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Gibbs (surname)
Gibbs (usually pronounced ) is a surname. Notable people with the surname *Alan Gibbs (born 1939), New Zealand-born businessman, entrepreneur and art collector *Alfred Gibbs (1823–1868), brigadier general in the Union Army during the American Civil War *Alfred W. Gibbs, Chief Mechanical Engineer of the Pennsylvania Railroad *Antony Gibbs (1756–1816), founder of British trading company Antony Gibbs & Sons *Antony Gibbs (1925–2016), British film and television editor *Armstrong Gibbs (1889–1960), English composer *Brian Gibbs (1936–2014), English footballer and manager *Caleb Gibbs (1748–1818), American soldier, commander of George Washington's "life guard" *Calvin Gibbs, US Army soldier convicted of the murder of three Afghan civilians in 2010 *Charles Gibbs, pseudonym of American pirate James D. Jeffers (1798–1831) *Cory Gibbs (born 1980), American soccer player *Coy Gibbs (1972-2022), American NASCAR driver, football player, and coach *Dick Gibbs (1892–1915), Austral ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Gibbs
Alan Gibbs (born 1939) is a New Zealand-born businessman, entrepreneur and art collector. After a successful business career in New Zealand, which made him one of that country's wealthiest individuals, he relocated to London in 1999. He retains strong links to New Zealand through his development of Gibbs Farm, one of the world's leading sculpture parks. He is the founder of Gibbs Amphibians, based in Detroit, Michigan, Nuneaton, UK, and Auckland, New Zealand, which pioneers high-speed amphibious vehicle technologies. Early life Alan Gibbs was born in Christchurch, the son of Theodore Nisbet Gibbs and Elsie Gibbs. His father was an accountant, tax adviser and businessman. He was chairman of a 1951 Royal Commission on Taxation. The family moved to Wellington in 1947 and Alan attended Wadestown Primary School, Wellesley College and Wellington College. He undertook three out of four years of an engineering degree at Canterbury University, before switching to economics, completing a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederick Gibbs (educationalist)
Frederick Giles Gibbs (31 October 1866–16 January 1953) was a New Zealand school principal, educationalist, businessman, naturalist and community leader. He was born in London, England on 31 October 1866. Gibbs was educated at Nelson College from 1879 to 1887.''Nelson College Old Boys' Register, 1856–2006'', 6th edition He completed his BA at Canterbury College in 1889 and graduated MA with first-class honours in 1890. He taught briefly at Nelson College and then for many years at Nelson Boys' School. He collaborated with botanists Thomas Kirk, T. F. Cheeseman, and Leonard Cockayne Leonard Cockayne (7 April 1855 – 8 July 1934) is regarded as New Zealand's greatest botanist and a founder of modern science in New Zealand. Biography He was born in Sheffield, England where he attended Wesley College. He travelled to Austra .... References 1866 births 1953 deaths New Zealand businesspeople Heads of schools in New Zealand English emigrants to New Zealand N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Gibbs (other)
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James Gibbs (1682–1754) was a British architect. James Gibbs may also refer to: *James A. Gibbs (1922–2010), author, lighthouse keeper, and maritime historian * James Edward Allen Gibbs (1829–1902), farmer, inventor, and businessman in Virginia * Jim Gibbs (1909–1996), rugby player See also * *Gibbs (surname) *James Gibb (other) James Gibb may refer to: * James Gibb (Australian politician) (1843–1919) * James Brunton Gibb (1897–1968), Australian performer and teacher of elocution * James Gibb (Presbyterian minister) (1857–1935), Presbyterian minister in New Zealand * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jake Gibbs
