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Ian Roberts (golfer)
Ian Roberts may refer to: * Ian Roberts (American actor) (born 1965), American actor and comedian * Ian Roberts (Australian footballer) (born 1957), Australian rules footballer * Ian Roberts (athlete) (born 1973), Guyanese middle-distance runner * Ian Roberts (cricketer) (born 1948), English cricketer * Ian Roberts (equestrian) (born 1958), Canadian equestrian events Olympian * Ian Roberts (footballer, born 1961), Welsh association footballer * Ian Roberts (linguist) (born 1957), Professor of Linguistics at the University of Cambridge * Ian Roberts (painter) (born 1952), Australian bird and native vegetation painter * Ian Roberts (physician) (born 1962 or 1963), Formula One medical delegate * Ian Roberts (rugby league) (born 1965), Australian actor and rugby league player, known for being the first openly gay rugby league player * Ian Roberts (South African actor) (born 1952), South African actor, playwright and singer See also * Kwame Kwei-Armah Kwame Kwei-Armah (born Ian Rob ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian Roberts (American Actor)
Ian Michael Roberts (born July 29, 1965) is an American actor, comedian, writer, and a founding member of the famed Upright Citizens Brigade improv and sketch comedy troupe. Life and career Roberts was born in Queens, New York to parents Don and Penny Roberts, but spent most of his childhood in Secaucus, New Jersey, where he moved at age four. In 1987 he graduated from Grinnell College in Iowa, where he majored in theater. He moved to Milwaukee and eventually to Chicago where he became involved in improvisational comedy, studying under comedy legend Del Close. In the early 1990s, Roberts and Matt Besser (along with several other Chicago improv comics) formed the Upright Citizens Brigade sketch comedy troupe. Amy Poehler and Matt Walsh later joined them, forming the ''UCB'' foursome who went on to create their own Comedy Central series and open the affiliated Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in New York and Los Angeles, well-known venues for live alternative comedy and improv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian Roberts (Australian Footballer)
Ian Roberts (born 3 April 1957) is a former Australian rules footballer in the Victorian Football League (VFL) for the Sydney Swans. Roberts was a supporter of VFL club South Melbourne as a child, and was later recruited to South Melbourne from Victorian Football Association (VFA) club Frankston. He made his VFL debut with South Melbourne in 1979 and made his name as a back pocket player as they relocated from Melbourne to Sydney in 1982. In a long career with the Swans spanning 13 seasons, Roberts played 157 games and kicked 33 goals, retiring at the end of 1991. He missed many games due to injury, as his light 73 kg frame and uncompromising playing style.Cockerill, Ian (9 August 1989He's no Adonis, but Ian Roberts, the Swan, has a heart twice his size The Sydney Morning Herald ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' (''SMH'') is a daily Tabloid (newspaper format), tabloid newspaper published in Sydney, Australia, and owned by Nine Entertainment. Founded in 1831 as the ''S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian Roberts (athlete)
Ian Andre Roberts (born December 18, 1973) is a Guyanese-American educator and former Olympic athlete. He is the former superintendent of the Millcreek Township School District in Millcreek Township, Erie County, Pennsylvania. He is the current superintendent of the Des Moines Independent Community School District in Des Moines, Iowa. Sports career As a male middle distance runner from Guyana, Ian specialized in the 800m. He competed in the 2000 Summer Olympics The 2000 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXVII Olympiad, officially branded as Sydney 2000, and also known as the Games of the New Millennium, were an international multi-sport event held from 15 September to 1 October ... in Sydney, Australia. He won his first international medal, winning the 1999 Central American and Caribbean Championships in Athletics in Bridgetown, Barbados where he won the gold medal. He competed in the Middle Eastern Athletic Conference where he won several confe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian Roberts (cricketer)
Ian Clement Roberts (born 29 April 1948) is a former English cricketer. Roberts was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm medium-fast. He was born in Plymouth, Devon. Professional career Roberts made his debut for Devon in the 1974 Minor Counties Championship against Berkshire. From 1974 to 1980, he represented the county in 26 Championship matches, the last of which came against Oxfordshire. He also represented Devon in a single List A match, at a time when they were permitted to take part in the domestic one-day competition, against Cornwall in the 1980 Gillette Cup 1st round. He wasn't required to bat in the match and with the ball he bowled 7 wicket-less overs. References External linksat ESPNcricinfo ESPNcricinfo (formerly known as Cricinfo or CricInfo) is a sports news website exclusively for the game of cricket. The site features news, articles, live coverage of cricket matches (including liveblogs and scorecards), and ''StatsGuru'', a ...Ian Robert ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian Roberts (equestrian)
Ian Roberts (born October 28, 1958, in Victoria, British Columbia) competed as a member of the Canadian Equestrian Team in eventing at the 2004 Summer Olympics. His farm is Dreamcrest Farms, in Port Perry, Ontario, which he owns with his wife, Kelly Plitz, also an Olympic eventing rider. Roberts placed 23rd at the 2006 Rolex Kentucky Three Day Event, and 20th at the 2007 competition. He represented Canada at the 2006 FEI World Equestrian Games, but was eliminated in the individual competition. Roberts is a graduate of , located in |
Ian Roberts (footballer, Born 1961)
Ian Mark Roberts (born 28 February 1961) is a Welsh former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. He played in the English Football League for Wrexham Wrexham ( ; ) is a city status in the United Kingdom, city in the North East Wales, north-east of Wales. It lies between the Cambrian Mountains, Welsh mountains and the lower River Dee, Wales, Dee Valley, near the England–Wales border, borde ..., and also played for Bangor City. References 1961 births Living people Welsh men's footballers Men's association football midfielders Wrexham A.F.C. players Bangor City F.C. players English Football League players Footballers from Colwyn Bay {{Wales-footy-midfielder-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian Roberts (linguist)
Ian G. Roberts is British linguist serving as Professor of Linguistics at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of Downing College, Cambridge. He also serves on the Advisory Council of METI (Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligence). He received his PhD from the University of Southern California in 1985 and taught at the Universities of Geneva (1985–1993), Bangor (1991–1996) and Stuttgart (1996–2000) before taking up his present position at Cambridge in 2000. He is a fellow of Downing College. Professor Roberts is a generative linguist and enthusiastic adopter of Chomsky's minimalist program. He has published widely in the synchronic and diachronic syntax of Romance and Germanic languages The Germanic languages are a branch of the Indo-European languages, Indo-European language family spoken natively by a population of about 515 million people mainly in Europe, North America, Oceania, and Southern Africa. The most widely spoke ... and Welsh. References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian Roberts (painter)
Ian Thomas Roberts (born 1952, Blyth, South Australia) is a nationally recognised Australian bird and native vegetation painter. He is also a co-director, with his wife Narelle, of the Medika Gallery (Blyth). From farming to painting Starting from 1983, Roberts devotes most of his time to painting which was his hobby during the previous 18 farming years. His interest in the natural world explains the main focus of his paintings. He is also a book illustrator; his drawings appeared in ''Eucalypts of Western Australia's Wheatbelt'' by French Malcolm and ''Native Eucalypts of South Australia'' by Dean Nicolle. Community involvement A third generation Blyth dweller, Ian Roberts is active in a local farming community in Blyth (pop. 306) located in the Clare Valley region, South Australia, situated north of Adelaide. He was a member of a District Council of Blyth, the Blyth Hospital Board and Country Fire Service, & in 2013 is still a member of the Blyth Development Board, BlythCi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian Roberts (physician)
Ian Roberts (born 1962 or 1963) is an English physician and anaesthesiologist. Since , Roberts has served as Medical Delegate in Formula One. Roberts graduated from the University of Leicester as a Bachelor of Medicine in 1986. He then served as the chief medical officer for Silverstone Circuit and the British Grand Prix. In , Roberts replaced Gary Hartstein as the Formula One Medical Delegate. He gained recognition after rescuing Romain Grosjean at the 2020 Bahrain Grand Prix, for which he was awarded the FIA President Award. He has responded to several further high-profile incidents. Career Early career Roberts studied medicine at the University of Leicester from 1981 to 1986. He previously served as the chief medical officer for Silverstone Circuit and the British Grand Prix. He has a background in anaesthesiology, intensive care, and air medicine. In 1995, he became a Fellow of the Royal College of Anaesthetists. He became a consultant in 1998 upon further speci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian Roberts (rugby League)
Ian Roberts (born 31 July 1965) is an Australian actor and former professional rugby league player who played in the 1980s and 1990s. A forward, he played for New South Wales in State of Origin and won 13 caps for the Australia national team. He played club football for the South Sydney Rabbitohs, Wigan, Manly Warringah Sea Eagles and North Queensland Cowboys. In 1995 Roberts became the first high-profile Australian sports person and first rugby league footballer in the world to come out to the public as gay. Early life Ian Roberts was born in 1965 in Chelsea, London, England, to a father who worked in construction and was an amateur boxer, and a housewife mother. The family emigrated as Ten Pound Poms in 1967 to South Sydney, Australia, where the family was guaranteed a new house, and his father was guaranteed a job, continuing to work in construction. He was educated at Maroubra Bay High School. Football career Club career As a junior Roberts played for the Mascot Je ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian Roberts (South African Actor)
Ian Roberts (born 30 November 1951) is a South African actor, playwright and singer. A native English speaker, he is also fluent in Afrikaans and Xhosa. Early life Roberts was born in Fort Beaufort in the Cape Province, Union of South Africa, and grew up on his father's citrus farm near the town. He attended St. Andrew's Preparatory School and St. Andrew's College in Grahamstown. After completing high school, he performed his compulsory national service in the South African Army, which he completed in 1971. After a variety of different jobs and a course in photography at the Port Elizabeth Technical College from 1973 to 1975, Roberts enrolled at Rhodes University in 1976 for a Bachelor of Arts degree majoring in speech, drama and social anthropology. Acting career Roberts became a South African icon when he played the character of ''Boet'' in a long-running series of television advertisements for Castrol motor oil. This character (together with the other characters ''Swaer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |