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Fagin (surname)
Fagin is a surname. Notable people with the name include: * Betsy Fagin (born 1972), American poet * Claire Fagin (1926–2024), American nurse, educator, academic and interim university president * Dan Fagin (born 1963), American journalist * Joe Fagin (1940–2023), British pop singer-songwriter * Joe Fagin (baseball), American Major League Baseball catcher in 1895 * Larry Fagin (1937 – 2017), American poet, editor, publisher, and teacher * Lucas Fagin (born 1980), Argentinian composer * Ronald Fagin Ronald Fagin (born 1945) is an American mathematician and computer scientist, and IBM Fellow at the IBM Almaden Research Center. He is known for his work in database theory, finite model theory, and reasoning about knowledge. Biography Ron ... (born 1945), American mathematician and computer scientist See also * Fagan, surname * Fagen, surname {{surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Surname
In some cultures, a surname, family name, or last name is the portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family, tribe or community. Practices vary by culture. The family name may be placed at either the start of a person's full name, as the forename, or at the end; the number of surnames given to an individual also varies. As the surname indicates genetic inheritance, all members of a family unit may have identical surnames or there may be variations; for example, a woman might marry and have a child, but later remarry and have another child by a different father, and as such both children could have different surnames. It is common to see two or more words in a surname, such as in compound surnames. Compound surnames can be composed of separate names, such as in traditional Spanish culture, they can be hyphenated together, or may contain prefixes. Using names has been documented in even the oldest historical records. Examples of surnames are documented in the 11th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Betsy Fagin
Betsy Fagin (born 1972) is an American poet. She is the author of ''All is Not Yet Lost'' ( Belladonna, 2015), ''Names Disguised'' (Make Now Books, 2014) as well as numerous chapbooks including ''Poverty Rush'' (Three Sad Tigers, 2011), ''the science seemed so solid'' (dusie kollektiv, 2011), ''Belief Opportunity'' (Big Game Books Tinyside, 2008), ''Rosemary Stretch'' (dusie e/chap, 2006), ''For every solution there is a problem'' (Open 24 Hours, 2003), and a number of self-published chapbooks. She received degrees in literature and creative writing from Vassar College and CUNY Brooklyn College and completed a Master of Library Science degree in information studies at the University of Maryland, College Park, where she was an American Library Association Spectrum Scholar. She was named one of ''Library Journal''s Movers & Shakers in 2012, for her work with The People's Library at Occupy Wall Street. Fagin served as Editor for the Poetry Project Newsletter from 2015–2017. She was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claire Fagin
Claire Mintzer Fagin FAAN (born November 25, 1926) is an American nurse, educator, academic, and consultant. She has a bachelor's degree in science from Wagner College, a master's in nursing from Columbia University and a Ph.D from New York University, all in New York City. Fagin’s major contributions to psychiatric nursing, nursing education and geriatric care were always underlined with a strong belief in the power of the activist consumer. As a result of her work to change hospital visiting policies, Fagin is considered to be one of the founders of family centered care and is the first woman to serve as president of an Ivy League university. Biography Fagin was the daughter of Mae and Harry Mintzer, immigrants to New York City. Her parents wished for her to become a medical doctor like her aunt, who was a dermatologist in Queens. She elected to study nursing at Wagner College and earned a doctorate at New York University. Her doctoral dissertation covered the concept of "roo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dan Fagin
Dan Fagin (born February 1, 1963) is an American journalist who specializes in environmental science. He won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction for his best-selling book '' Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation''. ''Toms River'' also won the Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism, the National Academies Communication Award, and the Rachel Carson Environment Book Award of the Society of Environmental Journalists, among other literary prizes. Early life Fagin was born in Oklahoma City and attended high school at Bishop McGuinness Catholic High School, where he was friends with another future author, Blake Bailey. Fagin graduated in 1985 from Dartmouth College, where he served as the editor-in-chief of ''The Dartmouth'' (the college's daily newspaper). Career From 1991-2005, Fagin was the environmental writer at ''Newsday'', where he was a principal member of two reporting teams that were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. Fagin is a former pre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Fagin
