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Deans may refer to: People * Austen Deans (1915–2011), New Zealand painter and war artist; grandfather of Julia Deans * Bob Deans (1884–1908), New Zealand rugby union player; grandson of John and Jane Deans * Bruce Deans (1960–2019), New Zealand rugby union player; brother of Robbie Deans * Colin Deans (born 1955), Scottish rugby union player * Craig Deans (born 1974), Australian football (soccer) player * Diane Deans (born 1958), Canadian politician * Dixie Deans (born 1946), Scottish football player (Celtic) * Ian Deans (1937–2016), Canadian politician * Jane Deans (1823–1911), New Zealand pioneer and community leader; wife of John Deans * John Deans (1820–1854), New Zealand pioneer, husband of Jane Deans and brother of William Deans * Julia Deans, New Zealand singer-songwriter; granddaughter of Austen Deans * Kathryn Deans, Australian author * Louise Deans, New Zealand Anglican priest * Mickey Deans (1934–2003), fifth and last husband of Judy Garland * Ray Dean ...
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Robbie Deans
Robert Maxwell Deans (born 4 September 1959) is a New Zealand rugby union coach and former player, currently the head coach of Japanese club Saitama Wild Knights. He was head coach of the Australian national team between 2008 and 2013. Deans previously coached the Crusaders for eight seasons and was an assistant coach of New Zealand between late 2001 and 2003. As the coach of the Crusaders, Deans won three Super 12 titles and two Super 14). He also coached Canterbury in the National Provincial Championship, winning the title in 1997. As a player, Deans represented Canterbury, first playing at fly half, and later fullback. He also played nineteen matches for the All Blacks, including five tests. Playing career Deans attended Christ's College, Christchurch as a boarder where he played rugby mainly at first five-eighth.Giford (2004), p. 111 He made his provincial debut for Canterbury in 1979 and played mainly at fullback, as the team already had future All Black coach Wayne Sm ...
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Diane Deans
Diane Elizabeth Deans (née Flaherty; September 16, 1958 – May 14, 2024) was a Canadian politician. A member of Ottawa City Council, she represented Gloucester-Southgate Ward, and its predecessor Southgate Ward in the city's southeast from 1994 to 2022. She was known for her demanding of public accountability and transparency on city-wide issues. Early life Deans was born in Caledon, Ontario, the daughter of Paul and Mary Rosanne Flaherty on September 16, 1958, and grew up in Caledon. A graduate of the University of Guelph, she worked for the National Union of Students as the prairie fieldworker, before its merger with the Canadian Federation of Students. In 1981, she moved to Ottawa and became the executive director of the Canadian Federation of Students, and then became a staffer on Parliament Hill, working as a researcher and media advisor. In 1990, she became a homemaker. Career Deans announced in July 1994 that she was going to run for Ottawa City Council in the 1994 Ot ...
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Austen Deans
Alister Austen Deans (2 December 1915 – 18 October 2011) was a New Zealand painter, known for his Landscape painting, landscapes and for his work as a war artist in the Second World War. Born in Christchurch to a well-known farming family, Deans became interested in art in his teenage years. He studied fine arts at the Canterbury College School of Art before returning to the family farm for work. He volunteered for the 2nd New Zealand Expeditionary Force on the outbreak of the Second World War, and was posted to the 20th Battalion (New Zealand), 20th Battalion. In 1941 he was appointed an assistant war artist, serving under Peter McIntyre (artist), Peter McIntyre. However, he was wounded during the Battle of Crete and became a prisoner of war (POW). Allowed to paint during his captivity, his work was a useful record of life as a POW. After the war, he studied painting at the Sir John Cass Technical Institute in England before settling down on a lifestyle block in Canterbury, ...
