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Alan Wood (other)
Alan Wood may refer to: * Alan Wood (Australian politician) (1927–2005), Victorian state politician * Alan Wood (author) (1914–1957), Australian and British journalist and author * Alan Wood (engineer) (born 1947), British engineer and executive * Allen Wood (footballer) (1941–2018), sometimes listed as Alan, Welsh football player * Alan Wood (footballer, born 1900) (1900–?), English footballer * Alan Wood (footballer, born 1954), English football player * Alan Wood (military officer) (1922–2013), American naval officer * Alan Wood Jr. (1834–1902), U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania * Alan Muir Wood (1921–2009), British civil engineer * Alan Thorpe Richard Wood (born 1954), British public servant See also * Allan Singleton-Wood (born 1933), British musician and publisher who performed under the stage name Allan Wood * Allan Wood Allan Frederick Wood (16 May 1943 – 10 October 2022) was an Australian freestyle swimmer, who won bronze medals in the 400- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Wood (Australian Politician)
Alan Raymond Wood (18 June 1927 – 3 October 2005) was an Australian politician. He was born at Swan Hill to real estate agent Henry Raymond Wood and Irene Elizabeth Faulkner. During World War II he served in the AIF, and on his return worked with the family real estate business. On 26 February 1954 he married (Dorothy) Joyce Wilkinson, with whom he had six children. From 1959 to 1974 he was a Swan Hill councillor, serving as the town's first mayor from 1964 to 1965. In 1973 he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly as the Liberal member for Swan Hill. In 1979 he was appointed Minister of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, moving to Public Works Public works are a broad category of infrastructure projects, financed and procured by a government body for recreational, employment, and health and safety uses in the greater community. They include public buildings ( municipal buildings, ... and Property Services in December 1980. He resigned from parliament in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Wood (author)
Alliott Alan Whitfeld Wood (6 October 1914 – 27 October 1957) was an Australian-born British journalist, soldier, war correspondent, and author. Early life Born in Chatswood, New South Wales, a suburb of the Lower North Shore (Sydney), Lower North Shore of Sydney, Australia, Wood was the son of George Arnold Wood, a historian, and his wife Madeline Whitfeld. His older brother Frederick Wood (historian), Frederick Wood later became professor of history at Victoria University of Wellington, Victoria University College in Wellington, New Zealand. Wood was educated at Sydney Grammar School, then at the University of Sydney, and finally from 1935 to 1938 at Balliol College, Oxford, his father's and brother's old college, where his subject was philosophy. In his final term, he was elected as President of the Oxford Union, defeating the future British prime minister Edward Heath and remaining in Oxford to serve as President in the Michaelmas term. He was the first Australian to be so ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Wood (engineer)
Alan John Wood, CBE, FREng (born March 20, 1947), was brought up in Sheffield, where he was educated at King Edward VII School. In 1965 he won an open scholarship to Manchester University and graduated in 1968 with a first class honours degree in mechanical engineering. He began his career as an engineering management trainee with Unilever on Merseyside. During his five years with this company, he spent periods in the soap & detergents and chemical businesses, but his major experience was with Van den Bergh & Jurgens, where he held project management and plant management positions before returning to university to take a second degree. He studied in the United States at Harvard University, where he was awarded a master's degree in business administration in 1975. Following his return to the UK, he took over responsibility for the manufacturing operations of Crittall Construction, a supplier of bespoke curtain wall projects for prestige office developments, and then became manag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allen Wood (footballer)
Allen Wood (13 January 1941 – 30 March 2018) is a Welsh former professional footballer. A central defender, he played for Lovell's Athletic, Bristol Rovers, Merthyr Tydfil Merthyr Tydfil () is the main town in Merthyr Tydfil County Borough, Wales, administered by Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council. It is about north of Cardiff. Often called just Merthyr, it is said to be named after Tydfil, daughter of K ... and Newport County. References 1941 births 2018 deaths Welsh men's footballers Lovell's Athletic F.C. players Bristol Rovers F.C. players Merthyr Tydfil F.C. players Newport County A.F.C. players English Football League players Men's association football defenders Wales men's amateur international footballers Welsh football managers Footballers from Newport, Wales {{Wales-footy-defender-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Wood (footballer, Born 1900)
Alan Esplin Wood (1900 – after 1924) was an English footballer who played in the Football League for Coventry City and Crystal Palace Crystal Palace may refer to: Places Canada * Crystal Palace Complex (Dieppe), a former amusement park now a shopping complex in Dieppe, New Brunswick * Crystal Palace Barracks, London, Ontario * Crystal Palace (Montreal), an exhibition buildin .... References 1900 births English men's footballers Men's association football midfielders English Football League players Crystal Palace F.C. players Coventry City F.C. players Willenhall F.C. players Year of death missing Footballers from Walsall {{England-footy-midfielder-1900s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Wood (footballer, Born 1954)
Alan Ernest Wood (born 1 December 1954) is an English former professional footballer who played for Charlton Athletic and Dover as a central defender In the sport of association football, a defender is an outfield player whose primary role is to stop attacks during the game and prevent the opposition from scoring. Defenders fall into four main categories: centre-backs, full-backs, sweepers .... References 1954 births Living people English men's footballers Men's association football defenders Footballers from Gravesend, Kent Charlton Athletic F.C. players Dover F.C. players English Football League players {{England-footy-defender-1950s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Wood (military Officer)
Alan Stevenson Wood (May 3, 1922 – April 18, 2013) was an American retired naval officer and veteran of World War II. Wood, who was U.S. Naval Communications officer at the Battle of Iwo Jima in February 1945, supplied the American flag being raised in the historic ''Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima'' photograph taken by Joe Rosenthal on February 23, 1945. Biography Early life Wood was born in Pasadena, California, on May 3, 1922. He was a descendant of one of the first pioneer families who had settled area which is now modern-day Sierra Madre, California. Wood received a bachelor's degree in history from the University of California, Berkeley. World War II and Iwo Jima Alan Wood had discovered a 37-square-foot American flag at a naval depot in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, months before deploying to the western Pacific Theater. He took the flag with him when he left Hawaii. Wood was a twenty-two-year-old naval communications officer for a landing ship, the Navy vessel LST-779, at the Bat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Wood Jr
Alan may refer to: People *Alan (surname), an English and Kurdish surname *Alan (given name) Alan is a masculine given name in the English and Breton languages. Its surname form is Aland. There is consensus that in modern English and French, the name is derived from the nomadic Iranian people known as the Alans, who settled in Wes ..., an English given name **List of people with given name Alan ''Following are people commonly referred to solely by "Alan" or by a homonymous name.'' *Alan (Chinese singer) (born 1987), female Chinese singer of Tibetan ethnicity, active in both China and Japan *Alan (Mexican singer) (born 1973), Mexican singer and actor *Alan (wrestler) (born 1975), a.k.a. Gato Eveready, who wrestles in Asistencia Asesoría y Administración *Alan (footballer, born 1979) (Alan Osório da Costa Silva), Brazilian footballer *Alan (footballer, born 1998) (Alan Cardoso de Andrade), Brazilian footballer *Alan I, King of Brittany (died 907), "the Great" *Alan II, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
