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Couture (surname)
Couture is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Dani Couture (born 1978), Canadian writer * Gerry Couture (1925–1994), Canadian hockey player *Guillaume Couture (1617/18–1701), lay missionary, diplomat and militia captain in New France * Léonie Couture (born 1951), Canadian feminist and charity founder *Logan Couture (born 1989), Canadian hockey player * Maurice Couture (1926-2018), former Roman Catholic Archbishop of Québec *Randy Couture (born 1963), retired American mixed martial arts fighter *Rosario Couture (1905–1986), Canadian hockey player *Ryan Couture (born 1982), American mixed martial arts fighter and son of Randy Couture *Thomas Couture (1815–1879), French history painter * Jean-Guy Couture Jean-Guy Couture (6 May 1929 – 2 January 2022) was a Canadian Roman Catholic prelate. He was a diocesan bishop of Chicoutimi, having served from 1979 to 2004. Biography Native to the Paroisse Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Québec, Couture was ordaine ... (1929 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dani Couture
Danielle (Dani) Couture (born 1978) is a Canadians, Canadian poet and novelist."Weather, loss and grief: a true Canadian novel" ''Xtra!'', December 8, 2011. In 2011, Couture's second book of poetry, ''Sweet'', was shortlisted for the Trillium Book Award for Poetry in English"Emma Donoghue, Ken Sparling nominated for Trillium Book Award" ''Quill and Quire'', May 30, 2011. and won the ReLit Awards, ReLit Award for Poetry. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerry Couture
Gerald Joseph Wilfred Arthur Couture (August 6, 1925 — July 13, 1994) was a Canadian ice hockey centre. He played in the National Hockey League with the Detroit Red Wings, Montreal Canadiens, and Chicago Black Hawks between 1945 and 1954. With Detroit he won the Stanley Cup in 1950. Playing career Couture started his National Hockey League career with the Detroit Red Wings in the 1945 Stanley Cup playoffs. He would also play for the Montreal Canadiens and Chicago Black Hawks. He left the NHL after the 1954 season. He played in the minors the rest of his career before retiring from hockey after 1960. He won the Stanley Cup in 1950 with the Detroit Red Wings The Detroit Red Wings (colloquially referred to as the Wings) are a professional ice hockey team based in Detroit. The Red Wings compete in the National Hockey League (NHL) as a member of the Atlantic Division (NHL), Atlantic Division in the East .... Career statistics Regular season and playoffs References External li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guillaume Couture
Guillaume Couture (January 14, 1618 – April 4, 1701) was a citizen of New France. During his life he was a lay missionary with the Jesuits, a survivor of torture, a member of an Iroquois council, a translator, a diplomat, a militia captain, and a lay leader among the colonists of the Pointe-Lévy (now named Lévis city) in the Seigneury of Lauzon, a district of New France located on the South Side of Quebec City. Early life and recruitment by the Jesuits Couture was born in 1618 in Rouen, Normandy, and baptized in the church Saint-Godard in Rouen, the son of Guillaume Couture and Madeleine Mallet. His father, Guillaume was a carpenter in the St-Godard district and young Guillaume was trained in the same occupation. However, by 1640 he was recruited by Jesuits to be a donné in New France to convert Natives to Roman Catholicism. Work with Isaac Jogues Couture arrived in New France in 1640. In the summer of 1641, he went to work among the Hurons. The following spring Couture ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Léonie Couture
Léonie Couture (born 1951 in Saint-Georges, Quebec) is a Canadian feminist activist. She is the founder and director of (French: La rue des Femmes), an organization designed to help homeless women, mainly in the Montreal area. Biography Léonie Couture obtained a bachelor's degree in administration from Laval University, and completed certificate training in psychology at the Université de Montréal and the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM). Couture was initially a consultant in organizational development (1976–77), then joined the Public Service Commission in Ottawa from 1977 to 1979. From 1979 to 1981, she became Assistant Director of Nursing at the hospital centre of Outaouais. Couture became involved in community movements in 1981. She worked in the Movement Against Rape and Incest until 1987, promoted literacy until 1991, and then joined the Centre for Women's Health from 1991 to 1993. She devoted herself to the cause of homeless women in 1994 and founded t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Logan Couture
Logan Couture (born March 28, 1989) is a Canadian professional ice hockey centre and captain of the San Jose Sharks of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was drafted by the Sharks ninth overall in the 2007 NHL Entry Draft, where he established himself as one of the best Stanley Cup playoff performers of his generation. Playing career Minor Although he was born in Guelph, Ontario, Couture spent most of his youth growing up in Birr, near London, Ontario. He started playing minor hockey with the Lucan Irish (DD) of the Ontario Minor Hockey Association (OMHA)'s Southwestern Ontario League. Couture led his Lucan Irish Novice team to the OMHA's Red Lobster Cup for a SW Ontario title in 1998 and an OMHA All-Ontario DD title in 1998. His Irish Atom team also won the OMHA Ontario DD title in 2001. Both of those teams also won the International Silver Stick 'C' championships. He then moved to London and played three years with the 'AAA' London Junior Knights of the Minor Hockey Alliance ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maurice Couture
Maurice Couture, (November 3, 1926 – January 19, 2018) was a bishop as Archbishop of Québec from 1990 until his retirement in 2002. Born in , he was ordained a priest in 1951. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Randy Couture
Randall Duane Couture (; born June 22, 1963) is an American actor, former United States Army, U.S. Army sergeant, former mixed martial arts, mixed martial artist and former Collegiate wrestling, collegiate and Greco-Roman wrestling, Greco-Roman wrestler. During his tenures in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), he became a three-time UFC Heavyweight Championship, UFC Heavyweight Champion, two-time List of UFC champions, UFC Light heavyweight Champion, an interim UFC Light heavyweight Champion, making him a six-time UFC Champion and the List of UFC champions#Tournament winners, UFC 13 Heavyweight Tournament winner. He is the first of seven fighters to hold two UFC championship titles in two different divisions (along with B.J. Penn, Conor McGregor, Georges St-Pierre, Daniel Cormier, Amanda Nunes and Henry Cejudo). Couture has competed in a record 16 title fights. He is tied for the record for the most wins in UFC Heavyweight Championship bouts (6) with former UFC Heavyweight ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosario Couture
Joseph Albert Rosario "Lolo" Couture (July 24, 1905 – March 1, 1986) was a professional ice hockey player. Couture was a right winger who played for the Chicago Black Hawks and the Montreal Canadiens from 1928 to 1936. Born in St. Boniface, Manitoba, Couture began his NHL career in 1928 with the Chicago Black Hawks. He would play for them until the end of the 1935 season. He helped the Blackhawks win the Stanley Cup in 1934. After brief stops in the minor leagues with the London Tecumsehs of the IHL and the Providence Reds of the CAHL He played the 1935–36 NHL season with the Montreal Canadiens. He and fellow Blackhawk Leroy Goldsworthy identified the body of teammate Jack Leswick, who died in mysterious circumstances. Couture died in Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1986 and is buried in St. Boniface Cathedral. Awards and achievements *Stanley Cup Championships (1934) *“Honoured Member” of the Manitoba Hockey Hall of Fame References External links Rosario "Lolo" Cout ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ryan Couture
Ryan Duane Couture (born August 27, 1982) is an American professional mixed martial artist who most recently competed in the Welterweight division of Bellator MMA. A professional competitor since 2009, he has formerly competed for the UFC and Strikeforce. He is the son of UFC Hall of Famer Randy Couture. Biography Couture grew up in Woodinville, Washington and attended Woodinville High School. During his senior year, Couture placed third in the Washington State 4A wrestling championship. Couture attended Western Washington University from 2000 until 2004 and graduated with a degree in mathematics. Before he began pursuing an MMA career, Couture worked at a bank, and trained with Nicolas Lipari. Mixed martial arts career Couture began fighting in 2009 and compiled a 5–1–1 record as an amateur. Strikeforce He made his professional debut at Strikeforce Challengers: Riggs vs. Taylor on August 13, 2010. He debuted in the Strikeforce promotion's lightweight division, defeating Lu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Couture
Thomas Couture (21 December 1815 – 30 March 1879) was a French history painter and teacher. He taught such later luminaries of the art world as Édouard Manet, Henri Fantin-Latour, John La Farge,Wilkinson, Burke. ''The Life and Works of Augustus Saint-Gaudens'', Dover Publications, Inc., New York. p. 79. Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, Karel Javůrek, and Joseph-Noël Sylvestre. Life Early life and education Couture was born at Senlis, Oise, France. When he was 11 his family moved to Paris, where he would study at the industrial arts school (École des Arts et Métiers) and later at the École des Beaux-Arts. Art and teaching career He failed the prestigious Prix de Rome competition at the École six times, but he felt the problem was with the École, not himself. Couture finally did win the prize in 1837. In 1840 he began exhibiting historical and genre pictures at the Paris Salon, earning several medals for his works, in particular for his masterpiece, ''Romans During the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Guy Couture
Jean-Guy Couture (6 May 1929 – 2 January 2022) was a Canadian Roman Catholic prelate. He was a diocesan bishop of Chicoutimi, having served from 1979 to 2004. Biography Native to the Paroisse Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Québec, Couture was ordained on 30 May 1953 following his studies at the Petit Séminaire de Québec. He became Bishop of Hauterive, having been consecrated on 15 May 1975 by Maurice Roy. In 1979, Pope John Paul II Pope John Paul II ( la, Ioannes Paulus II; it, Giovanni Paolo II; pl, Jan Paweł II; born Karol Józef Wojtyła ; 18 May 19202 April 2005) was the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 1978 until his ... named him Bishop of Chicoutimi. He retired in 2004, having reached the age of 75. His motto was "Charity, Joy, Peace". Couture died on 2 January 2022, at the age of 92. References 1929 births 2022 deaths 20th-century Roman Catholic bishops in Canada 21st-century Roman Catholic bishops in Canada F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin Couture-Rouleau
The 2014 Saint Jean sur Richelieu ramming attack was a terror car ramming that occurred in Quebec on October 20, 2014. Two Canadian Forces members were hit by a lone wolf terrorist, Martin Couture-Rouleau. Warrant officer Patrice Vincent died from injuries, while another soldier was injured, but survived. The RCMP and the Government of Canada has characterized the homicide as a terrorist act by an Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant-inspired terrorist. Attack and pursuit On October 20, 2014, Martin Couture-Rouleau deliberately rammed a car into a pair of Canadian Armed Forces soldiers in a shopping centre parking lot in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec, Canada, at 11:30 a.m. ET. He had been seen sitting in his car and watching for over two hours before the attack. A police chase ensued. The ''Toronto Sun'' reported that the suspect called 911 during the chase to say that he carried out his acts in the name of Allah. The chase ended when Martin Couture-Rouleau lost contro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
