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Joby
Joby is a given name, sometimes a short form (hypocorism) of Joseph. Notable people with the name include: *Joby Baker (born 1934), Canadian born actor and painter *Joby Godfrey (1894–1977), English professional footballer *Joby Harold, English film director and screenwriter currently living in Los Angeles *Joby Harris (born 1975), California-based visual artist; guitar player and singer for band ''Crash Rickshaw'' *Joby Harte, British television personality *Joby Ingram-Dodd (born 1980), former Welsh racing cyclist *Joby Messier (born 1970), professional ice hockey player *Joby Ogwyn (born 1974), American mountain climber from Santa Barbara, California *Joby Talbot (born 1971), British composer *Joby Wright (born 1950), American former college and professional basketball player See also * Jobi (other) * Jobe (other) Jobe is a given name and a surname. Jobe or Jobé may also refer to: * Jobe Township, Oregon County, Missouri, United States, an inactive town ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joby Talbot
Joby Talbot (born 25 August 1971) is a British composer. He has written for a wide variety of purposes and an accordingly broad range of styles, including instrumental and vocal concert music, film and television scores, pop arrangements and works for dance. He is therefore known to sometimes disparate audiences for quite different works. Prominent compositions include the a cappella choral works ''The Wishing Tree'' (2002) and '' Path of Miracles'' (2005); orchestral works ''Sneaker Wave'' (2004), ''Tide Harmonic'' (2009), ''Worlds, Stars, Systems, Infinity'' (2012) and ''Meniscus'' (2012); the theme and score for the popular BBC Two comedy series ''The League of Gentlemen'' (1999–2002); silent film scores '' The Lodger'' (1999) and ''The Dying Swan'' (2002) for the British Film Institute; film scores ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'' (2005), ''Son of Rambow'' (2007) and ''Penelope'' (2008). [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joby Harold
Joby Harold is an English screenwriter, producer and director who runs Safehouse Pictures with his producing partner, Tory Tunnell. The company was co-founded in 2005. Career Harold's latest projects are the upcoming films ''Space Mountain'' and ''Atlas'' starring Jennifer Lopez, Simu Liu, and Sterling K. Brown both of which he will be producing alongside Tunnell. He is also working on the new ''Untitled Godzilla Projec''t with Legendary starring Kurt Russell, Wyatt Russell, Ren Watabe, Anna Sawai, and Kiersey Clemons. Harold is developing the movie ''I.F.'' with Mike Mitchell attached to direct and Tiffany Haddish set to star. Recently, he wrote and Executive Produced the series ''Obi-Wan Kenobi'' for Disney+ and also worked on '' Transformers: Rise of the Beasts'', the last in the live action ''Transformers'' film series, for Paramount Pictures as a sequel to ''Bumblebee'', along with a sci-fi thriller ''Cloaker'' for Warner Bros., which Safehouse Pictures is produci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joby Harte
Joby Harte is a British television personality. He has worked on many television shows including the BBC's ''Strictly Come Dancing''. Joby was part of the original production team and played a role in the creation of the worldwide hit reality series ''Pop Idol'' along with series producer Ken Warwick. As a television actor, Harte's credits include "the baker" on the ITV children's show ''SMTV Live''. Before being a warm-up artist, he was a radio presenter for local UK radio station 97.6 Chiltern FM. In 2009, Harte created the company Hot Rock Media, Inc. as an entertainment empire. In 2011, Stephanie Wayland became VP, Talent & Literary of the company based in Beverly Hills, California. Hot Rock Media acquired offices at the NBC Burbank Studios and partnered with talent managers Paul Cohen and Sheri Anderson Thomas of Cohen Thomas Management. The company, The Partnership LA, currently represents 22 clients including actors and singers in film and television. Harte is the host ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joby Messier
Joby Messier (born March 2, 1970) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player who played 25 games in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the New York Rangers between 1993 and 1995. Playing career Joby Messier was a member of the Notre Dame Hounds of the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League (SJHL) in 1987-88, playing 53 games and scoring 31 points. He also collected five points in five games during the 1988 Centennial Cup and was named a tournament All-Star. Messier enrolled at Michigan State University, following in his older brother Mitch's footsteps. He played for the Spartans for four years and was a CCHA First Team All-Star selection in his senior year in 1991-92. After his sophomore year, Messier was selected by the New York Rangers in the 1989 NHL Entry Draft, 118th overall. During his time with the Spartans some of his teammates included Rod Brind'Amour, Kip Miller, Jason Woolley, Bryan Smolinski and Rem Murray. Following the completion of his collegiate playing d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joby Ogwyn
Joby Ogwyn ( ; born August 25, 1974) is an American mountain climber, BASE jumper and Wingsuit flyer. Early life Ogwyn grew up in Louisiana and studied business administration at the Centenary College of Louisiana.Adventurer-Centenary Alumnus Joby Ogwyn, Class of '97, Currently Climbing World's Tallest Unclimbed Peak , centenary.edu, retrieved February 11, 2014 Mountaineering He summited when he was just 18. When he first summited in 19 ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joby Wright
Joseph "Joby" Wright (born September 5, 1950) is an American former college and professional basketball player who was men's basketball head coach at Miami University and at the University of Wyoming. Early life Wright starred in basketball at Johnson High School in Savannah, Georgia. In 2004, the ''Savannah News'' named Wright one of the "Fantastic 15" top 15 all-time high school basketball players in Savannah. College career Wright played college basketball at Indiana University, where in three varsity seasons he averaged 17.4 points per game and a total of 1,272 points. As a sophomore in 1969–70, Wright averaged 14.7 points for game, tied for second on the team, and he was second in rebounds. As a junior in 1970–71, Wright had a career-high 18 rebounds in one game against Notre Dame. He was again the second-leading scorer with 17.8 points per game (behind George McGinnis) and third in rebounding. The Hoosiers posted a 17-7 record under coach Lou Watson. In 1971–72, W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joby Baker
Joseph N. "Joby" Baker (born March 26, 1934) is a Canadian-born actor and painter. Career Baker was born in Montreal, Quebec. An early role in his career was in a 1958 episode of ''The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show'', "Ronnie Makes A Record", where he was cast as a recording studio vocalist. In the early 1960s he made guest appearances on many television series. In 1962 he appeared on ''Perry Mason'' as Kenneth Carter in "The Case of the Bogus Books". He also appeared as a semi-regular in the first season of the WWII TV series ''Combat!'' as Pvt. Kelly. Other television series appearances included ''The Alfred Hitchcock Hour'', ''Dr. Kildare'' and ''The Dick Van Dyke Show''. In 1960 he co-starred with Jack Lemmon and Ricky Nelson in '' The Wackiest Ship in the Army''. He appeared in the Elvis Presley movie ''Girl Happy'' (1965), and in all three Gidget movies. In 1967, Baker was cast as a travelling magician, Dr. William Davis, in the episode "The Saga of Dr. Davis" on th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joby Harris
Joby Harris (born February 21, 1975) is a designer and director in Los Angeles, California. He is also the lead singer and guitar player for the American post-hardcore band Crash Rickshaw. He is currently a visual strategist for NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. Music Harris performed in Crash Rickshaw on two albums to date. A self-titled album on Seattle based record label Tooth & Nail Records in late 2001 and a second album entitled ''The Unknown Clarity'' independently released in 2005. In late 2016, Watchmaker Records announced a re-release of ''The Unknown Clarity'' on vinyl. Harris previously spent time performing with Pittsburgh local punk band Phatso, as well as Orange County, California bands Rainy Days, and The Moodswingers opening for such acts as At the Drive In, P.O.D., Project 86 and Zao. In late 2009, he wrote and co-performed an independently released fight song for professional NFL football team the Pittsburgh Steelers. Visual ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joby Ingram-Dodd
Joby Ingram-Dodd (born 14 July 1980), is a former Welsh racing cyclist. He represented Wales at the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester. He has now moved on to become an actor, writer and producer. Currently working for Space Dive Productions Limited, his involved with a number of projects including 2 feature films and 3 TV series. Palmarès ;2002 :3rd British National Tandem Sprint Championships :4th British National Madison Championships (with Mark Cooper) :4th Team Pursuit, 4m25.029, Commonwealth Games (with Huw Pritchard, Will Wright & Paul Sheppard) ;2005 :4th 400m, British National Grass Track Championships :3rd Team Sprint, British National Track Championships (with Ian Sharpe & Jay Hollingsworth) ;2006 :4th British National Tandem Sprint Championships The British National Tandem Sprint Championships are held annually, organised by British Cycling British Cycling (formerly the British Cycling Federation) is the main national governing body for cycle sport in Gre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joby Godfrey
Joseph Godfrey (January 1894 – January 1977), commonly known as Joby Godfrey, was an English professional footballer who played in the Football League for Birmingham, Coventry City, Manchester City and Merthyr Town. He played as a forward. Godfrey was born in Waleswood, near Rotherham. He scored freely in wartime competition, but was unable to settle when the Football League began again. He scored on his debut for Birmingham in the Second Division on the opening day of the first post-war season, in a 4–1 home win against Hull City,Matthews, p. 162. but by the end of that season he had moved to Merthyr Town via both Coventry City and Manchester City. After a year with Merthyr, in which he rarely appeared for the first team, he moved into non-league football back in his native Yorkshire Yorkshire ( ; abbreviated Yorks), formally known as the County of York, is a Historic counties of England, historic county in northern England and by far the largest in the United Kingdo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jobi (other) , a given name
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Jobi can refer to: Given name * Jobi McAnuff, British footballer * Hiob Ludolf, German scholar also known as Jobi * Uschi Digard, actress also known as Jobi Animals * Jobi manucode, a bird * Jobi tree frog See also * Yapen or Japen, an island of Papua, Indonesia * Joby Joby is a given name, sometimes a short form (hypocorism) of Joseph. Notable people with the name include: *Joby Baker (born 1934), Canadian born actor and painter *Joby Godfrey (1894–1977), English professional footballer *Joby Harold, English ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hypocorism
A hypocorism ( or ; from Ancient Greek: (), from (), 'to call by pet names', sometimes also ''hypocoristic'') or pet name is a name used to show affection for a person. It may be a diminutive form of a person's name, such as ''Izzy'' for Isabel or ''Bob (given name), Bob'' for Robert, or it may be unrelated. In linguistics, the term can be used more specifically to refer to the morphological process by which the standard form of the word is transformed into a form denoting affection, or to words resulting from this process. In English, a word is often Clipping (morphology), clipped down to a closed monosyllable and then suffixed with ''-y/-ie'' (phonologically /i/). Sometimes the suffix ''-o'' is included as well as other forms or templates. Hypocoristics are often affective in meaning and are particularly common in Australian English, but can be used for various purposes in different semantic fields, including personal names, place names and nouns. Hypocorisms are usually ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |