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Irving (name)
Irving is an originally Scottish surname, a variant of the name Irvine (other), Irvine, which is derived from the eponymous River Irvine in Dumfriesshire. Irving is also used as a male given name. Notable people with the name include: Surname * Amy Irving (born 1953), American film and stage actress * Arthur Irving (born 1931), Canadian industrialist, son of K.C. Irving * Bob Irving (sportscaster), Canadian sportscaster * Bud Irving (born 1926), Canadian football player * Charles Irving (surgeon) (?-1794?), Scottish naval surgeon, inventor and colonial entrepreneur * Clifford Irving (1930–2017), American author who created a hoax autobiography of Howard Hughes * Dan Irving (1854–1924), British politician, Labour MP * David Irving (born 1938), British writer, best known for his denial of the Holocaust * David Irving (footballer) (born 1951), British footballer * Edmund George Irving (1910–1990), British naval hydrographer * Edward Irving (1792–1834), Scottish clergy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irvine (other)
Irvine may refer to: Places On Earth Antarctica *Irvine Glacier *Mount Irvine (Antarctica) Australia *Irvine Island *Mount Irvine, New South Wales Canada *Irvine, Alberta * Irvine Inlet, Nunavut United Kingdom *Irvine, North Ayrshire, Scotland **Irvine Royal Academy **Irvine Meadow XI F.C. **Irvine RFC **Irvine Victoria F.C. **Irvine railway station **Irvine Bank Street railway station *Irvine Valley, Ayrshire, Scotland, an alternative name for Loudoun *River Irvine, Scotland *Irvine Bay, Scotland United States *Irvine, California **University of California, Irvine **Irvine Valley College **Irvine Unified School District **Irvine High School (Irvine, California) **Irvine (train station) *Lake Irvine, California *Irvine, Florida *Irvine, Kentucky *Irvine Park Historic District, Minnesota *Irvine Township, Benson County, North Dakota *Irvine Railroad, Pennsylvania In space *6825 Irvine, main-belt asteroid People *Irvine (name), including a list of people with the name *Clan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George S
George may refer to: People * George (given name) * George (surname) * George (singer), American-Canadian singer George Nozuka, known by the mononym George * George Washington, First President of the United States * George W. Bush, 43rd President of the United States * George H. W. Bush, 41st President of the United States * George V, King of Great Britain, Ireland, the British Dominions and Emperor of India from 1910-1936 * George VI, King of Great Britain, Ireland, the British Dominions and Emperor of India from 1936-1952 * Prince George of Wales * George Papagheorghe also known as Jorge / GEØRGE * George, stage name of Giorgio Moroder * George Harrison, an English musician and singer-songwriter Places South Africa * George, Western Cape ** George Airport United States * George, Iowa * George, Missouri * George, Washington * George County, Mississippi * George Air Force Base, a former U.S. Air Force base located in California Characters * George (Peppa Pig), a 2-year-old pig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Washington Irving
Washington Irving (April 3, 1783 – November 28, 1859) was an American short-story writer, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat of the early 19th century. He is best known for his short stories "Rip Van Winkle" (1819) and " The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" (1820), both of which appear in his collection ''The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.'' His historical works include biographies of Oliver Goldsmith, Muhammad and George Washington, as well as several histories of 15th-century Spain that deal with subjects such as Alhambra, Christopher Columbus and the Moors. Irving served as American ambassador to Spain in the 1840s. Born and raised in Manhattan to a merchant family, Irving made his literary debut in 1802 with a series of observational letters to the ''Morning Chronicle'', written under the pseudonym Jonathan Oldstyle. He temporarily moved to England for the family business in 1815 where he achieved fame with the publication of ''The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Cr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Irving (Medal Of Honor)
