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Michael Chapman (other)
Michael Chapman or Mike Chapman may refer to: * Mike Chapman (born 1947), Australian record producer and songwriter * Michael Chapman (bassoonist) (1934–2005), British classical bassoonist and reed-maker * Michael Chapman (cinematographer) (1935–2020), American cinematographer *Mike Chapman (politician) (born 1963), member of the Washington State House of Representatives * Michael Chapman (singer) (1941–2021), English singer-songwriter and guitarist * Michael Chapman (lawyer), American lawyer * Michael Chapman (Missouri politician), Director of Homeland Security for the State of Missouri * Mike Chapman (cartoonist) (born 1973), American animator, part of The Brothers Chaps * Michael Chapman (Australian politician) (1822–1906), member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly * Michael Chapman (priest) (1939–2019), Archdeacon of Northampton * Michael L. Chapman (born 1957), American law enforcement executive {{hndis, Chapman, Michael ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Chapman
Michael Donald Chapman (born 13 April 1947) is an Australian-American record producer and songwriter who was a major force in the British pop music industry in the 1970s. He created a string of hit singles for artists including The Sweet, Suzi Quatro, Smokie, Mud and Racey with business partner Nicky Chinn, creating a sound that became identified with the "Chinnichap" brand. He later produced breakthrough albums for Blondie and The Knack. Chapman received a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in the 2014 Australia Day Honours. Early career Chapman was born in Queensland, Australia, and was educated at the Anglican Church Grammar School. He emigrated to Britain where he became a member of the Downliners Sect and then in 1968 joined the group Tangerine Peel. They released an album in 1969 and had several near-hit singles between 1967 and 1970. In 1970 he met Nicky Chinn while working as a waiter at a London nightclub, Tramp. The pair struck up a song-writing partnership ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Chapman (bassoonist)
Michael Chapman (3 August 1934 – 21 July 2005) was a British classical bassoonist and reed-maker. His playing, characterized by an ability to weave long, sustained, singing lines and deliver powerful utterances, has influenced subsequent generations of British bassoonists. He studied at the Royal College of Music in London with Archie Camden and Vernon Elliott. After graduation, he joined the London Philharmonic Orchestra in 1959 as second bassoon to Martin Gatt. In 1962, he won an Arts Council scholarship and left the London Philharmonic to study with the great Italian bassoonist Enzo Muccetti at the Arrigo Boito Conservatory in Parma. Upon returning to England, he served as principal bassoonist of the newly formed Northern Sinfonia, where he stayed for almost 15 years. In 1978, he became principal bassoonist of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and he held this post for the next 21 years. He taught privately, and at University of York, and Trinity College of Musi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Chapman (cinematographer)
Michael Crawford Chapman, A.S.C. (November 21, 1935 – September 20, 2020) was an American cinematographer and film director well known for his work on many films of the American New Wave of the 1970s and in the 1980s with directors such as Martin Scorsese and Ivan Reitman. He shot more than forty feature films, over half of those with only three different directors. Early life and education Chapman was born in New York City in 1935, but raised in Wellesley, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston, without much of an interest in film. As a youth, he was more interested in sports than photography or painting. After high school, he attended Columbia University, where he majored in English. Upon his graduation, he worked temporarily as a brakeman for the Erie Lackawanna Railroad in the Midwest and then served a brief stint in the United States Army. Chapman’s father-in-law, Joe Brun, got him his first job in the industry: working as an assistant camera and focus puller on commerci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Chapman (politician)
Michael C. Chapman (born 1963) is an American customs inspector and politician serving as a Democratic member of the Washington State House of Representatives. Political career Chapman was a County Commissioner for Clallam County, Washington from 2009 to 2017. Chapman was first elected to the state legislature in 2016. He was reelected in 2018 and 2020. Chapman represents the 24th Legislative District, which includes Clallam and Jefferson counties as well as parts of Grays Harbor County. Electoral record In 2018, Chapman and Jodi Wilke were the only candidates in the top-two primary for the District 24, Position 1 seat, so both advanced to the general election. Personal life Chapman and his wife, Bobbi, have two sons, and live in Port Angeles, Washington Port Angeles ( ) is a city and county seat of Clallam County, Washington, United States. With a population of 19,960 as of the 2020 census, it is the largest city in the county. The populatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Chapman (singer)
