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Berkley (surname)
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Berkley is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Austin Berkley (born 1973), former English professional footballer *Elizabeth Berkley (born 1972), American TV and film actress *George Berkley (engineer) (died 1893), British civil engineer * Richard L. Berkley (born 1931), mayor of Kansas City, Missouri (1979–1991) * Robyn Berkley, fashion publicist *Seth Berkley (born 1956), American epidemiologist *Shelley Berkley (born 1951), U.S. Congresswoman *Theresa Berkley (died 1836), 19th century London dominatrix * W.R. Berkley (born 1946), Insurance Tycoon. Founder for W. R. Berkley Corporation W. R. Berkley Corporation is a commercial lines property & casualty insurance holding company organized in Delaware and based in Greenwich, Connecticut. The company operates commercial insurance businesses in the United Kingdom, Continental Euro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Austin Berkley
Austin James Berkley (born 28 January 1973) is an English former professional footballer who played as a winger. His most successful spell was at Shrewsbury Town, where he made 174 appearances in five years, scoring 12 goals. Career Berkley began his career at Gillingham, making three appearances in the Football League after graduating from the youth system at the club. In May 1992, Berkley signed for Swindon Town. At Swindon, Berkley made a single league appearance, before departing to join Shrewsbury Town in July 1995. During five seasons at Shrewsbury, Berkley made 172 league appearances, scoring 12 times. Four years after leaving the club, Berkley placed third on a list of Shrewsbury in a poll conducted by BBC Sport. In July 2000, Berkley joined Barnet, being loaned to Carlisle United in August 2001. Following his spell at Barnet, Berkley dropped into Non-League football, playing for Gravesend & Northfleet, Chelmsford City, Welling United, Heybridge Swifts, Harlow Town ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Berkley
Elizabeth Berkley (born July 28, 1974) is an American actress. She played Jessie Spano in the television series ''Saved by the Bell'' and Nomi Malone/Polly Ann Costello in the 1995 Paul Verhoeven film ''Showgirls''. She voiced the title role of the anime film '' Armitage III: Poly-Matrix'' and had supporting roles in the films ''The First Wives Club'' and '' Roger Dodger''. In theater, she received critical acclaim for her performance in ''Hurlyburly''. Early life Berkley was born and raised in Farmington Hills located in a Detroit northern suburb community in affluent Oakland County, Michigan. She is the daughter of Jere, a gift-basket business owner and Fred Berkley, a lawyer. She has an older brother, Jason. Her family is Jewish. She was raised in a Conservative Jewish household and had a bat mitzvah. She was born with partial heterochromia, a condition of differently colored irises; her right eye is half green and half brown and her left eye is all green. She graduated i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Berkley (engineer)
Sir George Berkley (26 April 1821 – 20 December 1893) was a British civil engineer from London. He designed the Colesberg Bridge, a 390 m Truss bridge#Warren .28non-polar.29 truss, Warren truss bridge built in 1885 over the Orange River in Colesberg, South Africa. Berkley was a consulting engineer for the Indian Midland Railway and, with Charles Fox (civil and railway engineer), Sir Charles Fox, built the 19–mile long Indian Tramway, a light railway running from Arconum to Conjeverum. He served as president of the Institution of Civil Engineers from May 1891 to May 1892.. Berkley was made a Knight Commander of the Order of St. Michael and St. George in Queen Victoria's 1893 Birthday Honours. His daughter, Rose, married St George baronets, Sir John St. George, 5th Baronet in 1894. He died on 20 December 1893. He was a younger brother of James Berkley, James John Berkley (1819–1862), chief engineer of the Great Indian Peninsula Railway. References Bibliography [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard L
Richard is a male given name. It originates, via Old French, from Old Frankish and is a compound of the words descending from Proto-Germanic ''*rīk-'' 'ruler, leader, king' and ''*hardu-'' 'strong, brave, hardy', and it therefore means 'strong in rule'. Nicknames include "Richie", "Dick", "Dickon", " Dickie", "Rich", "Rick", "Rico", "Ricky", and more. Richard is a common English, German and French male name. It's also used in many more languages, particularly Germanic, such as Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, Icelandic, and Dutch, as well as other languages including Irish, Scottish, Welsh and Finnish. Richard is cognate with variants of the name in other European languages, such as the Swedish "Rickard", the Catalan "Ricard" and the Italian "Riccardo", among others (see comprehensive variant list below). People named Richard Multiple people with the same name * Richard Andersen (other) * Richard Anderson (other) * Richard Cartwright (other) * Ri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robyn Berkley
