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Akam (surname)
Akam is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Dave Akam (born 1960), English track and road cyclist * Michael Akam (born 1952), British zoologist * Simon Akam Simon Akam is a British journalist and historian of the British Army. Early life Akam was born in Cambridge and educated at The Perse School, the University of Oxford, and Columbia University. During his gap year in 2003, he served a short serv ..., British journalist and historian See also * {{surname, Akam English-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English Surname
English names are names used in, or originating in, England. In England as elsewhere in the English-speaking world, a complete name usually consists of a given name, commonly referred to as a first name, and a (most commonly patrilineal) family name or surname, also referred to as a last name. There can be several given names, some of these being often referred to as a second name, or middle name(s). Given names Most given names used in England do not have English derivation. Most traditional names are Hebrew ( Daniel, David, Elizabeth, Susan), Greek ( Nicholas, Dorothy, George, Helen), Germanic names adopted via the transmission of Old French/Norman (Robert, Richard, Gertrude, Charlotte), or Latin (Adrian, Amelia, Patrick). There remains a limited set of given names which have an actual English derivation (see Anglo-Saxon names); examples include Alfred, Ashley, Edgar, Edmund, Edward, Edwin, Harold and Oswald. A distinctive feature of Anglophone names is the surnames of im ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dave Akam
David J. Akam (born 2 November 1960, Camberwell, London) is a retired track and road cyclist. He was active professionally between 1984 and 1987. Early life David Akam was a track and road cyclist. He was a time-trial specialist of some repute. He was introduced to cycling by his P.E. teacher at Forest Hill school, South London – the legendary British lanterne rouge John Clarey. Akam's early successes in cycling included three British National Track Championships and the Junior Individual Time Trial Road Championship. In 1978 Akam was selected for the English track team in the Commonwealth Games in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, competing in the 4,000 metres Individual Pursuit. Having trained for months with the 1980 Olympic pursuit team squad, Akam fractured his hip in a kermesse crash, putting him out of contention. Akam later said he was "incensed" to not even be named as a reserve. However, that July the 19-year-old Akam broke the British 10-mile time trial record becoming t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Akam
Michael Edwin Akam Fellow of the Royal Society, FRS (born 19 June 1952, in Bromley, Kent) is a British zoologist. He is professorial fellow of Darwin College, Cambridge, and he is a director, University Museum of Zoology. He was Damon Runyan fellow at Stanford University, from 1979 to 1981. He is American Association for the Advancement of Science fellow. Works * Michael Akam (Ed), ''The evolution of developmental mechanisms'', Issue 1, Company of Biologists, 1994, References {{DEFAULTSORT:Akam, Michael 20th-century British zoologists 1952 births People from Bromley Fellows of the Royal Society Fellows of Darwin College, Cambridge Living people 21st-century British zoologists Professors of Zoology (Cambridge, 1866) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simon Akam
Simon Akam is a British journalist and historian of the British Army. Early life Akam was born in Cambridge and educated at The Perse School, the University of Oxford, and Columbia University. During his gap year in 2003, he served a short service limited commission as a second lieutenant in the British Army. Published works Akam has written for a number of publications including ''The Guardian'', ''The New York Times'', ''Reuters'', ''The Economist'', '' GQ'', and ''The Atlantic''. ''The Changing of the Guard'' In 2015, Akam was commissioned by Penguin Random House imprint William Heinemann to write a book on the British Army. Amid controversy, the book deal was later cancelled, and the resulting book was instead published by Scribe Publications in 2021. The book's eventual publication provoked debate, with Anthony Loyd writing in the ''New Statesman'' that the book 'exposes the failures of the British army'. Awards and honours In 2021, Akam was shortlisted for the Orwell Pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
