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Cowie (surname)
Cowie is a surname. Some notable people with the surname include: *Alex Cowie (born 1947), British squash and tennis player *Alexander Cowie (1889–1916), English cricketer, soldier, and poet *Catherine Cowie, American epidemiologist *Chris Cowie, Scottish DJ and producer *Colin Cowie, American lifestyle guru *Don Cowie (footballer), football player *Don Cowie (sailor) (born 1962), New Zealand sailor *Doug Cowie (footballer) (1926–2021), Scottish footballer *Doug Cowie (umpire), New Zealand cricket umpire *Edward Cowie, English composer *George Cowie, Scottish football player *George Cowie (Wisconsin), American politician *Helen Cowie (historian), British historian *Helen Cowie (bullying expert), British academic *Helen Cowie (doctor) (1875–1956), New Zealand doctor *Ian D. Cowie, Ian Donald Cowie (born 1956) Australian botanist *Jack Cowie, New Zealand cricketer *James Cowie (Australian settler), Australian politician *James Cowie (artist), Scottish painter *Jimmy Cowie, Scotti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alex Cowie
Alex Cowie (born 11 May 1947) is a British former international Squash (sport), squash and tennis player. She competed under her maiden name Alex Soady until 1969. Initially a tennis player, Cowie made several appearances at The Championships, Wimbledon, Wimbledon in the 1960s and 1970s. Cowie featured at the World Squash Championships in 1985 and 1987. She was later the coach of Cassie Jackman and served as team manager of the national team. References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Cowie, Alex 1947 births Living people English female tennis players British female tennis players English female squash players 20th-century English sportswomen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Cowie (Australian Settler)
James Cowie (9 January 1809 – 14 November 1892) was an early 19th-century settler of Victoria, Australia, who became a member of both the Victorian Legislative Assembly and Victorian Legislative Council and also served as Mayor of Geelong. Life and work Cowie was born in Falkirk, Scotland, the son of a brewer. After an apprenticeship as a saddler and harness maker in London, Cowie emigrated to Australia in 1840; and, after a spell in Van Diemen's Land, he settled in Geelong, which was then known as Corio. He established a number of successful commercial ventures, including shops and a mining & shipping agency, and he made his fortune during the Victorian gold rush. When the Geelong municipality was formed in 1849, he was among those who provided financial securities for the new body to carry out works and topped the poll in the first elections for the council. In November 1852, Cowie was elected mayor of Geelong. He served as mayor for a year before being elected to represent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cowie (other)
Cowie may refer to: People *Cowie (surname) Places *Cowie, Aberdeenshire, an historic fishing village located at the north side of Stonehaven, Scotland **Cowie Castle, a ruined castle in Aberdeenshire, Scotland ** Chapel of St. Mary and St. Nathalan (called Cowie Chapel), a ruined chapel in Aberdeenshire, Scotland **Cowie Water, a river discharging to the North Sea at Stonehaven, Scotland *** Cowie Bridge, a roadway crossing of the Cowie Water in Stonehaven, Scotland *Cowie, Stirling, a small ex-mining village located on the outskirts of the city of Stirling, in Central Scotland *Cowie, the former name of Corio, Victoria, Australia Other uses *USS Cowie (DD-632), a destroyer *Cowie Group, a British bus and coach operator now called Arriva Arriva Ltd. is a British multinational public transport company headquartered in Sunderland, England. The company was originally established on 24 October 1938 as T Cowie Ltd. Initially focused on the sale of motorcycles, it relaunched sho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Cowie
Sir Thomas Cowie (9 September 1922 – 18 January 2012) was an English businessman who was the honorary Life President of the Arriva Group, formerly known as Cowie Group plc. Career Cowie Group Cowie's father, Thomas Stephenson Knowles Cowie, headed a business, T. Cowie Ltd, which repaired and sold cycles in Matamba Terrace, Sunderland. This business ceased trading in the early years of the Second World War when T.S.K. Cowie went into the trawler business. Cowie was born on 9 September 1922 in Sunderland. After serving in the Royal Air Force, he returned to Sunderland after the war and in 1948 T Cowie Ltd, motorcycle dealers, re-opened for business.Home Sir Tom Cowie A string of takeovers led to the business's rapid expansion and by 1961 it had showrooms in seven cities. It became a |
Thomas Jefferson Cowie
Thomas Jefferson Cowie (February 15, 1857 – July 16, 1936) was a Rear Admiral in the United States Navy whose active-duty career included serving as Navy Paymaster General and Chief of the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts (BuSandA). Following his retirement, he headed the Navy's Liberty Loans program and was secretary-treasurer of the Navy Mutual Aid Association. Biography Cowie was born at Montezuma, Iowa, in 1857. He served as engineer's yeoman in from January 8, 1877, to October 19, 1878, then enlisted in the Navy October 21, 1878, at Constantinople. He was commissioned as assistant paymaster from June 16, 1880, rising to the rank of Rear Admiral and the position of Paymaster General and Chief of the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts July 1, 1910. Rear Admiral Cowie was awarded the Navy Cross for his valuable services in connection with the Liberty Loans of World War I. Retired from the Navy on February 15, 1921, he was ordered to special duty in charge of the Navy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Cowie
Robert Cowie (1842–1874) was a British physician and author. Life He was born in 1842 at Lerwick, the capital of the Shetland Islands, where both his father and uncle were well-known medical practitioners. He was educated partly at Aberdeen, where he took the degree of M.A., and at Edinburgh, where he was a student of the anesthesia pioneer James Young Simpson. On the death of his father he took up his medical practice, and was held in high esteem, both for his professional and general character. He died suddenly of peritonitis Peritonitis is inflammation of the localized or generalized peritoneum, the lining of the inner wall of the abdomen and covering of the abdominal organs. Symptoms may include severe pain, swelling of the abdomen, fever, or weight loss. One pa ... in 1874, in his thirty-third year. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rob Cowie
Robert "Cowboy" Cowie (born November 3, 1967) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman. He played 78 games in the National Hockey League with the Los Angeles Kings during the 1994–95 and 1995–96 seasons. The rest of his career, which lasted from 1991 to 2004, was spent in the minor leagues and then in various European leagues. College career Cowie was born in Willowdale, Ontario. As a youth, he played in the 1980 Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournament with a minor ice hockey team from Goulding Park in Toronto. He was a four-year letterman for the Northeastern University Huskies between 1988 and 1991, scoring over 40 points each of his sophomore, junior and senior seasons. He finished his college career with 46 goals and 96 assists for 142 points in 139 games, and is the second leading scorer and fourteenth leading overall scorer in school history. He was named an All-Hockey East All-Star in 1988, 1989 and 1990, and was named an All-American in 1990. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wiley (rapper)
Richard Kylea Cowie Jr. (born 19 January 1979), better known by his stage name Wiley (formerly Wiley Kat), is a British grime MC, songwriter, DJ and record producer from Bow, London. Wiley is often labelled the " Godfather of Grime". In the early 2000s, he independently released a series of highly influential eskibeat instrumentals on white label vinyl, such as the first in the series "Eskimo" and is known as a grime MC both for his solo work and for material released with his crew Roll Deep. Wiley first tasted success as a member of UK garage crew Pay As U Go, with whom he had a top 40 hit, " Champagne Dance" in 2001. Wiley has continued to make grime music while also releasing mainstream singles, such as the UK Singles Chart top 10 hits " Wearing My Rolex", " Never Be Your Woman", and his UK number-one " Heatwave". Wiley's eleventh album, '' Godfather'' (2017), peaked at number nine on the UK Albums Chart, becoming his highest-charting album of his career, and also won ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Cowie
Peter Cowie (born 24 December 1939) is a British film historian and author of more than thirty books on film. In 1963 he was the founder/publisher and general editor of the annual ''International Film Guide'', a survey of worldwide film production, which he continued to edit for forty years. Life and career Educated at Charterhouse School, and an exhibitioner in history at Magdalene College, Cambridge,''Magdalene College Magazine'' (2010–2011)"Is there such a thing as European Cinema?" No. 55, p. 105. Retrieved 14 September 2012. he began writing about film in 1960. He has contributed to many of the world's leading newspapers and periodicals, including ''The New York Times'', ''The Wall Street Journal'', ''The Sunday Times'' (London), the ''Los Angeles Times'', ''Le Monde'', ''Expressen'', ''Neue Zürcher Zeitung'', ''Sight and Sound'', '' Variety'' and ''Film Comment''. His books include definitive surveys of the Scandinavian cinema, in particular the work of Swedish film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patience Cowie
Patience Anne Cowie (27 January 1964 – 7 April 2020) was a Professor of Earth System Dynamics at the University of Bergen. Her research has considered fault propagation and rift basins. She was awarded the 2016 Geological Society of London Coke medal. Early life and education Cowie was born in the United Kingdom. She studied geology at Durham University and graduated in 1985. During her undergraduate degree she took part in field trips and became more interested in geological research. Cowie moved to the Lamont–Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University for her graduate studies and earned master's degree in 1989. She remained there for her doctoral degree and completed her PhD under the supervision of Christopher Scholz in 1992. She moved to the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis as a postdoctoral research fellow in 1992, where she spent one year before joining the University of Edinburgh. Research and career Cowie moved to the University of Edinburgh in 1993, in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nigel Cowie
Nigel Cowie is a British banker, who lived in North Korea for two decades from 1995. Early life He was educated at the University of Edinburgh. Career He worked for Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation before moving to North Korea. North Korean official, Kim Chol-sam and Cowie created a shell company called "DCB Finance" to circumvent sanctions, help sell arms, and expand its nuclear weapons programme. Cowie was also CEO of Daedong Credit Bank Daedong Credit Bank (DCB; ) is a North Korean bank, established in 1995, and based in the country's capital, Pyongyang. DCB has been on the US Treasury sanctions list since June 2013, for "its role in supporting Pyongyang's weapons of mass dest ..., which was placed under sanctions. Cowie is a director of Phoenix Commercial Ventures Limited, a North Korean project finance company. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Cowie, Nigel British bankers Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Alumni of the University of Edinb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mervyn Cowie
Mervyn Hugh Cowie, (13 April 1909 – 19 July 1996) was a conservationist who pioneered wildlife protection and the development otourismthroughout East Africa. Early life Cowie was a descendant of Scottish farmers who migrated to South Africa. Cowie's father resigned as Chief Magistrate of Johannesburg, South Africa to settle in Kenya. Cowie was born in Nairobi on 13 April 1909. He grew up in a thatched mud hut 30 miles from Nairobi. He had one brother. He was first educated in Nairobi, then moved to England to study at Brighton College and the University of Oxford. He qualified as a chartered accountant and returned to Kenya in 1932. Career On his return to Kenya in 1932, Cowie was alarmed how the number of game animals had depleted during his nine-year absence. The complete lack of government policies on conservation was the principal cause of this depletion. Cowie was concerned about human pressure on wilderness areas. He thought that there should be special areas wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
