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Heenan
Heenan is a surname of Irish origin. Notable people with the surname include: * Ben Heenan (born 1990), American footballer * Bobby Heenan (1944–2017), American wrestler * Brian Heenan (born 1937), Australian Roman Catholic bishop * Catherine Heenan, American journalist * Daniel Heenan (born 1981), Australian rugby player * Deirdre Heenan, academic * Donald Heenan (1908–1961), New Zealand cricketer * Eric Heenan (born 1945), Australian lawyer * Eric Heenan (politician) (1900–1998), Australian politician * George Heenan (1855–1912), New Zealand cricketer * Jake Heenan (born 1992), New Zealand rugby player * Jerry Heenan (1941-2010), Canadian professional wrestler * Joe Heenan (1888–1951), New Zealand law draftsman * John Heenan (other), several persons * Katie Heenan (born 1985), American gymnast * Maurice Heenan (1912–2000), New Zealand lawyer * Mick Heenan, Australian professional rugby union coach * Patrick Heenan (other), several persons * Paul H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heenan & Froude
Heenan & Froude was a United Kingdom-based engineering company, founded in Newton Heath, Manchester, England in 1881 in a partnership formed by engineers Richard Froude and Richard Hammersley Heenan. Expanded on the back of William Froude's patent for inventing the water brake dynamometer, their most famous creation was the high Blackpool Tower. History After service on developing the East India Railway (EIR), Hammersley Heenan returned to England and purchased the engineering company and works of Woodhouse and Co. in Newton Heath, Lancashire. In 1881, he went into partnership with former EIR colleague Richard Hurrell Froude, forming Heenan & Froude Ltd. In 1883, after the death of his father William Froude, Richard inherited the rights to his father's patents, including that for the manufacture of the water brake dynamometer. From its base, the company undertook a number of significant late-Victorian era engineering projects, including supplying and constructing the s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eric Heenan
Eric Michael Heenan is a former justice of the Supreme Court of Western Australia, the highest ranking court in the Australian state of Western Australia. Education He was educated at Aquinas College (class of 1962), and the University of Western Australia from which he graduated in 1966. He left his father's firm E.M. Heenan & Co in 1983 to practise as a barrister. He was appointed King's Counsel In the United Kingdom and in some Commonwealth countries, a King's Counsel ( post-nominal initials KC) during the reign of a king, or Queen's Counsel (post-nominal initials QC) during the reign of a queen, is a lawyer (usually a barrister or ... in 1985. Career He served as president of the WA Bar Association from 1990 to 1992, and as vice-president of the Australian bar association in 1992. He also served as a Commissioner of the Western Australian Supreme Court in 1990 and 1994. From 1988 to 1994 he served as the deputy chairman of the Aquinas College Board. He was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Heenan
Ben Heenan (born February 5, 1990) is a Canadian born former American football guard who played for the Indianapolis Colts of the National Football League (NFL) in 2015. He also played with the Saskatchewan Roughriders of Canadian Football League (CFL). Heenan played college football for the University of Saskatchewan, and was ranked as the second best player in the CFL's Amateur Scouting Bureau final rankings for players eligible in the 2012 CFL Draft, and first by players in Canadian Interuniversity Sport, at the end of the 2011 CIS season. Professional career Saskatchewan Roughriders Heenan was selected first overall in the 2012 CFL Draft by the Saskatchewan Roughriders of Canadian Football League. Heenan spent three years as a member of the Roughriders, including in 2013 when he won his first Grey Cup championship as a member of the 101st Grey Cup-winning team. As a pending free agent, he was released on February 2, 2015 so that he could pursue National Football Le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katie Heenan
Katherine Elaine "Katie" Heenan (born November 26, 1985, in Indianapolis, Indiana) is an American former artistic gymnast. She was a seven time national gymnast and four time team NCAA champion with the Georgia Gym Dogs. Early life Heenan began gymnastics as a toddler and was encouraged by her younger brother, David. Katie quickly rose to the elite level in 1997, at the age of 11. She competed in her first national championships in 1998 and placed sixth on beam in the junior division. She sat out the 1999 season due to an injury, but came back in 2000 to place fourth on bars and ninth in the all around at the junior national U.S. Championships. Senior career Heenan burst into the senior elite spotlight by coming in fourth in the all around and first on bars at U.S. Classic. At the U.S. National Championships, she continued her success by placing sixth in the all around and first on bars. Heenan earned a spot on the 2001 U.S. world championship team and helped the team e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Heenan Family
The Heenan Family was a stable of wrestlers managed by Bobby "The Brain" Heenan beginning in the 1970s. Heenan managed wrestlers under the Heenan Family name in the American Wrestling Association (AWA), the National Wrestling Alliance's (NWA) Georgia Championship Wrestling (GCW), and the World Wrestling Federation (WWF). The term "stable" refers to a group of wrestlers in an ongoing alliance, often under a single manager. Heenan notoriously disliked the term, stating that "a stable is a place where you keep a bunch of fly-infested horses", and instead referred to his collective wrestlers as his "family". The name moved with him, and changed members frequently. History American Wrestling Association (1974–1979) Bobby "The Brain" Heenan, a professional wrestling manager, joined the American Wrestling Association (AWA) full time in 1974 managing the team of Nick Bockwinkel and Ray Stevens. Bobby Duncum, Sr. joined within the next year forming the first version of the Heenan f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heenan Blaikie
