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Dry (surname)
Dry is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Amity Dry (born 1978), Australian singer-songwriter * Avis M. Dry (1922–2007), British psychologist *Chris Dry (born 1988), South African rugby union player *Claud Dry, co-founder of Midget Motors Corporation *Corné Dry (born 1993), South African cricketer * F. A. Dry (born 1931), American football player coach * Francis Dry (1891–1979), New Zealand geneticist, biologist, university lecturer and wool researcher *Jodie Dry (born 1974), Australian actress * Mark Dry (born 1987), Scottish hammer thrower *Murray Dry, American political scientist *Richard Dry (1815–1869), Australian politician * Stuart Dry, Australian slalom canoeist *Tim Dry Tim Dry (born 9 January 1952) is a mime artist, writer, photographic artist, musician and actor, best known for appearing in ''Return of the Jedi'' and the cult sci-fi/horror film ''Xtro''. Tim was a member of the duo Tik and Tok, that popula ... (born 1952), English actor Se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amity Dry
Amity Renae Dry , born in Adelaide, South Australia is an Australian singer-songwriter and a reality show contestant. Early career At just five years of age she started studying music and piano and performing on stage. She began writing original songs when she was twelve and was accepted into a performing arts school at sixteen. The Block Amity got her big break after appearing on the Nine Network reality show '' The Block'' alongside her husband Phil Rankine in 2003. Four couples, including Dry and Rankine, lived in and renovated a run down apartment block. When they had finished, the apartments were auctioned off individually, and the couples got whatever money they made over the reserve price. Dry and her husband Phil Rankine appeared on the 2013 series of The Block: All Stars and were the winners. Music career Through the exposure of her talents on the show, Amity gained a record contract and released the album ''The Lighthouse'' during the media promotion for the show. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Avis M
Avis is Latin for bird and may refer to: Aviation *Auster Avis, a 1940s four-seat light aircraft developed from the Auster Autocrat (abandoned project) *Avro Avis, a two-seat biplane *Scottish Aeroplane Syndicate Avis, an early aircraft built by Howard Wright Businesses *Avis Budget Group *Avis Car Rental Places *Avis, Portugal, a municipality in the south of Portugal * Avis, Ohio, United States, an unincorporated community *Avis, Pennsylvania, United States, a borough Other uses *Avis (name), a given name and a surname *Andover Village Improvement Society, a land preservation society *''Associazione Volontari Italiani Sangue'', or ''AVIS'', an Italian blood donation organisation *Avis Dam, a dam near Windhoek, Namibia * USS ''Avis'' (Sp-382), a United States Navy patrol boat in commission from 1917 to 1918 * Menton J. Matthews III or Avis, musician *Avis, an open-source implementation of the Elvin network event routing specification *Avis, a fictional deity on ''The Orville'' * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Dry
Christopher Adriaan Dry (born 13 February 1988) is a South African professional rugby union player, currently playing with the South African Sevens team in the Sevens World Series. His regular position is a flanker. Youth rugby Dry played rugby for his school, Grey College in Bloemfontein, earning a call-up to Free State's Under-18 side that played at the Academy Week tournament in 2006. The following year, he became involved in the youth structures at the ; he played for the side in the 2007 Under-19 Provincial Championship and for the side in the Under-21 Provincial Championships in both 2008 and 2009. Professional Dry made his first class debut for the during the 2009 Currie Cup Premier Division, coming on as a late substitute in their 59–8 victory against in Bloemfontein. That turned out be his only appearance in the Currie Cup, despite being named on the bench for their matches against the and . Dry made a single appearance for university side during the 2010 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
King Midget
The King Midget was a micro car produced between 1946 and 1970 by the Midget Motors Corporation. The King Midget company started out by offering a kit to build a car, but soon added completely assembled cars and later only offered completed cars. History Company founders Claud Dry and Dale Orcutt, airplane pilots turned car designers, first sold the King Midget as part of their Midget Motors Supply operations in Athens, Ohio. Dry and Orcutt were inspired by their experience flying the Civil Air Patrol to create a car based on aircraft construction principles. By 1948, they began to use the name Midget Motors Manufacturing Co. In about 1956, Dry and Orcutt changed the name of their company to Midget Motors Corporation. Midget Motors' primary methods of advertising their cars were through small advertisements in popular magazines that appealed to home mechanics. The ads were tiny but effective; they showed a midget car and some earlier ads contained the phrase "500 lb. car for $500 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Corné Dry
Corné Dry (born 4 February 1993) is a South African cricketer who played for the Knights cricket team. He was the joint-leading wicket-taker in the 2017–18 CSA Provincial One-Day Challenge tournament for Free State, with 13 dismissals in eight matches. He was also the leading wicket-taker in the 2017–18 Sunfoil 3-Day Cup for Free State, with 26 dismissals in ten matches. In September 2018, Dry was named in Free State's squad for the 2018 Africa T20 Cup. In June 2021, Dry was selected in the players' draft ahead of the Minor League Cricket Minor League Cricket (branded as the Toyota Minor League Cricket Championship presented by Sling TV for sponsorship reasons, and sometimes shortened to MiLC) is an American Twenty20 cricket developmental league for Major League Cricket which com ... tournament in the United States. References External links * 1993 births Living people South African cricketers Knights cricketers Free State cricketers Northern Cape cricke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Dry
