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Robert Gordon (other)
Robert Gordon may refer to: Entertainment * Robert Gordon (actor) (1895–1971), silent-film actor * Robert Gordon (director) (1913–1990), American director * Robert Gordon (singer) (1947–2022), American rockabilly singer * Robert Gordon (screenwriter), American screenwriter * Robert Gordon (writer and filmmaker), American author and director * Robert Gordon, British musician and co-founder of Warp Records Military * Robert Gordon (RAF officer) (1882–1954), British officer * Robert MacIntyre Gordon (1899–1983), Scottish World War I flying ace * Robert Gordon (British Army officer) (born 1950), British general Politics * Sir Robert Gordon, 1st Baronet (1580–1656), Scottish courtier and historian * Sir Robert Gordon, 3rd Baronet (1647–1704), Scottish courtier and politician * Sir Robert Gordon, 4th Baronet (1696–1772), Scottish landowner and politician * Robert Gordon (MP) (1786–1864), British member of parliament for Windsor and Cricklade * Robert Gordon (dip ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Gordon (actor)
Robert Gordon (March 3, 1895 – October 26, 1971), born Robert Gordon Duncan, was an American silent film actor. He was born in Belleville, Kansas and died at the age of 76 in Victorville, California. He is credited with appearances in 35 films from 1917 to 1949. Partial filmography * '' The Varmint'' (1917) * '' Tom Sawyer'' (1917) * '' The Hired Man'' (1918) * '' 'Blue Blazes' Rawden'' (1918) * '' Huck and Tom'' (1918) * ''The Kaiser, the Beast of Berlin'' (1918) * '' Missing'' (1918) * '' A Pair of Silk Stockings'' (1918) * '' Captain Kidd, Jr.'' (1919) * '' A Yankee Princess'' (1919) * '' The Blood Barrier'' (1920) * ''The Vice of Fools'' (1920) * '' Respectable by Proxy'' (1920) * '' My Husband's Other Wife'' (1920) * ''If Women Only Knew'' (1921) * '' The Rosary'' (1922) * '' The Super-Sex'' (1922) * '' The Mysterious Witness'' (1923) * '' The Greatest Menace'' (1923) * '' Main Street'' (1923) * '' Borrowed Husbands'' (1924) * '' The Measure of a Man'' (1924) * '' His Peo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert M
The name Robert is an ancient Germanic given name, from Proto-Germanic "fame" and "bright" (''Hrōþiberhtaz''). Compare Old Dutch ''Robrecht'' and Old High German ''Hrodebert'' (a compound of '' Hruod'' () "fame, glory, honour, praise, renown, godlike" and ''berht'' "bright, light, shining"). It is the second most frequently used given name of ancient Germanic origin.Reaney & Wilson, 1997. ''Dictionary of English Surnames''. Oxford University Press. It is also in use as a surname. Another commonly used form of the name is Rupert. After becoming widely used in Continental Europe, the name entered England in its Old French form ''Robert'', where an Old English cognate form (''Hrēodbēorht'', ''Hrodberht'', ''Hrēodbēorð'', ''Hrœdbœrð'', ''Hrœdberð'', ''Hrōðberχtŕ'') had existed before the Norman Conquest. The feminine version is Roberta. The Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish form is Roberto. Robert is also a common name in many Germanic languages, including En ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Aaron Gordon
Robert Aaron Gordon (born Aaron Goldstein; July 26, 1908 – April 7, 1978) was an American economist. He was a professor of economics at the University of California, Berkeley from 1938 to 1976. In 1975, he served as president of the American Economic Association. He was married to economist Margaret Gordon (1910–94). Both of their sons, Robert J. Gordon and David M. Gordon, became notable economists as well. In 1959, with funding from the Ford Foundation The Ford Foundation is an American private foundation with the stated goal of advancing human welfare. Created in 1936 by Edsel Ford and his father Henry Ford, it was originally funded by a $25,000 (about $550,000 in 2023) gift from Edsel Ford. ..., Gordon and James Edwin Howell published ''Higher Education for Business'', later known as the Gordon-Howell report. It is considered a key event in the history of business management and its development as a profession. The report gave detailed recommendations for t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Winslow Gordon
Robert Winslow Gordon (September 2, 1888 – March 26, 1961) was an American academic, known as a collector of folk songs. Gordon was educated at Harvard University. He joined the English faculty at the University of California at Berkeley in 1918. In 1923, he was asked by Arthur Sullivant Hoffman to run the folk music column "Old Songs Men Have Sung" in Hoffman's magazine, ''Adventure''.Paul J. Stamler, "Robert Winslow Gordon", in Scott B. Spencer (ed.) ''The ballad collectors of North America : how gathering folksongs transformed academic thought and American identity''. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2012. (pp. 171-190). Gordon accepted and used the ''Adventure'' column to collect information on traditional American music from the magazine's readers. Gordon was the founding head of the Archive of American Folk Song (later the Archive of Folk Culture, which became part of the American Folklife Center) at the Library of Congress in 1928. He was a pioneer in using mechanical mea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robby Gordon
Robert Wesley Gordon (born January 2, 1969) is an American semi-retired auto racing driver. He has raced in NASCAR, Championship Auto Racing Teams, CART, the IndyCar Series, the Trans-Am Series, International Motor Sports Association, IMSA, International Race of Champions, IROC and the Dakar Rally. While no longer competing in IndyCar and NASCAR racing, he is active in top-tier off road motorsports such as Best in the Desert, BITD, National Off-Road Racing Association, NORRA, and SCORE International. Gordon owns and competes in the Stadium Super Trucks (SST), a series he formed in 2013 and whose championship he won in 2013 and 2014. He also operates the Speed family of brands, which includes the energy drink Speed Energy that has sponsored his racing efforts since 2010. Off-road racing Gordon, the son of off-road racer Bob Gordon (racer), "Baja Bob" Gordon, started out competing in off road racing. He won five consecutive SCORE International off-road class championships from 1986 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robb Gordon
Robb Gordon (born January 13, 1976)https://www.nhl.com/player/robb-gordon-8460530 is a Canadian retired professional ice hockey centre who played briefly in the National Hockey League for the Vancouver Canucks. Selected by the Canucks in the 1994 NHL Entry Draft, he played four games for the team in the 1998–99 season, spending the rest of his career in the minor leagues before retiring in 2000. Internationally Gordon played for the Canadian national junior team at the 1996 World Junior Championships, winning a gold medal. Playing career Gordon was born in Murrayville, British Columbia and raised in Surrey, British Columbia. He was selected in the second round (39th overall) of the 1994 NHL Entry Draft by the Vancouver Canucks following a season in the BCHL with the Powell River Paper Kings. He played college hockey for the Michigan Wolverines alongside future NHL players such as John Madden, Brendan Morrison, and Mike Knuble. After his freshman season, he left the W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rob Gordon (curler)
Robbie "Rob" Gordon (born November 28, 1995) is a Canadian curler from Winnipeg, Manitoba. Career Gordon joined the 2013 Canadian Junior Curling Championships winning rink of Matt Dunstone for the 2013–14 season. The team lost in the finals of the Manitoba Canola Juniors to Braden Calvert in both 2014 and 2015. The team would win the Manitoba juniors the following year in 2016. This earned the Dunstone rink a spot in the 2016 Canadian Juniors where Gordon would win his first championship after defeating Northern Ontario 11–4 in the final, and represented Canada at the 2016 World Junior Curling Championships, winning a bronze medal. At the 2016 Manitoba championship, he played with Dunstone, losing in the final to Mike McEwen. Had they won the event, they would've declined their berth into the Brier as it conflicted with the 2016 World Juniors. Gordon would stay with teammates Colton Lott and Kyle Doering but would bring on Jason Gunnlaugson to skip the team. The team ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
