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Finan (surname)
Finan is a surname. Notable people with the name include: * Bobby Finan Robert Joseph Finan (1 March 1912 – 25 July 1983) was a Scottish professional footballer. He played as a forward. Club career Finan was born in Old Kilpatrick in West Dunbartonshire. He started his career at Scottish junior club Yoker Athlet ... (1912–1983), Scottish professional football player * Joe Finan (1927–2006), American popular radio show host * John Finan (1898–1984), Irish Clann na Talmhan politician * W. Timothy Finan (born 1950), American politician and jurist See also * Finan of Lindisfarne (died 661), or Saint Finan, Irish monk * Finnan (other) {{surname, Finan fr:Finan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bobby Finan
Robert Joseph Finan (1 March 1912 – 25 July 1983) was a Scottish professional footballer. He played as a forward. Club career Finan was born in Old Kilpatrick in West Dunbartonshire. He started his career at Scottish junior club Yoker Athletic before signing for Blackpool, managed by fellow Scot Sandy MacFarlane, in 1933. He made his debut for the club in the penultimate league game of the 1933–34 season, a 7–0 defeat at Grimsby Town on 28 April 1934. He went on to score three more goals during that league campaign. Finan scored his first professional goal in the opening game of the following 1934–35 campaign, a 5–1 victory at Bury on 25 August 1934. In 1935–36, with Jimmy Hampson injured, Finan deputised at centre-forward and ended the season as the Second Division's joint-top scorer with 34 goals. He scored two hat-tricks: the first in a 6–2 win against Charlton Athletic at Bloomfield Road on 22 February 1936, and the second in a 6–0 whitewash of Newc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Finan
Joseph Albert Finan (July 6, 1927 – December 19, 2006) was an American radio show host. Finan was born in 1927 in Butler, Pennsylvania. He served in the United States Navy 1944–45 and attended Carnegie Tech, now Carnegie Mellon University, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He began his broadcasting career as a weatherman in early 1950s at KYW-TV (now WKYC-TV) and radio personality on KYW radio in Cleveland, Ohio. While at KYW-TV, Finan worked alongside sports anchors Bob Neal and Jim Graner, and preceded weatherman Dick Goddard. While a top rated disc jockey at KYW, Finan was implicated in the 1960 payola scandal that also named Alan Freed and others. It led to Finan's departure from KYW and ended the career of Freed, who first coined the name Rock and Roll. Finan was hired by KTLN-Denver owner Richard K. Wheeler and named program director of the top forty station. By 1963 Joe Finan pioneered a talk radio format and renamed the station K-Talk with the call letters KTLK. Finan, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Finan
John Finan (10 September 1898 – 24 May 1984) was an Irish Clann na Talmhan politician. A farmer by profession, he first stood for election to Dáil Éireann Dáil Éireann ( , ; ) is the lower house, and principal chamber, of the Oireachtas (Irish legislature), which also includes the President of Ireland and Seanad Éireann (the upper house).Article 15.1.2º of the Constitution of Ireland read ... at the 1948 general election for the Roscommon constituency but was unsuccessful. He was subsequently elected to Seanad Éireann on the Administrative Panel. He was elected to the Dáil at the 1951 general election as a Clann na Talmhan Teachta Dála (TD) for Roscommon. He lost his seat at the 1954 general election. His eldest daughter, Mary, became a prominent businesswoman. References 1898 births 1984 deaths Clann na Talmhan TDs Clann na Talmhan senators Irish farmers Members of the 14th Dáil Members of the 6th Seanad Politicians from County Roscommo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Finan Of Lindisfarne
Finan of Lindisfarne (died 10 or 17 February 661), also known as Saint Finan, was an Irish monk, trained at Iona Abbey in Scotland, who became the second bishop of Lindisfarne from 651 until 661. Life Finan was appointed to Lindisfarne in 651, to succeed Aidan. Originally from Ireland, he built on Lindisfarne, a cathedral "in the Irish fashion", employing hewn oak, with a thatched roof. Later Archbishop Theodore of Tarsus dedicated to St. Peter. Finan also founded St. Mary's Priory at the mouth of the River Tyne. He also participated in the founding of Gilling Abbey, established by Queen Eanflæd in memory of her kinsman Oswine of Deira. He converted the kings Sigebert of Essex and Peada of the Middle Angles to Christianity.Kirby ''Earliest English Kings'' pp. 79–80 Bede is the main source for Finan's life.Walsh ''New Dictionary of Saints'' p. 203 He is specially noted by Bede as having borne an important part in the conversion of the northern Saxons. The breviary of Abe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Finnan (other)
Finnan may refer to: Places *Findon, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, known as Finnan People * Aengus Finnan (born 1972), Canadian folk musician * Connie Finnan (born 1962), Irish professional darts player * Frank Finnan (1897–1966), Australian politician * Sharon Finnan (fl. 1988–2015), Australian netball player * Steve Finnan Stephen John Finnan (born 24 April 1976) is an Irish former international footballer who played as a right back. He is the only player to have played in the World Cup, UEFA Champions League, UEFA Cup, Intertoto Cup, all four levels of the Engl ... (born 1976), Irish footballer See also * Finnian (other) * Finan (other) * Finnan haddie {{disambiguation, surname, geo pl:Finan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |