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Bill Nelson (other)
Bill Nelson (born 1942) is the administrator of NASA and former U.S. senator from Florida. Bill Nelson may also refer to: Arts and entertainment * Bill Nelson (artist) (born 1946), illustrator and sculptor * Bill Nelson (musician) (born 1948), English singer, guitarist and songwriter * Bill Nelson (sound engineer) (20th century), American sound engineer * Billy Nelson (actor) (1903–1973), American actor * Billy Bass Nelson (born 1951), American musician, member of the P-funk All Stars Sports * Bill Nelson (American football) (1948–2010), American football defensive tackle * Bill Nelson (baseball) (1863–1941), American baseball player * Bill Nelson (sports coach), Australian swimming coach Others * Bill Nelson, murder victim who was killed, cooked and eaten by his wife Omaima Nelson * Desiré Dubounet or Bill Nelson (born 1951), American alternative medicine promoter See also * William Nelson (other) * William Neilson (other) * Bill Nelsen William ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Nelson
Clarence William Nelson II (born September 29, 1942) is an American politician and attorney serving as the administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Nelson previously served as a United States Senator from Florida from 2001 to 2019. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served in the Florida House of Representatives from 1972 to 1978 and in the United States House of Representatives from 1979 to 1991. In January 1986, Nelson became the second sitting member of U.S. Congress to fly in space, after Senator Jake Garn, when he served as a payload specialist on mission STS-61-C aboard the Space Shuttle ''Columbia''. Before entering politics he served in the U.S. Army Reserve during the Vietnam War. As of 2022, Nelson remains the last Democrat to have served as a United States Senator from Florida. Nelson retired from Congress in 1990 to run for governor of Florida, but was unsuccessful. He was later elected Treasurer, Insurance C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Nelson (artist)
Bill Nelson (born September 30, 1946) is an American artist and sculptor. His artwork has been exhibited at numerous galleries including the Norman Rockwell Museum, and has appeared on the covers of major publications such as The New Yorker, Newsweek, New York Times Book Review, TV Guide, and The Atlantic Monthly, as well as genre magazines such as Famous Monsters of Filmland and Cinefantastique. His designs were featured in the 1996 "Big Band" series of postage stamps issued by the U.S. Post Office. His awards include two gold medals from the New York Art Director's Club and two silver medals from the Society of Illustrators. In addition to his illustration work, he is also a sculptor of ventriloquist Ventriloquism, or ventriloquy, is a performance act of stagecraft in which a person (a ventriloquist) creates the illusion that their voice is coming from elsewhere, usually a puppeteered prop known as a "dummy". The act of ventriloquism is v ...s' figures, including one r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Nelson (musician)
William Nelson (born 18 December 1948) is an English singer, guitarist, songwriter, producer, painter, video artist, writer and experimental musician. He rose to prominence as the chief songwriter, vocalist and guitarist of the rock group Be-Bop Deluxe, which he formed in 1972. Nelson has been described as "one of the most underrated guitarists of the seventies art rock movement". In 2015, he was recognised with the Visionary award at the Progressive Music Awards. Early life and personal life Nelson was born in Wakefield in the West Riding of Yorkshire, to Jean and Walter Nelson. Walter Nelson was an alto saxophone player who led his own dance band, and Jean a member of a dance troupe when younger. Bill Nelson attended local schools in the Wakefield area and in the 1960s went to Wakefield College of Art. Nelson's younger brother, Ian (1956–2006), collaborated on the Be-Bop Deluxe song "Ships in the Night" and formed the band Fiat Lux; he also played on the 1979 Red Noise ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Nelson (sound Engineer)
Bill Nelson is an American sound engineer. He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. Selected filmography * ''Heartbreak Ridge ''Heartbreak Ridge'' is a 1986 American war film produced and directed by Clint Eastwood, who also starred in the film. The film also co-stars Marsha Mason, Everett McGill, and Mario Van Peebles, and was released in the United States on Decembe ...'' (1986) * '' Lethal Weapon'' (1987) References External links * Place of birth missing Year of birth missing Possibly living people American audio engineers {{US-audio-engineer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billy Nelson (actor)
Billy Nelson (1903–1973), born William Nelson in Brooklyn, New York, was an American vaudeville comedian and actor who appeared in over 80 films and television programs. He was featured several times on one of the iconic black and white TV series of the 1950s '' Adventures of Superman''; his appearances are still seen on television today. He also played roles in the historic Hal Roach short comedy films as one of Hal Roach's All-Stars in the two-reel films often shown in theaters during the World War II era. Nelson was a nightclub master of ceremonies in the United States and abroad. Nelson and his wife, violinist Irene Knight, developed a musical comedy act that was featured in several major markets during the 1930s. The Nelson-Knight music and comedy duo often worked shows featuring vaudeville and Broadway ballerina Jeanne Devereaux Frequently cast as a villain, Nelson was a familiar face during the infancy of network and syndicated television. He played in roles on ea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billy Bass Nelson
William "Billy Bass" Nelson (born January 28, 1951) is a U.S. musician, who was the original bassist for Funkadelic. He is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, inducted in 1997 with fifteen other members of Parliament-Funkadelic. Career Nelson was born in Plainfield, New Jersey and as a teenager worked at George Clinton's barbershop, sweeping the floor and singing and dancing for the customers. Clinton was a member of the doo wop vocal group the Parliaments, who scored a nationwide hit in 1967 with the song "(I Wanna) Testify". Clinton put together a backing band as musical support for a tour and recruited Nelson, who in turn recommended his friend Eddie Hazel. Nelson and Hazel eventually took on bass and lead guitar roles respectively. The backing band was originally unnamed, but Nelson later coined the name "Funkadelic" to reflect the style ( funk) and connect it with the then-burgeoning psychedelic music scene. By 1970, Funkadelic was a full band consisting of Nelso ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Nelson (American Football)
William Howard Nelson (March 9, 1948 – July 29, 2010) was an American former professional football defensive tackle in the National Football League (NFL) who played for the Los Angeles Rams. He played college football at Oregon State University Oregon State University (OSU) is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant, research university in Corvallis, Oregon. OSU offers more than 200 undergraduate-degree programs along with a variety of graduate and doctoral degree .... References 1948 births Living people Players of American football from Berkeley, California American football defensive tackles Oregon State Beavers football players Los Angeles Rams players 20th-century American sportsmen {{Defensive-lineman-1940s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Nelson (baseball)
William F. Nelson (September 28, 1863 – June 23, 1941) was a starting pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the Pittsburgh Alleghenys of the American Association. Nelson threw right-handed; his batting side is unknown. He was born in Terre Haute, Indiana. Little is known about Nelson, who was 20 years old when he entered the majors on September 3, 1884. He posted a 4.50 ERA in three complete games and did not have a decision, giving up 13 earned runs on 26 hits and eight walks while striking out six in 26 innings of work. As a hitter, he went 2-for-12 (.167) with a run scored. He played his final game on September 10, and never appeared in a major league game again. Nelson died in his native Terre Haute at age 77. See also *1884 Pittsburgh Alleghenys season The 1884 Pittsburgh Alleghenys season was the 3rd season of the Pittsburgh Alleghenys The following is a history of the Pittsburgh Pirates of Major League Baseball. Franchise beginnings (1870s-1899) Early ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Nelson (sports Coach)
William “Bill” Nelson is a former Australian Olympic swimming coach, vice president of the World Swimming Coaches Association and Coach of The Year. He is also a consultant to the National Rugby League & NRL teams, National Basketball league teams, AFL and Rugby Union, Australian Road Cycling team, and Australian Olympic Basketball team. During his career Bill coached Daniel Kowalski, Matthew Dunn, Scott Miller, Michael Klim, Nicole Stevenson, Linley Frame and Duncan Armstrong. He was the national event coach for distance swimming for the Australian swimming team, a program that contained swimmers such as Ian Thorpe, Kieren Perkins and Grant Hackett Grant George Hackett OAM (born 9 May 1980) is an Australian swimmer, most famous for winning the men's 1500 metres freestyle race at both the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney and the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. This achievement has led him to .... References Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Aust ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Omaima Nelson
Omaima Aree Nelson (born c. 1968) is an Egyptian former model and nanny who was convicted of murdering her husband, Bill Nelson. She is serving a life sentence at California Institution for Women, as of 2020. Her case made international headlines due to allegations of bondage sex, decapitation, castration and cannibalism. Marriage and murder Omaima Aree Nelson was born and raised in Egypt, and immigrated to the United States in 1986. She met her husband William E. "Bill" Nelson, a 56-year-old pilot, in October 1991, when she was 23. Within days of meeting, the couple married, but Omaima would later claim that during the couple's month-long union, she suffered sexual abuse by her husband. Omaima claimed that on 28 November 1991, Bill had sexually assaulted her in their Costa Mesa, California apartment. Following this, Omaima stabbed Bill with scissors, then began beating him with a clothes iron. After killing him, she began dismembering his body, and cooked his head and boi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Desiré Dubounet
Desiré D. Dubounet (born William Charles Nelson; 19June 1951) is an American alternative medicine inventor, filmmaker and performer currently living in Budapest. Dubounet developed the pseudoscientific Electro Physiological Feedback Xrroid, an energy medicine device that is considered to be dangerous to health and has been described as a scam. Biography Dubounet developed the pseudoscientific EPFX device in the late 1980s which supposedly claimed could diagnose and eliminate diseases including AIDS and cancer. The EPFX device is described as balancing "bio-energetic" forces; bio-energetic forces do not exist. Some people died after using the EPFX system instead of seeking or continuing medical care. In 1992 the United States Food and Drug Administration ordered Dubounet to stop claiming that the EPFX could diagnose or cure diseases, but she did not; in 1996 she was indicted on nine counts of felony fraud, though none were in relation to the EPFX. Dubounet has since left the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Nelson (other)
William Nelson may refer to: * Billy Nelson (athlete) (William Andrew Nelson, born 1984), American steeplechaser * William Nelson (governor) (1711–1772), American Colonial governor of Virginia and father of the judge William Nelson * William Nelson (judge) (1754–1813), American soldier, politician, law professor and judge * William Nelson (British judge) (born c. 1981), British district judge * William Nelson, great-grandfather of Horatio Nelson * William Nelson (MP) (c. 1462–1525), member of parliament for the City of York * William Nelson (New York politician) (1784–1869), U.S. congressman for New York * William Nelson (Wisconsin politician) (1839–1913), member of the Wisconsin State Senate * William Nelson (wrestler), American wrestler who won a bronze medal at the 1904 Olympics * William Nelson, 1st Earl Nelson (1757–1835), elder brother of Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson * William "Bull" Nelson (1824–1862), Union army general in the American Civil War * Willi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