Michael Chapman (24 January 1941 – 10 September 2021) was a British singer-songwriter and virtuosic guitar player. Chapman originally began playing guitar with jazz bands, mainly in his home town of Leeds in the West Riding of Yorkshire. He became well known in the folk clubs of the late 1960s, as well as on the 'progressive' music scene, and released over 50 albums. In 2016, Chapman celebrated fifty years as a professional musician. Towards the end of his life he still played professionally and regularly toured in the UK, Europe and US. Biography Chapman was born in Hunslet, Leeds, Yorkshire. He attended art college in Leeds and then worked as an art and photography teacher at Bolton College, Lancashire. At the time he was playing mostly jazz guitar standards as he was heavily influenced by American jazz performers. Listening to other English guitar players such as Ralph McTell, Chapman evolved his own distinctive style of playing incorporating jazz, folk & ragtime styl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Chapman (lawyer)
Michael Chapman is an American lawyer, and former senior officer in the United States Army's Judge Advocate General corps, who was appointed the legal adviser to the Office of Military Commissions, in Guantanamo on September 19, 2008. According to the official press release that announced his appointment his previous appointments included being: * senior judge for the U.S. Army Court of Criminal Appeals; * deputy commandant and director of academics at the Army's JAG school in Charlottesville, Virginia; * senior military defense counsel during Operation Desert Storm. William J. Kreutzer Jr. Chapman sat on the appeal of William J. Kreutzer Jr.'s murder conviction while serving on the Army Court of Criminal Appeals. Sergeant Kreutzer had been convicted of opening fire on his comrades at Fort Bragg, killing one, and injuring seventeen. Two of the officers who have presided over Omar Khadr's Guantanamo Military Commissions, Peter Brownback and Patrick Parrish, presided over ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Chapman (Missouri Politician)
Michael Chapman is a former director of Homeland Security for the State of Missouri. Education Chapman graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University and went to a junior school in America. Chapman also studied international public policy at Johns Hopkins University in its School of Advanced International Studies. Federal service Chapman spent fifteen years in the United States Navy where he was a Naval Flight Officer. Chapman spent a further fifteen years working for State Department, Navy Department, Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Office of the Secretary of Defense. His positions concerned "homeland defense", special operations, and international security. Missouri service Missouri Governor Matt Blunt Matthew Roy Blunt (born November 20, 1970) is an American former naval officer and politician who served as the 54th Governor of Missouri from 2005 to 2009. Before his election as governor, Blunt served ten years in the United States Navy, was e ... appointed him the di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Chapman (cartoonist)
Matthew "Matt" Alan Chapman (born November 1, 1976) and Michael "Mike" Raymond Chapman (born September 20, 1973), known collectively as The Brothers Chaps, are American writers, voice actors, directors, animators, producers and composers. They are best known as the creators of the animated series ''Homestar Runner''. Early life While Matt and Mike Chapman were born in Indiana, they grew up in Decatur, Georgia and later resided in Atlanta. Growing up in the 1980s, the Brothers Chaps were creating comic books, filming Super 8 movies and eventually toying with a video camera. Mike attended the University of Georgia and studied photography while Matt went to film school. Career Mike Chapman created the character of Homestar Runner in 1996 with friend Craig Zobel. The character debuted in the children's book ''The Homestar Runner Enters the Strongest Man in the World Contest,'' which was subsequently posted online as a series of images. In 2000, the Brothers Chaps began to create c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Chapman (Australian Politician)
Michael Chapman (1822 – 23 February 1906) was an Irish-born Australian politician. He was born at Cloyne to property owner William Chapman and Mary. In 1840 he migrated to New South Wales, and on 11 December 1846 he married Catherine Shanahan, with whom he had four children. A successful oil trader, he served on Sydney City Council from 1860 to 1862 and from 1866 to 1900; he was also a Glebe alderman from 1866 to 1875 and from 1878 to 1893, and mayor from 1882 to 1884. In 1883 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as the member for Glebe. Defeated in 1885, he returned in 1887 as a Free Trade Free trade is a trade policy that does not restrict imports or exports. It can also be understood as the free market idea applied to international trade. In government, free trade is predominantly advocated by political parties that hold econo ...r. He was re-elected in 1889, but defeated in 1891. Chapman died at Forest Lodge in 1906. References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Chapman (priest)
Michael Chapman (29 September 1939 - 15 March 2019) was an English Anglican priest who was the Archdeacon of Northampton from 1991 to his retirement in 2004. Marsh was educated at Lichfield Cathedral School, Ellesmere College, the University of Leeds and the College of the Resurrection; and ordained deacon in 1963 and priest in 1964. After a curacy in Sunderland he was a Chaplain in the Royal Navy from 1968 until 1984. In that year he became Vicar of St Mark the Evangelist Church, Upper Hale, Farnham, Surrey, and in 1988 its Rural Dean, holding both posts until his appointment as Archdeacon An archdeacon is a senior clergy position in the Church of the East, Chaldean Catholic Church, Syriac Orthodox Church, Anglican Communion, St Thomas Christians, Eastern Orthodox churches and some other Christian denominations, above that of m .... He died in 2019, aged 79. He was survived by his wife, Bernadette. Notes 1939 births 2019 deaths People educated at Ell ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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