4587 Rees are credited with the discovery of . This minor planet was named after Martin Rees (born 1942), a much awarded English cosmologist and astrophysicist who has studied the galactic evolution. Rees became Astronomer Royal and President of the Royal Society in 1995 and 2005, respectively. He is also the director of the Institute of Astronomy and a professor of astronomy at the University of Cambridge. The asteroid's name was proposed by Jan Oort, and the was published by the Minor Planet Center on 28 April 1991 (). "Rees" is an assumed, stony S-type asteroid. Other sources published by EARN assume
Grover Rees III in 1973 and a member of the Young Republicans while he was in college. In 2016, Rees was an unsuccessful candidate for Louisiana's 3rd congressional district seat in the United States House of Representatives. The position was vacated by Charles Boustany and won in a runoff election by Republican Clay Higgins, who defeated Scott Angelle, the chairman of the Louisiana Public Service Commission and a Democrat-turned-Republican. Grover Rees III Grover Joseph Rees III (born October 11, 1951), a Louisiana lawyer, is the former United States ambassador to the Democratic Republic of East Timor. He presented his credentials to East Timorese