Heenan Blaikie LLP is a defunct Canadian law firm. It practiced in the areas of business, labour and employment, litigation, taxation, entertainment law and intellectual property law. The firm was founded in 1973 by Roy Heenan, Donald Johnston, and Peter Blaikie. Based in Montreal, at one time the firm had over 500 lawyers at offices in Toronto, Ottawa, Calgary, Vancouver, Victoria, Quebec City, Sherbrooke, Trois-Rivières and Paris, with a representative office in Singapore and a satellite office in Los Angeles. As of February 2011, it was the sixth largest law firm in Canada. It became the largest law firm to close in Canadian history after its partners voted to dissolve the firm on February 5, 2014. The firm closed on February 28, 2014. History The firm was founded in 1973 by Roy Heenan, Donald Johnston, and Peter Blaikie as Johnston Heenan Blaikie. After Johnston left to become a Member of Parliament in 1978, the firm was renamed Heenan Blaikie. The firm was one of the fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roy Heenan
Roy Lacaud Heenan, (September 28, 1935 – February 3, 2017) was a Canadian labour lawyer, academic and art collector. He was a founding partner of the Canadian law firm Heenan Blaikie. Early life and education He was born in Mexico City to Ernest Heenan and his wife Yvonne Lacaud, and moved to Canada in 1947. He attended Trinity College School in Port Hope, Ontario, graduating in 1953. Heenan subsequently received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1957 and a Bachelor of Civil Law degree in 1960, both from McGill University, where he joined the Kappa Alpha Society. Career Heenan was called to the Bar of Quebec in 1961. He was a co-founder of Heenan Blaikie in 1973 and Chair of the Executive Committee until 2012. The firm closed in 2014 after its partners voted to dissolve it. He was an Adjunct Professor in labour law at McGill University from 1971 to 1996, and a lecturer for the Industrial Relations Centre at Queen's University since 1972. He had also taught at Université Lav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Heenan
Peter Heenan, (February 19, 1875 – May 12, 1948) was a Canadian union leader and politician, and also served as a cabinet minister at the federal and provincial levels. Early life Born in Tullaree, near Newcastle, County Down, Ireland, Heenan worked as a pit boy at St Helen's Colliery in Cumberland, where he tested work on the mine's railways, and then worked on the Costa Rica Railway in Central America. An attack of yellow fever forced Heenan to move to Canada in 1902, where he first worked on a Western ranch, and then as a locomotive engineer for the Canadian Pacific Railway on the run between Winnipeg and Kenora. The experience he had acquired in Costa Rica as a diver also proved useful when he was called to help out in a train wreck just outside Kenora, where the locomotive had plunged down underwater. Heenan became involved in the labour movement in Northwestern Ontario, becoming its most prominent leader by the beginning of World War I. He also became an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Brian Heenan
Peter Brian Heenan (born 1961) is a New Zealand botanist. Heenan graduated from the University of Canterbury with a PhD in 2000. Names published (incomplete list - 193 names published) *'' Alternanthera nahui'' Heenan & de Lange, New Zealand J. Bot. 47(1): 102 (99-104; figs. 2B, 3C, 4B) (2009). *''Arthropodium bifurcatum'' Heenan, A.D.Mitch. & de Lange, New Zealand J. Bot. 42(2): 239 (-242; fig. 7) (2004). *''Brachyscome lucens'' Molloy & Heenan, Phytotaxa 415(1): 35 (2019). (These may not all be accepted names.) See also Taxa named by Peter Brian Heenan In biology, a taxon (back-formation from ''taxonomy''; plural taxa) is a group of one or more populations of an organism or organisms seen by taxonomists to form a unit. Although neither is required, a taxon is usually known by a particular nam .... Selected publications * * * References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Heenan, Peter Brian 21st-century New Zealand botanists Living people 1961 births Univ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Heenan
Monovox was an American rock band. In 1992, four band members – Matthew Schaeffer, Cliff Hammer, Matthew Kramer and Tony Krug – started writing and performing songs while they were still in high school. They graduated and went their separate ways for a while until moving to Madison, Wisconsin, in 1995. In 1997 while performing at Chicago's Beatlefest, they were discovered by Chicago record producer Joey Donatello. He developed the band and got their first album, ''Burlap and Broadcast'', released in 1997. Their career and time together were short lived. Early history Beginning in 1992, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, high school classmates Matthew Schaeffer, Cliff Hammer, and Tony Krug (a.k.a. Anthony) began writing and performing songs together. Under the moniker J.J. War, the band wrote and performed original songs. In 1994 after graduating high school, Schaeffer moved to Madison to study piano performance and composition at the University of Wisconsin, under Professor Carrol Chi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrick Heenan (other)
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Patrick Heenan may refer to: *Patrick Stanley Vaughan Heenan (1910–1942), British Indian Army officer, alleged spy and traitor *Pat Heenan (Patrick Dennis Heenan), American football cornerback See also *Heenan (other) Heenan is a surname of Irish origin. Notable people with the surname include: * Ben Heenan (born 1990), American footballer * Bobby Heenan (1944–2017), American wrestler * Brian Heenan (born 1937), Australian Roman Catholic bishop * Catherine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mick Heenan
Mick Heenan is an Australian professional rugby union coach. He was the head coach of the Brisbane City team that played in the defunct National Rugby Championship competition. He was the head coach at the University of Queensland, winning the Hospital Cup in 2010, 2012, 2014, 2017, 2019 and 2021. He is now an assistant coach with the Queensland Reds. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Heenan, Mick Living people Australian rugby union coaches Year of birth missing (living people) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
