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Clem (name)
Clem is both a given name, often a short form (hypocorism) of Clement or other, similar names, a nickname and a surname. Notable people with the name include: Given name or nickname In sports * Clement Clem Calnan (1888–1974), English cricketer * Clement Clem Clemens (1886–1967), Major League Baseball catcher * Clem Crowe (1904–1983), American college football and basketball player, college football and basketball head coach and professional football head coach *Clem Curtis (born 1940), Trinidadian-born British singer born Curtis Clements * Clemon Clem Daniels (born 1937), American college and professional football player * Clemens Clem Dreisewerd (1916–2001), Major League Baseball pitcher * Clem Eischen (1926–2020), American middle-distance runner * Clem Goonan (born 1939), former Australian rules footballer * Clem Haskins (born 1943), American college and National Basketball Association player and college basketball head coach * Clemens Clem Hausmann (1919–1972), Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hypocorism
A hypocorism ( or ; from Ancient Greek: (), from (), 'to call by pet names', sometimes also ''hypocoristic'') or pet name is a name used to show affection for a person. It may be a diminutive form of a person's name, such as ''Izzy'' for Isabel or ''Bob (given name), Bob'' for Robert, or it may be unrelated. In linguistics, the term can be used more specifically to refer to the morphological process by which the standard form of the word is transformed into a form denoting affection, or to words resulting from this process. In English, a word is often Clipping (morphology), clipped down to a closed monosyllable and then suffixed with ''-y/-ie'' (phonologically /i/). Sometimes the suffix ''-o'' is included as well as other forms or templates. Hypocoristics are often affective in meaning and are particularly common in Australian English, but can be used for various purposes in different semantic fields, including personal names, place names and nouns. Hypocorisms are usually ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clem Michael
Clem Anthony Michael (born 16 July 1976) is a former Australian Rules football player in the Australian Football League for the Fremantle Football Club from 1998 to 2000. The son of WAFL legend Stephen Michael, Clem was drafted by Fremantle in the 1997 National Draft with selection 21 after playing a key role in South Fremantle's 1997 WAFL Premiership side. After 43 games over 3 seasons, Michael's career was cut short by a serious knee injury, which caused him to retire at the end of the 2001 season. He had an experimental surgery on the knee, in which new cartilage was grown in Scandinavia from a culture of his own cartilage. He remained on Fremantle's list for the 2002 season, and returned to train with South Fremantle but never played football again. Legal action After first indicating that legal action could be raised in 2002, Michael filed an action against the Fremantle Football Club doctor Ken Withers in January 2006 claiming that inappropriate medical treatment cau ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clem Hawke
Arthur Clarence "Clem" Hawke (5 March 1898 – 23 December 1989) was the General Secretary of the Australian Labor Party in South Australia 1919–20, and a Congregationalist minister. He was the father of Bob Hawke, Prime Minister of Australia 1983–91; and brother of Bert Hawke, MHA for Burra Burra, South Australia 1924–27 and Premier of Western Australia 1953–59. History Born in Kapunda, South Australia, he was a son of miner James Renfrey Hawke (25 September 186213 September 1930) and his wife Elizabeth Ann Hawke ('' née'' Pascoe; 31 December 186227 December 1946). Hawke left school at age 12 and worked at a number of jobs including blacksmithing while studying at the School of Mines in Kapunda. He trained for the ministry at Brighton under Dr. William George Torr and served as Methodist home missionary at Forster in the South Australian Riverland, Port Neill and Kalangadoo. In 1919 he became General Secretary of the Australian Labor Party in South Australia. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Clem may refer to: Places *Clem, Oregon, United States, an unincorporated community *Clem, West Virginia, United States, an unincorporated community *Clem Nunatak, a nunatak in the Ross Dependency, Antarctica Other uses *Clem (hill), a categorisation of British hills *Clem (horse), an American Thoroughbred racehorse active in the 1950s *Clem (name), a list of people with the given name, nickname or surname * ''Clem'' (TV series), a French TV series *Clem., author abbreviation for the plant ecologist Frederic Clements *Correlative Light-Electron Microscopy (CLEM) *Clem, another name for the character in Kilroy was here graffiti See also *Clems, California, a ghost town *Klem KLEM (1410 AM) is a radio station licensed to serve Le Mars, Iowa. The station is owned by Powell Broadcasting Company, Inc. It airs a classic hits music format. The station was assigned these call letters by the Federal Communications Commiss ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clem Campbell
Clement Bernard (Clem) Campbell OAM (born 16 August 1948) is a former Australian state politician and was a member of the Parliament of Queensland from 1983 to 1998. Campbell obtained a Bachelor of Agricultural degree and later worked as a Research and Regional Economist with the Queensland Department of Primary Industries. He was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Queensland for Bundaberg at the 1983 election, representing the Labor Party, and held the seat until the 1998 election. He served as a member of various Parliamentary Committees during the term of the Wayne Goss Labor government. After Campbell's retirement from Parliament he joined the staff of Griffith University in Brisbane. As of 2008, Campbell is the founding chairman of Green Cross Australia and current chair of Earth Charter Australia. He is also a director with Football Queensland. In 2013, Clem Campbell became the United Nations Association of Australia Queensland President. In 2014, Mr Campbel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clem Balanoff
Clement Balanoff, Jr. is an American politician and the national political director for the Amalgamated Transit Union. He served as a Democratic member of the Illinois House of Representatives from 1989 to 1995. Biography He was born April 16, 1953, in Chicago to a politically active family. His father Clem Balanoff, Sr. was a prominent union organizer and his mother Miriam Balanoff would become a circuit court judge. In 1981, Clem moved to California for five years, where he worked as an aide for Congressman Matthew Martínez and later Congressman Esteban Torres. He returned to Illinois to take a job as the 10th Ward Superintendent, responsible for garbage pickup and other city services. A year later when Ed Vrdolyak defected to the Republican Party, Balanoff became the Democratic Committeeman for the 10th ward. In 1988, he defeated incumbent Sam Panayotovich, who had defected to the Republican Party with Vrdolyak. In 1991, he ran for Alderman in a field of ten opponents l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clement Attlee
