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Adam Johnson may refer to: * Adam Johnson (baseball) (born 1979), American baseball player * Adam Johnson (conductor), British classical pianist and conductor * Adam Johnson (cricketer) (born 1978), English cricketer * Adam Johnson (footballer) (born 1987), English footballer and convicted sex offender * Adam Johnson (ice hockey) (1994–2023), American ice hockey player * Adam Johnson (musician) (born 1976), American musician, sound designer and visual artist * Adam Johnson (writer) (born 1967), American author * Adam Christian Johnson, American Capitol rioter * Adam R. Johnson, state congressman in the Arkansas House of Representatives * Stovepipe Johnson Adam Rankin "Stovepipe" Johnson (February 6, 1834 – October 20, 1922) was an antebellum Western frontiersman and later an officer in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. Johnson obtained notoriety leading the Newburgh R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam Johnson (baseball)
Adam Johnson (born July 12, 1979) is an American former professional baseball pitcher who played for the Minnesota Twins in 2001 and 2003. Johnson attended and played baseball at Torrey Pines High School in San Diego. He was selected by the Minnesota Twins in the 25th round of the 1997 Major League Baseball draft but chose to play college baseball at Cal State Fullerton. Johnson set Fullerton's career record for strikeouts with 365 and was named the Pitcher of the Year in the Big West Conference in 2000. That year, he was selected by the Twins with the second pick in the 2000 Major League Baseball draft. At the time of the draft, John Sickels wrote on ESPN.com that Johnson " ould move through the minors quickly." Indeed, Johnson made his Major League Baseball debut just over a year later on July 16, 2001 against the St. Louis Cardinals, allowing three earned runs over six innings pitched. Johnson gave up 14 runs in his next 15 innings pitched and was replaced on the roster by outf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam Johnson (conductor)
Adam Johnson is a British classical pianist, composer and conductor. He is currently artistic director and principal conductor of the Northern Lights Symphony Orchestra, which is based at St Saviour's, Pimlico. Education Johnson first studied at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, under the tutorage of Martyn Brabbins, and George Hurst. He also studied under Peter Feuchtwanger and later obtained a Master's under the direction of Sir Mark Elder. He studied composition with Anthony Gilbert, Elena Firsova and Simon Holt. Career Johnson's concerto debut was playing the Mozart Piano Concerto No. 15 at the Pavlovsk Palace, Saint Petersburg, aged 15, and he later went on to conduct with the Elemental Opera company He has assisted Ari Benjamin Meyers and guest conducted with the LSO. In the UK he has performed with Jonathan Pryce at St Martin in the Fields; and in Turkey, the United States, Spain, Norway, and Brazil. Composer Johnson has composed mostly orchestral ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam Johnson (cricketer)
Adam Hugh Vyvyan Johnson (born 28 November 1978) is an English former first-class cricketer. Johnson was born at Sheffield in November 1978. He was educated at Tapton School, before going up to Jesus College, Cambridge. While studying at Cambridge, he made his debut in first-class cricket for Cambridge UCCE against Kent at Fenner's in 2001. He made three further first-class appearances in 2001, playing twice more for Cambridge UCCE and once for Cambridge University against Oxford University. In his four first-class matches, he scored 72 runs with a high score of 55 not out. In addition to playing first-class cricket he also played minor counties cricket for Cambridgeshire Cambridgeshire (abbreviated Cambs.) is a county in the East of England, bordering Lincolnshire to the north, Norfolk to the north-east, Suffolk to the east, Essex and Hertfordshire to the south, and Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire to the ... in 1999, making a single appearance in the Minor Counties ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam Johnson (footballer)
Adam Johnson (born 14 July 1987) is an English inactive professional footballer who played as a winger. A product of the Middlesbrough youth academy, he came to prominence after making his debut aged 17 in a UEFA Cup match. He made 120 appearances for Middlesbrough, also spending time on loan at Leeds United and Watford. In February 2010, Johnson moved to Manchester City, where he won the FA Cup in 2011 and the Premier League the following season. He was signed by his hometown club Sunderland for £10 million in 2012. Johnson played at various levels for England, earning 12 caps at senior level. In March 2015, Johnson was arrested and charged over sexual activity with a 15-year-old girl, with England's age of consent being 16. Johnson continued to play for Sunderland during his bail. The following February, he pleaded guilty to two charges against him, the other being one of child grooming, and was subsequently sacked by Sunderland. In March 2016, Johnson was found guil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam Johnson (ice Hockey)
Adam Robert Johnson (June 22, 1994 – October 28, 2023) was an American professional ice hockey forward. He played 13 games in the National Hockey League with the Pittsburgh Penguins during the 2018–19 and 2019–20 seasons. He also played in Europe with the Malmö Redhawks, Augsburger Panther, and Nottingham Panthers. Johnson died after his neck was cut by an opposing player's skate blade in an on-ice collision, causing him to bleed out. Early life and education Johnson was born June 22, 1994, in Grand Rapids, Minnesota, to Susan and Davey Johnson. After graduating from Hibbing High School, he played junior hockey in the United States Hockey League (USHL) with the Indiana Ice and Sioux City Musketeers, and was named a USHL All-Star in 2015. Undrafted in the NHL, he played two seasons of collegiate hockey with the University of Minnesota Duluth's Minnesota Duluth Bulldogs team in the National Collegiate Hockey Conference (NCHC). During his sophomore season, 2016–17, J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam Johnson (musician)
Adam Johnson (born 1976) is an American electronic musician from Minneapolis, Minnesota, known for his 2003 album, Chigliak, on the Miami based electronic music label, Merck Records. He has released music on American and European electronic music record labels, and licensed his music for use in advertising, TV and films. His music has also been licensed by world renown DJs and record producers such as Sasha, John Digweed, and Way Out West. In 2014, Fact magazine A fact is a datum about one or more aspects of a circumstance, which, if accepted as true and proven true, allows a logical conclusion to be reached on a true–false evaluation. Standard reference works are often used to check facts. Scient ... included the track "Anex" from the album, Chigliak, on a list of "The 100 Greatest IDM Tracks." Johnson is also a Photographer, Documentary Filmmaker and Video Editor. He holds a BFA in Photography from the Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, Oregon (2013). Re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam Johnson (writer)
Adam Johnson (born July 12, 1967) is an American novelist and short story writer. He won the Pulitzer Prize for his 2012 novel, '' The Orphan Master's Son'', and the National Book Award for his 2015 story collection ''Fortune Smiles''. He is also a professor of English at Stanford University with a focus on creative writing. Early life Johnson was born in South Dakota and was raised in Tempe, Arizona. He is part Sioux. Education Johnson earned a BA in Journalism from Arizona State University in 1992, though he studied principally with the fiction writer Ron Carlson. He earned an MFA from the writing program at McNeese State University in 1996, where he studied with Robert Olen Butler and John Wood. In 2001, he earned a PhD in English from Florida State University. Janet Burroway directed his dissertation. Career Johnson is currently a San Francisco writer and professor in creative writing at Stanford University. He founded the Stanford Graphic Novel Project and was named "one o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam Christian Johnson
Adam Christian Johnson, also known as the "Podium Guy", is an American convicted criminal who took part in the United States Capitol attack on January 6, 2021. A photograph of Johnson carrying House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's lectern became a prominent image of the attack. On February 25, 2022, he was convicted of entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds, and was sentenced to 75 days of incarceration with a $5,000 fine. Early life, career and politics Johnson was born in Millington, Tennessee, and lived most of his life in Southwest Florida and attending the University of South Florida. In his late teens and early twenties, he was arrested on two separate misdemeanor marijuana charges by Manatee County police. He violated probation in 2005 by failing to submit needed supervision reports. Johnson had listed his occupation as a cook in 2005, and had worked as a furniture maker. He was unemployed at the time of the insurrection. At the time of the Capitol attack, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam R
Adam; el, Ἀδάμ, Adám; la, Adam is the name given in Genesis 1-5 to the first human. Beyond its use as the name of the first man, ''adam'' is also used in the Bible as a pronoun, individually as "a human" and in a collective sense as "mankind". tells of God's creation of the world and its creatures, including ''adam'', meaning humankind; in God forms "Adam", this time meaning a single male human, out of "the dust of the ground", places him in the Garden of Eden, and forms a woman, Eve, as his helpmate; in Adam and Eve eat the fruit of the tree of knowledge and God condemns Adam to labour on the earth for his food and to return to it on his death; deals with the birth of Adam's sons, and lists his descendants from Seth to Noah. The Genesis creation myth was adopted by both Christianity and Islam, and the name of Adam accordingly appears in the Christian scriptures and in the Quran. He also features in subsequent folkloric and mystical elaborations in later Judaism, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
