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McGorman
McGorman is a surname. It is an Anglicised form of the Gaelic ''Mac Gormáin'', meaning "son of ''Gormán''". The personal name ''Gormán'' is derived from the diminutive of ''gorm'', meaning "dark blue", "noble". People * Jim McGorman, American musician. Related surnames * Gorman, O'Gorman O'Gorman is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Áine O'Gorman (born 1989), Irish footballer * Camila O'Gorman (1828-1848), wealthy socialite and figure of scandal in 19th century Argentina * Chevalier O'Gorman (1732–1809), Iris .... References {{reflist Surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim McGorman
Jim McGorman (born c. 1974), a native of Philadelphia, is an American musician, songwriter/producer and multi-instrumentalist: guitarist, keyboardist, vocalist and drummer. McGorman is best known for his work with the House Band on the CBS television shows '' Rockstar: INXS'' and '' Rockstar: Supernova''. He has also performed with and produced American alternative rock band Goo Goo Dolls. Early life McGorman grew up in Cherry Hill, New Jersey and graduated Cherry Hill High School East, 1992; graduated Berklee College of Music in 1995 with a degree in audio engineering and music production. Career He has been musical director for Avril Lavigne, Weezer, Michelle Branch, Paul Stanley (from KISS) and toured with Cher. With Cher on her Farewell Tour, McGorman played guitars, keyboards and sang a duet with Cher. He has also worked with Gwen Stefani, Shakira, The Corrs, Aaron Neville, New Radicals, Poison, Goo Goo Dolls and Marc Broussard. He has written songs for Kate V ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gorman (surname)
MacGorman (Irish: ''Mac Gormáin''), also known as McGorman, Gorman, or O'Gorman (Irish: ''Ó Gormáin''), is an Irish Gaelic clan based most prominently in what is today County Clare. The paternal ancestors of the clan are of the Laigin and emerged in what is today County Waterford. As leaders of the Uí Bairrche, they competed with the Uí Cheinnselaig in the 5th century for the Kingship of Leinster, ultimately losing out in that specific arena, but holding on to significant lands in the Leinster area. Through influence over the Sletty monastery founded by Fiacha mac Breccáin, the family played a role in early Christianity in Ireland. The ''Life of St. Patrick'' from the Book of Armagh was authored on the request of Áed of Sletty. As well as this, the mother of Columba of Iona came from this dynasty. After working to fight off the Vikings in Dublin and Waterford, the MacGormans eventually lost out to the Normans in the 12th century. The family relocated to Thomond up ... [...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] |
Anglicised
Anglicisation is the process by which a place or person becomes influenced by English culture or British culture, or a process of cultural and/or linguistic change in which something non-English becomes English. It can also refer to the influence of English culture and business on other countries outside England or the United Kingdom, including their media, cuisine, popular culture, technology, business practices, laws, or political systems. Linguistic anglicisation is the practice of modifying foreign words, names, and phrases to make them easier to spell, pronounce or understand in English. The term commonly refers to the respelling of foreign words, often to a more drastic degree than that implied in, for example, romanisation. One instance is the word "dandelion", modified from the French ''dent-de-lion'' ("lion's tooth", a reference to the plant's sharply indented leaves). The term can also refer to phonological adaptation without spelling change: ''spaghetti'', for example ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scottish Gaelic
Scottish Gaelic ( gd, Gàidhlig ), also known as Scots Gaelic and Gaelic, is a Goidelic language (in the Celtic branch of the Indo-European language family) native to the Gaels of Scotland. As a Goidelic language, Scottish Gaelic, as well as both Irish and Manx, developed out of Old Irish. It became a distinct spoken language sometime in the 13th century in the Middle Irish period, although a common literary language was shared by the Gaels of both Ireland and Scotland until well into the 17th century. Most of modern Scotland was once Gaelic-speaking, as evidenced especially by Gaelic-language place names. In the 2011 census of Scotland, 57,375 people (1.1% of the Scottish population aged over 3 years old) reported being able to speak Gaelic, 1,275 fewer than in 2001. The highest percentages of Gaelic speakers were in the Outer Hebrides. Nevertheless, there is a language revival, and the number of speakers of the language under age 20 did not decrease between the 2001 and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ancestry
An ancestor, also known as a forefather, fore-elder or a forebear, is a parent or (recursively) the parent of an antecedent (i.e., a grandparent, great-grandparent, great-great-grandparent and so forth). ''Ancestor'' is "any person from whom one is descended. In law, the person from whom an estate has been inherited." Two individuals have a genetic relationship if one is the ancestor of the other or if they share a common ancestor. In evolutionary theory, species which share an evolutionary ancestor are said to be of common descent. However, this concept of ancestry does not apply to some bacteria and other organisms capable of horizontal gene transfer. Some research suggests that the average person has twice as many female ancestors as male ancestors. This might have been due to the past prevalence of polygynous relations and female hypergamy. Assuming that all of an individual's ancestors are otherwise unrelated to each other, that individual has 2''n'' ancestors in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
O'Gorman
O'Gorman is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Áine O'Gorman (born 1989), Irish footballer * Camila O'Gorman (1828-1848), wealthy socialite and figure of scandal in 19th century Argentina * Chevalier O'Gorman (1732–1809), Irish soldier and genealogist * Colm O'Gorman (born 1966), founder and director of One in Four, a national Irish charity * Dave O'Gorman (''David O'Gorman''; born 1972), English football winger * David O'Gorman (c. 1865 – 1945), Irish politician * Dean O'Gorman (born 1976), New Zealand actor, artist, and photographer * Denis O'Gorman (1914-2005), former Irish sportsman who played hurling with Tipperary * Denis O'Gorman (athlete) (1928–2011), British Olympic long-distance runner * Dick O'Gorman, Irish hurler * Edmundo O'Gorman (1906-1995), Mexican writer, historian and philosopher * James Aloysius O'Gorman (1860–1943), one-term United States Senator from New York * James F. O'Gorman (born 1933), American architectural historian, taugh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
