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John Egan (New Jersey Politician)
John Egan may refer to: Sports *John Egan (basketball), basketball player who participated on Loyola University Chicago's 1963 championship team *John Egan (Dublin GAA) (1951–2007), former Dublin GAA County Chairman *John Egan (footballer, born 1937), Scottish footballer *John Egan (footballer, born 1992), Irish footballer *John Egan (Gaelic footballer) (1952–2012), Kerry player *John Egan (hurler) (active since 2010), Irish hurler and Gaelic footballer *John J. Egan (1878–1949), American college football head coach *Rip Egan (John Joseph Egan, 1871–1950), baseball player, umpire and manager *Johnny Egan (Australian footballer) (1898–1988), Australian footballer *Johnny Egan (basketball) (1939–2022), American basketball player and coach *Johnny Egan (Offaly Gaelic footballer) Others *John Egan (Canadian politician) (1811–1857), Canadian businessman and politician *John Egan (chairman) (1750–1810), Irish barrister, politician, and chairman of Kilmainham, County Du ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Egan (basketball)
John "Jack" Egan is an American retired basketball player. His playing career is best remembered for his role on the 1962–63 Loyola Ramblers men's basketball team, which won the 1963 NCAA University Division basketball tournament, 1963 NCAA Championship. Egan was the lone white starting player on a team that broke racial barriers by starting four black players in an era when two or three was considered the maximum. After college, Egan played three years in the short-lived North American Basketball League (1964–1968), North American Basketball League before retiring from basketball to work as a lawyer. In 2002, Egan was inducted into the Chicagoland Sports Hall of Fame. The entire 1962–63 Loyola Ramblers team was inducted into the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame in 2013. Early life John Egan was born in the early 1940s and grew up in the South Side, Chicago, South Side of Chicago. He was the second-oldest of nine children born to his parents, a police officer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johnny Egan (Offaly Gaelic Footballer)
John "Johnny" Egan (born ''John Francis Egan'': 26 September 1939 – 14 December 2015) was an Irish Gaelic footballer who played as a left corner-back for the Offaly GAA, Offaly senior football team. Born in Doon, County Offaly, Doon, County Offaly, Egan first arrived on the inter-county scene when he first linked up with the Offaly minor team. Named on the Offaly Football Team of the Century and regarded as one of his county's finest ever footballers, he made his senior debut during the 1957–58 National Football League (Ireland), 1957–58 league. Egan went on to play a key role for over a decade and had 99 League and Championship appearances and won two Leinster Senior Football Championship, Leinster medals on the field of play. He was an All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, All-Ireland runner-up on two occasions in 1961 and 1969. He played in front of a record crowd of 90,556 against Down in 1961. He captained the team in 1969. At club level Egan began his career with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Egan (Wisconsin Politician)
John Egan (February 28, 1876 – November 21, 1942) was an American teacher, conservation warden, and politician. Born in the town of Centerville, Manitowoc County, Wisconsin, Egan went to Oshkosh Normal School (now University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh) and taught school. From 1912 to 1940, Egan was a conservation game warden and was involved with the Boy Scouts of America. In 1941, Egan served in the Wisconsin State Assembly as a Republican. In the United States November 1942 election, Egan was defeated for re-election to office. Egan died of a heart attack at his home in Manitowoc, Wisconsin Manitowoc () is a city in and the county seat of Manitowoc County, Wisconsin, United States. The city is located on Lake Michigan at the mouth of the Manitowoc River. According to the 2020 census, Manitowoc had a population of 34,626, with ove ... before his term in office ended in January 1943.'Heart Attack Proves Fatal To John Egan,' Manitowoc Herald-Times, November 21, 1942, p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Egan (piper)
John Egan (1840–1897) was an Irish piper. Egan, known as ''The Albino piper'' was a native of Dunmore, County Galway. Like his countryman Patsy Touhey, he was lefthanded. His tutor in pipe music as Liam Dáll Connolly, and his grandson, John Burke (piper). He emigrated to the United States and spent much of his subsequent life in New York City, barring tours with John Cronan and Patsy Touhey across eastern states. Francis O'Neill preserves a comment by Nicholas Burke on Egan, who stated that Egan "was a grand player and very powerful in his music." Egan died in New York in 1897. References * ''Famous Pipers who flourished principally in the second half of the nineteenth century'' Chapter 21 in ''Irish Minstrels and Musicians'', by Capt. Francis O'Neill Francis O'Neill (August 28, 1848 – January 26, 1936) was an Irish-born American police officer and collector of Irish traditional music. His biographer Nicholas Carolan referred to him as "the greatest indi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Egan (industrialist)
Sir John Leopold Egan (born 7 November 1939) is a British industrialist, associated with businesses in the automotive, airports, construction and water industries. He was chief executive and chairman of Jaguar Cars from 1980 to 1990 and chairman of Jaguar plc from 1985 to 1990, and then served as chief executive of BAA from 1990 to 1999. He is also notable for chairing the construction industry task force that produced the 1998 Egan Report (''Rethinking Construction'') and the follow-up report, ''Accelerating Change'', in 2002. During 2004, undertook the ''Egan Review of Skills for Sustainable Communities'' for the Blair Government. In 2004, after completing two years as president of the Confederation of British Industry, he was appointed chairman of Severn Trent. Career John Egan was born in Rawtenstall, Lancashire, the son of a garage owner. The family moved to Coventry where he went to Bablake School. He studied petroleum engineering at Imperial College London and subseq ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Egan (harp Maker)
John Egan was an Irish musical instrument maker active during the years 1804 to 1838, who is considered by many as the father of the modern Irish harp. According to Simon Chadwick, honorary secretary of the Historical Harp Society of Ireland, "The ancient Irish harp tradition, which goes back to medieval times, was dying out around 1800. Egan invented a completely new romantic type of Irish harp, which was very successful, and which formed the basis of all subsequent revivals."For a Rare Discarded Harp, a Chance to Sing Again , Colin Moynihan, '''', August 10, 2009 Egan overcame the restrictions of the traditional |
John Egan (CPR)
John Egan was General Superintendent of the Canadian Pacific Railway's Western Division from 1882 to July 1886 with headquarters at Winnipeg, Manitoba. He was succeeded by William Whyte. Formerly with the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway, Egan was hired by William Cornelius Van Horne Sir William Cornelius Van Horne, (February 3, 1843September 11, 1915) is most famous for overseeing the construction of the first Canadian transcontinental railway, a project that was completed in 1885, in under half the projected time. He succe ... to oversee the completion of the first transcontinental rail link in Canada. He was present at the driving of the last spike on November 7, 1885. Egan returned to the United States where he held executive positions with the St Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba Railway amongst others. References *Biographical Directory of the Railway Officials of America for 1887 (Chicago : Railway Age Pub. Co.), 97, 141. American railroad executives Canadian P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Egan (chairman)
John Egan (1750?-1810) was an Irish barrister, politician, and chairman of Kilmainham, County Dublin. Life Egan was born around 1750 at Charleville, County Cork, where his father was a beneficed clergyman. Having entered Trinity College Dublin, as a sizar, he graduated there B.A. 1773, and LL.B. 1776; the degree of LL.D. () was conferred upon him in 1790. He was called to the Irish bar in 1778, and, mainly through the friendship of Barry Yelverton, 1st Viscount Avonmore, chief baron of the exchequer, he made his way in the profession. In due course he received his silk gown; in 1787 he was elected a bencher of the King's Inns, Dublin; and for several years before his death he held the judicial office of chairman of Kilmainham. He had taken a large share of business as a practising barrister, but a quarrel with Henry Grattan damaged him professionally. In the Irish House of Commons The Irish House of Commons was the lower house of the Parliament of Ireland that existed from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Egan (Canadian Politician)
John Egan (November 11, 1811 – July 11, 1857) was an Irish-Canadian businessman and political figure in the Ottawa region. He was born near Aughrim, Ireland, in 1811. He came to Aylmer, Lower Canada, Canada, in 1830. After working with a lumber company on the upper Ottawa River, he entered the business himself near Bytown. He founded the town of Eganville in Ottawa Valley on the Bonnechere River, later expanding his operation to the Quyon, Petawawa and Madawaska Rivers. Egan was one of four men to finance the construction of the first flour and sawmill in Aylmer in 1839, and in partnership with Joseph Aumond, he founded the Union Forwarding Company in 1845. In the late 1840s, he began building a number of sawmills. Together with Ruggles Wright, he also operated a steamship transporting goods on the Ottawa River. Egan also played an important role in the development of railways service to the area, including the Bytown and Prescott Railway. He bought James Wadsworth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johnny Egan (basketball)
John Francis Egan (January 31, 1939 – July 21, 2022) was an American professional basketball player and coach. He played for the Detroit Pistons, New York Knicks, Baltimore Bullets, Los Angeles Lakers, Cleveland Cavaliers, and San Diego / Houston Rockets of the National Basketball Association from 1961 to 1972. He coached the Rockets from 1973 to 1976. Early life and playing career Egan was born on January 31, 1939, in Hartford, Connecticut. Playing for the basketball team at Weaver High School, which won the New England high school basketball championship in 1956 and 1957, he was named to the ''Parade'' All-America Boys Basketball Team. He was known as "Space", a nickname which alluded to "his ability to stay in the air during drives to the basket or to the length of his long-distance shots". Egan attended Providence College, where he played college basketball for the Providence Friars, and won the 1961 National Invitation Tournament. The Detroit Pistons of the Natio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Egan (Dublin GAA)
John Egan (16 March 1951 – 1 July 2007) was a former Dublin GAA county chairman. Also known as Seán Mac Aogáin, he was also active in the promotion of the Irish language. He was elected to the chair of Dublin's county board in 1998 and served as chairman until 2002 and was a member of Clan na nGael GAA club in Ringsend, County Dublin "Action to match our speech" , image_map = Island_of_Ireland_location_map_Dublin.svg , map_alt = map showing County Dublin as a small area of darker green on the east coast within the lighter green background of .... Egan was also the principal of Haddington Road Boys' National School in County Dublin. Egan died, aged 56, after his bicycle was in collision with a parked car in Enfield, County Meath. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Egan, John 1951 births 2007 deaths Chairmen of county boards of the Gaelic Athletic Association Dublin County Board administrators Heads of schools in Ireland Irish scho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johnny Egan (Australian Footballer)
William John Egan (22 February 1898 – 22 April 1988) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Melbourne in the Victorian Football League The Victorian Football League (VFL) is an Australian rules football league in Australia serving as one of the second-tier regional semi-professional competitions which sit underneath the fully professional Australian Football League (AFL). It ... (VFL). Notes External links * * 1898 births 1988 deaths Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state) Melbourne Football Club players People from Cardinia {{AFL-bio-1898-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
