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Butters (surname)
Butters is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Bill Butters (born 1951), retired World Hockey Association and National Hockey League player *Charles Butters (1854–1933), American metallurgist, engineer, and mine owner * Frank Butters (1878–1957), Austrian racehorse trainer *Fred Butters (1904–1988), English rugby league footballer * Guy Butters (born 1969), English professional footballer * John Butters (1885–1969), Australian electrical engineer * Lily Butters (1894–1980), Canadian founder of the Cecil Butters Memorial Hospital *Tom Butters (baseball) Thomas Arden Butters (April 8, 1938 – March 31, 2016) was an American professional baseball baseball player, player who spent parts of four seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) with the Pittsburgh Pirates, then had a lengthy career as a colle ... (1938–2016), American college sports administrator and baseball pitcher * Tom Butters (politician) (1925–2015), Canadian politician * Wes Butters (born 197 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Butters
Bill Butters (born January 10, 1951) is an American former professional ice hockey player. He played in the World Hockey Association from 1975 to 1978 and then in the National Hockey League from 1978 to 1979. After his playing career Butters became a coach, serving as an assistant coach for several years with the University of Minnesota and then coaching at the NCAA Division III and high school levels. Life and career Butters was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota on January 10, 1951, and played high school hockey at White Bear Lake, Minnesota. He played for the University of Minnesota from 1971–73, coached by Glen Sonmor and Herb Brooks, and he served as team captain in 1972-73. Butters went on to play 217 games in the World Hockey Association for the Minnesota Fighting Saints, Houston Aeros, Edmonton Oilers and New England Whalers, followed by 72 games in the National Hockey League The National Hockey League (NHL; french: Ligue nationale de hockey—LNH, ) is a professio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Butters
Charles Butters (August 10, 1854November 27, 1933) was an American metallurgist, engineer and mine owner. A graduate of the University of California, he moved to Southern Africa in 1890 to construct a chlorination plant for Hermann Eckstein & Company. Whilst there Butters pioneered the use of the gold cyanidation process for extracting the metal from low grade ore, which opened up new deposits in Witwatersrand. He also developed other methods that increased extraction efficiency. Butters left Eckstein in 1894 to jointly found a new firm, the Rand Central Ore Reduction Company. He joined the Johannesburg Reform Committee in 1895, a group of mostly immigrants to South Africa who demanded, among other things, a stable constitution, an independent judiciary, and a better educational system; he participated in the Jameson Raid, a botched attempt against the South African Republic, and was fined $2,000. Butters returned to the United States in 1898 where he ran his own company, Chas. B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Butters
Frank Joseph Arthur Butters (1878–1957) was a racehorse trainer specialising in flat racing who trained in Austria, Italy and England England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Wales to its west and Scotland to its north. The Irish Sea lies northwest and the Celtic Sea to the southwest. It is separated from continental Europe b ... in the first half of the 20th century. He trained for two of the most successful owner-breeders in British racing at the time, Edward Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby, Lord Derby and Aga Khan III, HH Aga Khan III, and was British flat racing Champion Trainer on eight occasions. Frank Butters was born in Vienna, Austria, in 1878 while his father Joseph Butters was training racehorses there. He was educated in Britain but returned to Austria as an assistant to his father. He was internment, interned in Austria during World War I and trained in Italy after the war. In 1926 he returned to Britain to start a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fred Butters
Frederick A. Butters (1904–1988) was an English professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1920s and 1930s. He played at representative level for Great Britain and England, and at club level for Swinton, as a , i.e. number 13, during the era of contested scrums. Background Fred Butters was born in Pendlebury, Lancashire, England, and he died aged 84. Playing career International honours Fred Butters, won a cap for England while at Swinton in 1932 against Wales, and won caps for Great Britain while at Swinton in 1929-30 against Australia (2 matches). County Cup Final appearances Fred Butters played in Swinton's 8-10 defeat by Salford in the 1931 Lancashire County Cup Final during the 1931–32 season at The Cliff, Broughton, Salford Salford () is a city and the largest settlement in the City of Salford metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England. In 2011, Salford had a population of 103,886. It is also the second and only other city in the metr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guy Butters
Guy Butters (born 30 October 1969, in Hillingdon) is a former football professional footballer and manager. Playing career Butters made his Tottenham debut in November 1988 in a League Cup tie versus Blackburn Rovers in which he scored an own goal. He made his League debut as a goalscoring substitute that weekend in a 3–2 win against Wimbledon, and then started 34 of the next 35 games before making what would be his final appearance away to Charlton Athletic in October 1989. He spent the remainder of the season on loan at Fourth Division Southend United and he was eventually sold to Portsmouth for a fee of £375,000. He won his first of 3 South East Counties Football League Championships whilst still at school with Spurs. After leaving school he joined them as an apprentice winning Best Defender of the Tournament at the prestigious Düsseldorf Football Tournament 2 years on the trot, firstly beating the Russian National Youth Team in the first year and getting knocked out the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Butters
