Hillenbrand
Hillenbrand is a surname. Notable people with the surname, including von Hillenbrand, include: * Carole Hillenbrand (born 1943), British Islamic scholar * Laura Hillenbrand, author of ''Seabiscuit: An American Legend'' * Nico Hillenbrand, German footballer * Robert Hillenbrand, (* 1941), British art historian * Shea Hillenbrand, Major League Baseball player See also * Hillenbrand Industries, holding company that changed its name to Hill-Rom Hill-Rom Holdings, Inc., doing business as Hillrom, is an American medical technology provider that is a subsidiary of Baxter International. History Hillrom is a wholly owned subsidiary of Baxter and was formally part of Hill-Rom Holdings, I ...

Laura Hillenbrand
Laura Hillenbrand (born May 15, 1967) is an American author of books and magazine articles. Her two bestselling nonfiction books, ''Seabiscuit: An American Legend'' (2001) and ''Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption'' (2010), have sold over 13 million copies, and each was adapted for film. Her writing style is distinct from New Journalism, dropping "verbal pyrotechnics" in favor of a stronger focus on the story itself. Hillenbrand fell ill in college and was unable to complete her degree. She shared that experience in an award-winning essay, ''A Sudden Illness,'' published in ''The New Yorker'' in 2003. Her books were written while she was disabled by that illness. In a 2014 interview, Bob Schieffer said to Laura Hillenbrand: "To me your story – battling your disease... is as compelling as his (Louis Zamperini's) story." Career Hillenbrand's first book was the acclaimed '' Seabiscuit: An American Legend'' (2001), a nonfiction account of the car ...
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Shea Hillenbrand
Shea Matthew Hillenbrand (born July 27, 1975) is an American former professional baseball third baseman and first baseman, who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Boston Red Sox, Arizona Diamondbacks, Toronto Blue Jays, San Francisco Giants, Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, and Los Angeles Dodgers. Minor league career Hillenbrand played 72 games in 1996 for the Low-A Lowell Spinners in the New York–Penn League. In 1997, he was promoted to the Sarasota Red Sox of the Florida State League, and was promoted again after 57 games, finishing the season with 64 games with the Michigan Battle Cats of the Midwest League. Despite being drafted as a shortstop, he played at first base and third base his first two years in the minors. In 1998, still with Michigan, he was converted to play catcher and responded with his best season in the minors, with a .349 batting average and 19 home runs. This earned him a promotion in 1999 to AA Trenton Thunder of the Eastern League. However, a l ...
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Carole Hillenbrand
Carole Hillenbrand, (born 1943), is a British Islamic scholar who is Emerita Professor in Islamic History at the University of Edinburgh and Professor of Islamic History at the University of St Andrews. She is the Vice-President of the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies and a Member of the Council for Assisting Refugee Academics. Early life Hillenbrand was born in 1943 in England. In 1962, she enrolled at Girton College, Cambridge, where she studied modern languages. She then attended Somerville College at Oxford, where she studied Arabic and Turkish. Academic career Hillenbrand gained a BA in Modern and Medieval Languages from the University of Cambridge in 1965 and a BA in Oriental Studies from the University of Oxford in 1972. She earned her PhD at the University of Edinburgh in 1979. Her thesis, ''The history of the Jazira 1100–1150: the contribution of Ibn Al-Azraq al-Fariqi'', analysed and translated a pair of British Library manuscripts of a text by the 12th-c ...
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Robert Hillenbrand
Robert Hillenbrand FBA (born 2 August 1941) is a British art historian who specialises in Persian and Islamic art. He is a professorial fellow of the universities of Edinburgh and St Andrews. He was Slade Professor of Fine Art at the University of Cambridge for 2008–09. He gave the 2010 Aspects of Art Lecture. In 2018 during the conference of the Association of Iranian Studies at the University of California, Irvine, the Lifetime Achievement Award was awarded Hillenbrand. In the same year he appeared in the documentary film Taq Kasra: Wonder of Architecture as a scholar of Sassanid Persia The Sasanian () or Sassanid Empire, officially known as the Empire of Iranians (, ) and also referred to by historians as the Neo-Persian Empire, was the last Iranian empire before the early Muslim conquests of the 7th-8th centuries AD. Named .... Selected publications * ''Imperial Images in Persian Painting'' * ''Art and Archaeology of Ancient Persia'' (co-editor) * ''Islamic Archite ...
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Nico Hillenbrand
Nico Hillenbrand (born 25 May 1987) is a German footballer who plays for FC Astoria Walldorf as a defender. Career Hillenbrand was born in Heidelberg. He made his debut for the main Borussia Dortmund squad on 15 December 2007, when he came on as a substitute for Nelson Haedo Valdez in a game against VfL Wolfsburg. On 21 May 2009, he announced the return to his former club SV Sandhausen Sportverein Sandhausen 1916 e.V., commonly known as simply SV Sandhausen or Sandhausen, is a German association football club that plays in Sandhausen, immediately to the south of Heidelberg in Baden-Württemberg. The club's greatest success .... Honours * DFB-Pokal finalist: 2007–08 References 1987 births Living people German men's footballers Men's association football defenders Borussia Dortmund players Borussia Dortmund II players SV Sandhausen players FC Astoria Walldorf players Bundesliga players 3. Liga players Regionalliga players Footballers from Heide ...
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