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MacDonnell (surname)
MacDonnell, Macdonnell, or McDonnell is a surname of Irish and Scottish origin. It is an anglicized form of the Gaelic patronymic ''Mac Dhòmhnaill'', meaning "son of Dòmhnall". The Gaelic personal name ''Dòmhnall'' is a Gaelicised form of the name ''Donald'', which is composed of the elements ''domno'', meaning "world", and ''val'', meaning "might" or "rule". The name is considered a variation of MacDonald. MacDonnells are found in both Scottish and Irish nobility, where they have held an important role in the history of both countries. A * Alasdair McDonnell (born 1949), Northern Irish politician and MP from Cushendall * Alestair Ruadh MacDonnell (1725–1761), Scottish chief of Glengarry, secret agent and spy on Prince Charles Edward after 1750 * Alexander McDonnell, 9th Earl of Antrim (1935–2021), British peer from Northern Ireland * Alexander McDonnell (chess player) (1798–1835), Irish chess master * Alexander McDonnell (engineer) (1829–1904), locomotive d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MacDonell
MacDonell, Macdonell, or McDonell is a surname of Scottish origin. It is an anglicized form of the Gaels, Gaelic patronymic ''Mac Dhòmhnaill'', meaning "son of Dòmhnall". The personal name Dòmhnall is composed of the elements domno "world" and val "might", "rule". The name is a variation of other Clan Donald surnames such as Macdonald (name), MacDonald and Donaldson. Notable people with the surname include: *A. G. Macdonell (1895–1941), Scottish writer, journalist, and broadcaster *Alasdair Ranaldson MacDonell of Glengarry (1771–1828), chief of the Clan MacDonnel of Glengarry *Alexander Macdonell (bishop of Kingston), Alexander Macdonell (1762–1840), Canadian Roman Catholic bishop *Alexander Macdonell (politician), Alexander Macdonell (1762–1842), Canadian soldier and political figure *Alexander McDonell (politician), Alexander McDonell (1786–1861), Scottish-Canadian immigration agent and political figure *Angus Claude Macdonell (1861–1924), Canadian lawyer and polit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander McDonnell (engineer)
Alexander McDonnell was an Irish locomotive engineer and civil engineer. He was born in Dublin on 18 December 1829 and died in Holyhead on 14 December 1904. He was educated at Trinity College Dublin, where he graduated with an honours BA in mathematics (1851). He brought order and standardisation to the workshops and locomotive designs of the Great Southern and Western Railway of Ireland, and was later employed to do the same for the North Eastern Railway in England, although resistance to his changes meant little progress was made before he left. Career McDonnell was apprenticed at Newall and Gordon in Westminster before working as an engineer at the Newport, Abergavenny and Hereford Railway – later to become part of the Great Western Railway. From 1864 to 1883 he was Locomotive, Carriage and Wagon Superintendent of the Great Southern and Western Railway of Ireland at Inchicore. McDonnell reformed the GS&WR workshop practices and improved their speed and efficiency. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugene McDonnell
Eugene Edward McDonnell (October 18, 1926 – August 17, 2010) was a computer science pioneer and long-time contributor to the programming language siblings APL and J. He was a graduate of Brooklyn Technical High School. After serving as an infantry corporal in the U.S. Army in World War II, he attended the University of Kentucky, graduating in 1949 summa cum laude, and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He was awarded a First Year Graduate Fellowship to Harvard University, where he studied comparative literature, particularly Dante's Divine Comedy. Studying the poems of Robert Frost, he noticed that the first two poems in Frost's book West-Running Brook, "Spring Pools" and "The Freedom of the Moon", not only discuss reflecting, but the rhyme schemes of the two reflect each other: AABCBC and CBCBAA. When he met Frost, he was delighted to find that they had both committed the 193 lines of John Milton's " Lycidas" to memory. His first work at IBM was in the design of IBM's first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dan McDonnell
Dan McDonnell is an American college baseball coach who has been the head coach of the Louisville Cardinals since the start of the 2007 season. As of the end of the 2017 season, Louisville has a 646-266 (.708 winning percentage) in 15 seasons record under McDonnell and has appeared in five College World Series (2007, 2013, 2014, 2017, 2019), 7 super regionals, and 10 NCAA tournaments. Under McDonnell, the Cardinals have won two Big East tournaments and four Big East regular season titles. McDonnell was one game away in 2015 from leading his Louisville Cardinals to three straight College World Series appearances. The College World Series is the final eight teams in the NCAA tournament, and it is played in Omaha, Nebraska. McDonnell, in his team's first three years in the Atlantic Coast Conference, has led his team to 3 division titles and 2 conference titles. McDonnell grew up in Rye Brook, New York, and attended Port Chester High School. McDonnell played college baseball ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Clark is an English language surname with historical links to England, Scotland, and Ireland, ultimately derived from the Latin ''clericus'' meaning "scribe", "secretary" or a scholar within a religious order, referring to someone who was educated. ''Clark'' evolved from "clerk". The first records of the name are found in 12th-century England. The name has many variants. It is often used as the Anglicized variant of Irish O'Cleary, Cleary. ''Clark'' is the twenty-seventh most common surname in the United Kingdom, including placing fourteenth in Scotland. Clark is also an occasional given name, as in the case of Clark Gable. According to the 1990 United States census, ''Clark'' was the twenty-first most frequently encountered surname, accounting for 0.23% of the population. According to the 2010 United States Census, ''Clark'' was the thirtieth most frequent surname, with a count of 562,679.United States Census Bureau (October 8, 2021) Retrieved on 2025-02-11 Disambiguation pag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clare McDonnell
Clare McDonnell (born 1967) is a Sony Radio Academy Awards winning British radio broadcaster and presenter. Career McDonnell began as a reporter in local radio in England, and from there moved on to be a radio presenter. For several years, she presented the Breakfast Show on BBC GLR Radio, and many shows on national radio, such as the ''Trade Update'' series on BBC Radio 1, and ''Global'' on BBC Radio Five Live, where she also worked on the '' Nicky Campbell Show'' as the Euro News presenter. McDonnell was a television presenter on '' Liquid News'', an entertainment news show on BBC One and BBC Three. She was one of the original presenters at the launch of BBC Radio 6 Music in March 2002, starting with a Saturday afternoon show. She later presented the weekend overnight music show on Saturday and Sunday until her final broadcast on BBC Radio 6 Music on 28 March 2010. In January 2010 she started co-presenting the breakfast show with John Warnett on BBC Radio Kent , ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlotte McDonnell
Charlotte McDonnell (formerly Charlie McDonnell; born 1 October 1990) is a British filmmaker, screenwriter, musician, former vlogger, author and Twitch streamer from Bath, Somerset. On 15 June 2011, her YouTube channel charlieissocoollike became the first in the United Kingdom to reach one million subscribers. As a musician, McDonnell was a member of ''Doctor Who''–themed rock band Chameleon Circuit and the short-lived musical project Sons of Admirals until it disbanded in May 2011. In 2010, McDonnell released a solo album titled ''This Is Me''. She also directed a series of short films from 2013 to 2014, and co-hosted the weekday morning YouTube breakfast show '' Cereal Time'' with Capital FM presenter and fellow YouTube vlogger Jimmy Hill from 2015 to 2016. After over a decade of regular uploads, McDonnell ended her YouTube career in December 2018 and moved on to screenwriting and television production. Her first series, the science fiction drama '' Don't Look Deeper'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles James McDonnell
Charles James McDonnell (July 7, 1928 – February 13, 2020) was an American Roman Catholic titular bishop of Pocofeltus and auxiliary bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Newark, New Jersey. Biography Born in Queens, New York, McDonnell was ordained for the Newark Archdiocese on May 29, 1954. On March 15, 1994, he was named bishop and was consecrated as bishop on May 21, 1994. Bishop McDonnell retired on May 21, 2004. He died on February 13, 2020, aged 91. Awards and decorations Among his awards and decorations are: *Legion of Merit (with one bronze oak leaf cluster) *Soldier's Medal *Bronze Star *Meritorious Service Medal (with three bronze oak leaf clusters) *Air Medal *Army Commendation Medal (with two bronze oak leaf clusters) * Presidential Unit Citation *Army Meritorious Unit Commendation *Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation *Vietnam Gallantry Cross Unit Citation * Vietnam Civil Actions Unit Citation *National Defense Service Medal *Armed Forces Expediti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barry McDonnell
Barry McDonnell (1924 – 14 February 1976) was an Irish rower. He competed in the men's eight event at the 1948 Summer Olympics The 1948 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XIV Olympiad and officially branded as London 1948, were an international multi-sport event held from 29 July to 14 August 1948 in London, United Kingdom. Following a twelve-year hiatus cau .... References External links * 1924 births 1976 deaths Irish male rowers Olympic rowers for Ireland Rowers at the 1948 Summer Olympics Place of birth missing 20th-century Irish sportsmen {{Ireland-rowing-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob McDonnell
Robert Francis McDonnell (born June 15, 1954) is an American politician, attorney, businessman, academic administrator, and former military officer who served as the 71st governor of Virginia from 2010 to 2014. He is a member of the Republican Party. Born in Philadelphia, McDonnell was a lieutenant colonel in the United States Army Reserve. He later served in the Virginia House of Delegates from 1992 to 2006, and was attorney general of Virginia from 2006 to 2009. A member of the Republican Party, McDonnell was elected governor of Virginia after using the campaign slogan "Bob's for Jobs." He defeated Democratic state Senator Creigh Deeds by a 17-point margin in the 2009 general election, which was marked by the severe recession of the late 2000s. McDonnell succeeded Democrat Tim Kaine, who was term-limited by Virginia law. After taking office as governor, McDonnell advocated privatization and promoted offshore drilling for Virginia. He moved to extend a contract to outso ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernard C
Bernard ('' Bernhard'') is a French and West Germanic masculine given name. It has West Germanic origin and is also a surname. The name is attested from at least the 9th century. West Germanic ''Bernhard'' is composed from the two elements ''bern'' "bear" and ''hard'' "brave, hardy". Its native Old English cognate was ''Beornheard'', which was replaced or merged with the French form ''Bernard'' that was brought to England after the Norman Conquest. The name ''Bernhard'' was notably popular among Old Frisian speakers. Its wider use was popularized due to Saint Bernhard of Clairvaux (canonized in 1174). In Ireland, the name was an anglicized form of Brian. Geographical distribution Bernard is the second most common surname in France. As of 2014, 42.2% of all known bearers of the surname ''Bernard'' were residents of France (frequency 1:392), 12.5% of the United States (1:7,203), 7.0% of Haiti (1:382), 6.6% of Tanzania (1:1,961), 4.8% of Canada (1:1,896), 3.6% of Nigeria (1:12,2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antony MacDonnell, 1st Baron MacDonnell
Lord MacDonnell Antony Patrick MacDonnell, 1st Baron MacDonnell, (7 March 1844 – 9 June 1925), known as Sir Antony MacDonnell between 1893 and 1908, was an Irish civil servant, much involved in the Indian land reform and famine relief in India. He was Permanent Under-Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (1902–1908); Member of the Council of India (1902); Privy Councillor (1902); Lieutenant-Governor of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh (1895–1901); Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal (1893–1895); Chief Commissioner of the Central Provinces (1890–1893); Chief Commissioner of Burma (1889–1890); Home Secretary to the Central Government of India (1886–1889); Secretary to the Government of Bengal and the Bengal Legislative Council. Early life MacDonnell was born at Palmfield House, Shragh Lower, Carracastle, Ballaghaderreen, County Mayo, on 7 March 1844, to Mark Garvey MacDonnell (1807–1889), a local Catholic landlord, and his wife, Bedelia (née O'Hara). H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
