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Blank (surname)
Blank is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Amanda Blank (born 1983), American rapper and singer *Arthur Blank (born 1942), American businessman and a co-founder of Home Depot * Barbie Blank (born 1987), American model and professional wrestler better known as Kelly Kelly * Boris Blank (musician) (born 1952), Swiss musician * Carla Blank, American choreographer, writer, and editor *Hanne Blank (born 1969), American historian * Harrod Blank (born 1963), American documentary filmmaker *Isaac Blank (1913–2006), better known as Ted Grant, South African-British Marxist, co-founder of the Militant Tendency * Israel Blank, grandfather of Vladimir Lenin from mother's side *Jessica Blank, American actor, playwright, and novelist *Joani Blank (1937–2016), writer and videographer *Johann Blank (1904–1983), German water polo player * Jonah Blank, American author * Joost de Blank (1908-1968), Archbishop of Cape Town, South Africa *Julius Blank (1925–2011), semiconductor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amanda Blank
Amanda Blank (born Amanda Mallory McGrath; March 21, 1983) is an American singer, rapper and member of the performance art band Sweatheart based in Philadelphia. Early life Amanda Blank was born in Germantown, a neighborhood in northwest Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1983. Amanda and her older sisters were raised in a row house in Germantown by artist parents. Blank based her stage name on ''Strangers with Candy'' character, Jerri Blank, played by Amy Sedaris. Career She frequently collaborates with rapper Spank Rock, most notably on the track "Blow" on the mix CD '' Bmore Gutter Music'' and later "Bump" on the album ''YoYoYoYoYo'', released in 2006. Her songs have appeared in HBO's '' Life Support'' and the ''CSI: NY'' episode "Buzzkill". In 2007, she was featured on the official Eli Escobar and Doug Grayson remix for Britney Spears's hit single "Gimme More". In early 2008, Blank was described as being part of "a new crop of young, multicultural, female hip-hop acts in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kenny Blank
Kenny Blank (born September 15, 1977), also known as Kenn Michael, is an American actor, musician and director. Blank is best known for his role as Michael Peterson in the television series ''The Parent 'Hood'' from 1995 to 1997 for which he also composed some music, as well as his appearance in Eddie Murphy's 1992 film, ''Boomerang''. Early life Blank was born as Kenneth Michael Benbow in New York City, New York on September 15, 1977, the son of Lola, a dancer for James Brown who later became Blank's manager, and Warren Benbow, a jazz drummer who has worked with Miles Davis and Stevie Wonder. His parents later divorced and Blank was raised by his mother and stepfather, Bob Blank, who owned a music studio. By the time he was 6 years old, Blank played the piano and made short films. He graduated from Stamford High School in 1995. In the late 1990s, Blank was a student at the University of Southern California, where he studied filmmaking. Career as performer Blank began acting ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victor Blank
The name Victor or Viktor may refer to: * Victor (name), including a list of people with the given name, mononym, or surname Arts and entertainment Film * ''Victor'' (1951 film), a French drama film * ''Victor'' (1993 film), a French short film * ''Victor'' (2008 film), a 2008 TV film about Canadian swimmer Victor Davis * ''Victor'' (2009 film), a French comedy * ''Victor'', a 2017 film about Victor Torres by Brandon Dickerson * ''Viktor'' (film), a 2014 Franco/Russian film Music * ''Victor'' (album), a 1996 album by Alex Lifeson * "Victor", a song from the 1979 album ''Eat to the Beat'' by Blondie Businesses * Victor Talking Machine Company, early 20th century American recording company, forerunner of RCA Records * Victor Company of Japan, usually known as JVC, a Japanese electronics corporation originally a subsidiary of the Victor Talking Machine Company ** Victor Entertainment, or JVCKenwood Victor Entertainment, a Japanese record label ** Victor Interactive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trent Blank
Trent Robert Blank (born August 31, 1989) is an American professional baseball coach for the Seattle Mariners of Major League Baseball. Blank attended Columbia High School in Columbia, Illinois, and Baylor University, where he played college baseball for the Baylor Bears. He played professional baseball in the Colorado Rockies The Colorado Rockies are an American professional baseball team based in Denver. The Rockies compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the National League (NL) West division. The team plays its home baseball games at Coors Fie ... organization for three years. In 2020, Blank served as the acting bullpen coach for the Mariners. He will become the fulltime bullpen coach in 2021. References External links Living people 1989 births Baseball players from St. Louis Baseball pitchers Major League Baseball bullpen coaches Seattle Mariners coaches Baylor Bears baseball players Tri-City Dust Devils players Asheville Tourists ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theodor Blank
Theodor Anton Blank (19 September 1905 – 14 May 1972) was a German politician of the CDU. He was one of the founders of the CDU in 1945. Blank was born in Elz an der Lahn. He was the third of ten children of a carpenter. His family was Roman Catholic. Blank received an apprenticeship as a carpenter. In 1930–33 he worked as a secretary at the Association of Christian transport- and factory employees of the northern and northwestern Ruhr Area. After he was dismissed in 1933 Blank passed his Abitur in 1936 and studied mathematics at the University of Münster and engineering sciences at Leibniz University Hannover. In 1939 he was conscripted to the |
Steve Blank
Steve Blank (born 1953) is an American entrepreneur, educator, author and speaker based in Pescadero, California. Blank created the customer development method that launched the lean startup movement, a methodology that recognized that startups are not smaller versions of large companies, but require their own set of processes and tools to be successful. His Lean Launchpad class (taught as the National Science Foundation Innovation Corps, or I-Corps) has become the standard for commercialization for all federal research and has trained 1,900 teams and launched 1,000+ startups. His Hacking for Defense Class has been adopted by the U.S. Department of Defense. Biography Blank was born to immigrant parents in the Chelsea neighborhood in New York City. He has a sister Linn who is married to Maurice Karnaugh He attended the University of Michigan for one semester. Blank spent four years in the U.S. Air Force, and spent time in Thailand during the Vietnam War, where he was maintaining e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stefan Blank
Stefan Blank (born 10 March 1977) is a German former professional footballer who played as a left-back. Coaching career After his retirement he was named as head coach of the SG Wattenscheid 09 U-19 and for the 2009–10 season also as head coach of SG Wattenscheid 09 but resigned in late December 2009. Honours VfB Stuttgart * UEFA Intertoto Cup: 2000 File:2000 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Protests against Bush v. Gore after the 2000 United States presidential election; Heads of state meet for the Millennium Summit; The International Space Station in its infant form as seen from ... References {{DEFAULTSORT:Blank, Stefan 1977 births Living people Footballers from Gelsenkirchen German men's footballers Men's association football fullbacks Germany men's B international footballers Germany men's under-21 international footballers Bundesliga players 2. Bundesliga players FC Schalke 04 players Hannover 96 players VfB Stuttgart players SV Werder Bremen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Renate Blank
Renate Anna Blank (née Reichenberger; 8 August 1941 – 16 June 2021 ) was a German and member of the . She was born in Nuremberg
Nuremberg ( ; german: link=no, Nürnberg ; in the local East Franconian dialect: ''Nämberch'' ) is the second-largest city of the German state of Bavaria after its capital Munich, and its 518,370 (2019) inhabitants make it the 14th-large ...
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Rebecca Blank
Rebecca Margaret Blank (born September 19, 1955) is an American economist and academic administrator. The Chancellor of the University of Wisconsin–Madison from 2013 to 2022, Blank has also served in various roles in the United States Department of Commerce, including as acting United States Secretary of Commerce. Early life and education A native of Missouri, Blank graduated ''summa cum laude'' from the University of Minnesota with a degree in economics and holds a Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Career Blank was the Robert S. Kerr Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and Dean of the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan. From 1997 to 1999, Blank was a member Council of Economic Advisers in the 1990s during the Clinton Administration, participating in White House decision-making on economic, social and regulatory policy issues. She was a professor of economics at Northwestern University and director ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Blank
Peter Blank (born 10 April 1962) is a German track and field athlete who competed in the javelin throw. Early on in his career, he was a decathlete. In 1992, he set the world record for longest javelin throw in a decathlon with a distance of 79.80 m. His personal best throw is 88.70 m, achieved in June 2001 in Stuttgart at age 39. This throw was briefly a Masters M35 world record; it lasted less than a week because Jan Železný Jan Železný (; born 16 June 1966) is a Czech former track and field athlete who competed in the javelin throw. He is a World and Olympic champion and holds the world record with a throw of . Widely considered to be the greatest javelin thrower ... had turned 35 three weeks earlier and in his first competition after turning 35, Železný threw the javelin 89.94 m. Železný then further improved the record to 92.80 m at the 2001 World Championships, putting it beyond Blank's reach. Two years later, Blank set the M40 world record with an 84.08 m t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin Blank (other)
Martin Blank may refer to: * Martin Blank (artist) (born 1962), American glass artist * Martin Blank (politician) (1897–1972), German politician * Martin Blank (playwright) Martin Blank is an American playwright, screenwriter, and theatrical producer. Biography Martin Blank was born in Bethesda, Maryland, where he attended Bethesda Chevy Chase High School. He attended the University of Maryland and the Yale S ..., American playwright, screenwriter, and theatrical producer * Martin Blank (Grosse Pointe Blank), lead character in the film ''Grosse Pointe Blank'' * Martin Blank (Marvel Comics), the alter ego of the Marvel Comics character known as Gibbon {{hndis, Blank, Martin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marion Blank
Dr. Marion Blank is the creator of several reading programs and the creator and former director of the A Light on Literacy program at Columbia University in New York. She is a developmental psychologist with a specialization in language and learning. Dr. Blank has developed a model for teaching reading that is based on six critical skills. Two are physical skills: the visual sequencing skills for reading and the fine motor performance for writing, and four are language skills: phonology, semantics, syntax and discourse. This model allows reading to be taught to a wide variety of children, including those for whom reading attainment is highly problematic, such as non-verbal autistic children. Her books The Reading Remedy and Spectacular Bond and her reading programs are designed to make her system easily available to parents so that they may prevent or overcome the reading failure that afflicts about 40% of the school population across the nation. Education Dr. Blank has her bache ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
