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Landon Hedges
Landon is a personal name of English origin that means "long hill". It is a variant of Langdon. Landon became popular in the United States in the 1990s, and by 2010 had become the 32nd most popular name for boys. BehindtheName.com. Notable people with the given name "Landon" include A * (born 1984), American actorB * (born 1995), Canadian ice hockey player * |
Langdon (surname)
Langdon is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Chauncey Langdon (1763–1830), American politician, lawyer and judge * Craig Langdon (born 1957), Australian politician * Darren Langdon (born 1971), Canadian former National Hockey League player * David Langdon (1914–2011), English cartoonist * Elisha Bassett Langdon (1827–1867), American brevet brigadier general and Ohio state representative * Emma F. Langdon (1875–1937), American union activist * George C. Langdon (1833–1909), mayor of Detroit (1878-1879) * Harry Langdon (1884–1944), American comedian and silent-movie actor * Jeffrey Langdon (born 1975), Canadian figure skater * John Langdon (other) * Jordan Langdon (born 1999), youngest mayoral candidate for Auburn, Alabama * Julia Langdon (born c. 1946), British journalist, newspaper political editor and writer * Lillian Langdon (1860–1943), American film actress of the silent era * Margaret Langdon (died 2005), linguist * Mary Joy Langdon (bor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Landon Garland
Landon Cabell Garland (1810–1895), an American, was professor of physics and history and university president three times at different Southern Universities (Randolph Macon, Alabama, Vanderbilt) while living in the Southern United States for his entire life. He served as the second president of Randolph–Macon College in Ashland, Virginia, from 1836 to 1846; then professor from 1847 to 1855, and then third president of the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, from 1855 to 1867; and first chancellor of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, from 1875 to 1893. He was an apologist for slavery in the United States before the Civil War, but afterward became a vociferous spokesperson against slavery. Early life Landon Garland was born March 21, 1810, in Nelson County, Virginia. He graduated with first honors from Hampden–Sydney College in 1829. His older brother, Hugh A. Garland, who was one of the lawyers involved in the ''Dred Scott'' case and author of a bio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Landon Pigg
Landon Pigg (born August 6, 1983) is an American singer-songwriter and actor. Early life, education and childhood career Pigg was born in Nashville, Tennessee. When he was a child, his family moved to Oak Park, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, and he and two of his siblings, Cari-Ann and Gabriel, sang commercial jingles with their father's direction. They all attended Grace Lutheran School in River Forest, Illinois. He returned to Nashville as a teenager. where he attended high school at the Christ Presbyterian Academy. During Pigg's adolescence, his father offered him informal music education and encouraged his curiosity with music. He also credits his mother for nourishing his poetic side. Invisible Children In November 2011 Landon uploaded a video to his YouTube account encouraging fans to donate to the cause. With a donation of twenty dollars or more to his music blog donation page, he entered users into a raffle. The three people that were chosen were contacted and ask ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Landon Pembelton
Landon Pembelton (born February 2, 2005) is an American professional stock car racing driver. He competes part-time in the ARCA Menards Series, driving the No. 15 Toyota Camry for Venturini Motorsports. Racing career Early career Pembelton debuted in organized racing in 2019, running eight races at South Boston Speedway, collecting six top-fives. The following year, Pembelton won the Virginia Racers Challenge Series, which was run at Dominion Raceway and at Langley Speedway. In 2021, Pembelton was the 2021 Virginia State Division I and South East Division I rookie of the year. He also finished 10th in the NASCAR Advance Auto Parts Weekly Series standings. Pembelton took the victory in the 2021 ValleyStar Credit Union 300, considered to be one of the biggest, most prestigious late-model races. Pembelton beat out drivers such as Sammy Smith, Bubba Pollard, Peyton Sellers, Corey Heim, and Timothy Peters. ARCA Menards Series On January 8, 2022, it was announced that Pembel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Landon Pearson
Landon Carter "Lucy" Pearson, (born November 16, 1930) is a Canadian former Canadian Senator and a children's rights advocate. She is the daughter-in-law of former Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson, through her marriage to his son Geoffrey Pearson. Pearson was appointed to the Senate of Canada on September 15, 1994 by then Prime Minister Jean Chrétien and sat with the Liberal caucus. She retired from the Senate on November 16, 2005 upon reaching the mandatory retirement age of 75. As an author Her book, ''Children of Glasnost'' (1990) described growing up in the Soviet Union, and how that changed as Russian society became more open. A second book, ''Letters from Moscow'' ',a selection of her personal correspondence while living in Moscow while her husband was the Canadian ambassador to the Soviet Union, was published in 2003. Most recently in 2010, in collaboration with Judy Finlay PhD, Pearson published ''Tibacimowin: A Gathering of Stories'', which gathered and translat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Landon Parvin
Landon Parvin (born 1948) is a Republican speech writer who has written for several U.S. politicians, including Presidents Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, George W. Bush, and California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. In 1982, while working for Ronald Reagan, Parvin also wrote for Reagan's wife Nancy. Nancy was being criticized in the press for her opulence. Parvin wrote a comedic song for her to the tune of "Second Hand Rose". Parvin left the White House temporarily in 1985 to become executive assistant to the U.S. Ambassador to the U.K. Parvin is responsible for writing a notorious joke for President George W. Bush's appearance at a press dinner that had Bush looking for the missing Iraqi weapons of mass destruction A weapon of mass destruction (WMD) is a chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, or any other weapon that can kill and bring significant harm to numerous individuals or cause great damage to artificial structures (e.g., buildings), natu ... in var ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Landon Curt Noll
Landon Curt Noll (born October 28, 1960) is an American computer scientist, co-discoverer of the 25th Mersenne prime and discoverer of the 26th, which he found while still enrolled at Hayward High School and concurrently at California State University, Hayward. Biography Noll was born in Walnut Creek, California, United States. At age 18, he became the youngest person to break the record for the largest known prime. He has held or co-held the record three times. He is also the co-inventor (with John Horton Conway) of a system for naming arbitrarily large powers of 10. He also helped start the International Obfuscated C Code Contest, and is a co-inventor of the Fowler Noll Vo hash function. He was also a member of the Amdahl Six team (John S. Brown, Bodo Parady, Curt Landon Noll, Gene W. Smith, Joel F. Smith, and Sergio E. Zarantonello) which discovered another record prime in 1989; this prime remains unusual as a record large prime as it was not a Mersenne prime. Noll is an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Landon Milbourne
Landon Milbourne (born June 29, 1987) is an American professional basketball player who last played for Maccabi Ashdod of the Israeli Premier League. He played college basketball at the University of Maryland before playing professionally in France, Greece, Italy, Spain, Puerto Rico and Israel. Milbourne is a left-handed 2.01 m (6 ft 7 in) tall small forward-power forward. Early life and college career Milbourne attended St. Francis in Roswell, Georgia, where he led the squad to a 29–1 record during his junior campaign. Milbourne averaged 23.0 points, 9.0 rebounds, and 4.0 blocked shots as a junior and was named Defensive Player of the Year as a sophomore and junior. Milbourne played his senior season at Oak Hill Academy and helped the Warriors to a record of 40–1, setting a new school record for single-season wins. He was one of five players to average double figures in scoring (10.3 ppg) and connected on 56 percent of his shots from the floor and made 52 percent from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Landon Mackenzie
Landon Mackenzie (born November 29, 1954) is a Canadian artist based in Vancouver, British Columbia. She is nationally known for her large-format paintings and her contribution as a professor at the Emily Carr University of Art and Design (she is now Professor Emeritus). Early life and education Mackenzie was born was in Boston, Massachusetts and grew up in Toronto, Ontario. She has credited the mentorship of the Painter's 11's Harold Town, a friend of her parents and neighbour of her grandmother as being one of her inspirations around her decision to pursue a career as an artist, she has said "I went into Harold's studio and I just thought 'I want this'". She earned a Bachelor's Fine Arts degree from the Nova Scotia School of Art and Design in 1976 where she studied printmaking with a focus on etching and earned a Master's of Fine Arts from Concordia University in 1979 where she studied with Guido Molinari and Irene F. Whittome. Mackenzie studied printmaking at both NSCAD and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Landon Ling
Landon Lloyd Ling (; born 8 October 1987) is a Canadian former professional footballer of Hong Kong origin. He played as a left-back or a left winger. He also works in Canada as a singer, songwriter and music producer under the name of "Landon L". Club career Ling began his football career at Vancouver with Whitecaps FC Prospects. In 2002, he attended the Blackburn Rovers youth academy. He later moved to the Czech Republic in 2006 where he signed a contract with Jablonec 97.林家亮化身音樂唱作人 , , 6 February 2009 He played two years in the Czech Republic before joining Hong Kong's |
Landon Liboiron
Landon Liboiron (born March 10, 1991) is a Canadian actor. He is best known for playing Declan Coyne in '' Degrassi: The Next Generation'' and his lead role as Peter Rumancek in Netflix's original series ''Hemlock Grove'' (2013–15). Early life Liboiron was born the youngest of three boys in a small farming community in Jenner, Alberta, where he and his two older brothers were raised. He is the son of Lorraine Mack and Marcel Liboiron. His mother, an artist, supportive of his desire to act, once drove her son to Vancouver for acting classes and auditions. Career Liboiron was cast in TV films before his breakout role in the Canadian teen drama television series '' Degrassi: The Next Generation''. In 2011, Liboiron played Josh Shannon in the sci-fi television series '' Terra Nova'', the son of the lead character, played by Jason O'Mara, and his wife, played by Shelley Conn. In 2013, Liboiron was cast in a lead role opposite Bill Skarsgård and Famke Janssen as high school s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Landon Jones
Landon Y. (Lanny) Jones is an American editor and author. He is a former managing editor of ''People magazine'' and the author of ''William Clark and the Shaping of the West'', a biography of William Clark, joint leader of the Lewis and Clark Expedition The Lewis and Clark Expedition, also known as the Corps of Discovery Expedition, was the United States expedition to cross the newly acquired western portion of the country after the Louisiana Purchase. The Corps of Discovery was a select gr .... Jones also edited a selection of the expedition journals, ''The Essential Lewis and Clark'', and is the author of ''Great Expectations: America and the Baby Boom Generation.'' Bibliography * * * References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Jones, Landon People from St. Louis County, Missouri Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Princeton University alumni Writers from Bozeman, Montana ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
