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Christopher Wright (other)
Chris or Christopher Wright may refer to: ;Chris * Chris Wright (activist) (born 1957), American cannabis rights activist * Chris Wright (anthropologist) (20th Century), British visual anthropologist * Chris Wright (basketball, born 1988), American professional basketball player, University of Dayton college player * Chris Wright (basketball, born 1989), American professional basketball player, Georgetown University college player * Chris Wright (Big Brother) (born c.1981), British ''Big Brother'' contestant * Chris Wright (Canadian football) (1972–2005), Canadian football player * Chris Wright (cricketer) (born 1985), English cricketer * Chris Wright (footballer) (born 1986), English footballer * Chris Wright (music industry executive) (born 1944), British businessman, founder of Chrysalis * Chris Wright (programmer) (21st Century), Linux kernel hacker * Chris Wright (swimmer) (born 1988), Australian swimmer * Chris Wright (technologist) (20th Century), founder of Soundscape Digit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Wright (activist)
Thomas Christopher Wright (born October 14, 1957) is an American businessman, cannabis rights and free speech activist, and frequent candidate for public office. Wright, who co-founded the Grassroots Party in 1986, owns a computer repair shop in Bloomington, Minnesota. Activism Chris Wright organized the Minnesota Tea Party, a cannabis rights rally held on the steps of the Minnesota State Capitol every September from 1987 to 2013. A political rally and music festival called Grassroots Gathering, organized by Wright in 1992, which was to be held on a private campground near Ogilvie, Minnesota, was cancelled by authorities citing incidents reported at the Weedstock festival in Wisconsin the previous year. Wright was arrested in 1996 for growing 41 cannabis plants at his home in Minneapolis. He appealed the conviction and lost. Wright argued that under Art. XIII, Sec. 7 of the Minnesota Constitution any person may sell the products of the farm or garden occupied by him without ob ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Wright (anthropologist)
Chris Wright is a visual anthropologist holding the position of lecturer at Goldsmiths College, and professor at the Free University of Berlin. Wright originally trained as an artist before becoming Photographic Archivist at the Royal Anthropological Institute in 1992. He has published on a number of topics including the relationship between art and anthropology and photography in the Solomon Islands Solomon Islands is an island country consisting of six major islands and over 900 smaller islands in Oceania, to the east of Papua New Guinea and north-west of Vanuatu. It has a land area of , and a population of approx. 700,000. Its capita ....Wright, Chris (2014) The Echo of Things: The Lives of Photographs in the Solomon Islands, Duke University Press References {{DEFAULTSORT:Wright, Chris British anthropologists Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Place of birth missing (living people) Academic staff of the Free University of Berlin Academics of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Wright (basketball, Born 1988)
Chris Wright (born September 30, 1988) is an American former professional basketball player. He played college basketball for the University of Dayton. Previously, Wright played in the NBA for the Golden State Warriors and Milwaukee Bucks. High school and college career Wright attended Trotwood-Madison High School and, after graduating, he attended the University of Dayton from 2007 to 2011. While at Dayton, Wright was considered the "greatest above-the-rim player" in Flyers history upon graduating in May 2011. He holds school records for dunks and blocked shots in a career and was named to the all-Atlantic 10 team three times in his career, a first for a Dayton Flyer. Professional career 2011–12 season Wright went undrafted in the 2011 NBA draft and subsequently chose not to play outside of the United States during the 2011 NBA lockout. On November 3, 2011, he was selected with the 3rd overall pick by the Maine Red Claws in the 2011 NBA Development League Draft. He appeared ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Wright (basketball, Born 1989)
Chris Wright (born November 4, 1989) is an American professional basketball player for Basket Zaragoza of the Spanish Liga ACB. When he played for the Dallas Mavericks in 2013, he became the first known player in NBA history to have been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. High school career Wright played for St. John's College High School and he was the first three-time ''Washington Post'' All-Met selection since Adrian Dantley starred at DeMatha Catholic High School from 1971 to 1973. He scored 2,580 career points for St. John's, leaving as the all-time leader in points. Wright averaged 30.5 points, 4.9 rebounds and 4.3 assists in 2006–07. He topped the 30-point mark 19 times and led the Cadets (24-9) to the Washington Catholic Athletic Conference title game where St. John's fell to Dematha. Wright was a McDonald's All-American, won the three-point shooting contest at the McDonald's All-American Classic, played in the Jordan Brand Classic in New York, was named the Gatorade ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Wright (Big Brother)
''Big Brother 2014'', also known as ''Big Brother 15'' and ''Big Brother: Power Trip'', was the fifteenth series of the British reality television series '' Big Brother'', hosted by Emma Willis and narrated by Marcus Bentley. It began on 5 June 2014 on Channel 5 and lasted for 72 days ending on 15 August 2014, making it the longest series to air on Channel 5. It was the fourth regular series and the tenth series of ''Big Brother'' overall to air on the channel. The series was officially confirmed on 3 April 2012 when Channel 5 renewed the show until 2014. It was therefore the final regular series to be included under the then contract. The series was controversially won by Helen Wood who won the £100,000 prize fund beating bookies' favourite Ashleigh Coyle by a margin of 4,631 votes. Wood became the first woman to win the competition since the show's inception on Channel 5. It was then revealed that just 1.2% of the vote, separated Helen and Ashleigh, making it one of the close ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Wright (Canadian Football)
Chris Wright (August 24, 1972 – July 31, 2005) was an award-winning Canadian Football League kick returner and Grey Cup champion. Wright played college football at Georgia Southern. His first year as a professional was successful, for as kick returner with the Baltimore Stallions he scored 3 touchdowns on punt returns and added an 82-yard punt return for a touchdown in their Grey Cup victory. This won him the Frank M. Gibson Trophy as best rookie in the CFL Southern Conference, and an all-star selection. He moved north to Canada with the Stallions when they relocated and became the revived Montreal Alouettes. He missed the entire 1996 season due to injury, but had an impressive 1997 campaign, with 2 punt return touchdowns. He was released after the 1998 season, but resurfaced in 2002 with the BC Lions, where he played 7 games. Chris Wright was murdered in a shooting in Atlanta on July 31, 2005. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Wright (cricketer)
Christopher Julian Clement Wright (born 14 July 1985) is an English cricketer. During his school years, he was a regular in Hampshire's youth teams, and played for the Liphook and Ripsley Cricket Club. Wright made his first-class debut for Middlesex in 2004, as a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-fast bowler. He was born at Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire and is a product of the Middlesex Academy who has also represented Cambridge University Centre of Cricketing Excellence and the Tamil Union club. In August 2007, he signed a two-year contract to play for Essex until the end of the 2009 season. In March 2009, this was extended until the end of the 2011 season. However, they allowed him to play for Warwickshire on loan in August 2011 who then made the move permanent. Wright's career blossomed at his third club. In the 2012 season, Wright formed an impressive opening attack partnership with Keith Barker for Warwickshire, helping the side capture the County Championship. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Wright (footballer)
Chris Wright (born 27 September 1986) is an English footballer. He is a goalkeeper and currently plays for Boston Town. Career Arsenal Initially a member of the youth program at Arsenal, his first call-up was in a League Cup quarter-final against Manchester United, for which he was named as one of the substitutes, but didn't play during the match. Wright was released by Arsenal in the summer of 2005. Later career Wright was signed by Boston on a free transfer. He spent a season with the Pilgrims, making a solitary league appearance against Bristol Rovers on 15 October 2005 when regular custodian Nathan Abbey was suspended. Wright was released by Boston at the end of the 2005–06 season and joined Bishop's Stortford. He rejoined Boston in July 2007 but left in December of the same year. Wright went on to join a number of non league teams most recently Sleaford Town and Corby Town, whilst playing football. Wright joined Pygott & Crone as a financial advisor. In October 2008, Wri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Wright (music Industry Executive)
Chris Wright, CBE (born Christopher Norman Wright on 7 September 1944) is a British music industry executive. He has produced acts such as Ten Years After, Jethro Tull, Procol Harum, Blondie, Ultravox and Spandau Ballet.Pierre Perrone"Alvin Lee: Guitar hero with rockers Ten Years After"(obituary), ''The Independent'', 7 March 2013. He was the co-founder of Chrysalis Records and Music with his business partner Terry Ellis in 1968. Wright bought Ellis out in 1985, when the Chrysalis Group went public. Wright retained ownership of Chrysalis Music until 2010, when the publishing company was acquired by BMG Rights Management. In the '90s, Wright launched the Heart commercial radio brand in Birmingham and London, and the ''Midsomer Murders'' detective drama series broadcast on ITV in the UK and over 225 TV channels around the world. Between 1996 and 2001, Wright was the owner of Queens Park Rangers F.C. and the majority shareholder and chairman of Wasps Rugby Club. He continue ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Wright (programmer)
Chris Wright is a Linux kernel developer and CTO with Red Hat. He was the Linux kernel co-maintainer for the -stable branch with Greg Kroah-Hartman. He is involved in Linux kernel security related topics and is currently the maintainer for the LSM framework. Chris also serves as the Chair of the OpenDaylight Project The OpenDaylight Project is a collaborative open-source project hosted by the Linux Foundation. The project serves as a platform for software-defined networking (SDN) for open, centralized, computer network device monitoring. History On April ... Board of Directors. Chris is vice president and chief technology officer (CTO) at Red Hat. References Linux kernel programmers Living people Year of birth missing (living people) {{linux-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Wright (swimmer)
Christopher Geoffrey Wright (born 7 May 1988) is an Australian swimmer. He competed for Australia at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the 100 and 200 m butterfly. At the 2014 Commonwealth Games, he competed in the 50 and 100 m butterfly and the men's relay. He is married to fellow Australian Olympic swimmer Melanie Schlanger Melanie Renée Schlanger, Order of Australia, OAM (born 31 August 1986), also known by her married name Melanie Wright, is an Australian freestyle swimming, freestyle swimmer. Melanie first represented Australia at the 2006 Pan Pacific Swimmin .... References External links * * * * * * * * * 1988 births Living people Australian male butterfly swimmers Australian male freestyle swimmers Swimmers at the 2012 Summer Olympics Olympic swimmers of Australia Commonwealth Games competitors for Australia Swimmers at the 2014 Commonwealth Games 21st-century Australian people {{Australia-swimming-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Wright (technologist)
Soundscape Digital Technology developed Windows-based digital audio workstations for multi-channel studio recording, editing and mastering. Soundscape SSHDR1 Soundscape was formed in the UK when in early 1992, Chris Wright, the head designer and Technical Manager for Cheetah Marketing Ltd., with Belgian designer Johan Bonnaerens and Cheetah, together with Johan's employer Sydec NV agreed a plan to jointly design, manufacture and market a modular 4 track hard disk based digital audio workstation (DAW). The SSHDR1 DAW became, if not the first, certainly one of the first products of this kind available and was showcased as an 8 track system at the NAMM and Musik Messe trade shows in 1993. Cheetah's parent company Cannon Street Investments was struggling during the UK recession and closed the company in March 1993, splitting off the computer peripherals division (which principally manufactured joysticks such as Bart Simpson, Batman and Alien licensed designs) to another company in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
