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Pugh
Pugh is a surname of Welsh origin (''ap Huw'' means 'son of Hugh') or Irish origin. Notable people with the name include: * Alf Pugh (1869–1942), Wales international football goalkeeper * Alun Pugh (born 1955), former Labour Welsh Assembly Government Minister for Culture, Welsh Language and Sport * Catherine Pugh (born 1950), American Democratic politician and mayor of Baltimore * Cecil Pugh (1898–1941), South African recipient of the George Cross, the only clergyman so awarded * Charlie Pugh (1896–1951), Welsh rugby player * Clifton Pugh (1924–1990), Australian artist * Coy Pugh (born 1952), American politician * Daniel Patrick Pugh (born 1956), sportscaster and radio personality, known professionally as "Dan Patrick" * Danny Pugh (born 1982), English footballer * David Pugh (other), several people * Derek S. Pugh (1930–2015), British psychologist and founder of the Aston Group * Esther Pugh (1834–1908), American reformer, editor, publisher * Evan Pu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Florence Pugh
Florence Pugh ( ; born 3 January 1996) is an English actress. Her accolades include a British Independent Film Award, in addition to nominations for an Academy Award and three BAFTA Awards. After making her acting debut in the drama film '' The Falling'' (2014), Pugh gained praise for starring in the independent drama ''Lady Macbeth'' (2016) and the miniseries '' The Little Drummer Girl'' (2018). Her international breakthrough came in 2019 with her portrayals of professional wrestler Paige in the sports film '' Fighting with My Family'', a despondent American woman in the horror film '' Midsommar'', and Amy March in the period drama ''Little Women''. For the last of these, she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Pugh has played Yelena Belova in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, starring in the films '' Black Widow'' (2021) and '' Thunderbolts*'' (2025), as well as the Disney+ miniseries ''Hawkeye'' (2021). In her highest-grossing releases, she ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catherine Pugh
Catherine Elizabeth Pugh (born March 10, 1950) is an American former politician who served as the 51st mayor of Baltimore, Maryland's largest city, from 2016 to 2019. She resigned from office amid a scandal that eventually led to criminal charges, three years in prison, and three years probation in 2020. Pugh entered in Maryland politics in 1999, when she was elected to the Baltimore City Council. She subsequently held office in the Maryland House of Delegates and the Maryland Senate, serving as the Majority Leader from 2015 to 2016. Pugh ran for mayor of Baltimore in 2016 Baltimore mayoral election, 2016 and won the primary against former mayor Sheila Dixon. Pugh then won the 2016 Baltimore mayoral election, mayoral election on November 8, 2016, with 57% of the popular vote, and took office on December 6, 2016. In 2019, Pugh was accused of involvement in a scandal over a "self-dealing" arrangement in which organizations purchased large quantities of Pugh's books in exchange for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clifton Pugh
Clifton Ernest Pugh (17 December 1924 – 14 October 1990) was an Australian artist and three-time winner of Australia's Archibald Prize. One of Australia's most renowned and successful painters, Pugh was strongly influenced by German Expressionism, and was known for his landscapes and portraiture. Important early group exhibitions include The Antipodeans, the exhibition for which Bernard Smith drafted a manifesto in support of Australian figurative painting, an exhibition in which Arthur Boyd, David Boyd, John Brack, Robert Dickerson, John Perceval and Charles Blackman showed; a joint exhibition with Barry Humphries, in which the two responded to Dadaism; and Group of Four at the Victorian Artists Society Gallery with Pugh, John Howley, Don Laycock and Lawrence Daws. Pugh was made an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) in the 1985 Australia Day Honours List for service to Australian art. In 1990 he was appointed as the Australian War Memorial's official artis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Danny Pugh
