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Scanlan (surname)
Scanlan is an Irish surname that derives from the Irish Gaelic name Ó Scannláin, meaning descendant of Scannlán’. Notable people with the surname include: * Emmett J. Scanlan (born 1979), Irish actor * Fred Scanlan (1877–1950), Canadian ice hockey player *Jerry Scanlan (born 1957) retired American football player * Joanna Scanlan (born 1961), English actress and television writer *John Joseph Scanlan (1906–1997), second Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Honolulu * Joseph Lawrence Scanlan (born 1929), American television director * Julian Scanlan (born 1997), American DJ * Justin Scanlan (born 1975), Irish Australian community leader and disability advocate *Laetisha Scanlan (born 1990), Australian sport shooter * Luke Scanlan (1841–1915), American politician and farmer * Michael Scanlan (other) * Neal Scanlan (born 1961), British special effects artist *Patricia Scanlan (born 1956), Irish novelist *Reggie Scanlan, bass guitar player from New Orleans, Lou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emmett J
Emmett may refer to: Places ;In the United States * Emmett, Idaho * Emmett, Kansas * Emmett, Michigan, a village in St. Clair County * Emmett Charter Township, Michigan in Calhoun County * Emmett Township, St. Clair County, Michigan * Emmett, Missouri * Emmett, Ohio * Emmett, Texas * Emmett, West Virginia Other uses * Emmett (name) See also * Emmet (other) * Emmitt, given name and surname {{disambiguation, geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Richard Scanlan
Robert Richard Scanlan (1801–1876), sometimes known as R. R. Scanlan, was an Irish painter and portraitist. A resident of Dublin in the 1820s, he exhibited portraits at the Royal Hibernian Academy (1826–1864), and was later Master of the Cork School of Design. He painted portraits and watercolour portrait groups, described by Professor Anne Crookshank of Trinity College Dublin as ''charmingly evocative of the leisured society of Victorian Ireland''. He spent his later life in London and exhibited at the Royal Academy (1837–1859). Two of his best known works were portraits of Prime Ministers, Sir Robert Peel Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Baronet, (5 February 1788 – 2 July 1850) was a British Conservative statesman who served twice as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1834–1835 and 1841–1846) simultaneously serving as Chancellor of the Exchequer ... and the Duke of Wellington. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scanlan (other)
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Scanlan may refer to: Surnames * Scanlan (surname), including a list of people with the name * Mac Scannláin * Ó Scannláin * Ó Scannail * Ó Scealláin Other uses * Monsignor Scanlan High School *'' Scanlan's Monthly'' *Scanlan SG-1A, glider *Scanlan Shorthalt, a gnome bard in the D&D Web Series ''Critical Role'' See also *Scanlon (other) *Patrick O'Scanlan Patrick may refer to: *Patrick (given name), list of people and fictional characters with this name *Patrick (surname), list of people with this name People *Saint Patrick (c. 385–c. 461), Christian saint * Gilla Pátraic (died 1084), Patrick o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Valley Of Fear
''The Valley of Fear'' is the fourth and final Sherlock Holmes novel by British writer Arthur Conan Doyle. It is loosely based on the Molly Maguires and Pinkerton agent James McParland. The story was first published in the ''Strand Magazine'' between September 1914 and May 1915. The first book edition was copyrighted in 1914, and it was first published by George H. Doran Company in New York on 27 February 1915, and illustrated by Arthur I. Keller. Plot Sherlock Holmes receives a cipher message from Fred Porlock, a pseudonymous agent of Professor Moriarty. After Porlock sends the message, however, he changes his mind for fear of Moriarty's discovering that he is a traitor. He decides not to send the key to the cipher, but he sends Holmes a note telling of this decision. From the cipher message and the second note, Holmes is able to deduce that it is a book cipher and that the book used for the encryption is a common book, large (with at least 534 pages), printed in two col ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William J
William is a masculine given name of Norman French Norman or Norman French (, french: Normand, Guernésiais: , Jèrriais: ) is a Romance language which can be classified as one of the Oïl languages along with French, Picard and Walloon. The name "Norman French" is sometimes used to descri ... origin.Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 276. It became very popular in the English language after the Norman conquest of England in 1066,All Things William"Meaning & Origin of the Name"/ref> and remained so throughout the Middle Ages and into the modern era. It is sometimes abbreviated "Wm." Shortened familiar versions in English include Will (given name), Will, Wills (given name), Wills, Willy, Willie, Liam, Bill (given name), Bill, and Billy (name), Billy. A common Irish people, Irish form is Liam. Scottish people, Scottish diminutives include Wull, Willie or Wullie (as in Oor Wullie or the play Dougl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Van Brunt
Walter Van Brunt (22 April 1892 – 11 April 1971) was an American tenor known initially for his recordings on Thomas Alva Edison's Blue Amberol Records and later for his role in a scandal involving a stage name and case of adultery. Biography Van Brunt began his singing career at age 17 as an imitator of singer Billy Murray. He was soon performing with Ada Jones and John Bieling as well as the American Quartet. He worked in vaudeville and on Broadway, including in the musical '' Eileen''. Van Brunt had 40 hits on pop charts, including his 1914 duet with Elizabeth Spencer. In 1917, Van Brunt began using the name Walter J. Scanlan (newspapers sometimes erroneously rendered the name as "Scanlon"), which was the name of a late 19th-century Irish tenor who had had an established career before dying but never made any recordings. It has been suggested, but not proved, that the Irish-American composer of '' Eileen'', Victor Herbert, had encouraged the use of this stage ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tuna Scanlan
Tuna Williard Scanlan (12 July 1934 – 21 October 2014) was a Samoan-born New Zealand professional middle/ light heavyweight boxer of the 1950s and 1960s. Scanlan was born in Apia, Samoa. He won the New Zealand Boxing Association middleweight title, and the British Commonwealth middleweight title, and was a challenger for the Australasian middleweight title against Clive Stewart. His professional fighting weight varied from , i.e. middleweight, to , i.e. light heavyweight. In 2014, Scanlan died in Ranfurly Hospital and Veterans Home, Mount Roskill, and was buried in Waikumete Cemetery Waikumete Cemetery, originally Waikomiti Cemetery, is New Zealand's largest cemetery. It occupies a site of 108 hectares in Glen Eden, Auckland, and also contains a crematorium in the south-west corner of the cemetery. History Waikumete Cemetery .... References External links * 1934 births 2014 deaths Burials at Waikumete Cemetery Light-heavyweight boxers Middleweight boxers New ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toni Scanlan
Toni Scanlan (born 2 April 1956) is an Australian actress best known for her role in the Australian television police drama '' Water Rats'' as Helen Blakemore. She is one of the only three actors to appear in the series from when it started to when it ended. She was the winner of the Best Actress in a Lead Role at the 2007 Sydney Theatre Awards The Sydney Theatre Awards are annual awards to recognise the strength, quality and diversity of professional theatre in Sydney, Australia. They were established in 2005 by a group of major Sydney theatre critics. The awards recognise mainstage and ... for her role in ''King Tide'', despite her late call to the role, replacing the lead originally cast. Scanlan received Best Actress in a Leading Role at the 2013 Sydney Theatre Awards for ''All My Sons'' by Arthur Miller at the opening of The Eternity Playhouse, Sydney. References External links * Australian television actresses Living people 1956 births {{Australia-tv-act ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Scanlan
Thomas Scanlan (21 May 1874 – 9 January 1930) was an Irish barrister and nationalist politician. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for North Sligo from 1909 to 1918, as a member of the Irish Parliamentary Party in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. Early life Son of Thomas Scanlan, a farmer, he was born at Drumcliffe, County Sligo, and educated at Summerhill College in Sligo and at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. In 1905 he married Mary Helen Mullen of Glasgow, daughter of John Mullen. He began his career as a journalist on the ''Glasgow Observer''. Later he became a solicitor and eventually was called to the English Bar and became prominently identified with the Irish movement in London. Political career Scanlan was elected unopposed for North Sligo at a by-election in August 1909 after the death of Patrick McHugh MP.Walker (1978), p.171 and was unopposed in the January and December 1910 general elections. At one time he served as a secretary of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Teresa Scanlan
Teresa Michelle Scanlan (born February 6, 1993) is an American beauty pageant titleholder from Gering, Nebraska who was named Miss Nebraska 2010, subsequently winning Miss America 2011 at age 17 and becoming the youngest Miss America since Bette Cooper in 1937. She now works as a business litigation attorney at King & Spalding in Houston, Texas, and serves as a Staff Sargeant in the Wyoming Air National Guard, in the Force Support Squadron. Biography Scanlan is of Irish and Croatian ancestry. Her father is from Ireland (Scanlan is an Irish surname) and her maternal grandparents, Frank and Nives Jelich (Jelić), immigrated to the United States from Ilovik, Croatia. Scanlan was home-schooled until her junior year of high school, before attending Gering High School part-time for half of her junior year. She graduated early from Scottsbluff High School in the spring of 2010 after taking a double load of classes throughout high school. Teresa was named a Salutatorian for the Sc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seán Scanlan
Sean Scanlan MRIA, IEEE Life Fellow (also John Oliver Scanlan; 1937 – 2 May 2017) was an Irish circuit theorist and electronic engineering professor. Biography Scanlan studied electrical engineering at University College Dublin (UCD) and received the Bachelor of Engineering degree in 1959. He then worked at Mullard, an industrial research laboratory in Redhill, Surrey, and continued his studies at the University of Leeds, where he received a PhD in 1966. He became the Chair of Electronic Engineering at Leeds two years later. In 1972, Scanlan earned a Doctor of Science from the National University of Ireland. From 1973 to 2002, he was the Chair of Electronic Engineering at UCD and was the first person in that role. Scanlan's areas of research included electronic circuit and system design, digital circuits and computing, signal processing, digital filters and switched-capacitor filters. He also made contributions to the theory of high frequency transistor amplifiers and oscil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sean Scanlan
Sean Scanlan (18 August 1948 – 17 April 2017) was a Scottish actor. He is known primarily for his many television and stage roles. Career Scanlan appeared in a large number of plays and television programmes, including as Dougie the ship's mate in ''The Tales of Para Handy'' and Shug in ''Rab C. Nesbitt''. He had a major role in ''Two Thousand Acres of Sky'', playing Gordon Macphee, the ferryboat captain. Smaller parts include playing Kenneth McIver, the unlucky criminal brother of regular cast member TV John McIver in ''Hamish Macbeth''. He also played the part of Duncan 'Jock' Mcevoy in Yorkshire TV's 1982 production of ''Airline'' alongside Roy Marsden and Richard Heffer. In 2011, he performed in ''Sins of the Father'' while rehearsing ''Lark, Clark and the Puppet Handy''. Personal life Born in Glasgow, Scotland, he was married to Barbara Rafferty Barbara Rafferty (born 15 January 1950 in Clydebank), is a Scottish actress. Credited as Barbara Ann Brown in her e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
