In recent years, Tacita Dean, Sam Durant, Lee Ranaldo, Vik Muniz, Mike Nelson, and the Bruce High Quality Foundation have all made homages to Smithson's works.

Under the guidance of " Colonel " Sam McLaughlin as President in 1907, the company began the manufacture of automobiles, eventually forming an alliance for 15 years with William C. Durant, who had acquired the Buick Motor Company that later would become General Motors Holding Company.

McLaughlin who prior to his 100th birthday stated that he, Durant and Durant's son-in-law Dr Campbell from Port Perry and a lifelong friend of Sam were dickering after the Buick Motor deal for 15 years in 1907 and the exchange of $ 500, 000. 00 Buick stock for $ 500, 000. 00 McLaughlin stock with a name for their company and called it General Motors. This came to be in 1908.

American artist Sam Durant referenced the Altamont Free Concert in his 1998 sculptural installation " Partially Buried 1960s / 70s Dystopia Revealed ( Mick Jagger at Altamont ) & Utopia Reflected ( Wavy Gravy at Woodstock ).

* Sam Durant

" Participants have included the writers Joan Didion, Jonathan Lethem, George Saunders, the filmmaker Miranda July, comedians Jeff Garlin and Patton Oswalt, playwright and screenwriter David Mamet, magician Ricky Jay, artists Tom Morello and Sam Durant, and many others.

* Sam Durant ( Installation artist and sculptor )

Meanwhile, Newson ’ s malting business expanded and five more children were born, Alice ( 1842 ), Millicent ( 1847 ), who was to become a leader in the constitutional campaign for women's suffrage, Sam ( 1850 ), Josephine ( 1853 ) and George ( 1854 ).

Her first son Nicholas was born in 1937, followed by twin boys Sam and Andrew, born in 1939.

He had four more children by unidentified women: Stephen Blackehart ( born 1967 ), Michael Gilman ( born 1967 ), who was adopted by Brando's longtime friend Sam Gilman, Dylan Brando ( born 1968 ), and Angelique Brando.

David Samuel " Sam " Peckinpah was born February 21, 1925, in Fresno, California, where he attended both grammar school and high school.

Notable residents of Whitehorse include Audrey McLaughlin, the first woman to lead a represented political party ( NDP ) in Canadian federal politics, who has resided in Whitehorse since 1979, Robert W. Service, author of " The Cremation of Sam McGee ", who lived in Whitehorse from 1904 to 1908, and Pierre Berton, an author and television host, born in Whitehorse.

The corporate name honors the four founding Warner brothers ( born Wonskolaser WON Sko La ' Ser or Wonsal )— Harry ( born Hirsz ), Albert ( born Aaron ), Sam ( born Szmul ), and Jack ( Itzhak or to some sources Jacob ).

* Sam, born Elihu Nivens, is the classic Heinlein hero, multi-talented, independent, fiercely loyal to friends and an implacable enemy to foes.

Scott Stewart Bakula (; born October 9, 1954 ) is an American actor, known for his role as Sam Beckett in the television series Quantum Leap, for which he won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Drama in 1991 and was nominated for four Emmy Awards.

Their children were born on his family's plantation near Timber Ridge Church, including Sam Houston on March 2, 1793, the fifth of nine children and the fifth son born: Children-Paxton 1783, Robert 1787, James 1788, John Paxton 1790 ( first clerk of Izard County, Arkansas 1819-1838 ), Samuel 1793, William 1794, Isabella 1796, Mary Blair 1797, and Elizabeth Ann 1800.

After Sam and Rose's first child was born it was revealed that Frodo would leave Middle-earth, along with Bilbo ( Sam's old hero ), Gandalf and most of the remaining High Elves ( Wood Elves had no part of this exodus from Middle-earth ), for the Undying Lands.

* Sam Jasper ( born 1986 ), an association football player from New Zealand

Sam Jerrie Lundwall ( born 24 February 1941 ) is a Swedish science fiction writer, translator, publisher and singer.

Samuel D. " Sam " Waksal, Ph. D., ( born 8 September 1947 ) is the founder and former CEO of the biopharmaceutical company ImClone Systems.

