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Albert Bishop
Bishop is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: A–G * A. C. Bishop (fl. late 19th century), American politician *Abby Bishop (born 1988), Australian professional basketball player *Adam Bishop (born 1989), British strongman *Adelaide Bishop (1928–2008), American operatic soprano, musical theatre actress, opera and stage director, and voice teacher *Alec Bishop (1897–1984), British Army officer and administrator * Alfred Bishop (other), multiple people * Alison Bishop (other), multiple people *Amanda Bishop, Australian actress *Amasa Stone Bishop (1921–1997), American nuclear physicist * Andrew Bishop (born 1985), Welsh international rugby union player *Andy Bishop (born 1982), English footballer *Angela Bishop (born 1967), Australian reporter and television presenter * Ann Bishop (other), multiple people * Arthur Bishop (other), multiple people * Barbara Bishop (born 1956), Barbadian sprinter * Barry Bishop (other), m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abby Bishop
Abby Bishop (born 29 November 1988) is an Australian former professional basketball player. She played in the Women's National Basketball League (WNBL) between 2005 and 2025 for the Australian Institute of Sport (WNBL team), Australian Institute of Sport, Canberra Capitals, Dandenong Rangers, Adelaide Lightning, Townsville Fire and Southside Flyers. She played three seasons in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA), winning a WNBA Finals, WNBA championship in 2010 with the Seattle Storm. She was a member of the Australia women's national basketball team and won a bronze medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics. Personal life Bishop was born on 29 November 1988 in Booleroo, South Australia. She is tall, and was featured in the Women's National Basketball League (WNBL)'s 2009 league calendar. In August 2013, Bishop took custody of her two-day-old niece, Zala Kate Bishop. Basketball Bishop is a tall forward. In 2008, she was featured as a basketball star on myFiba. Professi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernardine Bishop
Bernardine Anna Livia Mary Bishop (née Wall; 16 August 1939 – 4 July 2013) was an English novelist, teacher and psychotherapist.24 July 201"Bernardine Bishop obituary" ''The Telegraph''. Retrieved 10 April 2015 Her first novel, ''Perspectives'', was published by Hutchinson in 1961. During a half-century break between publishing her first two novels and her third, the 2013 Costa prize-nominated ''Unexpected Lessons In Love'', she brought up a family, taught, and practised as a psychotherapist.Tumulty, Desmond (5 July 2013"Bernardine Bishop obituary" ''The Guardian''. Retrieved 10 April 2015 Diagnosed with cancer of the colon in 2008, and subsequently forced to give up her psychotherapy work because of the illness, she reinvigorated her literary career by writing three novels, of which ''Unexpected Lessons In Love'' was the first. The book had only just been published when, having been informed that her condition was terminal, she decided to withdraw from chemotherapy and "turn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cole Bishop
Cole Bishop (born October 24, 2002) is an American professional football safety for the Buffalo Bills of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Utah Utes. Early life Bishop attended Starr's Mill High School in Fayetteville, Georgia. He committed to the University of Utah to play college football. College career As a true freshman at Utah in 2021, Bishop played in 10 games and started the final six. He finished the year with 54 tackles and three sacks. As a sophomore in 2022, he started 13 of 14 games and led the team with 83 tackles and had one interception and 1.5 sacks. He returned to Utah for his junior year in 2023. Professional career Bishop was selected by the Buffalo Bills with the 60th overall pick in the second round of the 2024 NFL draft The 2024 NFL draft was the 89th annual meeting of National Football League (NFL) franchises to select newly eligible players. The draft was held at Campus Martius Park and Hart Plaza in Detroit o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claire Huchet Bishop
Claire Huchet Bishop (30 December 1898 – 13 March 1993) was a Swiss children's writer and librarian. She wrote two Newbery Medal runners-up, '' Pancakes-Paris'' (1947) and '' All Alone'' (1953), and she won the Josette Frank Award for '' Twenty and Ten'' (1952). Her first English-language children's book became a classic: '' The Five Chinese Brothers'', illustrated by Kurt Wiese and published in 1938, was named to the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award list in 1959. Life Claire Huchet was born in Geneva, Switzerland and grew up in France or Geneva. She attended the Sorbonne and started the first children's library in France. After marrying the American concert pianist Frank Bishop, she moved to the United States, worked for the New York City Public Library from 1932–36,Hile, Kevin S. "Claire Huchet Bishop." Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2007. Literature Resource Center, http://link.galegroup.com.aquinas.idm.oclc.org/apps/doc/H1000008845/LitRC?u=lom_aquinascoll&sid=LitRC&xid= ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cindy Bishop
Cindy Burbridge (born December 30, 1978) or Sirinya Burbridge (), better known as Cindy Bishop, is a Thai model, actress, beauty pageant titleholder, activist, and amateur artist. She is best known as the former host and judge on reality competition show ''Asia's Next Top Model''. Early life Bishop was born in Bangkok and raised in Pattaya. She is an only child born to elderly parents. Her father, William Burbridge, is American and her mother, Patricia, is half English, one-quarter Indian and one-quarter Thai. Bishop attended Ruamrudee International School in Bangkok and graduated from Public Relations at Bangkok University In 2005, she married Byron Bishop, a Japanese American model. They have two children. Career Bishop started diving at the age of 5 and through this landed her first modelling contract for an underwater commercial shoot for a diving equipment store. In 1996, Bishop won the Miss Thailand World pageant and represented Thailand in the Miss World pageant i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christopher Bishop