Francis William Dry (23 October 1891 – 14 July 1979) was a New Zealand geneticist, biologist, university lecturer and wool researcher. He was born in Driffield, Yorkshire, England, on 23 October 1891. In the 1973 New Year Honours, Dry was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire, for services to the wool industry. Biography Francis William Dry was born in Driffield, Yorkshire, in 1891 to Frank Dry and Mary Avis Corke. He received his schooling at Driffield Board School and Bridlington Grammar School before graduating BSc (1913) and MSc (1914) from the University of Leeds. After a stint in Kenya and the United States, where he got married, Dry returned to Leeds in 1921 and was awarded an Ackroyd Memorial Research Fellowship. This was a watershed moment in his career and laid the basis for his future research. For his PhD that followed, he made a study of the coat of the mouse. This research was published in 1926 and for many decades remained the definitive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jodie Dry
Jodie Dry (born 20 January 1974) is an Australian actress. Career She is known for her role as Nicole Brown, a former model and a former girlfriend of Joe Hill, in ''White Collar Blue''; and as Biddy Marchant in ABC's ''Grassroots'', having replaced Sophie Heathcote in the role. She also appeared in the 2001 Network 10 (13 episode) television series, '' Sit Down, Shut Up'', as well in '' ''All Saints'', ''Farscape'', '' Stingers'' and '' Wildside''. In 2002, Jodie played Sally Diver in a telemovie titled ''Heroes Mountain'', based on the Thredbo disaster, which also starred Craig McLachlan as Stuart Diver. Dry graduated from the National Institute of Dramatic Art in Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, sma .... References External links * 1974 bi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Dry
Mark Dry (born 11 October 1987) is a British track and field athlete, competing in the hammer throw, who won bronze medals for Scotland at the 2014 and 2018 Commonwealth Games. Career He was born in Milton Keynes. In his earlier years he was a member of Elgin Amateur Athletics Club, where he began competing in hammer event in 2005. In his first year, he managed to come tenth in the country as an under-20 athlete. Since 2010, he represents the Woodford Green with Essex Ladies in National Championships, and predominantly competes in England or the United States. Although the top-ranked British athlete, he missed the 2013 World Championships in Athletics due to him having not achieved the B qualifying standard. UK Athletics selected him to receive support from the World Class Performance Programme for 2013-2014 because they judged him to have Olympic potential. In 2013 his seasons' best throw of 74.46m was the best achieved amongst UK men. He has been one of the top three British ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Murray Dry
Murray Dry is an American political scientist specializing in American constitutional law, American political thought, political philosophy, freedom of speech, freedom of religion, federalism, separation of powers, and the American founding. Dry helped compile ''The Complete Anti-Federalist'' with his former teacher Herbert Storing. He is currently the Charles A. Dana Professor of Political Science at Middlebury College, having earned his BA, MA, and Ph.D at the University of Chicago, where he studied under Storing and Leo Strauss, among others. For the 2009–2010 academic year, he was a visiting professor at Yeshiva University. His current area of research is in the constitutionality of same-sex marriage, and he recently published a book on that subject. Murray Dry has taught many leading scholars of American government, political philosophy, and law, among them Suzanna Sherry (Vanderbilt University Law School), Dan Kahan (Yale Law School), James Stoner (Louisiana Stat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Dry
Sir Richard Dry, KCMG (20 September 1815 – 1 August 1869) was an Australian politician, the son of United Irish convict, who was Premier of Tasmania from 24 November 1866 until 1 August 1869 when he died in office. Dry was the first Tasmanian-born premier, and the first Tasmanian to be knighted. Early life Dry was born in Launceston, Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania), the son of Richard Dry, an officer and pastoralist, and his wife Anne, ''née'' Maughan. The elder Dry had been transported from Ireland in advance of the 1798 rebellion. Although a Protestant and a Dublin woollen-draper, he had been a senior figure in the largely Catholic and agrarian Defender movement as well as being a senior United Irishmen. Dry was educated at a Kirkland's private school in Campbell Town. Dry was a close friend of the diarist Anna Baxter who was the wife of the recently arrived British Lieutenant Andrew Baxter in the 1830s. In 1835 Dry voyaged to Mauritius and the British ports in India, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stuart Dry
Stuart Dry is a former Australian slalom canoeist who competed in the late 1970s. He won a bronze medal in the mixed C-2 event at the 1977 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships The 1977 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships were held in Spittal, Austria under the auspices of International Canoe Federation for the record setting third time. It was the 15th edition. Spittal hosted the championships previously in 1963 and 196 ... in Spittal. References * Australian male canoeists Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Medalists at the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships Place of birth missing (living people) {{Australia-canoe-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tim Dry
Tim Dry (born 9 January 1952) is a mime artist, writer, photographic artist, musician and actor, best known for appearing in ''Return of the Jedi'' and the cult sci-fi/horror film ''Xtro''. Tim was a member of the duo Tik and Tok, that popularised robotic mime in the UK in the 1980s. Early years Tim Dry was born in Redhill, Surrey, in 1952. After leaving a Graphic Design Dip AD course at Reigate School of Art and Design in 1972, he moved to Brighton, Sussex to explore other areas of creativity, including painting, fine art and producing, along with other Reigate Art School alumni, ''The Cosmic Colouring Book'' which was published to acclaim in 1973. In 1976, he relocated to London to train in mime and physical theatre with Desmond Jones and Lindsay Kemp (who tutored Kate Bush and David Bowie, amongst others). The-eighties After three years of intensive stage work (both in solo and duo shows, and as a member of Jones' company 'Silents') Tim, alongside fellow mime partner Barbi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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