- Calvin (name)
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name = Calvin
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origin = Latin
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footnotes =Calvin is an English
first name , originally used in honor ofJohn Calvin . Calvin is the conventional English form of his French surname, Chauvin, which was itself derived from the Latincognomen Calvus meaningbald . A few famous people named Calvin include:
*Calvin Klein ,fashion designer.Cite web|url=http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jImZHEJDC_RtYpO7iJKcldLvBP0g|title= Calvin Klein Offers a Serene Moment|accessyear=2007|accessmonthday=September 16|publisher=The Associated Press|year=2007|author=Samantha Critchell|language=English] Cite web|url=http://www.wallpaper.com/fashion/ny-fashion-week-calvin-klein/1729|title=NY Fashion Week: Calvin Klein|accessyear=2007|accessmonthday=September 16|publisher=Wallpaper - International Design Interiors Fashion Magazine|year=2007|author=Wallpaper Magazine|language=English]
*The main character fromCalvin and Hobbes , a retiredcomic strip .Cite web|url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/11/AR2007091101713.html|title=Meet Alice Otterloop. Again.|accessyear=2007|accessmonthday=September 16|publisher=The Washington Post|year=2007|author=Tom Shroder|language=English] Cite web|url=http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/news/2007-09-09-for-better-cartoonist_N.htm|title=Cartoon creator hopes reinventing 'For Better' is for the best|accessyear=2007|accessmonthday=September 16|publisher=USA Today|year=2007|author=Steve Friess|language=English]
*Calvin Coolidge , the 30thPresident of the United States .Cite web|url=http://www.cheboygannews.com/articles/2007/09/12/news/opinion/opinion1.txt|title=If I had been born earlier, I'd have been in on more stuff|accessyear=2007|accessmonthday=September 16|publisher=The Cheboygan Daily Tribune|year=2007|author=Bruce D. Callander|language=English] Cite web|url=http://www.theolympian.com/524/story/214667.html|title=Think you can, think you can? You can.|accessyear=2007|accessmonthday=September 16|publisher=The Olympian Online|year=2007|author=Sheila Norman-Culp|language=English]Calvin can also be a
surname . Famous people with the surname Calvin include:
*John Calvin , the FrenchProtestant theologian. [cite book | last = Barth | first = Karl | title = The Theology of John Calvin | publisher = W.B. Eerdmans Pub. Co | location = Grand Rapids | year = 1995 | isbn = 9780802806963 ] Cite web|url=http://www.acton.org/ppolicy/comment/commentary200709121334.php|title=Democracy in Iraq|accessyear=2007|accessmonthday=September 16|publisher=The Action Institute|year=2007|author=Jordan Ballor|language=English]
*Melvin Calvin 1961Nobel Prize winner, who discovered thecalvin cycle .Cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1961/calvin-bio.html|title=Melvin Calvin Biography - Nobel Lectures, Chemistry 1942-1962|accessyear=2007|accessmonthday=September 16|publisher=The Nobel Foundation / Elsevier Publishing Company,|year=1964|author=Nobelprize.org|language=English] Cite web|url=http://www.lbl.gov/Science-Articles/Archive/Melvin-Calvin-obit.html|title=Melvin Calvin, Who Unraveled the Secrets of Photosynthesis, Dies|accessyear=2007|accessmonthday=September 16|publisher=Berkeley Lab|year=1997|author=Lynn Yarris|language=English]
*The Latin OratorGaius Licinius Macer Calvus .Cite web|url=http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0009-8353(193502)30%3A5%3C287%3ATDOHAT%3E2.0.CO%3B2-P|title=The Development of Historiography among the Romans |accessyear=2007|accessmonthday=September 16|publisher=Journal Storage - Scholarly Journal Archive / The Classical Journal|year=1935|author=Marion Dittman|work=pp 287-296|language=English]References
External links
* [http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9002166/Gaius-Licinius-Macer-Calvus Gaius Licinius Macer Calvus at Britannica]
* [http://www.behindthename.com/name/calvin Behind the Name: Calvin]
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