Christopher Michael Bishop (born 7 April 1959) is a British computer scientist. He is a Microsoft Technical Fellow and Director oMicrosoft Research AI4Science He is also Honorary Professor of Computer Science at the University of Edinburgh, and a Fellow of Darwin College, Cambridge. Bishop was a founding member of thUK AI Council and in 2019 he was appointed to thPrime Minister’s Council for Science and Technology Early life and education Christopher Michael Bishop was born on 7 April 1959 in Norwich, England, to Leonard and Joyce Bishop. He was educated at Earlham School in Norwich, and obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in physics from St Catherine's College, Oxford, and later a PhD in theoretical physics from the University of Edinburgh, with a thesis on quantum field theory supervised by David Wallace and Peter Higgs. Research and career Bishop investigates machine learning, in which computers are made to learn from data and experience. His former doctoral students in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Reed Bishop
Charles Reed Bishop (January 25, 1822 – June 7, 1915) was an American businessman, politician, and philanthropist in Hawaii. Born in Glens Falls, New York, he sailed to Hawaii in 1846 at the age of 24, and made his home there, marrying into the royal family of the kingdom. He served several monarchs in appointed positions in the kingdom, before its overthrow in 1893 by Americans from the United States and organization as the Territory of Hawaii. Bishop was one of the first trustees of and a major donor to the Kamehameha Schools, founded by his late wife's request to provide education to Hawaiian children. He founded Hawaii's first successful bank, now known as First Hawaiian Bank. Based on his business success, he also founded the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, named for his late wife. Early life On January 25, 1822, Charles Reed Bishop was born to Maria (Reed) and Samuel Bishop in Glen Falls, New York. His father was a toll collector for ship traffic on the Hudson River ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Whiting Bishop
Carl Whiting Bishop (July 12, 1881 – June 16, 1942) was an American archeologist who specialized in East Asian civilizations. From 1922 to 1942 he was a curator at the Freer Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. At his death Bishop was praised for his ability to synthesize a wide range of evidence and present them "in ordered and highly engaging fashion", which was "the best sort of popularization of prehistory". He argued for the then popular theory of hyperdiffusionism, the theory that all civilizations originated in one place and spread to others, in this case, from the Near East to China. He was criticized, however, for going beyond the accepted evidence. Early years Bishop was born on July 12, 1881, in Tokyo, Japan, where his parents were Methodist missionaries. He attended the English School in Tokyo from 1888 to 1897. In 1898 he entered the Northwestern Academy, Evanston, Illinois, then attended DePauw University, in Greencastle, Indiana, from 1901 to 1904; Hampden-Sydne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bronwyn Bishop
Bronwyn Kathleen Bishop (née Setright; born 19 October 1942) is an Australian former politician who served as the 29th speaker of the Australian House of Representatives from 2013 to 2015, during the Abbott ministry, Abbott government. Her service of almost 30 years as a member of the federal parliament is the longest of any woman in Australia. A member of the Liberal Party of Australia, she served as a senator for New South Wales from 1987 to 1994 after which she became the member of parliament (MP) for the division of Division of Mackellar, Mackellar from 1994 to 2016. During her time in parliament she served as the minister for Defence Industry from 1996 to 1998 and minister for Aged Care from 1998 to 2001 under Prime Minister Howard government, John Howard. Bishop was born in Sydney and worked as a lawyer before entering politics. She served as state president of the Liberal Party of Australia (New South Wales Division), New South Wales Liberals from 1985 to 1987, and then ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bridget Bishop
Bridget Bishop (née Magnus; 1632 – 10 June 1692) was a midwife and the first person executed for witchcraft during the Salem witch trials in 1692. Nineteen were hanged, and one, Giles Corey, was pressed to death. Altogether, about 200 people were tried. Relations Bridget's maiden name was Magnus. Her sister Mercy, her father John, and her mother Rebecca adopted the last name Playfer, Bridget's paternal grandmother's maiden name. She was married three or possibly four times. She married her first husband, Samuel Wesselby on 13 April 1660, at St. Mary-in-the-Marsh, Norwich, Norfolk, England. She had two sons and one daughter from her first marriage: John, Benjamin and Mary. Her first husband died in 1666. Her second marriage, on 26 July 1666, was to Thomas Oliver, a widower and prominent businessman, listed in early records as a calendar. They had one child, a daughter, Chrestian Oliver (sometimes spelled Christian), born 8 May 1667. She was earlier accused of bewitching ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bradford Bishop
William Bradford Bishop Jr. (born August 1, 1936) is a former United States Foreign Service officer who has been a fugitive, fugitive from justice since killing his wife, mother, and three sons in 1976. On April 10, 2014, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) placed him on the list of its FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives, Ten Most Wanted Fugitives. On June 27, 2018, Bishop, who at the time would have been 81 years old, was removed from the list, making room, the FBI said, for another "dangerous fugitive". However, he is still being actively pursued by the FBI, and an INTERPOL Red Notice is still in effect. Biography William Bradford Bishop Jr. was born August 1, 1936, in Pasadena, California, Pasadena, California, to Lobelia Amaryllis St. Germain and William Bradford Bishop Sr. He attended South Pasadena High School and received a Bachelor of Science, bachelor of science degree in history from Yale University and a Master of Arts, master of arts degree in international studies ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Braden Bishop
Braden Adam Bishop (born August 22, 1993) is an American former professional baseball outfielder. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Seattle Mariners. He was drafted by the Mariners in the 3rd round of the 2015 Major League Baseball draft. Early life Bishop was born in Woodland, California."Braden Bishop Minor Leagues Statistics & History," Baseball-Reference.com. His hometown is . His parents are Randy (who owns a private investigation company) and Suzy Bishop (who ran track at UCLA and has been a movie producer and head of the |