Robyn Berkley is the founder of lifestyle brand and wellness website Live The Process and the brand consulting company, RBBR. She has worked as a fashion publicist based in New York City, written for ''The Huffington Post'' and appeared as herself in the television series ''Kell on Earth''. Life and career Berkley graduated from university in May 1999 with a degree in communications. Her first job, beginning in June 1999, was at New York public relations firm LaForce & Stevens, as an assistant. Aged 24, she was recruited by Johan Lindeberg as head of PR for North America for J. Lindeberg. Here she met Kelly Cutrone who, four years later, hired her as fashion director at People's Revolution, of which after seven years she became a partner. In May 2011, ''New York'' announced that Berkley was leaving People's Revolution to take a yoga teacher-training course in Bali to become a certified yoga instructor. Having completed the six-week course, in late 2011 she launched ''Live The Pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seth Berkley
Seth Franklin Berkley (born October 18, 1956) is an American medical epidemiologist, the CEO of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance and a global advocate of the power of vaccines. He is the founder and former president and CEO of the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI). Early life and education Berkley was born in New York City. In 1974, Berkley graduation from McBurney School, a private school in New York City. In 1978, he received a ScB from Brown University. In 1981, he received a M.D. from Brown University's Alpert Medical School. Berkley then trained in internal medicine at Harvard University.COVAX is directed by Gavi, the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI), the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF. The IAVI Years In 1994, the Rockefeller Foundation, where Berkley was serving as associate director of health sciences, convened a series of international consensus meetings on the need for a new effort to address existing barriers to the development ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shelley Berkley
Rochelle "Shelley" Berkley (née Levine; born January 20, 1951) is an American businesswoman, politician and attorney who served as U.S. Representative for from 1999 to 2013. In 2012, she was an unsuccessful candidate for the U.S. Senate. She is a member of the Democratic Party. Early life, education, and legal career Berkley was born Rochelle Levine in New York City, the daughter of Estelle (née Colonomos – see Kalonymus) and George Levine. Her paternal grandparents were Russian Jews and her mother's family were Sephardic Jews from Ottoman-era Thessaloniki, now in Macedonia, northern Greece. Berkley moved with her family to Nevada when she was a junior high school student, attending Fremont Junior High. After completing high school, she became the first member of her family to attend college when she enrolled as an undergraduate at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She became a member of Delta Zeta sorority. Elected student body president of the Consolidated Students of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theresa Berkley
Theresa Berkley or Berkeley (died September 1836) was a 19th-century English dominatrix who ran a brothel in Hallam Street, just to the east of Portland Place, Marylebone, London, specialising in flagellation. She is notable as the inventor of the "chevalet" or "Berkley Horse", a BDSM apparatus. Career as a dominatrix Theresa Berkley ran a high-class flagellation brothel at 28 Charlotte Street (which is today's 84–94 Hallam Street). She was a "governess", i.e. she specialised in chastisement, whipping, flagellation, and the like. She invented the "Berkley Horse", an apparatus that reportedly earned her a fortune in flogging wealthy men and women of the time. There are no artworks depicting what Theresa Berkley looked like, and occasional descriptions usually report that she was attractive, with a strong disposition. An expert with all instruments of torture, her talents became highly sought after by the aristocracy of the day. She was a master of the art of inflicting pain fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
