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Alan Grant (other)
Allan or Alan Grant may refer to: Alan Grant * Alan Grant (American football) (born 1966), former American football cornerback * Alan Grant (darts player) (born 1948), Australian former darts player * Alan Grant (writer) (1949–2022), comic book writer * Alan Grant (hurler) (born 1991), Northern Irish hurler * A. K. Grant (1941–2000), New Zealand humorist Allan Grant * Allan Grant (1919–2008), American photojournalist * Allan Grant (footballer) (born 1973), Scottish former footballer Fictional * Alan Grant, fictional Scotland Yard detective, from a series of mystery novels by Josephine Tey * Dr. Alan Grant, a character from the ''Jurassic Park'' book and film franchise * Alan Grant, a character from the 2012 Canadian horror movie American Mary See also * Grant Allen Charles Grant Blairfindie Allen (February 24, 1848 – October 25, 1899) was a Canadian science writer and novelist, educated in England. He was a public promoter of evolution in the second half o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Grant (American Football)
Alan Hays Grant (born October 1, 1966) is a former American football cornerback in the National Football League (NFL) for the Indianapolis Colts, San Francisco 49ers, Cincinnati Bengals, and the Washington Redskins. He played college football at Stanford University and was drafted in the fourth round of the 1990 NFL draft The 1990 NFL draft was the procedure by which National Football League teams selected amateur college football players. It is officially known as the NFL Annual Player Selection Meeting. The draft was held April 22–23, 1990, at the Marriott Marq .... References 1966 births Living people Players of American football from Pasadena, California Players of Canadian football from Pasadena, California American football cornerbacks Stanford Cardinal football players Indianapolis Colts players San Francisco 49ers players Cincinnati Bengals players Washington Redskins players Saskatchewan Roughriders players {{defensiveback-1960s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Grant (darts Player)
Alan Grant (born 21 April 1948) is an Australian former professional darts player who competed in events of the British Darts Organisation (BDO) in the 1970s and 1980s. Career Grant made his debut at the 1979 WDF World Cup, losing to John Wilkie from New Zealand. He won the 1979 New South Wales Darts Masters by beating Australia's Frank Palko. Grant won the 1980 Australian Grand Masters by beating Ray Cornibert from England. Grant played in the 1980 BDO World Darts Championship and defeated Canadian Allan Hogg in the first round 2–1. This was considered an upset since Hogg had reached the World Masters final three months earlier. Grant was eventually beaten in the second round 0–2 by Ceri Morgan from Wales. World Championship results BDO * 1980: Second Round (lost to Ceri Morgan Ceri Rhys Morgan (22 December 1947 – 29 February 2020 ) was a Welsh professional darts player who competed in the British Darts Organisation (BDO) events in the 1970s, 1980s and 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Grant (writer)
Alan Grant (9 February 194920 July 2022) was a British comic book writer known for writing Judge Dredd in '' 2000 AD'' as well as various Batman titles from the late 1980s to the early 2000s. He was the co-creator of the characters Anarky, Victor Zsasz, and the Ventriloquist. Career Early career and ''2000 AD'' Grant first entered the comics industry in 1967 when he became an editor for D.C. Thomson before moving to London from Dundee in 1970 to work for IPC on various romance magazines. After going back to college and having a series of jobs, Grant found himself back in Dundee and living on Social Security. He then met John Wagner, another former D.C. Thomson editor, who was helping put together a new science fiction comic magazine for IPC, ''2000 AD'', and was unable to complete his other work. Wagner asked Grant if he could help him write the ''Tarzan'' comic he was working on; so began the Wagner/Grant writing partnership. Wagner asked Grant to write a strip for '' Sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Grant (hurler)
Alan Grant (born March 1991) is an Irish hurler who plays as a right wing-forward at senior level for the Derry county team. Grant made his debut on the inter-county scene when he was selected for the Derry minor team. After two unsuccessful seasons in this grade, he joined the under-21 team. Grant made his debut with the Derry senior team during the 2010 league. Since then he has become a regular member of the team and has won a Nicky Rackard Cup medal. He also won a Christy Ring Champion 15 award. Honours ;Derry * Nicky Rackard Cup (1): 2017 File:2017 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: The War Against ISIS at the Battle of Mosul (2016-2017); aftermath of the Manchester Arena bombing; The Solar eclipse of August 21, 2017 ("Great American Eclipse"); North Korea tests a ser ... References 1991 births Living people Na Magha hurlers Seán Donlons Gaelic footballers Dual players Derry inter-county hurlers Ulster inter-provincial hurlers {{D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allan Grant
