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Kaye (surname)
Kaye is an English surname (from the old English ''kaie''). In England, the Kayes of Lancashire and Yorkshire included the Kaye family of Woodesham, Yorkshire. Notable people with this surname include: Music * Carol Kaye, American electric bass player * Charlene Kaye, American singer * Dave Kaye, British pianist * Florence Kaye, songwriter * Judy Kaye, American actress and singer * Lenny Kaye, musician * Mary Kaye, American guitarist * Sammy Kaye, American bandleader and songwriter * Tony Kaye (musician), British keyboard player Politics * Frederick A. Kaye (1796–1866), fourth and sixth mayor of Louisville, Kentucky * John Kaye (politician) (1955–2016), Australian academic and politician * William Kaye (1813–1890), fourteenth mayor of Louisville, Kentucky * Laurence "Loz" Kaye, former Leader of Pirate Party UK Sports * Alicia Kaye, Canadian/US professional triathlete * James Kaye, British racing driver * Jonathan Kaye (born 1970), professional golfer on PGA Tour * Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English Language
English is a West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family, with its earliest forms spoken by the inhabitants of early medieval England. It is named after the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the island of Great Britain. Existing on a dialect continuum with Scots, and then closest related to the Low Saxon and Frisian languages, English is genealogically West Germanic. However, its vocabulary is also distinctively influenced by dialects of France (about 29% of Modern English words) and Latin (also about 29%), plus some grammar and a small amount of core vocabulary influenced by Old Norse (a North Germanic language). Speakers of English are called Anglophones. The earliest forms of English, collectively known as Old English, evolved from a group of West Germanic (Ingvaeonic) dialects brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers in the 5th century and further mutated by Norse-speaking Viking settlers starting in the 8th and 9th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tony Kaye (musician)
Anthony John Selvidge (born 11 January 1945), known professionally as Tony Kaye, is an English keyboardist, best known as a founding member of the progressive rock band Yes. Born into a musical family, Kaye was classically trained and intended to become a concert pianist before he developed an interest in jazz and contemporary rock and pop music. He joined several groups through the 1960s, including the Federals, Johnny Taylor's Star Combo, Jimmy Winston & His Reflections, and Bittersweet. From 1968 to 1971, Kaye was a member of Yes and played on their first three albums. He then formed Badger and relocated to Los Angeles in 1974, after which he toured with David Bowie and joined Detective. Kaye then played in Badfinger and is featured on their final studio album in 1981. He returned to Yes in 1983 for their most commercially successful period before he left in 1994. Kaye has since been involved with several projects with Billy Sherwood and is a current member of CIRCA:. From ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Celia Kaye
Celia Kaye (born Celia Kay Burkholder; February 24, 1942) is an American actress. She is most famous for her starring role in the 1964 film adaptation of '' Island of the Blue Dolphins'' which won her a Golden Globe award. Early life Kaye is of German and Cherokee ancestry and was born in Carthage, Missouri, to chemical engineer John W. Burkholder and his wife, Kathryn, who ran a private preschool. When she was one year old her family moved to Wilmington, Delaware, where her younger brother Johnny was born. She graduated with honors from Henry C. Conrad High School (now Conrad Schools of Science), where she showed an early interest in acting as a member of the National Thespian Society. In addition to her performing arts interests, which included learning dance and organ, she toured regionally as a diver and exhibition swimmer with the Wilmington swim club. She also worked as a model and is a graduate of the Philadelphia Modeling and Charm School. Career In 1959 Kaye moved t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Kaye (footballer)
Peter John Kaye (born 4 February 1979 in Huddersfield) is an English former professional footballer. Kaye began his career as a trainee with Huddersfield Town, although he had a trial with Manchester United in 1994. He turned professional in August 1996, and made his league debut came on 4 May 1997 when he replaced Jeremy Illingworth as a second-half substitute in the goalless draw at home to Swindon Town Swindon Town Football Club is a professional Association football, football club based in Swindon, Wiltshire, England. The team currently competes in , the fourth tier of the English football league system. The club has played home matches at .... This was to be his only appearance in the Huddersfield first team and he was released at the end of the following season. External links * 1979 births Living people Footballers from Huddersfield English men's footballers Huddersfield Town A.F.C. players English Football League players Men's association football forw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matthew Kaye
Matthew Kaye (born June 26, 1974) is an American Professional wrestling, professional wrestler, professional wrestling Sports commentator, commentator, actor and former high school teacher, using the ring name Matt Striker. During his career he has worked for WWE, Impact Wrestling, Lucha Libre AAA World Wide, Lucha Underground and Major League Wrestling. He is currently a part owner of one of the largest real estate companies on Long Island with a focus on the purchase and development of commercial properties. Professional wrestling career Early career (2000–2005) After training with Johnny Rodz, Kaye began working on the American independent circuit. While working full-time as a teacher in 2004, he continued to wrestle during his vacation time and weekends, while also using sick days. On December 16, 2004, Striker began a tour of Japan with Pro Wrestling Zero1 and was later invited back for an extended tour in early 2005. After resigning from his teaching position, he co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark-Anthony Kaye
Mark-Anthony Kaye (born December 2, 1994) is a Canadian professional soccer player who plays as a midfielder for Major League Soccer club New England Revolution and the Canada national team. Early life Born in Toronto, Ontario to Jamaican parents, Kaye first began playing soccer with Wexford SC in Scarborough. He later played with Ajax SC, winning a provincial title in 2009, and Glen Shields SC and Bryst FA. He attended Elementary school at John Ross Robinson Public School and High School at Lawrence Park Collegiate Institute where he would play soccer, where he was twice named team MVP, as well as participating in cross country, and track and field. University career Kaye played two years of university soccer at York University between 2012 and 2013. During his university career he played in 29 matches and scored 18 goals. He was named OUA rookie of the year after his first year season and selected to the CIS all-Canadian second-team and the OUA first-team as a sec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
PGA Tour
The PGA Tour (stylized in all capital letters as PGA TOUR by its officials) is the organizer of professional golf tours in the United States and North America. It organizes most of the events on the flagship annual series of tournaments also known as the PGA Tour, as well as PGA Tour Champions (age 50 and older) and the Korn Ferry Tour (for professional players who have not yet qualified to play on the PGA Tour), as well as PGA Tour Canada, PGA Tour Latinoamérica, and PGA Tour China. The PGA Tour is a nonprofit organization headquartered in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, a suburb southeast of Jacksonville, Florida, Jacksonville. Originally established by the Professional Golfers' Association of America, it was spun off in December 1968 into a separate organization for tour players, as opposed to professional golfer, club professionals, the focal members of today's PGA of America. Originally the "Tournament Players Division", it adopted the name "PGA Tour" in 1975 and runs most of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonathan Kaye
Jonathan Andrew Kaye (born August 2, 1970) is an American professional golfer who played on the PGA Tour. Biography Kaye was born in Denver, Colorado, and is Jewish. He attended Sunnyslope High School in Phoenix, Arizona, where he was a star in golf, graduating in 1988. He graduated from the University of Colorado in 1993 and turned pro that same year. He began playing on the PGA Tour in 1995 after successfully competing in qualifying school. Kaye has won twice on the PGA Tour, at the 2003 Buick Classic and the 2004 FBR Open, and he has over 30 top-10 finishes. He is a self-taught player who has never had a teacher. "There's nobody who could teach my swing," he has said. Kaye has featured in the top 20 of the Official World Golf Ranking, though he has not played a PGA Tour event since 2011. Kaye briefly reappeared on the Web.com Tour in 2014, playing in three events and making the cut once with a T65 at the Panama Claro Championship. He also played on the Web.com Tour in 2017. I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Kaye
James Kaye (born 18 February 1964 in Harrogate, North Yorkshire) is a British auto racing driver. He has been a stalwart competitor of Hondas in various championships since 1995, and has had 2 lengthy spells in the BTCC. He won the BTCC independents' championship in 1992 and 1994. Racing career After racing in the British National Production Saloon Championship with several championship in the late 80s and early 90s, he entered the BTCC as an independent in 1992, winning the independent title in his Toyota, and again in 1994. In 1993 he raced a semi-works Toyota for the Park Lane Racing team, ineligible for the Total Cup for Independents. In 1995 he was hired by Honda for their BTCC programme, racing there for 2 seasons. He had an assortment of sports car drives for Honda from 1997–1999, returning to touring cars in the National Saloon Championship in 2000. The same cars were eligible for the newly created Class B of the BTCC that year, and James was runner up in a Hond ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alicia Kaye
Alicia Beth Kaye (born October 7, 1983 in Smithers, British Columbia) is a Canadian-American professional triathlete and Member of the USA Triathlon Project 2012 program. Alicia Kaye started her international elite career at the age of 16, placing 14th at the World Cup in Corner Brook. Since 2010 she represents the United States. In 2010, Alicia Kaye also took part in the prestigious French Club Championship Series ''Lyonnaise des Eaux'' representing ''Tri Club Châteuaroux 36,'' a club which relies exclusively on foreign guest stars. At the ''Triathlon de Paris'' (18 July 2010) and at Tourangeaux (29 August 2010) she placed 18th and 11th respectively, thus being among the three . In the official rankings her nationality is indicated as French. More recently, Kaye on Ironman 70.3 races in Calgary, St. George, and Boulder in 2015. She placed 5th in the 2015 Ironman 70.3 World Championship. Alicia Kaye is married with Jarrod Shoemaker. She holds an undergraduate degree in spor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pirate Party UK
The Pirate Party UK (often abbreviated PPUK; in cy, Plaid Môr-leidr DU) was a political party in the United Kingdom. The Pirate Party's core policies were to bring about reform to copyright and patent laws, support privacy, reduce surveillance from government and businesses, and support freedom of speech and freedom of expression. The party was established in July 2009. The first leader of the party was Andrew Robinson, who stepped down in August 2010. Laurence "Loz" Kaye was elected to replace him in September 2010, and served until after the 2015 general election, when he stepped down. Following Kaye's resignation, a leadership election was held, with Cris Chesha being elected leader and David A Elston being elected the party's first deputy leader. The party announced that it had voted to dissolve on 7 October 2020, and was de-registered as a political party by the Electoral Commission on 9 November 2020. History Following The Pirate Bay trial, a large surge in Pirate Part ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Loz Kaye
Laurence "Loz" Kaye is a British musician, composer, activist and politician. Kaye was Leader of Pirate Party UK from 26 September 2010 to 9 May 2015. Kaye has spoken and campaigned on digital rights, copyright law and civil liberties in the past. Professional career Kaye has worked as a lecturer at the Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts and has also taught extensively in Denmark in the past, including at the Danish department of the Russian Academy of Theatre Arts (GITIS) in Aarhus. He is a Visiting Lecturer at Salford University on the Physical and Dance Theatre Degree, and is currently the Musical Director at Manchester Lesbian and Gay Chorus. and the artistic director of the community music and education charitMore Music As a composer his work is particularly associated with visual theatre company Horse and Bamboo Theatre, Huddersfield-based Darkhorse Theater and mask theatre company Thalias Tjenere. Political career Kaye was a Labour Party activist until 199 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
