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List Of People From Boise, Idaho
The following is a list of notable people who were either born in, lived in, are current residents of, or are otherwise closely associated with the city of Boise, Idaho. Notable people * Robert Adler, inventor * William Agee, former business executive * Joe Albertson, founder of the Albertsons chain of grocery stores * Kathryn Albertson, wife of Joe Albertson and notable philanthropist; born in Boise * Cecil Andrus, Idaho's only four-term governor; Secretary of the Interior * James Jesus Angleton, former chief of the CIA counter-intelligence staff * Steve Appleton, businessman and aviation enthusiast * Kristin Armstrong, 3x Olympic cycling gold medalist * Matthew Barney, artist * Rick Bauer, Major League Baseball player * Andy Benoit, journalist for ''Sports Illustrated'' *Andrew Blaser (born 1989), skeleton racer * Phyllis Brooks, actress * Bill Buckner, former Major League Baseball player * Maggie Carey, director, writer * John P. Cassidy, Los Angeles City Council member, 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boise, Idaho
Boise ( ) is the List of capitals in the United States, capital and List of cities in Idaho, most populous city of the U.S. state of Idaho. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, there were 235,685 people residing in the city. Located on the Boise River in southwestern Idaho, it is east of the Oregon border and north of the Nevada border. The downtown area's elevation is Sea level#AMSL, above sea level. It is the county seat of Ada County, Idaho, Ada County. The Boise metropolitan area, also known as the Treasure Valley, includes five County (United States), counties with a combined population of 749,202, the most populous metropolitan area in Idaho. It contains the state's three largest cities: Boise, Nampa, Idaho, Nampa, and Meridian, Idaho, Meridian. The Boise metropolitan area, Boise–Nampa Metropolitan Statistical Area is the 74th most populous List of metropolitan statistical areas, metropolitan statistical area in the United States. Downtown Boise is the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phyllis Brooks
Phyllis Brooks (July 18, 1915 – August 1, 1995) was an American actress and model. She was born Phyllis Seiler in Boise, Idaho. Some sources have also inaccurately cited 1914 as her year of birth, but 1915 is the correct year according to Social Security records. Career Modeling Brooks was a model for two years before progressing to a career in film. She stated, "I started posing for photographers as a lark, and it was a lot of fun." She had been known as the " Ipana Toothpaste Girl", due to her work for that product.Katz, Ephraim (1979). ''The Film Encyclopedia: The Most Comprehensive Encyclopedia of World Cinema in a Single Volume''. Perigee Books; , pg. 170. Film Initially known as Mary Brooks, she began her career in films in 1934 at age 20, in '' I've Been Around''. Brooks, who had about 30 performances in films, was a B-movie leading lady during the 1930s and 1940s, with roles in such films as '' In Old Chicago'' (1937), '' Little Miss Broadway'' (1938) and '' The S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heroes Vs
Heroes or Héroes may refer to: * Hero, one who displays courage and self-sacrifice for the greater good Film * ''Heroes'' (1977 film), an American drama * ''Heroes'' (2008 film), an Indian Hindi film Gaming * ''Heroes of Might and Magic'' or ''Heroes'', a series of video games *''Heroes of the Storm'' or ''Heroes,'' a 2015 video game * ''Heroes'' (role-playing game) (1979) * ''Sonic Heroes'', a 2003 video game in the ''Sonic the Hedgehog'' franchise Literature * ''Heroes'' (book series), short novels and plays intended for young boys * ''Heroes'' (comics), a 1996 comic book by DC Comics * ''Heroes'' (novel), a 1998 novel by Robert Cormier * ''Heroes'' (play), a translation by Tom Stoppard of ''Le Vent Des Peupliers'' by Gérald Sibleyras * '' Heroes: Saving Charlie'', a 2007 novel based on the American TV series ''Heroes'' * ''Heroes'', a role-playing game magazine by Avalon Hill * ''Heroes'', a 2018 collection of stories from ancient Greek mythology by Stephen Fry ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Driebergen
Benjamin Russell Driebergen (born January 1, 1983) is an American Marine Corps veteran and reality television personality, best known for competing on and winning '' Survivor: Heroes vs. Healers vs. Hustlers''. In 2020, he returned to compete in the show's 40th season, '' Survivor: Winners at War'', finishing in 5th. Early life Driebergen attended Capital High School in Boise, Idaho. When he was about 12 years old, his father came out to the family and his parents separated. After graduating in 2001, he eventually enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps. During his time in the Marines, he served in Iraq, attaining the rank of Lance Corporal. Once, while stationed in Fallujah, he came across an elderly couple that couldn't evacuate the city due to the wife's illness. As other civilians were being cleared out of the place, LCpl. Driebergen and his squad agreed to watch over them. After a week of protecting the two civilians, the couple was able to make it out of town on their own, unha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthony Doerr
Anthony Doerr is an American author of novels and short stories. He gained widespread recognition for his 2014 novel '' All the Light We Cannot See'', which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Early life and education Doerr grew up in Cleveland, Ohio, He attended University School in Hunting Valley, an eastern Cleveland suburb, graduating in 1991. He majored in history at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine southwest of Augusta, graduating in 1995. He earned an MFA from Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green. Career Doerr's first book was a collection of short stories called ''The Shell Collector'' (2002). His first novel, ''About Grace'', was released in 2004. His memoir, ''Four Seasons in Rome'', was published in 2007, and his second collection of short stories, ''Memory Wall,'' was published in 2010. Doerr's second novel, '' All the Light We Cannot See'', is set in occupied France during World War II and was published in 2014. He laboriously worked on writing it fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KTVB
KTVB (channel 7) is a television station in Boise, Idaho, United States, affiliated with NBC and owned by Tegna Inc. The station's studios are located on West Fairview Avenue (off I-184) in Boise, and its transmitter is located on Deer Point in unincorporated Boise County. It is rebroadcast by KTFT-LD (channel 7) in Twin Falls, Idaho, Twin Falls, which airs KTVB programming with local advertising for the Magic Valley area from its transmitter on Flat Top Butte near Jerome, Idaho, and maintains a local sales office in Twin Falls. Channel 7 is the oldest continuously operating station in Idaho. It debuted on July 12, 1953, as KIDO-TV, the state's second television station to broadcast. Though KFXD-TV (channel 6) in Nampa, Idaho, Nampa beat KIDO-TV to the air by a month, KIDO-TV was by far the more organized operation with network and local programming, neither of which KFXD-TV featured in its brief two-month tenure on air. It was owned by Georgia Davidson alongside Boise radio stati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Randy Davison
Randy Lee Davison (born ) is an American actor who appeared in the films '' The United States vs. Billie Holiday'' (2021) as Joseph McCarthy, ''Mank'' (2020), '' Hemet, or the Landlady Don't Drink Tea'' (2023), '' Not This Part of the World'' (1995), and ''Touch'' (2022). In the 1990s, Davison appeared in the television show ''America's Funniest People'' as Edith Bunker and as Senex in Boise State University's production of ''A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum''. Early life Davison graduated from Capital High School and is a theatre major out of Boise State University. In 1992, Davison appeared on ''America's Funniest People'' as Edith Bunker and as Popeye being Elvis. The following year, he participated in the Irene Ryan Acting competition at the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival regional conference for his monologue in the play ''The Four Bagger''. In 1994, Davison starred as Phil in ''Boys' Life'' at BSU, tied for top honors at the Student Prog ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Church
Frank Forrester Church III (July 25, 1924 – April 7, 1984) was an American politician and lawyer. A Democrat, from 1957 to 1981 he served as a U.S. Senator from Idaho, and is currently the last Democrat to do so. He was the longest serving Democratic senator from the state and the only Democrat from the state who served more than two terms in the Senate. He was a prominent figure in American foreign policy and established a reputation as a member of the party's liberal wing. Born and raised in Boise, Idaho, he enrolled at Stanford University in 1942 but left to enlist in the Army, where he served as a military intelligence officer in the China Burma India Theater of World War II. Following the end of the war, he completed his law degree from Stanford Law School and returned to Boise to practice law. Church became an active Democrat in Idaho and ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the state legislature in 1952. In 1956, he was elected to the United States Senate, defeating forme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Westerville, Ohio
Westerville is a city in Franklin County, Ohio, Franklin and Delaware County, Ohio, Delaware counties in the U.S. state of Ohio. A northeastern suburb of Columbus, Ohio, Columbus as well as the home of Otterbein University, the population was 39,190 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. Westerville was once known as "The Dry Capital of the World" for its strict laws prohibiting sales of alcohol and for being the home of the Anti-Saloon League, one of the driving forces behind Prohibition at the beginning of the 20th century. History Native Americans Cultures have inhabited the Westerville area for several millennia. Paleo-Indians and their successor cultures inhabited the area between Big Walnut Creek and Alum Creek (Ohio), Alum Creek. The Wyandot people, Wyandot were the primary inhabitants by the time Europeans arrived, living along Alum Creek. They were forced out of Ohio in 1843. Post-Ohio statehood The land that is today Westerville was settled by those of Europea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Issue Publishing House
The American Issue Publishing Company, incorporated in 1909, was the holding company of the Anti-Saloon League of America. Its printing presses operated 24 hours a day and it employed 200 people in the small town of Westerville, Ohio, where the company had its headquarters. Within the first three years of its existence the publishing house was producing about 250,000,000 (one quarter billion) book pages per month, and the quantity increased yearly. This dwarfed the output of the National Temperance Society and Publishing House, which took over half a century to print one billion pages. The American Issue Publishing Company played a major role in advancing the interests of the temperance movement. Not only did it publish an enormous quantity of temperance materials, but it also produced some of the most prestigious temperance publications; including ''The Standard Encyclopedia of the Alcohol Problem'', a multi-volume work edited by Ernest Cherrington Ernest Hurst Cherrington (No ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annetta R
Annetta is a town in Parker County, Texas, United States. The population was 3,041 in 2020. The town is named after the daughter of the founder of the town, a Mr. Fraser who built a station and general store in the area in the mid-1870s. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau The United States Census Bureau, officially the Bureau of the Census, is a principal agency of the Federal statistical system, U.S. federal statistical system, responsible for producing data about the American people and American economy, econ ..., the town has a total area of , of which is land and (2.25%) is water. Demographics As of the 2020 United States census, there were 3,041 people, 880 households, and 788 families residing in the town. Education Public schools The Town of Annetta is served by the Aledo Independent School District. Notable resident * Homa J. Porter politician, born in Annetta References External links Town of Annetta {{authority control ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Charles Castle
James Castle (September 25, 1899 – October 26, 1977) was an American artist born in Garden Valley, Idaho. Although Castle did not know about the art world outside of his small community, his work ran parallel to the development of 20th-century art history. His works have been collected by major institutions. The Philadelphia Museum of Art organized a retrospective of Castle's work which toured nationally in 2008–09. Castle's work entered the international arena with a substantial exhibition in Madrid, Spain at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in 2011 and was included in the 2013 Venice Biennale exhibition ''The Encyclopedic Palace.'' In 2014 The Smithsonian American Art Museum featured their recent acquisition in the exhibition ''Untitled: The Art of James Castle'' and the Whitney Museum of American Art included their acquired collection of Castle's work in the 2017 exhibition ''Where We Are.'' Biography James Castle was a self-taught artist who created ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
