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Jim Thomas (zoologist)
Jim Thomas may refer to: In sport * Jim Thomas (basketball) (born 1960), American basketball player * Jim Thomas (offensive lineman) (1917–1981), American football player * Jim Thomas (running back) (1938–2015), running back who played nine seasons in the Canadian Football League *Jim Thomas (tennis) (born 1974), American politician and former tennis player * Jimmy Thomas (American football) (1947–2017), National Football League running back Other people * Jim Thomas (executive) (born 1959), American businessman * Jim Thomas (poet) (1930–2009), Romanian poet *Jim Thomas (screenwriter) Jim Thomas may refer to: In sport *Jim Thomas (basketball) (born 1960), American basketball player *Jim Thomas (offensive lineman) (1917–1981), American football player *Jim Thomas (running back) (1938–2015), running back who played nine season ..., American screenwriter * Jim Thomas (computer scientist) (1946–2010), American computer scientist * Jim Thomas (zoologist), Australian zoolog ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Thomas (basketball)
James Edward Thomas (born October 19, 1960) is an American former professional basketball player. He was a 6'3", shooting guard. High school Thomas played competitively at Nova High School, in Davie, Florida. College career Thomas played college basketball at Indiana University, from 1979–1983. While playing for head coach Bobby Knight at Indiana, he was the sixth man on the 1981 national championship team, and also made the 1981 Final Four All Tournament Team, after grabbing nine rebounds off the bench, in place of foul-plagued starter Ted Kitchel, in the 63–50 title game win over North Carolina. Professional career Thomas played professionally in the NBA, with the Indiana Pacers, L.A. Clippers, and Minnesota Timberwolves, from 1983–1990. He also played with several teams in the Continental Basketball Association (CBA) including the Omaha Racers when they won the 1993 CBA Championship and he was selected as Playoff/Finals Most Valuable Player. He was named ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Thomas (offensive Lineman)
James F. Thomas (May 6, 1917 – June 4, 1981) was an American football guard. Thomas was born in 1917 at Oilton, Oklahoma. He attended Oilton High School. Thomas attended the University of Oklahoma and played for the Oklahoma Sooners football team from 1935 to 1938. He was a member of the 1938 Oklahoma Sooners football team that compiled a 10–1 record and was ranked No. 4 in the final Associated Press poll. He was known as "Singer" Thomas at Oklahoma because of his constant singing in the shower room. He was drafted by the Chicago Cardinals with the 102nd pick in the 1939 NFL draft. He appeared in 13 games for the Cardinals during the 1939 and 1940 seasons. Thomas was also an opera singer who sang with the Metropolitan Opera for a year. He served in the Army during World War II, attaining the rank of lieutenant and serving in the field artillery under General George Patton. He was a school teacher in Florence, South Carolina Florence is a city in and the county s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Thomas (running Back)
James T. "Long Gone" Thomas (December 18, 1938 – October 4, 2015) was an American gridiron football player and coach. He played professionally as a running back for nine seasons in the Canadian Football League CFL) with the Edmonton Eskimos. Thomas ran for 6,161 yards in his CFL career and was a two-time CFL All-Star. He signed to the Los Angeles Rams of the National Football League (NFL) in 1970 for a five-game trial, but returned to Edmonton. Thomas holds the record for the three longest rushing touchdowns in Eskimos history—a 104-yard run on October 9, 1965, against the BC Lions, a 100-yard run on August 2, 1966, against the Winnipeg Blue Bombers, and a 97-yard run on September 4, 1964, against the Ottawa Rough Riders. Thomas attended R. E. Hunt High School in Columbus, Mississippi, a segregated school for blacks only. He attended college at Mississippi Industrial College in Holly Springs, Mississippi. After his playing career was over, Thomas earned a master's degree ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Thomas (tennis)
James Joseph Thomas (born September 24, 1974) is an American politician and former professional tennis player serving as a member of the Ohio House of Representatives from the 49th district since 2023. As a tennis player, Thomas' highest ATP world singles ranking was 288, which he reached on November 2, 1998. His career high in doubles was at 29, set on August 21, 2006. He retired following the 2008 season. Thomas was elected to the Ohio House of Representatives as a member of the Republican Party in the 2022 Ohio House of Representatives election. Biography Thomas was born on September 24, 1974 in Canton, Ohio, the youngest of six children. He began playing tennis at age 3 and his favorite players growing up included John McEnroe and Boris Becker. Thomas earned a bachelor's degree in American Studies from Stanford University in 1996. At Stanford, Thomas was a member of the tennis team where he earned All-American honors during his senior year and was a member of NCAA team c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jimmy Thomas (American Football)
James Thomas Jr. (August 17, 1947 – June 6, 2017) was an American professional football running back in the National Football League (NFL). He played five seasons (1969-1973) for the San Francisco 49ers The San Francisco 49ers (also written as the San Francisco Forty-Niners and nicknamed the Niners) are a professional American football team based in the San Francisco Bay Area. The 49ers compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member .... His brothers Earl Thomas and Mike Thomas also played in the NFL. References 1947 births 2017 deaths Players of American football from Greenville, Texas American football running backs UT Arlington Mavericks football players San Francisco 49ers players 20th-century American sportsmen {{runningback-1940s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Thomas (executive)
James W. Thomas or Jim Thomas is an American business executive who held was former president of Sierra and Vice president/ CFO positions at MicroProse, Rivian Automotive, and MapQuest. He is known for managing the initial public offering of MapQuest. Early life Thomas graduated from Florida Institute of Technology with a bachelor's degree in mathematics in 1972 and received a Master of Business Administration from the University of Virginia Darden School of Business. Career His first executive role was as Executive VP and CFO for the gaming company MicroProse from 1989-1992. From 1993 to 1994 he became the President of Sierra. In 1995, he left Sierra to assist with the startup of MapQuest. He became the Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer, and helped MapQuest become a leading internet mapping company. In 1999, he managed the initial public offering of MapQuest on the Nasdaq and sale to AOL AOL (formerly a company known as AOL Inc. and originally know ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Thomas (poet)
Jim Thomas (1930–February 2009) was an American poet, and professor at Truman State University, from 1964 to 1994. He served in the United States Army in the Korean War, retiring as a lieutenant colonel in the National Guard National guard is the name used by a wide variety of current and historical uniformed organizations in different countries. The original National Guard was formed during the French Revolution around a cadre of defectors from the French Guards. .... Works * *''Seed Time, Harvest Time'', Thomas Jefferson University Press, 1990, *''Brief Tracks'', Truman State University Press, 2009, References External links"Dr. Nick Knight Shares Poetry Created by Jim Thomas" ''PoetSpeak'', April 2008 {{DEFAULTSORT:Thomas, Jim American male poets 1930 births 2009 deaths Truman State University faculty United States Army personnel of the Korean War 20th-century American poets 20th-century American male writers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Thomas (screenwriter)
Jim Thomas may refer to: In sport *Jim Thomas (basketball) (born 1960), American basketball player *Jim Thomas (offensive lineman) (1917–1981), American football player *Jim Thomas (running back) (1938–2015), running back who played nine seasons in the Canadian Football League *Jim Thomas (tennis) (born 1974), American politician and former tennis player *Jimmy Thomas (American football) (1947–2017), National Football League running back Other people *Jim Thomas (executive) (born 1959), American businessman *Jim Thomas (poet) (1930–2009), Romanian poet *Jim Thomas (screenwriter), American screenwriter *Jim Thomas (computer scientist) (1946–2010), American computer scientist *Jim Thomas (zoologist), Australian zoologist, co-founder of Tenkile Conservation Alliance, List of La Trobe University people#Medicine and science, alumnus of La Trobe University See also *James Thomas (other) {{hndis, Thomas, Jim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Thomas (computer Scientist)
James Thomas (March 26, 1946 – August 6, 2010) was an American computer scientist in the field of visualization. He spent much of his career at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Life James Joseph Thomas was born March 26, 1946, in Spokane, Washington. He majored in mathematics at Eastern Washington University, and received a master's degree from Washington State University in computer science. His professional career started at General Motors, where he worked in the area of computer-aided graphics and design soon after graduate school in early 1970s. He later returned to his home state to join the Pacific Northwest Laboratory (later renamed Pacific Northwest National Laboratory) as a computer scientist in 1976. He rose through the ranks from senior scientist, staff scientist, chief scientist, to laboratory fellow. In the 1980s, he was a member of the founding team who conceptualized and developed the core concepts for what is today’William R. Wiley Environmental ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Thomas (zoologist)
Jim Thomas may refer to: In sport * Jim Thomas (basketball) (born 1960), American basketball player * Jim Thomas (offensive lineman) (1917–1981), American football player * Jim Thomas (running back) (1938–2015), running back who played nine seasons in the Canadian Football League *Jim Thomas (tennis) (born 1974), American politician and former tennis player * Jimmy Thomas (American football) (1947–2017), National Football League running back Other people * Jim Thomas (executive) (born 1959), American businessman * Jim Thomas (poet) (1930–2009), Romanian poet *Jim Thomas (screenwriter) Jim Thomas may refer to: In sport *Jim Thomas (basketball) (born 1960), American basketball player *Jim Thomas (offensive lineman) (1917–1981), American football player *Jim Thomas (running back) (1938–2015), running back who played nine season ..., American screenwriter * Jim Thomas (computer scientist) (1946–2010), American computer scientist * Jim Thomas (zoologist), Australian zoolog ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of La Trobe University People
This is an incomplete list of La Trobe University people, including alumni and staff. Alumni Academia * Lindsay Falvey – academic * Sze Flett – scientist Business * Martyn Dunne – CEO of NZ Customs *Ahmed Fahour – former CEO of National Australia Bank and Australia Post * Jamila Gordon – former CIO of Qantas * Stephen Hill – co-founder of Globe International * David Morgan – Westpac CEO; former Treasury official; BHP Director *Scott Pape – The Barefoot Investor * Maureen Wheeler – founder of Lonely Planet Government Politicians =In Australia= *Jacinta Allan – state politician and minister * David Baden-Powell – hereditary peer and scout leader * Helen Buckingham – state politician *Phil Cleary – former federal politician; author; social activist; political and sports commentator; former VFL footballer *Jacinta Collins – Senator for Victoria * Mary Delahunty – state politician; former minister; former ABC TV presenter * Martin Dixon – state po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |