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Margaret Smith
Margaret Smith or Maggie Smith may refer to: People *Margaret Smith Court, known as Margaret Court (born 1942), Australian tennis player *Margaret A. Smith, superintendent of Volusia County Schools * Margaret Bayard Smith (1778–1844), American author *Margaret Charles Smith (1906–2004), African-American midwife *Margaret Chase Smith (1897–1995), United States Senator from Maine * Margaret Gladys Smith (1896–1970), American pathologist *Maggie Gordon-Smith, British track cyclist *Margaret Keiver Smith (1856–1934), American psychological and educational researcher * Margaret Mary Smith (1916–1986), ichthyologist, fish illustrator and academic * Maggie Rainey-Smith (born 1950), New Zealander writer *Margaret Smith (author) (1884–1970), wrote ''Muslim Women Mystics'' *Maggie Smith (born 1934), British actress *Margaret Smith (Scottish politician) (born 1961), Liberal Democrat Member of the Scottish Parliament for Edinburgh West *Margaret Smith (West Virginia politician) (bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Court
Margaret Court ('' née'' Smith; born 16 July 1942), also known as Margaret Smith Court, is an Australian retired former world No. 1 tennis player and a Christian minister. Considered one of the greatest tennis players of all time, her 24 major singles titles and total of 64 major titles (including 19 Grand Slam women's doubles and 21 Grand Slam mixed doubles titles) are the most in tennis history. Court was born in Albury, New South Wales. In 1960, aged 17, she won the first of seven consecutive Australian Open singles titles. She completed a Career Grand Slam at the age of 21 with her victory at Wimbledon in 1963. Taking a brief hiatus in 1966 and 1967, Court played as an amateur until the advent of the Open Era in 1968. She completed a Grand Slam by winning all four major singles titles in 1970, part of a record six consecutive major singles victories. She gave birth to her first child in 1972, but returned to tennis later in the year and won three Grand Slam singl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Smith (Scottish Politician)
Margaret Smith (born 18 February 1961) is a Scottish Liberal Democrat politician. She is the former Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the Edinburgh West constituency, a seat she held from 1999 Scottish Parliament election until 2011 Scottish Parliament election. She was the Scottish Liberal Democrats Spokesperson for Education. She was the first openly lesbian MSP. At the 2011 election, she lost her seat to the Scottish National Party's Colin Keir who won with a majority of 2,689. As the Liberal Democrats failed to win any seats on the Lothian regional list, Smith was not returned as an MSP. Her constituency seat was however won back in 2016 by the Liberal Democrats' Alex Cole-Hamilton Alexander Geoffrey Cole-Hamilton (born 22 July 1977) is a Scottish politician who has served as Leader of the Scottish Liberal Democrats since 2021 and the Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the Edinburgh Western constituency since 2 .... References External links * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Regular Show
''Regular Show'' (known as ''Regular Show in Space'' during its Regular Show (season 8), eighth season) is an American animated sitcom created by J. G. Quintel for Cartoon Network. It ran from September 6, 2010, to January 16, 2017, over the course of eight seasons and List of Regular Show episodes, 261 episodes. The series stars List of Regular Show characters, Mordecai (a Blue jay, bluejay), Rigby (a raccoon), their coworkers – Skips (a yeti), Pops (a lollipop-shaped man), Muscle Man and Hi-Five Ghost – and their boss, Benson (a gumball machine), all of whom work at a local park as Groundskeeping, groundskeepers. Mordecai and Rigby spend their days slacking off and trying to avoid work to entertain themselves by any means, which leads to Surreal humour, surrealistic, extreme and supernatural misconduct. Many of ''Regular Show'' characters were loosely based on those developed for Quintel's student films at California Institute of the Arts: ''The Naïve Man from Lolliland'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Taylor Smith
Margaret Taylor Smith is an American author and social activist, and was chair of the Kresge Foundation until 1998. She received an A.B. in 1947 from Duke University Duke University is a private research university in Durham, North Carolina. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco and electric power industrialist James ..., where the Margaret Taylor Smith Directorship in Women's Studies is named for her. References Living people Place of birth missing (living people) Year of birth missing (living people) American activists American women writers Duke University alumni 21st-century American women {{US-activist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Taylor
Margaret "Peggy" Mackall Taylor ( ''née'' Smith; September 21, 1788 – August 14, 1852) was the first lady of the United States from 1849 to 1850 as the wife of President Zachary Taylor. She married Zachary in 1810 and lived as an army wife, accompanying her husband to his postings in the American frontier. She had six children, two of whom died in childhood while the remaining four were sent to boarding schools in the eastern United States. After a brief period of stable domestic life in the 1840s, her husband was elected President of the United States to her dismay in 1848. She managed the White House from the upstairs residence while she delegated her responsibilities as White House hostess to her daughter. She was highly reclusive throughout her tenure as first lady, which ended abruptly with her husband's death in 1850. She lived in obscurity until her death two years later. Early life and marriage Margaret Mackall Smith was born on September 21, 1788 in Calvert Count ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Smith (comedian)
Margaret Smith is an American six-time Emmy Award-winning standup comic, actress, writer, and producer. Originally from Chicago, Illinois, Smith is known for her deadpan and often acerbic delivery, reminiscent of Eve Arden. She was a writer and producer for ''The Ellen DeGeneres Show''.IMDb Smith lives in Austin, Texas with her two sons. Personal life Early life The second youngest of six children, Smith was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1956 and grew up there for several years before her family relocated to Florida; there she was raised by her mother and step father.Margaret Smith, What Was I Thinking? How Being a Stand Up Did Nothing to Prepare Me to Become a Single Mother (New York: Crossroad Publishing, 2005). Smith has been very open about growing up in a "dysfunctional family", often using this as the basis for material in her stand-up comedy. Adult life Smith currently lives in Austin, Texas with her two sons. She has written at length about her unsuccessful attempt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Smith (bodybuilder)
Margie V. Martin (née Margaret Virginia Smith; born February 7, 1979), nicknamed "The Marvelous One", is an American professional female bodybuilder. She is the first Ms Rising Phoenix of the 2015 and the 2016 IFBB Wings of Strength Rising Phoenix World Championships. U.S. Marine Corps career At the age of 17, Martin entered the Marine Corps, like her father before her. During her time in the Marines, she reached the rank of sergeant. She remained in the Marines until 2007.NPC August 2012 Athlete of the Month Profiles: Men’s & Women’s Bodybuilding Npcnewsonline.com. Retrieved on November 30, 2015. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maggie Smith (poet)
Maggie Smith is an American poet, freelance writer, and editor who lives in Bexley, Ohio. Smith's poem "Good Bones," originally published in the journal ''Waxwing'' in June 2016, has been widely circulated on social media and read by an estimated one million people. A ''Wall Street Journal'' story in May 2020 described it as "keeping the realities of life's ugliness from young innocents," citing that the poem has gone viral after catastrophes such as the 2016 Orlando nightclub shooting, the May 2017 suicide bombing at a concert in Manchester, U.K., the 2017 mass shooting in Las Vegas, and the coronavirus pandemic. PRI called it "the official poem of 2016". Early life Smith was born in Columbus, Ohio, in 1977.Maggie Smith Extended Bio retrieved February 2015 She received her Bachelor of Arts from [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Smith (poet)
Margaret D. Smith (born 1958) is an American writer, poet, musician, and artist. Her name is now Margaret Kellermann, active since 2011. Smith (Kellermann) was born in Norfolk, Virginia, United States. Her books of fiction, poetry and nonfiction, published under her name Margaret D. Smith, include ''Barn Swallow'' (2006), ''The Seed in Me'' (2001), ''Made With Love'' (1998), ''A Holy Struggle: Unspoken Thoughts of Hopkins'' (1992, 1994), ''Journal Keeper'' (1992, 1993), and ''The Rose and the Pearl'' coauthored by Rose Reynoldson (1982). She is a frequent guest lecturer on a variety of topics: poet Gerard Manley Hopkins, writing for adults and children, journal keeping as a spiritual practice, and the combination of the arts, such as poetry and visual art. Her work in collage using found pieces has been shown in galleries in Seattle and elsewhere in the Pacific Northwest. Her recent art—abstract seascapes on canvas—appears in galleries throughout Northern California ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maggie Smith (ceramist)
Maggie Smith (born 1950) is an American ceramist. Smith was born in New Hampshire, but moved at twenty-seven to Seattle and has resided since 1986 on Bainbridge Island. She runs a ceramics studio but is best known for her public art works, most notably the Salem Witch Trials Memorial and the Oak Grove-Freedman's Cemetery The Oak Grove-Freedman's Cemetery is a historic cemetery located at the corner of Liberty Street and North Church Street in downtown Salisbury, North Carolina. The cemetery has served as a burial ground for African Americans since it was deeded t ..., which were both collaborations with architects. She also worked on realization of the Winslow Way project in Bainbridge. Her work often involves letters. by Pottery Northwest [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Smith (West Virginia Politician)
Margaret 'Peggy' Donaldson Smith (born 1952) is an American politician and a Democratic member of the West Virginia House of Delegates since January 12, 2009. Smith served four terms in the West Virginia Legislature representing Districts 38 and 46 from January 2009 until the present. Education Smith earned her B.A. with honors from West Virginia Wesleyan College, her M.A. and Ed.D. from West Virginia University, and her J.D. from the West Virginia University College of Law. Elections *2014 and 2016 Smith won Primary and General elections to represent District 46. *2012 Redistricted to District 46, and with incumbent Representative Stan Shaver redistricted to District 53, Smith was unopposed for both the May 8, 2012 Democratic Primary, winning with 2,125 votes, and the November 6, 2012 General election, winning with 5,670 votes. *2008 When District 38 Democratic Representative Doug Stalnaker ran for West Virginia Senate and left the seat open, Smith ran in the four- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maggie Smith
Dame Margaret Natalie Smith (born 28 December 1934) is an English actress. With an extensive career on screen and stage beginning in the mid-1950s, Smith has appeared in more than sixty films and seventy plays. She is one of the few performers to achieve the Triple Crown of Acting, having received highest achievement for film, television and theatre, winning two Academy Awards, a Tony Award and four Primetime Emmy Awards. Hailed as one of Britain's most recognisable and prolific actresses, she was made a Dame by Elizabeth II, Queen Elizabeth II in 1990 for contributions to the Arts, and a Member of the Order of the Companions of Honour, Companion of Honour in 2014 for services to Drama. Smith began her career on stage as a student, performing at the Oxford Playhouse in 1952, and made her professional debut on Broadway theatre, Broadway in ''New Faces of '56''. Over the following decades, Smith established herself alongside Judi Dench as one of the most significant British thea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
