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Gilliam (surname)
Gilliam is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Armen Gilliam (1964–2011), American basketball player * Burton Gilliam (born 1938), American actor * Colt Gilliam (born 1989), American racing driver * Cornelius Gilliam (1798–1848), American pioneer, politician, and army commander * Frank Gilliam (other), multiple people * Garry Gilliam (born 1990), American football player * Herm Gilliam (1946–2005), American basketball player * Jackson Earle Gilliam (1920–2000), American bishop * James Frank Gilliam (1915–1990), American historian * Jim Gilliam (1928–1978), American baseball player * John Gilliam (born 1945), American football player * Joe Gilliam (1950–2000), American football player * Holly Michelle Gilliam (born 1944), birth name of American singer and actress Michelle Phillips * Makayla Gilliam-Price, American social activist * Reggie Gilliam (born 1997), American football player * Robert B. Gilliam (1805–1870), American po ... [...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] |
Joe Gilliam
Joseph Wiley Gilliam, Jr. (December 29, 1950December 25, 2000) was a professional football player, a quarterback with the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League (NFL) for four seasons. Primarily a backup, he started the first six games of the 1974 season. Early years Born in Charleston, West Virginia, Gilliam was the third of four children of Ruth and Joe Gilliam, Sr. He grew up in Nashville, Tennessee, and spent many hours on the campus of Tennessee A&I State University (renamed Tennessee State University in 1968), where his father was the defensive coordinator for the Tigers football team. Gilliam displayed his own athletic abilities at a young age, beginning at Washington Junior High School, where he participated in tumbling, track, and basketball. In 1966, he became the starting quarterback at Pearl High School and led the squad when they played in the city's first season of integrated football. While in high school, Gilliam kept close to the Tigers progr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tyrone Delano Gilliam Jr
Tyrone may refer to: * Kingdom of Tyrone or Tír Eoghain, a kingdom of Gaelic Ireland * County Tyrone, a county in Northern Ireland * Earl of Tyrone, a title in the Peerage of Ireland * Tyrone (name), a male given name Places Canada * Tyrone, Ontario Ireland * Tyrone (Parliament of Ireland constituency) * Tyrone (UK Parliament constituency) United States * Tyrone, Colorado * Tyrone, Georgia * Tyrone, Iowa * Tyrone, Kentucky * Tyrone, Missouri * Tyrone, New Mexico * Tyrone (ghost town), New Mexico * Tyrone, New York * Tyrone, Coshocton County, Ohio * Tyrone, Morrow County, Ohio * Tyrone, Oklahoma * Tyrone, Pennsylvania ** Tyrone (Amtrak station) * Tyrone, West Virginia * Tyrone, Wisconsin * Tyrone Township, Michigan (other) * Tyrone Township, Pennsylvania (other) Other uses * Tyrone GAA The Tyrone County Board ( ga, Cumann Lúthchleas Gael, Coiste Chontae Tír Eoghain), or Tyrone GAA, is one of the 32 county boards of the Gaelic Athletic Associatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terry Gilliam
Terrence Vance Gilliam (; born 22 November 1940) is an American-born British filmmaker, comedian, animator, actor and former member of the Monty Python comedy troupe. Gilliam has directed 13 feature films, including ''Time Bandits'' (1981), ''Brazil'' (1985), ''The Adventures of Baron Munchausen'' (1988), ''The Fisher King'' (1991), '' 12 Monkeys'' (1995), ''Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas'' (1998), ''The Brothers Grimm'' (2005), '' Tideland'' (2005), and ''The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus'' (2009). Being the only Monty Python member not born in Britain, he became a naturalised British subject in 1968 and formally renounced his American citizenship in 2006. Gilliam was born in Minnesota, but spent his high school and college years in Los Angeles. He started his career as an animator and strip cartoonist. He joined Monty Python as the animator of their works, but eventually became a full member and was given acting roles. He became a feature film director in the 1970s. Most of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stu Gilliam
Stewart Byron "Stu" Gilliam (July 27, 1933 datalounge.com; accessed July 21, 2018. – October 11, 2013) was an American actor and and TV comedian. Biography Stewart Byron Gilliam was born in a middle-class area of , the grandson of a church minister. He left home at the age of 14 to perform with a circus as ventriloquist in state fairs, then after a few years began to appear in clubs in Chicago. During his two-year service in the Korean War, he entertained troops as a ventriloquist. In the 1950s/60s he performed his act in clubs nationwide with black audiences, including the |
Seth Gilliam
Seth Gilliam (born November 5, 1968) is an American actor. He is best known for his portrayals of Ellis Carver on ''The Wire'', Clayton Hughes on '' Oz'', Detective Daniels on ''Law & Order: Criminal Intent'' (2007–2008), Dr. Alan Deaton on ''Teen Wolf'', Father Gabriel Stokes on '' The Walking Dead'', and Sugar Watkins in the movie ''Starship Troopers''. Early life Gilliam graduated from State University of New York at Purchase in 1990. Career Gilliam's film career began in the early 1990s. He has starred in award-winning films such as '' Still Alice''. His other film credits include Sergeant Sugar Watkins in the 1997 action film ''Starship Troopers'' and Sergeant Steven Altameyer in the 1996 film ''Courage Under Fire''. Gilliam has had a number of recurring roles on television, including during the seventh season of ''The Cosby Show'' as Aaron Dexter, boyfriend of Erika Alexander's character, and as Alan Deaton on ''Teen Wolf''. His most prominent role has been on ''The Wir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sam Gilliam
Sam Gilliam ( ; November 30, 1933 – June 25, 2022) was an American color field painter and lyrical abstractionist artist. Gilliam was associated with the Washington Color School, a group of Washington, D.C.-area artists that developed a form of abstract art from color field painting in the 1950s and 1960s. His works have also been described as belonging to abstract expressionism and lyrical abstraction. He worked on stretched, draped and wrapped canvas, and added sculptural Three-dimensional space, 3D elements. He was recognized as the first artist to introduce the idea of a draped, painted canvas hanging without stretcher bars around 1965. This was a major contribution to the Color Field School and has had a lasting impact on the contemporary art canon. Arne Glimcher, Gilliam's art dealer at Pace Gallery, wrote following his death that "His experiments with color and surface are right up there with the achievements of Mark Rothko, Rothko and Jackson Pollock, Pollock." In his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert B
The name Robert is an ancient Germanic given name, from Proto-Germanic "fame" and "bright" (''Hrōþiberhtaz''). Compare Old Dutch ''Robrecht'' and Old High German ''Hrodebert'' (a compound of '' Hruod'' ( non, Hróðr) "fame, glory, honour, praise, renown" and ''berht'' "bright, light, shining"). It is the second most frequently used given name of ancient Germanic origin. It is also in use as a surname. Another commonly used form of the name is Rupert. After becoming widely used in Continental Europe it entered England in its Old French form ''Robert'', where an Old English cognate form (''Hrēodbēorht'', ''Hrodberht'', ''Hrēodbēorð'', ''Hrœdbœrð'', ''Hrœdberð'', ''Hrōðberχtŕ'') had existed before the Norman Conquest. The feminine version is Roberta. The Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish form is Roberto. Robert is also a common name in many Germanic languages, including English, German, Dutch, Norwegian, Swedish, Scots, Danish, and Icelandic. It can be use ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reggie Gilliam
Reggie Travon Gilliam (born August 20, 1997) is an American football fullback for the Buffalo Bills of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Toledo, and has played professionally as a fullback, though he spent the 2020 season as a tight end. Early life and high school Gilliam grew up in Columbus, Ohio and attended Westland High School in Galloway, Ohio. As a senior, he rushed for 565 yards and eight touchdowns on 87 carries and had 18 catches for 280 yards and three touchdowns and was named first-team All-Ohio Capital Conference Central Division. College career Gilliam was a member of the Toledo Rockets for four seasons, joining the team as a walk-on and playing tight end on offense and fullback on special teams. He led the nation with four blocked kicks as a junior in 2018 and was named second-team All-Mid-American Conference. Gilliam finished his collegiate career with 18 receptions for 153 yards and three touchdowns with six blocked kicks. Pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Makayla Gilliam-Price
Makayla Gilliam-Price is an American social activist who combats racism, police brutality, and school segregation and tracking. Life Gilliam-Price was born to Zelda and John. As an infant in 1998, she attended protests with her parents against her uncle Tyrone Delano Gilliam Jr.'s death sentence. He was executed by lethal injection in November that year. Gilliam-Price graduated from Baltimore City College in 2016. While in high school, she co-founded City Bloc, a grassroots organization. She also led a school walkout to protest arming school resource officers. She attended a debate camp which helped develop her voice. Gilliam-Price is a social activist who is interested in combatting racism in multiple sectors including police brutality, school segregation and tracking, and immigration. In October 2015, after the killing of Freddie Gray, Gilliam-Price was among the group that was arrested as part of a sit-in protest at the Baltimore City Hall. In January 2016, her blog post ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Holly Michelle Gilliam
''Ilex'' (), or holly, is a genus of over 570 species of flowering plants in the family Aquifoliaceae, and the only living genus in that family. ''Ilex'' has the most species of any woody dioecious angiosperm genus. The species are evergreen or deciduous trees, shrubs, and climbers from tropics to temperate zones worldwide. The type species is ''Ilex aquifolium'', the common European holly used in Christmas decorations and cards. Description The genus ''Ilex'' is divided into three subgenera: *''Ilex'' subg. ''Byronia'', with the type species '' Ilex polypyrena'' *''Ilex'' subg. ''Prinos'', with 12 species *''Ilex'' subg. ''Ilex'', with the rest of the species The genus is widespread throughout the temperate and subtropical regions of the world. It includes species of trees, shrubs, and climbers, with evergreen or deciduous foliage and inconspicuous flowers. Its range was more extended in the Tertiary period and many species are adapted to laurel forest habitats. It ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Gilliam
John Rally Gilliam (born August 7, 1945) is an American former professional football player who was a wide receiver in the National Football League (NFL). He has owned a number of businesses, and for two years he worked for a radio station in Atlanta. He has made his home in Atlanta since 1968. His wife Fannie is an attorney, and they have four children. Life and career Gilliam attended Brewer High School in Greenwood, South Carolina, then played college football at South Carolina State University, from which he graduated with a degree in biology. While in college he also lettered in track and was clocked in the 100 yard dash in 9.5 seconds, four tenths of a second off the world record at the time. He was drafted in the second round by the expansion New Orleans Saints. He played his first two seasons in New Orleans, and then had stints with the St. Louis Cardinals from 1969 to 1971, the Minnesota Vikings from 1972 to 1975, the Atlanta Falcons in 1976, and brief stints with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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