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Al Nasse
Al Nasse (Albert F. Nasse, 1878–1910), American rower from St. Louis; won 1904 Olympic gold in men's coxless fours with the Century Boat Club crew in 9:05.8.
Arthur Stockhoff
Arthur Stockhoff (Arthur Martin Stockhoff, 1879-1934) was an American dentist and rower for St. Louis's Century Boat Club who won 1904 Olympic gold in the men's coxless fours with Dietz, Erker, and Nasse.
Babe Rockefeller
Babe Rockefeller, James Stillman Rockefeller (1902–2004), American rower and banker; won 1924 Olympic gold in men's eights for the USA, later president of National City Bank, grandson of William Rockefeller.
Bill Carr (olympedia 40578)
Bill Carr (William John Carr, 1876-1942), Irish-born American rower with Philadelphia's Vesper Boat Club; won gold in the men's eights at the 1900 Paris Olympics. Not the 1932 sprinter Bill Carr.
Bill Miller (William Garfield "Bill"•Miller)
William Garfield "Bill" Miller (1905–1985), American rower of Philadelphia's Pennsylvania Barge Club; two Olympic silvers, coxless fours 1928 and single sculls 1932 behind Bobby Pearce; distinct from the pole vaulter and javelin Bill Millers.
Bill Varley
Bill Varley (William Michael Varley, 1880–1968), American rower of New York's Atalanta Boat Club; won 1904 St. Louis Olympic gold in double sculls and silver in coxless pairs with John Mulcahy.
Burt Jastram
Burt Jastram (Burton Albert Jastram, 1910-1995), American rower and architect; won 1932 Los Angeles Olympic gold in the men's eight, rowing 4th seat for the University of California crew.
Charles Chandler
Charles Chandler (1911–1982), full name Charles Robert Chandler, American Olympic rower; gold medalist in the men's eights for the University of California, Berkeley at the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics; also names of a chemist, lawyer, and runner.
Charlie Kieffer
Charlie Kieffer (Charles Mathias Kieffer, 1910-1975), American rower of Pennsylvania Barge Club, Philadelphia; Olympic gold in men's coxed pairs with Joe Schauers and cox Ed Jennings at the 1932 Los Angeles Games in 8:25.8.
Clyde King
Clyde King: two Americans, Clyde Edward King (1924-2010), MLB pitcher, manager of Giants, Braves, Yankees, and Clyde Whitlock King (1898-1982), 1920 Olympic rowing gold medalist.
Dave Dunlap
Dave Dunlap (David Coombs Dunlap, 1910-1994), American rower, Napa, California-born Berkeley graduate who won 1932 Olympic gold in the men's eight at Long Beach, beating Italy by 0.2 seconds, later a San Francisco attorney.
Dave Turner
Dave Turner (David Lindsay Turner, 1923-2015) was an American rower who won gold in the men's eight at the 1948 London Olympics for California, then a Navy and NOAA hurricane-hunter pilot holding the record for most hurricane flights.
Duncan Gregg
Duncan Gregg (Duncan Smith Gregg, 1910–1989) was an American rower who won a gold medal in the men's eight at the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.
Ed Graves
Ed Graves (Edwin Darius Graves, Jr., 1897–1986) was an American Naval Academy rower and Navy captain who won gold in the men's eight at the 1920 Antwerp Olympics as crew captain.
Ed Hedley
Ed Hedley (Edwin P. Hedley, 1864-1947), American rower of Philadelphia's Vesper Boat Club; won gold in the men's eight at the 1900 Paris Olympics and held Canadian and Schuylkill Navy sculling titles.
Ed Marsh
Ed Marsh (Edward Marsh, 1874–1932) was an American rower for Philadelphia's Vesper Boat Club who won gold in the men's eight at the 1900 Paris Olympics (6:07.8), won six U.S. and two Canadian titles, and later coached.
Ed Moore
Ed Moore (Edward Peerman Moore, 1897-1968), American Naval Academy rower who won 1920 Antwerp Olympic gold in the men's eights, later a US Navy rear admiral and Pacific Task Force chief of staff.
Ed Salisbury
Ed Salisbury (Edwin Lyle Salisbury, 1910-1986), American rower; stroke oar of the University of California eight that won the 1932 Olympic men's eights gold at Long Beach in 6:37.6, beating Italy by 0.2 seconds.
Frank Greer
Frank Bartholomew Greer (1879-1943), American sculler of the East Boston Amateur Athletic Boat Club; won gold in the men's single sculls at the 1904 St. Louis Olympics in 10:08.50 and NAAO titles in 1903, 1905, and 1908.
Frank Schell
Frank Reamer Schell (1884–1959), American rower with Vesper Boat Club, Philadelphia; won gold in the men's eight at the 1904 St. Louis Olympics, beating Toronto Argonauts by three lengths, later a U.S. Army officer.
Fred Cresser
Fred Cresser (Frederick John Gräßer, 1872–1919), German-born American rower with Vesper Boat Club, Philadelphia; won gold in the men's eights at the 1904 St. Louis Olympics.
Fred Sheffield
Fred Sheffield: Frederick "Fred" Sheffield (1902–1971), Yale oarsman and 1924 Paris Olympic gold medalist in the men's eights, later a New York lawyer and Carnegie Corporation chairman; also Frederick Jolley Sheffield (1923–2009), NCAA and BAA basketball player.
Garrett Gilmore
Garrett Gilmore (William Evans Garrett Gilmore, 1895-1969), American sculler of Philadelphia's Bachelors Barge Club; 1924 Olympic single sculls silver behind Jack Beresford, 1932 Olympic double sculls gold with Ken Myers.
George Ahlgren
George Lewis Ahlgren (1928-1951), American rower for California Golden Bears, won gold in the men's eight at the 1948 London Olympics (5:56.7) in the number five seat; he died in a plane crash in Arizona aged 23.
George Dietz
George John Dietz (1880-1965), American rower of the Century Boat Club, St. Louis; won gold in the men's coxless fours at the 1904 St. Louis Olympics with Stockhoff, Erker, and Nasse; later Shardell Hotel manager.
Gus Erker
Gus Erker (August Casimir Erker, 1879-1951), German-born American rower for St. Louis' Century Boat Club; won 1904 Olympic gold in men's coxless fours (9:05.8) with Stockhoff, Dietz, and Nasse despite having only one eye.
Harold Tower
Harold William "Doc" Tower (1911–1994) was an American rower who won Olympic gold in the men's eights at Los Angeles 1932, rowing second seat for the University of California crew that beat Italy by 0.2 seconds.
Harry Debaecke
Harry Debaecke (Harry Leopold DeBaecke, 1879-1961), American rower with Philadelphia's Vesper Boat Club; stroke of the eight that won gold at the 1900 Paris Olympics, the first Olympic rowing regatta.
Howard Kingsbury
Howard Kingsbury (Howard Thayer Kingsbury Jr., 1904–1991), American rower; won gold in the men's eights for the United States at the 1924 Paris Olympics as the six-oar of the Yale crew; father of 1948 bronze medalist Fred Kingsbury.
Hubert Caldwell
Hubert Augustus Caldwell (1907-1972), American rower from Oakland, California; seventh seat of the undefeated 1928 Cal/Berkeley eight that won the IRA Regatta, the Olympic Trials, and Amsterdam 1928 Olympic gold; later an engineer in Piedmont.