* Sam Houston ( 1793 – 1863 ), born in Rockbridge County, the only man to be Governor of two U. S. states ( Texas, Tennessee ).

* Sam Neill – Jurassic Park actor ( born in Omagh )

Dave Prater, of the soul duo Sam & Dave, was born in Ocilla in 1937 and grew up singing gospel in the church choir.

* Sam Raybould, Liverpool striker, born here 1875.

* Sam Caldwell, Mayor of Shreveport from 1934 – 1946, was born and reared in Mooringsport.

* 1961 – Sam Champion, American weatherman

* 1961 – Sam Robards, American actor

* 1882 – Sam Rayburn, American politician ( d. 1961 )

* 1961 – Sam Bowie, American basketball player

** Sam Rayburn, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives ( d. 1961 )

* 1961 West Virginia Open, Sam Snead Festival

Sam Peckinpah's first two choices for the role of Deke Thornton were Richard Harris ( who had co-starred in Major Dundee ) and Brian Keith ( who had worked with Peckinpah on The Westerner ( 1960 ) and The Deadly Companions ( 1961 )).

* Most fumbles recovered, game: 4 ; Otto Graham, Cleveland Browns vs. New York Giants, October 25, 1953 ; Sam Etcheverry, St. Louis Cardinals vs. New York Giants, September 17, 1961 ; Roman Gabriel, Los Angeles Rams vs. San Francisco 49ers, October 12, 1969 ; Joe Ferguson, Buffalo Bills vs. Miami Dolphins, September 18, 1977 ; Randall Cunningham, Philadelphia Eagles vs. Oakland Raiders, November 30, 1986 ( OT ).

* Glenn Strange, who played Sam, the Bartender in CBS's Gunsmoke from 1961 until his death in 1973, grew up in Brown County near Cross Cut.

* Sam Harris, ( b. 1961 )-actor and singer

“ In a visit to Paris in January 1961, Barbara … informed Beckett that she intended to move to live permanently ” “ a move which had been discussed more than once with Sam .” His response was unusual.

Sam & Dave were an American soul and rhythm and blues ( R & B ) duo who performed together from 1961 through 1981.

Sam & Dave met working the gospel music circuit, and later in small clubs in Miami during amateur nights in 1961 according to Dave.

After Covington led the band for a short period, Sam Donahue led it starting in 1961, continuing until the late 1960s.

On January 31, 1961, Brooks voted with a narrow majority of 217-212 to increase the size of the House Rules Committee to permit Speaker Sam Rayburn of Texas to appoint newer, more liberal members to the panel, which determines the legislation brought to the House floor.

He lost a reelection campaign in 1961 to Sam Yorty, partly due to having to explain the expenses incurred by the Dodgers ' franchise shift.

* 1961 Canada Cup ( with Sam Snead )

* Sam Palahnuk ( born 1961 ), American video game designer

Sam Leach, their then agent, and wanting to become their manager, attempted to introduce The Beatles to London agents by promoting shows at The Palais Ballroom, on the corner of Perowne Street and Queens Road, in Aldershot, on 9 December 1961.

Samuel Taliaferro " Sam " Rayburn ( January 6, 1882 – November 16, 1961 ) was a Democratic lawmaker from Bonham, Texas, who served as the Speaker of the U. S. House of Representatives for 17 years, the longest tenure in U. S. history.

* Lewis L. Gould and Nancy Beck Young, " The Speaker and the Presidents: Sam Rayburn, the White House, and the Legislative Process, 1941 – 1961 " in Raymond W. Smock and Susan W. Hammond, eds.

* The leadership of Speaker Sam Rayburn published 1961, hosted by the Portal to Texas History.

In 1961, Speaker Sam Rayburn ( D-Texas ), acting on the wishes of the new President John F. Kennedy and the Democratic Study Group, introduced a bill to enlarge the committee from 12 members to 15, to decrease the power of the arch-conservative chairman, Howard W. Smith ( D-Virginia ).

* Sam Rayburn ( 1881 – 1961 ), U. S. Speaker of the House