Jerry Dean "Jake" Gibbs (born November 7, 1938) is a former Major League Baseball player who played for the New York Yankees as a platoon catcher from 1962 to 1971. Although Gibbs was the regular starting catcher for New York in 1967 and 1968, he was primarily a back-up for Elston Howard and then Thurman Munson at the tail-end of his career. Prior to beginning his professional baseball career, Gibbs had successful careers in college baseball and college football at the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) for the Ole Miss Rebels. He was also a member of the Pi Kappa Alpha (PIKE) Fraternity. He returned to Ole Miss to coach the baseball and football teams. Amateur career Gibbs attended the University of Mississippi, where he played quarterback for the Ole Miss Rebels football team, and also played for the Ole Miss Rebels baseball team. Both teams compete in the Southeastern Conference (SEC). Gibbs led the Rebels to their first SEC baseball championship in 1959. During his junior ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jahmyr Gibbs
Jahmyr Gibbs (born March 20, 2002) is an American football running back for the Detroit Lions of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Georgia Tech with one year at Alabama and was selected by the Lions in the first round of the 2023 NFL Draft. Early life and high school career Gibbs grew up in Dalton, Georgia, and attended Dalton High School. He rushed for 897 yards and 10 touchdowns as a sophomore and 1,431 yards and 20 touchdowns in his junior season. As a senior, Gibbs led the state with 2,554 rushing yards and 40 touchdowns and was named first team all-state, the Georgia 6-A 2020 Offensive Player of the Year and a first team All-American by ''Sports Illustrated''. He was also invited to play in the 2020 All-American Bowl. Gibbs finished his high school career with 4,882 rushing yards and 70 touchdowns. Gibbs was initially rated a three-star recruit and committed to play college football at Georgia Tech at the end of his junior year over offers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ione Wood Gibbs
Ione Elveda Wood Gibbs ( 1871 – June 1923) was an American educator, journalist, and clubwoman. She served as vice-president of the National Association of Colored Women from 1912 to 1914. Early life Ione Elveda Wood was born in Burlington, New Jersey, the daughter of George Wood and Emma Simmons Wood.Frank Lincoln Mather, ed.''Who's Who of the Colored Race''(1915): 114. She attended high school in Atlantic City. Her uncle William J. Simmons was the president of Kentucky Normal and Theological Institute, so she attended that school and trained as a teacher, earning her degree in 1888.Irvine Garland Penn''The Afro-American Press and Its Editors''(Willey & Company 1891): 410–413. Career Wood was an instructor at the Kentucky Normal and Theological Institute while she was still a teenage student there. She wrote freelance articles, and from 1888 to 1891 was on the editorial staff of ''Our Women and Children'', a Baptist women's magazine run by her uncle. "Miss Ione E. Wood r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Humphrey Gibbs
Sir Humphrey Vicary Gibbs, (22 November 19025 November 1990), was the penultimate Governor of the colony of Southern Rhodesia, from 24 October 1964 simply Rhodesia, who served until, and opposed, the Unilateral Declaration of Independence (UDI) in 1965. Early history Gibbs was born on 22 November 1902 in England, the third son of The Hon. Herbert Gibbs, later created, in 1923, The 1st Baron Hunsdon of Hunsdon. He was educated at Ludgrove School, Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge. He moved to Southern Rhodesia in 1928, buying a farm at Nyamandhlovu, near Bulawayo. He became active in farming administration and helped found the National Farmers Union. He was elected to the Legislative Assembly at the general election of 1948 as a United Party member, representing the constituency of Wankie, serving one term before standing down in 1954. As Governor of Southern Rhodesia In 1959, Queen Elizabeth II appointed Gibbs as Governor of Southern Rhodesia and appointed him a Kni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herschelle Gibbs
Herschelle Herman Gibbs (born 23 February 1974) is a South African cricket coach and former cricketer, who played all formats of the game for fourteen years. A right-handed batsman, mostly opened the batting, Gibbs became the first player to hit six consecutive sixes in one over in One Day International (ODI) cricket, doing so against the Netherlands in the 2007 Cricket World Cup. He held the record for the highest score in a successful run-chase (175) until it was beaten by MS Dhoni. Regarded as one of the most naturally talented cricketers South Africa have ever produced, Gibbs was also known as an excellent fielder, like his compatriot Jonty Rhodes, with former Australian captain Ricky Ponting noting that in his opinion Gibbs is better than Rhodes in his ability to hit the stumps, with a report prepared by Cricinfo in late 2005 showing that since the 1999 Cricket World Cup, he had effected the eighth highest number of run-outs in ODI cricket of any fieldsman, with the ten ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Gibbs
Henry Gibbs (1630/1–1713) was an English oil painter. Gibbs worked in Canterbury, Kent. He painted "''Aeneas and his Family Fleeing Burning Troy''" in 1654, acquired by the Tate Britain gallery, London, in 1994. There are also works by Gibbs in the Beaney House of Art and Knowledge and the Canterbury Heritage Museum. His paintings have been sold through Christie's Christie's is a British auction house founded in 1766 by James Christie (auctioneer), James Christie. Its main premises are on King Street, St James's in London, at Rockefeller Center in New York City and at Alexandra House in Hong Kong. It is ... auction house. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Gibbs, Henry 1631 births 1713 deaths Artists from Canterbury 17th-century English painters English male painters English portrait painters ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georgia Gibbs
Georgia Gibbs (born Frieda Lipschitz; August 17, 1918December 9, 2006) was an American popular singer and vocal entertainer rooted in jazz. Already singing publicly in her early teens, Gibbs achieved acclaim and notoriety in the mid-1950s interpreting songs originating with the black rhythm and blues community and later became a featured vocalist for many radio and television variety and comedy programs. Her key attribute was tremendous versatility and an uncommon stylistic range from melancholy ballad to uptempo swinging jazz and rock and roll. Early life Gibbs was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, the youngest of four children of Russian Jewish descent. Her father died when she was six months old, and she and her three siblings spent the next seven years in a local Jewish orphanage. Revealing a natural talent for singing at a young age, Frieda was given the lead in the orphanage's yearly variety show. When her mother, who had visited her every other month, found employment as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Gibbs (other)
George Gibbs may refer to: Politics * George Gibbs (Australian politician) (1908–1968), member of the Victorian Parliament * George Gibbs, 1st Baron Wraxall (1873–1931), British member of parliament and peer * George Gibbs, 2nd Baron Wraxall (1928–2001), British peer and kidnapping victim Science * George Gibbs (ethnologist) (1815–1873), American ethnologist, naturalist and geologist * George Gibbs (mineralogist) (1776–1833), American mineralogist * George James Gibbs (1866–1947), British astronomer and engineer * George Gibbs (gunmaker) (died 1884), English gunmaker and founder of George Gibbs Ltd., the maker of the .505 Gibbs cartridge Sports * George Gibbs (Australian footballer) (1905–1987), for Fitzroy and Collingwood * George Gibbs (footballer, born 1953), English Other * George Gibbs, one of the main characters in the 1938 Thornton Wilder play ''Our Town'' * George F. Gibbs (1846–1924), secretary to the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geoff Gibbs
Geoffrey George Gibbs (25 November 1940 – 17 August 2006) was an Australian actor and acting teacher. Biography Gibbs was born in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia in 1940, and was educated at Aquinas College, Perth. He studied for bachelor's and master's degrees in arts at the University of Western Australia, and later a PhD from Ohio State University in the United States.''Who's Who in Australia'', Volume 35; Herald and Weekly Times, 2002. Gibbs was founding dean of dramatic arts at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) from 1979 to 1988, and trained several of Australia's best-known actors, including Hugh Jackman, Frances O'Connor, Lisa McCune and William McInnes. In 1988, he was made chairman of the International Foundation for Arts and Culture, a non-profit organisation formed to promote the creation of new work and cultural and artistic residencies. Honours Gibbs was made a Member of the Order of Australia The Order of Australia is an honour that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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