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Eastwood (surname)
Eastwood is an English surname originally derived from the Old English words ''east'' and ''wudu'', meaning "eastwood". The family would have originally lived to the east of a wood, in an eastern wood or in a place called Eastwood. According to one account, Eastwood was an English landed gentry family originating from Nottingham, to which belonged the mayor of Dublin in the Seventeenth Century, during the reign of Charles II. Notable people sharing the surname "Eastwood" * Alice Eastwood * Alison Eastwood * Arthur Eastwood, New Zealand rower * Bob Eastwood * Clint Eastwood, American film director, actor, producer, screenwriter, musician and composer * Colum Eastwood (born 1983), Northern Irish politician * Dina Eastwood * Francesca Fisher-Eastwood * Freddy Eastwood (born 1983), Welsh international footballer * Greg Eastwood, New Zealand rugby league footballer * Jayne Eastwood * Jim Eastwood, Northern Irish businessman * John S. Eastwood * Kathy Eastwood, American astr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English Name
English names are names used in, or originating in, England. In England as elsewhere in the English-speaking world, a complete name usually consists of a given name, commonly referred to as a first name, and a (most commonly patrilineal) family name or surname, also referred to as a last name. There can be several given names, some of these being often referred to as a second name, or middle name(s). Given names Most given names used in England do not have English derivation. Most traditional names are Hebrew (Daniel, David, Elizabeth, Susan), Greek (Nicholas, Dorothy, George, Helen), Germanic names adopted via the transmission of Old French/Norman (Robert, Richard, Gertrude, Charlotte), or Latin (Adrian, Amelia, Patrick). There remains a limited set of given names which have an actual English derivation (see Anglo-Saxon names); examples include Alfred, Ashley, Edgar, Edmund, Edward, Edwin, Harold and Oswald. A distinctive feature of Anglophone names is the surnames of import ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greg Eastwood
Greg Eastwood (born 10 March 1987) is a New Zealand professional rugby league footballer. A New Zealand international forward, he played in the NRL for the Brisbane Broncos and Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs, and in the Super League for the Leeds Rhinos. Early years Born in Auckland, New Zealand, Eastwood is of Māori and English descent and played his junior football for the Manurewa Marlins in South Auckland before being signed by the Brisbane Broncos. Playing career Brisbane Broncos In round 26 of the 2005 NRL season, Eastwood made his NRL début for the Broncos against the Parramatta Eels. He played in most of the 2006 Brisbane Broncos season's games but was not selected for the 2006 NRL Grand final win over the Melbourne Storm. As 2006 NRL Premiers, the Brisbane Broncos travelled to England to face 2006 Super League champions, St Helens R.F.C. in the 2007 World Club Challenge. Eastwood played from the interchange bench in the Broncos' 14–18 loss. In the 2007 ANZ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sorcha Eastwood
Sorcha-Lucy Eastwood (born October 1985) is an Alliance Party politician who was elected to the Northern Ireland Assembly from Lagan Valley in the 2022 Assembly election. Political career Early career (2017–2022) Sorcha Eastwood ran in the 2017 Northern Ireland Assembly election as an Alliance Party candidate in Belfast West. She received 747 first preference votes and was eliminated on the first count. She was an Alliance candidate again later that year, this time for the 2017 general election, running in Belfast West. She came 5th, with 731 votes, roughly maintaining Alliance's percentage share of the vote from the previous general election. She was elected in May 2019 as a councilor on Lisburn and Castlereagh City Council, representing the constituency of Castlereagh South. In that election, she topped the poll with 1,629 first preference votes and was elected on the first count. Later that year, she was the Alliance Party candidate for Lagan Valley in the 201 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simon Eastwood
Simon Christopher Eastwood (born 26 June 1989) is an English professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for club Oxford United. Eastwood started his career as a youth player with Huddersfield Town. He went professional in 2007, but struggled to break into the first team and went on loan to Woking in 2008 then moved to Bradford City a year later. He made a permanent transfer to Oxford United in 2010 but did not make a first-team appearance, and in the following years he played for F.C. Halifax Town, Portsmouth, and Blackburn Rovers, before returning to Oxford in 2016. Eastwood has played internationally for England twice at under-18 and under-19 levels. Club career Huddersfield Town Born in Luton, Bedfordshire, Eastwood was a Huddersfield Town academy goalkeeper who made two appearances on the substitutes' bench in the 2005–06 season at the age of just 16. At the start of the 2006–07 season, he was the third-choice goalkeeper behind Paul Rachubka and new signing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scott Eastwood
Scott Eastwood (born Scott Clinton Reeves; March 21, 1986) is an American actor. His notable films are ''Flags of Our Fathers'' (2006), ''Gran Torino'' (2008), ''Invictus'' (2009), '' The Forger'' (2012), ''Trouble with the Curve'' (2012), '' Texas Chainsaw'' (2013), '' Fury'' (2014), ''The Perfect Wave'' (2014), '' The Longest Ride'' (2015), '' Mercury Plains'' (2016), ''Suicide Squad'' (2016), '' Snowden'' (2016), ''Walk of Fame'' (2017), ''The Fate of the Furious'' (2017), ''Overdrive'' (2017), ''Pacific Rim Uprising'' (2018), ''The Outpost'' (2020), ''Wrath of Man'' (2021) and ''Dangerous'' (2021). He is the son of actor and filmmaker Clint Eastwood. Early life Scott Clinton Reeves was born on March 21, 1986, at the Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula in Monterey, California. He is the son of actor-director Clint Eastwood and flight attendant Jacelyn Reeves. He has a younger sister named Kathryn who was born two years after him in 1988, and six known paternal half-s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ralph Eastwood
Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas Ralph Eastwood, (10 May 1890 – 15 February 1959) was a senior British Army officer and Governor of Gibraltar during the Second World War. Early life Thomas Ralph Eastwood was born on 10 May 1890 at Canterbury in the county of Kent in England. He was the second son of Captain (later Colonel) Hugh de Crespigny Eastwood of the King's Dragoon Guards who went on to distinguish himself in the Second Boer War, earned the Distinguished Service Order in 1902 and finished his military career as Inspector of Cyclist Units in 1918. Ralph's mother was Elinor, who married Hugh in 1887 and was the daughter of General John Hall Smyth. Elinor's sister was Ethel Smyth, the composer and militant suffragette. Ralph's older brother Hugh became a lieutenant commander in the Royal Navy. Eastwood was educated at Eton College from 1904 to 1908. Military career After leaving Eton, Eastwood was accepted into the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. He was commissioned into ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Eastwood
Paul B. Eastwood (born 3 December 1965) is a former Rugby League International goal kicking winger who played for Hull FC and Hull Kingston Rovers between 1984 and 1996. He also made 18 test appearances for the Great Britain between 1990 and 1992. Background Eastwood was born in Kingston upon Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, England Career Paul Eastwood was signed by Hull F.C. as a teenager and made his first appearance for them in 1984. Eastwood played , i.e. number 5, in Hull FC's 24-31 defeat by Castleford in the 1986 Yorkshire County Cup Final during the 1986–87 season at Headingley, Leeds on Saturday 11 October 1986. He set up the second try for Russ Walker as Hull F.C. won the 1991 Premiership final against Widnes at Old Trafford. After 10 seasons with Hull, Eastwood finished his career with local rivals Hull Kingston Rovers and, as of 2007, worked as the manager of a plumbing and heating company BSS in Manchester. By his own admission he was never the type of win ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Eastwood
Michael Barry Eastwood (born July 1, 1967) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player. Eastwood played 13 seasons in the National Hockey League for the Toronto Maple Leafs, Winnipeg Jets, Phoenix Coyotes, New York Rangers, St. Louis Blues, Chicago Blackhawks and Pittsburgh Penguins Playing career As a youth, Eastwood played in the 1979 Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournament with a minor ice hockey team from South Ottawa. Eastwood was drafted in the fifth Round, 91st overall by the Toronto Maple Leafs in the 1987 NHL Entry Draft. He then played four seasons with Western Michigan University of the CCHA. He played 164 games for Western Michigan, scoring 69 goals and adding 80 assists for 149 points. His best season was his last one when he had 29 goals and 32 assists in 42 games. In 1991, Eastwood made the jump to pro hockey. He did not become an NHL regular though until two years later. In 1995, Eastwood was traded to the Winnipeg Jets for Tie Domi. This started ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Eastwood
