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Samuelson is an English-language patronymic surname meaning "son of Samuel (name), Samuel". There are alternative spellings such as the Scandinavian language, Scandinavian-origin Samuelsson and Samuelsen. It is uncommon as a given name. Samuelson may refer to: * Sir Bernhard Samuelson (1820–1905), British industrialist and educationalist * Cecil O. Samuelson (born 1941), American physician, president of Brigham Young University * Don Samuelson (1913–2000), American politician from Idaho * Emily Samuelson (born 1990), American ice dancer * G. B. Samuelson (1888–1947), British filmmaker * Godfrey Samuelson (1863–1941), British politician, member of parliament 1887–92 * Gar Samuelson (1958–1999), American drummer for the band Megadeth * Sir Henry Samuelson (1845–1937), English politician * Karlie Samuelson (born 1995), American basketball player * Katie Lou Samuelson (born 1997), American basketball player * Linda C. Samuelson (born 1954), American physiologist * Marc Sam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuelsson
Samuelsson is a Swedish language, Swedish patronymic surname meaning "son of Samuel (name), Samuel". There are alternative spellings such as the English language, English Samuelson and the Norwegian language, Norwegian Samuelsen. It is uncommon as a given name. Samuelsson may refer to: * Bengt I. Samuelsson (1934–2024), Swedish biochemist * Evelina Samuelsson (born 1984), Swedish ice hockey player * Guðjón Samúelsson (1887–1950), Icelandic architect * Gunnar Samuelsson (1927–2007), Swedish cross-country skier * Håkan Samuelsson (born 1951), Swedish businessman * Henrik Samuelsson (born 1994), Swedish-American ice hockey player * Kalle Samuelsson (born 1986), Swedish bandy player * Kjell Samuelsson (born 1958), Swedish ice hockey player * Magnus Samuelsson (born 1969), Swedish actor, "World's Strongest Man" * Magnus Samuelsson (footballer, born 1971), Swedish footballer * Magnus Samuelsson (footballer, born 1972), Swedish footballer * Marcus Samuelsson (born ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marc Samuelson
Marc Samuelson is a British TV and film producer and executive producer. Early life Peter Samuelson is his brother. G. B. Samuelson is his grandfather. Emma Samms is his cousin. Career In 1987, Samuelson was a Director of the Association of Independent Producers, Director of the Edinburgh International Television Festival, and MD of Umbrella Films (producers of ''White Mischief'' and ''1984)''. From 1990 to 2006 he ran Samuelson Productions with his LA-based brother, Peter Samuelson, and produced films such as the Oscar-nominated ''Tom & Viv'', the award-winning ''Wilde'' starring Stephen Fry and Jude Law, ''Arlington Road'', ''Gabriel & Me'', ''The Gathering'', ''Things To Do Before You're 30'', and ''Stormbreaker'' which became one of the most successful UK films of 2006, grossing over $13.5m in the UK alone. He executive produced ''The Libertine'', ''Keeping Mum'' and ''Chromophobia''. In August 2007, Samuelson became a director of CinemaNX, the film investment company b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sydney Samuelson
Sir Sydney H. Wylie Samuelson (7 December 1925 – 14 December 2022) was a British film director and cinematographer. He was appointed in 1991 by the government of the UK as the first British Film Commissioner. Early life Sydney Wylie Samuelson was born in Paddington, London, to George Berthold Samuelson, a cinema pioneer of the silent film era, and Marjorie Emma Elizabeth Vint. He was educated at the Irene Avenue Council School in Lancing, West Sussex. Career Samuelson started his career as a rewind boy at the Luxor cinema in Lancing, West Sussex. After working in several cinemas in the Midlands as a relief operator for the ABC circuit, he got a job as a trainee film editor with Gaumont British, which was then at Lime Grove in London. After serving in the Royal Air Force from 1943 to 1947, he got a job as a trainee cameraman with the Colonial Film Unit. He then went on to work for Rayant Pictures, for whom he filmed the Coronation of Elizabeth II in 1953. In 1954, he set ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Svend Samuelson
Svend Samuelson (January 24, 1825 – January 15, 1891) was a Norwegian American immigrant, farmer, and Republican politician. He was a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly, representing Manitowoc County in the 1871 session. Biography Samuelson was born in Christiana, Norway, in January 1825. He received a common school education and emigrated to the United States, settling in the town of Liberty, in Manitowoc County, Wisconsin, in 1854. He established a farm there, and served for more than ten years as town clerk. At the outbreak of the American Civil War, he volunteered for service in the Union Army with the 15th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment, frequently referred to as the "Scandinavian Regiment" due to being mostly composed of recent Scandinavian American immigrants. Samuelson was commissioned second lieutenant of Company F in the regiment while it was being organized at Camp Randall, in Madison. The 15th Wisconsin Infantry operated in the western theater of the w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sivert Samuelson
Sivert Vause Samuelson (21 November 1883 – 18 November 1958) was a South African cricketer who played in one Test match in 1910. Samuelson was an off-spin bowler and tail-end right-handed batsman for Natal who took five MCC wickets in an innings in his third first-class game and found himself in the Test team for the final match in the 1909–10 series, played at Newlands, Cape Town. He failed to take a wicket as England scored 417, with Jack Hobbs making 187. He batted at No 11 in both innings. Samuelson played only one season of Currie Cup cricket for Natal, in 1910–11, taking 13 wickets in each of two matches and finishing with 41 wickets in the season at an average of less than 14 runs per wicket. But he then played only a couple more games the following season, and his only other first-class game was against MCC more than a decade later in 1922–23. His best bowling figures were 8 for 40 (followed by 5 for 107 in the second innings) in Natal's victory over Orange Fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scott Samuelson
Scott H. Samuelson is an American philosopher and Professor of Practice at Iowa State University Iowa State University of Science and Technology (Iowa State University, Iowa State, or ISU) is a Public university, public land-grant university, land-grant research university in Ames, Iowa, United States. Founded in 1858 as the Iowa Agricult .... He is the 2015 recipient of the Hiett Prize in the Humanities. Books * ''Rome as a Guide to the Good Life'' (University of Chicago Press, 2023) * ''Seven Ways of Looking at Pointless Suffering'' (University of Chicago Press, 2018) * ''The Deepest Human Life: An Introduction to Philosophy for Everyone'' (University of Chicago Press, 2014) References External links Personal websiteSamuelson at Iowa State University Living people Iowa State University faculty 21st-century American philosophers Year of birth missing (living people) Place of birth missing (living people) Emory University alumni {{US-philosopher-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruth Samuelson
Ruth Culbertson Samuelson (November 4, 1959 – January 23, 2017) was a Republican member of the North Carolina General Assembly, representing the 104th district in the North Carolina House of Representatives from 2007 to 2015. From 2000 to 2004, Samuelson served as a member of the Mecklenburg County Board of Commissioners, representing the Fifth District. In 2004, she ran for an At-Large seat on the Board of Commissioners, but lost in a tight general election race. In November 2006, Samuelson was elected to the North Carolina House succeeding five-term incumbent Ed McMahan. Samuelson was elected with 67% of the vote in the election, beating Democrat Paula McSwain. She announced on October 15, 2013, that she would not seek re-election for a fifth term and would leave office at the end of her term, after the 2014 elections. Samuelson revealed in June 2016 that she had been diagnosed with ovarian cancer Ovarian cancer is a cancerous tumor of an ovary. It may originate fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert J
The name Robert is an ancient Germanic given name, from Proto-Germanic "fame" and "bright" (''Hrōþiberhtaz''). Compare Old Dutch ''Robrecht'' and Old High German ''Hrodebert'' (a compound of '' Hruod'' () "fame, glory, honour, praise, renown, godlike" and ''berht'' "bright, light, shining"). It is the second most frequently used given name of ancient Germanic origin.Reaney & Wilson, 1997. ''Dictionary of English Surnames''. Oxford University Press. It is also in use as a surname. Another commonly used form of the name is Rupert. After becoming widely used in Continental Europe, the name entered England in its Old French form ''Robert'', where an Old English cognate form (''Hrēodbēorht'', ''Hrodberht'', ''Hrēodbēorð'', ''Hrœdbœrð'', ''Hrœdberð'', ''Hrōðberχtŕ'') had existed before the Norman Conquest. The feminine version is Roberta. The Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish form is Roberto. Robert is also a common name in many Germanic languages, including En ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ralph Samuelson
Ralph Wilford Samuelson (July 3, 1903 – August 28, 1977) was the inventor of water skiing, which he first performed in the summer of 1922 in Lake City, Minnesota, just before his 19th birthday. Samuelson was already skilled at aquaplaning—standing on a board while being pulled by a powerboat—but he hoped to create something like snow skiing on the water. Lake Pepin, a wide portion of the Mississippi River between Minnesota and Wisconsin, was the venue for his experiments. Patent Samuelson did not patent his invention, nor was his work sufficiently publicized at the time to prevent U.S. Patent 1,559,390 for water skis from being subsequently issued, on October 27, 1925, to prolific inventor Fred Waller of Huntington, New York. Waller marketed his product as "Dolphin Akwa-Skees". Waller later invented the cinema widescreen motion picture system, and in 1952's ''This Is Cinerama'', the first feature film released in the panoramic format, water skiing at Cypress Gardens, Flor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Samuelson
Peter Samuelson (born 16 October 1951) is an American and British TV and film producer known for films such as ''Revenge of the Nerds'' and ''Arlington Road''. Early life Samuelson was born in London, England, and has a master's degree in English literature from the University of Cambridge. Marc Samuelson is his brother. G. B. Samuelson is his grandfather. Emma Samms is his cousin. Career Samuelson's career in the film industry started in the early 1970s. From 1990 to 2006, Peter Samuelson and Marc Samuelson ran Samuelson Productions. Samuelson served on the initial three-person advisory board for Jeff Skoll's Participant Productions. Producer and executive producer *''1660 Vine'' (2022) (Executive Producer) *'' Foster Boy'' (2019) (Producer) *''Man in the Chair'' (2006) (Executive Producer) *'' The Last Time'' (2006) (Producer) *''Stormbreaker'' (2006) (Producer) ** aka '' Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker'' (USA) *''Things To Do Before You're 30'' (2006) (Producer) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Samuelson
Paul Anthony Samuelson (May 15, 1915 – December 13, 2009) was an American economist who was the first American to win the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. When awarding the prize in 1970, the Swedish Royal Academies stated that he "has done more than any other contemporary economist to raise the level of scientific analysis in economic theory". "In a career that spanned seven decades, he transformed his field, influenced millions of students and turned MIT into an economics powerhouse" Samuelson was one of the most influential economists of the latter half of the 20th century."Paul Samuelson: The last of the great general economists died on December 13th, aged 94" ''The Economist'', December 17, 2009 In 1996, he was awarded the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pamela Samuelson
Pamela Samuelson (born August 4, 1948) is an American legal scholar, activist, and philanthropist. She is the Richard M. Sherman '74 Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, where she has been a member of the faculty since 1996. She holds a joint appointment at the UC Berkeley School of Information. She is a co-founder and chair of Authors Alliance and a co-director of the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology. She is recognized as a pioneer in digital copyright law, intellectual property, cyberlaw and information policy. Professional history A 1971 graduate of the University of Hawaii and a 1976 graduate of Yale Law School, Samuelson practiced law as a litigation associate with Willkie Farr & Gallagher before becoming an academic. From 1981 through 1996 she was a member of the faculty at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, from which she visited at Columbia, Cornell, and Emory Law Schools. Since joining the Berke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
