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Kortney
Courtney is a surname originating from England, France and Ireland. In the latter, it is anglicised of the Gaelic ''Ó Curnáin'' 'descendant of Curnán' (a diminutive of ''corn'' 'horn'), a Munster Irish given name. A variant of ''Cournane'', the name is prevalent in County Kerry. It may also be derived from ''McCourtney'' (), or more so, of the former Anglo-Norman origin. List of people with the surname * Brendan Courtney (born 1971), Irish television presenter * Charles E. Courtney (1849–1920), American rower and rowing coach * C. F. Courtney (died 1941), manager of Australian mining and ore treatment company * Christopher Courtney (1890–1976), British Royal Air Force officer * Clint Courtney (1927–1975), American baseball player * Dave Courtney (born 1959), British author and self-proclaimed ex-gangster * Duane Courtney (born 1985), English footballer * Eamon Courtenay (born 1960), Belizean politician * Ernie Courtney (1875–1920), American baseball player * Henry A. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Surname
In some cultures, a surname, family name, or last name is the portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family, tribe or community. Practices vary by culture. The family name may be placed at either the start of a person's full name, as the forename, or at the end; the number of surnames given to an individual also varies. As the surname indicates genetic inheritance, all members of a family unit may have identical surnames or there may be variations; for example, a woman might marry and have a child, but later remarry and have another child by a different father, and as such both children could have different surnames. It is common to see two or more words in a surname, such as in compound surnames. Compound surnames can be composed of separate names, such as in traditional Spanish culture, they can be hyphenated together, or may contain prefixes. Using names has been documented in even the oldest historical records. Examples of surnames are documented in the 11th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Courtney
James Anthony Courtney (born 29 June 1980) is an Australian racing driver competing in the Supercars Championship, Repco Supercars Championship. He currently drives the No. 5 Ford Mustang (sixth generation), Ford Mustang GT for Tickford Racing. Courtney won the 2010 V8 Supercar Championship Series driving for the Dick Johnson Racing team. Early career Courtney has raced and was successful in several other categories, most of which are regarded as the stepping stones to Formula One. He was Karting World Championship, World Junior Karting Champion in 1995 and world Karting World Championship, Formula A Champion in 1997. He was British Formula Ford champion in 2000 and broke the record for winning the most Formula Ford races in one season. He drove for the Jaguar Racing, Jaguar Junior Formula Three team in 2001, impressively winning his first F3 race on his F3 debut. He was also a test driver for Jaguar's Formula One team. Injuries from a high-speed test crash at Monza in 2002, due ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephanie Courtney
Stephanie Courtney (born February 8, 1970) is an American actress and comedian, best known for playing the advertising character Flo in television and radio commercials for Progressive Corporation beginning in 2008. Courtney is also noted for her recurring roles on several television series, including the voices of Renee the Receptionist and Joy Peters on the Adult Swim comedy ''Tom Goes to the Mayor'' (2004–06), Marge on the AMC drama ''Mad Men'' (2007), and Diane on the ABC comedy ''Cavemen'' (2007). She also appeared in the season 2 premiere of ''Men of a Certain Age''. She also plays Essie Karp in '' The Goldbergs''. Courtney was a member of The Groundlings, an improvisational and sketch comedy theater in Los Angeles, California. Early life and education Courtney was born in Stony Point, Rockland County, New York, the youngest of three children of a high school history teacher father and a singer mother. In 1992, she graduated with a degree in English from Binghamton ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roger Courtney
Roger James Allen Courtney MC (1902 – 15 February 1946) (His brother gives his date of death as 14 February 1949), known as Jumbo, was a British soldier who established the Special Boat Sections which saw action in World War II. These would eventually lead to the formation of the UK Special Boat Service. Courtney was a bank clerk in Leeds, England, before he became a professional white hunter and gold prospector in East Africa. Upon his return to England he wrote an account of his experiences, a book entitled Claws of Africa, Experiences of a Professional Big-game Hunter (published in 1934 by George G. Harrap & Co.) He was also a sergeant in the Palestinian Police Force. When World War II began, he travelled from Africa (where he was big-game hunting) to England to join the Army as a "commando folding kayaker". When his ideas were rebuffed, he joined the King's Royal Rifle Corps as a Rifleman. Soon promoted to Corporal, he was commissioned in November 1939. Courtney became an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Courtney (fraudster)
Robert Ray Courtney (born September 15, 1952) is an American former pharmacist from Kansas City, Missouri. In 2002, after initially being caught diluting several doses of chemotherapy drugs, he pleaded guilty to intentionally diluting 98,000 prescriptions involving multiple types of drugs, which were given to 4,200 patients, and was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison. Early life and education Courtney was born in Hays, Kansas. His father was a traveling minister based in Scott City, and described Courtney as an "ideal son". He played the trombone at Wichita South High School. Courtney graduated from the School of Pharmacy at University of Missouri–Kansas City in 1975. Adult life In 1986, Courtney became the owner of Research Medical Tower Pharmacy in Kansas City, where he had worked for some time. He primarily mixed intravenous drugs. Before his arrest, Courtney served as a deacon at Northland Cathedral, an Assemblies of God megachurch in Kansas City. In 1992, he a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pip Courtney
Philippa Jane "Pip" Courtney is an Australian journalist and television presenter. She is known for her work as a reporter and host of the ABC series ''Landline''. In 2000, she became a reporter on ''The 7.30 Report'', but returned to ''Landline'' in 2001. Career Courtney's father, Michael, was a journalist and editor of '' The Examiner''. She grew up in Launceston, Tasmania, and attended the Launceston Church Grammar School from 1977 to 1982. She then studied politics at the University of Tasmania, where she resided at Christ College and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1986. In 1993, Courtney joined ''Landline'', where she met cameraman John Bean during her first shoot; they married on 28 January 1999. On 18 August 2011, Bean, television journalist Paul Lockyer and pilot Gary Ticehurst died in a helicopter crash while filming at Lake Eyre in South Australia. In 2011, Courtney received the Star Prize for Broadcast Journalism from the International Federation of Agricultura ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicholas Courtney
William Nicholas Stone Courtney (16 December 1929 – 22 February 2011) was an Egyptian-born British actor. He was known for his long-running role as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart in the BBC science fiction television series ''Doctor Who''. Early life Courtney was born in Cairo, Egypt, the son of a British diplomat father and half-American mother. His paternal grandfather was the journalist William Leonard Courtney. He was educated in France, Kenya and Egypt. On his maternal side, Courtney was descended from New Zealand politician John Cuff. He did his national service in the British Army, leaving after 18 months as a private, not wanting to pursue a military career. He moved to England to join London's Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art. After two years doing repertory theatre in Northampton, he became resident in London in 1961. Courtney's first television work was in the 1957 series ''Escape''. He made guest appearances in several cult television series, including '' Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mel Courtney
Melvyn Francis Courtney (born 2 October 1943) is a Nelson City Councillor and a former Labour then Independent Member of Parliament for Nelson, in the South Island of New Zealand. Early life and family Courtney was born in Christchurch on 2 October 1943, the son of Clifford Francis and Joyce Elizabeth Courtney. He grew up in the suburb of Spreydon, and was educated at Christchurch Technical College. His family wished to get a state house, but faced constant rejection from state housing officials. They went to local MP Mabel Howard who helped them to be accepted. His father had problems with alcohol and eventually left the family. As a 14-year old he got an after-school job at a grocery store eventually leaving school at 16 to work at the store full time before shifting to work at a supermarket. He studied business administration and trained in the grocery industry in Christchurch. In 1968, Courtney married his wife, Wendy, and the couple went on to have three children. His fa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lou Courtney
Lou Courtney (born Louis Russell Pegues, August 15, 1943 – June 25, 2021) was an American soul singer and songwriter who had several hit records in the 1960s and 1970s, both as a performer and writer. Biography Born in Buffalo, New York, he graduated from Hutchinson Central Technical High School in 1962. Bob Paxon, "Lou Courtney", ''Western New York Music'' Retrieved 16 October 2016 As Lew Courtney, he first recorded for the same year. He also worked in as a songwriter, using his birth name, Louis Pegues, and wrot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leonard Courtney, 1st Baron Courtney Of Penwith
Leonard Henry Courtney, 1st Baron Courtney of Penwith (6 July 183211 May 1918) was a radical British politician, and an academic, who became famous after being advocate of proportional representation in Parliament and acting as an opponent of imperialism and militarism. He was a member of William Ewart Gladstone's second administration from 1880 to 1883 and served as Chairman of Ways and Means (Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons) between 1886 and 1893. He was the first and the last Baron Courtney of Penwith. Background and education Courtney was born at Penzance, Cornwall. He was the eldest son of John Sampson Courtney, a banker, and Sarah, daughter of John Mortimer. Two of his brothers, John Mortimer Courtney (1838–1920), and William Prideaux Courtney (1845–1913), also attained public distinction, the former in the government service in Canada (from 1869, retiring in 1906), rising to be deputy-minister of finance, and the latter in the British civil service (1865– ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jon Courtney
Jon Courtney is a British singer, guitarist, and keyboard player, of the rock band Pure Reason Revolution. He was also the sole songwriter (except " The Bright Ambassadors of Morning" credited to Courtney/Jong) on their first two albums. Outside of Pure Reason Revolution, Courtney is involved in the DJ set All Bangers No Mash under the pseudonym "Cedo Simplex", and is one member of the duo KC Blitz. Background Courtney and his brother and former bandmate Andrew Courtney grew up in Reading, Berkshire, as did fellow Pure Reason Revolution members Chloe Alper and Jamie Willcox. In an interview, Courtney points to the precise moment, at approximately age 11, when he decided he wanted to be a musician, when he saw the band Nirvana on the MTV Awards in about 1991.Wilcox, John AA few words with...Jon Courtney progsheet1. Retrieved 15 March 2008. Courtney said, " om that point on it was like "wow!" – I was transfixed by the TV – "this is what I've got to do, there's no question. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Courtney (other)
John or Jack Courtney may refer to: *John Edgar Courtney (born 1934), Australian ornithologist * J. Ira Courtney (1888–1968), American athlete *John Mortimer Courtney (1838–1920), Canadian civil servant *John Courtney (MP), Member of Parliament (MP) for Bodmin *John Courtney (diarist) (1734–1806), of Beverley, Yorkshire, England *John Courtney (playwright) (1804–1865), playwright, dramatic actor and comedian * Jack Courtney (figure skater) (born 1953), American pair skater * Jack Courtney (rugby league) (1901–1948), Australian rugby league player See also * John Courtenay (other) *Jon Courtney, singer and guitarist in British band Pure Reason Revolution *Jonathan Courtney (born 1966), Maine politician *John Courtney Murray John Courtney Murray (September 12, 1904 – August 16, 1967) was an American Jesuit priest and theologian, who was especially known for his efforts to reconcile Catholicism and religious pluralism, particularly focusing on the relati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
