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Gant (surname)
Gant is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Andrew Gant (born 1963), British composer, singer, author, teacher and politician * Brian Gant (born 1952), Canadian retired soccer player * Bruce Gant (born 1956), Canadian retired soccer player * Cecil Gant (1913–1951), American blues singer and pianist * Damon Gant (born 1952), fictional Los Angeles Police Chief from the game Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney * David Gant (born 1943),a Scottish actor and model * Harry Gant (born 1940), American motorsport driver * Jerry Gant (1963–2018), American Artist, poet, activist John Gant(born 1957), American bowler, rookie of the year 1984 * Kenneth Gant, former American football safety * Olivia Gant (2010–2017), American female murder victim * Ovidiu Ganț (born 1966), Romanian politician * Richard Gant (born 1940), American actor * Robert Gant (born 1968), American actor * Ron Gant Ronald Edwin Gant (born March 2, 1965) is an American television news anchor and former ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Gant
Andrew John Gant (born 6 August 1963) is a British composer, singer, author, teacher and Liberal Democrat politician. He was organist, choirmaster and composer at Her Majesty's Chapel Royal from 2000 to 2013, and has published several books on musical subjects.St Peter’s College, University of Oxford: Dr. Andrew Gant Retrieved 13 April 2021. Gant is leader of the Liberal Democrat group on and a member of Oxfordshire County Council. He was the party's parliamentary candidate for |
Brian Gant
Brian Reginald Gant (born April 23, 1952) is a Canadian retired soccer player who spent nine seasons in the North American Soccer League and played fifteen games with the Canada national team. Player Professional After playing college soccer at Simon Fraser University, Gant signed with the Vancouver Whitecaps of the North American Soccer League in 1974. After three seasons in Vancouver, he moved to the Portland Timbers in 1977. He remained with the Timbers until they folded in 1982, playing a total of six outdoor and two indoor seasons with them. International Gant made 17 combined international ("A" and "B") appearances for Canada from 1973 and 1981. He played in two cycles of FIFA World Cup Qualifiers. He also played for Canada in eight exhibition matches against club or select teams. Coach Since 1990, Gant has been a youth coach with F.C. Portland, a youth soccer club in Portland, Oregon. He also coached girls' high school soccer at Catlin Gabel School in Portland, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruce Gant
Bruce Gant (born September 26, 1956) is a Canadian retired soccer player who spent five seasons in the North American Soccer League. Gant attended Simon Fraser University, playing on the men's soccer team. He was a 1976 First Team NAIA All American with the Clan. In 1979, the Portland Timbers selected Gant, brother of Timbers midfielder Brian Gant, in the first round of the North American Soccer League draft. He remained with the Timbers until they folded in 1982, playing four outdoor and two indoor seasons with them. In 1983, he played one game for the Montreal Manic. In 1973, Bruce won a gold medal with British Columbia at the |
Cecil Gant
Cecil Gant (April 4, 1913 – February 4, 1951) was an American blues singer, songwriter and pianist, whose recordings of both ballads and "fiery piano rockers" were successful in the mid- and late 1940s, and influenced the early development of rock and roll. His biggest hit was the 1944 ballad, " I Wonder". Biography Gant was born in Columbia, Tennessee, but was raised in Cleveland, Ohio. He returned to Nashville, Tennessee and worked there as a musician, as well as touring with his own band, from the mid-1930s until he joined the army during World War II. In 1944, after performing at a War Bond rally in Los Angeles, California, he recorded his composition " I Wonder" for the tiny black-owned Bronze record label. When it started to become locally popular, he re-recorded it for the newly established white-owned independent Gilt-Edge record label.Nick Tosches, ''Unsung Heroes of Rock'n'Roll'', Secker & Warburg, 1984, pp.69-71 His recording of " I Wonder" was released under the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Ace Attorney Characters
''Ace Attorney'' is a series of legal thriller comedy-drama Adventure game, adventure/visual novel Video game, games created by Shu Takumi. Players assume the role of a defense attorney in a fictional courtroom setting in the main series. Published by Capcom, the series includes ''Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney'', ''Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Justice for All'', ''Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Trials and Tribulations'', ''Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney'', ''Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth'', ''Ace Attorney Investigations 2'', ''Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Dual Destinies'', ''The Great Ace Attorney: Adventures'', ''Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Spirit of Justice'', and ''The Great Ace Attorney 2: Resolve''. Character names for the English release of the series were changed significantly from the original Japanese release. Main characters Phoenix Wright is a defense attorney and the main character of the franchise, and the protagonist in all games in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Gant
David Gant (born 1943) is a Scottish actor and model. Formerly a banker, Gant changed careers at age 30 to study dramatic art at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow, Scotland. Graduating in 1974, he has found roles in theatre, film and television. His credits include Coriolanus at Chichester Festival Theatre, and the films ''Victor/Victoria'' (1982), ''The Draughtsman's Contract'' (1982), ''The Scarlet Pimpernel'' (1982), ''Gandhi'' (1982), ''Brazil'' (1985), '' Chaplin'' (1992), ''Restoration'' (1995), '' Braveheart'' (1995), '' The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc'' (1999), ''Lagaan'' (2001) and Jonathan Creek: ''The Sinner and the Sandman'' (2014). He also voiced Oswald of Carim in the 2011 video game ''Dark Souls'' and Lord Aldia in the sequel, ''Dark Souls II'', more specifically its special edition rerelease ''Scholar of the First Sin''. Gant is an Associate and Licentiate of the London College of Music. Gant was the voice actor of Emperor Ie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Gant
Harold Phil Gant"Harry P. Gant" (born January 10, 1940), known for his many nicknames such as "The Bandit", "High Groove Harry", "Hard Luck Harry", "Mr. September", and perhaps mostly as "Handsome Harry", is a retired American driver best known for driving the No. 33 Skoal Bandit car on the circuit during the 1980s and 1990s and his 4-race win streak in 1991. Nicknames Gant gained a lot of nicknames throughout his racing ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jerry Gant
Jerry Gant (November 21, 1961 – November 11, 2018) was an American visual artist, poet, performance artist and educator. Early life and education Gant was born in Newark, New Jersey. He grew up moving around Newark with his mother. When he was young, he lost his father to alcohol, cirrhosis, and according to Gant, "It was poverty beating him into submission. He didn't die; he was killed." Gant attended West Side High School and studied at Essex County College and the Newark School of Fine and Industrial Arts. Career Gant was active in the 1980s graffiti scene in New York City. Influenced by African-American artists such as filmmaker Spike Lee, in the early 1990s, Gant started performing spoken word in New York City and Newark. Gant creates artistic works textile and clothing design, metal sculpture, woodcarving, and wall murals. Gant sought to reflect the spirit and community of Newark, while challenging stereotypes and conventional thinking. He worked on art projects ins ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kenneth Gant
Kenneth Dwayne Gant (born April 18, 1967) is a former American football safety in the National Football League (NFL) for the Dallas Cowboys and Tampa Bay Buccaneers. He won Super Bowl XXVII and Super Bowl XXVIII, both over the Buffalo Bills. He played college football at Albany State University. Early life Gant attended Kathleen High School in Lakeland, Florida. He received a football scholarship from Albany State University, where although he came in as an offensive player, he was converted to the defensive side and became a four-year starter at cornerback. As a freshman, he posted 15 tackles, 3 interceptions and one pass defensed. As a sophomore, he tallied 33 tackles, 3 interceptions and 6 passes defensed. As a junior, he recorded 55 tackles, 3 sacks and 6 passes defensed. He also made 7 tackles against Fort Valley State University. As senior, he registered 55 tackles, 5 interceptions (third in the conference) and one blocked punt. He had 6 tackles and one interception agains ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Murder Of Olivia Gant
Olivia K. Gant (June 21, 2010 – August 20, 2017) was an American girl who died after ongoing medical abuse by her mother, Kelly Renee Turner-Gant, in what was deemed to be a case of Munchausen by proxy. Turner-Gant had initially taken the girl to the hospital for a case of severe constipation; after this was treated successfully and Gant was sent home, Turner-Gant claimed that Gant was unable to consume food, leading to numerous surgeries, the implementation of feeding tubes, and finally an intravenous tube that fed nutrients directly into her veins. The constant hospital visits and surgeries left Gant at times in a wheelchair and bedridden, weakened by an anti-seizure medication that Turner-Gant had convinced a doctor to prescribe her. Gant's death occurred after Turner-Gant swapped Gant's usual doctors, who had refused to sign a do not resuscitate order for the girl, for another doctor willing to sign the order. This allowed Turner-Gant to have all of Gant's feeding tubes remove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ovidiu Ganț
Ovidiu Victor Ganț (born 18 August 1966) is a Romanian politician and former Member of the European Parliament. A member of the Chamber of Deputies (Romania), Chamber of Deputies since 2004, he was the sole representative in the European Parliament of the Democratic Forum of Germans in Romania (FDGR/DFDR), part of the European People's Party–European Democrats, and became a MEP on 1 January 2007, along with the accession of Romania to the European Union Biography Born to an Germans of Romania, ethnic German (Banat Swabians, Banat Swabian) in ''Siebenbürgische Zeitung'', May 23, 2002 family in Deta (town), Deta, Timiș County, Ganț graduated in Mathematics from the West University of Timișoara, West Un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Gant
Richard Edward Gant (born March 10, 1944) is an American actor. His credits include the film ''Rocky V (1990)'', where he played the Don King-esque George Washington Duke; Hostetler in '' Deadwood'' (2004–2006); and Owen in ''Men of a Certain Age'' (2009–2012). He has also appeared in a 1989 episode of ''Miami Vice'', as Battlin’ Barry Gay; as a possessed coroner in '' Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday'' (1993); and in the films and TV shows '' Deadwood'', ''The Big Lebowski'', ''Babylon 5'', ''Special Unit 2'', ''L.A. Law'', ''NYPD Blue'', ''Living Single'', ''Posse'', ''Seinfeld'', ''Friends'', ''How I Met Your Mother'', ''Men Don't Tell'', and ''Charmed''. He appeared in one episode each of '' Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman'' and ''Smallville''. He has also appeared in '' Nutty Professor II: The Klumps'' and '' Bean: The Ultimate Disaster Movie'', as well as reporter Charles Parker in the cult classic adaptation of Colin Bateman’s '' Divorcing Jack' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |