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Gee (surname)
Gee is a Chinese, Pakistani, English or Celtic surname. In English, it may be derived from Gee Cross, Stockport, Cheshire, which was named after a Gee family, or from the French personal name Guy or from the word ''geai'' meaning "jay bird" referring to someone who was a "bright chatterbox". In Celtic origins, Gee may derive from the Scots/Irish Gaelic personal name Gee or Mac Gee (an Anglicised form of Mac Aodh (pronounced "ee") meaning ‘son of Gee (Hugh)"). People with the surname * Allen Gee (1852–1939), British trade unionist and politician * Alonzo Gee (born 1987) American basketball player * Andrew Gee (rugby league) (born 1970), Australian rugby player * Andrew Gee (politician) (born c. 1968), Australian politician from New South Wales * Bobby Gee (born 1953), occasional spelling of singer Bobby G *Cara Gee (born 1983), Canadian actress * Catherine Gee (born 1967), British television presenter * Constance Bumgarner Gee, American scholar, memoirist, and medical ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English Language
English is a West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family, with its earliest forms spoken by the inhabitants of early medieval England. It is named after the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the island of Great Britain. Existing on a dialect continuum with Scots, and then closest related to the Low Saxon and Frisian languages, English is genealogically West Germanic. However, its vocabulary is also distinctively influenced by dialects of France (about 29% of Modern English words) and Latin (also about 29%), plus some grammar and a small amount of core vocabulary influenced by Old Norse (a North Germanic language). Speakers of English are called Anglophones. The earliest forms of English, collectively known as Old English, evolved from a group of West Germanic (Ingvaeonic) dialects brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers in the 5th century and further mutated by Norse-speaking Viking settlers starting in the 8th and 9th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bobby G
Bobby G (also known as Bobby Gee) (born Robert Alan Gubby, 23 August 1953) is a member of pop group Bucks Fizz, best known for winning the 1981 Eurovision Song Contest and for achieving three UK number one hits with "Making Your Mind Up" (1981), " The Land of Make Believe" (1981) and "My Camera Never Lies" (1982). Early career G was born in Epsom, Surrey, England. After leaving school at 14, he began working in a number of trades, the most significant of these being in construction. In his late teens he set up his own building business, based on the knowledge he had gained from his father, who was also a builder. For much of the 1970s he worked in building and plumbing. By the end of the decade, both businesses had failed, leaving him with heavy debts as well as having chalked up two marriages – both of which ended in divorce In 1979, G decided to embark on a career in music and began touring pubs and clubs as a solo singer/guitarist. In 1980, G auditioned for a role in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franky Gee
Francisco Alejandro Gutierrez (February 19, 1962 – October 22, 2005), known professionally as Franky Gee, was an American-German singer, rapper and soldier. He was the lead vocalist of the Europop group Captain Jack. Early life Gee was born in Havana, Cuba, with 3 siblings. His family emigrated to Miami, Florida, and he then went on to Mallorca, Spain when he was young. After college, he enlisted in the United States Army, and was stationed in Germany. While there, he began his career as a disc jockey. He grew tired of military service and decided to stay in Germany when his enlistment expired. In Darmstadt, Germany, he formed Captain Jack, alongside vocalist Liza da Costa, where he found success. Gee also wrestled for Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling in Japan on August 28, 2000 losing to Kodo Fuyuki at FMW's Super Dynamism 2000 pay-per-view. Death On October 17, 2005, he suffered a cerebral haemorrhage while walking with his son in Palma de Mallorca. He went into a coma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ethel Gee
Ethel Elizabeth Gee (10 May 1914 – 7 June 1984), nicknamed "Bunty", was an Englishwoman who helped her lover spy for the Soviet Union. She was a minor member of the Portland Spy Ring. Early life The daughter of a blacksmith, Ethel Gee lived on the Isle of Portland, England. She left school at 15 to begin employment. In October 1950, she became a filing clerk at the Admiralty Underwater Weapons Establishment at Portland. She thus handled top secret documents on Britain's underwater warfare work and , the Royal Navy's first nuclear submarine. Single, Gee had limited social life, since her spare time was spent looking after aging relatives, including her mother, aunt and uncle. Spying career Around 1955, Gee met Harry Houghton, a former sailor who had become a civil service clerk. Houghton was an alcoholic; his marriage ended in divorce in 1956. They would later pose as a married couple when they booked into London hotels. Houghton had been supplying military secrets to spies fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Pritchard Gee
Edward Pritchard Gee (1904–1968) was a Cambridge educated, Anglo-Indian tea-planter and an amateur naturalist in Assam, India. He is credited with the 1953 discovery of Gee's golden langur. He is notable as an early influential wildlife conservationist, especially for his 1959 and 1963 surveys and recommendations resulting in the creation of Chitwan National Park, the first of nine national parks in Nepal. Conservationist Gee was the fourth son of Rev. C. G. Gee, Vicar of Lowick and his wife, daughter of a Colonel Briggs of Hylton Castle. As a tea planter, Gee was part of a highly influential group of British landowners very close to the highest levels of provincial power. Soon after India's Independence, Gee was one of the first to assess the threats to endangered species and outline conservation measures to protect them. He believed cattle had no place in a sanctuary and thought they would arouse a sense of surprise, disappointment, and revulsion in tourists who had come ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dustin Gee
