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May (surname)
May is a surname of Germanic (Saxon) and, independently, of Gaelic origin. There are many variants used in English-speaking countries, as well as several variants used in Germany. The Scottish May is a sept of Clan Donald. The surname "May" remains a common surname in the United States, England, Scotland, Ireland, Canada, Germany, Australia and New Zealand, as well as among Russians of German origin; possibly also persisting in areas of the Netherlands and France. People with the surname May include: *Abby May (1800–1877), American social activist *Alan Nunn May (1911–2003), English spy for the Soviet Union * Alfred May (engineer) (1851–1920), engineer and inventor in South Australia *Andrew J. May (1875–1959), American politician *Arthur Johan May (1903–1979), acting Prime Minister of Suriname * Bailey May (Born 2002), Filipino singer, dancer and actor. Member of the new global pop group formed by Simon Fuller, Now United * Barry May (born 1944), South African-bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Germany
Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated between the Baltic and North seas to the north, and the Alps to the south; it covers an area of , with a population of almost 84 million within its 16 constituent states. Germany borders Denmark to the north, Poland and the Czech Republic to the east, Austria and Switzerland to the south, and France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands to the west. The nation's capital and most populous city is Berlin and its financial centre is Frankfurt; the largest urban area is the Ruhr. Various Germanic tribes have inhabited the northern parts of modern Germany since classical antiquity. A region named Germania was documented before AD 100. In 962, the Kingdom of Germany formed the bulk of the Holy Roman Empire. During the 16th ce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob May (golfer)
Robert Anthony May (born October 6, 1968) is an American professional golfer. He lost to Tiger Woods in a three-hole playoff for the 2000 PGA Championship at Valhalla. Early life and amateur career May was born on October 6, 1968. He attended Los Altos High School in Hacienda Heights, California, and was featured in the Faces in the Crowd section in ''Sports Illustrated'' at age sixteen in 1984. He played college golf at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, and was a member of the American Walker Cup team in 1991 before turning professional later that year. Professional career May joined the PGA Tour in 1994. He did not win on the Tour, but he finished second three times, including a playoff loss to Tiger Woods at the 2000 PGA Championship at Valhalla, and most recently at the 2006 B.C. Open at Turning Stone Resort & Casino, where he lost by one to John Rollins. However he won the 1999 Victor Chandler British Masters on the European Tour. His career was curtailed by a ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cyril May
Cyril May (born 1929) is an Australian country music singer and songwriter who often performs with Mexican-American singer-songwriter, Jack McDonald. Biography Cyril May was born in 1929 and was raised on a farm on Hellhole Creek Road, near Kergunyah Kergunyah is a locality in north eastern Victoria. The locality is on the Kiewa Valley Highway, north east of the state capital, Melbourne. At the 2016 census Kergunyah had a population of 215. The town is a centre for (mainly) dairy farms an ..., Victoria. He was one of five children. When 15 he would cycle to and from Albury where he participated in the weekly Air League parade as a cadet. He aspired to be a jockey. May's philosophy of life is reflected in the words and music he has been writing for more than 40 years. As a young man May left Australia to work his way through the South Sea Islands and Canada. He finally settled down in Long Beach, California with his American wife, Dorothy "Dottie" Frazier (née Reider, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Corrinne May
Corrinne May (born Corrinne Foo May Ying; 19 January 1973) is a Los Angeles-based Singaporean musician, singer, and songwriter. Life and career She graduated from the prestigious Berklee College of Music in Boston, and began her career as a singer-songwriter in Los Angeles. Her debut album '' Fly Away'', which included a song with Carole King and Carole Bayer Sager titled "If You Didn't Love Me", was released in 2001. She married Kavin Hoo in 2003, whom she first met in late 1996. they have one daughter, Claire. To date, she has released five albums, the latest being ''Crooked Lines'' in 2012. In March 2012, May released her album ''Crooked Lines'', whose inspiration was based on May's experience with raising her daughter Claire during her four-year career hiatus. First published in ''The New Paper''. The song from the album, "Beautiful Life", earned an accolade in 2014 for top local English pop song at the 19th Annual Composers and Authors Society of Singapore (Compass) Awards ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Corinna May
Corinna May (born 6 October 1970 in Bremen, Germany as Corinna Meyer) is a blind singer from Germany. She is best known for competing in the 2002 Eurovision Song Contest with the song "I Can't Live Without Music". Career From an early age she was interested in music due to her father's love of jazz. She also sang in a school choir and a gospel choir. After several talent competitions, May could release her first album in 1997; a jazz album, produced by herself. Two years later, she released an album called ''Wie ein Stern'' (''Like a Star''). Her final breakthrough came in 1999 with the German preselections for the Eurovision Song Contest. She won, but her song “ Hör den Kindern einfach zu” ("Just listen to the children") was disqualified because it was already released on an album by someone else. Her second try was in 2000 with the song “I Believe in God”, which finished in second place. She entered again in 2002 and this time won with a definite place in the final ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clifford May
Clifford D. May (born 1951) is an American journalist, editor, political activist, and podcast host. He is the founder and president of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a think tank created shortly after the 9/11 attacks, where he hosts the podcast ''Foreign Podicy''. He is the weekly "Foreign Desk" columnist for ''The Washington Times''. May previously served as commissioner on the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), an independent, bipartisan U.S. federal government commission that makes policy recommendations concerning international religious freedom, as well as the Chairman of the Policy Committee department within the Committee on the Present Danger. May was also previously a weekly columnist for Scripps Howard News Service and National Review Online. May has been widely published, including in ''The Wall Street Journal'', ''National Review'', ''Commentary'', ''USA Today'', and ''The Atlantic''. He has served as a reporter, a fore ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christof May
Christof May (8 April 1973 – 8 June 2022) was a German Catholic theologian and priest. He worked for the Diocese of Limburg, as ''Regens'' of the seminary, as ''Bischofsvikar'' responsible for development of the church, and as ''Domkapitular'' in the cathedral chapter. He advocated for changes in the Catholic Church. Life May was born in Hadamar on 8 April 1973 and grew up in Hintermeilingen. He completed school with the Abitur at the in Hadamar, and then served in the Stabsmusikkorps of the Bundeswehr in Siegburg. Beginning in 1993, he studied philosophy and theology at the Sankt Georgen Graduate School of Philosophy and Theology in Frankfurt, and at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. He was consecrated as a priest by Bishop Franz Kamphaus in Sant'Ignazio in Rome in 2000. He achieved the doctorate in Rome in 2004, with a dissertation "Pilgern: Menschsein auf dem Weg", about pilgrimage as a way to be human. May worked as chaplain in Königstein and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christine May
Christine May (born 23 March 1948, in Dublin) is a Scottish Labour Co-operative politician. She was the Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for Central Fife constituency from 2003 to 2007. Raised and educated in Dublin, Christine worked in the catering industry in Dublin and then London, and first moved to Scotland in 1984, where she became a college lecturer. She was elected to the Central Fife seat after former First Minister Henry McLeish stood down as MSP following a scandal relating to the sub-letting of his constituency office – dubbed "Officegate" by the media. She had previously been leader of Fife Council from 1998. She represented a ward in Kirkcaldy as a councillor, and still lives in the town, which is just outside the Central Fife constituency. Her constituency office was based in Glenrothes, adjacent to Fife Council's headquarters. In 2007, she lost her constituency to SNP politician Tricia Marwick Patricia Marwick (née Lee; born 5 November 1953) is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles S
Charles is a masculine given name predominantly found in English language, English and French language, French speaking countries. It is from the French form ''Charles'' of the Proto-Germanic, Proto-Germanic name (in runic alphabet) or ''*karilaz'' (in Latin alphabet), whose meaning was "free man". The Old English descendant of this word was ''Churl, Ċearl'' or ''Ċeorl'', as the name of King Cearl of Mercia, that disappeared after the Norman conquest of England. The name was notably borne by Charlemagne (Charles the Great), and was at the time Latinisation of names, Latinized as ''Karolus'' (as in ''Vita Karoli Magni''), later also as ''Carolus (other), Carolus''. Some Germanic languages, for example Dutch language, Dutch and German language, German, have retained the word in two separate senses. In the particular case of Dutch, ''Karel'' refers to the given name, whereas the noun ''kerel'' means "a bloke, fellow, man". Etymology The name's etymology is a Common ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlos May
Carlos May (born May 17, 1948) is an American former professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball as an outfielder, first baseman and designated hitter from 1968 to 1977, most prominently for the Chicago White Sox where he was a two-time American League All-Star player. He also played for the New York Yankees and the California Angels. After his major league career, he played in the Nippon Professional Baseball league for the Nankai Hawks from 1978 to 1981. May is the younger brother of former professional baseball player, Lee May. Early years Carlos was born in Birmingham, Alabama. He attended A. H. Parker High School. Major league career He began his major league career on September 6, , but did not have his first full year until . In , he suffered a severe injury while serving in the Marine Reserves, at Camp Pendleton in California. May was cleaning a mortar when it fired causing a partial amputation of his right thumb. He won the ''Sporting News'' Rook ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Butler May
Butler "String Beans" May (August 18, 1894 – November 17, 1917) was an American vaudeville performer, singer, pianist and comedian. He has been described as "the greatest attraction in African-American vaudeville, the first recognizable blues star," and was known "for his streetwise humor, contortive blues dance, vernacular dancing, and outrageous blues piano playing." He was said to have been the highest-paid black entertainer in the country at the time of his accidental death at the age of 23, and has been claimed as "the model for Jelly Roll Morton, Jelly Roll [Morton], at least as a stage entertainer and perhaps even as a blues pianist". No recordings of May exist. Biography May was born in Montgomery, Alabama, one of a family of eight. His father died when he was a child, and his mother worked in menial jobs. During his childhood, Butler May developed his musical talents by singing and playing piano. By the age of fourteen he had become an accomplished performer, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buckshot May
William Herbert "Buckshot" May (December 13, 1899 – March 15, 1984) was a Major League Baseball pitcher who appeared in one game for the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1924. The 24-year-old right-hander stood 6'2" and weighed 169 lbs. On May 9, 1924, May came in to pitch the top of the 9th inning in a home game against the Boston Braves at Forbes Field. He pitched a scoreless inning, with one strikeout, but the Pirates lost 10–7. His lifetime ERA stands at 0.00. His manager was future Hall of Famer Bill McKechnie. Other notable teammates who would one day be members of the Baseball Hall of Fame were Max Carey, Kiki Cuyler, Rabbit Maranville, and Pie Traynor. May died in his hometown of Bakersfield, California Bakersfield is a city in Kern County, California, United States. It is the county seat and largest city of Kern County. The city covers about near the southern end of the San Joaquin Valley and the Central Valley region. Bakersfield's populat ... at the age ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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