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Gunn (surname)
In some cases the surname Gunn is derived from the Old Norse masculine personal name ''Gunnr''. In other cases it may be derived from the Old Norse feminine personal name ''Gunnhildr''. Reaney; Wilson (1995) p. 208. People with the surname * Alexander Gunn (politician), Canadian politician * Angus Gunn, footballer * Anna Gunn, actress * Anton Gunn, American politician * Austin Gunn, ring name of American professional wrestler Austin Sopp (born 1994), son of Billy Gunn * Bart Gunn, ring name of American professional wrestler Mike Polchlopek (born 1963) * Battiscombe Gunn (1883–1950), Egyptologist * Ben Gunn (guitarist), British guitarist with The Sisters of Mercy * Billy Gunn, ring name of American professional wrestler Monty Sopp (born 1963) * Bobby Gunn, Canadian boxer * Bryan Gunn, Scottish footballer * Chanda Gunn, American ice hockey goaltender * Charles Gunn (actor) (1883–1918), American actor * Charles Gunn (athlete) (1885–1983), British racewalker and Olympic medali ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Old Norse
Old Norse, Old Nordic, or Old Scandinavian, is a stage of development of North Germanic languages, North Germanic dialects before their final divergence into separate Nordic languages. Old Norse was spoken by inhabitants of Scandinavia and their Viking expansion, overseas settlements and chronologically coincides with the Viking Age, the Christianization of Scandinavia and the consolidation of Scandinavian kingdoms from about the 7th to the 15th centuries. The Proto-Norse language developed into Old Norse by the 8th century, and Old Norse began to develop into the modern North Germanic languages in the mid-to-late 14th century, ending the language phase known as Old Norse. These dates, however, are not absolute, since written Old Norse is found well into the 15th century. Old Norse was divided into three dialects: Old West Norse, ''Old West Norse'' or ''Old West Nordic'' (often referred to as ''Old Norse''), Old East Norse, ''Old East Norse'' or ''Old East Nordic'', and ''Ol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colten Gunn
Colten Sopp (born May 18, 1991), better known by the ring name Colten Gunn, is an American professional wrestler. He is currently signed to All Elite Wrestling, where he is one-half of the tag team Gunn Club (alongside his brother Austin). He is the son of WWE Hall of Famer Billy Gunn. Early life Sopp attended Florida State University, graduating in 2013. Prior to becoming a professional wrestler, he worked in the construction industry in Southern California. Professional wrestling career All Elite Wrestling (2020–present) Sopp was trained to wrestle by his father, Billy Gunn. On June 17, 2020, he appeared with the Jacksonville, Florida-based promotion All Elite Wrestling (AEW), accompanying his father to ringside for his match against Maxwell Jacob Friedman on ''AEW Dynamite'' and being confronted by Friedman's bodyguard Wardlow. Later that month, Sopp's father filed a trademark for "Colten Gunn". On episode #53 of the web television show ''AEW Dark'', which aired on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lance Gunn
Lance Cameron Gunn (born January 9, 1970) is a former American football defensive back who played in the National Football League (NFL) and NFL Europe. Early years Gunn grew up in an east suburb of Houston, Texas. He attended North Shore High School in Cloverleaf, Texas, and played high school football there. College career Gunn played college football at the University of Texas in Austin, Texas where he pledged the Epsilon Iota chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha. He red-shirted his freshman year in 1988, then played three seasons for head coach David McWilliams (1989–91), and his senior season (1992) for head coach John Mackovic. His sophomore season in 1990, Texas won the Southwest Conference and finished the regular season ranked No. 3. Gunn was a three-time All-SWC selection (1989–91) and named an All-American safety in 1992. College stats include 298 tackles (188 solo) and six QB sacks. He led the Longhorns in interceptions with five in 1991 and tied for the lead in blocke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Gunn (other)
John Gunn may refer to: * John Gunn (Australian politician) (1884–1959), 29th Premier of South Australia * John Gunn (Australian writer) (born 1925), Australian writer, sailor and aviation journalist * John Gunn (cricketer) (1876–1963), English cricketer * John Gunn (geologist) (1801–1890), English geologist *John Gunn (Manitoba politician) (1826–1898), politician in Manitoba, Canada *John Gunn (New South Wales politician) (1860–1910), Australian politician and pastoralist *John Gunn (Scottish writer) (c. 1765–c. 1824), Scottish cellist, writer on music, and professor *John Alexander Gunn (1896–1975), philosopher *John Currie Gunn (1916–2002), Scottish scientist *John Edward Gunn (1863–1924), Irish-born prelate of the Roman Catholic Church *John Oliver Gunn Jr. (1939–2010), American race car driver *John R. Gunn (1877–1956), American clergyman *J. A. W. Gunn (1937-2023), Canadian political philosopher *J. B. Gunn (1928–2008), discovered the Gunn effect and inv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeannie Gunn
Jeannie Gunn (pen name, Mrs Aeneas Gunn) (5 June 18709 June 1961) was an Australian novelist, teacher and Returned and Services League of Australia (RSL) volunteer. Life Jeannie Taylor was born in Carlton, Melbourne, the last of five children of Thomas Johnstone Taylor. Taylor was a Baptist minister who went into business and later worked on the Melbourne '' Argus''. Matriculating through Melbourne University after being educated at home, she ran a school with her sisters between 1889 and 1896, after which she worked as a visiting teacher. On New Year's Eve 1901, she married the explorer, pastoralist and journalist Aeneas James Gunn, in the Presbyterian Church. Shortly after, in early 1902, they travelled to Darwin (then called Palmerston) and then to Elsey, an outlying cattle station on the Roper River, near the current town of Mataranka. After a year at the Elsey, Jeannie Gunn's husband died in March 1903 from complications of malaria and she returned to live in Melbo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jason Gunn
Jason Gunn (born 26 December 1968) is a New Zealand television and radio personality. He is known for '' The Son of a Gunn Show, What Now, Dancing with the Stars, Wheel of Fortune'', and ''The Rich List'', and also afternoon shows on radio stations Classic Hits and More FM. Early career Gunn said he learned many of his presenting skills in his first few months at Christchurch from the experienced children's TV crew and presenters around him. He hosted '' After School'' (1989) and co-hosted '' The Son of a Gunn Show'' (1992–1995) and '' Jase TV'' (1992) with his sidekick Thingee, a grey puppet with bulbous eyes. Gunn and Thingee also starred in ''Jase and Thingee's Big Adventure'', a straight-to-video kids movie based on ''The Son of a Gunn Show''. Thingee infamously lost an eye during the filming of a ''Son of a Gunn'' episode. As the show was pre-recorded, the footage never made it to air until several years later when a late-night comedy programme ended up showing the i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Gunn (other)
James Gunn (born 1966) is an American filmmaker. James Gunn may also refer to: * James E. Gunn (1923–2020), American science fiction scholar and writer *James Andrew Gunn, British medical doctor, founder of the British Pharmacological Society *James Gunn (astronomer) (born 1938), American astronomer * James Gunn (explorer) of Scotland, member of Henry Sinclair's survey expedition * James Gunn (Idaho politician) (1843–1911), American congressman from Idaho * James Gunn (Georgia politician) (1753–1801), United States senator from Georgia ** SS James Gunn, a Liberty ship *James Gunn (Australian politician), Tasmanian politician from the electoral district of Sorell (1872–1882) * James Gunn (screenwriter) (1920–1966), American film and television screenwriter See also *Herbert James Gunn Sir Herbert James Gunn RA RP (30 June 1893– 30 December 1964) was a Scottish landscape and portrait painter. Early life Sir Herbert James Gunn (also known as Sir James Gunn) was b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greg Gunn
The killing of Greg Gunn occurred on the morning of February 25, 2016, in Montgomery, Alabama. Gunn, a 58-year-old African-American man, was shot and killed near his home after fleeing from a stop-and-frisk initiated by Aaron Cody Smith, a white police officer. Smith was charged with murder and indicted by a grand jury in 2016. The case came to trial in late 2019 following a change of venue to Ozark, Alabama. Smith was found guilty of manslaughter, and, in January 2020, was sentenced to 14 years in prison. Background Gregory Gunn lived with his mother in the Mobile Heights neighborhood in Montgomery, Alabama. He graduated from St Jude High School in 1976 and from Alabama State University in 1981 with a Bachelor's Degree in Accounting and Finance. He is also a member of the Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity. The neighborhood had experienced a number of burglaries around the time of the incident. According to Montgomery Police officer Aaron Cody Smith, Gunn matched th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Graham Gunn
Graham McDonald Gunn, Order of Australia, AM (born 5 September 1942), was an Australian politician who was a member of the South Australian House of Assembly. A member of the Liberal Party of Australia (South Australian Division), Liberal Party, he represented the electorate of Electoral district of Eyre (South Australia), Eyre from 1970 to 1997, and the electorate of electoral district of Stuart, Stuart from 1997 to 2010. By the final years of his parliamentary career, Gunn had become the longest-serving member of any parliament in Australia. After attending Adelaide's Scotch College, Adelaide, Scotch College, Gunn pursued a career as a farmer and grazier in the Mount Cooper area. He served on the District Council of Streaky Bay, Streaky Bay Council between 1966 and 1970. In 1970, he was elected to the House of Assembly for Eyre, in South Australia's vast northern outback, as a member of the then Liberal and Country League (LCL), which became the South Australian division of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gia Gunn
Gia Gunn is the stage name of American drag performer Gia Keitaro Ichikawa (born May 10, 1990). She is known for competing on the sixth season of ''RuPaul's Drag Race'', the second season of ''The Switch Drag Race'', and '' RuPaul's Drag Race: All Stars'' season four. Early life Gunn began performing Japanese traditional dance and kabuki in onnagata roles when she was five years old. She graduated from Barrington High School in Barrington, Illinois. She won the drag pageants Miss Roscoe's 2013 and Miss Diosa 2013. Her drag mother is trans drag performer Aly Gunn. Their last name inspired by Tim Gunn; Gia's first name came from Gia Carangi. Career ''Drag Race'' and ''The Switch'' Gunn was announced as one of fourteen contestants for the sixth season of ''RuPaul's Drag Race'' on February 24, 2014. She covered RuPaul's song " Ladyboy" for RuPaul's album '' RuPaul Presents: The CoverGurlz'' to promote the season. On the show, she was known for her voguing, off-the-c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Genni Gunn
Genni Gunn is a Canadian novelist, poet, and translator. Born in Trieste, Italy, she currently resides in Vancouver, British Columbia. Gunn has a B.F.A. and an M.F.A. from the University of British Columbia. She is chair of Public Lending Rights, a member of The Writers' Union of Canada and the Literary Translators' Association of Canada and PEN International. Her 2020 short story collection ''Permanent Tourist'' was shortlisted for the 2021 ReLit Award for short fiction. Bibliography Novels * ''Thrice Upon a Time'' (1990), * ''Tracing Iris'' (2001), * ''Solitaria'' (2010), Short stories * ''On the Road'' (1991), * ''Hungers'' (2002), * ''Permanent Tourists'' (2020) Short stories in multiple-author anthologies *"Stones" (2008), ''Exotic Gothic 2'' (ed. Danel Olson), hardbound, paperback *"Water Lover" (May 2012), ''Exotic Gothic 4'' (ed. Danel Olson), hardbound, slipcased & signed edition *"Beached" (2012), ''Room Magazine'' Poetry * ''Mating in Captivity'' (1993), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eileen Gunn
Eileen Gunn (born June 23, 1945, Dorchester, Massachusetts) is a science fiction author and editor based in Seattle, Washington, who began publishing in 1978. Her story "Coming to Terms", inspired, in part, by a friendship with Avram Davidson, won the Nebula Award for Best Short Story in 2004. Two other stories were nominated for the Hugo Award: " Stable Strategies for Middle Management" (in 1989) and "Computer Friendly" (1990). Background Gunn has a background in high-tech advertising and marketing; she wrote advertising for Digital Equipment Corporation in the 1970s and was Director of Advertising at Microsoft in 1985. She is a graduate of the Clarion Workshop and is on the board of directors of the Clarion West Writers Workshop. Writing A collection of her short stories, ''Stable Strategies and Others'' (2004, published by Tachyon Publications), was nominated for the Philip K. Dick Award and short-listed for the James Tiptree, Jr. Award and the World Fantasy Award. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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