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Combs (surname)
Combs is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Sports: * Beth Combs (born 1969), American basketball coach * Chris Combs (defensive lineman) (born 1976), American football player * Chris Combs (tight end) (born 1958), American football player * Don Combs (1938/1939–2025), American Thoroughbred racehorse trainer * Earle Combs (1899–1976), American center fielder and Baseball Hall of Fame member * Frederick Combs (1935–1992), American actor * Glen Combs (born 1946), American basketball player * Jeremy Combs (born 1995), American basketball player for Israeli team Hapoel Ramat Gan Givatayim * Merl Combs (1919–1981), a shortstop in Major League Baseball from 1947–1952 * Pat Combs (born 1966), a Philadelphia Phillies pitcher from 1989–1992 Television: * Holly Marie Combs (born 1973), American actress * Jeffrey Combs (born 1954), American character actor * Ray Combs (1956–1996), American television game show host and stand-up comedian Other: * Allan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beth Combs
Beth Combs (born September 3, 1969) is an American basketball coach. Career Combs is the former women's basketball program head coach at Northwestern University from 2004 until her resignation on May 7, 2008. Combs compiled a 24–95 record in her four years at Northwestern, and a 7–59 mark in Big Ten conference play. In the 2004 season, Northwestern upset No. 22 Penn State 59–48, which followed the same achievement among ranked opponents more than six years previously. From 2001 to 2004, she coached at Colgate University. She posted a 44–45 record through three seasons there. She went 21–10 during her final season there, and earned her second Patriot League coach of the year award. During that season, the Raiders made it to the NCAA tournament, before losing to national runner-up University of Tennessee.Bleill, Ton"Combs" brush with greatness" '' The News-Gazette'' online, March 20, 2004. She coached as an assistant at Eastern Illinois University prior to coaching at C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeffrey Combs
Jeffrey Alan Combs (born September 9, 1954) is an American actor. He is best known for starring as Herbert West in the ''Re-Animator'' film series (1985–2003) and portraying multiple characters in the ''Star Trek'' universe, most notably the serially cloned character Weyoun and Brunt on '' Star Trek: Deep Space Nine'' (1994–1999), and Thy'lek Shran on '' Star Trek: Enterprise'' (2001–2005). Combs has been a prominent figure within the horror genre through most of his career, acting in eight films directed by ''Re-Animator'' director Stuart Gordon, such as '' From Beyond'' (1986), '' The Pit and the Pendulum'' (1991) and '' Castle Freak'' (1995). His other horror film appearances include '' Necronomicon'' (1993), Peter Jackson's '' The Frighteners'' (1996), '' I Still Know What You Did Last Summer'' (1998), '' House on Haunted Hill'' (1999) and '' Would You Rather'' (2012). As a voice actor, he is best known as the voice of Question on ''Justice League Unlimited'' (2004 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sean Combs
Sean John Combs (born November 4, 1969), better known by his stage name Diddy, and formerly Puff Daddy and P. Diddy, is an American rapper, record producer, and record executive. Born in Harlem and raised in Mount Vernon, New York, Mount Vernon, Combs worked as a talent director at Uptown Records before founding his own record label, Bad Boy Records in 1993. He is credited with the discovery and development of musical artists including Mary J. Blige, Usher (musician), Usher and the Notorious B.I.G., for whom he served as manager and hype man. Combs's debut studio album, ''No Way Out (Puff Daddy album), No Way Out'' (1997), peaked atop the Billboard 200, ''Billboard'' 200 and has sold over 7 million copies in the US. Two of its singles, "Can't Nobody Hold Me Down" and "I'll Be Missing You", topped the Billboard Hot 100, ''Billboard'' Hot 100—the latter was the first hip hop music, hip hop song to debut atop the chart. With a feature on "Mo Money Mo Problems", Combs became t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rodney Combs
