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Callis is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Ann Callis (born 1964), American judge *Charles A. Callis (1865–1947), American Mormon leader *Don Callis (born 1963), Canadian wrestler *Henry Arthur Callis (1887–1974), American physician and fraternity co-founder *James Callis (born 1971), British actor *Jim Callis (born 1967), American sportswriter *Jo Callis (born 1951), British musician and songwriter * Jo Ann Callis (born 1940), American artist * John Callis (died 1576), Welsh pirate * John Benton Callis (1828–1898), American businessman * Paul Callis (born 1978), British swimmer *Sam Callis (born 1973), British actor and director *Tracy Callis, American sportswriter *William Overton Callis William O. Callis (March 4, 1756 – March 14, 1814) Genealogy Page was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don Callis
Donald Callis (born October 13, 1963) is a Canadian professional wrestling manager, color commentator, and former professional wrestler and business executive. He is signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW), where he works as the on-screen manager of Kenny Omega and as a backstage consultant. A former wrestler, Callis spent the majority of his career performing as either Cyrus (shortened from Cyrus the Virus) or Don Callis. He first gained international attention working under the name The Jackyl for the World Wrestling Federation (WWF). While in the WWF, Callis managed a group known as The Truth Commission and later managed The Oddities and The Acolytes before being released in 1999. From 1999 to 2001, he worked for Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) as a manager and commentator, during which he was portrayed as a fictional "network representative" who headed a group known as The Network. In 2003, he was introduced as an on-screen character for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ann Callis
Ann Callis is a former chief judge of Illinois's Third Judicial Circuit. A member of the Democratic Party, she was the Democratic candidate to represent Illinois's 13th congressional district in the 2014 federal elections. Early life and education Callis received both her bachelor's degreemagna cum laude and her law degree from St. Louis University. Callis is a native of Granite City, Illinois and is the daughter of deceased attorney and Democratic Party activist Lance Callis. Judicial career Callis began her legal career as a prosecutor in the state's attorney offices of Madison County and St. Clair County. Callis was sworn in as an associate judge to Illinois's Third Judicial Circuit in 1995. At the time of her selection for the court, she was the youngest of 21 candidates. In the same year, she was given the "lowest rating for legal ability among 152 judges in Illinois outside of Chicago" by an Illinois State Bar Association poll. Callis noted that she had not received any ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Callis
James Nicholas Callis (born 4 June 1971) is a British actor. He is known for playing Dr. Gaius Baltar in the re-imagined ''Battlestar Galactica'' miniseries and television series, and Bridget Jones's best friend Tom in ''Bridget Jones's Diary'', '' Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason'', and'' Bridget Jones's Baby''. He joined the cast of the TV series ''Eureka'', on Syfy, in 2010, and in 2017, he voiced the character Alucard on the Netflix series ''Castlevania'', based on the video game series of the same name. In 2022, he appeared in Season 2 of Star Trek: Picard as Jean-Luc’s father in childhood flashbacks. Early life Callis was born in Hampstead and brought up in London, where he attended St. Martin's Prep School in Northwood and then Harrow School in north-west London. His parents owned a bed-and-breakfast. He is of Russian, Polish and Jewish Ukrainian descent. Callis attended the University of York, graduating in 1993 with a BA in English and Related Literature. He w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Benton Callis
John Benton Callis (January 3, 1828September 24, 1898) was an American businessman, politician, and Wisconsin pioneer. He served as a Union Army officer during the American Civil War and was then elected as a reconstruction-era U.S. congressman from Alabama. He later served in the Wisconsin State Assembly. Early life Born in Fayetteville, North Carolina, Callis moved to Tennessee in 1834 with his parents, who settled in Carroll County, and thence, in 1840, to Lancaster, Wisconsin Territory. He attended the common schools in the Wisconsin Territory, though quite primitive in his days. For several years, he studied medicine under Dr. J. H. Higgins of Lancaster, but ultimately abandoned that work. He went to Minnesota for work in 1848, where he was employed on the construction of Fort Ripley. He moved to California in 1851 and engaged in mining and the mercantile business. He went to Central America in 1853. He returned to Lancaster in the fall of that year and again en ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sam Callis
Samuel Charles Callis (born 21 November 1973 in Ely, Cambridgeshire) is an English actor and director, best known for his role as Callum Stone in ''The Bill'' and Adam Benjamin in '' London's Burning''. Biography Callis grew up in Haslemere, Surrey and attended Camelsdale Primary School, Midhurst Intermediate School and Midhurst Grammar School. Callis trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. He has had roles in '' London's Burning'' where he played Adam Benjamin and in '' Ultimate Force'' as Captain Patrick Fleming. He played Doctor Mike Banner in ''The Royal'' until he left in 2007 to join the cast of ''The Bill''. He has made appearances in ''Holby City'', '' Casualty'' and ''Doctor Who''. Before joining ''The Bill'' as a regular, he had previously guest starred in the show in 2004 as an alcoholic priest, Karl Radford. Callis has also acted in some films. In ''Kidulthood'' he played a security guard, in Spanish TV Movie ''Trance'' he played Nick, in ''Capital ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jo Ann Callis
Jo Ann Callis (born 1940) is an American artist who works with photography and is based in California. Her work is held in various public collections. Life and work Callis was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. Though she initially pursued a degree at Ohio State University in 1958, she dropped out in her second year when she got married. She and her husband moved to Southern California in 1961. Her father died after the birth of her first son, Stephen, in the same year. In 1963, her second son Michael was born. Callis enrolled at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1970 initially in graphic design. When she took a course from Robert Heinecken in photography, she was encouraged by Heinecken to explore things within her mind. In 1975, while still a student at UCLA, a year before finishing her Masters in Fine Arts, she was offered a position to work at California Institute of the Arts, where she works as of 2017. Callis's work is primarily surrealist. Her themes have included ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tracy Callis
