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Gooding (surname)
Gooding is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Caroline Gooding (1959–2014), British solicitor and activist for individuals with disabilities *Cuba Gooding Sr. (1944–2017), American soul singer **Cuba Gooding Jr. (born 1968), American actor and son of Cuba Gooding Sr. **Omar Gooding (born 1976), American actor and son of Cuba Gooding Sr. *Cynthia Gooding (1924–1988), American folk singer *David Gooding (1947–2009), British academic *Frank R. Gooding (1859–1928), American politician *Hattie B. Gooding (1877 - 1938), American publicity agent *Jason Gooding (born 1979), Trinidadian triathlete *Maria Simonds-Gooding (born 1939), Indian born Anglo-Irish artist *Mick Gooding Michael Charles Gooding (born 12 April 1959) is a former professional footballer and football manager. In the twilight of a successful playing career, Gooding was appointed joint player-manager of Reading with Jimmy Quinn when manager Mark M ... (born 1959), British football ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caroline Gooding
Caroline Gillian Gooding (7 March 1959 – 19 July 2014) was a British solicitor and activist for disabled people. She took up activism after having a stroke while in her early 20s. Gooding directed her efforts to publishing literature advocating a human rights-based approach to disability, advising, assisting and leading governmental disability commissions, and drafting government legislation to improve the status of disabled individuals, such as the Disability Discrimination Act 1995, the Disability Discrimination Act 2005 and the Equality Act 2010. The Caroline Gooding Memorial Lecture is named after the activist. Early life and education Gooding was born in the Scottish city of Glasgow on 7 March 1959. She was the daughter of the general practitioner Keith Gooding and his wife Jessie (née Strange). At the age of two, Gooding and her family moved to London, and was educated at the St Paul's Girls' School. She graduated with a first in history and social and political science a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cuba Gooding Sr
Cuba Mark Gooding Sr. (April 27, 1944 – April 20, 2017) was an American singer. He was the most successful lead singer of the soul group The Main Ingredient, replacing former lead singer Donald McPherson who was diagnosed with leukemia in 1971. According to ''Billboard'', as the lead vocalist he scored five top 10 hits, most notably, "Everybody Plays the Fool" (1972), peaking at No. 2 for three weeks, and peaking at No. 3 on ''Billboard''′s all-genre Hot-100 list. "Just Don't Want to Be Lonely" (1974), "Happiness Is Just Around the Bend" and "Rolling Down a Mountainside" were also top 10 hits on ''Billboard'' charts. He also recorded as a solo artist with hits of his own. Early life Born in Harlem, New York City, Gooding was a son of Dudley MacDonald Gooding (1890–1955) and his wife Addie Alston. The elder Gooding was a native of Barbados who fled the island in 1936 to Cuba, and met and married a woman there. When she was murdered because of their affiliation with Pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cuba Gooding Jr
Cuba Mark Gooding Jr. (born January 2, 1968) is an American actor. He is the recipient of an Academy Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and an Emmy nomination. After his breakthrough role as Tre Styles in ''Boyz n the Hood'' (1991), he appeared in ''A Few Good Men'' (1992), ''The Tuskegee Airmen'' (1995), ''Outbreak'' (1995), and ''Jerry Maguire'' (1996), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. He gained later fame for his roles in ''Men of Honor'' (2000) as Carl Brashear, and in Michael Bay's World War II epic ''Pearl Harbor'' (2001) as Doris Miller. His other films include ''As Good as It Gets'' (1997), '' What Dreams May Come'' (1998), ''Rat Race'' (2001), ''The Fighting Temptations ''(2003), '' American Gangster'' (2007), ''Gifted Hands ''(2009), ''Lee Daniels' The Butler'' (2013), and ''Selma'' (2014) as civil rights attorney Fred Gray. He also provided the voice of Buck the Horse in the animated feature film ''Home on the Range'' (2004). In 201 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Omar Gooding
Omar Miles Gooding Sr., also known by his stage name, Big OOmar Gooding Pursues Rap March 15, 2010. Accessed April 17, 2012 (born October 19, 1976), is an American actor. Early life and education Omar Gooding was born in , on October 19, 1976, to Shirley (née Sullivan) and , the former lead singer for |
Cynthia Gooding
Cynthia Gooding (August 12, 1924 – February 10, 1988) was an American folk singer who recorded traditional songs from various countries for Elektra Records in the 1950s and 1960s. Judy Collins wrote that she had been "inspired" by her. Life and career She was born in Rochester, Minnesota, and grew up in Lake Forest, Illinois. In her late teens she lived in Mexico City, where she acquired a love of folk music and the blues, learned Spanish, and developed her talents as a singer and guitar player. On returning to the US in the mid-1940s, she moved to New York City, and—encouraged by Josh White—began singing folk songs in Greenwich Village clubs, particularly with regular appearances at the Soho club and, later, Gerdes Folk City. Described as tall and elegant, she developed a following in New York, and her repertoire expanded to include Turkish as well as traditional English songs, and Spanish, Mexican and Italian folk songs. She married Turkish-born Hasan Özbekhan in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Gooding
David Charles Gooding (21 November 1947 – 13 December 2009) was a Professor of History and Philosophy of Science, and the Director of the Science Studies Centre, at the University of Bath, UK . He was President of the History of Science Section of the BAAS (2002–2003). Career For over 30 years Gooding wrote and lectured on the role of visualisation, inference, communication, creativity and human agency in the sciences and was a specialist on the life and work of Michael Faraday. During 2002–2003 he held a Leverhulme The Leverhulme Trust () is a large national grant-making organisation in the United Kingdom. It was established in 1925 under the will of the 1st Viscount Leverhulme (1851–1925), with the instruction that its resources should be used to suppo ... Research Fellowship for research on Visualisation in the Sciences. From 1991 to 1993 he held a Research Leave Fellowship from the MRC-ESRC-SERC (Joint Research Councils Initiative on HCI-Cognitive Science) fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank R
Frank or Franks may refer to: People * Frank (given name) * Frank (surname) * Franks (surname) * Franks, a medieval Germanic people * Frank, a term in the Muslim world for all western Europeans, particularly during the Crusades - see Farang Currency * Liechtenstein franc or frank, the currency of Liechtenstein since 1920 * Swiss franc or frank, the currency of Switzerland since 1850 * Westphalian frank, currency of the Kingdom of Westphalia between 1808 and 1813 * The currencies of the German-speaking cantons of Switzerland (1803–1814): ** Appenzell frank ** Argovia frank ** Basel frank ** Berne frank ** Fribourg frank ** Glarus frank ** Graubünden frank ** Luzern frank ** Schaffhausen frank ** Schwyz frank ** Solothurn frank ** St. Gallen frank ** Thurgau frank ** Unterwalden frank ** Uri frank ** Zürich frank Places * Frank, Alberta, Canada, an urban community, formerly a village * Franks, Illinois, United States, an unincorporated community * Franks, Missouri, Unite ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hattie B
Hattie or Hatty may refer to: People *Hattie Alexander (1901–1968), American pediatrician and microbiologist *Hattie Helen Gould Beck, birth name of burlesque dancer Sally Rand (1904–1979) *Hattie Bessent (1908–2015), American psychiatric nurse *Hattie Beverly (1874–1904), first African-American schoolteacher in Grand Rapids, Michigan *Hattie Canty (1933–2012), African-American labor activist *Hattie Caraway (1878–1950), first female United States senator *Hattie Carnegie (1889–1956), American clothing and jewelry designer *Hattie Carthan (1901–1984), community activist in New York *Hattie B. Gooding (1877 - 1938), American publicity agent *Hattie Gossett, African-American feminist writer *Hattie Hart (), American Memphis blues singer and songwriter *Hattie N. Harrison (born 1928), American politician *Hattie Hayridge (born 1959), British stand-up comedian and actress *Hattie Jacques (1922–1980), English comedy actress *Hattie Johnson (born 1981), American Olympi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jason Gooding
Jason Gooding (born March 2, 1979) is a Triathlete from Trinidad and Tobago. He is a nine-time national champion. Competition highlights *Elite Male Winner of the Maple Lodge Farms Triathlon Series 2003 *Represented Trinidad and Tobago at 6 World Triathlon Championships *Competed at 6 International Triathlon Union ITU World Cup races *Competed at the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester, England *9 X Trinidad and Tobago National Triathlon Champion *Competition wins in Grenada, Barbados, Nevis, Puerto Rico Puerto Rico (; abbreviated PR; tnq, Boriken, ''Borinquen''), officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico ( es, link=yes, Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, lit=Free Associated State of Puerto Rico), is a Caribbean island and Unincorporated ..., Canada, United States References External links Jason GOODINGOdessey Timing CompanyRainbow Warriors Triathlon ClubTrinidad and Tobago Triathlon Association 1979 births Living people Trinidad and Tobago male triat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria Simonds-Gooding
Maria Simonds-Gooding RHA (born India 1939) is an Indian-born Irish painter and printmaker Printmaking is the process of creating work of art, artworks by printing, normally on paper, but also on fabric, wood, metal, and other surfaces. "Traditional printmaking" normally covers only the process of creating prints using a hand proce ... based in the Dingle peninsula. Simonds-Gooding is a member of Aosdána. Her brother was Dublin based business executive Anthony Simonds-Gooding. Background At the age of seven, Simonds-Gooding moved with her family from India to Ireland. She attended National College of Art and Design in Dublin and Bath Academy of Art in Corsham. References External links * People from the Dingle Peninsula Alumni of the National College of Art and Design Indian people of English descent Indian people of Irish descent 20th-century Anglo-Irish people 21st-century Anglo-Irish people Indian emigrants to Ireland {{Ireland-artist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mick Gooding
Michael Charles Gooding (born 12 April 1959) is a former professional footballer and football manager. In the twilight of a successful playing career, Gooding was appointed joint player-manager of Reading with Jimmy Quinn when manager Mark McGhee acrimoniously left to take the reins at Leicester City. Under their guidance, Reading finished second in the First Division but was left to battle for a place in the Premier League through the playoffs, as the Premier League was being reduced in size from 22 teams to 20. Reading were beaten 4-3 by Bolton Wanderers in the playoff final at Wembley. Gooding and Quinn remained in charge at Elm Park for two seasons afterward, until they were replaced by Terry Bullivant after failing to mount any further promotion challenges. After Reading, Gooding had a short spell at Southend United, before retiring from football. He remained at Roots Hall for a while as a coach. He has since carved himself a career as a radio commentary pundit, perfo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
