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Bob White (offensive Lineman)
Bob White may refer to: People In sports * Bob White (fullback) (1938–2025), American football player * Bob White (offensive lineman) (born 1963), American football center *Bob White (cricketer) (1936–2023), former English first class cricketer * Bob White (footballer) (1902–1977), English footballer * Bob White (ice hockey) (born 1935), Canadian ice hockey player Other people * Bob White (business executive) (born 1956), former Bain companies executive *Robert Michael White (1924–2010), known as Bob, American test pilot and astronaut * Bob White (geophysicist) (born 1952), Cambridge University professor of geophysics * Bob White (trade unionist) (1935–2017), president of the Canadian Labour Congress and founding president of the Canadian Auto Workers trade union * Bob W. White (active since 1998), Canadian associate professor of social anthropology *Bobby White (1925–1973), American jazz drummer, see Earle Spencer * Bob White (mayor) (1914–2006), mayor of Papa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Bob White (fullback)
Loren Robert White (August 22, 1938 – May 7, 2025) was an American professional football player who was a fullback for the Houston Oilers of the American Football League (AFL). He played college football for the Ohio State Buckeyes. White died May 7, 2025, at the age of 86. College career At Ohio State University, White played college football for three seasons with the Buckeyes from 1957 to 1959, playing both fullback on offense and linebacker on defense. Each of those seasons, White was picked as the team's Most Valuable Player and named an Ohio State Academic All- Big Ten Honoree. In 1957, he and the Buckeyes won the Big Ten Conference title and then went on to win the 1958 Rose Bowl10–7 over Oregon Oregon ( , ) is a U.S. state, state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. It is a part of the Western U.S., with the Columbia River delineating much of Oregon's northern boundary with Washington (state), Washington, while t .... Both the UPI ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Bob White (offensive Lineman)
Bob White may refer to: People In sports * Bob White (fullback) (1938–2025), American football player * Bob White (offensive lineman) (born 1963), American football center *Bob White (cricketer) (1936–2023), former English first class cricketer * Bob White (footballer) (1902–1977), English footballer * Bob White (ice hockey) (born 1935), Canadian ice hockey player Other people * Bob White (business executive) (born 1956), former Bain companies executive *Robert Michael White (1924–2010), known as Bob, American test pilot and astronaut * Bob White (geophysicist) (born 1952), Cambridge University professor of geophysics * Bob White (trade unionist) (1935–2017), president of the Canadian Labour Congress and founding president of the Canadian Auto Workers trade union * Bob W. White (active since 1998), Canadian associate professor of social anthropology *Bobby White (1925–1973), American jazz drummer, see Earle Spencer * Bob White (mayor) (1914–2006), mayor of Papa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Bob White (cricketer)
Robert Arthur White (6 October 1936 – 8 November 2023) was an English first-class cricketer and Umpire (cricket), umpire. He played or umpired more than 1,200 matches of first-class or List A cricket between 1958 and 2001. Cricket career Player White joined the Lord's staff at 15 after leaving school. In 1955 and 1956 he did his Conscription in the United Kingdom#After 1945, National Service, mainly in Cyprus. In 1958 he made his county debut with Middlesex County Cricket Club, Middlesex, where he played as a batsman. He had his most successful season in 1963 when he scored 1355 runs, the only time he reached 1000 runs in a season. He was awarded his county cap during the season. In 1966 White moved to Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club, Nottinghamshire, where he developed his off-spin and played as an all-rounder. His best bowling season was 1971, when he was the county's most successful bowler. He took 81 wickets, and achieved his best figures of 7 for 41 against Derbyshi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Bob White (footballer)
Bob White may refer to: People In sports *Bob White (fullback) (1938–2025), American football player * Bob White (offensive lineman) (born 1963), American football center *Bob White (cricketer) (1936–2023), former English first class cricketer * Bob White (footballer) (1902–1977), English footballer * Bob White (ice hockey) (born 1935), Canadian ice hockey player Other people * Bob White (business executive) (born 1956), former Bain companies executive *Robert Michael White (1924–2010), known as Bob, American test pilot and astronaut * Bob White (geophysicist) (born 1952), Cambridge University professor of geophysics * Bob White (trade unionist) (1935–2017), president of the Canadian Labour Congress and founding president of the Canadian Auto Workers trade union * Bob W. White (active since 1998), Canadian associate professor of social anthropology *Bobby White (1925–1973), American jazz drummer, see Earle Spencer * Bob White (mayor) (1914–2006), mayor of Papatoetoe, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Bob White (ice Hockey)
Bob White may refer to: People In sports * Bob White (fullback) (1938–2025), American football player * Bob White (offensive lineman) (born 1963), American football center *Bob White (cricketer) (1936–2023), former English first class cricketer * Bob White (footballer) (1902–1977), English footballer * Bob White (ice hockey) (born 1935), Canadian ice hockey player Other people * Bob White (business executive) (born 1956), former Bain companies executive *Robert Michael White (1924–2010), known as Bob, American test pilot and astronaut * Bob White (geophysicist) (born 1952), Cambridge University professor of geophysics * Bob White (trade unionist) (1935–2017), president of the Canadian Labour Congress and founding president of the Canadian Auto Workers trade union * Bob W. White (active since 1998), Canadian associate professor of social anthropology *Bobby White (1925–1973), American jazz drummer, see Earle Spencer * Bob White (mayor) (1914–2006), mayor of Papat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Bob White (business Executive)