Tracy Callis is a prominent American boxing historian, writer and journalist. He is the director of the historical research boxing website ''Cyber Boxing Zone'' (CBZ) and International Boxing Research Organization (IBRO). He is also an elector to the International Boxing Hall Of Fame (IBHoF) and a member of the ''World Boxing Historians Association'' (WBHA). Education In 1963, Callis earned a master's degree in mathematics at Virginia Tech and worked at NASA's Langley Research Center as a mathematician for three years and later as a computer systems engineer for five years with IBM Corporation. He retired after serving thirty two years as a professor of information technology at Virginia Western Community College. Career Callis became interested in boxing and began profiling many boxers particularly the pre-1900 fighters. "''My dad was a big boxing fan when I was young,''" says Callis. "''I became interested in the fight game because of his interest. I remember listening to t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Arthur Callis
Henry Arthur Callis (January 14, 1887 – November 12, 1974) was a physician and one of the seven founders (''commonly referred to as The Seven Jewels'') of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity at Cornell University in 1906. Callis co-authored the fraternity name with George Kelley and became the only Jewel to become General President of the fraternity (1915). Callis assisted in the organization of several chapters, including Xi Lambda Chapter (1924) in Chicago. Biography Callis was born in Rochester, New York and attended Cornell University and Rush Medical College. He became a physician and worked as a medical consultant at the Veterans' Hospital in Tuskegee, Alabama. He was Professor of Medicine at Howard University and a frequent contributor to medical journals. The Eta Tau Lambda chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha created Alpha Phi Alpha Homes Inc. to address housing for low-income families, individuals and senior citizens in Akron, Ohio. In 1971, Alpha Homes received an $11.5 million ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Callis
Jim Callis (born October 15, 1967) is a baseball writer who currently covers the MLB Draft and prospects for MLB Pipeline and MLB.com. He was formerly the executive editor of the Durham, North Carolina-based magazine '' Baseball America'' and its website BaseballAmerica.com, where his contributions included weekly updates to their website and major contributions to their signature publications, ''The Baseball America Almanac'' and ''The Baseball America Prospect Handbook''. Education Callis grew up in Northern Virginia, mainly in Oakton. He attended the University of Georgia, where he covered the baseball team for the school paper. He graduated in 1988 with a degree in journalism. Career Callis began working for '' Baseball America'' directly out of college in 1988. In 1997 he moved to Chicago to go work for STATS, Inc. In 2000, Callis was lured back to ''Baseball America''. Callis remains in the Chicago area, where he works as ''Baseball America''s executive editor. Work wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jo Callis
John William "Jo" Callis (born 2 May 1951) is an English musician and songwriter who played guitar with the Edinburgh based punk rock band The Rezillos (under the name Luke Warm), and post-punk band Boots for Dancing before joining The Human League.Strong, Martin C. (2003) ''The Great Indie Discography'', Canongate, , p. 130-1, 240 Biography Callis was educated at the Edinburgh College of Art. He was a member of The Knutsford Dominators before forming The Rezillos in 1976. The band played many gigs in Edinburgh and Glasgow, during which Callis wore space suits and other hi-tech costumes. He wrote the Rezillos' 1978 hit "Top of the Pops". In late 1978, after the release of the band's only album, The Rezillos split in two, with Callis forming Shake along with Simon Templar (born Simon Bloomfield) and Angel Paterson. Shake released two singles before splitting. Callis joined Boots for Dancing in 1981. Callis released a solo single, "Woah Yeah!", in 1981 on the pop:Aural label, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Callis (pirate)
John Callis (or Calles) (died 1576) was a 16th-century Welsh pirate. He was active in South Wales from Cardiff to Haverfordwest, often selling his prizes and cargo in the villages of Laugharne and Carew in Milford Haven, only a few miles south of Little Newcastle, Wales. His piratical career lasted for decades before pressure from neighbouring countries forced the government of England to take action and managed to capture him in 1576. The elderly pirate attempted to assist authorities in tracking down other pirates in exchange for his release, however the authorities refused his offer and he was hanged in Newport later that year. Following his execution, a commission was appointed to investigate merchants and others in the counties of Cardigan, Pembroke, Carmarthen, Monmouth and Glamorgan , HQ = Cardiff , Government = Glamorgan County Council (1889–1974) , Origin= , Code = GLA , CodeName = Chapman code , Replace = ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Callis
Paul Callis (born 2 October 1978) is a retired British swimmer. Paul attended Hymers College whilst training at various Hull swimming clubs during his sporting career including Hull Olympic, City of Hull, Kingston Upon Hull swimming club (KUHSC) and in his later years of competing at South Hunsley. Born in Kingston upon Hull, Humberside, England, Paul's specialty was individual medley and breaststroke, and took bronze in the 100 and 200 metre finals representing England at the 2001 World Cup in Sheffield.Staff report (19 January 2001). World Cup first day results. ''AAP Sports News (Australia)''Staff report (19 January 2001). World Cup second day results. ''AAP Sports News (Australia)'' Paul was an unbeaten champion within Hull and Humberside for many years at various disciplines including: 50m/100m/200m breaststroke, 100m/200m individual medley, 50m/100m butterfly and 50m/100m/200m freestyle. Paul has won regional gold medals on numerous occasions at the Yorkshire championships a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
