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Bright (given Name)
Bright is a given name. Notable people with the given name include: ;Given name * Bright Addae, Ghanaian footballer * Bright Allotey, Ghanaian footballer * Bright Edomwonyi, Nigerian footballer * Bright Enobakhare, Nigerian footballer * Bright Esieme, Nigerian footballer * Bright Gyamfi, Ghanaian footballer * Bright Igbinadolor, Nigerian footballer * Bright Matonga, Zimbabwean politician * Bright Nxumalo, Swazi footballer * Bright Phiri, Zimbabwean cricketer * Bright Rwamirama, Ugandan politician * Bright Samuel, English footballer * Bright Sheng, Chinese-American composer * Bright Silas, Nigerian footballer * Bright Simons, Ghanaian social innovator * Bright Sodje, English rugby player * Bright Tetteh Ackwerh, Ghanaian artist * Bright Vachirawit, Thai actor * Bright Williams, New Zealand veteran * Bright Wireko-Brobby, Ghanaian politician ;Middle name * Edgar Bright Wilson, American chemist * Edgar Bright Wilson (politician), American politician * Edward Bright Vedder, A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bright Addae
Bright Christopher Addae (also spelled Addai; born 19 December 1992) is a Ghanaian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder. Club career Wa All Stars Born in Wa, Addae began his career with Wa All Stars. Parma and loan deals In November 2009, it was announced that he would be moving to Italian club Parma in the summer of 2010, after signing a four-year contract. In January 2011, he was loaned to Spanish club Terrassa until the end of the 2010–11 season, as Parma ran out of non-EU registration quota for signing players from abroad. In August 2011 his contract was finally registered in Lega Serie A. Addae moved on loan to Crotone in July 2012. He signed on loan for Slovenian club Gorica on 1 July 2013. On 31 January 2014, he was signed by Gubbio along with Alessandro Gozzi. Ascoli On 17 July 2014, Addae was signed by Lega Pro club Ascoli in a definitive deal on a 2+1 year contract. Addae and the club confirmed the optional third year on 30 August 2015. On ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bright Vachirawit
Vachirawit Chivaree ( th, วชิรวิชญ์ ชีวอารี; born 27 December 1997), known professionally as Bright Vachirawit or Bright ( th, ไบร์ท), is a Thai actor, singer, television host, model and entertainer. He is best known for his main lead roles in '' 2gether: The Series'' and '' F4 Thailand: Boys Over Flowers.'' Early Life & Education Bright was born on 27 December 1997 in Nakhon Pathom, Thailand as Kunlatorn Chivaaree, his father is of Thai and white American descent, and mother is of Thai and Chinese descent. His parents got divorced when he was a child. He grew up in Thailand along with his maternal relatives and his cousins. He has a cat as a pet named 'Ame'. Bright could speak both Thai and English. Bright had a musical background as his uncle owned a music school. At the age of 10, he would start learning several musical instruments which includes the guitar, bass, piano and drums. Bright completed his lower secondary education at S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Bright Lucas
Margaret Bright Lucas (14 July 1818 – 4 February 1890) was a British temperance activist and suffragist Suffrage, political franchise, or simply franchise, is the right to vote in public, political elections and referendums (although the term is sometimes used for any right to vote). In some languages, and occasionally in English, the right to v .... She served as president of the British Women's Temperance Association (BWTA), the World's Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), and the Bloomsbury branch of the Women's Liberal Federation, Women's Liberal Association. She first took part in public affairs on the occasion of the great bazaar in May 1845 at the Covent Garden Theatre, when £25,000 was raised to further the anti-Corn Laws agitation, and she afterwards aided her husband in his various public projects. In 1870, she visited the United States, when she began to take a deepened interest in temperance reform and the women's suffrage question. She subsequently en ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joy Bright Hancock
