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Bill Johnston (other)
Bill or Billy Johnston may refer to: * Bill Johnston (cricketer) (1922–2007), Australian cricketer * Bill Johnston (golfer) (1925–2021), American golfer and golf course architect * Bill Johnston (tennis) (1894–1946), American tennis champion * Bill Johnston (rugby union) (born 1997), Irish rugby union player * Billy Johnston (footballer, born 1901) (1901–1964), Scottish football player * Billy Johnston (footballer, born 1942), Irish football player and manager * Bill Johnston (pirate) (1782–1870), Canadian pirate and patriot * Bill Johnston (politician) (born 1962), member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly * Bill Johnston (translator) (born 1960), Polish language translator and professor See also * Bill Johnson (other) * Billy Johnson (other) * William Johnston (other) William Johnston may refer to: Military *William Henry Johnston (1879–1915), Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross *William J. Johnston (1918–1990), American ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Johnston (cricketer)
William Arras Johnston (26 February 1922 – 25 May 2007) was an Australian cricketer who played in forty Test matches from 1947 to 1955. A left arm pace bowler, as well as a left arm orthodox spinner, Johnston was best known as a spearhead of Don Bradman's undefeated 1948 touring team, well known as " The Invincibles". Johnston headed the wicket-taking lists in both Test and first-class matches on the tour, and was the last Australian to take over 100 wickets on a tour of England. In recognition of his performances, he was named by ''Wisden'' as one of its Cricketers of the Year in 1949. The publication stated that "no Australian made a greater personal contribution to the playing success of the 1948 side". Regarded by Bradman as Australia's greatest-ever left-arm bowler, Johnston was noted for his endurance in bowling pace with the new ball and spin when the ball had worn. He became the fastest bowler to reach 100 Test wickets in 1951–52, at the time averaging less tha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Johnston (golfer)
Clarence William Johnston (January 2, 1925 – April 23, 2021) was an American golf course architect and professional golfer who played on the PGA Tour. Johnston was born in Donora, Pennsylvania on January 2, 1925, but moved to Ogden, Utah when he was four years old. Johnston served in the United States Navy. He played college golf at the University of Utah and turned professional in 1950. The biggest win of his playing career was at the 1958 Texas Open Invitational. Johnston played on the Senior PGA Tour (now PGA Tour Champions) from 1980 to 1990 (full-time) and then a few tournaments a year through the 1990s. After his days as a touring professional were over, Johnston became a golf course architect. He has designed several well-known courses in Arizona and Texas. Johnston was inducted into the Utah Golf Hall of Fame in 1994 and the Arizona Golf Hall of Fame in 2018. In November 2020, at the age of 95, Johnston was still playing golf three times a week at the Biltmore Links ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Johnston (tennis)
William Marquitz "Little Bill" Johnston (November 2, 1894 – May 1, 1946) was an American World-number-one male tennis-player rankings, world No. 1 tennis player. Biography Bill Johnston was born November 2, 1894, in San Francisco, the son of Robert Johnston, an electrical plant mechanic and Margaret Burns, of Irish origin. Johnston started to play tennis in early 1906, aged 11, on the public asphalt courts in Golden Gate Park. After the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, the schools were closed, and he spent much of his spare time practicing on the tennis courts. He achieved his first tournament victory at the 1910 Bay Counties junior singles competition. In 1916, Johnston won the Cincinnati Open (now Cincinnati Masters) after Clarence Griffin defaulted in the challenge round. Johnston won the Longwood Challenge Cup, played on the Longwood Courts at Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts in 1913, 1916, 1919, 1920 and 1921. During World War I, Johnston served in the U.S. Navy. Johnston was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Johnston (rugby Union)
Bill Johnston (born 17 February 1997) is an Irish rugby union player for English RFU Championship club Richmond. He plays as a fly-half and previously represented his native province of Munster, their provincial rivals Ulster, English club Ealing and, in the amateur All-Ireland League, Limerick club Garryowen. Early life Born in Clonmel, County Tipperary, Johnston first began playing rugby aged 6 with Clonmel. He won the 2015 Munster Schools Rugby Senior Cup with Rockwell College, leading the side from fly-half in their 23–13 victory against Ardscoil Rís. Professional career Munster Johnston joined the Munster Academy in November 2015. On 13 November 2015, Johnston made his debut for Munster A, starting for the side alongside his brother, David, in their 27–25 defeat at the hands of London Scottish in their 2015–16 British and Irish Cup pool opener and scoring a penalty on his debut. He scored 8 points, all from conversions, in Munster A's 28–8 victory against ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billy Johnston (footballer, Born 1901)
William Gifford Johnston (16 January 1901 – 1964) was a Scottish professional footballer who played as an inside forward for Huddersfield Town, Stockport County, Manchester United, Macclesfield Town, Oldham Athletic and Frickley. Johnston won the Football League First Division The Football League First Division was a division of the Football League in England from 1888 until 2004. It was the top division in the English football league system from the season 1888–89 until 1991–92, a century in which the First ... Championship with Huddersfield Town in 1923–24 (8 appearances in the campaign). He played for Manchester United in the First Division and returned in the 1931–32 season following their relegation to the Second Division, after two seasons at Macclesfield. In later years Johnston moved to Frickley, taking on the roles of manager and club secretary as well as player and played a large role in securing the future of the football club in 1936. References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billy Johnston (footballer, Born 1942)
William Cecil Johnston (born 21 May 1942 in Coalisland) is a retired footballer and manager, who was most notable as the first ever Crusaders manager to win the league with the club, on two occasions (1973 and 1976). Billy was a keen participant of sport at school, representing Ulster Schools at rugby, and was selected for the Northern Ireland Youth international football team against all three of the other home countries in 1959. As a 16-year-old, he joined Glenavon and soon forced his way into the first team. A prolific goalscorer with a touch of class, Billy soon emphasised his impact with the Lurgan Blues by scoring a hat-trick in a league match against Bangor that clinched the 1959–60 Irish League title. Over the next few seasons Billy's goal tally and reputation grew, and he scored 4 goals when the Irish League Select played the Italian League Select at Windsor Park in 1962, in a 6–2 victory. He then picked up his full Northern Ireland international cap in a match aga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Johnston (pirate)
Bill Johnston (February 1, 1782 – February 17, 1870) was a Canadian-American smuggler, river pirate, and War of 1812 privateer. Born in Canada, Johnston was accused of spying in 1812 and he joined the American side of the war and lived the rest of his life in the United States. Early years Bill Johnston spent his first 30 years as a loyal British subject. He was one of a dozen children born to British Loyalist parents who fled the American Revolution in 1781 to settle in Upper Canada (now Ontario). As a boy, he helped carve a farm out of the primeval forest west of present-day Kingston. Starting when he was 16, he apprenticed to a local blacksmith for six years. At 22, he became a potash manufacturer, making use of the plentiful supply of ashes from burned forests. By 24, he captained his own schooner on eastern Lake Ontario. While he often carried legitimate cargo, he just as often smuggled tea and rum. He married an American, Ann Randolph, in 1807 or early 1808 and began ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Johnston (politician)
William Joseph Johnston (born 11 August 1962) is an Australian politician. He has been a Labor Party member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly since the 2008 state election, representing Cannington. While still a student Johnston spent time abroad as an American Field Service exchange student to Bandung, Indonesia. He is married to Kate Doust, the member for the South Metropolitan Region. Prior to entering Parliament, Johnston spent seven years as the state secretary of WA Labor and was a former senior official of the Shop, Distributive and Allied Employees Association, the union representing retail and warehouse workers. In the 2013 state election, Johnston was re-elected for a second term in office. In opposition, he was the shadow minister for State Development; Energy; Mines & Petroleum. He was reelected again at the 2017 Western Australian state election. McGowan Ministry When Labor was elected to government in 2017, Johnston became Minister for Asia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Johnston (translator)
Bill Johnston (born 1960) is a prolific Polish language literary translator and professor of comparative literature at Indiana University. His work has helped to expose English-speaking readers to classic and contemporary Polish poetry and fiction. In 2008 he received the Found in Translation Award for his translation of new poems by Tadeusz Różewicz; this book was also a finalist for the National Books Critics Circle Poetry Award. In 1999, he was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship for Poetry (Translation) for ''Balladina'' by Juliusz Słowacki, and in 2005 he received a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for a translation of ''The Coming Spring'' by Stefan Żeromski. He is a recipient of the Amicus Poloniae award, presented by the Ambassador of the Republic of Poland (2003), the Diploma of the Polish Foreign Ministry (2004), and the Officer's Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland (2012) for outstanding contribution to the prom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Johnson (other)
Bill Johnson may refer to: Entertainment *William Manuel Johnson (1872–1972), known as Bill, American double bass player and founder of King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band *Bill Johnson (reed player) (1912–1960), American alto saxophonist, clarinetist, and arranger * Bill Johnson (banjoist) (died 1955), American jazz banjoist and guitarist * Bill Johnson (blues musician), Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist * Bill Johnson (musical theatre actor) (1916–1957), American actor and singer of stage and screen *Bill Johnson (film and television actor) (born 1951), American actor known for ''The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2'' *Bill Johnson (New Zealand actor) (1924–2016), New Zealand actor * Bill Johnson (filmmaker), American film and television editor Politics *Bill Johnson (Ohio politician) (born 1954), U.S. Representative from Ohio * Bill Johnson (Kentucky politician) (born 1965), unsuccessful Republican candidate for Secretary of State of Kentucky, 2011 * William A. Johnson Jr. (bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billy Johnson (other)
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Billy Johnson may refer to: * Billy "White Shoes" Johnson (born 1952), American football player * Billy Johnson (footballer) (born 1999)), English footballer * Billy Johnson (baseball) (1918–2006), baseball player * Billy Johnson (Mormon) (1934–2012), leader and missionary of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Ghana * Billy Johnson (racing driver) (born 1986), NASCAR and sports car racer * Billy Johnson (rugby league), Australian * Billy Johnson (drummer) See also *Billy Johnstone (born 1959), Australian rugby league player *Bill Johnson (other) *Billy Johnston (other) *Will Johnson (other) *William Johnson (other) *Willie Johnson (other) Willie Johnson may refer to: *Willie Johnson (guitarist) (1923–1995), guitarist for Howlin' Wolf * Blind Willie Johnson (1897–1945), American blues and gospel singer and guitarist * Willie Boy Johnson (1935–1988), Gambino crime family enforce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Johnston (other)
William Johnston may refer to: Military *William Henry Johnston (1879–1915), Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross *William J. Johnston (1918–1990), American soldier and Medal of Honor recipient *William Preston Johnston (1831–1899), lawyer, scholar, poet, and Confederate soldier * Willie Johnston (Medal of Honor) (1850–1941), drummer boy in Company D of the 3rd Vermont Infantry *William Johnston (British Army officer) * William Wallace Stewart Johnston (1887–1962), Australian soldier and medical doctor * William Johnston Jr. (1861–1933), American military officer * William P. Johnston (1849–1888), American sailor and recipient of the Medal of Honor Politics *William Johnston (Australian politician) (1829–1894), one of the Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, 1874–1877 *William Johnston (Canadian politician) (1876–1925), Labour MLA for Medicine Hat, 1921–1926 * William Johnston (congressman) (1819–1866), U.S. Representative from Ohio *Wil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
