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Lionel (given Name)
Lionel is a given name which may refer to one of the following persons: People :''All male, unless otherwise noted.'' * Lionel (radio personality) (born 1958), an American radio talk show host *Lionel of Antwerp, 1st Duke of Clarence (1338–1368), son of King Edward III of England *Lionel Aingimea (born 1965), President of Nauru (2019–2022) * Lionel Algama (1935–2008), Sri Lankan Sinhala musician and composer * Lionel Antoine (born 1950), American retired National Football League player * Lionel Balagalle, general, Commander of the Sri Lanka Army from 2000 to 2004 * Lionel Barber (born 1955), English journalist * Lionel Barrymore (1878–1954), American actor *Lionel Bart (1930–1999), British composer *Lionel Bender (1934–2008), American author and linguist *Lionel Blair (1928–2021), British dancer and actor *Lionel Bowen (1922–2012), Australian politician * Lionel Bussey (1883–1969), British engineer and collector of women's shoes * Lionel Cohen (other), v ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Given Name
A given name (also known as a forename or first name) is the part of a personal name quoted in that identifies a person, potentially with a middle name as well, and differentiates that person from the other members of a group (typically a family or clan) who have a common surname. The term ''given name'' refers to a name usually bestowed at or close to the time of birth, usually by the parents of the newborn. A ''Christian name'' is the first name which is given at baptism, in Christian custom. In informal situations, given names are often used in a familiar and friendly manner. In more formal situations, a person's surname is more commonly used. The idioms 'on a first-name basis' and 'being on first-name terms' refer to the familiarity inherent in addressing someone by their given name. By contrast, a surname (also known as a family name, last name, or ''gentile name, gentile'' name) is normally inherited and shared with other members of one's immediate family. Regnal names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lionel Cox (other) (1893–1949), British Army officer
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Lionel Cox may refer to: *Lionel Cox (cyclist) (1930–2010), Australian cyclist * Lionel Cox (sport shooter) (born 1981), Belgian sport shooter *W. H. Lionel Cox (1844–1921), British lawyer from Mauritius and Chief Justice of the Straits Settlements * Lionel Cox (priest) (died 1945), Archdeacon of Madras *Lionel Howard Cox Major-General Lionel Howard Cox CB CBE MC (1 April 1893 – 29 July 1949) was a British Army officer. Military career Cox saw action with the Gloucestershire Regiment and the Machine Gun Corps, earning recognition with the award of the Milita ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lionel James
Lionel "Little Train" James (May 25, 1962 – February 25, 2022) was an American professional football player who was a running back for the San Diego Chargers in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Auburn Tigers. Undersized at and , he spent his entire five-year NFL career with the Chargers from 1984 to 1988. His best year as a pro came during the 1985 season, when he set then-NFL season records for receiving yards by a running back and all-purpose yardage. He also led the American Football Conference (AFC) in receptions that year. High school and college career James was born in Albany, Georgia, where he attended Dougherty High School, playing football, basketball, and running track. Because of his small stature of and , Auburn University was the only major college to recruit him. He played college football for the Tigers, sharing the backfield with Bo Jackson. James was Auburn's leading rusher with 561 yards in 1981, head coach Pat Dye' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lionel Hampton
Lionel Leo Hampton (April 20, 1908 – August 31, 2002) was an American jazz vibraphonist, pianist, percussionist, and bandleader. Hampton worked with jazz musicians from Teddy Wilson, Benny Goodman, and Buddy Rich, to Charlie Parker, Charles Mingus, and Quincy Jones. In 1992, he was inducted into the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame, and he was awarded the National Medal of Arts in 1996. Biography Early life Lionel Hampton was born in 1908 in Louisville, Kentucky, and was raised by his mother. Shortly after he was born, he and his mother moved to her hometown of Birmingham, Alabama. He spent his early childhood in Kenosha, Wisconsin, before he and his family moved to Chicago, Illinois, in 1916. As a youth, Hampton was a member of the Bud Billiken Club, an alternative to the Boy Scouts of America, which was off-limits because of racial segregation. During the 1920s, while still a teenager, Hampton took xylophone lessons from Jimmy Bertrand and began to play drums. Hampton was raised ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lionel Grigson
Lionel Grigson (12 February 1942 – 14 June 1994) was an English jazz pianist, cornettist, trumpeter, composer, writer and teacher, who in the 1980s started the jazz course at the Guildhall School of Music. As Simon Purcell wrote in ''The Independent'', "Whether he inspired or inflamed, Grigson's energies often acted as a catalyst and his interest in, and support for, young jazz musicians contributed significantly to the growth and consolidation of jazz education in Britain....Within the context of a leading international conservatoire, the Guildhall School of Music, in London, Grigson did much to demonstrate and explain the underlying principles common to jazz, classical and indeed all music, and as a result produced a generation of jazz educators possessing a thorough grounding in an area where much educational work is left to chance." [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lionel Edirisinghe
Lionel Edirisinghe (17 January 1913 – 22 May 1988) was a renowned Sri Lankan musicologist and the inaugural principal at the University of the Visual & Performing Arts. Biography Edirisinghe was born on 17 January 1913 at Baddegama in the Galle District, Southern Province, Sri Lanka. He received his primary and secondary education from the Meepavala Buddhist School, Richmond College and Mahinda College. While he was having his secondary education at Mahinda College, he acted in stage dramas like Sakunthala, Ramayanaya, Wessanthara and Sri Wickrama and was a leading member of college choir as well. He then studied at the Visva-Bharati University in Santiniketan, West Bengal, where he was a classmate of Indira Gandhi. Edirisinghe then studied at Bhatkhande College of Music in Lucknow, where he was the first Sinhalese to graduate with a Visharada degree, a few months ahead of compatriot, Sunil Santha. Upon his return to Ceylon he was appointed the Chief Inspector of Music, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lionel Dunsterville
Major General Lionel Charles Dunsterville, (9 November 1865 – 18 March 1946) was a British Army officer, who led Dunsterforce across present-day Iraq and Iran towards the Caucasus and Baku during the First World War. Early life Lionel Charles Dunsterville was born in Lausanne, Switzerland on 9 November 1865, the son of Lieutenant General Lionel D'Arcy Dunsterville (1830–1912) of the Indian Army and his wife, Susan Ellen (1835–1875). He went to school with Rudyard Kipling and George Charles Beresford at The United Services College, a public school later absorbed into Haileybury and Imperial Service College, which prepared British young men for careers in Her Majesty's Army. He served as the inspiration for the character " Stalky" in Kipling's collection of school stories '' Stalky & Co''. He was also uncle to H.D. Harvey-Kelly, the first Royal Flying Corps pilot to land in France during the First World War. Military career Dunsterville was commissioned into the British Ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lionel Dubray
Lionel Dubray (Lionel Henri Gontran Dubray, (31 December 1923–22 July 1944) was a member of the French Resistance during World War II. Biography Dubray was born on 31 December 1923 in Joinville-le-Pont, a commune in the southeastern suburbs of Paris, France. He was the son of Émile Dubray and Marcelle Pique. Dubray joined the Resistance in December 1942, enlisting in the Alsace Lorraine des Francs-Tireurs et Partisans (FTP). He participated in numerous attacks against the Germans in and around occupied Paris, most notably in October 1943 against a company of German soldiers during a parade. Later identified by the Gestapo and surrounded, he escaped and fled to Brittany, where he joined the 1st battalion of the French Forces of the Interior (FFI) in Morbihan. Dubray was taken prisoner on 14 July 1944 in Pluméliau and tortured for eight days. With thirteen others, he was executed on 22 July 1944 in Colpo and buried in a common grave. Tributes Dubray's profile is on a 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lionel Deraniyagala
Lionel Danthanarayana (born 24 August 1940 – died 30 July 1994 as ලයනල් දැරණියගල) inhala, popularly as stage name Lionel Deraniyagala, was an actor in Sri Lankan cinema and theater. One of the most popular villain artists ever in Sri Lankan film history, he had a career for more than three decades as the antagonist. Personal life He was born on 24 August 1940 in Galle as the youngest of the family with three siblings. He completed education from Mahinda College, Galle. He was married to fellow actress Thilaka in 1973. The couple have one daughter, Priyanthi Shyamali and one son, Chulananda. In 1975, he was working in the batik industry with his wife. In 1981, he went Middle East for a job. He returned to Sri Lanka in 1983 and continued on businesses. Deraniyagala fell ill at Ragama rehabilitation hospital after an accident on February 4, 1994. However, he died on 30 July 1994 at the age of 53. Career He has acted in minor roles on the school stag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lionel Henry Daiches
Lionel Henry Daiches (8 March 1911 – 11 November 1999), was a Scottish QC and Liberal Party (UK), Liberal Party politician. Background Daiches was the son of Dr Salis Daiches, a rabbi of the Edinburgh Jewish congregation. He was educated at George Watson's College and Edinburgh University. In 1947 he married Dorothy Estelle Bernstein. They had two sons. His younger brother David Daiches was a noted writer. He also had two sisters, Sylvia and Beryl Daiches. In later life he lived at 10 Heriot Row in central Edinburgh. Professional career Daiches practised as a solicitor before being admitted a member of the Faculty of Advocates in 1946. He became a QC in 1956. Political career Daiches wrote many articles arguing the identical nature of Bolshevism and Fascism. He was Liberal candidate for the Edinburgh South (UK Parliament constituency), Edinburgh South division at the 1950 General Election. It was not a promising seat and no Liberal had contested the division since 1929. In a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lionel Fleury
Lionel Fleury (December 25, 1912July 12, 1997) was a Canadian ice hockey administrator who served as president of the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association from 1964 to 1966. Under his leadership, the Canada men's national ice hockey team transitioned from student athletes coached by Father David Bauer into a year-round national team program. Fleury welcomed the Newfoundland Amateur Hockey Association as a new branch member of the national association in 1966, and changed the format of the Memorial Cup playoffs in Eastern Canada from an elimination bracket into a round-robin format to reduce travel costs and address concerns of imbalanced competition. He sought an end to the National Hockey League system of sponsoring amateur teams by replacing it with a draft of players who had graduated from junior ice hockey, and negotiated for a new agreement that was realized after his term as president concluded. Fleury was a lifelong resident of Quebec City where he organized minor ice ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lionel Dyck
Lionel Dyck SCZ, also referred to as Colonel Dyck, is a Zimbabwean mercenary and former soldier. He was born in 1944 in Southern Rhodesia and served with the Rhodesian Army and Zimbabwe Defence Forces before founding Dyck Advisory Group (DAG) to offer protective military services in Africa. Military career Dyck was born in 1944 in Southern Rhodesia. When he was 17, he joined the Rhodesian Army and was placed in the Rhodesian Light Infantry (RLI). However, he was court-martialed and expelled from the army after driving a Unimog whilst drunk, resulting in him killing an RLI soldier. He underwent education in South Africa and gave up drinking. He re-enlisted in the Rhodesian Army during the Rhodesian Bush War. He would later rise to become a major in the Rhodesian African Rifles (RAR). Following the country's transition into Zimbabwe, Dyck played a frontline role commanding the RAR in the 1981 Entumbane uprising. The RAR were disbanded in 1981 and the majority of white officer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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