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Chambers (surname)
Chambers is a common surname of English origin. It usually denoted either a servant who worked in his master's private chambers, or a ''camararius'', a person in charge of an exchequer room. At the time of the British census of 1881, Retrieved 25 January 2014 the relative frequency of the surname Chambers was highest in Nottinghamshire (4.4 times the British average), followed by Northamptonshire, Huntingdonshire, Lincolnshire, Bedfordshire, Rutland, Suffolk, Derbyshire, Haddingtonshire and Kent. Related surnames include Chalmers and Chamberlain. Notable people surnamed Chambers Notable people with the surname include: Disambiguation * David Chambers (other) * Jack Chambers (other) * James Chambers (other) * John Chambers (other) * Paul Chambers (other) * Robert Chambers (other) * William Chambers (other) American * Aden Chambers (born c. 1986), American pro wrestler also known as Dalton Castle and Ashley ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Surname
In some cultures, a surname, family name, or last name is the portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family, tribe or community. Practices vary by culture. The family name may be placed at either the start of a person's full name, as the forename, or at the end; the number of surnames given to an individual also varies. As the surname indicates genetic inheritance, all members of a family unit may have identical surnames or there may be variations; for example, a woman might marry and have a child, but later remarry and have another child by a different father, and as such both children could have different surnames. It is common to see two or more words in a surname, such as in compound surnames. Compound surnames can be composed of separate names, such as in traditional Spanish culture, they can be hyphenated together, or may contain prefixes. Using names has been documented in even the oldest historical records. Examples of surnames are documented in the 11th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Chambers (other)
James Chambers may refer to: *James Chambers (pastoralist) (1811–1862), South Australian colonist *James Chambers (politician) (1863–1917), Irish lawyer and Unionist *James Chambers (English footballer) (born 1980), retired football player *James Chambers (Irish footballer) (born 1987), retired football player *James Chambers (horn player) (1920–1989), American musician *James Cox Chambers (born 1950s), American billionaire heir *James Chambers, English musician with Bob Kerr's Whoopee Band *James Chambers (born 1948), commonly known as Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican reggae musician *James S. Chambers (publisher) (1821–1904), American publisher of the ''Philadelphia Bulletin'' ** USS ''James S. Chambers'', schooner named for the publisher *James S. Chambers (editor) (1853–1923), American editor of ''Public Ledger'' and grandfather of Whittaker Chambers *James Chambers (writer) (born 1970), American author and comic book writer *James F. Chambers Jr. James F. Chambers Jr (1913-2006 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Craig Chambers
Craig Chambers has been a computer scientist at Google since 2007. Prior to this, he was a Professor in the department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington. He received his B.S. degree in Computer Science from MIT in 1986 and his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford in 1992. He is best known for the influential research language Self The self is an individual as the object of that individual’s own reflective consciousness. Since the ''self'' is a reference by a subject to the same subject, this reference is necessarily subjective. The sense of having a self—or ''selfhood ..., which introduced prototypes as an alternative to classes, and code-splitting, a compilation technique that generates separate code paths for fast and general cases to speed execution of dynamically typed programs. References Living people Programming language designers Programming language researchers Year of birth missing (living people) University of Wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Chambers
Christopher J. Chambers (born August 12, 1978) is a former American football wide receiver who played 10 seasons in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the University of Wisconsin. He was drafted by the Miami Dolphins in the second round of the 2001 NFL Draft, and also played for the San Diego Chargers and Kansas City Chiefs. He served in 2021 as the first-ever University of Fort Lauderdale head football coach, and now is the Wide Receivers coach at Keiser University. Early years Chambers attended Bedford High School in Bedford, Ohio. While there, he was a three-sport letterman in football, basketball and track. In football, he won All-America accolades and was a two-time all-state selection. In basketball, he was a third-team all-state performer as a senior. He was a high school teammate of wide receiver Lee Evans, who also played for the Wisconsin Badgers. In track, he won the state championship in the 400-meter dash as a senior with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Edward Chambers
Charles Edward Chambers (August 9, 1883 - November 5, 1941) was an American illustrator and classical painter. He is most-known for his Chesterfield cigarettes advertisements and Steinway & Sons portraits that ran during the early 1900s. Chambers also illustrated stories for writers W. Somerset Maugham and Pearl S. Buck, among others. These appeared in various magazines including, ''Cosmopolitan'', '' Harper's'', and ''Redbook''. Personal life and education Chambers was born on August 9, 1883, in Ottumwa, Iowa to Horatio Cox Chambers (1849-1914) and Rosa A. Lee Chambers (1849-1920). He had one sibling, Helen Lee Chambers (1880-1899). Chambers received his education in art from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Later, he attended the National Academy of Design, where he studied under George Bridgman. One of Chambers' teachers was Fanny Musnell (1884-1920). She was an illustrator for national magazines including, ''Cosmopolitan'' and ''Woman's Home Companion''. Her sty ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boyd Chambers