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Jane Deans
Jane Deans (née McIlraith, 21 April 1823 – 19 January 1911) was a New Zealand pioneer and community leader. She came to Christchurch in 1853 onto her husband's farm that he had established ten years earlier. Her husband died in the following year, and Deans became a community leader. The Christchurch suburb of Riccarton, New Zealand, Riccarton derives its name from the farm, and the historic buildings and the adjacent forest are popular places to visit. Life Jane McIlraith was born in Auchenflower, Scotland, Auchenflower, Ayrshire, Scotland on 21 April 1823. She was the oldest child of Agnes Caldwell and James McIlraith. John Deans (pioneer), John Deans, as a young man, worked for the McIlraith family to become familiar with farming techniques. Jane McIlraith became close to John during the two years he was with the family, but she felt that she could not marry a man who was living in the house. John Deans left to settle in New Zealand in 1842. In 1850, he asked her father ...
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Louise Deans
Louise Margaret Deans () is a New Zealand Anglican priest and author, who published a book about her abuse within the church during her ordination training. In 2022 Deans was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to the community and women. Personal life Deans was married to James Deans (died 2014), of Homebush Homestead, descendant of pioneer John Deans. The Deans lived at Homebush, and were upstairs when the 2010 Canterbury earthquake hit and damaged the house beyond repair. The historic house was subsequently demolished, but they chose to rebuild it. Deans formed the Homebush Stables Historical Society in 1992, and restored the stables. Ordination Deans earned three theology degrees from the University of Otago The University of Otago () is a public university, public research university, research collegiate university based in Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand. Founded in 1869, Otago is New Zealand's oldest university and one of the olde ...
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Julia Deans
Julia Mary Deans (born 27 August 1974) is a New Zealand singer-songwriter best known as the lead singer of rock band Fur Patrol. Banshee Reel In the early '90s, Deans joined Wellington-based Celtic rock band Banshee Reel. The group released two albums – ''Culture Vulture'' (1993) and ''An Orchestrated Litany of Lies'' (1995). Banshee Reel toured extensively around New Zealand and overseas. In 1996, after returning to New Zealand from a Canadian tour, Deans and Wellington guitarist Steve Wells decided to form a rock group, to become Fur Patrol. Fur Patrol Fur Patrol released three albums – ''Pet'' (2000), ''Collider'' (2003) and ''Local Kid'' (2008) and had a number-one single with "Lydia" in 2000. The band moved to Melbourne in 2001 to focus on a wider Australian audience. After the lack of success with their third album, ''Local Kid'', Fur Patrol went on hiatus. Solo career and The Adults With several songs she had written over the years but thought unsuitable ...
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William Deans
William Deans (baptised 31 January 1817 – 23 July 1851) was, together with his brother John, a pioneer farmer in Canterbury, New Zealand. He was born in Kirkstyle, Riccarton, Scotland. Their Riccarton farm in New Zealand was the first permanent settlement by immigrants on the Canterbury Plains. Deans emigrated to Wellington, New Zealand, after buying land orders from the New Zealand Company in 1839. He arrived in what was then known as Port Nicholson (Wellington Harbour) on 22 January 1840 on the '' Aurora''. Disappointed with what he found at Wellington, he started looking for other land. In Port Levy, he heard in mid 1842 of the large plains to the west of Banks Peninsula and travelling up the Avon River by whaleboat, he could eventually see from atop the shoulders of one of his travelling companions the lowland forest that became known as Riccarton Bush. He exclaimed: "That will do for me! I will make it my home." Deans returned to Wellington and convinced his brothe ...
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Ian Deans
Ian Deans (16 August 1937 – 3 May 2016) was a Scottish-Canadian politician. He was a New Democratic member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1967 to 1979 and was a member of the House of Commons of Canada from 1980 to 1986. Background Deans was born in Kilmarnock, Scotland. He moved to Canada as a youth and found work as a firefighter. He met his wife, Diane, when she was a staffer on Parliament Hill. He helped her launch her own political career as an Ottawa-area city councillor. The couple were married for 22 years before divorcing. Afterwards, Deans moved back to the Hamilton area. Deans died in Hamilton, Ontario on May 3, 2016, at the age of 78. Politics Provincial He was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario as a New Democratic Member in the 1967 provincial election representing the Hamilton area riding of Wentworth. In 1970, he favoured a resolution that would force The Waffle, a radical left-wing group within the party, to be expelled. Deans ...
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John Deans (pioneer)
John Deans (4 May 1820 – 23 June 1854) was, together with his brother William, a pioneer farmer in Canterbury Canterbury (, ) is a City status in the United Kingdom, city and UNESCO World Heritage Site, in the county of Kent, England; it was a county borough until 1974. It lies on the River Stour, Kent, River Stour. The city has a mild oceanic climat ..., New Zealand. He was born in Kirkstyle, Riccarton, Scotland. Their Riccarton farm in New Zealand was the first permanent settlement by immigrants on the Canterbury Plains. Deans returned to Scotland in 1852 to marry Jane McIlraith. They returned to New Zealand, where he died from tuberculosis at Riccarton Farm on 23 June 1854, not before he had asked Jane to keep the adjacent Riccarton Bush in perpetuity. The Deans had one son, also called John. The Deans brothers named the Christchurch river Avon after the stream on their grandfather's farm. Jane and John Deans first lived in Deans Cottage, which was built in la ...
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Dixie Deans
John Kelly "Dixie" Deans (born 30 July 1946) is a Scottish retired footballer. He played as a centre forward in the 1960s and 1970s, primarily for Motherwell and Celtic, and was a prolific goal-scorer. Deans played in two international matches for Scotland, both in 1974. He was nicknamed "Dixie" in honour of legendary Everton and England centre-forward Dixie Dean. Club career Deans joined Motherwell from Neilston Juniors in 1965 and spent six seasons with the Fir Park side. He signed for Celtic in a £17,500 deal on 31 October 1971 but was unable to play for Celtic immediately as he was, at the time, serving a six-match ban; during this period he spent his free time working in the Paisley office of the '' Evening Times''. He played for Celtic until 1976, and during this time he scored 125 goals in 186 games, and set several scoring records. The six goals he struck in a defeat of Partick Thistle in the 1973–74 season is a post-war record for a single game; Thistle's go ...
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Mickey Deans
Michael DeVinko Jr. (September 24, 1934 – July 11, 2003), known as Mickey Deans, was an American musician and entrepreneur. He is best known as the fifth husband and widower of actress and singer Judy Garland. Career He was a disco owner, jazz pianist, and drug dealer. During the 1950s and 1960s, he appeared at the popular New York City nightspot ''Jilly's'' on West 52nd Street. He also worked in Los Angeles, Reno, Miami Beach and the Virgin Islands. By the time Deans met singer and actress Judy Garland in 1967, he had switched his occupation from musician to working as the manager of the Manhattan discothèque Arthur, owned by Sybil Burton, on East 54th Street. Life with Judy Garland Deans met Garland at her hotel in New York City on March 10, 1967. A mutual friend of theirs asked Deans to deliver a package of amphetamines to Garland's room in the St. Regis. He was dressed as a doctor, and he "delivered the medication she needed to get herself together to fly to work o ...
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Deans, New Jersey
Deans is an Local government in New Jersey#Unincorporated communities, unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in South Brunswick, New Jersey, South Brunswick Township, Middlesex County, New Jersey, in the United States. As of the 2020 United States census, Deans had a population of 1,615. History Deans originated from its location on both Crosswicknung Trail (Georges Road) and Lawrence Brook. Dams were built on the brook, creating Deans Pond. Geography The community is situated around the intersection of Deans Lane (County Route 610 (Middlesex County, New Jersey), County Route 610) and Georges Road (County Route 697 (Middlesex County, New Jersey), CR 697). CR 610 continues east from the community on Deans Rhode Hall Road; other transportation facilities that pass near Deans include U.S. Route 130 just east of the community and the Northeast Corridor railroad to the west (a station serving the community once existed). Residential homes dot the area around De ...
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