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Governor Rick Scott added 22 names in 2013, including former Miami Dolphins Coach Don Shula, former University of Florida Gators football player and coach Steve Spurrier, 2012 Masters golf champion Bubba Watson Jr., former Florida Supreme Court Chief Justice Richard Ervin, and Dr. Pedro Jose Greer Jr., an advocate for homeless and the ...
Fictional characters from Florida. Subcategories. This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total. M. Fictional characters from Miami (5 C, 14 P) T.
Name Notability Connection to Florida Jeb Bush (1953–) Former governor of Florida (1999–2007); brother of former president George W. Bush: Lived in Miami Ron DeSantis (1978–) 46th governor of Florida (2019–) Born in Jacksonville J. Dudley Goodlette (born 1948) Florida State Representative (1999–2007) Lived in Naples Abraham Katz (1926 ...
The Great Floridian 2000 program honored deceased individuals who made "significant contributions in the history and culture" of Florida (many times within a local community), [1] the new program is more restrictive by selecting persons, dead or alive, who made "major contributions to the progress and welfare" of Florida.
Pages in category "Lists of people from Florida" The following 30 pages are in this category, out of 30 total. ... Florida; List of Great Floridians; I.
This category is for people from the United States state of Florida. ... Fictional characters from Florida (2 C, 37 P) J. Jews from Florida (1 C, 53 P) L.
Later Kinhagee's people migrated south, maintaining their local village name Miccosukee as the name of the tribe. 1962–1985: William Buffalo Tiger, [2] also Buffalo Tiger [3] or Heenehatche, (1920–2015), first chief of the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida, led initiatives for self-determination [4] 1986–2011: [5] Billy Cypress ...
Fan Noli, Albanian scholar and politician [63] James Randi, magician, skeptic, and author [64] Mark Sanford, U.S. Representative and former Governor of South Carolina; Theodore Swinarski, Illinois state legislator [65] Dave Thomas, founder of Wendy's [66] Marion G. Wells, activist and president of the Marion G. Wells Foundation