Sir John Henry Butters, CMG, MBE (23 December 188529 July 1969) was an Australian electrical engineer notable for his role in the Tasmanian Hydro-electric Department from 1914 to 1924, and as the head of the Federal Capital Commission, which developed Canberra between 1925 and 1930. Biography Butters was born in Hampshire, England, and trained as an electrical engineer at Hartley College, Southampton. He moved to Australia in 1909. He is best known for his role as Chief Commissioner of the Federal Capital Commission. The FCC was active during the early expansion of the new federal capital, Canberra, and was successful in planning and building many significant buildings. For his role in the city's development he is sometimes referred to as the 'Founder of Canberra'. Butters left Canberra in 1929 for Sydney, where he made a career as a consulting engineer, which continued until his retirement in 1954. Honours He was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lily Butters
Lily Esther Butters (March 5, 1894 – June 3, 1980) was a Canadian youth disability activist. Biography Butters was born on March 5, 1894 in Newcastle upon Tyne. On August 1, 1914, she married John William Butters. During World War I, John served in the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers. After returning in 1918, they had a son James Atkins. On May 20, 1929, they moved to Austin, Quebec to escape poverty in England. The Great Depression and her children serving in World War II caused her health to deteriorate. She enrolled in a nursing a class in Montreal. Butters founded the Cecil Butters Memorial Hospital, or the Butters Centre, in her farmhouse, which cared for mentally disabled children. It was named in honour of her son, Cecil. In 1968, it had 325 occupants. It operated from 1947 to 1990. After her husband died on February 2, 1964, a new building for her hospital was constructed after receiving $230,000 in funding from senator Paul Desruisseaux Paul Desruisseau ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Butters (baseball)
Thomas Arden Butters (April 8, 1938 – March 31, 2016) was an American professional baseball baseball player, player who spent parts of four seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) with the Pittsburgh Pirates, then had a lengthy career as a college sports administrator at Duke University. He is best remembered for his time at Duke and for being a key figure in the financial success of the NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament. Biography Baseball career Butters was a native of Delaware, Ohio, who attended Ohio Wesleyan University in his native city. In baseball, he was a , right-handed pitcher. He signed with the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1957 after being scouted by retired Pirates' general manager (baseball), general manager Branch Rickey, also an Ohio Wesleyan alumnus. Butters required almost six full years of minor league baseball, minor league seasoning before being called up by the Pirates in September 1962. He then spent parts of the next three seasons in Major League Bas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Butters (politician)
Thomas H. Butters, (June 1925 – March 2, 2015) was a politician from Northwest Territories, Canada. He had a long career as a Member of the Northwest Territories Legislature from 1970 until 1991. Butters was first elected to the Northwest Territories Legislature in the 1970 Northwest Territories general election. He won the new electoral district of Western Arctic defeating incumbent Duncan Pryde. Due to a significant redistribution of electoral district in 1975, Butters ran for re-election in the 1975 Northwest Territories general election in the new Inuvik electoral district because Western Arctic no longer covered his home in Inuvik. He won re-election in the new riding. Butters was re-elected for a third term in the 1979 Northwest Territories general election. In his third term he was appointed as the Minister of Finance by Premier George Braden in 1981. The posting was significant as Butters became the first elected member to hold the role since Frederick Haultain, who was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wes Butters
Wesley Paul Butters (born 4 May 1979, in Salford), is a radio broadcaster, formerly of BBC Radio 1, and writer. Early life Butters attended Buile Hill High School in Pendleton, Salford, and studied at the University of Salford between 1995 and 1997, where he gained a National Diploma in Design & Media Communications, followed by a BA (Hons) Radio between 1997 and 1998. Radio career On joining AA Roadwatch he shortened his name to Wes Butters. After a year presenting traffic and travel bulletins on local North West radio stations and periods on 96.5 Radio Wave (Blackpool), Wish FM (Wigan) and Century 105, he was offered the evening show on Century 106 in Nottingham. He left the station in 2000 to move to Newcastle as head of music and mid-morning presenter for Galaxy North East. Radio 1 In February 2003 Butters took over as host of ''The Radio 1 Chart Show'' on BBC Radio 1, and the programme was renamed ''The Official Chart Show with Wes''. A change in the show's format led ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julia Butters
Julia Butters (born April 15, 2009) is an American teenage actress. She received critical acclaim for her role as Trudi Fraser in Quentin Tarantino's ''Once Upon a Time in Hollywood'' and as Reggie Fabelman in Steven Spielberg's ''The Fabelmans'' (2022). From 2016 to 2020, she starred as Anna-Kat Otto on ABC's sitcom ''American Housewife''. Early life Butters was born in Los Angeles, California, to parents Lorelei and Darrin; her father is a Disney animator who has worked on films such as '' Frozen'' and ''Ralph Breaks the Internet''. Career Butters began her career at the age of two doing commercials. Her first speaking role was the role of Gabby in a ''Criminal Minds'' episode of the same name. In 2016, Butters portrayed the recurring role of Ella in the Amazon Prime Video series ''Transparent'' for eight episodes. Later that year, she began starring in the ABC sitcom ''American Housewife'' as Anna-Kat Otto. When Quentin Tarantino was writing the script of his ninth film ''On ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Butter (surname)
Butter is the surname of the following people * Anton Julius Butter (1920–1989), Dutch economist * John Butter (1791–1877), English ophthalmic surgeon *Michel Butter (born 1985), Dutch runner * Nathaniel Butter (died 1664), London publisher * Wes Butters (born 1979), British radio broadcaster See also * Buter *Butters (surname) Butters is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Bill Butters (born 1951), retired World Hockey Association and National Hockey League player *Charles Butters (1854–1933), American metallurgist, engineer, and mine owner * Frank Butt ... {{surname English-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
