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Race (name)
Race is both an English unisex given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include: Surname *Harley Race (1943–2019), American wrestler, coach and promoter *Hugo Race (born 1963), Australian musician * Janice Race, American former comic book editor * John Abner Race (1914–1983), American politician * John Burton-Race (born 1957), British chef * Steve Race (1921–2009), British musician and radio personality *Steve Race (politician) (born 1983), British politician Given name * Race Davies (born 1962), British actress * Race Imboden (born 1993), American fencer * Race Mathews Charles Race Thorson Mathews (27 March 1935 – 5 May 2025) was an Australian politician, academic, author and reformer. He was a member of Australia's Federal Parliament and the Victorian State Parliament for the Australian Labor Party (ALP ... (1935–2025), Australian politician, author, and co-operative economist * Race Wong (born 1982), Singaporean actress {{given name, type=b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harley Race
Harley Leland Race (April 11, 1943 – August 1, 2019) was an American professional wrestler, professional wrestling promotion, promoter, and trainer. Race wrestled in the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA), the American Wrestling Association (AWA), the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE), and World Championship Wrestling (WCW). He was a nine-time world champion, having won the WWA World Heavyweight Championship (Indianapolis), WWA World Heavyweight Championship once and the NWA World Heavyweight Championship List of NWA World Heavyweight Champions, eight times and was the first List of WWE United States Champions, NWA United States Heavyweight Champion (now WWE United States Championship). Race is one of six men to have been inducted into each of the WWE Hall of Fame, the NWA Hall of Fame, the WCW Hall of Fame, the Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame and the Wrestling Observer Newsletter Hall of Fame. He is widely considered as one of the greatest professional wrestlers of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugo Race
Hugo Justin Race (born 23 May 1963) is an Australian rock musician and record producer who had been based in Europe from 1989 to 2011. He was a member of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds (1983–85), and The Wreckery (1984–89) with Nick Barker and Robin Casinader. As from October 2013 he was simultaneously a member of Hugo Race and the True Spirit, Hugo Race Fatalists, and Dirtmusic. True Spirit have released 12 albums. Race returned to live in Australia in 2011. Life and career Hugo Justin Race was born in the early 1960s in Melbourne and grew up in an Anglo-Irish family. His father listened to musical theatre and classical music, his mother played piano, he has brothers and a sister. In 1978 he formed Dum Dum Fit as the lead vocalist and guitarist with Robin Casinader on keyboards. Two years later Race and Casinader formed Plays with Marionettes which also included Edward Clayton-Jones on guitar, organ, and vocals (ex-The Fabulous Marquises) and Nick Seymour on bass guita ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janice Race
Janice Race is an American former comic book editor best known for her work at DC Comics in the 1980s. Biography Raised in The Bronx,Race, Janice, brief autobiographical essay for Dick Giordano's "Meanwhile" column, ''Wonder Woman'' #317 (July 1984) "I grew up in The Bronx, in the shadow of Yankee Stadium... Here, at DC, I am the New York contact for most of the books written and edited by Roy Thomas and Gerry Conway." Race earned a B.S. in speech pathology and audiology from the College of City University. She was employed by DC Comics in the 1980s and had worked as a textbook editor for Harcourt Brace Jovanovich before entering the comics industry. She began working at DC in late 1983 and served as an Associate Editor for Roy Thomas and Gerry Conway as well as an editor in her own right. Among the titles she oversaw was ''World's Finest Comics'' which featured DC's two best-known characters, Superman and Batman. Race was a frequent collaborator with writer Greg Potter and ed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Abner Race
John Abner Race (May 12, 1914 – November 9, 1983) was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Wisconsin. He was born in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin and graduated from Fond du Lac High School and attended the University of Wisconsin–Madison School for Workers. In 1958, Race was elected to the Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin Board of Supervisors. He ran unsuccessfully against Earl F. McEssy for the Wisconsin State Assembly in 1958. He also served on the state vocations board. He came to Congress on the coattails of Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964 as part of the 89th Congress when the Democrats gained a net of 36 seats. From 1965 to 1967 Race served on the House Committee of Interior and Insular Affairs. He was defeated for reelection to the 90th United States Congress in 1966 by William A. Steiger and also defeated in his run for the Wisconsin State Assembly in 1970. Race was in the machine tool industry, where he operated a crane for the Giddings & Lewis com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Burton-Race
John William Burton-Race (born 1 May 1957) is a British former Michelin starred chef, television personality and celebrity chef, made famous by the Channel 4 series ''French Leave'' and its sequel ''Return of the Chef'' and '' I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!''. Early life Burton-Race was born in Singapore, raised by his mother and stepfather, who was a United Nations official. Burton-Race's biological father, whom he contacted as an adult, was a geologist. Burton-Race spent his early years travelling, allowing him to experience food from all round the world. He attended St Mary's College, Southampton. Career Between 1983 and 2002, he held positions at various restaurants in the South of England, including Le Manoir aux Quat' Saisons, Oxford; the L'Ortolan restaurant in Berkshire; and in 2000, he took over The Landmark London hotel, winning two Michelin stars. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Race
Stephen Russell Race OBE (1 April 192122 June 2009) was an English composer, pianist and radio and television presenter. Early life He was born in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, the son of a lawyer, Race learned the piano from the age of five.Spencer Leig"Steve Race: Musician and broadcaster best known for his association with the programme 'My Music'" ''The Independent'', 24 June 2009 He was educated (1932–37) at Lincoln School, where he formed his first jazz group, which included a young Neville Marriner, later a major figure in the world of classical music. At sixteen, he attended the Royal Academy of Music, studying composition under Harry Farjeon and William Alwyn. He grew up 6, St Catherine's, where his father was Russell Race, who died in 1926. His brother Philip, a solicitor, was a Methodist preacher, and worked with the British Council of Churches, from 1990 known as Churches Together in Britain and Ireland. Career After leaving the academy, Race (encouraged by the cla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Race (politician)
Stephen Race is a British Labour Party politician who has served as Member of Parliament for Exeter since 2024. Early life and career Race was born in Hull in 1983, and had a younger sister who was born with Hurler syndrome, an incurable genetic condition. He attended Manchester University. Political career Between 2007 and 2011 he worked as a Senior Parliamentary Researcher for Exeter's Member of Parliament, Ben Bradshaw. Subsequently he was an Associate Director with FleishmanHillard and served as a councillor on Hackney Council, representing Hoxton East and Shoreditch from 2018 until 2024. He was Chair of the Young Fabians between 2012 and 2013. He contested East Devon East Devon is a local government district in Devon, England. Its council is based in the town of Honiton, although Exmouth is the largest town. The district also contains the towns of Axminster, Budleigh Salterton, Cranbrook, Ottery St M ... in the 2015 general election. Parliamentary caree ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Race Davies
Race Davies (born 10 August 1962 in Moglabazar, Sylhet, East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), is a British actress and artist. She played Jackie Owen in ''EastEnders'' from 1999 to 2000. Her first television appearance was in ''The Bill'' in 1988. In 1991 she landed a significant supporting role, playing Beverly Armitage in the comedy series Lazarus and Dingwall which aired on BBC2. She has also appeared in '' Sean's Show'', ''Men Behaving Badly'', ''Holby City'' and ''Kavanagh QC''. More recently, she worked on the PlayStation 3 game '' Heavenly Sword'', providing motion capture for and voicing the character Whiptail. She appears in '' DmC: Devil May Cry'' as the succubus Poison. She appeared in ''Hollyoaks ''Hollyoaks'' is a British soap opera which originally began airing on Channel 4 on 23 October 1995. It was created by Phil Redmond, who had previously conceived the soap opera ''Brookside (TV series), Brookside''. From 2005 to 2023, episodes h ...'' in late June 2009 as C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Race Imboden
Race Alick Reid Imboden (born April 17, 1993) is an American left-handed former Foil (fencing), foil Fencing, fencer. He is a nine-time team Pan American champion, six-time individual Pan American champion, and 2019 team world champion. A three-time Olympic Games, Olympian, Imboden is a two-time team Olympic bronze medalist. He competed in the 2012 Summer Olympics, 2012 London Olympic Games, the 2016 Summer Olympics, 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games, and the 2020 Summer Olympics, 2021 Tokyo Olympic Games. In addition to his fencing career, Imboden is also a menswear fashion model. Personal life Imboden was born in Tampa, Florida. His parents gave him his name after the ''Jonny Quest'' character Race Bannon. He moved to Atlanta at a young age. His first sports were inline skating and BMX; an inline skating accident left him with a crooked nose and a scar on his lip. He was playing with a toy sword in a park when a stranger suggested to his parents that he take up fencing. Shortl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Race Mathews
Charles Race Thorson Mathews (27 March 1935 – 5 May 2025) was an Australian politician, academic, author and reformer. He was a member of Australia's Federal Parliament and the Victorian State Parliament for the Australian Labor Party (ALP).''Who's Who in Australia'' 2022 Early life and education Mathews was born in Melbourne, Victoria. He was educated at Melbourne Grammar School and Toorak Teachers' College, after which he taught in primary schools in Gippsland and Melbourne from 1953–1958. In 1961, he began as a clinical speech therapist in the Victorian Education Department after graduating from the Victorian Council of Speech Therapy. In later years he took out degrees from Melbourne University, Monash University and the University of Divinity. Political career Mathews joined the Labor Party in 1956 in Moe. In 1958, he moved to Croydon, where he became active in the party, organising federal and state campaigns and was secretary of the Scoresby State Electoral ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Race Wong
Race Wong is a Singaporean actress, singer and businesswoman. She was one of the former Hong Kong cantopop duo singer group 2R alongside her elder sister Rosanne Wong. Professional background Born in Malaysia and raised in Singapore, she pursued her career in the entertainment industry in Hong Kong with her sister Rosanne Wong which won her various awards for her singing career as the cantopop group 2R, including Most Promising Newcomer and Most Popular Group Award in the Annual Top 10 Song of the Year Awards (2003), Metro Broadcasting Music awards (2004), TVB Top 10 Songs of the Year (2004) and Hong Kong Commercial Radio Music Awards (2003). Wong became a spotlight when she was chosen to star alongside Stephen Chow in his famous annual San Miguel TV advertisement. Following that, she rose to fame for her leading role in a TVB youth series ''Hearts of Fencing''. Which jumpstarted both her singing and acting career. Wong hoped to focus her acting on roles beyond her youth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English Unisex Given Names
English usually refers to: * English language * English people English may also refer to: Culture, language and peoples * ''English'', an adjective for something of, from, or related to England * ''English'', an Amish term for non-Amish, regardless of ethnicity * English studies, the study of English language and literature Media * ''English'' (2013 film), a Malayalam-language film * ''English'' (novel), a Chinese book by Wang Gang ** ''English'' (2018 film), a Chinese adaptation * ''The English'' (TV series), a 2022 Western-genre miniseries * ''English'' (play), a 2022 play by Sanaz Toossi People and fictional characters * English (surname), a list of people and fictional characters * English Fisher (1928–2011), American boxing coach * English Gardner (born 1992), American track and field sprinter * English McConnell (1882–1928), Irish footballer * Aiden English, a ring name of Matthew Rehwoldt (born 1987), American former professional wrestler ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
