John Curtin - Prime Minister of Australia during WWII

  John Joseph Curtin (1/8/1885-7/5/1945), Australian politician and 14th Prime Minister of Australia, led Australia when the Australian mainland came under direct military threat during the Japanese advance in World War II. He is widely regarded as one of the country's greatest Prime Ministers General Douglas MacArthur said that Curtin was "one of the greatest of the wartime statesmen". His Prime Ministerial predecessor, Arthur Fadden of the  wrote: "I do not care who knows it but in my opinion there was no greater figure in Australian public life in my lifetime than Curtin."

Andrew Gregg Curtin - Governor of Pennsylvania during the American Civil War

Andrew Gregg Curtin (4/22/1817-10/7/1894) was a lawyer and politician.  he was Governor of Pennsylvaania during the American Civil War.  he later was Ambassador to Russia and a member of the United Staes Congress.

Jeremiah Curtin -  American Translator and Folklorist 

Jeremiah Curtin (9/6/1835-12/14/1906) was born in Detroit, Michigan.  He graduated from Harvard College in 1863. In 1864 he went to Russia, where he worked as both a translator and for the U.S. legation. He left Russia in 1877, stayed a year in London, and returned to the United States, where he worked for the Bureau of Ethnology.  His specialties were his work with the American Indian languages and the Slavic languages.  In addition to publishing collections of fairy tales and folklore and writings about his travels, Curtin translated a number of volumes by Henryk Sienkiewicz.  He also published an English version of Boleslaw Prus' only historical novel, Pharaoh,  under the title The Pharaoh and the Priest (1902).

Tomás Mac Curtain 

Tomás Mac Curtain (20 March 1884 - 20 March 1920) was Lord Mayor of Cork, Ireland.

He was elected in the January 1920 council elections as the Sinn Féin councillor for NW Ward No. 3 of Cork, and was chosen by his fellow councillors to be the Lord Mayor. He began a process of political reform within the city, making changes to the way in which the council operated and was run.  In January 1919 the Anglo-Irish war started and Mac Curtain became an officer in the IRA.  On 20 March 1920, his 36th birthday, Mac Curtain was shot dead in front of his wife and son by a group of men with blackened faces, who were found to be members of the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC).

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Hoyt Curtin - Famous contemporary Movie Score Composer and Music Producer

Hoyt Curtin was the composer of many of Hann-Barbera cartoons' popular theme songs and stock tunes used as incidental music.  He was a coposer of music for various movies.

Hoyt died in 2000.

Philip Curtin - Historian, Anthropologist and Author

Philip D. Curtin  (5/22/1922-6/4/2009) was a Professor Emeritus at John Hopkins University and historian oAfrica and the Atlantic slave trade. He  published an estimate that from the 1500s to 1870, around 9,566,000 African slaves were imported to the Americas. A MacArthur Fellow, Curtin  published a total of 19 books.

Jane Curtin - Award Winning Actress

Jane Therese Curtin (born in Massachusetts in 1947) is an Emmy Award (and 8-time Emmy-Award nominee) winning and Golden Globe winning actress and comedienne.Curtin is well known for being one of the originals on Saturday Night Live television show.  

Dan Curtin - Composer and Techno Musician

Dan Curtin of Ohio is one of the most eagerly observed music producers in the tecno scene with his distictive and original music style.

Matt Curtin - Computer Scientist

Matt Curtin is a Columbus-based technologist, writer, and entrepreneur. In a professional career of less than fifteen years he has helped to shape our understanding of the benefits and risks of living in a globally-connected world. He helped to develop the technical infrastructure for some of the earliest electronic commerce Web sites and to show others how to use technology such as network firewalls and cryptography to protect their data and their users.

Joseph Curtin - Master Violin Crafter and Instruments

 Joseph Curtin studied violin at the University of Western Ontario (1971-73) and music and philosophy (1974-77) at the University of Toronto.  He abandoned musical performance for lutherie when he came under the tutelage of violinmaker, Otto Erdesz, in 1977.  He apprenticed with Erdesz for several years and worked in workshops in Italy and France.  In 1985, he established a workshop with partner, Gregg Alf, with whom he built instruments for twelve years under the name Curtin & Alf.  He founded his independent workshop, Joseph Curtin Studios, in 1997.  The interesting thing to note is that Curtin's grandparents were refugees during the war and picked the name from the phone book after fleeing from the Nazis!

Phyllis Curtin - American soprano