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Connor may refer to the following: People * Connor (given name), list of people with this name * Connor (surname) * Harriet Connor Brown (1872-1962), American writer and women's rights activist Places and jurisdictions * Connor, County Antrim, a town in Northern Ireland, seat of: ** the present Anglican Diocese of Connor (Church of Ireland) ** the former Roman Catholic Diocese of Connor, merged into the present Diocese of Down and Connor * Connor Downs, Cornwall, England * Connor, Maine, unincorporated area in Aroostook County, Maine, United States * Mount Connor, Northern Territory, Australia * Connor Battle, Tongue River, American Civil War Other uses * Connor (retailer), an Australian and New Zealand clothing retail chain See also * * Conor * Conner (other) * Connors (other) * O'Connor (other) * Justice Connor (other) Justice Connor may refer to: * George Whitfield Connor, associate justice of the North Carolina Suprem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Connor (given Name)
Connor is a Goidelic languages, Goidelic Celtic languages, Celtic male given name, anglicised from the compound Irish word "Conchobhar", meaning "Lover of wolves” or "master of hounds" and sometimes taken to mean "hunter". The most prominent person with this name in medieval Ireland was the Irish king Conchobar mac Nessa, a semi-legendary king in Ulster described in the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology, and the name was probably first anglicised to 'Connor' by the Hiberno-Norman, Hiberno-Normans. The modern Irish often anglicise it with one 'n' to Conor. Variant forms of ''Connor'' appear across Ireland, the UK and North America and include Conor, Conner and sometimes Konnor. “Conor” with a single 'n' was the most popular name given to boys in Ireland in 1999. Historical figures * Conchobar Maenmaige Ua Conchobair, Connor King of Connacht, 12th-century king * Conchobar mac Tadg, Connor mac Tadg, 10th-century king and eponym of the O'Conor, Clan O'Connor * Conchobhar mac Toird ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Connor (surname)
Connor, (from ''Conchobar'', is an Irish name meaning "Wolf Kin", "Lover of Wolves" or "Lover of Hounds") Clans and family names * O'Connor (surname) (kin of Connor), of Irish origin mostly found in Ireland. * MacConnor or McConnor comes from Irish Mac Conchobhair, son of Conchobhair Notable people * Bull Connor (1897–1973), American police official and segregationist * Connie Yerwood Connor (1908–1991), Texas physician * Dutch Connor (1895–1978), American football player and coach * George Connor (American football) (1925–2003), American football player * George Connor (racing driver) (1906–2001), American racecar driver * Geraldine Connor (1952–2011), British ethnomusicologist, theatre director, composer and performer * Henry Connor (other), several people * Jack Connor (footballer, born 1911) (1911–1994), Scottish footballer * Jack Connor (footballer, born 1934) (1934–2010), English footballer * Jake Connor, English rugby player * Jimmy Connor (foo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harriet Connor Brown
Harriet Connor Brown (September 11, 1872 – July 9, 1962) was an American women's rights activist and an author. She was the first woman to win the Woodford Prize from Cornell University. Brown wrote for multiple newspapers and the United States government. Her book ''Grandmother Brown's Hundred Years, 1827–1927'' won the Atlantic Monthly Prize in 1929. Personal life and early career Harriet Connor Brown was born as Harriet Chedie Connor on September 11, 1872, in Burlington, Iowa. She went to Wheaton Seminary in Norton, Massachusetts, over a winter before attending Cornell University. She was a part of the university's newspaper ''The Cornell Era'' in 1893. She was the first woman editor to be on the newspaper's staff and was the first woman that won the Woodford Prize in oration from Cornell University with a speech based on religious thought titled "The Letter and the Spirit". The Woodford Prize is the highest award that can be given to Cornell University students. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |