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Ian Roberts (doctor)
Ian Roberts may refer to: Entertainment * Ian Roberts (American actor) (born 1965), American actor and comedian * Ian Roberts (South African actor) (born 1952), South African actor, playwright and singer * Kwame Kwei-Armah (born 1967), British actor, playwright, singer and broadcaster Others * Ian Roberts (rugby league) (born 1965), Australian actor and rugby league player known for being the first openly gay rugby league player * Ian Roberts (Australian footballer) (born 1957), former Australian rules footballer * Ian Roberts (footballer, born 1961), Welsh association footballer * Ian Roberts (equestrian) (born 1958), Canadian equestrian events Olympian * Ian Roberts (linguist) Ian G. Roberts is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of Downing College, Cambridge. He also serves on the Advisory Council of METI (Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligence). He received his PhD from the Univers ... (born 1957), Professor of Linguistics at the Univer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian Roberts (American Actor)
Ian Michael Roberts (born July 29, 1965) is an American actor, comedian and writer. Roberts is a founding member of the famed Upright Citizens Brigade improv and sketch comedy troupe. Life and career Roberts was born in Queens, New York (state), New York, to parents Don and Penny Roberts, but spent the majority of his childhood in Secaucus, New Jersey, where he moved at age four. Roberts is a 1987 graduate of Grinnell College in Iowa, where he majored in theater. After graduating from college, Roberts moved to Milwaukee and eventually to Chicago where he became involved in improvisational comedy, studying improv under comedy legend Del Close. In the early 1990s, Roberts and Matt Besser (along with several other Chicago improv comics) would eventually form the Upright Citizens Brigade The Upright Citizens Brigade is an improvisational and sketch comedy group that emerged from Chicago's ImprovOlympic in 1990. The original incarnation of the group consisted of Matt Besser, Amy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian Roberts (South African Actor)
Ian Roberts (born 30 November 1951) is a South African actor, playwright and singer. A native English speaker, he is also fluent in Afrikaans and Xhosa. Early life Roberts was born in Fort Beaufort in the Eastern Cape Province and grew up on his father's citrus farm near the town. He attended St. Andrew's Preparatory School and St. Andrew's College in Grahamstown. After completing high school he performed his compulsory national service in the South African Army, which he completed in 1971. After a variety of different jobs and a course in photography at the Port Elizabeth Technical College from 1973 to 1975, Roberts enrolled at Rhodes University in 1976 for a Bachelor of Arts degree majoring in speech, drama and social anthropology. Acting career Roberts became a South African icon when he played the character of ''Boet'' in a long-running series of television advertisements for Castrol motor oil. This character (together with the other characters ''Swaer'' and ''Moegoe' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kwame Kwei-Armah
Kwame Kwei-Armah (born Ian Roberts; 24 March 1967 in Hillingdon, London) is a British actor, playwright, director, singer and broadcaster. He is best known for playing paramedic Finlay Newton in the BBC medical drama ''Casualty'' from 1999 until 2004. In 2005 he became the second black Briton to have a play staged in the West End of London. (In 1990, Ray Harrison Graham's Fringe First award-winning play ''Gary'' played at the Arts Theatre.) Kwei-Armah's award-winning piece '' Elmina's Kitchen'' transferred to the Garrick Theatre in 2005. He was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2012 Birthday Honours for services to drama. He is currently the artistic director of the Young Vic theatre in London, succeeding David Lan. Brought up in Southall, West London, he changed his name at the age of 19, after tracing his family history, through the slave trade back to his ancestral African roots in Ghana. His parents were born in Grenada. He has four chil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian Roberts (rugby League)
Ian Roberts (born 31 July 1965) is a British-born Australian actor, IT managed services consultant and former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1980s and 1990s. A New South Wales State of Origin and Australian international representative forward, he played club football with the South Sydney Rabbitohs, Wigan Warriors, Manly Warringah Sea Eagles and North Queensland Cowboys. In 1995 Roberts became the first high-profile Australian sports person and first rugby footballer in the world to come out to the public as gay. Early life Ian Roberts was born in 1965 in Chelsea, London, England, to a father who worked in construction and was an amateur boxer, and a housewife mother. The family emigrated as Ten Pound Poms in 1967 to South Sydney, Australia, where the family was guaranteed a new house, and his father was guaranteed a job, continuing to work in construction. He was educated at Maroubra Bay High School. Football career Club career As a junior Roberts p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian Roberts (Australian Footballer)
Ian Roberts (born 3 April 1957) is a former Australian rules footballer in the Victorian Football League (VFL) for the Sydney Swans. Roberts was a supporter of VFL club South Melbourne as a child, and was later recruited to Souths from Frankston. He made his VFL debut with Souths in 1979 and made his name as a back pocket player as they relocated from Melbourne to Sydney in 1982. In a long career with the Swans spanning 13 seasons, Roberts played 157 games and kicked 33 goals, retiring at the end of 1991. He missed many games due to injury, as his light 73 kg frame and uncompromising playing style.Cockerill, Ian (9 August 1989He's no Adonis, but Ian Roberts, the Swan, has a heart twice his size The Sydney Morning Herald ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' (''SMH'') is a daily compact newspaper published in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, and owned by Nine. Founded in 1831 as the ''Sydney Herald'', the ''Herald'' is the oldest continuously published newspaper ... ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian Roberts (footballer, Born 1961)
Ian Mark Roberts (born 28 February 1961) is a Welsh former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. He played in the English Football League for Wrexham, and also played for Bangor City Bangor City Football Club ( cy, Clwb Pêl-droed Dinas Bangor) are an inactive Welsh football club from the City of Bangor, Gwynedd. They started the 2021–22 season in the Cymru North the second level of the Welsh football league system, but .... References 1961 births Living people Welsh men's footballers Men's association football midfielders Wrexham A.F.C. players Bangor City F.C. players English Football League players People from Colwyn Bay Footballers from Conwy County Borough {{Wales-footy-midfielder-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian Roberts (equestrian)
Ian Roberts (born on October 28, 1958, in Victoria, British Columbia) competed as a member of the Canadian Equestrian Team in eventing at the 2004 Summer Olympics. His farm is Dreamcrest Farms, in Port Perry, Ontario, which he owns with his wife, Kelly Plitz, also an Olympic eventing rider. Roberts placed 23rd at the 2006 Rolex Kentucky Three Day Event, and 20th at the 2007 competition. He represented Canada at the 2006 FEI World Equestrian Games, but was eliminated in the individual competition. Roberts is a graduate of Brentwood College School
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Ian Roberts (linguist)
Ian G. Roberts is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of Downing College, Cambridge. He also serves on the Advisory Council of METI (Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligence). He received his PhD from the University of Southern California in 1985 and taught at the Universities of Geneva (1985–1993), Bangor (1991–1996) and Stuttgart (1996–2000) before taking up his present position at Cambridge in 2000. He is a fellow of Downing College. Professor Roberts is a generative linguist and enthusiastic adopter of Chomsky's Minimalist Program. He has published widely in the synchronic and diachronic syntax of Romance and Germanic languages and Welsh Welsh may refer to: Related to Wales * Welsh, referring or related to Wales * Welsh language, a Brittonic Celtic language spoken in Wales * Welsh people People * Welsh (surname) * Sometimes used as a synonym for the ancient Britons (Celtic peop .... References Linguists from England Hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian Roberts (athlete)
Ian Andre Roberts (born December 18, 1973) is a former Guyanese Olympic athlete and educator. He is the former superintendent of the Millcreek Township School District in Millcreek Township, Erie County, Pennsylvania. He is the current superintendent of the Des Moines Independent Community School District in Des Moines, Iowa Sports career As a male middle distance runner from Guyana, Ian specialized in the 800m. He competed in the 2000 Summer Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia. He won his first international medal, winning the 1999 Central American and Caribbean Championships in Athletics in Bridgetown, Barbados where he won the gold medal. He competed in the Middle Eastern Athletic Conference where he won several conference titles and placed sixth in the 800m at the NCAA Championships. He went on to St. John's University St John's University may refer to: *St. John's University (New York City) **St. John's University School of Law **St. John's University (Italy) - Overs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian Roberts (cricketer)
Ian Clement Roberts (born 29 April 1948) is a former English cricketer. Roberts was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm medium-fast. He was born in Plymouth, Devon. Professional career Roberts made his debut for Devon in the 1974 Minor Counties Championship against Berkshire. From 1974 to 1980, he represented the county in 26 Championship matches, the last of which came against Oxfordshire. He also represented Devon in a single List A match, at a time when they were permitted to take part in the domestic one-day competition, against Cornwall in the 1980 Gillette Cup 1st round. He wasn't required to bat in the match and with the ball he bowled 7 wicket-less overs. References External linksat ESPNcricinfo ESPN cricinfo (formerly known as Cricinfo or CricInfo) is a sports news website exclusively for the game of cricket. The site features news, articles, live coverage of cricket matches (including liveblogs and scorecards), and ''StatsGuru'', a ...Ian Robert ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |