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Marion (surname)
Marion is the surname of: *Anne Windfohr Marion (1938–2020), American rancher and business executive *Brock Marion (born 1970), American retired National Football League player *Don Marion Davis (1917–2020), American child actor *Francis Marion (c. 1732–1795), army officer during the American Revolutionary War, known as the Swamp Fox *Jean-Luc Marion (born 1946), French historian of philosophy, phenomenologist and Roman Catholic theologian * Jerry Marion (born 1944), American National Football League player * John L. Marion, American auctioneer, philanthropist and Chairman of Sotheby's from 1975 to 1994 * J. Paul Marion (born 1927), Canadian politician *Marty Marion (1917–2011), American Major League Baseball player and manager *Paul Marion (actor) (1915–2011), American actor *Paul Marion (politician) (1899–1954), French journalist and Vichy French Minister of Information *Pierre Marion (1921–2010), French secret service chief *Shawn Marion Shawn Dwayne Marion (bor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne Windfohr Marion
Anne Windfohr Marion (November 10, 1938 – February 11, 2020) was an American heiress, rancher, horse breeder, business executive, philanthropist, and art collector from Fort Worth, Texas. She served as the president of Burnett Ranches and the chairman of the Burnett Oil Company. She was the founder of the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, New Mexico. In 1981, she was inducted into the Hall of Great Westerners of the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum. Early life Anne Burnett grew up in Fort Worth, Texas.American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame & Museum: Anne Windfohr Marion Her father, James Goodwin Hall, was a stockbroker. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brock Marion
Brock Elliot Marion (born June 11, 1970) is a former American football Safety (American football position), free safety who played twelve seasons in the National Football League (NFL). After playing college football for the University of Nevada, Reno, he was chosen in the seventh round of the 1993 NFL Draft by the Dallas Cowboys. He also played for the Miami Dolphins and the Detroit Lions, and was a three-time Pro Bowler with the Dolphins. He is the son of NFL player Jerry Marion. Early years Marion played high school football at West High School (Bakersfield, California), West High School, where as a senior he received All-State honor after leading the state with 13 interceptions. He also lettered in basketball and track & field, track. He accepted a scholarship to attend the University of Nevada, Reno, University of Nevada. He became a four-year starter, leading the secondary in tackles each year. He played cornerback during his first three years, before moving to strong safet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don Marion Davis
Don Marion Davis (October 9, 1917 – December 10, 2020), professionally known as John Henry Jr. and Don Marion, was an American child actor of the silent film era, who during a brief career in show business appeared in several feature roles and comedy shorts in Hollywood screened between 1919 and 1925. He also had uncredited parts in radio. He was one of the last surviving actors who worked in the silent film era. Biography Entertainment career He was born in Hollywood, California, on October 9, 1917, to Henry G. Davis and Helen Davis. He was discovered by studio entrepreneur and director Mack Sennett while he and his mother were visiting his uncle, British-born American actor and comedian Billy Armstrong around 1919. He was visiting the set of a film when the baby who was originally cast was not performing well. Davis then replaced him successfully. In a 1920 newspaper article, he was described as one of the most famous child actors in the world. His feature-length films ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Marion
Brigadier-General Francis Marion ( 1732 – February 27, 1795), also known as the Swamp Fox, was an American military officer, planter and politician who served during the French and Indian War and the Revolutionary War. During the American Revolution, Marion supported the Patriot cause and enlisted in the Continental Army, fighting against British forces in the Southern theater of the American Revolutionary War from 1780 to 1781. Though he never commanded a field army or served as a commander in a major engagement, Marion's use of irregular warfare against the British has led him to be considered one of the fathers of guerrilla and maneuver warfare, and his tactics form a part of the modern-day military doctrine of the U.S. Army's 75th Ranger Regiment. Early life Francis Marion was born in Berkeley County, South Carolina . His father Gabriel Marion was a Huguenot who emigrated to the Thirteen Colonies from France at some point prior to 1700 due to the Edict of Fon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Luc Marion
Jean-Luc Marion (born 3 July 1946) is a French philosopher and Roman Catholic theologian. Marion is a former student of Jacques Derrida whose work is informed by patristic and mystical theology, phenomenology, and modern philosophy.Horner 2005. Much of his academic work has dealt with Descartes and phenomenologists like Martin Heidegger and Edmund Husserl, but also religion. ''God Without Being'', for example, is concerned predominantly with an analysis of idolatry, a theme strongly linked in Marion's work with love and the gift, which is a concept also explored at length by Derrida. Biography Early years Marion was born in Meudon, Hauts-de-Seine, on 3 July 1946. He studied at the University of Nanterre (now the University Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense) and the Sorbonne and then did graduate work in philosophy from the École normale supérieure in Paris from 1967 to 1971, where he was taught by Jacques Derrida, Louis Althusser and Gilles Deleuze.Horner 2005, p. 3. At the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jerry Marion