Daniel Adam Pugh (born 19 October 1982) is an English professional football coach and former footballer. A versatile player, he could play in midfield or at left-back. He began his career with Manchester United and made a handful of first-team appearances before being transferred to Leeds United in May 2004. He spent two seasons at Elland Road before joining Preston North End for a fee of £250,000 in June 2006. Another two-year spell followed until he joined Stoke City for £500,000 in January after a short loan period. He became a regular under Tony Pulis and helped the club to gain promotion out of the Championship in 2007–08. He appeared in the 2011 FA Cup final. However, he struggled to hold down a regular place in the Premier League and had loan spells back at Preston and then Leeds before joining Leeds permanently for a second time in January 2012. He made 62 appearances in his second spell at Leeds and played on loan at Sheffield Wednesday in the 2012–13 season. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gareth Pugh
Gareth Pugh (born 31 August 1981) is an English fashion designer"Gareth Pugh: Fashion Designer." Showstudio.com. Retrieved 9 April 2007.West, Daniel "Gareth Pugh." Icon Magazine (December 2006). Retrieved 9 April 2007. based in London. He is known for his unconventional use of volume and form when designing outfits, and his work is described as performance art. He achieved prominence in the Kashpoint's Autumn 2005 Alternative Fashion Week group show, and he made his solo premiere in London's Fall 2006 fashion week. Due to his focus on experimental fashion, Pugh has had limited success selling wearable clothes. Instead, his projects are funded through patronage by Rick Owens and M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jethro Pugh
Jethro Pugh Jr. (July 3, 1944 – January 7, 2015) was an American professional football defensive tackle in the National Football League (NFL) for the Dallas Cowboys for fourteen seasons. He played college football at Elizabeth City State College. Early life and college Born on July 3, 1944, in Windsor, North Carolina, the son of Jethro Sr. and Mamie (Coggins) Pugh. He was raised in Indian Woods Township. Pugh graduated from W. S. Etheridge High School in Windsor, where he was an all-conference tackle on the football team. He was coached by his uncle, Turner R. Coggins. Pugh enrolled at nearby Elizabeth City State College at the age of 16, on an athletic scholarship. He played college football for the Vikings on offense and defense and became a two-time All- CIAA defensive end in 1963 and 1964. He is one of five persons to have his jersey retired by the school, now Elizabeth City State University. In 1979, he was inducted into the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Griffith Pugh
Lewis Griffith Cresswell Evans Pugh (29 October 1909 – 22 December 1994), generally known as Griffith Pugh, was a British physiologist and mountaineer. He was the expedition physiologist on the 1953 British expedition that made the first ascent of Mount Everest, and a researcher into the effects of cold and altitude on human physiology. Childhood, education and family Pugh's father was Lewis Pugh Evans Pugh KC, a Welsh barrister who practised in Calcutta, and who had two children: Griffith, and Gwladys Mary Pugh. Pugh went to Harrow School, and between 1928 and 1931 took a degree in law at New College, Oxford University, although he switched to medicine, which he studied for three more years, after which he qualified at St Thomas' Hospital, London, in 1938, where he subsequently worked. On 5 September 1939, Pugh married Josephine Helen Cassel, daughter of Sir Felix Cassel and Lady Helen Grimston, and they had four children: David Sheridan Griffith Pugh, Simon Francis Pugh, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Pugh
John David Pugh (born 28 June 1948) is a British Liberal Democrat politician. He was the Member of Parliament for Southport from 2001 to 2017. He stood down at the 2017 snap election. In November 2017, he was elected to Sefton Metropolitan Borough Council as a councillor for Duke's Ward. Early life and career Pugh was educated at Prescot Grammar School and Maidstone Grammar School. He graduated from Durham University, attending St Cuthbert's Society, where he studied Philosophy. Formerly a religious studies teacher and Head of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Merchant Taylors' School, Crosby, Pugh has lived in Southport since 1974. He also taught at Salesian College (later Savio High School) in Bootle. Pugh joined the Liberal Party in 1977. Pugh served on Sefton Metropolitan Borough Council, representing Birkdale, from 1987 until his election to Parliament. At the time of his election, Pugh was leader of the council (from 1992), and of the Sefton Liberal Dem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evan Pugh
Evan Pugh (February 29, 1828 – April 29, 1864) was the first president of the Pennsylvania State University, serving from 1859 until his death in 1864. An agricultural chemist, he was responsible for securing Penn State's designation in 1863 as a land-grant institution under the Morrill Land Grant Act. He was buried in Union Cemetery in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, along with his wife, Rebecca Valentine Pugh. Early life Evan Pugh was born to Lewis and Mary (née Hutton) Pugh on February 29, 1828 near Oxford in Chester County, Pennsylvania. He was the fourth of six children: Rebecca, who died soon after birth (1823), Susan (1824-1913), Elizabeth (1826-1847), Enoch (1830-1854), and John (1832-1834). The family traced their lineage back to Ellis Pugh, a Quaker Welsh settler in William Penn's colony. They lived on fifty-six acres of land, given to Lewis by his father Jesse, on family property in a stone farmhouse with a barn and blacksmith/wheelwright shop. Shortly after Evan' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cecil Pugh
Herbert Cecil Pugh, (2 November 1898 – 5 July 1941), usually called Cecil Pugh, was a Congregational Church minister and is the only clergyman to have received the George Cross. He was a South African who served in the First World War as a South African Army medical orderly and in the Second World War as a Royal Air Force chaplain. Pugh died in 1941 by remaining aboard a sinking troop ship to minister to trapped and wounded military personnel. Life Pugh was the second of seven children of Harry Walter and Jane (Douglas) Pugh. He was born in 1898 in Johannesburg and attended Jeppe High School for Boys. In the First World War in 1917–19 he was a medical orderly in France with the South African Field Ambulance. After the war Pugh went to England, studied at Mansfield College, Oxford 1920–24 and became a Congregational clergyman. He was in civilian ministry at Camberley Congregational Church 1924–27 and then at Christ Church, Friern Barnet, Middlesex 1927–39. Pugh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Esther Pugh
Esther Pugh (August 31, 1834 – March 29, 1908) was an American temperance reformer of the long nineteenth century. She served as Treasurer of the National Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), a Trustee of Earlham College, as well as editor and publisher of the monthly temperance journal, ''Our Union''. Early life Esther Pugh, daughter of Achilles and Anna Maria Pugh, was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, August 31, 1834. Her parents were Quakers. For many years, the father was a journalist in Cincinnati, and publisher of the ''Chronicle''. Pugh received a good education. Career Early on, Pugh became interested in moral reforms, and soon became prominent in the temperance movement. She was one of the leaders in the movement, joining the WCTU during its first meetings. She served as Treasurer of the National WCTU for 15 years, and her management style repeatedly aided the national order in passing through financial difficulties. Considered to be a clear and forcible orator, she tra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Pugh (other)
David Pugh may refer to: *David Pugh (1789–1861), Conservative MP for Montgomery Boroughs 1832–1833, 1847–1861 *David Pugh (British politician) (1806–1890), Liberal MP for Carmarthenshire, 1857–1868, and East Carmarthenshire, 1885–1890 *David Pugh (Conservative politician) (born 1980), local politician on the Isle of Wight *Harry Pugh (David Henry Pugh, 1875–1945), Wrexham A.F.C., Lincoln Town F.C. and Wales international footballer *David Pugh (footballer, born 1947) (born 1947), Welsh professional footballer *David Pugh (footballer, born 1964), Chester City F.C. and Bury F.C. footballer *David Pugh (comics), British comics artist and writer *David Pugh, editor of ''Practical Boat Owner'' magazine *David Thomas Pugh (1943 - 2022), British academic and marine scientist *David Vaughan Pugh (1907–2005), Canadian member of parliament *David Pugh (producer) (born 1959), British theatre producer *David Pugh (American football) (born 1979), American football player *David ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
