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Bob Cooper (producer)
Bob Cooper may refer to: Sports * Bob Cooper (racing driver) (born 1935), American NASCAR Cup Series driver * Bob Cooper (speedway rider) (born 1950), English speedway rider * Bob Cooper (rower), Australian rower * Bob Cooper (rugby league) (1955–2022), Australian rugby league player * Bob Cooper (surfer) (1937-2020), American/Australian surfer Other * Bob Cooper (musician) (1925–1993), American jazz saxophonist * Bob Cooper (politician) (1936–2004), politician and activist in Northern Ireland * Bob Cooper (journalist) (born 1954), freelance writer and ''Runner's World'' columnist, ultramarathoner * Bob Cooper (priest) Robert Gerard "Bob" Cooper (born 26 July 1968) is the Archdeacon of Sunderland, honorary canon of Durham Cathedral and canon of Musoma Cathedral in Mara, Tanzania. He was formerly Area Dean of Pontefract and Vicar of St Giles' Church, Pontefrac ... (born 1968), Archdeacon of Sunderland See also * Robert Cooper (other) {{human name disamb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Cooper (racing Driver)
Bob Cooper (born November 13, 1935) is a retired driver who raced in the Grand National Series from 1962 to 1969 This year is notable for Apollo 11's first landing on the moon. Events January * January 4 – The Government of Spain hands over Ifni to Morocco. * January 5 **Ariana Afghan Airlines Flight 701 crashes into a house on its approach to .... Career Cooper has raced 64 races over the course of eight years resulting in nine finishes in the top ten. He has also done 8,982 laps earning $17,495 in the process ($ when considering inflation). Average finishes for this driver's career is 21st while his average career start is in 23rd place. Dirt track racing was Bob Cooper's greatest strength, with his average finishes on tracks of that kind being 14th place. However, Cooper would find his weakness on tri-oval intermediate tracks with a finish of 34th place being typical. References 1935 births Living people NASCAR drivers Sportspeople from Gastonia, Nort ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Cooper (speedway Rider)
Robert Charles "Bob" Cooper (born 23 June 1950) is a British former motorcycle speedway rider who rode for Leicester Lions and Rye House Rockets. Born in Rugby, Warwickshire, Cooper represented Central Midland Schools at cross-country running as a teenager.Oakes, Peter & Mauger, Ivan (1976) ''Who's Who of World Speedway'', Studio Publications, , p. 32 He combined his speedway career with his work as an engine fitter for Rolls-Royce. After attending a training school at King's Lynn King's Lynn, known until 1537 as Bishop's Lynn and colloquially as Lynn, is a port and market town in the borough of King's Lynn and West Norfolk in the county of Norfolk, England. It is located north of London, north-east of Peterborough, no ... in 1971, he made his competitive debut the following year in a 'Stars of Tomorrow' event at King's Lynn in 1972. In 1974 he signed for Leicester Lions, riding in the junior team, and was loaned out to Rye House Rockets, averaging 4.78 over his debut seas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Cooper (rower)
Bob Cooper is an Australian former lightweight rower. He was an Australian national champion and won a bronze medal at the 1978 World Rowing Championships. Club and state rowing Raised in Adelaide, Cooper's senior rowing was from the Torrens Rowing Club. State representation first came for Cooper in 1965 in the South Australian lightweight four contesting the Penrith Cup at the Interstate Regatta within the Australian Rowing Championships. He rowed in further South Australian Penrith Cup crews in 1966, 1967, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1974, stroking the 1974 South Australian four. His 1970 crew was victorious breaking the long stranglehold held by Victoria and New South Wales in this event. In 1966 Cooper rowed in a composite South Australian eight contesting the lightweight eight title at the Australian Championships. In 1968 and again in 1974 in Torrens colours and rowing with Vaughan Bollen, Cooper won the national lightweight coxless pair title at the Australian Rowing Cha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Cooper (rugby League)
Robert Cooper (31 August 1955 – 9 December 2022) was an Australian professional footballer. He played rugby league in the New South Wales Rugby League. In 1982, Cooper was suspended for the equal-longest period in rugby league history. Cooper played rugby league for Western Suburbs Magpies and North Sydney Bears and, in 1980, was selected in the New South Wales team for the inaugural game in the State of Origin. He played primarily in the back row. Cooper was named in the Western Suburbs Magpies Team of the Eighties, in the second-row. In 1982, Cooper was suspended for the equal-longest period in rugby league history, of fifteen months, after he ran in to join a brawl and left three Illawarra Steelers players flattened during a match at Wollongong showground. When imposing the suspension, the NSW Rugby League judiciary chairman, Jim Comans said, ''"Acts such as these must be obliterated from the game, and I'll begin by obliterating you."'' In 1983, Cooper played Austral ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Cooper (surfer)