Rodney Combs (born March 27, 1950) is an American former stock car racing driver. He has not been in NASCAR since 1997, when he was released from his ride in the Busch Series. Combs entered NASCAR after many years on the open-wheel and short track circuit in the Midwest, racing with Mark Martin and Dick Trickle. Combs was a 2001 inductee in the National Dirt Late Model Hall of Fame. Racing career Winston Cup Series Combs made his debut in 1982, in the then Winston Cup Series. Driving the #5 for J.D. Stacy, Combs qualified the Stacy-Pak Buick to 28th on the starting position in the fall race at Atlanta, and finished in 9th place, leading five laps. Combs was invited back by Stacy to drive the #12 Stroh's Buick in the 1983 fall race at Charlotte. Combs started 33rd and appeared to earn another top-ten, but extremely late in the going, Combs' car blew an engine, putting him to 22nd. The next time Combs showed up was in 1984. This time, Combs was behind the #2 Red Roof Inns B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luke Combs
Luke Albert Combs (born March 2, 1990) is an American country music, country singer. He was born in North Carolina and grew up there, performing as a child. After leaving college to pursue a career in music, he moved to Nashville, Tennessee, Nashville and released his debut extended play, EP, ''The Way She Rides'', in 2014. In 2017, Combs released his debut album, ''This One's for You (Luke Combs album), This One's for You'', which reached number four on the Billboard 200, ''Billboard'' 200. His second album, What You See Is What You Get (Luke Combs album), ''What You See Is What You Get'', was released on November 8, 2019 and topped the charts in multiple territories, becoming his first to do accomplish that. He has received three Grammy Award nominations, two IHeartRadio Music Awards, iHeart Radio music awards, four Academy of Country Music Awards, and six Country Music Association Awards including the 2021 and 2022 Country Music Association Award for Entertainer of the Year, E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lewis Combs
Lewis Barton Combs (April 7, 1895 in Manchester Center, Vermont – May 20, 1996 in Red Hook, New York) was a United States Navy admiral who helped found and direct the famed "Seabees" construction battalions in World War II. Born in 1895 to Louis D. and Stella Burgess Combs, at age 10 he became a golf caddy at the local course in Manchester, Vermont. On occasion he caddied for Robert Todd Lincoln, son of the 16th president. His family moved to Rensselaer, New York in 1907, where he attended the prestigious Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (class of 1916), having earned a bachelor's degree in civil engineering. He went to work as a maintenance engineer for the New York Central Railroad. Navy career Following his graduation from RPI in 1916, he was commissioned a lieutenant junior grade in the Navy Civil Engineering Corps shortly after the United States entered World War I. In February 1918, he reported as the Civil Engineering Officer in charge of field construction at the Navy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jessi Combs
Jessica Combs (July 27, 1980 – August 27, 2019) was an American professional racer, television personality, and metal fabricator. She set a women's land speed class record (four wheels) in 2013 and broke her own record in 2016. She was known as "the fastest woman on four wheels". She co-hosted the Spike TV show '' Xtreme 4x4'' for more than 90 episodes from 2005 to 2009. Other television shows on which she appeared include '' Overhaulin''', ''MythBusters'', ''The List: 1001 Car Things To Do Before You Die'', ''All Girls Garage'', and Science Channel's ''How to Build... Everything'' in 2016. Combs died after crashing a jet-powered high-speed race car at the Alvord Desert in southeastern Oregon while attempting to beat her four-wheel land speed record. She was posthumously awarded the female land-speed world record by ''Guinness World Records'' in June 2020. Early life and education Combs was born in Rockerville, South Dakota, on July 27, 1980, the daughter of Jamie Com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Everett R
Everett may refer to: Places Canada * Everett, Ontario, a community in Adjala–Tosorontio, Simcoe County * Everett Mountains, a range on southern Baffin Island in Nunavut United States * Everett, Massachusetts, in Middlesex County, Massachusetts north of Boston * Everett, Missouri, an unincorporated community * Everett, Nebraska, an unincorporated community * Everett, New Jersey, an unincorporated community * Everett, Ohio, an unincorporated community * Everett, Pennsylvania, in Bedford County, Pennsylvania ** Everett Area School District, a public school district in Bedford Country. * Everett, Washington, the county seat and largest city in Washington state's Snohomish County ** Everett Massacre, an armed confrontation between local authorities and members of the Industrial Workers of the World union ** Boeing Everett Factory, an airplane assembly building owned by Boeing * Everett Township (other), a list of townships named Everett Elsewhere * Everett Range, Ant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allan Combs
Allan Combs (6 November 1942 – 5 April 2025) is an American psychologist and parapsychologist who attempts to combine his ideas of consciousness and systems theory. Education and academic career Combs attended Ohio University in the early 1960s, first studying physics and then switching to psychology. During these studies, he overcame impediments due to dyslexia, something he later noted would influence his thinking about psychology. He then restarted his graduate education in clinical psychology at the University of Georgia, and at the same time started taking courses and doing research on single-cell recordings of neurons, and mathematically modeled their activity on early versions of the computer. Through this time he was reading Carl Jung, European phenomenology, Eastern spirituality Abraham Maslow, Carl Rogers, and John C. Lilly; he also participated in gestalt therapy and human potentials workshops. After graduating he taught biology and psychology for a year at Ea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ray Combs
Raymond Neil Combs Jr. (April 3, 1956 – June 2, 1996) was an American stand-up comedian, actor and game show host. He began his professional career in the late 1970s. His popularity on the stand-up circuit led to him being signed as the second host of the game show ''Family Feud'' in its second run and first revival. The show aired on CBS from 1988 to 1993 and was in syndication from 1988 to 1994. From 1995 to 1996, Combs hosted another game show, ''Family Challenge''. Early life Raymond Neil Combs Jr. was born in Hamilton, Ohio, on April 3, 1956. He graduated in 1974 from Garfield High School, where he was an actor, senior class president, and Boys State delegate. He declined a nomination to the United States Military Academy and served as a missionary from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for two years in Arizona. Career Combs began performing comedy at Cincinnati's Red Dog Saloon, where he developed his best-known shtick of audience sing-alongs of sitcom th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Holly Marie Combs
Holly Marie Combs Ryan (born December 3, 1973) is an American actress and producer. Known for her work in television dramas, her career spans over four decades. Combs started her career in the 1980s with small roles on television soap operas and in films, which included the biographical drama '' Born of the Fourth of July'' (1989). She gained recognition for playing Kimberly Brock in the CBS series ''Picket Fences'' (1992–1996) and had her first leading film role in the slasher '' Dr. Giggles'' (1992). The former earned her a Young Artist Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination. Her breakthrough came with the leading role of Piper Halliwell in the WB fantasy drama series ''Charmed'' (1998–2006), which introduced her to a wider audience. After appearing in a number of television films, she returned to attention with the role of Ella Montgomery in the Freeform drama thriller series ''Pretty Little Liars'' (2010–2017). Her other projects include a 2015 Great Am ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Combs (defensive Lineman)
Christopher Brandon Combs (born December 15, 1976) is an American former professional football player who was a defensive lineman in the National Football League (NFL) for the Pittsburgh Steelers and Jacksonville Jaguars. He played college football for the Duke Blue Devils and was selected by the Steelers in the sixth round of the 2000 NFL draft The 2000 NFL draft was the procedure by which National Football League teams selected amateur U.S. college football players. It is officially known as the NFL Annual Player Selection Meeting. The draft was held April 15– 16, 2000, at the Theat .... References 1976 births Living people American football defensive linemen Duke Blue Devils football players Jacksonville Jaguars players Pittsburgh Steelers players Players of American football from Roanoke, Virginia 20th-century American sportsmen {{defensive-lineman-1970s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
