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Micky
Micky or Mickie can be a given name, but it is most often a nickname for Michael or non-Anglo Saxon equivalents, such as "Mikhail". People with the name include: Men * Micky Adams (born 1961), English football manager and former player * Micky Arison (born 1949), Chief Executive Officer of Carnival Corporation * Micky Dolenz (born 1945), American actor, musician, and television and theatre director * Micky Dore (1883–1910), Australian rugby union and rugby league player * Micky Droy (born 1951), English retired footballer * Micky Hazard (born 1960), English retired footballer * Mickie Henson (1963-2022), American professional wrestling referee * Micky Horswill (born 1953), British professional footballer * Micky Mellon (born 1972), Scottish football manage and former player * Micky Moody (born 1950), English guitarist * Micky Quinn (born 1962), English retired footballer * Micky Lee Soule (born 1946), American musician, founding member of Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow * Micky Stewar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Micky Adams
Michael Richard Adams (born 8 November 1961) is an English former professional association football, footballer and football manager. As a player, he was a Full-back (football), full back, and made a total of 438 league appearances in a nineteen-year professional career in the English Football League, including five years with Southampton F.C., Southampton at the highest level. He began his managerial career as player-manager for Fulham F.C., Fulham in 1996 and has led several teams at varying levels with mixed success, being named Manager of the Season twice, dismissed a number of times and earning four promotions for the teams he has managed. Born in Sheffield, Adams was part of the youth team at Sheffield United F.C., Sheffield United from the age of twelve until released in 1977. He turned professional at the Third Division team Gillingham F.C., Gillingham in 1979, where he established himself in the first team, winning a move in 1983 to Coventry City F.C., Coventry City w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sweet Micky
Michel Joseph Martelly (; born 12 February 1961) is a Haitian musician and politician who was the President of Haiti from May 2011 until February 2016. He was sanctioned by the Canadian Government for his involvement in human rights violations and supporting criminal gangs on 17 November 2022. Martelly was one of Haiti's best-known musicians for over a decade, going by the stage name Sweet Micky. For business and musical reasons, Martelly has moved a number of times between the United States and Haiti. When travelling to the United States, Martelly mostly stays in Florida. After his presidency, Martelly returned to his former band and sang a carnival méringue entitled "Bal Bannan nan" (Give Her the Banana), as a mocking response to Liliane Pierre Paul, a famous Haitian female journalist in Port-au-Prince. As a singer and keyboardist, "Sweet Micky" is known for his Kompa music, a style of Haitian dance music sung predominantly in the Haitian Creole language, but he blended thi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Micky Dolenz
George Michael Dolenz Jr. (born March 8, 1945) is an American actor, musician, TV producer and businessman. He is best known as the drummer and one of three primary vocalists for the pop-rock band the Monkees (1966–1970, and multiple reunions through 2021), and a co-star of the TV series ''The Monkees'' (1966–1968). Following the death of Michael Nesmith in 2021, Dolenz is the only surviving member of the band. Life and entertainment career Dolenz was born at the Cedars of Lebanon Hospital in Los Angeles, California,Ancestry.com. California Birth Index, 1905–1995 atabase on-line Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005. Original data: State of California. California Birth Index, 1905–1995. Sacramento, CA, USA: State of California Department of Health Services, Center for Health Statistics. the son of actors George Dolenz and Janelle Johnson. He has three sisters, Gemma Marie ("Coco"; born April 5, 1949), Deborah (born 1958), and Kathleen ("Gina"; born 1960). ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Micky Mellon
Michael Joseph Mellon (born 18 March 1972) is a Scottish professional football coach and former player who is the manager of Tranmere Rovers. As a player, he was a midfielder for clubs including Bristol City, West Bromwich Albion, Blackpool, Tranmere and Burnley. Mellon began his managerial career with Fleetwood Town, where he took the club into the Football League for the first time in their history by winning the 2011–12 Football Conference title. He has overseen five promotions in total as a manager with Fleetwood, Shrewsbury Town and Tranmere. After a year with Scottish Premiership club Dundee United, Mellon returned to Tranmere in June 2021. Early life Micky Mellon was born in Paisley, Renfrewshire. His family moved to Glasgow when he was nine months old, and he grew up in the South Nitshill area. Playing career Mellon began his career in 1989 as a 17-year-old with Bristol City gaining promotion to the old Second Division, then managed by Joe Jordan. In 1991, he was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Micky Ward
George Michael Ward Jr. (born October 4, 1965), often known by his nickname, "Irish" Micky Ward, is an American former professional boxer who competed from 1985 to 2003. He challenged once for the IBF light welterweight title in 1997, and held the WBU light welterweight title in 2000. Ward is widely known for his trilogy of fights with Arturo Gatti, two of which received Fight of the Year awards by ''The Ring'' magazine, as well as his relentless pressure fighting style. Ward was portrayed by Mark Wahlberg in the 2010 film ''The Fighter'', which was based on his early career. Ancestry His maternal great-grandmother Annie Greenhalge (Carroll) was born in Ireland, the daughter of Michael and Mary (Flood) Carroll. His maternal great-great-great grandparents Peter McMahon and Ann Quinn were from County Tyrone, Ireland. They fled Ireland during the 1850s to escape from poverty and oppression and arrived in Boston, Massachusetts. They settled in the Acre neighborhood of Lowell, Massa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Micky Moody
