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Beasley (surname)
Beasley is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Aaron Beasley, a United States-born National Football League cornerback * Allyce Beasley, a United States-born actress * Barney Beasley (1895–1951), American character actor * Bruce Beasley (American sculptor), a United States sculptor * Cecil A. Beasley (1876–1959), American lawyer and politician from Alabama. * Cheri Beasley, a United States-born judge * Chris Beasley, Australian political scientist * Christine Beasley, a British-born dame and the Chief Nursing Officer of England * Cole Beasley (born 1989), a United States-born football player * DaMarcus Beasley, a United States-born soccer player; brother of Jamar * David Beasley, a United States-born politician who served as the Governor of South Carolina * Debra Lafave, formerly Debra Beasley, a United States-born former teacher and registered sex offender * Eileen Beasley, Welsh language campaigner * Fred Beasley, a United States-born National Football Lea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aaron Beasley
Aaron Bruce Beasley (born July 7, 1973) is a former American college and professional football player who was a cornerback in the National Football League (NFL) for nine seasons. He played college football for West Virginia University, and received All-American recognition. He was drafted in the third round of the 1996 NFL Draft, and played professionally for the Jacksonville Jaguars, New York Jets and Atlanta Falcons of the NFL. Most Recently, Beasley received consensus All American recognition and is currently a nominee for the class of 2020 Hall of Fame Early years Beasley was born in Pottstown, Pennsylvania.National Football League, Historical Players Aaron Beasley Retrieved February 5, 2012. He graduated from Pottstown Senior High School in 1991, and attended Valley Forge Military Academy in Wayne, Pennsylvania, for a fifth preparatory year.databaseFootball.com, Players Aaron Beasley. Retrieved February 5, 2012. College career Beasley attended West Virginia University, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jamar Beasley
Jamar Beasley (born October 11, 1979, in Fort Wayne, Indiana) is an American soccer player. Career Beasley began his professional career in 1998, as a member Major League Soccer's Project-40, directly out of High School (South Side High School). He became a member of the New England Revolution. At the time, Beasley was the youngest player to sign with MLS, a record since broken many times over. After being traded to the Chicago Fire, Beasley was a regular during the 2001 season alongside his brother. He would score a crucial tying goal for Chicago against Dallas in the second game of a quarterfinal playoff series that 2001 Major League Soccer season. After reduced playing time in 2002, Beasley went to the second division before signing with the indoor Missouri Comets of the MISL II for the 2003–2004 season, where he would go on to win MISL Rookie of the Year. After years of success with various MISL teams, Beasley had a dominant year in 2006–2007, leading the Detroit Ignition ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nate Beasley
Nathan Wayne Beasley (June 11, 1953 – March 10, 2010) was an American football running back. He played college football for Delaware State and Delaware before being selected in the 1976 NFL Draft by the Oakland Raiders, though he did not play with them. Early life Beasley was born on June 11, 1953, in Austin, Texas. The son of Richard Beasley, an Air Force Sergeant, Nate Beasley lived in several different states and countries as a child, including "Japan, Alaska, Hawaii and most of the 50 states", according to '' The Morning News''. He began playing football at the age of eight, while living in Japan. He first attended Male High School in Louisville, Kentucky, before moving to Delaware in 1967. There he played football at Dover Air Force Base High School. He was named best offensive backfield player in 1969. His final career high school match was the Blue–Gold All-Star game held in 1971, in which Beasley scored each touchdown for the Gold as they won 15–12. College caree ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Beasley
Michael Paul Beasley Jr. (born January 9, 1989) is an American professional basketball player, who most recently played for the Shanghai Sharks of the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA). He played college basketball for Kansas State University for one year before declaring for the NBA draft in 2008. Beasley was the 2nd pick in the 2008 NBA Draft and was selected by the Miami Heat. He is regarded as one of the best freshman college basketball players of the 2000s. Though he is ambidextrous, he shoots left-handed. Early life Beasley was born in the Prince George's County town of Cheverly, Maryland. Beasley's mother Fatima Smith and his four siblings (two brothers and two sisters) moved from nearby Montgomery County to Frederick in 2005 and lived there for one year. High school career While growing up, Beasley played for one of the country's most successful AAU youth teams at the time, the PG Jaguars. Beasley won multiple national championships with this team alongside futu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria Beasley
Maria E. Beasley (''née'' Hauser; 1836–1913) was an American entrepreneur and inventor. Born in North Carolina, Beasley grew up with a strong interest in mechanical work and learned about the profession of barrel-making from her grandfather. Between 1878 and 1898, she patented fifteen inventions in the United States: these included a footwarmer, an improved life raft, and an anti-derailment device for trains; however, her primary success as an inventor rose from a specialty in barrel-making machines and processes. Beasley licensed a patent to the Standard Oil Company, exhibited her work at the World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition and the World's Columbian Exposition, and founded two companies for the design and manufacture of barrels (one of which later sold for $1.4 million, the ). Early life Maria Hauser was born in 1836 in North Carolina to a wealthy family. Her parents were Anna Johanna Spach and Christian Hauser, and Christian was a miller. Maria showed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marco Beasley