Thomas Irving (born 1842, date of death unknown) was a Union Navy sailor in the American Civil War and a recipient of the U.S. military's highest decoration, the Medal of Honor, for helping to free his grounded ship. Born in 1842 in England, Irving immigrated to the United States and was living in New York when he joined the U.S. Navy. He served during the Civil War as a coxswain on the . On November 16, 1863, ''Lehigh'' was in Charleston Harbor providing support for Union troops on shore when the ship ran aground on a sand bar and came under heavy fire from Fort Moultrie. Despite intense Confederate artillery fire, Irving and fellow sailor Gunner's Mate George W. Leland rowed a small boat trailing a hawser from ''Lehigh'' to another Union ironclad, the . Both times, the cable snapped due to friction and hostile fire. Officers were about to give an "abandon ship" order when three more sailors, Landsman Frank S. Gile, Landsman William Williams, and Seaman Horatio Nelson Young, vo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Irving (other)
Robert Irving may refer to: * Robert Irving (industrialist), 20th- and 21st-century Canadian industrialist * Robert Irving (conductor) (1913–1991), orchestral conductor, son of Robert Lock Graham Irving * Bob Irving (rugby league) (1948–1999), rugby league player of the 1960s and 1970s * Robert Lock Graham Irving (1877–1969), schoolteacher, author and mountaineer * Robert Irving III (born 1953), American musician * Robert Grant Irving, American architectural historian * Bob Irving (sportscaster) Bob "Knuckles" Irving, (born 1950) is a Canadians, Canadian former sportscaster and was the radio play-by-play voice for the Canadian Football League, Canadian Football League's Winnipeg Blue Bombers from 1973 until his retirement in 2021. He i ... (born 1950), Canadian football sportscaster See also * Robert Irvine (other) * Robert Irwin (other) * Bob Irvin, leader of the Republican Party in Georgia in the United States {{hndis, Irving, Robert ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Jane Irving
Mary Jane Irving (October 20, 1913 – July 17, 1983) was an American actress. She appeared in 58 films between 1917 and 1938. Biography Born in Columbia, South Carolina, Irving began her career as a child actor in silent films. A popular child actor, Irving was relegated to secondary roles as a teen and, after her marriage to screenwriter Robert Carson in 1938, she retired from films. Seven months after her husband's death, Irving died in Los Angeles, California Los Angeles ( ; es, Los Ángeles, link=no , ), often referred to by its initials L.A., is the largest city in the state of California and the second most populous city in the United States after New York City, as well as one of the world' .... Filmography References External links * * 1913 births 1983 deaths American child actresses American film actresses American silent film actresses Actresses from Columbia, South Carolina 20th-century American actresses {{US-film-actor-1910s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin Howy Irving
Martin Howy Irving (21 February 1831 – 23 January 1912) was an English rower and educationist who spent nearly all his career in Australia . Background and early career Irving was born in St Pancras, London, the son of Edward Irving, a major figure of the Catholic Apostolic Church, whom Carlyle called the "freest, brotherliest, bravest human soul mine ever came in contact with", and his wife Isabella Martin. Irving was educated at King's College School, and Balliol College, Oxford, where he graduated B.A. in 1853 and M.A. in 1856, with first class honours in classics and second class honours in mathematics. At Oxford he was an active rower and won the college and university sculls in 1852.Balliol College Register In the same year, he was runner up in the Silver Goblets paired with Walter Francis Short and losing to Philip Nind and Henry Raine Barker in the final. He was also runner-up in the Diamond Challenge Sculls to Stephen Rippingall in 1853. Academic career Irving taugh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kyrie Irving
Kyrie Andrew Irving (; lkt, Ȟéla, italic=no, ; born March 23, 1992) is an American professional basketball player for the Brooklyn Nets of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He was named the Rookie of the Year after being selected by the Cleveland Cavaliers with the first overall pick in the 2011 NBA draft. A seven-time All-Star and three-time member of the All-NBA Team, he won an NBA championship with the Cavaliers in 2016. Irving played college basketball for the Duke Blue Devils before joining the Cavaliers in 2011. He won the Most Valuable Player (MVP) award for the 2014 All-Star Game. In the 2016 NBA Finals, Irving made the championship-winning three-point field goal to complete the Cavaliers' historic comeback over the Golden State Warriors. After another Finals appearance in 2017, Irving requested a trade and was dealt to the Boston Celtics. He played as a Celtic for two seasons, after which he signed with the Brooklyn Nets as a free agent in 2019. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jules Irving
