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Michael Quinn (Connecticut Politician)
Michael Quinn may refer to: Academics *Michael Quinn (academic) (1922–2009), American academic and president of Saint Mary's College of California *D. Michael Quinn (1944–2021), American historian *Michael Quinn Patton (born 1945), American sociologist Performers *Mick Quinn (born 1969), English musician *Mike Quinn (puppeteer) (born 1964), English puppeteer and animator Sportspeople * Michael Quinn (cricketer) (born 1962), Australian cricketer * Michael Quinn (footballer) (born 1990), Gaelic football convert to Australian rules football *Michael Quinn (Paralympian) (born 1963), Australian Paralympian *Mick Quinn (rugby union) (born 1952), Irish former rugby union footballer * Micky Quinn (born 1962), former English footballer, mainly for Portsmouth and Newcastle United *Mike Quinn (born 1974), former American football quarterback *Mike Quinn (ice hockey) (1874–1923), Canadian ice hockey coach and executive Other *Michael Quinn (American politician), member of the C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Quinn (academic)
Thomas Michael Quinn, F.S.C. (August 9, 1922 – March 15, 2009) was an American Roman Catholic Lasallian Brothers and psychology professor. Quinn served as the 25th President of Saint Mary's College of California Saint Mary's College of California is a Private college, private Catholic Church, Catholic college in Moraga, California. Established in 1863, it is affiliated with the Catholic Church and administered by the De La Salle Brothers. The college of ..., which was also his alma mater, from 1962 until 1969. Quinn was a 1947 graduate of the college. Quinn died on March 15, 2009, at the age of 86. He was buried at Mont La Salle in Napa, California. References 1922 births 2009 deaths Saint Mary's College of California faculty Saint Mary's College of California alumni 20th-century American psychologists Psychology educators People from Oakland, California De La Salle Brothers {{US-psychologist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Quinn Patton
Michael Quinn Patton (born 1945) is an independent organizational development and program evaluation consultant, and former president of the American Evaluation Association. He is the founder and director of Utilization-Focused Evaluation. After receiving his doctorate in sociology from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, he spent 18 years on the faculty of the University of Minnesota (1973–1991), including five years as Director of the Minnesota Center for Social Research and ten years with the Minnesota Extension Service. Patton has written many books on the art and science of program evaluation, including ''Utilization-Focused Evaluation'' (4th ed., 2008), in which he emphasizes the importance of designing evaluations to ensure their usefulness, rather than simply creating long reports that may never get read or never result in any practical changes. He has written about evaluation, and worked in the field beginning in the 1970s when evaluation in the non-profit sector ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mick Quinn
Mick Quinn (born 17 December 1969) is an English musician and singer-songwriter. He is best known as founding member of English rock band Supergrass. He is a permanent member of fellow Oxford band Swervedriver. Career 1984–1993 Mick Quinn started playing bass at the age of 14. A year later moving to guitar. He played with The Asylum in 1986, a band featuring Kid Wig, guitarist with the Beat Seeking Missiles, in and around Oxford including the Port Meadow Festival. In the late 1980s he became interested in record production, renting and borrowing equipment to experiment with at home. He also travelled to Spain and France to play with local musicians before returning to England in 1992. 1993–2010: Supergrass Quinn formed Supergrass with Gaz Coombes and Danny Goffey in February 1993. In 1995 the band released ''I Should Coco'' selling over a million copies worldwide. Singles, ''Caught by the Fuzz'' and ''Alright'' confirmed the band's popularity and they went on to release ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Quinn (puppeteer)
Mike Quinn (born 1964) is an English puppeteer, animator, actor, director, producer, voice-over artist, puppet builder, composer and mentor. He is also known as Mike Quinby, Michael E. Quinn, and Michael Quinn. Early life and career Quinn was born in Kent, England, and grew up in Enfield, Middlesex. He began puppeteering at age eight. In 1977, Mike regularly visited the set of '' The Muppet Show'' with his homemade puppets, eventually meeting Jim Henson. Through his visits, he learned more about puppeteering and received encouragement from Jim Henson and his co-workers. After leaving school in 1980, Quinn joined The Jim Henson Company and worked on the 1981 film '' The Great Muppet Caper'' puppeteering in crowd scenes and acting as a double for various main Muppet characters. Quinn later designed and built the Podlings for '' The Dark Crystal'', where he also performed the Skeksis Slave Master SkekNa (who was voiced by David Buck). During the filming of '' Return of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Quinn (cricketer)
Michael Quinn (born 2 July 1962) is an Australian former cricketer. He played 31 first-class cricket First-class cricket, along with List A cricket and Twenty20 cricket, is one of the highest-standard forms of cricket. A first-class match is one of three or more days' scheduled duration between two sides of eleven players each and is officiall ... matches for Victoria between 1984 and 1989. See also * List of Victoria first-class cricketers References External links * 1962 births Living people People educated at Carey Baptist Grammar School Australian cricketers Victoria cricketers Cricketers from Adelaide {{Australia-cricket-bio-1960s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Quinn (footballer)
Michael Quinn (born 26 January 1990) is a Gaelic footballer for the Killoe Young Emmets club and the Longford county team. He is also a former professional Australian rules footballer with Essendon Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). Quinn is notable as holding the record for the quickest conversion of a former GAA player to play in the AFL, taking the record from Martin Clarke and having made his AFL debut just weeks after arriving in Australia. Early life Quinn went to primary school in Scoil Mhuire, Newtownforbes. He grew up in Killoe, County Longford. He plays Gaelic football with the Killoe Young Emmets, and made his Club Senior Championship debut in 2008, where he helped his club reach the Longford Senior Championship semi final. In addition he also played for the Longford minor team in the Leinster Minor Championship in the same year, reaching the Leinster semi final. In August 2008, Quinn arrived in Melbourne for a two-week trial with Essendon. Afte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Quinn (Paralympian)
Michael Mike Quinn is an Australian Paralympic athletics, swimming and snooker competitor. In 1972, at the age of 19, a car accident left him a quadriplegic. Before the accident, he played in the Brisbane schoolboy rugby union team and was junior belt champion for the Bribie Island Bribie Island is the smallest and most northerly of three major sand islands forming the coastline sheltering the northern part of Moreton Bay, Queensland, Australia. The others are Moreton Island and North Stradbroke Island. Bribie Island is ... Surf Life Saving Club. While he was in hospital, Roy Fowler, an Australian Paralympian was in the bed next to him having his kidney removed. Fowler encouraged him to stay involved in sport. Nine months after the accident, he was competing in wheelchair sports events. He competed at the 1984 Stoke Mandeville Games in athletics and swimming. He won a silver medal in the athletics Men's 4 × 200 m 1A-1C and bronze medals in athletics Men's 4 × 100 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mick Quinn (rugby Union)
Michael Anthony Mary Quinn (31 May 1952) is a former rugby union footballer who played international rugby as a fly-half for Ireland. He played schools rugby for Newbridge College and captained them to victory in the 1970 Schools Cup Final over Blackrock College RFC. He then moved on to play senior rugby for Lansdowne Football Club before earning a call up to the Ireland national team. In 1976 he was a member of the Ireland squad that went on tour of New Zealand and Fiji. His family once owned the H Williams chain of supermarkets, which was later sold to Quinnsworth and subsequently to Tesco Ireland. References External linksLansdowne Football Club - Hall of Fame - Michael Quinn 1952 births People educated at Newbridge College Irish rugby union players Ireland international rugby union players Lansdowne Football Club players Leinster Rugby players Rugby union fly-halves Living people {{Ireland-rugbyunion-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Micky Quinn
Michael Quinn (born 2 May 1962) is an English former professional footballer and sports radio presenter for TalkSPORT. As a player he was a centre forward from 1979 until 1996. He most notably played in the Premier League for Coventry City, although his previous spells with Portsmouth and Newcastle United brought his best goals tally and the his most appearances for any one club. He also played in the Football League for Wigan Athletic, Stockport County, Oldham Athletic, Plymouth Argyle and Watford before finishing his career with a brief spell in Greece with PAOK Thessaloniki, during a career in which he played in 524 league matches and scored 235 league goals. Early life Quinn was born in the Everton area of Liverpool in Lancashire (now Merseyside) in 1962, the oldest of four children born to Michael Quinn and Patricia Silvano. From the age of five, he lived on the Cantril Farm estate and from that young age he has been a supporter of Liverpool. He is the grandson of Ital ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Quinn
Michael Patrick Quinn (born April 15, 1974) is a former professional American football quarterback in the National Football League for the Pittsburgh Steelers, Indianapolis Colts, Dallas Cowboys, Miami Dolphins, Houston Texans and Denver Broncos. He also was a member of the Rhein Fire of NFL Europe, and the Montreal Alouettes and Winnipeg Blue Bombers of the Canadian Football League. He played college football at Stephen F. Austin State University. Early years Quinn attended Robert E. Lee High School in Houston, Texas, where he played quarterback. As a senior, he received All-state and All-Greater Houston honors. College career He walked-on at Division I-AA Stephen F. Austin State University. He was a backup quarterback behind James Ritchey during his first three seasons. As a junior in 1995, during a game against Southwest Texas State on November 12, Quinn came into the game in place of Ritchey and threw three touchdown passes. As a senior in 1996, he became the starting q ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Quinn (ice Hockey)
Michael James Joseph Quinn (March 27, 1874 – July 27, 1923) was a Canadian professional ice hockey executive. He was the manager of two Stanley Cup champion squads, the 1912 and 1913 Quebec Bulldogs. He was also head coach of the Bulldogs between 1912–13 and 1916–17 in the National Hockey Association, and with the 1919–20 Quebec Athletic Club in the National Hockey League The National Hockey League (NHL; french: Ligue nationale de hockey—LNH, ) is a professional ice hockey league in North America comprising 32 teams—25 in the United States and 7 in Canada. It is considered to be the top ranked professional .... Quinn died in Quebec on July 27, 1923, aged 49. ''Montreal Daily Star''. Ju ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Quinn (American Politician)
Michael Quinn is an American Democratic Party politician currently serving as a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives from the 82nd district, which includes the town of Middlefield, as well as part of Meriden, since 2021. Quinn was first elected to the seat in 2020 over Republican Mike Skelps. Quinn currently serves on the House Judiciary Committee, Public Safety and Security Committee, and the Executive and Legislative Nominations Committee. Quinn is also a fire photographer Fire photography is the act of taking photographs of firefighting operations. People who practise this form of photography are called fire photographers. Since fire photography involves being close to dangerous situations, fire photographers mu ... in his spare time. References External links Living people People from Meriden, Connecticut Democratic Party members of the Connecticut House of Representatives 21st-century American legislators American International College alum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |