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Baptist (surname)
Baptist is a surname. Notable people with this name include: * Marty Baptist * Maria Baptist * Travis Baptist * Willem Baptist * George Baptist * Rachael Baptist * Glenford Baptist * Edward E. Baptist See also * Baptist (other) * Baptiste (name) * Baptista Baptista is a Portuguese surname. People with this name include: *Alba Baptista (born 1997) *Alexandre Baptista (born 1941), Portuguese footballer * Ana Filipa Baptista (born 1990), Portuguese chess player * António Maria Baptista (1866–1920) ... (Portuguese surname) meaning "Baptist" * Baptistin (French name) * {{surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marty Baptist
Marty Baptist (born 1975 in Queensland, Australia) is a contemporary artist. His work has been exhibited internationally. Career Baptist grew up skateboarding and began painting at an early age, but didn’t pursue it until he had a skateboard injury. He then studied visual art at Morningside College of Art in Queensland, Australia. He moved to Sydney, Australia to exhibit his work and then later moved to New Zealand for a few years where he worked on his craft. On a commercial level he has collaborated with Oakley, Inc. and has been commissioned to work on such labels as Cliché skateboards and Vans Shoes. In 2002 early in his career he was asked to exhibit with Space Invader and Lance Mountain in which huge light boxes where placed on the walls of the famous Hosier Lane in Melbourne Australia. His zine "Shadows of the mess you made" is held in the National Library of Australia The National Library of Australia (NLA), formerly the Commonwealth National Library and Commo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria Baptist
Maria Baptist (born 30 August 1971) is a German musician (pianist, composer) and professor. Career Maria Baptist was born in 1971 in East Berlin in a very musical family. Her grandfather was an orchestra musician and composer, her father himself is a pianist. Maria discovered very early her fascination for music and at the age of six she began playing the piano. At the age of eleven she composed her first pieces. Maria developed her desire to become a classical concert pianist. At the age of fifteen Maria listened to recordings of Dave Brubeck and Keith Jarrett and discovered for the first time the world of jazz and improvisation. Impressed by the musical expression, Maria felt that she had to continue on this path. She began studying piano at the music university in Berlin and won her first international piano competitions on improvisation. During this period, the Berlin Wall fell, which meant a great personal change in Maria's life. She took the opportunity to move to New York ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Travis Baptist
Travis Steven Baptist (born December 30, 1971) is a retired Major League Baseball pitcher. Baptist was drafted by the Toronto Blue Jays in the 45th round of the 1990 Major League Baseball Draft, and he played his first professional season with their Rookie league Medicine Hat Blue Jays in . On December 9, 1996, he was drafted by the Minnesota Twins from the Toronto Blue Jays organization in the minor league portion of the 1996 Rule 5 draft. While Baptist was a member of the Salt Lake Buzz in 1998, he was chosen as the starting pitcher for the Pacific Coast League team in the Triple-A All Star game. Baptist went on to later play his only season at the major league level with the Twins in 1998. He played his last season in affiliated ball in for the Chicago White Sox's Double-AA Birmingham Barons and Triple-AAA Charlotte Knights, and his last professional season with the independent Central Baseball League's Rio Grande Valley WhiteWings The Rio Grande Valley WhiteWings was a p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Willem Baptist
Willem Baptist (1979) is a Dutch filmmaker and documentary-director. His documentary '' I’m Never Afraid!'' (2010) won a Golden Gate Award at San Francisco International Film Festival, Documentary Short Grand Jury Prize at Atlanta Film Festival, and a Kinderkast Jury award non-fiction at Cinekid Festival. His documentary ''Wild Boar'' (2013) had its international premieres in competition at respectively Visions du Réel (Switzerland), Hot Docs International Documentary Festival (Canada) and AFI Docs (USA). In 2016 ''Imposible Magazine'' reported Baptist was shooting a feature documentary titled ''Instant Dreams'' in Berlin and California. ''Instant Dreams'' will have its premiere at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam in 2017, where it will be competing in the First Appearance Competition and Dutch Documentary Competition. In 2018 The Saugatuck Center for the Arts, present the Midwest premiere of the ''Instant Dreams'' documentary at 7 p.m. Friday, October 19, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Baptist
George Baptist (7 January 1808 – 11 May 1875) was a logging contractor, born in Scotland and emigrated to Canada in 1832. Baptist first lived in Dorchester County, Quebec where he found employment in the sawmills there. These were owned by Sir John Caldwell and gave him valuable experience for his future endeavours. In 1846, he bought a sawmill in the Saint-Maurice region; which had been owned by Edward Greive, a member of the 2nd Parliament of the Province of Canada. Greive had died in 1845 and the mill was abandoned. Shortly after his purchase, the government became heavily involved in the timber industry. By 1852, a commission led by Étienne Parent was proposing a policy of crown lands grants. Trois-Rivières Trois-Rivières (, – 'Three Rivers') is a city in the Mauricie administrative region of Quebec, Canada, at the confluence of the Saint-Maurice River, Saint-Maurice and Saint Lawrence River, Saint Lawrence rivers, on the north shore of the Sain ... became the cen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rachael Baptist
Rachael Baptist, also referred to as Rachel Baptiste and Rachael Crow (fl. 1750–1775) was a Black singer active in Ireland and England in the mid-18th century. Life Baptist was born sometime in the second quarter of the 18th century, but nothing else is known of her early life. She was described as a native of Africa by John O'Keefe, but also described by Italian musician Bernardo Palma as a 'native of this country', which may allude to Ireland. Dublin stage Her first recorded appearance on stage was in Dublin in February 1750, at a benefit concert for Bernardo Palma, her Italian singing teacher. From 1750 to 1753, Baptist performed regularly in Dublin, often at the Marlborough Green Gardens. The writer John O'Keeffe saw her perform and described her appearing on stage: ''"a real black woman, a native of Africa: she always appeared in the orchestra in a yellow silk gown, and was heard by the applauding company with great delight, without remarks upon her sables."'' Her fina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glenford Baptist
Glenford Baptist is a Belizean man who was convicted of murder and sentenced to death along with two other men under the doctrine of joint enterprise for a murder committed in July 2000. He is Belize's longest-serving death row inmate. In 2015, Baptist's death sentence was overturned and reduced to 25 years in prison. Crime Baptist was one of three men sentenced to death by hanging in November 2001 after they were convicted of murdering Azrin White, who was shot dead on the night of July 24, 2000. Along with Oscar Mendez and Gilroy Wade Jr., Baptist was held in Belize's Central Prison to await execution. Mendez successfully appealed his sentence in June 2002, arguing that he had been wrongly identified by a witness. He was released from prison. Wade was killed by another prisoner in 2007. Baptist's case was taken up by the Death Penalty Project, an organisation which offers free legal representation to prisoners who have been sentenced to death. In July 2015 his lawyer, P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward E
Edward is an English given name. It is derived from the Anglo-Saxon name ''Ēadweard'', composed of the elements '' ēad'' "wealth, fortune; prosperous" and '' weard'' "guardian, protector”. History The name Edward was very popular in Anglo-Saxon England, but the rule of the Norman and Plantagenet dynasties had effectively ended its use amongst the upper classes. The popularity of the name was revived when Henry III named his firstborn son, the future Edward I, as part of his efforts to promote a cult around Edward the Confessor, for whom Henry had a deep admiration. Variant forms The name has been adopted in the Iberian peninsula since the 15th century, due to Edward, King of Portugal, whose mother was English. The Spanish/Portuguese forms of the name are Eduardo and Duarte. Other variant forms include French Édouard, Italian Edoardo and Odoardo, German, Dutch, Czech and Romanian Eduard (name), Eduard and Scandinavian Edvard. Short forms include Ed, Eddy, Eddie, Ted, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baptist (other)
Baptist or baptists or ''variation'', may refer to: Religion * A person who baptizes people, who performs a baptism ** John the Baptist, Jewish religious figure and element of Christian religion * The Baptists, a Protestant Christian denomination ** Baptist beliefs ** List of Baptists ** List of Baptist churches ** List of Baptist denominations People * Baptist (surname) * Baptist Fernando (1933-2017), Sri Lankan Sinhala actor and producer Places * Baptist, Kentucky, USA; a town Other uses * ''Baptists'' (band), Canadian hardcore punk band See also * * * Baptism (other) * St. John the Baptist (other) * Saint John (other) * Batista (Spanish/Portuguese surname) * Battista (Italian surname and given name) Italian term meaning "Baptist" * Bautista (Spanish surname) Spanish term meaning "Baptist" * Baptista (Portuguese surname) Portuguese term meaning "Baptist" * Baptiste (name) Baptiste is a French given name or surname, and may be a shortene ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baptiste (name)
Baptiste is a French given name or surname, and may be a shortened form of Jean-Baptiste (literally, John the Baptist). Given name * Baptiste Amar, French ice hockey player * Baptiste Giabiconi (born 1989), French model and singer *Baptiste Manzini (1920–2008), American football player * Baptiste Martin (born 1985), French football player * Baptiste Pierre Bisson (1767-1811), French military * Baptiste Rollier (born 1982), Swiss orienteer Surname *Alex Baptiste (born 1986), English football player * Alva Baptiste, a Saint Lucian politician * Bryan Baptiste (1955–2008), American politician * Christian Baptiste (born 1962), French politician from Guadeloupe * Christon Baptiste (born 1980), Trinidadian football player * Cyril Baptiste (1949–2006), American basketball player *Denys Baptiste (born 1969), British jazz musician *Eldine Baptiste (born 1960), West Indian cricket player * Fredrique Eleonore Baptiste (died 1827), Swedish-Finnish playwright *Hailey Baptiste (born 2001) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baptista
Baptista is a Portuguese surname. People with this name include: *Alba Baptista (born 1997) *Alexandre Baptista (born 1941), Portuguese footballer * Ana Filipa Baptista (born 1990), Portuguese chess player * António Maria Baptista (1866–1920), Portuguese military officer and politician *Arnaldo Baptista (born 1948), Brazilian rock musician *Baptista Mantuanus (1447–1516), Italian Carmelite reformer, humanist, and poet * Baptista Minola, a character in Shakespeare's ''Taming Of The Shrew'' * Baptista Varani (1458–1527), Italian nun and Catholic saint * Christopher Baptista, Canadian drag queen *Cyro Baptista (born 1950), Brazilian musician * (born 1962), Brazilian botanist * Eduardo Baptista (born 1970), Brazilian football manager * Ezequiel Baptista (born 1926), Portuguese footballer * Felipe Oliveira Baptista (born 1975), Portuguese fashion designer *Firmino Baptista, Portuguese athlete * Hélder Baptista (born 1972), Portuguese footballer * Joao Luiz Ferreira Baptista (bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |