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Dunning (surname)
Dunning is a Scottish or Irish surname. A variant of Downing. Notable people with the surname include: *Brian Dunning (cricketer) (1940–2008), New Zealand cricketer *Brian Dunning (flautist) (born 1952), Irish jazz flute player *Brian Dunning (author) (born 1965), American writer, producer and podcast host *Charles T. Dunning (1843–1916), Clerk of the New York State Senate *Charles Avery Dunning (1885–1958), Canadian businessman, politician and university chancellor *Charles Dunning (rugby) (died 1955), rugby league player *Chester Dunning, Texas historian and specialist in Russian studies *Dane Dunning (born 1994), American baseball player * Darren Dunning (born 1981), English footballer *David Dunning, American social psychologist *Debbe Dunning (born 1966), American actress *Edwin Harris Dunning (1892–1917), British naval pilot, first to land an aircraft on a moving ship *Eric Dunning (1936–2019), British sociologist *George Dunning (1920–1979), British animator *He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Downing (surname)
Downing is an Irish and English surname. In Ireland it is anglicized of the Gaelic ''Ó Duinnín''. List of people surnamed Downing * Antoinette Downing (1904–2001), Rhode Island architectural historian and preservationist * Andrew Jackson Downing (1815–1852), American landscape designer, horticulturalist and writer * Arthur Matthew Weld Downing (1850–1917), Irish astronomer * Ben Downing (writer) (born 1967), American writer * Benjamin W. Downing (1835–1894), American lawyer * Brian Downing (born 1950), American baseball player * Burton Downing (1885–1929), American racing cyclist * Caroline Lowder Downing (fl. 1912), British suffragette, sister of Edith Downing * Charles Downing (died 1845), American politician * Charles Downing (pomologist) (1802–1885), American pomologist and horticulturalist * Charles W. Downing Jr. (1825–1862), Florida politician * Coe S. Downing (1791–1847), New York politician * Dean Downing (born 1975), English bicycle racer * Edi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Dunning Moore
Henry Dunning Moore (April 13, 1817 – August 11, 1887) was a Whig member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. Early life Henry D. Moore was born in Goshen, New York. He moved with his parents to New York City in 1828. He attended the public schools and engaged in the tailoring business. He moved to Philadelphia in 1844 and engaged in the mahogany and marble business. Political career Moore was elected as a Whig to the Thirty-first and Thirty-second Congresses. He was not a candidate for reelection in 1852. He was an unsuccessful candidate for mayor of Philadelphia in 1856. He was a delegate to the 1860 Republican National Convention. He was elected State treasurer during Governor Curtin's administration and served from 1861 to 1863 and 1864 to 1865. He was appointed collector of the port of Philadelphia on March 30, 1869, and served until March 26, 1871, when he resigned. Russia He traveled in Europe and resided in St. Petersburg, Russia, fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Dunning
Thomas Joseph Dunning (12 January 1799 – 23 December 1873) was an English bookbinder and trade unionist. Biography He was born on 12 January 1799 in Southwark, the son of Joseph Hill Dunning, a waterworks turncock, and Ann Barber Dunning.Edward J. DaviesThe Origins of some Trade Unionists ''Notes and Queries'', Volume 61, Issue 4, 1 December 2014, pp. 570–573. He was apprenticed to a bookbinder in 1813. In 1820, he joined the ''Journeymen Bookbinders of London'' and was elected to its chairing committee in the late 1830s.Iorwerth ProtheroDunning, Thomas Joseph (1799–1873) ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 18 April 2010. In the strike of 1839 he favoured a view, in contrast to the majority, that a deal should be struck with the employers. He resigned from the committee but was part of negotiations of the final settlement. In 1840, he took part in reorganization of the existing in London bookbinders' trade union groups w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Dunning
Steven John Dunning (born May 15, 1949) is an American former professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball as a right-handed pitcher between and for the Cleveland Indians, Texas Rangers, California Angels, Montreal Expos and the Oakland Athletics. Dunning was the 1st round draft choice by the Cleveland Indians in the 1970 Major League Baseball Draft. Baseball career Dunning was born in Denver, Colorado. He was the second player to go straight to the Major Leagues after being drafted without spending a day in the minors. On May 11, 1971, Dunning had the distinction of hitting a grand slam home run off of Oakland Athletics pitcher Diego Seguí. This remained the last grand slam hit by an American League pitcher until Félix Hernández of the Seattle Mariners accomplished the same feat June 23, 2008 in a game against the New York Mets. He was traded from the Indians to the Rangers for Dick Bosman and Ted Ford on May 10, 1973. He went from the Rangers to th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philo Dunning
Philo Dunning (March 23, 1819 – September 10, 1900) was an American merchant and druggist from Madison, Wisconsin, who held a number of local office, spent a single one-year term as a Reform Party member of the Wisconsin State Assembly from Dane County, and served on the state fisheries commission. Background Dunning was born in Webster, New York, on March 23, 1819. He had a common school education, and became a merchant and druggist by trade. He arrived in Wisconsin Territory in 1840, and settled in Dane County, first in Blooming Grove, where he farmed, and later moved into downtown Madison, reportedly because "the railroad built its tracks across their front yard." His original home in Blooming Grove is still standing. He was a delegate from Dane County to the May 1841 territorial Democratic Party meeting. In 1851 he was a member of both the Wisconsin Agricultural Society and the Dane County Agricultural Society. For some years prior to 1877, he operated a sawmill on Cl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paris C
Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the List of cities proper by population density, 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. Since the 17th century, Paris has been one of the world's major centres of finance, diplomacy, commerce, Fashion capital, fashion, gastronomy, and science. For its leading role in the arts and sciences, as well as its very early system of street lighting, in the 19th century it became known as "the City of Light". Like London, prior to the Second World War, it was also sometimes called Caput Mundi#Paris, the capital of the world. The City of Paris is the centre of the Île-de-France Regions of France, region, or Paris Region, with an estimated population of 12,262,544 in 2019, or about 19% of the population of France, making the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nick Dunning
Nick Dunning (born 1957 in London) is an English actor. He is a well known theatre actor who attended RADA (Dip Hons) 1977, where he won the Ronson Prize for Most Promising Young Actor. He has appeared on stage in the West End in London and at the Gate Theatre in Dublin. He has won two Irish Times Theatre Awards. He has worked with the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Royal National Theatre and the Royal Court Theatre. To date, he is best known for his role as Thomas Boleyn in ''The Tudors'', a Showtime original series, for which he won an IFTA award for Best Supporting Actor. He has also appeared in numerous popular British TV shows such as Waking the Dead, Kavanagh QC, and the '' Midsomer Murders'' episode'' Death's Shadow''. Coronation Street. He is currently starring in a production of ''Dangerous Liaisons'' at the Gate Theatre. Dunning was head of development at the now defunct website www.screenwritingonthenet.com. He wrote two books on screenwriting. He also wrote th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matt Dunning
Matt Dunning (born 19 December 1978) is a former Australian rugby union footballer. He played as a prop for the Waratahs and Western Force in Super Rugby, and represented Australia. He coached the Balmain rugby club in Sydney 2013/2014. Early life Dunning was born in Calgary, Canada, but grew up in Sydney, Australia. He was educated at Northholm Grammar School. In 1996, he was selected to represent New South Wales at the Australian Schools Rugby Championships. He went on to play for Australian Schools, U19s and U21s. His brother is Canadian prop Casey Dunning. Rugby career Dunning made his debut for the New South Wales Waratahs in a Ricoh Championship match against Queensland in 2000, and played his first Super 14 match against the Chiefs in 2001. He made his international test debut on 25 October 2003 during the 2003 Rugby World Cup at the age of 24. The match against Namibia was won 142-0 and is the largest winning margin for an Australian side. The only other match he pla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Dunning (other)
John Dunning may refer to: * John Dunning (businessman) (born 1934), British businessman, founder of Westmorland Motorway Services * John Dunning (detective fiction author) (born 1942), American writer of detective fiction * John Dunning (true crime author) (1918–1990), true crime author * John Dunning (snooker player) (1927–2009), English professional snooker player * John Harry Dunning (1927–2009), British economist * John Dunning (film editor) (1916–1991), American film editor * John Dunning (film producer) (1927–2011), Canadian film producer * John R. Dunning (1907–1975), American physicist * Jack Dunning (John Angus Dunning, 1903–1971), New Zealand Test cricketer * John Dunning, 1st Baron Ashburton (1731–1783), English lawyer and politician * John Dunning (volleyball) John Dunning (born November 6, 1950) is an American volleyball coach who was the head women's coach at Stanford University (2001–2016) and the University of the Pacific (United States) (1985 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeanne Dunning
Jeanne Dunning (born 1960) is an American photographer whose work is centered around corporeality and human physicality in abstract forms. Education and early career Dunning earned her Bachelor of Arts from Oberlin College and her Masters of Fine Arts from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From there, she opened her first exhibit at the Feature Gallery in Chicago in 1987. In the early 1990s, Dunning created a series of photographs for an exhibit titled "Directions" which was meant to blur the lines of fact and fiction. The exhibit was displayed at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington. Collections Dunning's work is included in the permanent collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, the Museum of Contemporary Photography and the Museum of Modern Art, New York The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, on 53rd Street (Manhattan), 53rd Street ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jake Dunning
Jake Austin Dunning (born August 12, 1988) is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played for the San Francisco Giants in Major League Baseball (MLB). He is the older brother of Dane Dunning. Career Amateur Dunning attended Indiana University, where he played college baseball for the Indiana Hoosiers baseball team. In 2009, he played collegiate summer baseball with the Hyannis Mets of the Cape Cod Baseball League. San Francisco Giants The Giants drafted Dunning in the 33rd round of the 2009 MLB Draft. The Giants added Dunning to their 40-man roster after the 2012 season, and promoted him to the major leagues for the first time on June 14, 2013. Dunning made his MLB debut on June 16, 2013, against the Atlanta Braves. He dedicated his first major league performance to his parents, John and Misu Dunning. Dunning is the only MLB pitcher to give up two grand slams at Oracle Park (known as AT&T Park at the time), both of them coming during the 2013 season. They were ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Dunning
John Angus Dunning (6 February 1903 – 24 June 1971) was a New Zealand cricketer who played in four Test matches between 1933 and 1937 and 60 first-class matches from 1923 to 1938. He later became a headmaster in Australia.Jack Dunning CricketArchive. Retrieved 18 August 2022. McCarron A (2010) ''New Zealand Cricketers 1863/64–2010'', p. 47. Cardiff: . Academic and teaching career Jack Dunning was born at |