Jerry Richard Louis Marion (born August 7, 1944) is a former American football wide receiver who played one season with the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Pittsburgh Steelers in the tenth round of the 1966 NFL Draft. He was also drafted in the eleventh round of the 1966 AFL Redshirt Draft by the Boston Patriots of the American Football League. Marion played college football at the University of Wyoming and attended Bakersfield High School in Bakersfield, California. He is the father of NFL player Brock Marion Brock Elliot Marion (born June 11, 1970) is a former American football Safety (American football position), free safety who played twelve seasons in the National Football League (NFL). After playing college football for the University of Nevada, .... References External linksJust Sports Stats {{DEFAULTSORT:Marion, Jerry Living people 1944 births Players of American football from Bakersfield, California American football ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John L
John Lasarus Williams (29 October 1924 – 15 June 2004), known as John L, was a Welsh nationalist activist. Williams was born in Llangoed on Anglesey, but lived most of his life in nearby Llanfairpwllgwyngyll. In his youth, he was a keen footballer, and he also worked as a teacher. His activism started when he campaigned against the refusal of Brewer Spinks, an employer in Blaenau Ffestiniog, to permit his staff to speak Welsh. This inspired him to become a founder of Undeb y Gymraeg Fyw, and through this organisation was the main organiser of ''Sioe Gymraeg y Borth'' (the Welsh show for Menai Bridge using the colloquial form of its Welsh name).Colli John L Williams , '''', 15 June ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marty Marion
Martin Whiteford "Mr. Shortstop" Marion (December 1, 1917 – March 15, 2011) was an American Major League Baseball shortstop and manager. Marion played for the St. Louis Cardinals and the St. Louis Browns between 1940–1953. He was a defensive stalwart of the Cardinals' dynasty in the 1940s, which saw them win three World Series in a five year span, and was named the National League Most Valuable Player in 1944, the first shortstop in the history of the National League to win the award. Marion managed the Cardinals in 1951, the Browns from June 10, 1952, through 1953, and the Chicago White Sox from September 14, 1954 through 1956. During his career, he batted and threw right-handed, stood tall and weighed . Baseball career Marion was born in Richburg, South Carolina. He grew up in Atlanta, where he attended Tech High School and played baseball for the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets. His older brother, Red Marion, was briefly an outfielder in the American League and a long-time ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Marion (actor)
Paul Marion (September 12, 1915 in The Bronx – September 8, 2011) was an American actor, notable for roles in ''To Have and Have Not'' (1944), ''Mysterious Doctor Satan'' and ''Captain Midnight''. Biography In 1941, Marion married actress Isabel Jewell Isabel Jewell (July 19, 1907 – April 5, 1972) was an American actress who rose to prominence in the 1930s and early 1940s. Some of her more famous films were '' Ceiling Zero'', ''Marked Woman'', ''A Tale of Two Cities'', and ''Gone with t .... They were divorced on May 12, 1944. In 1952, he married Elinor Brand, and they divorced in 1984. They had four children. He acted on film from the late 1930s to 1955's ''Devil Goddess'', when he left acting to become an agent. Death On September 8, 2011, Marion died in Los Angeles, California, at age 95. Selected filmography References External links *Biography 1915 births 2011 deaths American male film actors Male actors from New York City People from the Bronx ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Marion (politician)
Paul Jules André Marion (27 June 1899, Asnières-sur-Seine – 2 March 1954) was a French Communist and subsequently far right journalist and political activist. He served as the French Minister of Information from 1941 to 1944. Early years Marion joined the French Communist Party in 1922 and wrote for ''L'Humanité'' as well as being elected to the party's central committee in 1926. After a spell in Moscow working for Comintern he left the Communist Party to join the more moderate Socialist Republican Union, which counted Marcel Déat amongst its membership, in 1929. He switched his allegiance to the Parti Populaire Français (PPF) in 1936. Despite his political origins Marion was quoted as saying that the PPF would ally itself with the Devil and his grandmother in order to defeat communism. In 1938 he published the Programme of the PPF, a document that defended capitalism as well as endorsing corporatism. Marion was widely associated with the more moderate tendency within th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre Marion
Pierre Marion (24 January 1921 – 17 May 2010) was a French senior official, who was the first director of the Directorate-General for External Security (DGSE – ''Direction Générale de la Sécurité Extérieure'') from 1981 to 1982, and its predecessor, the Service de Documentation Extérieure et de Contre-Espionnage (SDECE). Marion was born in Marseille, and entered the École Polytechnique at just 18 years of age. Following his education, he joined Air France where he held various management positions from 1956 to 1972. He then became managing director of aerospace manufacturer Aerospatiale's North American operations for ten years. In 1981, Marion was asked by his friend, Charles Hernu (who had been made Minister of Defence in François Mitterrand's government), if he would become director of the SDECE, the French external intelligence agency. He agreed, and set about modernising the service, reducing its ties to the French military, and changing its name to DGSE. Marion ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
