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Mans (surname)
Mans is the surname of the following people * George Mans (1940-2017), American football player, coach, and politician * Jacques Pelletier du Mans (1517–1582), French humanist, poet, and mathematician * Keith Mans (born 1946), British politician * Mark Mans (born 1955), British military officer * Perrie Mans (born 1940), South African snooker player Until the twentieth century this surname in England was virtually confined to the Welsh Marcher counties and adjacent districts, reflecting the settlement there by King Henry II of his feudal followers who had accompanied him to England from eMans and other parts of Maine in France in 1154, a number of whom appear in medieval records under the name de Mans or del Mans(French and Latin respectively for 'of Mans' as Le Mans was then known, sometimes with the further description 'Cenomanus' making the city these men came from crystal clear. The name was sometimes spelled by Anglo-Norman clerks Mauns and de Mauns and later also Manns. (Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Mans
George W. Mans Jr. (January 31, 1940 – December 20, 2017) was an American college football player and coach and politician. He was the captain of the 1961 Michigan Wolverines football team, an assistant football coach at the University of Michigan from 1966 to 1973, and the head coach of the Eastern Michigan Eagles football (then called the Hurons) team from 1974 to 1975. Mans later went into politics, serving as the mayor of Trenton, Michigan and a member of the Michigan House of Representatives. Biography Athlete Mans was born in Detroit and raised in Trenton, Michigan. He attended Trenton High School where he won All-State honors in football. While in high school, Mans also won letters in basketball, tennis, track, and wrestling. In 1958, Mans enrolled at the University of Michigan, where he played at the right end position for the Michigan Wolverines football program from 1959 to 1961. He was captain of the 1961 team that compiled a 6–3 record. Mans was , and weighed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacques Pelletier Du Mans
Jacques Pelletier du Mans, also spelled Peletier ( la, Iacobus Peletarius Cenomani, 25 July 1517 – 17 July 1582) was a humanist, poet and mathematician of the French Renaissance. Born in Le Mans into a bourgeois family, he studied at the Collège de Navarre in Paris, where his brother Jean was a professor of mathematics and philosophy. He subsequently studied law and medicine, frequented the literary circle around Marguerite de Navarre and from 1541 to 1543 he was secretary to René du Bellay. In 1541 he published the first French translation of Horace's '' Ars Poetica'' and during this period he also published numerous scientific and mathematical treatises. In 1547 he produced a funeral oration for Henry VIII of England and published his first poems (''Œuvres poétiques''), which included translations from the first two cantos of Homer's ''Odyssey'' and the first book of Virgil's ''Georgics'', twelve Petrarchian sonnets, three Horacian odes and a Martial-like epigra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keith Mans
Keith Douglas Rowland Mans, (born 10 February 1946), British Conservative Party politician. Mans was Member of Parliament (MP) for Wyre from the 1987 general election until the seat was abolished by boundary changes for the 1997 general election. He stood in the new Lancaster and Wyre seat, but lost to Labour's Hilton Dawson. Early life and career Mans was born the son of Major-General Rowland Spencer Noel Mans, CBE and Veeo Mans. He was educated at Berkhamsted School, the RAF College Cranwell and the Open University. He spent twelve years in the RAF, flying Vulcans and Canberras and 28 years flying with the RAF Reserve. Mans was a pilot in the RAF from 1964 to 1977 (Flight Lieutenant) and in the RAF Reserve from 1977 to 2005. Before entering Parliament, Mans worked for the John Lewis Partnership, where he was a Retail Manager from 1978 to 1987. In Parliament Mans was elected to Parliament in 1987. Whilst there, he founded and was the first Chairman of both the Parliamenta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Mans
Lieutenant-general (United Kingdom), Lieutenant General Sir Mark Francis Noel Mans, (born 1955) is a senior British Army officer, who served as Adjutant-General to the Forces of the United Kingdom from 2009 to 2012. Military career Educated at Berkhamsted School, Mans was commissioned into the Royal Engineers in 1974. In 1991 during the Gulf War he was Officer Commanding 37 Field Squadron. Later in 1995 he deployed to BosniaTA Quarterly September 2009 in command of 21 Engineer Regiment. In February 2005 he became Deputy Commanding General of the Multi-National Force – Iraq. Mans served as Deputy Adjutant General, taking up that appointment in 2006, before becoming Military Secretary (United Kingdom), Military Secretary in March 2008. In September 2009 he was appointed Commander Regional Forces (United Kingd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Perrie Mans
Pierre "Perrie" Mans (born 14 October 1940) is a retired professional snooker player from South Africa, who first won the South African Professional Championship in 1965, and won the event 20 times. Mans won the Benson & Hedges Masters in 1979 and reached the final of the World Championship in 1978. Background Mans' father, Peter Mans, who died in 1975, was also a professional snooker player, making the quarter-finals of the 1950 World Snooker Championship. Snooker career Mans won the South African Amateur Championship in 1960, the only occasion in which he competed in the event. He then turned professional and took the South African Professional Championship from Fred Van Rensburg in 1965. Mans first entered the World Snooker Championship in 1970. His first victory in the Championship came in the 1973 event when he defeated Ron Gross 9–2 before losing 8–16 to Eddie Charlton. However, in 1974 he pulled off a major surprise by defeating John Spencer 15–13 in the second ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
