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Gillies
Gillies is both a Scottish surname and a given name shared by several notable people: Surname uses Politicians * Duncan Gillies (1834–1903), Australian colonial and state politician * James McPhail Gillies (1924–2015), Canadian national politician * John Gillies (Canadian politician) (1837–1889), Scottish-Canadian state and national politician * Joseph Alexander Gillies (1849–1921), Canadian state and national politician * Phil Gillies (born 1954), English-Canadian state politician * Thomas Gillies (1828–1889), New Zealand provincial and national politician * William Gillies (Scottish politician), William Gillies (1865–1932), Scottish patriot, socialist and politician * William Gillies (Australian politician) (1868–1928), Australian state politician Sportspeople * Clark Gillies (1954–2022), Canadian professional ice hockey player, member of the Hockey Hall of Fame * Colton Gillies (born 1989), Canadian amateur ice hockey player * Craig Gillie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Gillies
Elizabeth Egan Gillies (born July 26, 1993), also known as Liz Gillies, is an American actress and singer. She began her career as a teenager and made her Broadway theatre, Broadway debut in the Musical theatre, musical ''13 (musical), 13'' (2008). She then received recognition for playing List of Victorious characters#Jade West, Jade West in the Nickelodeon series ''Victorious'' (2010–2013). She made her musical debut contributing to the show's Victorious: Music from the Hit TV Show, soundtrack album and Elizabeth Gillies discography#Extended plays, extended plays, all of which appeared on the Billboard 200, ''Billboard'' 200. She also covered "Santa Baby#Ariana Grande and Liz Gillies version, Santa Baby" (2013) with Ariana Grande. Gillies starred in the horror film ''Animal (2014 film), Animal'' (2014) and the comedy film ''Vacation (2015 film), Vacation'' (2015). She starred as the lead singer of a band in the FX (TV channel), FX comedy series ''Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll (TV ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clark Gillies
Clark Gillies (April 7, 1954 – January 21, 2022) was a Canadian professional ice hockey player. He played for the New York Islanders and Buffalo Sabres of the National Hockey League between 1974 and 1988. Gillies served as captain of the Islanders from 1977 to 1979, and won the Stanley Cup four years in a row with them, from 1980 to 1983. In 958 career games, Gillies recorded 319 goals, 378 assists, and 1,023 penalty minutes. He was elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame in 2002. Early life Gillies grew up in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. Once asked where his hometown is located, he famously joked, "Six feet from the moose's ass." Gillies started skating at around the age of four. His father insisted that Clark learn to skate and keep his balance before allowing him to bring a hockey stick onto the ice. He began playing ice hockey casually at the age of six and in organized leagues at the age of seven. He played with a local team in Moose Jaw until it ceased operation. As one of the big ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harold Gillies
Sir Harold Delf Gillies (17 June 1882 – 10 September 1960) was a New Zealand otolaryngologist and father of modern plastic surgery for the techniques he devised to repair the faces of wounded soldiers returning from World War I. Early life Gillies was born in Dunedin, New Zealand, the son of Member of Parliament in Otago, Robert Gillies. He attended Whanganui Collegiate School and studied medicine at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where despite a stiff elbow sustained sliding down the banisters at home as a child, he was an excellent sportsman. He was a golf blue in 1903, 1904 and 1905 and also a rowing blue, competing in the 1904 Boat Race. In 1910, he acquired a position working as an ENT specialist for Sir Milsom Rees' medical practice. At Caius he became a freemason and rose to be Master of Caius Lodge. Gillies was a student at St Bartholomew's Hospital and won the Luther Holden Research Scholarship in 1910. He was also Lecturer on Plastic Surgery in that me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Gillies
Daniel Joshua Gillies (born March 14, 1976) is a Canadian-born New Zealand actor, film producer, director and screenwriter. He played Elijah Mikaelson on '' The Vampire Diaries'' and its spin-off, '' The Originals;'' Dr. Joel Goran on '' Saving Hope''. He wrote and directed the 2012 film, ''Broken Kingdom''. Early life Gillies was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, to parents from New Zealand. When he was five, his parents decided to return to New Zealand, moving to Invercargill and then Hamilton. Though born into a family of strong medical background (his father is a pediatrician, his mother a nurse, and he is descended from the renowned ENT/ plastic surgery pioneer Sir Harold Gillies), Gillies became interested in acting because he said it was "the only thing ewas ever any good at". Frustrated with the lack of opportunities in New Zealand, he moved to Sydney, Australia for six weeks in 2001 before going to Canada for two months, where he worked as a waiter and dishwasher ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colton Gillies
Colton Gillies (born February 12, 1989) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey left winger. He spent time playing for both the Minnesota Wild and Columbus Blue Jackets in the National Hockey League, NHL. Gillies spent the last five years of his professional career playing overseas, most notably spending time in the Kontinental Hockey League, KHL playing for Dinamo Riga. He is the nephew of NHL hockey player Clark Gillies. Playing career Gillies was the second overall pick by the Saskatoon Blades in the 2004 Western Hockey League (WHL) WHL Bantam Draft, Bantam Draft. Gillies spent parts of four seasons with the Blades, but the team struggled and consequently Gillies played in only 10 playoff games during his major junior career. Still, he gained attention with his strong physical and two-way play, and was selected to represent Canada men's national junior ice hockey team, Canada at the 2007 IIHF World U18 Championships in Finland, where Canada finished 4th overall. That sum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne Lorne Gillies
Anne Lorne Gillies MA, PhD, LRAM, PGCE, Dr h.c. () is a Scottish singer, writer, and activist. Early life Gillies was born in Stirling, Scotland in 1944 and moved to Oban at the age of 5. She attended Rockfield Primary School and Oban High School. She was Dux in Oban High School in 1962. She adopted the middle name Lorne when joining Equity Actors Union to indicate her connections with Oban. ( Lorne is a district in the Argyll and Bute council area and Oban is its capital.) Gillies' musical upbringing spanned a wide range. Her maternal grandparents were professional classical violinists and Gillies learned to play the piano from an early age. While a pupil at Oban High School, she was inspired by many of her teachers, especially her English teacher, the poet Iain Crichton Smith, and John Maclean, the Rector (Headmaster) of the school, a native of the Island of Raasay, a classical scholar, and the brother of poet Sorley Maclean, from whom she learned a large number of Gaelic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trevor Gillies
Trevor Gillies (born January 30, 1979) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player. He has played in the National Hockey League (NHL) with both the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim and New York Islanders. Gillies was known for being an enforcer, as evidenced by his NHL career statistics of 57 games with only three points and 261 penalty minutes. Gillies was also known for his distinctive horseshoe moustache during his time with the Islanders. Playing career Undrafted, Gillies played junior hockey in the Ontario Hockey League. In 1999–2000 Gillies made his professional debut with the Mississippi Sea Wolves in the East Coast Hockey League. With limited offensive ability Gillies plied his trade between the ECHL and American Hockey League (AHL) for five years before signing an NHL contract with the New York Rangers on July 20, 2004. Prior to the 2005–06 season and in his second year with the Rangers affiliate, the Hartford Wolf Pack, Gillies was traded from the Rangers to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Gillies (anaesthetist)
John Gillies, (6 February 1895 18 July 1976) was a Scottish anaesthetist, who worked at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh (RIE). For gallantry as a serving soldier in WWI he was awarded the Military Cross. He founded the department of anaesthetics in the RIE and became its first director. The Gillies anaesthetic machine which he devised was the first British closed circuit anaesthetic device and was in use until the 1960s. With his colleague HWC ('Griff') Griffiths he pioneered the technique of high spinal anaesthesia to produce hypotension and 'bloodless' operating fields. Gillies anaesthetised King George VI in Buckingham Palace and was made Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO) for this service. He was president of the Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland from 1947 to 1950. Early life John Gillies was born in Edinburgh the son of Archibald George Gillies and his wife Jessie Jane Gillies. He was educated at Broughton High School, Edinburgh, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Gillies
Thomas Bannatyne Gillies (17 January 1828 – 26 July 1889) was a 19th-century New Zealand lawyer, judge and politician. Early life He was born at Rothesay on the Isle of Bute, Scotland, on 17 January 1828. He was the eldest of nine children of John Gillies, local lawyer and town clerk, and his wife, Isabella Lillie, daughter of a Glasgow businessman and granddaughter of a Huguenot refugee. Determined to train as a mechanical engineer, he was forced by his father to study law and trained in his father's practice for four years. He then went to Manchester, where he worked for Robert Barbour and Sons, with his next brother John taking his place in his father's firm. The two brothers intended to join the California Gold Rush but their father did not allow them to do so, and John emigrated to Australia instead in about 1850. John Gillies senior was so committed with various duties that his health suffered and after long discussions, it was agreed to emigrate to Otago, New Zealand. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phil Gillies
Philip Andrew Gillies (born May 7, 1954) is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1981 to 1987 as a Progressive Conservative, and was a cabinet minister in the government of Frank Miller. Background Gillies' early life and education were in Queenborough in Kent, England. His family moved to Brantford, Ontario, Canada when he was seven. Gillies attended elementary and secondary schools there. He completed his education at the University of Western Ontario and worked as an advertising executive. Politics He ran for the Ontario legislature in the 1977 provincial election, but lost to New Democratic Party candidate Mac Makarchuk in the riding of Brantford. In 1977 and 1978, Gillies worked as research assistant to Ontario Premier Bill Davis. He ran again in the 1981 election, and defeated Makarchuk by over 3,000 votes. Gillies served as a backbench supporter of the Davis government, and endorsed Larry Grossman for the par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isabel Gillies
Isabel Boyer Gillies (born February 9, 1970) is an American author and actress. She played Kathy Stabler, Elliot Stabler's wife in '' Law & Order: Special Victims Unit''. Her memoir ''Happens Every Day'' was a ''New York Times'' bestseller, and her most recent book is ''Cozy''. Early life and education Gillies was born and raised in New York City. She attended the Brearley School before graduating from the Nightingale-Bamford School. As a student, Gillies struggled with severe dyslexia. She graduated from New York University with a BFA in film. Gillies is the daughter of Archibald and Linda Gillies. Career Gillies landed her first movie role when Whit Stillman cast her as Cynthia McLean in his pioneering independent film, ''Metropolitan'' (1990). Other film credits include Finley in '' Another Girl Another Planet'' (1992), Alison in ''I Shot Andy Warhol'' (1996), Moira Ingalls in '' On Line'' (2002), Isabel in ''Happy Here and Now'' (2002), and Kathryn in ''New Orleans, Mon A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Betty Gillies
Betty Gillies (January 7, 1908 – October 14, 1998) was an American aviator, and the first pilot to qualify for the Women Airforce Service Pilots, Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron, later amalgamated into the Women Airforce Service Pilots. Early life Betty Huyler was born in 1908 to a relatively prosperous family on Long Island. She began flying in 1928 when she was a student nurse at Presbyterian Hospital in New York City and on May 6, 1929, after a total of 23 hours of flying time, including instruction, obtained license #6525. Huyler immediately began building time toward a commercial license and when it was formed in November 1929, she joined Ninety-Nines, The Ninety-Nines, an international organization of women flyers, first led by pioneer woman flyer Amelia Earhart. The name of the group was chosen because 99 women were present for the first meeting, including Huyler. Between 1939 and 1941, she was the president of the 99s and led the fight against the Civil Aeronautics ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