Jules Irving (né Julius Israel; April 13, 1925 – July 28, 1979) was an American actor, director, educator, and producer, who in the 1950s co-founded the Actor's Workshop, San Francisco Actor's Workshop. When the Actor's Workshop closed in 1966, Irving moved to New York City and became the first Producing Director of the Repertory Company of the Vivian Beaumont Theater of Lincoln Center. In 1955, the Actor's Workshop was the first West Coast theater to sign an Equity "Off-Broadway" contract. Irving had started the Workshop with fellow New Yorker Herbert Blau, whom he knew from undergraduate days at New York University and then during graduate study at Stanford University. Both men were both professors at San Francisco State, Irving, in the Drama department and Blau in English. Irving was from childhood deeply involved in theater, supported in this by his family along with his older brother Richard, despite a degree of religious reservation inculcated by bizarre, bearded Russi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Irving (other)
John Irving (born 1942) is an American novelist and Academy Award-winning screenwriter. John Irving may also refer to: *John E. Irving (1932–2010), Canadian businessman *John Irving (basketball) (1953–2015), American college basketball player in the 1970s *John Irving (footballer, born 1867) (1867–1942), Lincoln City footballer in the 1890s * John Irving (footballer, born 1988), English footballer in the 21st century *John Irving (MP) (1766–1845), MP for Antrim and Bramber * John Irving (Royal Navy officer), Scottish Royal Navy officer and member of the Franklin Expedition * John Irving (sailor) (1839–1???), American Civil War sailor and Medal of Honor recipient *John Irving (steamship captain) John Irving (November 24, 1854 – August or October 10, 1936) was a steamship captain in British Columbia, Canada. He began on the Fraser River at the age of 18 and would become one of the most famous and prosperous riverboat captains of ... (1854–1936), Canadian stea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jayne Irving
Jayne Irving (born 30 August 1956, Sheffield, West Riding of Yorkshire) is a British TV presenter best known for appearing on the Breakfast Television show ''Good Morning Britain (1983), Good Morning Britain'', plus the BBC One weekday morning phone-in show ''Open Air'', which discussed some of the programmes that had been broadcast the night before. Career Irving began her broadcasting career reading the news bulletins on the Sheffield-based independent radio station Radio Hallam in the late 1970s. Irving worked as a reporter in Bristol before joining TV-am. Initially, she presented the news bulletins on "Good Morning Britain". Early in 1984, she got the opportunity to cover for Anne Diamond and then established herself as a regular on TV-am, alongside either Nick Owen or John Stapleton (English journalist), John Stapleton. In 1986, Irving became the regular host of the new ''After Nine'' slot and appeared every weekday. She was a driving force behind the station's successful ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James K
James is a common English language surname and given name: *James (name), the typically masculine first name James * James (surname), various people with the last name James James or James City may also refer to: People * King James (other), various kings named James * Saint James (other) * James (musician) * James, brother of Jesus Places Canada * James Bay, a large body of water * James, Ontario United Kingdom * James College, a college of the University of York United States * James, Georgia, an unincorporated community * James, Iowa, an unincorporated community * James City, North Carolina * James City County, Virginia ** James City (Virginia Company) ** James City Shire * James City, Pennsylvania * St. James City, Florida Arts, entertainment, and media * ''James'' (2005 film), a Bollywood film * ''James'' (2008 film), an Irish short film * ''James'' (2022 film), an Indian Kannada-language film * James the Red Engine, a character in ''Thomas the Tank En ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
