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Lavan (name)
Lavan is both a surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include: Surname: * Al Lavan (born 1946), former college football head coach * Doc Lavan (1890–1952), Major League Baseball shortstop * John Lavan Sir John Martin Lavan (September 1911 – 1 December 2006) was a judge in the Supreme Court of Western Australia. He was educated at CBC Perth (now Trinity College Trinity College may refer to: Australia * Trinity Anglican College, an Angli ... (1911–2006), former judge on the Supreme Court of Western Australia * Rene Lavan (born 1968), Cuban-American actor * Samuel Lavan (born 1982), Israeli footballer Given name: * LaVan Davis (born 1966), American actor and singer * Harvey Lavan "Van" Cliburn Jr. (1934-2013), American pianist Fictional characters: * Lavan Firestorm, character in the book ''Brightly Burning'' {{given name, type=both ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Al Lavan
Alton Lavan (September 13, 1946 – April 23, 2018) was an American football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at Delaware State University from 2004 to 2010. Lavan was also as the interim head football coach at Eastern Michigan University for the final three games of the 2003 season, after replacing Jeff Woodruff. He played college football at Colorado State University and professionally with the Atlanta Falcons of the National Football League (NFL). Raised in Newark, New Jersey, Lavan played prep football at South Side High School, which has since be renamed as Malcolm X Shabazz High School. Pro Football Archives. Accessed December 19, 2019. As a longtime running backs coach, he coached the following players throug ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doc Lavan
John Leonard "Doc" Lavan (October 28, 1890 – May 29, 1952) was an American professional baseball shortstop who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the St. Louis Browns, Philadelphia Athletics, Washington Senators, and St. Louis Cardinals. Born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Lavan attended both Hope College and the University of Michigan from 1908 to 1911 before playing in the major leagues. Lavan played in 1,163 major league games, of which 1,126 were at the shortstop position. In 11 seasons, Lavan had a lifetime batting average of .245 with 954 hits, 377 RBIs, 338 runs scored, and 186 extra base hits. He had his best season as a batter in 1920 when he hit .289 with 32 extra base hits and 63 RBIs. Lavan also had good range as a shortstop. His range factor of 5.69 in 1916 was 0.77 points higher than the average shortstop that year. And in 1921, Lavan had 382 putouts, 540 assists, and 88 double plays. He had a tendency to bobble or boot the balls when he got to them. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Lavan
Sir John Martin Lavan (September 1911 – 1 December 2006) was a judge in the Supreme Court of Western Australia. He was educated at CBC Perth (now Trinity College Trinity College may refer to: Australia * Trinity Anglican College, an Anglican coeducational primary and secondary school in , New South Wales * Trinity Catholic College, Auburn, a coeducational school in the inner-western suburbs of Sydney, New ...) and Xavier College. He joined Lavan and Walsh in 1934, where he remained until 1969. He was appointed to the bench of the Supreme Court of Western Australia in 1969, a position he held until 1981. He served as president of the law society from 1964 to 1966, and he was also chairman of the Parole Board of WA from 1960 to 1969. References 1911 births 2006 deaths Australian Knights Bachelor Judges of the Supreme Court of Western Australia People educated at Aquinas College, Perth {{Australia-law-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rene Lavan
Rene Lavan (born November 5, 1968) is a Cuban-American actor. Early life Lavan was born in Artemisa, Havana Province, Cuba. In 1980, at the age of 11, he was part of the Mariel boatlift. Career In 1996, he appeared as Gustavo in the acclaimed independent film '' Azúcar amarga'' directed by Leon Ichaso. He has also appeared on the long-running ABC soap opera, '' One Life to Live'' as Javier Pérez (1995–96, 1997). He has also acted in the telenovela genre appearing in ''Morelia'' (1995), and in the Venevision produced ''Enamorada'' (1999). In 2001, he appeared as the male lead in Televisa's ''María Belén''. He has appeared in several publications such as ''People en Español'', ''Vanidades'' and ''Harper's Bazaar''. In the last few years, Lavan's television appearances have been on the popular CBS drama, '' CSI: Miami'' (2003), on NBC's, ''Las Vegas'' (2004), and in the film '' Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights'' (2004). He also appeared in ''Christmas with the Kranks'' (2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Lavan
Shmuel lavan (born January 21, 1982) is an Israeli former footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby ... who played as a defender. References 1982 births Israeli Jews Belgian Jews Living people Israeli men's footballers Belgian men's footballers Beitar Jerusalem F.C. players Royal Antwerp F.C. players K.M.S.K. Deinze players Israeli Premier League players Footballers from Jerusalem Men's association football defenders Belgian emigrants to Israel Israel men's under-21 international footballers {{Israel-footy-defender-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
LaVan Davis
LaVan Davis is an American actor who played the character Curtis Payne on Tyler Perry's TV shows '' House of Payne'' and '' The Paynes'' TBS Network (2007–2012), OWN Network (2018) and BET Network (2020–present). Career Davis' acting career began in 2004 with his first role as Leroy in the film '' Mindbenders''. In 2005, he made a guest appearance in a two episodes of ''Everybody Hates Chris ''Everybody Hates Chris'' is an American television semi-autobiographical sitcom that is inspired by the memories of the teenage years of comedian Chris Rock. The show is set from 1982 to 1987, although Rock himself was actually a teenager from ...'' as a preacher. The following year, Davis was cast as the cranky patriarch of the Payne family, Curtis Payne, in the TBS sitcom '' Tyler Perry's House of Payne''. Davis worked with Perry again in two of his feature films including '' Daddy's Little Girls'' in 2007 and '' Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns'' in 2008. In addition to his wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Van Cliburn
Harvey Lavan "Van" Cliburn Jr. (; July 12, 1934February 27, 2013) was an American pianist who, at the age of 23, achieved worldwide recognition when he won the inaugural International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow in 1958 during the Cold War. Cliburn's mother, a piano teacher and an accomplished pianist in her own right, discovered him playing at age three, mimicking one of her students and arranged for him to start taking lessons. Cliburn developed a rich, round tone and a singing-voice-like phrasing, having been taught from the start to sing each piece. Cliburn toured domestically and overseas. He played for royalty, heads of state, and every US president from Harry S. Truman to Barack Obama. Early life Cliburn was born in Shreveport, Louisiana, the son of Rildia Bee (' O'Bryan) and Harvey Lavan Cliburn Sr. When he was three, he began taking piano lessons from his mother, who had studied under Arthur Friedheim, a pupil of Franz Liszt. When Cliburn was six, his fath ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