Robert F. "Bob" White (born 1956) is an American financier and business executive from Massachusetts. White is known for his friendship and long professional relationship with American politician Mitt Romney. Early life and education Born in 1956, White attended Woburn High School. A first-generation college student, White attended Bowdoin College with the help of financial aid. White graduated from Bowdoin in 1977. Biography A friend of Mitt Romney since the 1980s, White helped manage Bain Capital at the private equity firm's founding in April 1983. White took a leave of absence from the firm in 1994 to manage Romney's unsuccessful 1994 U.S. Senate campaign. White aided Romney with planning and administering the 2002 Winter Olympics. After Romney was elected Governor of Massachusetts in the 2002 election, White chaired the subsequent gubernatorial transition team. During the 2008 presidential election, White chaired Romney's presidential campaign. During this period, Wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Robert Michael White
Robert Michael White (July 6, 1924 – March 17, 2010) ( Maj Gen, USAF) was an American electrical engineer, test pilot, fighter pilot, and astronaut. He was one of twelve pilots who flew the North American X-15, an experimental spaceplane jointly operated by the Air Force and NASA. As an engineer, he supervised the design and development of several modern military aircraft. On July 17, 1962, he flew the X-15 to an altitude above 50 miles, thereby qualifying as an astronaut according to the United States definition of the boundary of space. Background and career White was born in New York City on July 6, 1924. After graduating from high school, he entered active military service in November 1942 as an aviation cadet in the United States Army Air Forces, and received his pilot wings and commission as a second lieutenant in February 1944. During World War II, he served with the 355th Fighter Group in the European Theater of Operations. He flew P-51 Mustangs from July 1944 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Bob White (geophysicist)
Robert (Bob) Stephen White (born 12 December 1952) is Emeritus Professor of Geophysics in the Earth Sciences department at Cambridge University and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society ( FRS) in 1994. He is Director of the Faraday Institute for Science and Religion. Biography Bob White is also a Fellow of St Edmund's College, Cambridge, prior to which he was a student and Research Fellow at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. A Fellow of the Geological Society, and a member of the American Geophysical Union and several other professional bodies; he serves on numerous of their committees. He leads a research group investigating the Earth's dynamic crust. His most cited paper (White & McKenzie 1989) used geophysical evidence in conjunction with models of melt generation beneath rifts to show that the largest and most rapid effusions of volcanic rock on the earth, known as flood basalts, result from continental rifting above mantle plumes. He has organised fieldwork in many diffe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Bob White (trade Unionist)
Robert White, (April 28, 1935 – February 19, 2017) was a prominent leader in the Canadian trade union and labour movement who was the founding president of the Canadian Auto Workers (now Unifor) after leading its separation from its American parent, the United Auto Workers, and then president of the Canadian Labour Congress. Born in Northern Ireland, he emigrated with his family to Canada at age 13, settling in Woodstock, Ontario. White died in 2017 at the age of 81 in Kincardine, Ontario. Labour movement White began working at age 15 (Hay & Company - a wood furniture maker owned by US Plywood) and within a year he had already participated in a strike, his first pro-labour activity, and was elected a union steward at the age of 17. He led his first strike, against the same company, in 1957 at the age of 22, leading 500 workers off the job. Subsequently, White became fully immersed in the Canadian labour movement as a union organizer and then by 1959 president of Local 636 of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Bob W
Bob, BOB, or B.O.B. may refer to: People, fictional characters, and named animals *Bob (given name), a list of people and fictional characters *Bob (surname) *Bob (dog), a dog that received the Dickin Medal for bravery in World War II *Bob the Railway Dog, a part of South Australian Railways folklore Places *Mount Bob, New York, United States *Bob Island, Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica Television, games, and radio * ''Bob'' (TV series), an American comedy series starring Bob Newhart * ''B.O.B.'' (video game), a side-scrolling shooter *Bob FM, on-air brand of a number of FM radio stations in North America Music Musicians and groups *B.o.B (born 1988), American rapper and record producer *Bob (band), a British indie pop band *The Bobs, an American a cappella group * Boyz on Block, a British pop supergroup Songs * "B.O.B" (song), by OutKast * "Bob" ("Weird Al" Yankovic song), from the 2003 album ''Poodle Hat'' by "Weird Al" Yankovic *"Bob", a song from the album ''Brighter Than ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Earle Spencer
Robert Earle Spencer (born 26 June 1925 Welborn, Kansas – 19 September 1973 Fillmore, Utah) was an American trombonist and leader of a progressive swing big band bearing his name — Earle Spencer and His Orchestra. He formed the band in 1946 and disbanded in 1949. The band recorded for Black & White Records — a label so named by its founder, Les Schreiber, to reflect the races of its recording artists. History of the Earle Spencer Orchestra Spencer was a trombonist who, after playing in the band that he led from 1946 to 1949, gave up playing entirely, due partly to a heart murmur, due partly to the hard economics of big bands in that began in the late 1940s, and due partly to the band's record label, Black & White Records, which went out of business in October 1949. Towards the end of World War II, a conscious movement towards the creation of a new style of big band jazz became apparent on America's west coast. The longest established of these self-styled "progressive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Bob White (mayor)
Robert Howard White (25 December 1914 – 4 January 2006) was a New Zealand local-body politician. Biography Born in Auckland on 25 December 1914, White was the son of Amy Charlotte and Alfred Horace White. He was educated at Seddon Memorial Technical College from 1927 to 1930. In 1941, he married Kitty Gwendolyn Mawkes, and the couple went on to have three children. White served in the Royal New Zealand Air Force. White was mayor of Papatoetoe from 1965 to 1986. During his tenure in the 1970s, he advocated for a rapid-rail system connecting South Auckland with Auckland City. In 1981 he successfully called for the inclusion of photographs on drivers licenses in an effort to reduce fraud. In 1977, White received the Queen Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee Medal. In the 1982 New Year Honours, he was made a Queen's Service Order for public services. In 1975, he was appointed an Officer of the Order of St John, and in 1985 he was promoted to Commander of the Order of St John. In 1990 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
