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Richard Murphy (physician)
Richard Murphy may refer to: Arts and entertainment * Richard Murphy (screenwriter) (1912–1993), American film and television writer * Richard Murphy (poet) (1927–2018), Irish poet * Richard Murphy (architect) (born 1955), Scottish architect Politics and law * Richard L. Murphy (1875–1936), American Senator from Iowa * Richard W. Murphy (1929–2024), American diplomat * Dick Murphy (Richard M. Murphy, born 1942), American politician, mayor of San Diego * Rick Murphy, American politician, Arizona state senator Sports * Dick Murphy (basketball) (1921–1973), American basketball player * Bos Murphy (Richard Murphy, 1924–2000), New Zealand boxer * Dick Murphy (baseball) (1931–2020), American baseball player * Richard Murphy (rower) (1931–2023), American Olympic rower * Richard Murphy (American football) (born 1986), American football running back Others * Richard Murphy (sea captain) (1838–1916), American sea captain in Gloucester, Massachusetts * Richard Murphy (m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Murphy (screenwriter)
Richard Murphy (May 8, 1912 – May 19, 1993) was an American screenwriter, film director and producer. His screenplays for ''Boomerang'' (1947) and ''The Desert Rats'' (1953) were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Original Screenplay, respectively. Biography Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Murphy worked for ''Literary Digest'' in the 1930s before leaving in 1937 to work in the short film department at MGM. Murphy's first screenwriting credit was for providing the story for ''Back in the Saddle'', a 1941 Gene Autry western. While in the Army Air Forces during World War II, Murphy reached the rank of captain seeing action in the Pacific theater countries of New Guinea and the Philippines. Murphy returned to the States and started working for 20th Century Fox. In 1947 he wrote the award-winning film ''Boomerang''. He received the first of two Oscar nominations for this screenplay, with his second in 1953 for the World War II film ''The Desert ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dick Murphy (baseball)
Richard Lee Murphy (October 25, 1931 – December 12, 2020) was an American professional baseball player who played for three seasons (1954; 1957–1958) and had a six-game trial with the Cincinnati Redlegs of Major League Baseball. He threw and batted left-handed, stood tall and weighed . Murphy attended Ohio University, where he was an All-American as an outfielder. He signed with his hometown Redlegs on June 12, 1954, and made his Major League debut the following day against the Brooklyn Dodgers at Crosley Field. In his only MLB plate appearance, he pinch hit for Cincinnati relief pitcher Jackie Collum against Brooklyn lefthander Johnny Podres and struck out. After a short tenure in minor league baseball, Murphy returned to the Redlegs that September and served as a pinch runner in five more games, scoring his only Major League run in his last appearance on September 13. He then spent two seasons in military service before resuming his minor league career in the Redleg farm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Murphy (tax Campaigner)
Richard Murphy (born 21 March 1958) is a British former chartered accountant and political economist who campaigns on issues of tax avoidance and tax evasion. He advises the Trades Union Congress on economics and taxation, and founded the Tax Justice Network. He is a Professor of Accounting Practice at University of Sheffield Management School. Early life Richard Murphy was born in 1958 and brought up in Ipswich. His undergraduate degree was in Accountancy at the University of Southampton, and he trained further at KPMG becoming a Chartered Accountant. Career For much of his early career he was an accountant in Downham Market, Norfolk. In 1985 he co-founded an accountancy firm which became Murphy Deeks Nolan. The company was sold in 2000. Murphy was also the founder of a company that became the European distributor for the game ''Trivial Pursuit''. Murphy has since admitted that the manufacturing operation he set up in Ireland to manufacture ''Trivial Pursuit'' was there t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard A
Richard is a male given name. It originates, via Old French, from compound of the words descending from Proto-Germanic language">Proto-Germanic ''*rīk-'' 'ruler, leader, king' and ''*hardu-'' 'strong, brave, hardy', and it therefore means 'strong in rule'. Nicknames include " Richie", " Dick", " Dickon", " Dickie", " Rich", " Rick", "Rico (name), Rico", " Ricky", and more. Richard is a common English (the name was introduced into England by the Normans), German and French male name. It's also used in many more languages, particularly Germanic, such as Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, Icelandic, and Dutch, as well as other languages including Irish, Scottish, Welsh and Finnish. Richard is cognate with variants of the name in other European languages, such as the Swedish "Rickard", the Portuguese and Spanish "Ricardo" and the Italian "Riccardo" (see comprehensive variant list below). People named Richard Multiple people with the same name * Richard Andersen (other) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Murphy (marine Ecologist)
Richard C. Murphy "Murph" (born 1942) is an American marine ecologist and an author of two books. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Southern California. His specialty is marine ecology. He currently lives in Bonny Doon, California. Biography Education Murphy earned a B.A. in Zoology (University of California at Los Angeles, 1966) and an M.A. in Marine Biology ( California State University at Long Beach, 1969), with a focus on the neuroanatomy (pineal organ) of bluefin tuna. He received a Ph.D. in Marine/Systems Ecology from the University of Southern California in 1982. His research focused on benthic community metabolism and population ecology of infauna. Career Murphy began working with Jean-Michel Cousteau and his father, Jacques Cousteau, in 1968. Starting in 1973, Richard has worked with Jean-Michel Cousteau in creating field study programs for students of all ages. ThAmbassadors of the Environmentprogram is the most recent of their educational programs. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Murphy (sea Captain)
Richard Moses Murphy (1838–1916) was a well-known schooner captain who sailed out of Gloucester, Massachusetts, during the late 19th-century. Some of his experiences as a mariner are detailed in a chapter titledThe Adventures of Captain Richard Murphy i''The Fisherman’s Own Book'' published by Proctor Brothers in 1882. Early life Murphy was born in or near the fishing village of Canso, Guysborough County, Nova Scotia, British North America on September 28, 1838. His father, Miles Murphy, a laborer, was born in Wexford, Ireland about 1798. His mother, Catherine Henderson (surname changed from Hanrahan), came from Cape George, Antigonish, Nova Scotia. She was born about 1805. Murphy was the third of six children. He came south with his parents and siblings to the fishing port of Gloucester, Essex County, Massachusetts, in the early 1850s. Family Murphy married Catherine Hearn, a 32-year-old native of Guysborough, Nova Scotia, in Gloucester on April 26, 1866. The c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Murphy (American Football)
Richard Lee Murphy (born September 18, 1986) is an American former professional football running back. He was signed by the Jacksonville Jaguars as an undrafted free agent in 2011. He played college football at Louisiana State. As a senior at LSU, Murphy was chosen by the coaching staff to wear the No. 18 jersey, which signifies the player who displays the best leadership qualities. Only a "part-time player" over his career at LSU, Murphy was seen as a development prospect, and went undrafted in the 2011 NFL draft The 2011 NFL draft was the 76th installment of the annual National Football League draft, NFL draft, where the franchises of the National Football League select newly eligible football players. Like the 2010 draft, the 2011 draft was held at Rad .... Murphy was released by the Jaguars on August 31, 2012. He was signed to the team's practice squad on October 31. Murphy was released by the Jaguars on May 6, 2013. References External links Jacksonville Jaguars bi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Murphy (rower)
Richard Frederick Murphy (November 14, 1931 – August 8, 2023) was an American competition rower and Olympic champion. Biography Richard Frederick Murphy was born in New Jersey on November 14, 1931. Murphy won a gold medal in ''coxed eights'' at the 1952 Summer Olympics The 1952 Summer Olympics (, ), officially known as the Games of the XV Olympiad (, ) and commonly known as Helsinki 1952, were an international multi-sport event held from 19 July to 3 August 1952 in Helsinki, Finland. After Japan declared in ..., as a member of the American team. He died on August 8, 2023, at the age of 91. References 1931 births 2023 deaths American male rowers Rowers at the 1952 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists for the United States in rowing Medalists at the 1952 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from New Jersey 20th-century American sportsmen {{US-rowing-Olympic-medalist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bos Murphy
Richard Boswell "Bos" Murphy (14 February 1924 – 9 November 2000) was a New Zealand professional welter/middle/light heavyweight boxer of the 1940s and 1950s who won the New Zealand Boxing Association welterweight title, Australasian welterweight title, and British Empire middleweight title. His professional fighting weight varied from , i.e. welterweight to , i.e. light heavyweight Light heavyweight is a weight class in combat sports. Boxing Professional In professional boxing, the division is above and up to , falling between super middleweight and cruiserweight (boxing), cruiserweight. The light heavyweight class has .... Murphy died at Silverstream in 2000 and was buried at Akatarawa Cemetery. Professional boxing record References External linksPhotograph of Bos Murphy 1924 births 2000 deaths Light-heavyweight boxers Middleweight boxers Sportspeople from Palmerston North Welterweight boxers Burials at Akatarawa Cemetery New Zealand male boxers Comm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Murphy (poet)
Richard Kerr Murphy (6 August 1927 – 30 January 2018) was an Anglo-Irish poet. Biography Early years Murphy was born to an Anglo-Irish family at Milford House, near the County Mayo–Galway border, in 1927. He spent much of his early childhood in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) where his father William Lindsay Murphy served in the Colonial Service and was active as mayor of Colombo, later becoming Governor General of the Bahamas (in succession to the Duke of Windsor). Murphy received his education at the King's School, Canterbury and Wellington College. He won a scholarship to Magdalen College, Oxford at the age of 17, where he studied English under C.S. Lewis. He was later educated at the Sorbonne, and ran a school in Crete between 1953 and 1954. In his ''Archaeology of Love'' (1955), Murphy reflects on his experiences in England and Continental Europe. His childhood in Ireland was documented in the film ''The Other Irish Travellers'', made by his niece Fiona Murphy. Return to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dick Murphy (basketball)
Richard D. Murphy (March 10, 1921 – October 22, 1973) was an American professional basketball player. He played for the New York Knicks and Boston Celtics in the Basketball Association of America (BAA). For his career, Murphy averaged 1.1 points per game. Murphy played college basketball for the Manhattan Jaspers and earned All-Metropolitan New York Conference honors for all three seasons he played. As team captain, he led the Jaspers to their first National Invitation Tournament (NIT) berth in 1943 Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January * January 1 – WWII: The Soviet Union announces that 22 German divisions have been encircled at Stalingrad, with 175,000 killed and 137,650 captured. * January 4 � .... Murphy was inducted into the Manhattan College Athletic Hall of Fame in 1982. Between college and a stint in the NBA, Murphy served in WWII as a US Navy officer. Murphy followed in the footsteps of his older brother, Jack Murphy, w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rick Murphy
Rick Murphy was a Republican member of the Arizona State Senate, representing District 21 (previously District 9) from 2011 to 2015. He has been a realtor since 1992 and is a small business owner. He served in the Arizona House of Representatives from 2004 to 2010, where he served on numerous committees and was chairman of the Ways & Means Committee. In 2010 he was elected to the Arizona Senate, and re-elected in 2012. He was the chairman of the Senate Government Committee in 2012 and the Judiciary Committee for the 2013–2014 session. Murphy has been politically active since 1997, although his interest in politics and government began in childhood. He became a Republican precinct committeeman after the 1996 elections and held several state and district Republican Party leadership positions. He is also active in the community and non-partisan issue advocacy, particularly in the areas of taxpayer protection, chronic illness and foster care/adoption issues. He is a past chairman of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