Mark Simon Eastwood (born 14 March 1971) is a British Conservative Party politician who was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Dewsbury in the 2019 general election. Early life Eastwood grew up in Thornhill Lees, before moving to the Wilton Estate in Batley at the age of six. He joined the Conservative Party at the age of seventeen, while he was a student at Batley Boys High School, now Upper Batley High School. Career Eastwood had a total of six unsuccessful attempts standing for the Dewsbury East ward of Kirklees Council. Before he became an MP, he worked for a company which provides medical furniture and equipment to the NHS, and served as Yorkshire and Humber representative of the Conservative Workers & Trade Unionists. Eastwood was elected as the MP for Dewsbury at the 2019 general election, gaining the seat from Labour's Paula Sherriff. He is a member of the Regulatory Reform Committee and the Committee on the Future Relationship with the European Union. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kyle Eastwood
Kyle Eastwood (born May 19, 1968) is an American jazz bassist and film composer. He studied film at the University of Southern California for two years before embarking on a music career. After becoming a session player in the early 1990s and leading his own quartet, he released his first solo album, ''From There to Here'', in 1998. His album ''The View From Here'' was released in 2013 by Jazz Village. In addition to his solo albums, Eastwood has composed music for nine of his father's, Clint Eastwood, films. Eastwood plays fretted and fretless electric bass guitar and double bass. Early life Kyle Clinton Eastwood was born May 19, 1968, the son of Margaret Neville Eastwood (nee Johnson) (born 1931) and actor-director Clint Eastwood. He has a sister, Alison, who was born in 1972. He also has six known paternal half-siblings: Laurie (b. 1954), Kimber (b. 1964), Scott (b. 1986), Kathryn (b. 1988), Francesca (b. 1993) and Morgan (b. 1996). Career Music Eastwood comes from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ken Eastwood
Kenneth Humphrey Eastwood (born 23 November 1935) is a former Australian cricketer who played one Test in 1971. A left-handed opening batsman, Ken Eastwood played first-class cricket for Victoria from 1959–60 to 1971–72. In 1969–70, when Victoria won the Sheffield Shield, he was their leading batsman, with 584 runs at an average of 41.71. In the 1970-71 Sheffield Shield, he scored 737 runs at an average of 122.83, with three centuries and a top score of 221. He replaced Bill Lawry in the Test team for the final match of the series against England in 1970-71, although Lawry had been the Test captain since 1968. Eastwood failed with the bat, scoring five and a duck, but took one wicket, that of Keith Fletcher, with his left-arm unorthodox spin. In a booklet about Eastwood produced by the Australian Cricket Society, it was revealed that although Eastwood played only one Test, he ended up with two caps. He was given two caps to try for size, and no one ever asked him to retu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kathy Eastwood
Kathleen DeGioia Eastwood (published as DeGioia-Eastwood) is an American astronomer known for her research on the formation and evolution of massive stars, and for her work on undergraduate education in astronomy. She is a professor emerita of astronomy and planetary science at Northern Arizona University. Education and career Eastwood graduated magna cum laude from Dartmouth College in 1976, with a bachelor's degree in physics. She earned her Ph.D. in physics from the University of Wyoming in 1982. Her dissertation, ''A study of star formation in NGC 6946'', was supervised by Gary Grasdalen. After working as an assistant scientist and instructor in astronomy at the University of Wisconsin from 1983 to 1987, she joined Northern Arizona University as an assistant professor of physics and astronomy in 1988, at the same time beginning her lifelong affiliation with the Lowell Observatory as an adjunct astronomer. She was tenured as an associate professor at Northern Arizona Universi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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