Michael Joseph "Micky" Moody (born 30 August 1950) is an English guitarist, and a former member of the rock bands Juicy Lucy and Whitesnake. He was also a founder-member of Snafu. Together with his former Whitesnake colleague Bernie Marsden he founded the Moody Marsden Band, and later, The Snakes, having previously collaborated with unofficial 5th Status Quo member Bob Young in Young & Moody. Along with Marsden and ex-Whitesnake bassist, Neil Murray, he formed The Company of Snakes and M3 Classic Whitesnake with which they mainly performed early Whitesnake songs. From 2011 to 2015, Moody toured and recorded with Snakecharmer, a band he co-formed. Besides this, Moody has also toured with Roger Chapman, Frankie Miller and Chris Farlowe. He has also performed live alongside the likes of Eric Clapton, Alvin Lee, Mick Taylor, Bruce Dickinson, Sam Brown, Gary Brooker, Suggs, Dennis Locorriere, Paul Jones, P. P. Arnold, James Hunter, Rick Wakeman, Jon Lord, Newton Faulkner, Ur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Micky Levy
Micky Levy is an Israeli-American film director, screenwriter, and actress. Early life Micky Levy was born in Israel and grew up in Eilat. Her first book of poetry, White Stoplights, was published when she was 15. Micky arrived in Los Angeles when she was 17 with just $700 in her pocket. Career Micky started her career acting in independent horror films. She worked for Academy Award Nominated screenwriter Arthur A. Ross. Micky’s first produced film was the short, 2 on U, that she wrote and produced with Dayna Cussler. Micky's television pilot, LAM, won the Scriptapalooza Screenwriting Competition. Micky wrote the feature script ''Rails & Ties'', a Warner Bros. film. Alison Eastwood directed the movie which starred Kevin Bacon, Marcia Gay Harden and Miles Heizer. ''Rails & Ties'' premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2007. Micky wrote Lifetime (TV Network)’s “Amish Grace”, starring Kimberly Williams-Paisley, for which she received a Humanitas Prize ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Micky Arison
Micky Arison (born June 29, 1949) is an Israeli-American billionaire businessman and chairman of Carnival Corporation, the world's largest cruise operator. From 1979 until 2013, he was also the company's chief executive officer. Arison is also the owner of the NBA's Miami Heat, which under his ownership has won three NBA Championships. Education Arison attended the University of Miami School of Business at the University of Miami but dropped out to become a sales representative for Carnival Corporation. Miami Heat Arison has been the owner of the Miami Heat since 1995. During his ownership, Arison hired Pat Riley as the team's head coach (and later team president) and under Arison's ownership the team has won three NBA championships ( 2006, 2012, and 2013). Compensation and wealth In 2011, ''Forbes'' magazine calculated Arison's wealth at $7 billion, making him the 169th wealthiest person in the world. In 2009, he earned $7,201,110, which included a base salary of $880,000 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Micky Waller
Michael Waller (6 September 1941 – 29 April 2008) was an English drummer, who played with many of the biggest names on the UK rock and blues scene, after he became a professional musician in 1960. In addition to being a member, albeit sometimes briefly, of some of the seminal bands of the 1960s, Waller played as a session musician with a host of UK and US artists and was famously known for never having a full drum kit whenever he turned up for recording sessions. Biography Waller was born in Hammersmith, London. Waller's first professional band, The Flee-Rekkers, had a No. 23 hit in the UK Singles Chart in 1960, with their recording of "Green Jeans" produced by Joe Meek. He soon left to join a well-known band of the day, Joe Brown and the Bruvvers. In July 1963, he joined the Cyril Davies R&B All Stars, a band with a volatile line-up, replacing the band's original drummer Carlo Little. At that time the line-up was: * Cyril Davies (vocals, harmonica) * Long John Baldry (voca ... [...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] |
Micky Horswill
Michael Frederick Horswill (born 6 March 1953 in Annfield Plain, County Durham) is a former English professional footballer, who played for Sunderland, Manchester City, Plymouth Argyle, Hull City, Happy Valley of Hong Kong and Carlisle United where he finished his career. Playing career He started his footballing career at Sunderland at the age of just 12, until he signed as a youth player at 15 years old. In 1971, he signed his professional contract at the club, and made his debut on 4 April 1972 against Preston North End in a 3–1 win. His first goal in a Sunderland shirt came against Middlesbrough on 17 February 1973, when Sunderland won 4–0. Horswill played a role in Sunderland's run in their 1972–73 FA Cup run, as he played in every game, including the final of the tournament, where Sunderland, a Second Division side at the time, beat Leeds United 1–0. In total, he played 69 league games for the club, scoring three goals, before he moved on to Manchester City. Whil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Micky Hazard
Michael Hazard (born 5 February 1960) is an English football coach and former professional footballer. He played as a central midfielder notably in the top flight for Tottenham Hotspur and Chelsea. He also played in the Football League for Portsmouth and Swindon Town. His second spell with Spurs brought numerous appearances in the Premier League. Following retirement, he had a brief spell at Crystal Palace and later had a three-year spell as manager of non-league side Hadley. Playing career Growing up in Sunderland, Hazard began playing football with his friends and later joining his local school team. During one of these matches, he was spotted by a scout from London-based club Tottenham Hotspur but was too young to be offered a trial. He was initially invited to train with Spurs when aged 14 and continued to have week-long sessions with the club until, aged 16, he moved to London to join the youth squad as an apprentice. Prone to bouts of homesickness, Hazard ran home six t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
