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Håvard Vederhus
Håvard or Havard is a surname and given name. Notable people with the name include: Given name: *Håvard Bøkko (born 1987), Norwegian speedskater *Håvard Bjerkeli (born 1977), Norwegian cross country skier *Håvard Flo (born 1970), football player from Norway *Håvard Gimse (born 1966), Norwegian classical pianist from Kongsvinger * Håvard Halvorsen (born 1973), Norwegian football defender *Håvard Holm (1943–2017), Norwegian civil servant *Håvard Homstvedt (born 1976), Norwegian painter *Håvard Jørgensen, songwriter, guitarist and vocalist *Håvard Kjærstad (born 1947), Norwegian businessperson *Håvard Klemetsen (born 1979), Norwegian Nordic combined skier *Håvard Lie (born 1975), retired Norwegian ski jumper *Håvard Lothe (born 1982), Norwegian musician *Håvard Nordtveit (born 1990), Norwegian footballer *Håvard Rem (born 1959), Norwegian author *Håvard Sakariassen (born 1976), Norwegian football striker *Håvard Solbakken (born 1973), Norwegian cross country skier ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Håvard Bøkko
Håvard Bøkko (; born 2 February 1987) is a Norwegian former speed skater, and the premier skater from his country since 2008, with 32 national championships and thirteen international medals. He had junior results similar to those of Sven Kramer, Gianni Romme and Eric Heiden from the early 1980s before the clap skate. He is the older brother of Hege Bøkko. Speed skating career In 2006, Bøkko was the Junior World Champion, winning the three longest distances. In the European Speedskating Championships he won the bronze in 2006, was no. 4 in 2007, and caught the silver in 2008 and 2009 (on both occasions trailing Sven Kramer). In the World Allround Speedskating Championships he was no. 4 in 2007 and won the overall silver medal, after Sven Kramer, in both 2008 and 2009. At the latter occasion he managed the feat of reaching the podium for each of the four distances (silver, gold, silver, silver for 500, 1500, 5000, 10000 m). He went on to win the silver medal in the 2009 W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Håvard Storbæk
Håvard Storbæk (born 5 May 1986) is a Norwegian football midfielder who plays for Storms BK. He announced at the end of 2019, that he was retiring from professional football. He has previously played for Nybergsund, FK Haugesund and Odd. He is the second cousin of Jarl-André Storbæk. Career Storbæk was born in Elverum and grew up in Ljørdalen in Trysil, near the Swedish border, and played football for Østre Trysil and Trysil before he joined Nybergsund IL-Trysil, where he played for five seasons. In his first season for Nybergsund IL-Trysil he played 25 matches and scored 16 goals. In his second season for Nybergsund IL, Storbæk played 25 matches and scored 7 goals in the First Division. Odd Grenland's head coach Dag-Eilev Fagermo wanted to sign Storbæk after his performance in the match between Nybergsund and Odd Grenland on 29 June 2008, where Storbæk scored a goal. Storbæk rejected offers from HamKam and Strømsgodset and signed a two-year contract with Odd Gren ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valery Havard
Valery Havard (February 18, 1846 – November 6, 1927), was a career army officer, physician, author, and botanist. Although he held many notable posts during his military career, he is most well known for his service on the western frontier of the United States and in Cuba. Many Texas plants are named for Havard, including the Chisos bluebonnet ('' Lupinus havardii''), Havard oak ('' Quercus havardii''), and Havard's evening primrose (''Oenothera havardii''). Biography Early life Havard was born in Compiegne, France. After graduating from the Institute of Beauvais, he studied medicine in Paris before immigrating to the United States. He entered Manhattan College and the medical department of New York University, in New York City, graduating from both in 1869. For a time thereafter, he was house physician in Children's Hospital and professor of French, chemistry, and botany at Manhattan College. Frontier posts In 1871, he was appointed an acting assistant surgeon in the army a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Havard
Dr. Robert Emlyn Havard (1901–1985) was the physician of C.S. Lewis, his wife Joy Gresham, and J.R.R. Tolkien. Havard has also been credited as a "skilled and prolific writer". Interactions with other writer In addition to his medical research papers, Havard authored an appendix for C. S. Lewis's ''The Problem of Pain'' as well as a description of Lewis included in ''Remembering C. S. Lewis: Recollections of Those Who Knew Him'' and one of J. R. R. Tolkien included in ''Mythlore.'' Lewis invited Havard to join the Oxford-based Inklings because of the literary interests he shared with that group. Like Tolkien, he was a Roman Catholic. Havard was sometimes referred to by the Inklings as the "Useless Quack," mainly because Warren Lewis once called him so upon being irritated by his tardiness, and his brother, Jack, thought it quite amusing at the time and caused the nickname to continue. The abbreviation "U.Q." was thereafter a common reference to Havard. Hugo Dyson once calle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
René Havard
René Havard (20 December 1923 – 7 December 1987) was a French film actor. He appeared in 80 films between 1946 and 1985. He was born and died in Paris, France. Selected filmography * ''That's Not the Way to Die'' (1946) - L'assistant * ''La bataille du feu'' (1949) * '' Follow That Man'' (1953) - Un inspecteur * '' Le Guérisseur'' (1953) - Un interne * ''The Unfrocked One'' (1954) - Un officier * ''Quay of Blondes'' (1954) * ''The Sheep Has Five Legs'' (1954) - Le liftier * '' Poisson d'avril'' (1954) - L'examinateur * ''Marchandes d'illusions'' (1954) - Le souteneur * ''Huis clos'' (1954) - Un soldat * ''Interdit de séjour'' (1955) * ''The Babes Make the Law'' (1955) - Calamart * ''Série noire'' (1955) - Rinaldo * ''Stopover in Orly'' (1955) - André * ''Sophie and the Crime'' (1955) - Tony * ''Gueule d'ange'' (1955) - Caniche * ''Les indiscrètes'' (1956) - Maurice * ''The Babes in the Secret Service'' (1956) - Calamar / Sébastien / Le clochard * ''Bob le flambeur'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Havard-Williams
Peter Havard-Williams (11 July 1922 – 16 August 1995) was a Welsh people, Welsh Library, librarian and library educator. In the mid 1980s, he served as Chief Librarian to the Council of Europe. Early years Havard-Williams received degrees from universities in Wales and Oxford. In 1949, he wrote ''Thought and Sense in the Philosophy of Saint Thomas Aquinas'' as his Master's thesis at the Swansea University, University College of Swansea. Career Havard-Williams held senior posts in the libraries of Swansea University and the University of Liverpool. In 1956, he was appointed Librarian of New Zealand's University of Otago where he planned for the construction of a large library building, and served as editor of the University of Otago Press. For a decade, starting in 1961, he was University Librarian at Queen's University Belfast in Belfast, Northern Ireland, succeeding Jack Jacob Graneek. In 1964, while at Queen's, Havard-Williams founded the School of Library Studies (after ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michel Havard
Michel Havard (born March 24, 1967) is a member of the National Assembly of France. He represents the Rhône The Rhône ( , ; wae, Rotten ; frp, Rôno ; oc, Ròse ) is a major river in France and Switzerland, rising in the Alps and flowing west and south through Lake Geneva and southeastern France before discharging into the Mediterranean Sea. At Ar ... department, and is a member of The Republicans. References 1967 births Living people Politicians from Clermont-Ferrand The Republicans (France) politicians Deputies of the 13th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic {{France-politician-UMP-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kenny Havard
Kenneth Edward Havard, known as Kenny Havard (born March 1971), is an American politician and businessman serving as the president of West Felician Parish. A Republican, he previously served as member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from the 62nd district, which encompasses most of East and West Feliciana parishes and the northwest corner of East Baton Rouge Parish, including the city of Zachary. Early life and education A graduate of Jackson High School in Jackson, Louisiana, Havard attended ITI Technical College and Louisiana State University, both in Baton Rouge, to study industrial instrumentation and design. Career Prior to his election, he had worked for eighteen years as a manager of engineering sales and a business development executive in the petrochemical, oil, and natural gas industries. Havard vowed in his campaign announcement to work to "create new jobs ... streamline government and rescind current regulation that create barriers for business. We mus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Floyd Havard
Floyd Havard (born 16 October 1965) is a Welsh former super featherweight boxer. He was twice British super featherweight champion, from 1988–1989 and 1994-1996. In 1994 he made an unsuccessful bid for the IBF super featherweight title against John John Molina. Boxing career Swansea born Havard was a successful amateur boxer. He missed out in representing Britain in the 1984 Olympics to Kevin Taylor, but took the 1985 Amateur Boxing Association British featherweight title. He turned professional that same year, and began his career with an encounter with journeyman Dean Bramhald at Cardiff. This began a long string of winning results, and by April 1988 he had recorded 17 professional victories. On 18 May 1988, Havard was given a shot at the British super-featherweight title against the holder, Pat Cowdell. Cowdell was a natural featherweight, and past holder of the European featherweight belt, before he moved up to super-featherweight in 1984. Cowdell then took the European ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dai Havard
David Stuart Havard (born 7 February 1950) is a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney from 2001 to 2015. Early life Career Havard was a trade union researcher, education tutor, official and ultimately the Wales Secretary of the Manufacturing, Science and Finance (MSF) Union. Member of Parliament He claimed more than £205,000 in his expenses and wages between 2007 and 2008, which was revealed in May 2009. He continued as a member of Unite the Union following his election to Parliament. During his time in Parliament, Havard was a member of the Regulatory Reform Committee (2001–2005) and the Defence Select Committee (2003–2015). He consistently voted against same sex marriage Same-sex marriage, also known as gay marriage, is the marriage of two people of the same sex or gender. marriage between same-sex couples is legally performed and recognized in 33 countries, with the most recent being ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Håvard Fjær Grip
Håvard Fjær Grip is a Norwegian cybernetics engineer, adjunct assistant professor and robotics technologist. He leads the Flight Control Team and is Chief Pilot for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory Mars helicopter, '' Ingenuity''. Grip successfully flew Ingenuity's first flight on Mars on April 19, 2021, making history as the first extraterrestrial helicopter flight. Life From 2001 to 2006 Grip took a five-year engineering cybernetics master's degree, and from 2006 to 2010 a PhD at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). During his studies he was awarded for outstanding academic performance in engineering studies, as well as having the best master's thesis in 2006 in Norway within the field of control and automation. After having been awarded and having achieved his five-year master's degree with almost only A's, Grip handed in his master's thesis ''Nonlinear vehicle velocity observer with road-tire friction adaptation''. The dissertation focused on real ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Håvard Vad Petersson
Håvard Vad Petersson (born 5 January 1984 in Oslo) is a Norwegian curler from Arendal who was the long time lead for Team Thomas Ulsrud."Håvard Vad Petersson, Curling" (Curling > Athletes). Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games. Retrieved 12 February 2010. He is currently the coach of the Yannick Schwaller rink. At the junior level, Petersson played lead for Team Thomas Løvold and won gold medals at the 2002 and 2003 World Junior Curling Championships "B" tournaments. In 2004, he competed as skip for the first time at the World Junior Curling Championship, finishing in sixth place. With Team Ulsrud during the 2007–2010 seasons, Petersson won six World Curling Tour events, three European Curling Championship medals (silver in 2007 and 2008; bronze in 2009), three World Curling Championship medals (bronze in 2008 and 2009; silver in 2010), and silver at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics. His shooting accuracy proved to be consisten ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