Joy Bright Hancock (4 May 1898 – 20 August 1986), a veteran of both the First and Second World Wars, was one of the first women officers of the United States Navy. Biography Joy Bright was born in Wildwood, New Jersey on 4 May 1898. During World War I, after attending business school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, she enlisted in the Navy as a Yeoman (F), serving at Camden, New Jersey and at Naval Air Station Wildwood. Following the war, she married Lieutenant Charles Gray Little, who was killed in the crash of the airship ''ZR-2'' in 1921. A year later, she obtained employment with the Bureau of Aeronautics, where her duties including editing the Bureau's ''News Letter'', which later evolved into the magazine ''Naval Aviation News''. In 1924, she left the Bureau to marry Lieutenant Commander Lewis Hancock, Jr., who lost his life when airship crashed in September 1925. Joy Bright Hancock returned to the Bureau after attending Foreign Service School and obtaining a priva ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Bright Banister
John Bright Banister (1880–1938) was senior obstetric physician at Charing Cross Hospital, London, and a member of staff at Queen Charlotte's and Chelsea Hospital for Women. During the First World War he served as chief medical officer at the Anglo-French Hospital, Le Treport and was a surgical specialist at No. 17 British General Hospital in Alexandria. He was a member of the council of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) is a professional association based in London, United Kingdom. Its members, including people with and without medical degrees, work in the field of obstetrics and gynaecology, that is ....Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. (2014RCOG Roll of Active Service, 1914-1918.London: Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. p. 1Archived here./ref> References 1880 births 1938 deaths British obstetricians Physicians of Charing Cross Hospital {{England ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joan Bright Astley
Joan Bright Astley, OBE (27 September 1910 – 24 December 2008), born Penelope Joan McKerrow Bright, organized the Special Information Centre (SIC) for Winston Churchill during World War II. As a young woman, she dated Ian Fleming and is believed to be one of the three or four women whose attributes were used by him for the character of Miss Moneypenny. Biography Joan Bright Astley was born in Monte Caseros, Corrientes, Argentina. Her father was an English accountant; her mother, a Scottish governess. Described as a difficult teenager, she attended a number of schools, learning shorthand and typing and working as a secretary at the British legation in Mexico. In the 1930s, she was offered a job, which she declined, in Nazi Germany, teaching English to the family of Rudolf Hess. In 1939, she was told by a friend that she might have a chance of work if she went to a certain London Underground station one day, wearing a pink carnation. She did so and was guided to an office i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Bright Morgan
James Bright Morgan (March 14, 1833 – June 18, 1892) was a U.S. Representative from Mississippi. He was born near Fayetteville, Tennessee and moved with his parents to De Soto County, Mississippi in 1840, settling in Hernando. He received an academic education and studied law. Morgan was admitted to the bar in 1857, and practiced in Hernando. In 1857 he was elected probate judge of De Soto County and he served until 1861, the outbreak of the Civil War. During the Civil War, Morgan enlisted in the Confederate States Army, initially as a private. He eventually received a commission and progressed through the ranks, becoming major of the Twenty-ninth Mississippi Infantry. He attained the rank of colonel before the end of the war; after he war he returned to his law practice and was once again elected probate judge of De Soto County. Morgan was elected to the Mississippi State Senate in 1876, and served until 1878 when he became Chancellor of the third chancery district, a post ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helen Bright Clark
Helen Bright Clark (1840–1927) was a British women's rights activist and suffragist. The daughter of a radical Member of Parliament, Clark was a prominent speaker for women's voting rights and at times a political realist who served as a mainstay of the 19th century suffrage movement in South West England. A liberal in all senses, Clark aided progress toward universal human brotherhood through her activities in organisations which assisted former slaves and aboriginal peoples. Early life In 1840, Clark was born Helen Priestman Bright in Rochdale, Lancashire, England to Quakers Elizabeth Priestman Bright and future Privy Council member, statesman John Bright. Clark's mother soon sickened and then died of tuberculosis in September 1841. John Bright's sister, Priscilla Bright, later Priscilla Bright McLaren, took the place of the mother and served an influential role in raising Clark. Six years after her mother's death, Clark's father remarried, eventually having seven more childr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harold Bright Maynard
Harold Bright Maynard (Oct. 18, 1902 - Mar. 10, 1975) was an American industrial engineer, consulting engineer at the Methods Engineering Council, and management author. He is known as the "Broadway counsel for industries, railroads, state governments" and as recipient of the Henry Laurence Gantt Medal in 1964. Life and work Maynard was born in 1902 in Northampton, Massachusetts to William Clement Maynard and Edith Lucia (Clark) Maynard. He attended the Protestant Episcopal Academy in Philadelphia, where he graduated in 1919. In 1923 he obtained his M.Sc in mechanical engineering at Cornell University.''Who's who in Commerce and Industry.'' Vol. 6, 1948. p. 921 After his graduation in 1923 he started as a graduate student in the production steam division of Westinghouse Electric Corporation in Pittsburgh, where he was employed until 1929. From 1929 to 1934 he studied industrial problems in the U.S. and in Europe. In 1934 he founded the consulting firm ''Methods Engineering Coun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georgia Engel
Georgia Bright Engel (July 28, 1948 – April 12, 2019) was an American actress. She is best known for having played Georgette Franklin Baxter in the sitcom ''The Mary Tyler Moore Show'' from 1972 to 1977, Pat MacDougall on ''Everybody Loves Raymond'' from 2003 to 2005 and Mamie Sue on Hot in Cleveland from 2012 to 2015 She was nominated for five Primetime Emmy Awards. Early life Georgia Engel was born in Washington, D.C., the daughter of Ruth Caroline (née Hendron) and Benjamin Franklin Engel, who was a Vice Admiral in the United States Coast Guard. Engel attended the Kodiak Island Borough School District, Walter Johnson High School, and the Academy of the Washington Ballet from which she graduated. She earned her theater degree from the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Career After college, Engel appeared in musical productions with Washington's American Light Opera Company. She moved to New York City in 1969, appearing off-Broadway in ''Lend an Ear'', and for a year as Min ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Bright Vedder
Edward Bright Vedder (June 28, 1878 – January 30, 1952) was a U.S. Army physician, a noted researcher on deficiency diseases, and a medical educator. He studied beriberi, a deficiency disease affecting the peripheral nerves, and established an extract of rice bran as its proper treatment. Early life and education Vedder was born in New York City to Henry Clay Vedder, a professor of church history, and Minnie Lingham Vedder. He was educated at the University of Rochester (Ph.B., 1898) and the University of Pennsylvania (M.D., 1902 and M.S., 1903). At Penn he did research on dysentery with Simon Flexner. Career In 1903, he was commissioned an officer in the U.S. Army Medical Corps, and continued his studies at the Army Medical School (AMS) in Washington, D.C., graduating the following year. Vedder was deployed to Cotabato, Mindanao in the Philippines, where he saw and studied tropical diseases such as beriberi and scurvy. U.S. Army medical officers were conducting research i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edgar Bright Wilson (politician)
Edgar Bright Wilson (1874-1953) was an American lawyer and politician. He served as the Speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives from 1901 to 1903. Early life Edgar Brighton Wilson was born in 1874. His father, James A. Wilson, was a veteran of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. His mother was Mary Graves. His paternal uncle, Samuel Franklin Wilson, was a Confederate veteran and a judge. Wilson was educated at the Chapel Hill Academy. He graduated from Cumberland University in 1893. He studied the law under his uncle, and he was admitted to the bar in 1894. Career Wilson practiced the law in Gallatin, Tennessee from 1894 to 1901. He was a lawyer in Nashville, Tennessee from 1901 onward. Wilson served as a member of the Tennessee House of Representatives from 1898 to 1903, representing Sumner County. He also served as the Speaker of the House from 1901 to 1903. In 1908, Wilson moved to New York and began practicing law there. In 1929 he was bar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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