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Mike Smith (darts Player)
Michael Smith or Mike Smith may refer to: Arts * Michael E. Smith (artist) (born 1977), American sculptor * Michael Paul Smith (born 1950), American artist and photographer *Michael Smith (performance artist) (born 1951), American performance artist Entertainment Film and television *Michael Bailey Smith (born 1957), American film and television actor *Mike Smith (actor) (born 1972), Canadian actor, screenwriter, comedian and musician *Michael Smith (director), American film and television series director *Valentine Michael Smith, chief character in ''Stranger in a Strange Land'' Music * Michael Joseph Smith (born 1938), American classical composer and pianist *Michael Peter Smith (1941–2020), American songwriter and performer * Michael S. Smith (drummer) (1946–2006), American jazz drummer *Michael W. Smith (born 1957), American Christian singer and musician *Michael L. Smith (born 1953), known as Michael Lovesmith, American R&B musician, producer and executive * Mike Smith ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael E
SS ''Michael E'' was a cargo ship that was built in 1941. She was the first British Catapult Aircraft Merchant ship: a merchant ship fitted with a rocket catapult to launch a single Hawker Hurricane fighter to defend a convoy against long-range German bombers. She was sunk on her maiden voyage by a German submarine. Description ''Michael E'' was built by William Hamilton & Co Ltd, Port Glasgow. Launched in 1941, she was completed in May of that year. She was the United Kingdom's first CAM ship, armed with an aircraft catapult on her bow to launch a Hawker Sea Hurricane. The ship was long between perpendiculars ( overall), with a beam of . She had a depth of and a draught of . She was and . She had six corrugated furnaces feeding two 225 lbf/in2 single-ended boilers with a combined heating surface of . The boilers fed a 443 NHP triple-expansion steam engine that had cylinders of , and diameter by stroke. The engine was built by David Rowan & Co Ltd, Glasgow. History ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Smith (guitarist)
Mike Smith (born October 11, 1973) is a musician, best known as the former guitarist of Snot, TheStart, and Limp Bizkit. Currently he is the singer and guitarist for the band Shedding Light (previously known as Evolver). Mike Smith also appeared in Staind's music video " Outside". Career Rumbledog Mike Smith played the guitar for the hard rock band Rumbledog from 1993 to 1996. Rumbledog formed from the ashes of a previous musical endeavour based in San Francisco named Dirty Looks. Lead singer Henrik Ostergaard brought in Mike Smith as guitarist. The band released two records: Rumbledog (1993) and The Drowning Pool (1995). Burning Orange While writing material for a follow-up to The Drowning Pool, Rumbledog noticed that their sound was significantly changing to a more hardcore and grunge style. This led to friction with the band’s singer and the members ultimately decided to reform under a new name with a new singer. Smith elected to help form this new band, named Bur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Smith (Irish Politician)
Michael Smith (born 8 November 1940) is an Irish former Fianna Fáil politician who served as Minister for Defence from 1997 to 2004, Minister for Education from November 1994 to December 1994, Minister for the Environment from 1992 to 1994 and a Minister of State in various governments. He served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Tipperary North constituency from 1969 to 1973, 1977 to 1981 and 1987 to 2002. He also served as a Senator for the Cultural and Educational Panel from 1983 to 1987 and for the Agricultural Panel from May 1982 to December 1982. Background and education Smith was born in Roscrea, County Tipperary in 1940. He was educated at CBS Templemore in County Tipperary. Smith worked as a farmer before entering Dáil Éireann at the 1969 general election as a Fianna Fáil TD for the Tipperary North constituency. He lost his seat at the 1973 general election but was re-elected to Dáil Éireann at the 1977 general election. Political career 1980s In 1980, the T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Smith (music Executive)
Mike Smith is the global president of Downtown Music Publishing, a division of Downtown Music Holdings. Prior to this move, Smith was Managing Director at Warner/Chappell Music UK, part of the global music publishing arm of Warner Music Group. Early career Mike Smith started as an A&R scout at MCA Publishing in 1988, where he signed Blur, Levitation and scouted the Smashing Pumpkins. He then moved to EMI Publishing in 1992, where he went on to sign acts such as PJ Harvey, Elastica, Supergrass, Teenage Fan Club, Doves, Starsailor, the Beta Band, the Avalanches, Gorillaz, the White Stripes, the Libertines, the Scissor Sisters, Arcade Fire and Arctic Monkeys, as well as resigning Blur and progressing to the position of Head of A&R. He also worked with artists such as Robbie Williams, the Verve and Beth Orton. Columbia Records Smith moved to Columbia Records UK in 2006 to work as the Managing Director. In his first year there, he signed Mark Ronson and Calvin Harris. Other si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Prestwood Smith
Mike Prestwood Smith is a sound engineer. Smith and his fellow sound engineers are nominated for an Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing for the 2013 film '' Captain Phillips''. He was also nominated for a British Academy Film Award in the category Best Sound for the film '' Mission: Impossible – Fallout''. His nomination was shared with Gilbert Lake, James Mather and Chris Munro Chris Munro is a British sound engineer. He has won two Academy Awards for Best Sound and has been nominated for two more in the same category. He has worked on over 80 films since 1972. Selected filmography Munro has won two Academy Awards .... He has worked on over 100 films since 1996. References External links * Living people American audio engineers Best Sound BAFTA Award winners Year of birth missing (living people) {{US-film-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Farris Smith
Michael Farris Smith is an American writer from Mississippi. As of 2021, Smith has published six novels: ''The Hands of Strangers'' (2011), ''Rivers'' (2013), ''Desperation Road'' (2017), ''The Fighter'' (2018), ''Blackwood'' (2020), and ''Nick'' (2021). Early life and education Michael Farris Smith was born in McComb, Mississippi. He was raised in a deeply religious family; Smith's father was a Southern Baptist minister. His family moved around many times, and lived in Magnolia, Mississippi. Smith attended South Pike High School and graduated from Parklane Academy in 1988. He played baseball at Southwest Mississippi Community College. He earned a B.A. from Mississippi State University, an M.Ed. from William Carey College and a Ph.D. from the University of Southern Mississippi. After graduating from Mississippi State, Smith spent several years living abroad in Switzerland and France. He began writing fiction while studying at the University of Southern Mississippi's Center fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael V
Michael V may refer to: *Michael V Kalaphates (1015–1042), Byzantine Emperor *Coptic Pope Michael V of Alexandria (fl. 1145–1146) *Michael V. Beethoven Del Valle Bunagan (born December 17, 1969), known professionally as Michael V. and also known as Bitoy, is a Filipino actor, comedian, and recording artist, who appears in the GMA Network show ''Bubble Gang'' and '' Pepito Manaloto ... (born 1969), Filipino actor and comedian {{hndis, Michael 05 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Smith (chef)
Michael Dixon Smith is an American-born Canadian chef and cookbook writer. He has hosted '' The Inn Chef'', '' Chef at Home'', and judged on '' Chopped: Canada'' on the Canadian Food Network. Smith is Prince Edward Island's Food Ambassador, a nutritional activist, and an advocate for sustainable home cooking and farm-to-table cuisine. Career At age seventeen, Smith started cooking in kitchens while attending art school. Within five years he was the Head Chef at a large, upscale bistro. He then enrolled at The Culinary Institute of America, where he graduated second in his class. After graduation, Smith worked in Michelin three-star restaurants in Europe, as well as kitchens in South Africa, the Caribbean, and New York City. Smith relocated to Prince Edward Island with the desire to cook sustainably by building a garden and developing partnerships with local farmers and fishermen. Smith started as a chef at The Inn at Bay Fortune in 1991. His first television show, The Inn Che ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Marshall Smith
Michael Paul Marshall Smith (born 3 May 1965) is an English novelist, screenwriter and short story writer who also writes as Michael Marshall, M. M. Smith and Michael Rutger. Biography Born in Knutsford, Cheshire, Smith moved with his family at an early age to first Illinois and then Florida. When he was seven, the family moved again, this time to South Africa, and then to Australia before eventually returning home to England in 1973. He was educated at Chigwell School, where he was in Swallows House and dated fellow pupil and future senior Sky News editor Sally Arthy, and at King's College, Cambridge, where he studied Philosophy, Social and Political Science, and became involved with the Cambridge Footlights. Under the pseudonym of Michael Rutger, he moved on to become a comedy writer and performer on the BBC Radio 4 series '' And Now in Colour'', which has been described as a 'cult hit' and ran for two series. Between 2002 and 2004, he also co-wrote material for two series of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mikey Smith
Michael Smith, usually referred to as Mikey Smith (14 September 1954 – 17 August 1983), was a Jamaican dub poet. Along with Linton Kwesi Johnson, and Mutabaruka, he was one of the best-known dub poets. In 1978, Smith represented Jamaica at the 11th World Festival of Youth and Students in Cuba. His album ''Mi Cyaan Believe It'' includes his poem of the same name. He had left-anarchist leanings and Rastafarian sympathies, and was allegedly murdered by political opponents associated with the right-wing Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) after he had heckled the Jamaican Minister of Culture at a political rally on 17 August 1983. Life and work Smith was educated at Kingston College and the St. George's College Extension School. He also studied at the Jamaican School of Drama with Jean "Binta" Breeze and Oku Onuora. Linton Kwesi Johnson released some of Smith's work on his LKJ label. Smith appeared on the BBC television series ''Ebony'' and the BBC also broadcast a documentary based ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Smith (author)
Michael Smith (born 1946) is a British author and journalist specialising in the history of polar exploration. Early life Michael Smith was born in 1946 and raised in London. Career Smith began writing about Antarctic and Arctic exploration after a successful career as an award-winning journalist in London. He was twice named Industrial Journalist of the Year (1987 and 1992). He is a Life Member of the National Union of Journalists. From 1978–1989, Smith worked at ''The Guardian'' as an industrial editor, political correspondent and transport editor. From 1990–91 he worked at ''The Standard'' as a city editor. From 1992–95 he worked at ''The Observer'' (1992–95) as industrial editor and business editor. Michael Smith's first book, ''An Unsung Hero - Tom Crean'' was a notable success when first published in 2000 and became the No 1 best-selling non-fiction book in Ireland. The biography of Tom Crean was responsible for raising awareness of the role played by Irishmen in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Smith (poet)
Michael Smith (1942-2014) was an Irish poet, author and translator. A member of Aosdána, the Irish National Academy of Artists, Michael Smith was the first Writer in-Residence to be appointed by University College, Dublin and was an Honorary Fellow of UCD. He was a poet who gave a lifetime of service to the art of poetry both in English and Spanish. He has been described as a classical modernist, a poet of modern life. Smith founded New Writers Press in Dublin in 1967 (together with Trevor Joyce and his wife, Irene Smith) and was responsible for the publication of over seventy books and magazines. He was founder and editor of the influential literary magazine '' The Lace Curtain.'' From 1984 to 1989 he was a member of the Arts Council. He has translated into English and published some of the most difficult and exhilarating poets in Spanish, including Federico García Lorca, Pablo Neruda, Miguel Hernández (Unceasing Lightning) and the two great Spanish masters of the baroque, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |