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Gorden Comben
Gorden is an English variant of ''Gordon''. Notable people with the name include: given name; * Gorden Kaye, English actor * Gorden Kelley, American football player * Gorden Moyo, Zimbabwean politician * Gorden Tallis, Australian rugby player * Gorden Wagener, chief design officer for Daimler AG ;surname: *Greg Gorden Greg Gorden is an American game designer who has worked primarily on role-playing games. Career Greg Gorden has worked for several gaming companies: * For Victory Games he participated, during the early 1980s, in the design of the ''James Bond ..., American game designer References {{given name, type=both English masculine given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gordon (given Name)
Gordon () is a masculine given name in the English language. The name is derived from the Scottish surname ''Gordon''. It is uncertain if this surname originated from a place name in Scotland or in France. The Gordon in Berwickshire, where the family who bore the surname held lands in the 12th century, is of uncertain etymology. It is also possible that this place name was named after settlers from France, who were named after a like-named place in Normandy. The surname is thought to have been taken up as a given name in honour of the Major-General Charles George Gordon, a British army officer who was killed in 1885, in Khartoum. Origin of the name The given name ''Gordon'' originates from a transferred use of the Scottish surname ''Gordon''. The origin of this surname is debated. While it is considered to be derived from a place name, it is not certain that the place name of Gordon, in Berwickshire, Scotland, is the origin of the surname. Berwickshire was once the home of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gorden Kaye
Gordon Irving Kaye(7 April 194123 January 2017), known professionally as Gorden Kaye, was an English actor, best known for playing womanising café owner René Artois in the television comedy series '''Allo 'Allo!''. Early life Kaye was born on 7 April 1941 in Huddersfield, West Riding of Yorkshire, the only child of Harold and Gracie Kaye; Gracie was 42 when she gave birth. Harold Kaye was a lorry driver in the ARP during the Second World War, and at other times worked as an engineer in a tractor factory. When young, Kaye played rugby league for Moldgreen ARLFC before studying at King James's Grammar School, Almondbury, Huddersfield. He worked in hospital radio in Huddersfield (interviewing Ken Dodd and then the Beatles in 1963 when they played the Ritz in the town), and worked in textile mills, a wine factory, and a tractor factory. Career Kaye had appeared in a radio play directed by Alan Ayckbourn and also in a television play from Manchester. Ayckbourn suggested that h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gorden Kelley
Gorden Bond Kelley (June 11, 1938 – October 22, 2015) was an American football linebacker in the National Football League for the San Francisco 49ers and the Washington Redskins. He played college football at the University of Georgia , mottoeng = "To teach, to serve, and to inquire into the nature of things.""To serve" was later added to the motto without changing the seal; the Latin motto directly translates as "To teach and to inquire into the nature of things." , establ .... He was married to Charlotte and had two children, son Gordon Jr. and daughter Mary. The son played college football in Virginia. After retirement, he worked in real estate as well as owning a furniture store in Ocean Ridge, Florida. References 1938 births 2015 deaths American football linebackers Edmonton Elks players Georgia Bulldogs football players People from Decatur, Georgia San Francisco 49ers players Sportspeople from DeKalb County, Georgia Washington Redskins players { ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gorden Moyo
Gorden Moyo was the Minister of State Enterprises and Parastatals in the Government of the Republic of Zimbabwe; he was appointed to this post following a reshuffle of MDC-T Ministers in the Cabinet by MDC-T President and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai Morgan Richard Tsvangirai (; ; 10 March 1952 – 14 February 2018) was a Zimbabwean politician who was Prime Minister of Zimbabwe from 2009 to 2013. He was President of the Movement for Democratic Change, and later the Movement for Democratic ... in June 2010a. Political career Prior to June 2010, Gorden Moyo was the Minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office. He was minister up to 31 July 2013, at the end of the government of national Unity (GNU). He was voted in as member of Parliament for Makokoba constituency in 2008 and reelected in 2013 on MDC-T ticket. He was recalled from parliament after breaking away from Tsvangirai in March 2015 along with 21 other MPs, including former secretary general Tendai Biti. He is t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gorden Tallis
Gorden James Tallis (born 27 July 1973), also known by the nickname of "Raging Bull" for his on-field aggression, is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1990s and 2000s. A Queensland State of Origin and Australian international representative second-row forward, he captained both these teams as well as the Brisbane Broncos with whom he won the 1997, 1998 and 2000 Grand Finals, after starting his career with the St. George Dragons in Sydney. At the peak of his career Tallis was considered as the best forward in the world and in 2008 was named in an Indigenous Australian rugby league team of the century. He is currently a commentator and pundit for the Fox Sports network. He served as a National Rugby League board member and was a member of the board of directors for the North Queensland Cowboys. Tallis also worked on the coaching staff of the South Sydney Rabbitohs. Background Tallis is of Torres Strait Islander and Vanuatuan descent. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gorden Wagener
Gorden Wagener (born September 3, 1968, in Essen) is a German car designer, and is the chief design officer for Mercedes-Benz Group AG. Career Wagener studied Industrial Design at the University of Duisburg-Essen (1990–1993), after which he specialized his studies in Transportation Design at The Royal College of Art in London. After college, he worked as an exterior designer for Volkswagen, Mazda and General Motors. In 1997 he joined Mercedes-Benz as a transportation designer and became the manager for the exterior and interior styling of the R-,ML- and GL-Class models in 1999 and moving onto the A-, B-, C-, E-, CLK- and CLS-Class in 2002. He moved to the Advanced Design studio in the US in 2006 and became Director of Design Strategy and Global Advanced Design in 2007. The following year he was promoted to Vice President Design of Daimler AG where he developed the company style called "sensual purity" in 2009. Wagener was appointed Daimler's Chief Design Officer in 2016, becom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greg Gorden
Greg Gorden is an American game designer who has worked primarily on role-playing games. Career Greg Gorden has worked for several gaming companies: * For Victory Games he participated, during the early 1980s, in the design of the ''James Bond 007'' role-playing game (1983). * For Mayfair Games he was in 1985 the main designer of the '' DC Heroes'' role-playing game. Also for Mayfair Games, partnering with White Wolf, he designed ''D.O.A.'', but the game was not published. * For West End Games Gorden brought help to Greg Costikyan and the WEG team in the design of all the editions of '' Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game'' (1987, 1992 and 1996). For the same game, in the supplements' list, he was the main author of ''The Star Wars Rules Companion'' (1989) and the ''Imperial Sourcebook'' (First Edition: 1989, Second Edition: 1994Greg Gorden, ''Imperial Sourcebook, Second Edition'', West End Games, New York, June 1994, Editor: Bill Smith, Hardcover, p. 144, ). Also for West End Game ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
