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Devine
Devine is an Irish surname derived from Ní Dhaimhín / Ó Daimhín. Notable people with the surname include: * Adam DeVine (born 1983), American actor, comedian, singer, writer and producer * Alan Devine, Irish actor * Alexander Devine, British educator and advocate for Montenegrin independence * Andy Devine (1905–1977), American character actor * Andy Devine (English actor) (1942–2022), mainly on British television * Annie Bell Robinson Devine (1912–2000), American civil rights activist * Archibald Devine (1887–1964), Scottish footballer * Aubrey Devine, American football player * Betsy Devine (born 1946), American writer * Bing Devine (1916–2007), American baseball executive * Bonnie Devine (born 1952), Indigenous Canadian artist * Candi Devine (born 1959), ring name of Candace Maria Rummel, American wrestler * Candy Devine, Australian broadcaster, singer and actress * Christine Devine, American news anchor * Dan Devine (1924–2002), American football ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ó Daimhín
Ó Daimhín or Ní Dhaimhín is one of several surnames derived from the Irish Gaelic that are now rendered in English as Devine. The root of this name is "''damh''", which according to Dineen means an "ox or a Stag". It is also used figuratively as "hero". Confusingly, scholars in the 19th and early 20th centuries sometimes thought it was derived from "''dámh''", meaning a bard or poet but this is no longer accepted. Older Irish forms of the name were written as ''Ua Daimhín'' and ''Ua Daimhín''. According to Edward MacLysaght,MacLysaght, Edward (1972). ''Irish Families (Their Names, Arms and Origins)'', Allen Figgis Press, Dublin, Ireland. The name Devine is chiefly found to-day in the counties of Tyrone and Londonderry but is now rare in Fermanagh. Up to the fifteenth century the chief of this sept was Lord of Tirkennedy in Co. Fermanagh. Though the etymology of the name has been questioned, we may accept the view of so eminent a scholar as O’Donovan that it is in Irish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Devine (athlete)
David Devine (born 13 February 1992) is a British Paralympic athlete. Devine competes in T12 and T13 middle-distance track events, and has represented Great Britain in both the 2011 IPC Athletics World Championships and the 2012 Summer Paralympics. Career history Devine was born in Liverpool, England in 1992. Devine, who has a visual impairment, took up athletics after attending the DSE Championships in Blackpool in 2008. He joined local athletics club, Liverpool Harriers, and began entering local youth meets, running in the 400 metres. By 2009 Devine was entering both 400m and 800m events, winning at both distances in events in Britain and Europe. By the end of the year he had recorded a personal best of 51.90s in the 400m at the IBSA Open European Championships in Rhodes and a 1:58.23 in the 800m at the German Disability Championships in Sindlefingen. The next year Devine began concentrating more on the 800m, and by July he had improved his time to 1:54.34. By 2011 Devine b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Devine
James Devine (born 21 May 1953) is a former Member of Parliament. He was the Labour Party member for Livingston from 2005 until 2010 and Chairman of the Scottish Labour Party between 1994 and 1995. On 16 June 2009, following the 2009 expenses scandal, he was barred by the Labour Party from seeking re-election at the 2010 general election, after reports he claimed expenses for work on his home from a non-existent firm. He was convicted of false accounting on 10 February 2011 and sentenced to 16 months' imprisonment on 31 March 2011. Early life Devine was born and brought up in Blackburn, West Lothian and was educated in Bathgate. He served as the election agent for Livingston Constituency Labour Party and the local MP Robin Cook from the 1983 general election until Cook died in 2005. From 1994 to 1995 he was the Chairman of the Scottish Labour Party. Prior to his election, Devine worked as a full-time trade union official for the Confederation of Health Service Employees (CO ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Devine (ice Hockey)
William John Devine (February 22, 1919 – April 27, 1989) was a Canadian ice hockey administrator and radio sports commentator. He worked for CJBQ radio in Belleville, Ontario for 40 years as the sports director. He was involved with the local sports scene, and was president of the Ontario Hockey Association from 1967 to 1969. He moved up to the national level in 1969 becoming vice-president of the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association (CAHA) in 1969, and later served as its president from 1973 to 1975. Devine was president of the CAHA during a period when the National Hockey League and the World Hockey Association were competing for junior ice hockey players. He spent significant time over two years negotiating the drafting and development agreements with the respective professional leagues. He oversaw the split of Canadian Junior A hockey into Tier 1 and Tier 2, and the subsequent draft system. He helped lay the groundwork for a national midget hockey tournament which later bec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Devine
Jack Devine is a veteran of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and a founding partner and President of The Arkin Group LLC. Biography Devine's career at the CIA spanned from the late 1960s to the early 1990s, including the fall of Salvador Allende, President Salvador Allende in Chile in 1973, the Iran–Contra affair in the mid-1980s, and Soviet–Afghan War, the fight to push the Soviets out of Afghanistan in the late 1980s. Devine retired after serving as both the Acting Director and Associate Director of the CIA's operations outside the United States, a capacity in which he had supervisory authority over thousands of CIA employees involved in sensitive missions throughout the world, as well as Acting Deputy Director of Operations from May 3, 1995 to July 18, 1995. Devine joined the CIA in 1967, after his wife gave him a book about the CIA and its role in U.S. national security. Devine completed his training at "the Farm" and various other espionage and paramilitary courses ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
