Jameson (name)
Jameson is a patronymic surname meaning "son of James". It may also be a given name. Notable people with the name include: Surname A * Adam Jameson (1860–1907), Scottish physician * Andrew Jameson (other), multiple people *Andy Jameson (born 1965), English sports commentator * Anna Brownell Jameson (1794–1860), Anglo-Irish artist * Antony Jameson (born 1934), British aeronautical engineer * Arron Jameson (born 1989), English footballer B * Bert Jameson, English priest *Betty Jameson (1919–2009), American golfer *Bobby Jameson (1945–2015), American singer and songwriter C * Charles Davis Jameson (1827–1862), American soldier and politician * Clarence Jameson (1872–1928), Canadian politician *Claude Jameson (1886–1943), American soccer player * Claudia Jameson, American writer D *David Jameson (other), multiple people * Derek Jameson (1929–2012), British journalist and broadcaster * Dorothea Jameson (1920–1998), American psychologist * Drey Ja ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Patronymic
A patronymic, or patronym, is a component of a personal name based on the given name of one's father, grandfather (avonymic), or an earlier male ancestor. Patronymics are still in use, including mandatory use, in many countries worldwide, although their use has largely been replaced by or transformed into patronymic surnames. Examples of such transformations include common English surnames such as Johnson (son of John). Origins of terms The usual noun and adjective in English is ''patronymic'', but as a noun this exists in free variation alongside ''patronym''. The first part of the word ''patronym'' comes from Greek πατήρ ''patēr'' "father" ( GEN πατρός ''patros'' whence the combining form πατρο- ''patro''-); the second part comes from Greek ὄνυμα ''onyma'', a variant form of ὄνομα ''onoma'' "name". In the form ''patronymic'', this stands with the addition of the suffix -ικός (''-ikos''), which was originally used to form adjectives with t ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Derek Jameson
Derek Jameson (29 November 1929 – 12 September 2012) was a British tabloid journalist and broadcaster. He began his career in the media in 1944 as a messenger at Reuters and worked his way up to become the editor of several British tabloid newspapers in the 1970s and 1980s. Later, he was a regular broadcaster on BBC Radio 2 for nearly a decade and a half, including an on-air partnership with his third wife Ellen. When his profile was at its highest, he was described by Auberon Waugh as "the second most famous man in Britain after Prince Charles.""Derek Jameson, Fleet Street veteran and television star, dies at 82" ''London Evening Standard'', 13 September 2012 Early life Born in[...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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House Jameson
House Baker Jameson (December 17, 1902 – April 23, 1971)DeLong, Thomas A. (1996). ''Radio Stars: An Illustrated Biographical Dictionary of 953 Performers, 1920 through 1960''. McFarland & Company, Inc. . P. 139. was an American actor in the era of old-time radio and early television. Early years Jameson was a native of Austin, Texas. He was named for Edward M. House, a political figure who was a friend of the family. He graduated from Columbia University. Jameson said that he knew at age 5 that he wanted to be an actor, when an aunt, who raised him after his father died, took him to see a performance of ''The Shepherd King.'' Jameson told ''TV Guide'' that after the family returned home, he "absolutely refused to go to bed until the family rustled up some costumes and re-enacted the play." Radio Jameson broke into radio in the early 1930s, as an announcer with WEVD. Jameson admired a WEVD announcer named Roland Bradley in Chicago, and wrote him a letter telling him so. Thi ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Henry Lyster Jameson
Henry Paul William Lyster Jameson (1875, Louth – 26 February 1922, West Mersea) was a zoologist, who studied pearl-formation. He also made contributions to speleology and encouraged the study of psychology in adult education. Life H. Lyster Jameson was born in Louth the son of Paul Lyster Jameson, the rector of Killincoole. He was educated at Trinity College Dublin. In 1895 he explored the Marble Arch Caves with Édouard-Alfred Martel, and was the first to describe fauna in the Mitchelstown Cave. After a year at the Royal College of Science in London, Jameson studied zoology under Otto Bütschli at the University of Heidelberg, writing his dissertation (1898) on , a species of spoon worms. Put in charge of a pearling station in British New Guinea, he studied the causes of pearl-formation. He continued this research at the Lancashire Sea Fisheries Station in Piel Island, Barrow-in-Furness, developing the parasitic theory of pearl-formation in the common sea mussel ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Henry Jameson
Henry Wood Jameson (April 19, 1883 – March 7, 1938) was an American amateur soccer player who competed in the 1904 Summer Olympics. He was born in St. Louis, Missouri and died in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Pittsburgh ( ) is a city in the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, United States, and the county seat of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Allegheny County. It is the most populous city in both Allegheny County and Wester .... In 1904 he was a member of the St. Rose Parish team, which won the bronze medal in the soccer tournament. He played all four matches as a defender. References External linksprofile 1883 births 1938 deaths American men's soccer players Footballers at the 1904 Summer Olympics Olympic bronze medalists for the United States in soccer Soccer players from Missouri Medalists at the 1904 Summer Olympics Men's association football defenders {{US-footy-defender-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Helen Jameson
Helen Jameson (born 25 September 1963) is an English former competitive swimmer. Swimming career Jameson represented Great Britain at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. She was a member of the silver-medal-winning British women's team in the 4×100-metre medley relay, swimming the backstroke leg alongside teammates Margaret Kelly, Ann Osgerby and June Croft. She also competed in the individual 100-metre backstroke and 200-metre backstroke events. Jameson represented England in the 100 and 200 metres backstroke, at the 1982 Commonwealth Games in Brisbane, Queensland ) , nickname = Sunshine State , image_map = Queensland in Australia.svg , map_caption = Location of Queensland in Australia , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name = Australia , established_title = Before federation , established_ ..., Australia. She also won the ASA National Championship 100 metres backstroke title in 1980 and 1981. Personal life She is the sister of Andy Jameson. See a ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Harold Jameson
Harold Gordon Jameson (25 January 1918 — 26 August 1940) was an Irish first-class cricketer and Royal Marines officer. The oldest son of the Reverend William Jameson and his wife Georgina Marjorie Gibbon, H G Jameson was born at Dundrum in January 1918. He was educated in England at Monkton Combe School, where his father was head of the junior school. From there he matriculated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. While studying at Cambridge, he made two first-class cricket appearances for Cambridge University Cricket Club in 1938, against the touring Australians and against Essex, with both matches played at Fenner's. He took two wickets against Essex, dismissing Alan Lavers and Tom Wade. The Second World War began in the same year that Jameson graduated from Cambridge and he was commissioned into the Royal Marines as a temporary second lieutenant in June 1940. He was billeted at Fort Cumberland in Portsmouth and was one of eight marines killed during a German air raid on ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Graeme Jameson
Graeme John Jameson (born 1936) is an engineer, professor and Director of the Centre for Multiphase Processes at the University of Newcastle, Australia, in New South Wales, Australia. He is notable for being the inventor of the Jameson Cell mineral separation device, which he devised in the 1980s. The Jameson Cell uses bubbles to separate super fine particles during mineral processing. It is based on the froth flotation mineral separation process, first invented in 1905. In the coal industry alone, Jameson's cell has retrieved 36 billion worth of export coal particles. It is being used worldwide in the separation of coal, copper, lead, nickel, platinum, silver and zinc. Education In 1960 Jameson received a Bachelor of Science degree in chemical engineering from the University of New South Wales (UNSW), and in 1963 a PhD from the University of Cambridge. Career and research Jameson has been Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Newcastle since 1978. Awards an ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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George Jameson (RNZAF Officer)
George Esmond Jameson, (20 November 1921 – 20 May 1998) was a New Zealand flying ace of the Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) during the Second World War, who is credited with the destruction of eleven enemy aircraft and two damaged. He was the highest scoring New Zealand night fighter pilot of the war. Born in Christchurch, Jameson joined the RNZAF in 1941. After completing flight training he went to the United Kingdom to serve with the Royal Air Force. Flying a Bristol Beaufighter night fighter with No. 125 Squadron, he destroyed three German bombers over England and Wales. He was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for these exploits. He later served with No. 488 Squadron, shooting down several enemy aircraft over France, including four in one sortie in July 1944, for which he was awarded the Distinguished Service Order. He was repatriated to New Zealand in September 1944 to run the family farm after the death of his father. He died in a farming accident at the ag ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Geoff Jameson
Geoffrey Brind Jameson is a structural chemist and biologist at Massey University in Palmerston North, New Zealand. Jameson completed a PhD at the University of Canterbury in 1977. He is the director of the Centre for Structural Biology, and a crystallographer, using X-ray crystallography and NMR spectroscopy to determine the structure of materials. Jameson was the 2011 recipient of the Marsden Medal The Marsden Medal is a yearly award given by the New Zealand Association of Scientists. It is named after Sir Ernest Marsden and honours "a lifetime of outstanding service to the cause or profession of science, in recognition of service rendere ... from the New Zealand Association of Scientists. References University of Canterbury alumni Georgetown University faculty Academic staff of Massey University New Zealand scientists Crystallographers Living people Year of birth missing (living people) New Zealand biochemists {{biochemist-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Geoffrey Jameson
Geoffrey Jameson (18 August 1928 – 8 November 2017) was an Australian wrestler. He competed at the 1956 Summer Olympics and the 1960 Summer Olympics The 1960 Summer Olympics ( it, Giochi Olimpici estivi del 1960), officially known as the Games of the XVII Olympiad ( it, Giochi della XVII Olimpiade) and commonly known as Rome 1960 ( it, Roma 1960), were an international multi-sport event held .... References External links * 1928 births 2017 deaths Australian male sport wrestlers Olympic wrestlers for Australia Wrestlers at the 1956 Summer Olympics Wrestlers at the 1960 Summer Olympics People from the Riverina Sportsmen from New South Wales Commonwealth Games medallists in wrestling Wrestlers at the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games Wrestlers at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Australia Commonwealth Games silver medallists for Australia 20th-century Australian sportspeople 21st-century ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Fredric Jameson
Fredric Jameson (born April 14, 1934) is an American literary critic, philosopher and Marxist political theorist. He is best known for his analysis of contemporary cultural trends, particularly his analysis of postmodernity and capitalism. Jameson's best-known books include '' Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism'' (1991) and ''The Political Unconscious'' (1981). Jameson is currently Knut Schmidt-Nielsen Professor of Comparative Literature and Romance Studies (French) and the director of the Center for Critical Theory at Duke University. In 2012, the Modern Language Association gave Jameson its sixth Award for Lifetime Scholarly Achievement. Life and works Jameson was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and graduated in 1950 from Moorestown Friends School. After graduating in 1954 from Haverford College, where his professors included Wayne Booth, he briefly traveled to Europe, studying at Aix-en-Provence, Munich, and Berlin, where he learned of new developments ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |