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Gibbs (surname)
Gibbs (usually pronounced ) is a Scottish surname. It comes from the Gibbs clan in the Scottish Highlands. Notable people with the surname *Alan Gibbs (born 1939), New Zealand-born businessman, entrepreneur and art collector *Alfred Gibbs (1823–1868), brigadier general in the Union Army during the American Civil War *Alfred W. Gibbs, Chief Mechanical Engineer of the Pennsylvania Railroad *Antony Gibbs (1756–1816), founder of British trading company Antony Gibbs & Sons *Antony Gibbs (1925–2016), British film and television editor *Armstrong Gibbs (1889–1960), English composer *Brian Gibbs (1936–2014), English footballer and manager *Caleb Gibbs (1748–1818), American soldier, commander of George Washington's "life guard" *Calvin Gibbs, US Army soldier convicted of the murder of three Afghan civilians in 2010 *Charles Gibbs, pseudonym of American pirate James D. Jeffers (1798–1831) *Cory Gibbs (born 1980), American soccer player *Coy Gibbs (1972–2022), American NASCAR dr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scottish Highlands
The Highlands (; , ) is a historical region of Scotland. Culturally, the Highlands and the Scottish Lowlands, Lowlands diverged from the Late Middle Ages into the modern period, when Scots language, Lowland Scots language replaced Scottish Gaelic throughout most of the Lowlands. The term is also used for the area north and west of the Highland Boundary Fault, although the exact boundaries are not clearly defined, particularly to the east. The Great Glen divides the Grampian Mountains to the southeast from the Northwest Highlands. The Scottish Gaelic name of ' literally means "the place of the Gaels" and traditionally, from a Gaelic-speaking point of view, includes both the Western Isles and the Highlands. The area is very sparsely populated, with many mountain ranges dominating the region, and includes the highest mountain in the British Isles, Ben Nevis. During the 18th and early 19th centuries the population of the Highlands rose to around 300,000, but from c. 1841 and for th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Easton Gibbs
Easton Gibbs (born April 27, 2001) is an American professional football linebacker. He played college football at Wyoming. Early life Gibbs attended high school at Temecula Valley. Coming out of high school, Gibbs was rated as a two-star recruit; he committed to play college football for the Wyoming Cowboys. College career During the 2020 season finale, Gibbs posted 13 tackles against Boise State. In the 2020 season, Gibbs recorded 42 tackles with two and a half being for a loss. During the 2021 season, Gibbs notched 90 tackles with seven being for a loss, two sacks, and four pass deflections, where for his performance he was named an honorable mention all Mountain West member. In week twelve of the 2023 season Gibbs posted 13 tackles and a sack in a win over rival Colorado State. During the 2022 season, Gibbs tallied 122 tackles with nine being for a loss, three sacks, and a forced fumble. For his performance in the 2022 season, Gibbs was named first team all Mountain West. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herschelle Gibbs
Herschelle Herman Gibbs (born 23 February 1974) is a South African cricket coach and former cricketer, who played all formats of the game for fourteen years. A right-handed batsman,who mostly opened the batting, Gibbs became the first player to hit six consecutive sixes in one over in One Day International (ODI) cricket, doing so against the Netherlands in the 2007 Cricket World Cup. Regarded as one of the most naturally talented cricketers South Africa have ever produced, Gibbs was also known as an excellent fielder, like his compatriot Jonty Rhodes, with former Australian captain Ricky Ponting noting that in his opinion Gibbs is better than Rhodes in his ability to hit the stumps, with a report prepared by ESPNcricinfo in late 2005 showing that since the 1999 Cricket World Cup, he had effected the eighth highest number of run-outs in ODI cricket of any fieldsman, with the tenth highest success rate. Personal life Gibbs was schooled at St Joseph's Marist College and then Di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Gibbs
Henry Gibbs (1630/1–1713) was an English oil painter. Gibbs worked in Canterbury, Kent. He painted "''Aeneas and his Family Fleeing Burning Troy''" in 1654, acquired by the Tate Britain gallery, London, in 1994. In 2025 it was announced that the picture would be given back to the descendants of Samuel Hartveld, from whose collection in Antwerp the Nazis looted it in 1940. There are also works by Gibbs in the Beaney House of Art and Knowledge and the Canterbury Heritage Museum. His paintings have been sold through Christie's Christie's is a British auction house founded in 1766 by James Christie (auctioneer), James Christie. Its main premises are on King Street, St James's in London, and it has additional salerooms in New York, Paris, Hong Kong, Milan, Geneva, Shan ... auction house. References 1630s births 1713 deaths Artists from Canterbury 17th-century English painters English male painters English portrait painters {{England-painter-17thC-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gibbs Family (bakers)
James Cross Gibbs (1845 – 25 December 1927), generally referred to as James Gibbs, was a British seaman who retired to South Australia and turned to making meat pies; two of his descendants became industrial-scale bakers, founding W. H. Gibbs and Sons, and Glover Gibbs. History Gibbs was a native of Beer, Devon, Beer, Devonshire and, after some years as a sailor in H.M. navy, arrived in South Australia by the ''Sikh'' in 1882 or 1883, and joined the crew of HMS ''HMAS Protector (1884), Protector'', the colony's gunship. He left the service to go into business for himself. His wife Eliza died in 1893; Their children were: *William Henry Gibbs (1876–1957) see below *James Gibbs (1878–1969), here called James Gibbs junior. His eight children include :*Harry Glover Gibbs (1903 – 30 April 1991) :*Francis Peter "Frank" Gibbs (1916–1994) *John Gibbs (1880–1925) All three sons became bakers. He married again in 1894 to Mary Jane Anne "Minnie" Burgess (c. 1858 – 21 January 1931 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerald Gibbs (other)
Gerald or Gerry Gibbs may refer to: *Gerald Gibbs, 3rd Baron Aldenham, British peer *Sir Gerald Gibbs (RAF officer) (1896–1992), British RAF officer *Gerald Gibbs (cinematographer) Gerald Ernest Gibbs, BSC (7 November 1907 – 23 January 1990) was an English cinematographer. Selected filmography *'' Cock o' the North'' (1935) * '' The Schooner Gang'' (1937) * '' Welcome, Mr. Washington'' (1944) * '' Don Chicago'' (1945) * ... (1907–1990), British film technician * Gerry Gibbs (musician), American jazz drummer {{hndis, Gibbs, Gerald ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georgia Gibbs
Georgia Gibbs (born Frieda Lipschitz; August 17, 1918December 9, 2006) was an American popular singer and vocal entertainer rooted in jazz. Already singing publicly in her early teens, Gibbs achieved acclaim and notoriety in the mid-1950s copying songs originating with the black rhythm and blues community and later became a featured vocalist for many radio and television variety and comedy programs. Her key attribute was tremendous versatility and an uncommon stylistic range from melancholy ballad to uptempo swinging jazz and rock and roll. Early life Gibbs was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, the youngest of four children of Russian Jewish descent. Her father died when she was six months old, and she and her three siblings spent the next seven years in a local Jewish orphanage. Revealing a natural talent for singing at a young age, Frieda was given the lead in the orphanage's yearly variety show. When her mother, who had visited her every other month, found employment as a mid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Gibbs (other)
George Gibbs may refer to: Politics * George Gibbs (Australian politician) (1908–1968), member of the Victorian Parliament * George Gibbs, 1st Baron Wraxall (1873–1931), British member of parliament and peer * George Gibbs, 2nd Baron Wraxall (1928–2001), British peer and kidnapping victim Science * George Gibbs (ethnologist) (1815–1873), American ethnologist, naturalist and geologist * George Gibbs (mineralogist) (1776–1833), American mineralogist * George James Gibbs (1866–1947), British astronomer and engineer * George Gibbs (gunmaker) (died 1884), English gunmaker and founder of George Gibbs Ltd., the maker of the .505 Gibbs cartridge Sports * George Gibbs (Australian footballer) (1905–1987), for Fitzroy and Collingwood * George Gibbs (footballer, born 1953), English Other * George Gibbs, one of the main characters in the 1938 Thornton Wilder play ''Our Town'' * George F. Gibbs (1846–1924), secretary to the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geoff Gibbs
Geoffrey George Gibbs (25 November 1940 – 17 August 2006) was an Australian actor and acting teacher. Biography Gibbs was born in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, in 1940, and was educated at Aquinas College, Perth. He studied for bachelor's and master's degrees in arts at the University of Western Australia, and later a PhD from Ohio State University in the United States.''Who's Who in Australia'', Volume 35; Herald and Weekly Times, 2002. Gibbs was founding dean of dramatic arts at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) from 1979 to 1988, and trained several of Australia's best-known actors, including Hugh Jackman, Frances O'Connor, Lisa McCune and William McInnes. In 1988, he was made chairman of the International Foundation for Arts and Culture, a non-profit organisation formed to promote the creation of new work and cultural and artistic residencies. Honours Gibbs was made a Member of the Order of Australia The Order of Australia is an Austr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fredia Gibbs
Fredia "The Cheetah" Gibbs (born July 8, 1963), is an American professional kickboxer and Boxer (boxing), boxer, Martial artist and European basketball player who competed from 1975 to 2005. During her kickboxing career, she held three world titles ISKA, World Kickboxing Association, WKA, and World Karate Federation, WKF in two different divisions. Before embarking on her kickboxing career she was an All-American in basketball and track and Field She became the first African-American female International Sport Karate Association, ISKA Undefeated World Kickboxing Champion. In 1994, she gained widespread recognition after an upset victory over World Champion Valérie Wiet-Henin of France at the "Battle of the Masters" Pay-Per-View event in San Jose, California. Gibbs went on to become one of the most dominant champions in the sport, leaving an indelible legacy in the light and super-lightweight kickboxing divisions. She competed from 1991 to 1997, amassing a record of 16 wins, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Freddie Gibbs
Fredrick Jamel Tipton (born June 14, 1982), better known by his stage name Freddie Gibbs, is an American rapper and songwriter. He signed with Interscope Records in 2006 and recorded his debut album for the label; however, its release was cancelled and he was dropped from the label due to executive shakeups. Gibbs later signed with Jeezy, Young Jeezy's CTE World in 2011 and released a number of mixtapes through the label, including the acclaimed ''Baby Face Killa'' (2012). After leaving CTE in early 2013, Gibbs formed the record label ESGN to release his ESGN, debut studio album of the same name in June of that year. His second and third albums, ''Shadow of a Doubt (album), Shadow of a Doubt'' (2015) and ''You Only Live 2wice'' (2017), were both met with positive critical and lukewarm commercial reception—the latter contained no guest appearances. His fourth album, ''Freddie (Freddie Gibbs album), Freddie'' (2018), was met with critical acclaim, while his fifth album and major ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederick J
Frederick may refer to: People * Frederick (given name), the name Given name Nobility = Anhalt-Harzgerode = * Frederick, Prince of Anhalt-Harzgerode (1613–1670) = Austria = * Frederick I, Duke of Austria (Babenberg), Duke of Austria from 1195 to 1198 * Frederick II, Duke of Austria (1219–1246), last Duke of Austria from the Babenberg dynasty * Frederick the Fair (Frederick I of Austria (Habsburg), 1286–1330), Duke of Austria and King of the Romans = Baden = * Frederick I, Grand Duke of Baden (1826–1907), Grand Duke of Baden * Frederick II, Grand Duke of Baden (1857–1928), Grand Duke of Baden = Bohemia = * Frederick, Duke of Bohemia (died 1189), Duke of Olomouc and Bohemia = Britain = * Frederick, Prince of Wales (1707–1751), eldest son of King George II of Great Britain = Brandenburg/Prussia = * Frederick I, Elector of Brandenburg (1371–1440), also known as Frederick VI, Burgrave of Nuremberg * Frederick II, Elector of Brandenburg (1413–1470), Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