Joe Fagin (born January 1940) is a British pop singer-songwriter. He is best known for the 1984 chart hit "Breakin' Away / That's Livin' Alright", and for singing a version of " As Time Goes By" for the 1990s BBC comedy series of the same name starring Judi Dench and Geoffrey Palmer. Biography Fagin was musical director for Jim Davidson, including his 1983 Falklands tour. "Breakin' Away" / "That's Livin' Alright", the opening and closing theme songs to the first series of the comedy-drama ''Auf Wiedersehen, Pet'', which as a double A-side reached number 3 in the UK Singles Chart in January 1984. In 1982, he had his only U.S. Billboard Hot 100 charting single, "Younger Days". It peaked as high as No. 80 on the Billboard Hot 100, and was released as a single in the States on Millennium Records. In 1985 he was part of The Crowd, which reached number one with the charity single "You'll Never Walk Alone" for the Bradford City stadium fire. "Get it Right" and "Back With the Boy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Fagin (baseball)
Joseph Fagin was a catcher for the St. Louis Browns of the National League The National League of Professional Baseball Clubs, known simply as the National League (NL), is the older of two leagues constituting Major League Baseball (MLB) in the United States and Canada, and the world's oldest extant professional team ... in 1895. External links * 19th-century baseball players St. Louis Browns (NL) players Austin Senators players Cairo Egyptians players Baseball players from Cincinnati Major League Baseball catchers {{baseball-catcher-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Larry Fagin
Larry Fagin (July 21, 1937 – May 27, 2017) was an American poet, editor, publisher, and teacher, and a member of the New York School. Biography Born in Far Rockaway, New York City, Larry Fagin grew up in New York, Hollywood, and Europe. He began associating with poets and writers in 1957, meeting David Meltzer in Los Angeles, and Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, and Gregory Corso two years later in Paris. In 1962 he became part of the circle of poets around Jack Spicer in San Francisco, and befriended Michael McClure, Philip Whalen, and Robert Duncan. At the end of 1965 he traveled to London where he lived for two years and met his first wife, Joan Inglis. They returned to New York, and settled in San Francisco for most of 1968. Clark Coolidge became a close friend. Returning to New York within the year, he began editing ''Adventures in Poetry'' magazine and books, which featured most of the poets of the New York School. In 1975, with the dancer Barbara Dilley, he cofound ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucas Fagin
Lucas Fagin (born 16 June 1980) is an Argentinian composer and co-founder of – an online library of contemporary music. Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Lucas Fagin began his musical education as an outsider of the academic world studying composition, piano, and electric guitar under the mentorship of composer Daniel Montes, guitar player Ricardo Martinez, and pianist Aldo Antognazzi. In 2003, he moved to France where he studied composition at the Conservatoire de Paris with Marco Stroppa, Stefano Gervasoni, and Luis Naón. He obtained his degree in 2007. In 2009, in parallel with his activities as a composer, he co-founded BabelScores, a digital music library and database, alongside composer Pedro Garcia-Velasquez. He received important commissions by Ensemble InterContemporain in 2011 and 2020, by the French state in 2012 and 2018, by Teatro Colón de Buenos Aires in 2011 and 2018, as well as by Radio France in 2015, 2017 and, 2020. During the year 2016 to 2017, he was an a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ronald Fagin
Ronald Fagin (born 1945) is an American mathematician and computer scientist, and IBM Fellow at the IBM Almaden Research Center. He is known for his work in database theory, finite model theory, and reasoning about knowledge. Biography Ron Fagin was born and grew up in Oklahoma City, where he attended Northwest Classen High School. He was later elected to the Northwest Classen Hall of Fame. He completed his undergraduate degree at Dartmouth College. Fagin received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1973, where he worked under the supervision of Robert Vaught. He joined the IBM Research Division in 1973, spending two years at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center, and then transferred in 1975 to what is now the IBM Almaden Research Center in San Jose, California. He has served as program committee chair for ACM Symposium on Principles of Database Systems 1984, ACM Symposium on Principles of Database Systems 1984, Theoretical Aspects of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fagan
Fagan or Phagan is also a Norman-Irish surname, derived from the Latin word 'paganus' meaning ‘rural’ or ‘rustic’. Variants of the name Fagan include Fegan and Fagen. It was brought to Ireland during the Anglo-Norman invasion in the twelfth century and is now considered very Irish. In some cases it is a reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Fágáin or Ó Faodhagáin, which are probably dialect forms of Ó hÓgáin (see Hogan, Hagan) and Ó hAodhagáin (see Hagan). Irish lenited f (spelled fh) is soundless. Notable people with the surname include: * Alex Fagan (1950–2010), former chief of the San Francisco Police Department * Andrew Fagan (born 1962), New Zealand singer, writer and songwriter * Ann Fagan Ginger (born 1925), lawyer, teacher, writer, and political activist * Audrey Fagan (1962–2007), former Australian Capital Territory Chief Police Officer * Brian Fagan (born 1936), archaeologist and anthropologist * Carson Fagan (born 1982), Caymanian international foot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