Marco Beasley (26 February 1957, Naples) is an Italian tenor, voice-actor and musicologist. With composer and harpsichordist Guido Morini, Beasley was one of the three founding members of the Accordone early music ensemble in 1984; Stefano Rocco was later replaced by violinist Enrico Gatti. Beasley is a notable advocate in baroque performance practice for the revival of the recitar cantando of baroque Italy and the frottole of Naples, though his "folk" touches are not equally appreciated by all classical music critics. Beasley sang the lead role of the Ancient Mariner in Luca Francesconi's opera ''Ballata'' at the Leipzig Opera in 2002. Selected discography * Stradella opera ''Moro per Amore''. Velardi. Bongiovanni * ''Musique Baroque a Naples'', E. Barbella, F. Mancini, sonatas Gaetano Latilla: T'aggio voluto bene Giulio Cesare Rubino: cantata ''Lena'', Giuseppe Porsile: Cantata sopra l' arcicalascione. Marco Beasley, with Bruno Ré, Paolo Capirci, Fabio Menditto, Fed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malcolm Beasley
Malcolm Roy Beasley (born January 4, 1940 in San Francisco) is an American physicist. He is Professor Emeritus of Applied Physics at Stanford University. He is known for his research related to superconductivity. Early life and education Beasley was born at Stanford hospital, moving to Hawaii during World War II with his parents, who were social scientists. He was a high school and college basketball player, earning All-Metropolitan honors at Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring, Maryland, and playing for the Cornell Big Red in 1958-59. At Cornell University, Beasley earned his bachelor's degree in engineering physics in 1962 and his Ph.D. in 1967. His Ph.D. thesis ''Flux creep in hard superconductors'' was supervised by Watt W. Webb. Academic career Beasley joined the faculty of Harvard University in 1968 where he remained until accepting a position at Stanford in 1974. He was recruited to Stanford by Theodore Geballe, and after Aharon Kapitulnik joined the applied ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Larry Beasley
Larry Beasley, CM (born 12 May 1948) is an internationally-known urban planner."This is what Brampton could look like in 2040" ''Toronto Star'', By Fatima Syed, May 7, 2018 Formerly Co-Director of Planning for the in , Canada, he is largely credited with the transformation of its downtown core along lines, known as Vancouverism or "The Vancouver Model". [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Beasley (musician)
John Rule Beasley (born October 10, 1960), better known as John Beasley, is a jazz pianist, bandleader, and producer of music for film and television. Career He was born in Shreveport, Louisiana, and grew up in Texas in a family of musicians. His grandfather, Rule Oliver, trombonist, for 50 years was a junior high school band director in Arkansas; his father, Rule Curtis Beasley, music educator, in 1963 won 1st prize in Composition at the Southeastern Composers League in Tuscaloosa, Alabama; his mother, Lida Beasley, brass instrumentalist, was a band director, conducted operas and taught music in various public schools and colleges. He approached music at the age of eight by studying piano, but in his teens he played guitar, drums, saxophone, trumpet and oboe. Returning to piano and jazz, at the age of twenty he performed his first major concert at Carnegie Hall with Hubert Laws, John Patitucci and the drummer Joey Heredia. During the 1970s, he performed jazz and R&B in Los ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Beasley (football Player)
John Walter Beasley (born April 6, 1945) is a former professional American football player. A 6'3", tight end from the University of California at Berkeley, Beasley was selected by the Minnesota Vikings in the 1967 NFL Draft. Following his National Football League career, Beasley worked as a color commentator for the USA Network and called, along with Barry Tompkins, The Play in 1982, when Cal scored on the last play of the game to defeat Stanford Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is considere ... 25-20. References 1945 births Living people Players of American football from Pasadena, California American football tight ends California Golden Bears football players Minnesota Vikings players New Orleans Saints players American sports announcers {{tightend-1940 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Beasley (basketball)
John Michael Beasley (born February 5, 1944) is a retired American professional basketball player born in Texarkana, Texas. A 6'9" forward/center from Texas A&M University, Beasley was selected in the fifth round of the 1966 NBA Draft by the Baltimore Bullets. Beasley never played in the NBA, however, spending most of his career with the rival American Basketball Association. Beasley played seven seasons (1967–1974) in the ABA as a member of the Dallas Chaparrals and Utah Stars, making ABA All-Star Game The American Basketball Association (ABA) was a professional basketball league founded in 1967. The ABA ceased to exist after merging with the National Basketball Association (NBA) in 1976. In total, the league held nine all-star game An all- ... appearances in 1968, 1969, and 1970. He was named Most Valuable Player of the 1969 game, following his 19-point and 14 rebound performance for the West squad. Beasley scored 6,909 total points and grabbed 4,257 total reboun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Beasley (actor)
John Beasley (born June 26, 1943) is an American actor. He is known for his roles in the films ''Rudy'' (1993), '' The General's Daughter'' (1999), '' The Sum of All Fears'' (2002), '' Walking Tall'' (2004), '' The Purge: Anarchy'' (2014), and ''Sinister 2'' (2015). In 2002, Beasley founded the "John Beasley Theater & Workshop" in Omaha, Nebraska to promote live theater, especially works written by or featuring African-Americans. Life and career Beasley was born in Omaha, Nebraska. Beasley did not begin his acting career until his mid-40s. Prior to that he was a railroad man with the Union Pacific Railroad. He established the John Beasley Theater and Workshop in South Omaha. He also portrayed General Lasseter in '' The Sum of All Fears'' and Reverend C. Charles Blackwell in ''The Apostle''. In 1992 he played Jesse Hall's dad in the movie ''The Mighty Ducks''. He co-starred opposite The Rock in the 2004 remake of '' Walking Tall''. Beasley has made numerous guest roles on t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
