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Bill Thompson (sportscaster)
Bill Thompson may refer to: Politics * William Hale Thompson (1868–1944), known as Big Bill Thompson, Mayor of Chicago * Bill Thompson (Wyoming politician) (1937–2018), member of the Wyoming State House of Representatives * Bill Thompson (South Dakota politician) (born 1949), South Dakota State House of Representatives * Bill Thompson (New York politician) (born 1953), New York City Comptroller and Democratic nominee for mayor * Bill Thompson (Ohio politician), Ohio House of Representatives * Bill Thompson (Arkansas politician), long-serving state legislator Sports * Bill Thompson (Australian footballer) (1876–1965), Australian rules footballer for Fitzroy * Bill Thompson (racing driver) (1906–1945), 3-time winner of the Australian Grand Prix in the 1930s * Bill Thompson (Scottish footballer) (1921–1988), for Portsmouth and Bournemouth, manager in England and the Netherlands * Bill Thompson (English footballer) (1940–2011), for Newcastle, Rotherham and Darlington * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Hale Thompson
William Hale Thompson (May 14, 1869 – March 19, 1944) was an American politician who served as mayor of Chicago from 1915 to 1923 and again from 1927 to 1931. Known as "Big Bill", Reynolds, Paul (November 29, 2009)"US-UK 'Special Relationship' Not So Special Any More" ''BBC''. Retrieved June 13, 2022. he is the most recent Republican to have served as mayor of Chicago. Historians rank him among the most unethical mayors in American history, mainly for his open alliance with Al Capone. However, others recognize the effectiveness of his political methods and publicity-oriented campaigning, acknowledging him as a "Political Chameleon" and an effective political machine.Bukowski, Douglas. Big Bill Thompson, Chicago, and the Politics of Image. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998. ''Time'' magazine said in 1931, "chief credit for creating 20th Century Politics Chicago Style" should go to William Thompson. Thompson was known for his over-the-top campaigning and uncensored ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Thompson (basketball)
William Thompson was an American professional basketball player. He played in the National Basketball League during the 1941–42 season and averaged 3.7 points per game. References American men's basketball players Forwards (basketball) Guards (basketball) Basketball players from Toledo, Ohio Toledo Jim White Chevrolets players {{1910s-US-basketball-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Forde Thompson
William Forde "Bill" Thompson is an academic who has worked in Canada, Sweden and Australia. He is a distinguished professor at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, where he was chair of the psychology department between 2009 and 2013. His research focuses on music, emotion, expertise, and performance. From 2007 to 2009, he was president of the Society for Music Perception and Cognition. He was an associate editor at ''Music Perception'', former editor of '' Empirical Musicology Review'' (2008–2010), and chief investigator of the ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders. He is a fellow of the Association for Psychological Science. Born in Middletown, Connecticut, US, Thompson holds a BSc in psychology from McGill University (Montreal, Canada) and an MA and PhD in psychology from Queen's University (Kingston, Canada). He is the author of '' Music, Thought, and Feeling: Understanding the Psychology of Music'', Oxford University Press S 2009 (1st edition), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Thompson III
Bill Thompson III (March 3, 1962 – March 25, 2019) was the publisher and editor of ''Bird Watcher's Digest'' and the author of numerous books on birds and nature. He is also the author of ''Bird Watching For Dummies'' (1997, John Wiley & Sons), and author of 18 different state bird watching books in the ''Bird Watching: A Year-Round Guide'' series from Cool Springs Press (2005). He is the lead author for ''Identify Yourself: The 50 Most Common Birding Identification Challenges'' published by Houghton Mifflin (2005). He was the editor of ''All Things Reconsidered: My Birding Adventures'' by Roger Tory Peterson (Houghton Mifflin, 2006). His most recent book is "The New Birder's Guide to Birds of North America" (2014, Houghton Mifflin Company). He wrote the ''Bill of the Birds'' blog and created a regular podcast for bird watchers called ''This Birding Life''. He was an avid birder and musician and traveled widely performing, speaking, leading field trips, and consulting on ecoto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Thompson (bishop)
William Avery Thompson (1946–2020) was an American Anglican bishop. A key figure in the Anglican realignment in the United States, he was the longtime rector of All Saints Episcopal Church, which left the Episcopal Church for oversight by the Church of Uganda in 2004. He became a leader in the Common Cause Partnership, which in 2009 emerged as the Anglican Church in North America, and in 2009 was elected the first bishop of the ACNA's Diocese of Western Anglicans. Education and early career Thompson was born in 1946. He was raised in the Episcopal Church at All Saints, Long Beach. In 1966, while a student at Stanford University, Thompson was recommended by All Saints' vestry as a postulant for ordained ministry. After graduating, he received his M.Div. from Seabury-Western Theological Seminary in 1971 and was ordained to the priesthood. Thompson returned to All Saints in 1973 to serve as curate; in 1975, at the age of 28, he was elected the church's sixth rector. Thompson ser ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Thompson (voice Actor)
William H. Thompson (July 8, 1913 – July 15, 1971) was an American radio personality and voice actor, whose career stretched from the 1930s until his death. He was a featured comedian playing multiple roles on the ''Fibber McGee and Molly'' radio series, and was the voice of Droopy in most of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio theatrical cartoons from 1943 to 1958. Early career Thompson was born to vaudevillian parents and was of Scottish ancestry. He began his career in Chicago radio, where his early appearances included appearances as a regular on Don McNeill's morning variety series ''The Breakfast Club'' in 1934 and a stint as a choir member on the musical variety series ''The Sinclair Weiner Minstrels'' around 1937. While on the former series, Thompson originated a meek, mush-mouthed character occasionally referred to in publicity as Mr. Wimple. Thompson soon achieved his greatest fame after he joined the cast of the radio comedy ''Fibber McGee and Molly'' around 193 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Thompson (television Host)
William Earnest Thompson (December 18, 1931 – July 23, 2014), better known as Wallace, co-hosted '' The Wallace and Ladmo Show'', a daily children's variety show broadcast on KPHO-TV in Phoenix, Arizona for 36 years. The program featured short comedy skits and cartoons and was known for humor that appealed to adults as well as children. Personal life Thompson was born in New York City on December 18, 1931, to William and Marie Thompson, who had met while attending the University of Arizona. The Thompsons were a wealthy family who had made a large part of their fortune through mining operations in Arizona carried out by Bill's great-uncle, William Boyce Thompson, and grandfather, J. E. Thompson. As a child, Bill visited J. E. Thompson's estate in Phoenix, the Rancho Joaquina House, which is now listed on the National Register of Historic Places and on the historic register for the City of Phoenix. Bill's father traded stocks on Wall Street. When Bill was three, the family moved ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Thompson (technology Writer)
William George Thompson (born 6 October 1960) is an English technology writer, best known for his weekly column in the Technology section of BBC News Online and his appearances on ''Digital Planet'', a radio show on the BBC World Service. He is also an honorary senior visiting fellow at City University London's Journalism Department and writes for BBC WebWise. Biography Born in Jarrow, County Durham, Thompson grew up in Corby, Northamptonshire. He graduated from St Catharine's College, Cambridge in philosophy and with a diploma in computing in 1984 and worked at Acorn Computers. He was a correspondent for the technology programme'' The Big Byte'' on BBC Radio. He began to write for ''The Guardian'' in 1990, and in 1994 went to work there (having previously worked at Pipex, the United Kingdom's first commercial Internet service provider) as head of new media, setting up the paper's website, which he argued should not be paywalled. He left in 1996 to work as a freelance writer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Thompson (manager)
William Carl Thompson (June 22, 1944 - January 13, 2015) was an American talent manager, most notable for managing the bands Hot Tuna, Jefferson Airplane, Jefferson Starship, and Starship, as well as the careers of their individual performers such as Grace Slick. Biography Thompson was born in Oklahoma City on June 22, 1944, and attended high school and college in San Francisco, where he also worked as a copy boy for the San Francisco Chronicle. His roommate was Marty Balin, a founding member of Jefferson Airplane. Thompson initially served as the band's press agent, and eventually became their manager. Thompson also managed other artists, such as Neal Schon, and served as a consultant to Polygram Records PolyGram N.V. was a multinational entertainment company and major music record label formerly based in the Netherlands. It was founded in 1962 as the Grammophon-Philips Group by Dutch corporation Philips and German corporation Siemens, to be a .... He died of a heart at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Thompson (Nottingham Forest Footballer)
William Potter Thompson (1899 – October 1959) was an English footballer who played for Nottingham Forest. Thompson was a full back and made his debut for Nottingham Forest on 26 August 1922 in the First Division match at the City Ground against Sunderland. His last appearance was on 6 April 1935 at home in a 2–2 draw against Manchester United. He captained Forest in the 1920s. Thompson scored five goals for Nottingham Forest, all of which were penalties. Thompson also toured South Africa and Netherlands ) , anthem = ( en, "William of Nassau") , image_map = , map_caption = , subdivision_type = Sovereign state , subdivision_name = Kingdom of the Netherlands , established_title = Before independence , established_date = Spanish Netherl ... with FA teams. Career Statistics References English men's footballers Nottingham Forest F.C. players Men's association football fullbacks 1899 births Date of birth missing Year of death missing Place of d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill R
Bill(s) may refer to: Common meanings * Banknote, paper cash (especially in the United States) * Bill (law), a proposed law put before a legislature * Invoice, commercial document issued by a seller to a buyer * Bill, a bird or animal's beak Places * Bill, Wyoming, an unincorporated community, United States * Billstown, Arkansas, an unincorporated community, United States * Billville, Indiana, an unincorporated community, United States People * Bill (given name) * Bill (surname) * Bill (footballer, born 1978), ''Alessandro Faria'', Togolese football forward * Bill (footballer, born 1984), ''Rosimar Amâncio'', a Brazilian football forward * Bill (footballer, born 1999), ''Fabricio Rodrigues da Silva Ferreira'', a Brazilian forward Arts, media, and entertainment Characters * Bill (''Kill Bill''), a character in the ''Kill Bill'' films * William “Bill“ S. Preston, Esquire, The first of the titular duo of the Bill & Ted film series * A lizard in Lewis Carroll's ''Alice's Adven ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Thompson (Wyoming Politician)
William Leigh Thompson (August 11, 1937 – June 21, 2018) was a Democratic member of the Wyoming House of Representatives, representing the 60th district from 2001 until his retirement in 2011. Background Thompson was born in Casper, Wyoming and went to Wyoming Midwest High School. He received his associated degree from Casper College. Thompson also received his bachelor's degree from the University of Wyoming and his master's degree from Utah State University. Thompson was a teacher at the Green River High School, the Sweetwater County School District Number 2, from 1961 until 1996. Political career When incumbent Democratic Representative Louise Ryckman announced her retirement, Thompson ran unopposed in the Democratic primary and was elected with 62.9% of the vote. Thompson served as House Minority Whip between 2003 and 2007. He was reelected four more times before announcing his retirement in 2011, and was succeeded by fellow educator and Democrat John Freeman. Death Tho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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