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Paul Murray (singer)
Paul Murray may refer to: * Paul Murray (admiral), South African Vice Admiral * Paul Murray (author) (born 1975), Irish author of the book ''An Evening of Long Goodbyes'' * Paul Murray (businessman) (born 1964), current director and former interim chairman of Rangers F.C. * Paul Murray (footballer) (born 1976), English football player * Paul Murray (journalist) (born 1950), journalist and former editor of ''The West Australian'' * Paul Murray (musician), Canadian musician, member of the band Sandbox * Paul Murray (poet) (born 1947), Irish poet, Catholic priest and spiritual writer; author of Aquinas at Prayer * Paul Murray (presenter) (born 1978), Australian radio and television presenter currently at Sky News Australia * Paul Murray (rugby union) (1905–1981), Irish rugby union international * Paul Murray (skier) (born 1977), cross-country skier representing Australia at the 2006 Winter Olympics * Paul D. Murray, British theologian See also * Pauli Murray (Anna Pauline Murra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Murray (admiral)
Vice Admiral Paul Murray is a retired South African Navy officer who served as Chief of Staff Finance for the South African Defence Force before his retirement in 1993. Naval career Paul Murray was a surface combat officer who served as a Bridge Watchkeeping Officer, Gunnery Officer and Executive Officer aboard various vessels. He later served as Director Budgeting and Programming for the SADF. He served as Chief Director Finances under V Adm Marthinus Bekker. He was promoted to vice admiral in 1990. He was promoted to rear admiral on 1 January 1989 and appointed Chief Director:Finances at SADF Headquarters. Awards and decorations He was awarded the Star of South Africa, Silver in the 1994 National Honours. * * * * * * * * * Spanish Army Medical Service Medal References South African admirals Living people 1941 births {{SouthAfrica-mil-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Murray (author)
Paul Murray (born 1975) is an Irish novelist, essayist, short story writer, and screenwriter, the author of the novels '' An Evening of Long Goodbyes'' (2003), ''Skippy Dies'' (2010), '' The Mark and the Void'' (2015), and '' The Bee Sting'' (2023). He also wrote the screenplay for ''Metal Heart''. Biography Murray was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1975, the son of a professor of Anglo-Irish Drama at University College Dublin and a teacher. Murray attended Blackrock College in south Dublin, an experience that would later provide the basis for the school in ''Skippy Dies''. He studied English literature at Trinity College, Dublin, and subsequently completed his master's in creative writing at the University of East Anglia. He also spent time in Barcelona, Spain, as an English teacher, a time he did not enjoy, describing it as "a brief and unhappy stint teaching English to a Catalan businessman, who pointed out many faults in my grammar I had not known about hitherto". He describes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Murray (businessman)
Paul Murray (born 29 May 1964) is a Scottish businessman. He is a former director of Rangers Football Club. Murray is a chartered accountant. He became director of Rangers Football Club on 20 September 2007. A few weeks after Craig Whyte's take over the company that owned the club in May 2011, Murray was removed from the board by Whyte as for refusing to resign his directorship. After two years, Murray returned to the spotlight when he led a group of Rangers shareholders that requisitioned an EGM to vote on the removal of Plc board directors including then chief executive Craig Mather, although the bid proved ultimately unsuccessful. Not to be deterred, Murray played a role in Dave King's consortium's boardroom takeover at Ibrox Stadium Ibrox Stadium is a football stadium on the south side of the River Clyde in the Ibrox area of Glasgow, Scotland. The home of Scottish Premiership team Rangers, Ibrox is the third-largest football stadium in Scotland, with an all-s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Murray (footballer)
Paul Murray (born 31 August 1976) is an English football coach and former professional player. He is currently academy manager and the academy manager of Oldham Athletic. Playing career Murray was born on 31 August 1976, in Carlisle, Cumbria, England. He started his career at Carlisle United and made his Football League debut for them on 27 December 1993, coming on as a substitute against Darlington.Rothmans Football Yearbook 1994–95 In May 1996 he joined Queens Park Rangers on loan, making his debut at Nottingham Forest. After the Hoops' relegation that season, he joined the team permanently for a transfer fee of £300,000. Whilst at QPR he was called up four times for the England U21 squad, and in February 1998 he made his solitary appearance for England B as a substitute against Chile. He enjoyed a successful time at Loftus Road, playing 140 league games before he joined Premiership club Southampton in July 2001, though he played only one game for the south coast side. I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Murray (journalist)
Paul Murray is a former working journalist and later editor of ''The West Australian'' newspaper who resigned and was later retained to write opinion articles for the same newspaper. Murray was the longest serving newspaper editor in Australia when he resigned in February 2000. Biography Early life Murray was born in Mount Lawley in 1950, and grew up in the eastern Perth suburb of Guildford in the Swan Valley. His father, Keith Murray, was a journalist at ''The West Australian'' for a decade from 1948 and his older brother Kim was a reporter at the '' Daily News''. He attended Guildford Primary School and then Guildford Grammar School. He initially studied geology at the University of Western Australia, then worked as a mine geologist in Kalgoorlie before changing career. Career He took a cadetship at ''The West Australian'' in 1970 and through the 1970s worked variously from its Fremantle, Kalgoorlie, Perth, Sydney and Melbourne offices. He worked at the '' Western Mail'' from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Murray (musician)
Sandbox was a Canadian alternative rock band active in the 1990s. The band consisted of Paul Murray on lead vocals, Mike Smith and Jason Archibald on guitar, Scott MacFarlane on bass and Troy Shanks on drums. Formation Sandbox was formed by Mike Smith in New Glasgow in 1992, originally as a cover band named Sandbox Legacy. Lead singer Paul Murray is the nephew of singer Anne Murray. The band debuted with the 1993 indie EP, ''Maskman''. Canadian chart success Their debut album ''Bionic'' was released in 1995. The album spawned their most well known singles, "Curious" and "Collide". "Curious" reached No. 34 on Canada's ''RPM'' Singles chart and No. 8 on Canada's Alternative chart, while "Collide" peaked at #57 in the ''RPM100''. Both songs received regular airplay on MuchMusic. They were nominated for Best New Group at the Juno Awards of 1996. Their second album, ''A Murder in the Glee Club'' was released in 1997. Produced by Don Fleming, the album was a concept a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Murray (poet)
Paul Brendan Murray, (born 26 November 1947) is an Irish Dominican priest of the Catholic Church, poet, writer, and professor. Murray was born at Newcastle, County Down, in Northern Ireland. In 1966 he joined the Irish Dominican Province, and was ordained a priest in 1973. Since 1994 he has lived in Rome, Italy, where he teaches the literature of the mystical tradition at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas, also known as the Angelicum. He holds a doctorate in English Literature from University College Dublin. In 2012 Paul Murray was conferred with honorary degree of Master of Sacred Theology at a ceremony in St Mary's Priory, Tallaght, Dublin. Bibliography Prose * ''The Mysticism Debate'' (1977) * ''T.S. Eliot and Mysticism: The Secret History of the Four Quartets'' (1991) * ''A Journey with Jonah: The Spirituality of Bewilderment'' (2002) * ''Preachers at Prayer'' (2003) * ''The New Wine of Dominican Spirituality: A Drink Called Happiness'' (2003) * ''" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Murray (presenter)
Paul Murray (born 14 July 1978) is an Australian conservative political commentator based in Sydney. He was the former regular mornings presenter on 2UE show ''A Sydney Morning''. He also hosts ''Paul Murray Live'' on Sky News Australia, which airs Sunday to Thursday at 9 pm AEST, as well as a ''Saturday Edition''. Career In 2008, Murray joined ''The Shebang'' with Marty Sheargold and Fifi Box on Triple M's Sydney breakfast shift and also co-hosted the short-lived chat show ''The NightCap'' on 7HD. The latter program debuted with the first known public discussion of the childhood accident that left him with only nine toes. He also joined Sky News Australia, where he began hosting ''180 with Paul Murray'' (now known as ''Paul Murray Live''). In November 2010, it was announced that Murray would be moving to AM radio station 2UE. He hosted both drive and morning shows, and in early 2013 he began hosting the morning show ''Sydney Mornings''. In October 2013, Murray openly crit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Murray (rugby Union)
