Alexander Hamilton Rice has written:
'Massachusetts, and how she is governed' -- subject(s): Politics and government, Campaign literature, 1878, Republican
William Rice King has written: 'Report on certain experimental and theoretical investigations relative to the quality, form, and combination of materials for defensive armor' -- subject(s): Armor-plate, Projectiles
No, it is most likely Persian. The first references to rice pilaf come from Alexander the Great, speaking of the hospitality he experienced in Bactria (modern day Iran).
According to http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~clydethomas/d40.htm, Alexander Miles parents were Jacob (Jr.) Miles and Nancy Rice.
Rice
rice grown on paddies is wet rice cultivation
Rice Roof has written: 'The growing village'
Mary Rice has written: 'Family literacy'
Walter F. Rice has written: 'Winning ways'
H. Rice has written: 'Victoria-Vancouver, British Columbia'
Mark Rice has written: 'Histoire de la photographie'
Irene Rice Pereira has written: 'The Nature of space'
Jeff Rice has written: 'The rhetoric of cool' 'The Kolchak Papers'
Jessie Pearl Rice has written: 'J.L.M. Curry'
Lewis Rice has written: 'Souvenir of eastern Nova Scotia'
William Henry Rice has written: 'What shall we do with the Filipions'
Robin Rice Lichtig has written: 'O Rumbles of Joy!'
Edward I. Rice has written: 'Old Jim Case of South Hollow'