals detected from space was outside the Milky Way galaxy, much to the derision of radio astronomer Martin Ryle and several mathematical cosmologists.

John Scofield ( born December 26, 1951, Dayton, Ohio ), often referred to as " Sco ", is an American jazz-rock guitarist and composer, who has played and collaborated with Miles Davis, Dave Liebman, Joe Henderson, Charles Mingus, Joey Defrancesco, Herbie Hancock, Pat Metheny, Bill Frisell, Pat Martino, Mavis Staples, Phil Lesh, Billy Cobham, Medeski Martin & Wood, George Duke, Jaco Pastorius, John Mayer, and many other well-known artists.

Joseph W. Martin with Israel's Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion in Jerusalem, 1951

Hamilton was trounced, and Martin Bell was elected an MP with a majority of 11, 077 votes – overturning a Conservative majority of over 22, 000 – and thus became the first successful independent parliamentary candidate since 1951.

* Martin F. Loughlin, class of 1951, U. S. District Court of New Hampshire, judge ( 1979 – 1995 )

* Mick Martin ( born 1951 ), Irish soccer player

John Martin McDonnell ( born 8 September 1951 ) is a British Labour Party politician, who has been the Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Hayes and Harlington since 1997 ; he serves as Chair of the Socialist Campaign Group, the Labour Representation Committee, and the " Public Services Not Private Profit Group ".

* James R. Martin ( born 1951 ), producer and director of documentaries Wrapped In Steel and Fired-up!

She also played the same dignified, poised dowager in other movies, with W. C. Fields ( Never Give a Sucker an Even Break, 1941 ) and ( Tales of Manhattan, 1942 ), Abbott and Costello ( Little Giant, 1946 ), Laurel and Hardy ( The Dancing Masters, 1943 ), Red Skelton ( Bathing Beauty, 1944 ), Jack Benny ( The Horn Blows at Midnight, 1945 ), Wheeler and Woolsey and George " Spanky " McFarland ( Kentucky Kernels, 1934 ) and ( High Flyers, 1937, with Lupe Vélez thrown in for good measure ), radio comedian Joe Penner ( The Life of the Party, 1937 ), George " Gabby " Hayes ( Sunset in El Dorado ), and Danny Kaye ( Up In Arms, 1944 ), and on television with Martin and Lewis ( The Colgate Comedy Hour, December 1951 ).

* The Preparation of Programs for an Electronic Digital Computer by Maurice Wilkes, David Wheeler, and Stanley Gill ; ( original 1951 ); reprinted with new introduction by Martin Campbell-Kelly ; 198 pp. ; illus ; biblio ; bios ; index ; ISBN 0-262-23118-2.

* Martin Ruby – player ( OT / DT ), 1974 ( Saskatchewan Roughriders 1951 – 57 ).