Orwin
Orwin is both a surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include: *Clifford Orwin (born 1947), Canadian academic *John Orwin (born 1954), English rugby union player *Joanna Orwin (born 1944), New Zealand writer *Martin Orwin (born 1963), English linguist and writer *Orwin Castel (born 1973), Mauritian footballer See also *Orwin, Pennsylvania Orwin is a census-designated place located in Porter Township, Schuylkill County in the state of Pennsylvania, United States. Orwin was part of the Reinerton-Orwin-Muir CDP at the 2000 census before splitting into three individual CDPs for th ...

Joanna Orwin
Joanna Orwin (née Lucas; born 28 November 1944) is a New Zealand writer of fiction and non-fiction for adults and children. Several of her books have been shortlisted for or have won awards, including Children's Book of the Year in 1985 and the Senior Fiction category of the New Zealand Post Book awards for Children and Young Adults in 2002. She lives in Christchurch, New Zealand. Biography Joanna Orwin was born on 28 November 1944 in Nelson. Her father Richard Arthur Lucas was an ear, nose, and throat specialist. She grew up in Nelson and family holidays at Lake Rotoiti helped to inspire her love of the New Zealand landscape. She cites some of her favourite childhood reading as myths and legends, adventure stories like ''Treasure Island'' and ''Swallows and Amazons'', historical fiction by Rosemary Sutcliff, Henry Treece and Geoffrey Trease and fantasy such as The Chronicles of Narnia, ''At the Back of the North Wind'', and ''The Jungle Book.''   She won prizes for poetry ...
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Orwin Castel
Orwin Castel (born 18 June 1973) is a Mauritian footballer who plays as a goalkeeper. He won 16 caps for the Mauritius national football team, and had spells with clubs in South Africa and Mozambique during his career. In 2013, he came out of retirement and signed a 1-year deal with Langwarrin SC Langwarrin Soccer Club is an Australian soccer club based in Langwarrin South, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Founded in 1964, the club competes in National Premier Leagues Victoria 2. History Langwarrin Soccer Club was formed by ... of the Victorian State League Division 2, in order to help them in their bid for promotion. Unfortunately he didn't sport his trademark mullet in the later stages of his career, however he still had the fans out of their seats with a number of dramatic saves External links * References 1973 births Living people Mauritian men's footballers Mauritius men's international footballers Mauritian expatriate men's footballers Mauritian ...
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Clifford Orwin
Clifford Orwin is a Canadian-American professor of ancient, modern, contemporary and Jewish political thought. He is also a prominent writer on contemporary politics and culture. Life career Orwin was born in 1947 in Chicago, Illinois, United States to a Jewish family. He earned B.A. in Modern History from Cornell University, where he studied political philosophy with Allan Bloom, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Philosophy from Harvard University under Harvey Mansfield. Orwin moved to Canada to take up a teaching position at the University of Toronto, and later became a Canadian citizen. He is currently a Professor of Political Philosophy, Classical Studies and Jewish Studies at the University of Toronto, where he has taught for many decades and where he currently serves as Chair of the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy's program in Political Philosophy and International Affairs. He is often identified as a Straussian and is critical of theories that identify ...
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Martin Orwin
Martin Orwin (born 1963) is a British linguist, scholar and writer, specializing in the languages and cultures of the Horn of Africa. Biography Orwin studied Arabic and Amharic and has a PhD in the phonology of the Somali language. Since 1992, he has been a lecturer in Somali and Amharic at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London, England, where he teaches both Afro-Asiatic languages. Since 2020, he also teaches both Somali language and Somali literature at the Università degli Studi di Napoli "L'Orientale" (Naples, Italy). He has also published articles on Somali language and poetry and has conducted field research in the Horn of Africa. Orwin's ongoing research interests include language use in poetry, particularly in the metrics of Somali verse. In addition, he has translated a number of Somali poems, two of which were published in the ''Modern Poetry in Translation (No.17 Mother Tongues Special Edition 2001)'' compendium. Orwin has worked closely wit ...
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John Orwin
John Orwin (born 20 March 1954) is a former Rugby union lock. Orwin toured New Zealand with England playing in both tests in 1985. He then captained on their tour to Australia & Fiji in 1988. He played for and captained Gloucester, Bedford, the Barbarians the Royal Air Force The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the Air force, air and space force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies. It was formed towards the end of the World War I, First World War on 1 April 1918, on the merger of t ..., and Combined Services. References External links Yorkshire post articleindependent article on Orwin 1954 births Living people Barbarian F.C. players Bedford Blues players Combined Services rugby union players England international rugby union players English rugby union players Gloucester Rugby players Gloucestershire County RFU players 20th-century Royal Air Force personnel Royal Air Force rugby union players Rugby union locks Rugb ...
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