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Blakeman
Blakeman is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Adam Blakeman (1596–1665), English-born American preacher * Adam Blakeman (footballer) (born 1991), English footballer * Alec Blakeman (1936–1994), English footballer * Bruce Blakeman, American politician * Clete Blakeman (born 1964), American National Football League official * Helen Blakeman (born 1971), English playwright and screenwriter * Jennifer Blakeman, American musician and music industry executive * Laura Blakeman (born 1979), British slalom canoeist * Laurie Blakeman (born 1958), Canadian politician ;Fictional characters * Natasha Blakeman Natasha Blakeman is a fictional character from the ITV soap opera ''Coronation Street'', played by Rachel Leskovac. The character first appeared onscreen during the episode airing on 12 May 2008. On 29 April 2010, it was announced that Leskovac ..., a character from the UK television ITV soap opera, ''Coronation Street'' Other uses * Blakeman, Kansas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruce Blakeman
Bruce Arthur Blakeman (born October 2, 1955) is an American attorney and politician currently serving as the 10th County Executive of Nassau County, New York. He was elected in the 2021 election, defeating Democratic incumbent Laura Curran. He previously served as the commissioner for the New York-New Jersey Port Authority as well as a Nassau County legislator and Hempstead town councilman. Early life and education Blakeman was born in Valley Stream, New York. He attended Valley Stream Central High School. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science and government from Arizona State University and a Juris Doctor from the California Western School of Law. Early career Bruce Blakeman was first elected to the Hempstead Town Council in 1993. In 1993, federal district court judge Arthur D. Spatt ruled Nassau County's Board of Supervisors to be in violation of one man, one vote. The Board of Supervisors authorized the creation of the Nassau County Legislature a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam Blakeman (footballer)
Adam John Blakeman (born 3 December 1991) is a professional English association football, footballer who plays for Chorley F.C., Chorley. He began his career at Bolton Wanderers F.C., Bolton Wanderers, before being released at the end of the 2012–13 season. He then signed for Hyde United F.C., Hyde. Blakeman plays primarily as a Defender (association football)#Full-back, left back but is equally adept playing in the Midfielder#Central midfielder, centre or on the left side of midfield. Career Bolton Wanderers Born in Widnes, Southport, Blakeman started his professional career at Liverpool F.C., Liverpool at the age of eleven. After seven years at the club, Blakeman left Liverpool and joined Bolton Wanderers F.C., Bolton Wanderers, regularly playing in their reserve side. Blakeman signed a professional contract with Bolton in March 2011. A product of the youth system, he made his competitive debut in the Football League Cup, League Cup tie at home to Macclesfield Town F.C., Mac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clete Blakeman
Cletus W. Blakeman (born June 23, 1964) is an American football official in the National Football League (NFL). His uniform number is 34. He played college football at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Outside of his work as an NFL official, he is a partner and personal injury attorney in the law firm of Carlson Blakeman LLP in Omaha, Nebraska. Blakeman began his American football officiating career in the Big 12 Conference, moving to the NFL in 2008 as a field judge for the first two seasons of his pro football officiating career, and subsequently refereeing for the 2010 NFL season, after Don Carey returned to the back judge position. Selected in 2013 as the alternate referee for Super Bowl XLVIII, Blakeman officiated Super Bowl 50 in 2016. College football career Blakeman attended the University of Nebraska from 1984 to 1987, serving primarily as a backup quarterback for the Nebraska Cornhuskers, including the 1986 and 1987 seasons behind starter Steve Taylor. During Ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helen Blakeman
Helen Blakeman (born 1971) is a British playwright and screenwriter from Liverpool. She has written three plays. ''Caravan'', her first, was written while she studied at Birmingham University and won her the George Devine award. Her second play, ''Normal'', was followed by an entrance into screenwriting. ''Pleasureland'' is a 2003 television film about teen sexuality, for which Blakeman was nominated for the British Academy Television Craft Awards for Best New Writer in 2003, after which Blakeman wrote her third and most recent play, ''The Morris''. In 2008, she wrote the screenplay for the award-winning television film '' Dustbin Baby'', which was well received by critics, and for which she won the British Academy Children's Award for Best Writer. Helen is also the co-founder of Heroic Books LTD. Early life Blakeman became involved in female morris dancing at age three. It was this dancing, combined with watching pantomimes and plays at Butlins, which led to her going into ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jennifer Blakeman
Jennifer Blakeman is a musician and music industry executive. Blakeman was a keyboardist for multiple bands predominantly in the 1980s and '90s, before starting a career in the music publishing industry. Musical career Blakeman started her professional musical career playing in bands around Shreveport, Louisiana while in college, with an eye to pursue a career as a session musician and entertainment attorney. After coming to the attention of Eddie Van Halen who enlisted her to help create a unique signature keyboard sound for him, she spent several years working closely with him programming his keyboards, most notably for the Van Halen OU812 album. As an early member of the band Private Life, a hard rock formation produced by both Ted Templeman and Eddie Van Halen, she co-wrote, recorded and released two albums with this band, ''Shadows'' (1988) and ''Private Life'' (1990) through Warner Bros. Records. Later Blakeman worked as a touring keyboardist and backing vocalist for B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laurie Blakeman
Laurie Blakeman (born May 23, 1958) is a Canadian politician, who represented the electoral district of Edmonton-Centre in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta. She is a member of the Alberta Liberal Party, and was first elected in the 1997 election. In 2017, she was appointed as a member of the Veterans Review and Appeal Board for a five-year term. Early life She graduated with a bachelor's degree in fine arts in acting and a certificate in public administration from the University of Alberta. Before entering politics, she worked for the Alberta Advisory Council on Women's Issues, the Phoenix Theatre and Theatre Network, the Medical Council of Canada, and the Alberta Snowmobile Association. Political career Electoral record Blakeman first sought political office in the 1997 provincial election, when she ran as a Liberal candidate in Edmonton-Centre to replace retiring Liberal MLA Michael Henry. She was elected, finishing more than a thousand votes ahead of the second-pla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Natasha Blakeman
Natasha Blakeman is a fictional character from the ITV soap opera ''Coronation Street'', played by Rachel Leskovac. The character first appeared onscreen during the episode airing on 12 May 2008. On 29 April 2010, it was announced that Leskovac had been axed from the show after two years and would depart in "an exciting and dramatic storyline which will be an integral part of the build-up to ''Coronation Street'' 50th anniversary". Natasha departed on 27 September 2010. On 16 July 2020, it was announced that Leskovac would be reprising her role as Natasha, with her return airing 11 September 2020. Leskovac made an unannounced departure from the soap on 25 October 2021, in which Natasha was killed off after being shot by Harvey Gaskell (Will Mellor). Storylines 2008–2010 In December 2008, Natasha informs Audrey Roberts (Sue Nicholls) that her brother and sister-in-law have just had a baby daughter and are naming her Electra. She spots a good business opportunity in opening ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam Blakeman
Rev. Adam Blakeman (10 June 1596 – 7 September 1665) was an English Church of England clergyman who was an early migrant to New England and a founder of Stratford, Connecticut. Blakeman was born in Gnosall, Staffordshire, England on 10 June 1596. His birthplace is frequently misspelled in websites due to transcription errors from old records. Blakeman matriculated (entered college) at Christ Church, Oxford on 28 May 1617. He was a preacher for some years in Great Bowden, Leicestershire, and in Derbyshire, and in 1638 went to Connecticut. In 1639 he led the original settlers of Stratford, Connecticut, and served as the first minister of the church until his death on 7 September 1665.Sibley, John Langdon. ''Biographical Sketches of Graduates of Harvard University, in Cambridge, Massachusetts''. Charles William Sever (1881), Vol. II, p. 140. Stratford, like a number of other New England towns of the 1630s, was founded as a Utopian community by Puritans fleeing persecution in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alec Blakeman
Alec George Blakeman (11 June 1918 – November 1994) was an English professional Association football, footballer who played in the Football League for Brentford F.C., Brentford, Sheffield United F.C., Sheffield United and A.F.C. Bournemouth, Bournemouth as an Forward (association football), inside forward. Personal life Blakeman spent four years in a Nazi Germany, German prisoner of war camp during the Second World War. Career statistics References External links * English footballers English Football League players Brentford F.C. players 1918 births 1994 deaths Oxford City F.C. players Sheffield United F.C. players AFC Bournemouth players March Town United F.C. players Wycombe Wanderers F.C. players Association football inside forwards British military personnel of World War II World War II prisoners of war held by Germany British World War II prisoners of war {{England-footy-forward-1910s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laura Blakeman
Laura Kate Blakeman (born 25 April 1979 in Stoke-on-Trent) is a British slalom canoeist who competed at the international level from 1995 to 2011. She won five medals in the K1 team event at the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships with a gold ( 2009), a silver ( 2005) and three bronzes ( 2002, 2003, 2007). She won another four medals in the same event at the European Championships (1 gold, 1 silver and 2 bronzes). Blakeman finished 12th in the K1 event at the 2000 Summer Olympics The 2000 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXVII Olympiad and also known as Sydney 2000 ( Dharug: ''Gadigal 2000''), the Millennium Olympic Games or the Games of the New Millennium, was an international multi-sport event held from ... in Sydney. References 12 September 2009 results of the women's K1 team finals at the 2009 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships.- Retrieved 12 September 2009. * 1979 births English female canoeists Canoeists at the 2000 Summer Olympics L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