Boyd Blaine "Fox" Chambers (November 10, 1884 – April 26, 1964) was an American football, basketball, and baseball coach, and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at Marshall University from 1909 to 1916, at Bethany College in West Virginia in 1917, and at the University of Cincinnati from 1918 to 1921, compiling a career college football record of 50–44–7. Chambers was also the head basketball coach at Marshall during the 1908–09 season and at Cincinnati from 1918 to 1928, tallying a career college basketball mark of 122–97. In addition, he was the head baseball coach at Marshall (1910–1917), Cincinnati (1919–1928), and Miami University (1932), amassing a career college baseball record of 163–104–4. Tower Play controversy In 1915 Chambers was involved in a controversy with what would become known as a "Tower Play" during a game between West Virginia Mountaineers and the Marshall Thundering Herd The Marshall Thundering Herd is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Chambers (basketball)
William B. Chambers (December 13, 1930 – July 11, 2017) was an American college basketball player and coach for the William & Mary Tribe.HOF Inductees 1995: Bill Chambers . Accessed March 19, 2008. Playing career High school He attended E. C. Glass High School in where he led his team to a state championship and an undefeated season (22–0) during his senior year.William & Mary Chambers then went on to play collegiately for the |
Bill Chambers (baseball)
William Christopher Chambers (September 5, 1888 – March 27, 1962) was a professional baseball pitcher who played in one Major League game for the St. Louis Cardinals The St. Louis Cardinals are an American professional baseball team based in St. Louis. The Cardinals compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the National League (NL) Central division. Since the 2006 season, the Cardinals h ... on July 11, 1910, pitching one inning, and allowing one unearned run. External links 1888 births 1962 deaths Major League Baseball pitchers Baseball players from West Virginia St. Louis Cardinals players Flint Vehicles players Marshall Thundering Herd baseball coaches {{US-baseball-pitcher-1880s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Becky Chambers (author)
Becky Chambers (born 3 May 1985) is an American science fiction writer. She is the author of the Hugo Award-winning ''Wayfarers'' series as well as novellas including ''To Be Taught, if Fortunate'' and the ''Monk & Robot'' series, which begins with the Hugo Award-winning ''A Psalm for the Wild-Built''. She is known for her imaginative world-building and character-driven stories. Early life, family and education Chambers was born in 1985 in Southern California and grew up outside Los Angeles. Chambers' family included several people with an interest in various NASA space exploration efforts. Her parents are an astrobiology educator and a satellite engineer. She became fascinated with 'space' and its exploration at an early age. During her youth, after she first encountered a person who believed that such programs were unwise and that their funding would be better applied to solving Earth's problems, she began studying in detail humans’ efforts to explore the cosmos, concluding ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annika Chambers
Annika Shattrelle Chambers (born August 7, 1985) is an American soul blues singer and songwriter. Chambers has released three albums, and she won a Blues Music Award in 2019 in the 'Soul Blues Female Artist of the Year' category. Her sophomore release, ''Wild & Free'', debuted at number 7 on the '' Billboard'' Blues Albums Chart. Her third album, ''Kiss My Sass'', was released in August 2019. Biography Chambers was born in Houston, Texas, United States. As she stated "I grew up singing in the church", and was inspired by the gospel musicianship of Yolanda Adams, Shirley Caesar, Dottie Peoples and Whitney Houston. She enlisted in the United States Army, and spent over seven years in armed service. During her two tours of duty Chambers was invited to sing the National Anthem at a ceremony, which led to her performing for the troops as part of a touring band in both Kosovo and Iraq. In 2011, Chambers returned to Houston, and formed her own band, Annika Chambers and The H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aden Chambers
Scott Beach (born November 15, 1980), also known by the ring name Aden Chambers, is an American semi-retired professional wrestler. He is best known for his appearances with the East Coast Wrestling Association (ECWA) in the 2000s and Ring of Honor (ROH) in the early 2010s. Professional wrestling career ECWA (2004-2013) In the East Coast Wrestling Association he teamed with Kekoa the Flyin Hawaiian to win the 2012 K-CUP, resulting in Aden being entered into their 2013 Hall of Fame as the only man to win every championship and tournament in the company, having won the ECWA Heavyweight, Mid-Atlantic, Tag Team, and 2008 ECWA Super 8 Tournament. He retired from the company after this.http://ecwaprowrestling.com/ecwa/2013/06/28/farewell-to-aden-chambers/ Championships and accomplishments *East Coast Wrestling Association **ECWA Heavyweight Championship (1 time) ** ECWA Mid-Atlantic Championship (1 time) ** ECWA Tag Team Championship (2 times) – with Andrew Ryker and Kekoa the Flyi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Chambers (other)
William or Bill Chambers may refer to: Sportspeople *Will Chambers (born 1988), Australian rugby league player *Bill Chambers (American football) (1923–1983), American football offensive lineman *Bill Chambers (basketball) (1930–2017), NCAA college record holder for rebounds * Bill Chambers (footballer) (1906–1978), English footballer *Bill Chambers (baseball) (1888–1962), Major League pitcher *William Chambers (footballer), English footballer Politicians * William Chambers (Welsh politician) (1809–1882), son of William Chambers (industrialist) *William Chambers (MP) (died 1559) *William Chambers (publisher) (1800–1883), lord provost of Edinburgh *William Clarke Chambers (1862–19??), railway contractor and politician Others *William Chambers (architect) (1723–1796), Born to Scottish parents in Sweden, architect, based in London *William Chambers (industrialist) (1774–1855), see Glamorgan Pottery *William Frederick Chambers (1786–1855), British doctor and Fellow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