Clement Richard Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee, (3 January 18838 October 1967) was a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1945 to 1951 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1935 to 1955. He was Deputy Prime Minister during the wartime coalition government under Winston Churchill, and served twice as Leader of the Opposition from 1935 to 1940 and from 1951 to 1955. Attlee remains the longest serving Labour leader. Attlee was born into an upper-middle-class family, the son of a wealthy London solicitor. After attending the public school Haileybury College and the University of Oxford, he practised as a barrister. The volunteer work he carried out in London's East End exposed him to poverty, and his political views shifted leftwards thereafter. He joined the Independent Labour Party, gave up his legal career, and began lecturing at the London School of Economics. His work was interrupted by service as an officer in the First World War. In 1919, he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clem Wilson
The Reverend Clement Eustace Macro Wilson (15 May 1875 – 8 February 1944) was an English amateur first-class cricketer and Church of England clergyman. Cricket career Wilson played first-class cricket for Cambridge University between 1895 and 1898, being university Blue captain in latter year, and for Yorkshire between 1896 and 1899. He also played two Test matches for England, when they toured South Africa in 1898–99. Background and education Wilson was born in Bolsterstone, Stocksbridge, Yorkshire, England, and educated at Uppingham School and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated BA in 1899, and MA in 1903. Clergy career Wilson was ordained deacon in 1899, and priest in 1903. He was curate at Whitby, North Yorkshire, 1901–03; Dunchurch, Warwickshire, 1903–04, and neighbouring Rugby from 1904 to 1909. From 1910 to 1912 he was, for his first time, Vicar of Calverhall, Shropshire, then from 1912 to 1921 Rector of Eccleston, Cheshire where he was also es ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clem Turner
Clem Turner (May 28, 1945 – December 20, 2009) was a professional American football player who played running back for four seasons for the Cincinnati Bengals and Denver Broncos. He also wrestled professionally in the Midwest, most often in Indianapolis and Detroit, between 1972 and 1975. He died on December 20, 2009 in a car accident. Turner was a running back at Woodward High School, and attended the University of Cincinnati, where he was also a running back. Turner played one season with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats of the Canadian Football League in 1967, the year they won the Grey Cup. In the 1969 NFL season, Turner played for the Cincinnati Bengals, and from 1970 to 1972, he played for the Denver Broncos. In 1973, the Buffalo Bills acquired him, where he failed the physical. He then went on to play in the World Football League for the Portland Storm and The Hawaiians. In 1972, Turner started in professional wrestling during the football off-season, working in locations like ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clem Thomas
Richard Clement Charles "Clem" Thomas (28 January 1929 – 5 September 1996) was a international rugby union player. A flanker, he represented Cambridge University R.U.F.C. in the Varsity Match in 1949 and played for Brynamman, Swansea, London Welsh and Harlequins. He earned 26 caps for Wales, between 1949 and 1959 and captained Wales in his last nine internationals. After retiring as a player he became a rugby union journalist and author of books on the game. Rugby career Thomas first came to note as a rugby player while still a school-boy. A boarder at Blundell's School in Tiverton he gained four Wales School-boy caps while at the school. He gained his first full senior cap in the match against France in the 1949 Five Nations Championship. Thomas was also a member of the last Wales team that defeated the New Zealand All Blacks in 1953. In fact, it was Thomas's cross field kick that enabled Ken Jones, the flying Welsh winger, to gather the ball and touch down for the win ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clem Stralka
Clement Frank Stralka (May 19, 1913 – January 10, 1994) was an American football guard and tackle in the National Football League (NFL) for the Washington Redskins. He played college football at Georgetown University. After leaving the NFL, he became a football coach at the United States Merchant Marine Academy in Kings Point, New York Kings Point is a village located on the Great Neck Peninsula in the Town of North Hempstead in Nassau County, on the North Shore of Long Island, in New York, United States. The population was 5,005 at the 2010 census. History The Village of Ki .... References 1913 births 1994 deaths American football guards American football tackles Georgetown Hoyas football players Merchant Marine Mariners football coaches Washington Redskins players United States Navy personnel of World War II Players of American football from Luzerne County, Pennsylvania People from Kings Point, New York Players of American football from Nassau County ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clem Stephenson
Clement Stephenson (6 February 1890 – 24 October 1961) was an English footballer whose 20-year career at Aston Villa and Huddersfield Town included success in both the FA Cup and League Championship. Stephenson's place in history as an inside forward was assured when Herbert Chapman targeted him as the man to lead Huddersfield Town's challenge for three consecutive Football League titles in the 1920s, he also made a single appearance for England in that period., Retrieved 4 October 2018 Playing career Aston Villa Born in Blyth Northumberland, Stephenson originally played for Aston Villa in 1910 as an inside forward; his career at Villa Park totalling 216 matches, from which he scored a reasonable 85 goals. He was brought into Villa Park as Villa legend Harry Hampton's career was nearing its end and soon acquired a reputation for intuitive play: his passes were said to be "as sweet as stolen kisses". His first silverware came in the 1913 FA Cup Final alongside Hampton and Eng ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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