Researching Ralph Miller
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 53584 people with the Miller surname? In that year Miller was ranked number 50 for popularity in the UK. |
The name Ralph means "Wolf Counselor" and is of Teutonic origin.
Records of Ralph Miller on Ancestry
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DNA
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Ralph Miller and the Miller Family Tree
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| Did you know that there are currently 69714 people with the Miller surname in the UK? Miller is now ranked number 54 for popularity in the UK. |
Miller Genealogy Databases
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Some Famous People called Ralph Miller
Ralph Miller
Ralph H. Miller (March 9, 1919 – May 15, 2001) was an American college basketball coach, a head coach for 38 years at three universities: Wichita (now known as Wichita State), Iowa, and Oregon State. With an overall record of, his teams had losing records only three times. Prior to his final season, he was enshrined in the Basketball Hall of Fame on Miller played college football and basketball at the University of Kansas. His performance on the football team led to him being drafted in the 1942 NFL Draft, but he chose to serve in the military instead of playing in the NFL.
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Ralph Miller (right-handed pitcher)
Ralph Darwin Miller (March 15, 1873 – May 7, 1973) was an American right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the Brooklyn Bridegrooms and Baltimore Orioles during the 1898 and 1899 baseball seasons. Born in Cincinnati, he died there at age 100; he was the first major league player to live to his 100th birthday. At the time of his death he was believed to be the last surviving 19th century Major Leaguer, a title which he unofficially held until the 1990s when baseball researchers discovered that Charlie Emig, a pitcher who played in one game in 1896 and died in 1975, held that distinction.
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Ralph Miller (alpine skier)
Ralph English Miller Jr. (September 23, 1933 – November 21, 2021) was an American alpine ski racer. At age 22, he competed in three events at the 1956 Winter Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, when he was one of the top downhill racers in the world. During those Olympics, he was on the cover of Sports Illustrated; he was the third racer on the downhill course, but fell hard and woke up in a toboggan. Two years earlier, Miller had competed in two events at the 1954 World Championships in Åre, Sweden.
Born and raised in Hanover, New Hampshire, he raced for hometown Dartmouth College and won the NCAA overall skimeister title in 1951 and in 1957.
In 1955, Miller set a speed skiing world record of in Portillo, Chile. He first went to Chile four years earlier, one of the first American ski racers to off-season train in South America. The speed record stood for fifteen years.
Miller served in the U.S. Army's Mountain Training Command in the mid-1950s, graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1961 and later taught at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine in Lexington. His wife, Pam Miller, was the mayor of Lexington for ten years.
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