Allan Grant (October 23, 1919 – February 1, 2008) was an American photojournalist for ''Life (magazine), Life'' magazine. He had the last photo shoot with actress Marilyn Monroe and took the first photos of Marina Oswald, Lee Harvey Oswald's wife, following U.S. President John F. Kennedy's assassination. Early career Grant was born in New York City. He was introduced to photography as a teenager, when he traded a model airplane for a camera. One of his early jobs was in a photo laboratory, where he printed photos by noted photographers such as Alfred Eisenstaedt and Robert Capa. Grant began working for ''Life'' in 1945 on a freelance basis. The magazine hired him full-time in 1946, after a photo he took at a Connecticut sailing school made the cover of an issue. ''Life'' assignments In 1947, Grant photographed Howard Hughes flight in the "Spruce Goose," and he filmed the atom bomb tests in Nevada during the 1950s. In 1948, Grant photographed Chano Pozo, then a member of Di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allan Grant (footballer)
Allan Grant (born 1 July 1973) is a Scottish former professional footballer. Career Grant began his career with junior side Maryhill. In the summer of 1998, he was part of the Junior revolution which swept through Clyde, being one of eleven players coming from the junior ranks to join the Bully Wee. He was a key figure in the team which won the Scottish Second Division championship in 2000. In his final season at Clyde, he only played one game, due to injury. He left the club in the summer of 2002, and rejoined former club Maryhill. In 2003, he returned to the senior game for a season to join Stranraer. Grant then went back to Maryhill for a third spell before joining Bellshill athletic. Injuries forced him to retire from football in 2006. Honours ; Clyde * Scottish Second Division: 1999–2000 ; Stranraer * Scottish Third Division The Scottish Football League Third Division was the fourth tier of the Scottish football league system between 1994 and 2013. History ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josephine Tey
Josephine Tey was a pseudonym used by Elizabeth MacKintosh (25 July 1896 – 13 February 1952), a Scottish author. Her novel ''The Daughter of Time'' was a detective work investigating the role of Richard III of England in the death of the Princes in the Tower, and named as the greatest crime novel of all time by the Crime Writers' Association. Her first play ''Richard of Bordeaux'', written under another pseudonym, Gordon Daviot, starred John Gielgud in its successful West End run. Life and work MacKintosh was born in Inverness, the oldest of three daughters of Colin MacKintosh, a fruiterer, and Josephine (''née'' Horne). She attended Inverness Royal Academy and then, in 1914, Anstey Physical Training College in Erdington, a suburb of Birmingham. She taught physical training at various schools in England and Scotland and during her vacations worked at a convalescent home in Inverness as a Voluntary Aid Detachment nurse. A youthful romance ended with her soldier friend's deat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Mary
''American Mary'' is a 2012 Canadian body horror film written and directed by Jen and Sylvia Soska and starring Katharine Isabelle, Antonio Cupo, and Tristan Risk. Isabelle plays a destitute medical student who begins taking clients from the extreme body modification community to solve her financial troubles. Plot Desperate for funds, surgical student Mary applies for work at a strip club. Billy Barker, the club's owner, is in need of a medical professional to patch up a man bleeding in his club's basement, the obvious victim of illegal dealings, and offers Mary $5,000 to perform emergency surgery. Mary accepts the money, but spends the next few days terrified that the criminal activity she got involved in will follow her home. Later, Mary is approached by Beatress Johnson, a stripper at the club who has had extreme plastic surgery to make herself resemble Betty Boop. She offers Mary a large sum of money to perform illegal surgery on her friend Ruby Realgirl in a veterinary cli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grant Allen
Charles Grant Blairfindie Allen (February 24, 1848 – October 25, 1899) was a Canadian science writer and novelist, educated in England. He was a public promoter of evolution in the second half of the nineteenth century. Biography Early life and education Allen was born on Wolfe Island near Kingston, Canada West (known as Ontario after Confederation), the second son of Catharine Ann Grant and the Rev. Joseph Antisell Allen, a Protestant minister from Dublin, Ireland. His mother was a daughter of the fifth Baron de Longueuil. Allen was educated at home until, at age 13, he and his parents moved to the United States, then to France, and finally to the United Kingdom. He was educated at King Edward's School in Birmingham and at Merton College in Oxford, both in the United Kingdom. After graduation, Allen studied in France, taught at Brighton College in 1870–71, and in his mid-twenties became a professor at Queen's College, a black college in Jamaica. Despite being the son o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