Paul Finbarr Murray (29 June 1905 — 1 June 1981) was an Irish rugby union international. One of nine siblings, Murray was born in Dublin and attended Blackrock College. Murray, who captained Dublin club Wanderers, played provincial rugby for Leinster and was capped 19 times for Ireland Ireland (, ; ; Ulster Scots dialect, Ulster-Scots: ) is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean, in Northwestern Europe. Geopolitically, the island is divided between the Republic of Ireland (officially Names of the Irish state, named Irelan ..., debuting in 1927. He was a versatile back, making his Ireland appearances as a centre, out-half and scrum-half. In 1930, Murray made the British Lions squad for the tour of New Zealand and Australia, featuring in four of the five Tests. He was picked as a three-quarter, but ended up as the team's scrum-half, after Wilf Sobey got injured. A medical practitioner, Murray became an Ireland selector after retiring from rugby in 1934. He remained a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Murray (skier)
Paul Murray (born 8 May 1977) is an Australian cross-country skier who has competed since 1997. Competing in two Winter Olympics, he earned his best finish of 20th in the team sprint event at Vancouver in 2010 while earning his best individual finish of 51st in the individual sprint event at Turin four years earlier. Murray's best finish at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships was 14th in the team sprint at Sapporo in 2007 while his best individual finish was 31st in an individual sprint event at Oberstdorf two years earlier. His best World Cup finish was 16th in a team sprint event in Canada in 2009 while his best individual finish was 29th in an individual sprint event at Germany Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It lies between the Baltic Sea and the North Sea to the north and the Alps to the south. Its sixteen States of Germany, constituent states have a total popu ... in 2005. References * 1977 births Austr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul D
Paul may refer to: People * Paul (given name), a given name, including a list of people * Paul (surname), a list of people * Paul the Apostle, an apostle who wrote many of the books of the New Testament * Ray Hildebrand, half of the singing duo Paul & Paula * Paul Stookey, one-third of the folk music trio Peter, Paul and Mary * Billy Paul, stage name of American soul singer Paul Williams (1934–2016) * Vinnie Paul, drummer for American Metal band Pantera * Paul Avril, pseudonym of Édouard-Henri Avril (1849–1928), French painter and commercial artist * Paul, pen name under which Walter Scott wrote ''Paul's letters to his Kinsfolk'' in 1816 * Jean Paul Jean Paul (; born Johann Paul Friedrich Richter, 21 March 1763 – 14 November 1825) was a German Romanticism, German Romantic writer, best known for his humorous novels and stories. Life and work Jean Paul was born at Wunsiedel, in the Ficht ..., pen name of Johann Paul Friedrich Richter (1763–1825), German Romantic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pauli Murray
Anna Pauline "Pauli" Murray (November 20, 1910 – July 1, 1985) was an American civil rights activist, advocate, legal scholar and theorist, author and – later in life – an Episcopal priest. Murray's work influenced the civil rights movement and expanded legal protection for gender equality. Born in Baltimore, Maryland, Murray was essentially orphaned and then raised mostly by her maternal aunt in Durham, North Carolina. At age 16, she moved to New York City to attend Hunter College, and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English in 1933. In 1940, Murray sat in the whites-only section of a Virginia bus with a friend, and they were arrested for violating state segregation laws. This incident, and her subsequent involvement with the socialist Workers' Defense League, led her to pursue her career goal of working as a civil rights lawyer. She enrolled in the law school at Howard University, where she was the only woman in her class. Murray graduated first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