Sidney Robert "Bob" Cooper (5 October 1937 – 16 February 2020) was an American and Australian surfer, shaper, surf shop owner and surf commentator. He was regarded as being one of very few surfers and shapers to be majorly influential in surf history on both sides of the Pacific Ocean. He began surfing in 1952 at age 15, at Malibu. His nicknames included the Bearded Bard and the Original Surfing Beatnik. Cooper died 16 February 2020, aged 82, from cancer-related illnesses near his home at Noosa Heads, Queensland, Australia. Surfing career Born in Santa Monica, California, Bob grew up near the beaches there and started surfing at Malibu Beach in 1952. He also became an early surfboard shaper in California, working for the likes of Dale Velzy, Reynolds Yater, and Tom Morey. Cooper's signature ‘Bob Cooper Blue Machine’ model produced in 1967 and early 1968 by Morey-Pope Surfboards, was the only board of the era to feature an asymmetrical fin setup. Cooper was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Cooper (musician)
Bob Cooper (December 6, 1925 – August 5, 1993) was a West Coast jazz musician known primarily for playing tenor saxophone, but also for being one of the first to play jazz solos on oboe. Career Cooper worked in Stan Kenton's band starting in 1945 and married the band's singer June Christy, two years later. The union producing a daughter Shay Christy Cooper (September 1, 1954 – February 21, 2014), with the marriage lasting 44 years, until Christy's death in 1990. His last studio recording was on Karrin Allyson's album '' Sweet Home Cookin''' (1994) on which he played tenor saxophone. Cooper died of a heart attack in Los Angeles, California, at the age of 67. He was found in his car, which had pulled over to side of road. Selected discography As leader * ''The Bob Cooper Sextet'' (Capitol, 1954) * ''Shifting Winds'' (Capitol, 1955) * '' Flute 'n Oboe'' (Pacific Jazz, 1957) with Bud Shank * ''Milano Blues'' (Music, 1957) * ''Coop! The Music of Bob Cooper'' (Contemporary, 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Cooper (politician)
Sir Robert George Cooper, CBE (24 June 1936 – 15 November 2004), popularly known as Sir Bob Cooper, was a politician and equal opportunities activist in Northern Ireland. Born and raised in the east of County Donegal in the north-west of Ulster, Cooper, a Presbyterian, attended Foyle College and then studied law at The Queen's University of Belfast, where he was the Chair of the Young Unionists. Despite his Protestant Unionist background, Cooper married a Catholic. In 1970, Cooper became a founder member of the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland, and at the 1973 Northern Ireland Assembly election, he was elected for West Belfast. He served as Minister for Manpower Services, a junior position in the Sunningdale Northern Ireland Executive. Soon after, he became deputy leader of the party, and in 1975 he was elected to the Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention. In 1976, Cooper left politics to take up an appointment as head of the Fair Employment Agency. In 1990, th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Cooper (journalist)
Bob Cooper is an American freelance journalist and travel and general-interest writer. He is a former contributing editor for ''Runner's World'', a former executive editor of '' Running Times'', a competitive long distance runner, and a longtime San Francisco Bay Area resident. He held various editorial positions for ''Triathlete'', '' Inside Triathlon'', and ''City Sports'' magazines. Running and racing Cooper has run several ultramarathons and marathons. As a teenager, he was part of a cross country relay run that traversed the length of the United States from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean in 19+ days. Journalism career In 1973, ''Runner's World'' published Cooper's first national magazine article. Cooper continued to write for ''Runner's World'' after the magazine was sold to Rodale, Inc. in Emmaus, Pennsylvania. His articles have appeared regularly in magazines including '' Men's Journal'', ''Men's Fitness'', ''National Geographic Adventure'', ''National Geograp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Cooper (priest)
Robert Gerard "Bob" Cooper (born 26 July 1968) is the Archdeacon of Sunderland, honorary canon of Durham Cathedral and canon of Musoma Cathedral in Mara, Tanzania. He was formerly Area Dean of Pontefract and Vicar of St Giles' Church, Pontefract. He held parish ministry positions in the former Dioceses of Ripon and Leeds and Wakefield (now the Diocese of Leeds) and was a school chaplain in Leeds before spending a year as a chaplain in a school in Essex. He has been visiting Mara, Tanzania since 2000. He was elected to General Synod of the Church of England The General Synod is the tricameral deliberative and legislative organ of the Church of England. The synod was instituted in 1970, replacing the Church Assembly, and is the culmination of a process of rediscovering self-government for the Church ... by the Diocese of Leeds. References External links * http://www.stgilespontefract.org.uk Archdeacons of Sunderland Living people 20th-century English ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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