Gerald Harrison (24 June 1942 – 3 January 1986), who performed under the name Dustin Gee, was a British impressionist and comedian, best known for his double act with Les Dennis. Early life and career Born Gerald Harrison in York, on Wednesday, 24 June, 1942, Gee left school at 15 and studied at art college. He took a job as an artist, working with stained glass including at York Minster.''The Times'' obituary, 6 January 1986 He played in a rock band in the evenings called the Dare Devils, later 'Gerry B and the Hornets' and then 'Gerry B and the Rockafellas'. When the group disbanded, Gee became a compere, then a comedian. Gee was openly gay. After 20 years in showbusiness, Gee got his television break on '' Who Do You Do?'', an ITV showcase, that gave opportunities for up-and-coming entertainers and impressionists. From April 1980 to July 1985, Gee was a guest on ''Russ Abbot's Madhouse''. Les Dennis became one of the cast in 1982 and Gee and Dennis formed a double act ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dolly Gee (banker)
Dolly Gee was a Chinese-American banker. She was the manager of San Francisco's Chinatown branch of the Bank of America for 34 years and is considered the first woman bank manager in America. Biography Gee was born in China and came to the United States as an infant in 1901. When Gee was 15 or 16 years old, her father, Charles F. Gee, was looking for a young person to work with the French American Bank to develop its business in San Francisco's Chinatown. Gee persuaded her father to introduce her to the hiring manager and she was given the opportunity. She successfully signed up new customers for the bank and when the bank opened a branch in Chinatown in 1923, Gee became manager. In 1929 the bank merged with the Bank of America and the branch moved location, however Gee remained as branch manager. Under Gee's management the branch grew to be the 60th most profitable of the bank's 800 branches, and deposits increased from $2 million to $20 million. In November 1962, as she was p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dolly Gee
Dolly Maizie Gee (born July 1, 1959) is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Central District of California. Early life and education Gee was born in Hawthorne, California, the daughter of Cantonese immigrants from Taishan. Gee's father was a World War II veteran who later worked as an aerospace engineer on projects like the Apollo missions and the Space Shuttle, while her mother was a garment worker. Gee earned a Bachelors of Arts from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1981 and a Juris Doctor from University of California, Los Angeles School of Law in 1984.President Obama No ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dillon Gee
Dillon Kyle Gee (born April 28, 1986) is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Mets, Kansas City Royals, Texas Rangers and Minnesota Twins. In addition, Gee pitched for the Chunichi Dragons of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB). Early life Dillon Gee was born on April 28, 1986, in Cleburne, Texas, the second son of Kevin, a Fort Worth Fire Department fireman, and Kelly Gee. His brother Jared is five years his senior. Gee in played baseball at Cleburne High School in Cleburne. In his first start in his senior year, Gee pitched a no-hitter, falling one out short of a perfect game. He later threw a second no-hitter, finishing the year as the team's Most Valuable Player and earning first team all-state and all-district honors. As a batter, he hit .443 with six home runs and 46 RBI in his senior year. He also played for the school's golf team. Collegiate career In 2005, Gee attended the University of Texas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Delbert Gee
Delbert C. Gee is a retired Judge of the Superior Court of California (United States) in the County of Alameda and served from his appointment in 2002 by the Governor of the State of California until his retirement in 2022. Judge Gee presided over a civil direct calendar and trial court, and a criminal felony and misdemeanor calendar and trial court, as well as a probate, conservatorship, and guardianship court, a collaborative and drug court, and a juvenile dependency and delinquency court, in the court's Hayward, Oakland, Alameda, and Berkeley courthouses. He was the last judge to preside over criminal cases in the Alameda courthouse, and he presided over two civil jury trials conducted entirely by video during the COVID-19 pandemic. He has also been a supervising judge of the Alameda courthouse and the court's probate departments, and was a member of the court’s executive committee. He was the seventh Asian Pacific Islander American Superior Court judge in Alameda Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Gee (other)
David Gee may refer to: * David Gee (artist) David Gee (Coventry, 1793 – 1872) was an English oil painter who took his inspiration from the local area. Gee mostly painted battle scenes, landscapes as well as pictures inspired by local legends such as Lady Godiva. He was active as a ... (1793–1872), English painter * David Gee (forger) (1929–2013), Australian coin forger * David Gee (sheriff), sheriff of Hillsborough County, Florida * David Gee (soccer), soccer coach and administrator * David G. Gee (born 1937), English-born geologist working in Sweden {{hndis, Gee, David ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Darron Gee
Darron Gee is an English former footballer who played as a midfielder. He was most recently the assistant manager of York City. Gee played in non-League football with Hucknall Town, before moving into management with Dunkirk, with whom he won promotion to the Central Midlands League Supreme Division in the 1995–96 season. He went on to have spells as Gary Mills' assistant manager at Grantham Town, King's Lynn and Tamworth. He took over as Tamworth manager in 2002, and in a two-year spell won the Southern League Premier Division title, reached an FA Trophy final and kept the club in the Football Conference. He worked with Mills again at Notts County and Alfreton Town, and after initially taking over as manager at Alfreton, followed Mills to Tamworth in 2007. Having won the Conference North title in 2009, the pair moved on to York City in 2010, winning the Conference Premier play-offs and FA Trophy in 2011–12. Both left the club in 2013. Playing career Gee spent 12 years ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
