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Roosevelt (given Name)
Roosevelt is a masculine given name borne by: People * Roosevelt Adams (born 1994), Filipino-American basketball player * Booba Barnes (1936–1996), American Delta blues guitar player and singer * Roosevelt Barnes (American football) (born 1958), American sports agent and former National Football League player * Roosevelt Bouie (born 1958), American retired basketball player * Roosevelt Brown (baseball) (born 1975), American retired Major League Baseball player * Rosey Brown (1932–2004), American National Football League player, member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame * Theodore Roosevelt Cox (born 1914), American retired Negro league baseball player * Sandy Gilliam (1932–2014), American football and baseball coach and pro football scout * Rosey Grier (born 1932), American former National Football League player, actor and singer * Roosevelt Mercer Jr., United States Air Force retired major general and Federal Aviation Administration executive * Roosevelt Nix (defensive end) (bor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roosevelt Adams
Roosevelt Terrence Ocampo Adams (born May 22, 1994) is a Filipino-American professional basketball player for Yamagata Wyverns of the B.League, B2 League. Adams was selected 1st overall by the Columbian Dyip in the regular draft of the 2019 PBA draft. He played college basketball at College of Idaho. Early life Adams played high school basketball at West Valley High School (Hemet, California), West Valley High, where he earned All-Mountain Pass League honors. College career As a Coyote, he played in all 34 games as a junior, including 21 starts. He averaged 8.7 points and 7.1 rebounds per game. He posted a career-high 24 points against Northwest University. Professional career Adams is eligible to play as an import player with Asian lineage in Japan, Korea, or the Philippines. He finished the 2020 PBA Philippine Cup with averages of 10.3 points on 38.7% shooting, along with 8.1 rebounds per game. After not signing an extension with the Dyip, Adams became a restricted fre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roosevelt Nix (defensive End)
Roosevelt Theodore Nix (born April 17, 1967 – December 8, 2023) was an American professional football defensive end who played three seasons in the National Football League (NFL) with the Cincinnati Bengals and Minnesota Vikings. Nix attended Scott High School in Toledo, Ohio, and first enrolled at the College of DuPage before transferring to Central State University. He was then drafted by the Bengals in the eighth round of the 1992 NFL draft. Nix was also a member of the Green Bay Packers and Arizona Cardinals of the NFL, and Minnesota Fighting Pike, New York CityHawks, and New England Sea Wolves of the Arena Football League (AFL). College career Nix first played college football for the College of DuPage Chaparrals. Nix transferred from the College of DuPage to play one season for the Central State Marauders. Professional career Nix was selected by the Cincinnati Bengals with the 199th pick in the 1992 NFL draft. He played in sixteen games for the Bengals from 1992 to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roosevelt Zanders
Roosevelt Smith Zanders (1912–1995) was the owner of New York City limousine service Zanders Auto Rental Service. Starting out with a US$3000 Cadillac, his fleet grew to sixteen cars, including three Rolls-Royces. After establishing the company in Harlem in 1946, he kept the offices and garage in the same neighborhood, even as his client roster began to represent the elite of Fifth Avenue. Early life Zanders was born in Valdosta, Georgia, on July 13, either 1910 or 1912, to the alleged Reverend Arthur Zanders and his wife, Ethel Smith Zanders. His father was actually a barber. During his childhood, he won a marbles shooting championship in Georgia and often competed in official games. When he was still a child, his family began relocating to Youngstown, Ohio, where Zanders attended the public schools. On November 3, 1919 his father killed his mother Ethel and a younger brother named Henry with a shotgun, and then shot himself after returning from a trip. With both parents dead, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baby Face Willette
Roosevelt "Baby Face" Willette (September 11, 1933 – April 1, 1971) was an American hard bop and soul-jazz musician who played the Hammond organ. Life and career He was born Roosevelt James Willett (no "e"), in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1933 according to researchers Bob Eagle and Eric LeBlanc, though other sources state 1934 or 1937. According to the liner notes on his first Blue Note album, ''Grant’s First Stand'', Willette was born in New Orleans. His mother was a missionary who played the piano in the church where his father was a minister. As a result, his musical roots were in gospel. Willette became involved in music by playing the piano for various gospel groups, and accompanied his sisters Dorothy and Georgia, who toured and recorded as the Willett Sisters.Bobby Tanzilo, "'Behind the 8 Ball': The Story of Baby Face Willette", ''Blues & Rhythm'', No.353, October 2020, pp.8-14 He spent his early career travelling across the United States, Canada and Cuba, as pian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roosevelt Sykes
Roosevelt Sykes (January 31, 1906July 17, 1983) was an American blues musician, also known as "the Honeydripper". Career Sykes was born the son of a musician in Elmar, Arkansas. "Just a little old sawmill town", Sykes said of his birthplace. The Sykes family was living in St. Louis by 1909. Sykes often visited his grandfather's farm near West Helena. He began playing the church organ around the age of ten. "Every summer I would go down to Helena to visit my grandfather on his farm," he told biographer Valerie Wilmer. "He was a preacher and he had an organ I used to practice on, trying to learn how to play. I always liked the sound of the blues, liked to hear people singing, and since I was singing first, I was trying to play like I sang." Sykes was baptized at 13 years old, his lifelong beliefs never conflicting with playing the blues. At age 15, he went on the road playing piano in a barrelhouse style of blues. Like many bluesmen of his time, he traveled around playing to all-ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roosevelt Roberts
Roosevelt Roberts (born February 11, 1994) is an American mixed martial artist (MMA) who competed in the Lightweight division in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). Background Roberts was born in Miami, Florida in 1994. After his mother left the family due to domestic violence, Roberts began living with friends and family members whenever they could take him in. Roberts began selling drugs and stealing to support himself. As a result, he ended up in a youth correctional facility in San Francisco, California for a year. Roberts started to turn his life around at 19 years old when his daughter was born and started training in MMA. He took his first amateur fight in 2014 and turned professional in 2016. Roberts trains at Adrenaline MMA in San Bernardino under head coach Adam Rothwieler and at Carlson Gracie Temecula under Brazilian jiu-jitsu coach Tom Cronin. Mixed martial arts career Early career and appearance on Dana White's Contender Series After a 6–1 amateur career, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roosevelt Polite
Roosevelt I. Polite (September 3, 1912 – March 14, 1981) was a Republican member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives The Pennsylvania House of Representatives is the lower house of the bicameral Pennsylvania General Assembly, the legislature of the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. There are 203 members, elected for two-year terms from single member districts. It .... References Republican Party members of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives 1912 births 1981 deaths 20th-century members of the Pennsylvania General Assembly {{Pennsylvania-PARepresentative-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roosevelt Oyola
Roosevelt Oyola (born April 6, 1991 in El Guabo Canton) is an Ecuadorian footballer. He currently plays for Club 9 de Octubre in the Campeonato Ecuatoriano de Fútbol. Career Oyola began playing football in the Spanish club Elche CF's youth system. He made his professional debut with his home country's Barcelona. Teams * Barcelona S.C. 2011-2019 * → Deportivo Cuenca Club Deportivo Cuenca is an Ecuadorian football club based in Cuenca. They currently play in the Serie A, the top-flight football league in the country, and is one of two clubs from Cuenca to have played in the top-flight (the other being LDU ... (loan) 2014 * 9 de Octubre 2020–present References 1991 births Living people Sportspeople from El Oro Province Ecuadorian men's footballers 21st-century Ecuadorian sportsmen Barcelona S.C. footballers C.D. Cuenca footballers Men's association football players not categorized by position {{Ecuador-footy-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roosevelt Nix (fullback)
Roosevelt Delbert Nix-Jones (born March 30, 1992) is an American former professional American football, football player who was a Fullback (gridiron football), fullback in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Kent State Golden Flashes football, Kent State Golden Flashes, and was signed by the Atlanta Falcons after going undrafted in the 2014 NFL draft. As a member of the Pittsburgh Steelers, Nix made the 2018 Pro Bowl. Nix's father also played in the NFL. Early life Nix attended Reynoldsburg High School. He was named OCC player of the year while earning second team all-state, first team All-district, All-metro, and OCC honors his Twelfth grade, senior year. He played for Ohio in the 2010 Big 33 Football Classic, Big 33 Classic and was also selected to play in the Ohio North-South All-Star game. Nix recorded 84 Tackle (football move), tackles and eight Quarterback sack, sacks as a Eleventh grade, junior, garnering second team All-state, All-confe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roosevelt Mercer Jr
Retired Maj. Gen. Roosevelt Mercer Jr., SES, is the director of the Interagency Planning Office (IPO) for the Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen) at the Federal Aviation Administration where he provides high-level leadership for interagency and international collaboration related to NextGen. He executes the collaborative processes needed to ensure efficient coordination among all federal partners whose decisions impact NextGen. The federal partner agencies include the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Department of Defense (DoD), Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Department of Commerce (DOC), National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), National Science Foundation (NSF), and Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), as well as the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) as an ex officio participant. Mr. Mercer is charged with providing executive direction to a dy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Booba Barnes
Roosevelt Melvin "Booba" Barnes (September 25, 1936 – April 2, 1996) was an American Delta blues guitar player and vocalist. One commentator noted that Barnes, R. L. Burnside, Big Jack Johnson, Paul "Wine" Jones and James "Super Chikan" Johnson were "present-day exponents of an edgier, electrified version of the raw, uncut Delta blues sound." Career Born in Longwood, Washington County, Mississippi, United States, Barnes got his start in 1960 as a member of the Swinging Gold Coasters, a local Mississippi blues outfit. He relocated to Chicago in 1964, where he played in bars and clubs, but returned to Mississippi in 1971 and continued to perform locally into the early 1980s. In 1984, Barnes hooked up with Lil' Dave Thompson when the latter was aged 15, and the duo played on Mississippi's juke joint circuit. Barnes opened a nightclub, the Playboy Club, in 1985, and played there with a backing group called the Playboys; they became regional blues favorites, and eventually si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosey Grier
Roosevelt "Rosey" Grier (born July 14, 1932) is an American former football player, bodyguard, actor, singer, Protestant minister, and motivational speaker. He played professionally as a defensive tackle in the National Football League (NFL) Grier played college football for the Penn State Nittany Lions, earning All-America honors and a place in the NCAA 100th anniversary list of 100 most influential student athletes. A professional player for 12 seasons, Grier was a member of the New York Giants and the original Fearsome Foursome of the Los Angeles Rams. He played in the Pro Bowl twice, was selected All-Pro three times, and won the 1956 NFL championship with the Giants. After Grier's professional sports career, he worked as a bodyguard for Senator Robert Kennedy during the 1968 presidential campaign. Grier was guarding Ethel Kennedy when Senator Kennedy was shot. Although unable to prevent the assassination, Grier took control of the gun and subdued the shooter, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
