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Bill Mitchell (curler)
Bill or Billy Mitchell may refer to: People In arts and entertainment * Billy Mitchell (saxophonist) (1926–2001), American jazz tenor saxophonist * Billy Mitchell (pianist) (born 1943), American jazz pianist * Bill Mitchell (artistic director) (1951–2017), founder of theatre company Wildworks * W. R. Mitchell (1928–2015), British writer * Billy Mitchell, performer on the Canadian television game show ''Acting Crazy'' (1991–1994) * Billy Mitchell, performer with the American rhythm and blues/doo-wop vocal group the Clovers * Billy Mitchell, performer with the English folk rock and progressive rock band Lindisfarne (band), Lindisfarne * Billy Mitchell, performer with the folk rock/electric folk group Jack the Lad * Billy Mitchell (EastEnders), Billy Mitchell (''EastEnders''), fictional character from the BBC soap opera EastEnders In sports * Bill Mitchell (Canadian football) (born 1935), former award-winning professional Canadian football centre * Bill Mitchell (ice hockey) ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billy Mitchell (saxophonist)
William Melvin Mitchell (November 3, 1926 – April 18, 2001) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist.Allmusic/ref> Career Mitchell was born in Kansas City, Missouri, United States. He and his family moved to Detroit, where he received early music education at Cass Tech. He was known for his close association with trumpeter Thad Jones, who was also from Detroit, and worked in several big bands, including Woody Herman's when he replaced Gene Ammons. In 1949, Mitchell recorded with the Milt Buckner band, as well as making several recordings with Thad Jones. From 1951 to 1954, Mitchell led the house band at the Blue Bird Inn in Detroit. The band operated in different configurations, including with drummer Oliver Jackson and his bassist brother Ali; as a quartet with Terry Pollard, Beans Richardson, and Elvin Jones; as a quintet including Thad Jones; and, for several months in 1953, with Miles Davis as a guest soloist. From 1956 to 1957, he played with Dizzy Gillespie in his bi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billy Mitchell (footballer, Born 2001)
Billy James Mitchell (born 7 April 2001) is an English footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for EFL Championship club Millwall. Career Hailing from Orpington, Mitchell joined his boyhood club Millwall at under-15 level. His father's family originates from Bermondsey and are also Millwall fans, so is his maternal great-grandfather. He made his first team debut in the last game of the season on 5 May 2019, coming on a late substitute in the 1–0 defeat to Wigan Athletic. In the summer of 2019 he signed his first professional contract, a one-year deal. In April 2021, he signed a new long term deal with Millwall. He scored his first professional goal in a 4–1 win against Bristol City on 1 May 2021. Mitchell was awarded the PFA Championship Players in the Community award for the 2021–22 season after becoming heavily involved in Millwall's Community Trust. Personal life Mitchell is the brother of Charlton Athletic Charlton Athletic Football Club is an English p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Mitchell (other)
William Mitchell may refer to: People Media and the arts * William Mitchell (sculptor) (1925–2020), English sculptor and muralist * William Frederick Mitchell (1845–1914), British naval artist * William M. Mitchell, American writer, minister and abolitionist * W. O. Mitchell (1914–1998), Canadian writer * W. R. Mitchell (William Reginald Mitchell, 1928–2015), British writer * William Mitchell, former alias of actor Peter Finch * William Paul Mitchell, known as Large Professor (born 1973), American hip hop producer Politics and the law * William Mitchell (MP for City of London) (died 1426) * William Mitchell (1742–1823), Member of Parliament for Plympton Erle, 1796–1799 * William Mitchell (Australian politician) (1850–1923), member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly * William Mitchell (barrister) (died 1937), Scottish Advocate and Liberal politician * William Mitchell (Burnley MP) (1838–1914), Conservative MP for Burnley, 1900–1905 * William Mitchell ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billy Mitchell Airport
Billy Mitchell Airport is a public use airport located four nautical miles (5 mi, 7 km) east of the central business district of Hatteras, in Dare County, North Carolina, United States. The airport is located in the Cape Hatteras National Seashore and is owned by the National Park Service. It is named after United States Army Air Service General Billy Mitchell, and is included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2017–2021, which categorized it as a ''general aviation'' facility. Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, Billy Mitchell Airport is assigned HSE by the FAA and HNC by the IATA. The airport's ICAO identifier is KHSE. Facilities and aircraft Billy Mitchell Airport covers an area of 100 acres (40 ha) at an elevation of 17 feet (5 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 7/25 with an asphalt surface measuring 3,002 by 75 feet (915 x 23 m). For the 12-m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billy Mitchell (volcano)
Billy Mitchell is a pyroclastic shield in the central part of the island of Bougainville, just north-east of the Bagana Volcano in Papua New Guinea. It is a small pyroclastic shield truncated by a 2 km wide caldera filled by a crater lake. It is named after Billy Mitchell, a 20th-century United States Army general who is regarded as the father of the United States Air Force. The last two major eruptions were in 1580 AD ± 20 years and about 1030 AD. They were among the largest Holocene eruptions in Papua New Guinea. Both were explosive eruptions with a Volcanic Explosivity Index of at least 5. The 1580 AD ± 20 years eruption produced pyroclastic flows and probably formed its caldera. The ignimbrite deposit from that eruption, which had a VEI of 6, extends from the caldera to the coast, and its volume is around . Caldera lake Billy Mitchell caldera lake is about 1,013 m above sea level, has total surface area , and the maximum depth approximately 88.3 m. The only ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billy Mitchell (gamer)
William James Mitchell Jr. (born July 16, 1965) is an American video game player and restaurateur. He rose to national prominence in the 1980s when ''Life'' included him in a photo spread of game champions during the height of the golden age of arcade video games. In 1999, Mitchell was the first person to claim a perfect score of 3,333,360 points on the arcade game ''Pac-Man''. Twin Galaxies and ''Guinness World Records'' recognized Mitchell as the holder of several records on classic games including ''Pac-Man'' and ''Donkey Kong'', and he has appeared in several documentaries on competitive gaming and retrogaming. A 2007 documentary, '' The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters'', follows his attempts to maintain the highest score on ''Donkey Kong'' after being challenged by newcomer Steve Wiebe. In 2018, Mitchell's high scores were contested after members of the Twin Galaxies forums found discrepancies in the videos Mitchell had provided for ''The King of Kong'', suggesting he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billy Mitchell (loyalist)
William Mitchell (1940 – 22 July 2006) was a Northern Ireland loyalist, community activist and member of the Progressive Unionist Party. Mitchell was a leading member of the loyalist Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) and served a life sentence for his part in a double murder. He later abandoned his UVF membership and took up cross-community work. Early years Born in Belfast, Northern Ireland in 1940 into a poor family, Mitchell's father died when he was two years old. Although based in the Shankill Road during his adult life, Mitchell was raised just outside Belfast in what he described as "a wooden hut". The area, which at the time was the end of the city's tramline network, has subsequently been redeveloped as Glengormley.Susan McKay, ''Northern Protestants: An Unsettled People'', Blackstaff Press, 2005, p. 53 After leaving school Mitchell briefly worked as a copy boy on the ''Belfast Telegraph'' but found it difficult to advance his position and so left to work as a lorry dri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billy Mitchell (politician)
William Weston Mitchell (born November 12, 1966) is a Democratic member of the Georgia House of Representatives, serving since 2003. Mitchell previously served on the Stone Mountain Stone Mountain is a quartz monzonite dome Inselberg, monadnock and the site of Stone Mountain Park, east of Atlanta, Georgia. Outside the park is the small city of Stone Mountain, Georgia. The park is the most visited tourist site in the state o ... City Council from 1995 to 2002. References External links * Legislative page {{DEFAULTSORT:Mitchell, Billy Living people Democratic Party members of the Georgia House of Representatives People from Stone Mountain, Georgia Politicians from Savannah, Georgia 21st-century American politicians Rutgers University alumni University of Southern California alumni Atlanta Law School alumni Georgia (U.S. state) city council members 1956 births ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billy Mitchell
William Lendrum Mitchell (December 29, 1879 – February 19, 1936) was a United States Army officer who is regarded as the father of the United States Air Force. Mitchell served in France during World War I and, by the conflict's end, commanded all American air combat units in that country. After the war, he was appointed deputy director of the Air Service and began advocating increased investment in air power, believing that this would prove vital in future wars. He argued particularly for the ability of bombers to sink battleships and organized a series of bombing runs against stationary ships designed to test the idea. He antagonized many administrative leaders of the Army with his arguments and criticism and in 1925, his temporary appointment as a brigadier general was not renewed, and he reverted to his permanent rank of colonel, due to his insubordination. Later that year, he was court-martialed for insubordination after accusing Army and Navy leaders of an "almost trea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Mitchell (politician)
Bill Mitchell (born March 29, 1960) is an American politician who served as a three-time member of the Illinois House of Representatives. Early life and education Mitchell was born in Decatur, Illinois. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from Eastern Illinois University in 1982. Career Mitchell began his career as a Decatur City Councilman, Macon County Republican Chairman, and Mayor Pro Tem. During his time in local government, he supported curfew laws and made efforts to cut government waste, reduce taxes and institute juvenile justice reform. In 2011, Mitchell joined with State Representative Adam Brown of the 101st district in proposing statehood for Cook County. Mitchell said that Chicago is "dictating its views" to the rest of the state and Brown added that Chicago "overshadows" the rest of Illinois. An August 30, 2003, article in the Bloomington–Normal newspaper ''The Pantagraph'' stated that Mitchell was arrested for DUI near Heyworth, I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Mitchell (economist)
William Francis Mitchell (born 7 March 1952) is a professor of economics at the University of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia and Docent Professor of Global Political Economy at the University of Helsinki, Finland. He is one of the founding developers of Modern Monetary Theory. Early life Mitchell was born to working class parents in Glen Huntly, a suburb of Melbourne, in March 1952. The family moved to Ashwood, a new Housing Commission suburb soon after. He attended Ashwood Primary School (1957–1963) and Ashwood High School (1964–1969). Education Mitchell holds the following degrees: PhD in Economics, University of Newcastle, 1998; Bachelor of Commerce, Deakin University, 1977; and Master of Economics Monash University, 1982. He completed a Master's Preliminary at the University of Melbourne in 1978 (with first-class honours). [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Mitchell (automobile Designer)
William L. Mitchell (July 2, 1912 – September 12, 1988) was an American automobile designer. Mitchell worked briefly as an advertising illustrator and as the official illustrator of the Automobile Racing Club of America before being recruited by Harley Earl to join the Art and Color Section of General Motors in 1935. Mitchell is responsible for creating or influencing the design of over 72.5 million automobiles produced by GM, including such landmark vehicles as the 1938 Cadillac Sixty Special, the 1949 Cadillac Coupe deVille, the 1955-57 Chevrolet Bel Air, the 1959-1984 Cadillac DeVille, the 1963–65 and 1966-67 Buick Riviera, the 1961-76 Corvette Stingray, the 1970-81 Chevrolet Camaro, the 1976-79 Cadillac Seville, and the 1980-85 Cadillac Seville. Mitchell spent the entirety of his 42-year career in automobile design at General Motors, eventually becoming Vice President of Design, a position he held for 19 years until his retirement in 1977. His design stewardship at Ge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
