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Mathison
Mathison is a surname, and may refer to: * Alonzo J. Mathison (1876-1941), American politician * Brooke Mathison, fictional character * Bruce Mathison (born 1959), former American football quarterback * Cameron Mathison (born 1969), Emmy-nominated actor * Carrie Mathison, a fictional character from ''Homeland'' * Gordon Mathison (10 August 1883-1915), Australian physician, medical researcher, and soldier * James Mathison (born 1978), Australian television presenter * John Mathison (1901–1982), New Zealand politician of the Labour Party * Lisa Mathison (born 1985), professional cyclist * Melissa Mathison (1950–2015), American screenwriter * Volney Mathison (20th century), American chiropractor See also * Matheson (surname) Matheson is a surname derived from either an anglicised form of Scottish Gaelic surnames or the patronymic form of a short form of the English ''Matthew''.. This webpage cited: . This English personal name is ultimately derived from the Hebrew ''Mat ... * Mat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Volney Mathison
Volney G. Mathison, also known by the pseudonym Dex Volney (August 13, 1897 – January 3, 1965), was an American chiropractor, writer, and inventor of the first E-meter used by the Church of Scientology. Family In 1935, Mathison was married to Jean Darrell, a music librarian for NBC. She died in November 1964. Career Writer In 1921, Mathison wrote the fictional short story "A Phony Phone", which was published in ''Radio News'' edited by Hugo Gernsback. In 1924, he wrote the fictional book ''The Radiobuster: Being Some of the Adventures of Samuel Jones, Deep Sea Wireless Operator''. The book is listed in ''American Fiction, 1901-1925: A Bibliography''. Mathison's story "The Death Bottle" was published in ''Weird Tales'' in March 1925. He also wrote stories which were published under the pseudonym of "Dex Volney". His pieces as "Dex Volney" were of the Western genre, and set in Alaska. According to ''Science-Fiction: The Gernsback Years'', Mathison was "a prolific author" u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cameron Mathison
Cameron Arthur Mathison (born August 25, 1969) is a Canadians, Canadian-Americans, American actor and television host. From 1997 to 2011, he played the role of Ryan Lavery on ''All My Children''. Early life and personal life Mathison was born on August 25, 1969, in Sarnia, Ontario, Canada, the second of two sons of parents Bill and Loretta. Mathison attended Thornlea Secondary School in Thornhill, Ontario and McGill University in Montreal, Quebec. He graduated in 1993 with a bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering. On July 27, 2002, he married model Vanessa Marie Arevalo, having proposed in Vail, Colorado. They have a son, Lucas (b. April 20, 2003), and a daughter, Leila (b. July 7, 2006). On September 9, 2019, he announced that he had been diagnosed with renal cell carcinoma and would be taking several weeks off to receive treatment. Career After graduating from McGill, he began working as a model and started acting in commercials in Canada, the U.S. and Europe. This led to tak ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gordon Mathison
Gordon Clunes Mackay Mathison FRCP (10 August 188318 May 1915) was a physician, medical researcher, and soldier. Appointed the first director of the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research in Melbourne, Australia, he died on 18 May 1915, from wounds received in action on 10 May 1915 during the Gallipoli campaign, before he could take up the position. Family The eldest of the three children of Hector Munro Mathison (1850-1895), a State School headmaster, and Mary Martha Mathison (1860-1942), née Barber, Gordon Clunes Mackay Mathison was born at Stanley, near Beechworth, Victoria on 10 August 1883. An older brother, also known as Gordon Clunes Mackay Mathison, had died on 13 January 1883, aged six months. Soon after his birth, the family moved to Elsternwick, Victoria, where both his father and younger brother Robert Mackay (born 1894) died in 1895. Education Primary He attended Elsternwick State School, where his father and mother both taught, and his father w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Mathison
James Mathison (born 14 January 1978) is an Australian television presenter and former independent political candidate. Early life Mathison was born in Sydney, New South Wales and grew up in Northern Beaches suburb of Frenchs Forest. He attended St. Augustine's College, in Brookvale. After leaving school, he worked in various jobs, including working in a warehouse for a mail-order company and as a cashier at a service station, before spending a year on exchange in South America. Career Entertainment Television In 2001, Mathison was a contestant on the Channel Ten reality TV show ''The $20 Challenge'', during which he was shown busking on the streets of London for extra money. He achieved second place in the contest. Weeks after returning from London, he auditioned for pay-TV channel Channel s new reporter search. After making it through to the final 8, he was offered a job there as video journalist. In 2003, Mathison was appointed co-host of ''Australian Idol'' alongsi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melissa Mathison
Melissa Marie Mathison (June 3, 1950 – November 4, 2015) was an American film and television screenwriter and an activist for the Tibetan independence movement. She was best known for writing the screenplays for the films ''The Black Stallion'' (1979) and '' E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial'' (1982), the latter of which earned her the Saturn Award for Best Writing and a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. Mathison later wrote ''The Indian in the Cupboard'' (1995), based on Lynne Reid Banks's 1980 children's novel of the same name, and ''Kundun'' (1997), a biographical-drama film about the Dalai Lama. Her final film credit was ''The BFG'' (2016), which marked her third collaboration with film director Steven Spielberg. Early years Mathison was born on June 3, 1950, in Los Angeles, one of five siblings. Her father, Richard Randolph Mathison, was the Los Angeles bureau chief of ''Newsweek''. Her mother was Margaret Jean (née Kieffer) Mathison, a food writer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carrie Mathison
Carrie Anne Mathison, played by actress Claire Danes, is a fictional character and the protagonist of the American television drama/thriller series ''Homeland'' on Showtime, created by Alex Gansa and Howard Gordon. Carrie is a CIA officer who, while on assignment in Iraq, learned from a CIA asset that an American prisoner of war had been turned by al-Qaeda. After a U.S. Marine sergeant named Nicholas Brody is rescued from captivity, Carrie believes that he is the POW described to her. Carrie's investigation of Brody is complicated by her bipolar disorder and results in an obsession with her suspect. For her performance as Carrie, Claire Danes has received several major acting awards, including the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series, the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama, the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series, the Satellite Award for Best Actress – Television Ser ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Mathison
John Mathison (29 September 1901 – 12 October 1982) was a New Zealand politician of the Labour Party. He was famed for his skills as a chairman and well known for his "unmistakably Scottish" accent, eloquent speeches and dry sense of humour. Biography Early life and career He was born in Peebles, Scotland, in 1901. He worked as a shop steward for a wool mill where he first became involved in trade unionism, joining the National Union of General Workers. After being laid off from his job he emigrated to New Zealand in 1921. Shortly after arriving he married Agnes Anderson, a fellow Scottish emigrant whom he had met on the voyage. He then found employment as a woollen worker (spinner) at the Kaiapoi woolen mills. A short while later he briefly worked as an industrial insurance salesman before joining the Christchurch Tramways Board as a conductor in 1924, later becoming a tram driver. He became the president of the Tramway Workers' Union from 1928 to 1932. During his tenure ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lisa Mathison
Lisa Mathison (born 31 January 1985) is a professional cyclist from Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, specialising in cross-country mountain bike racing. She started competitive cycling at the age of 13 in 1998 and came to national and international attention in 2002 when she won the U19 cross-country World Championships in Austria. In 2003, she successfully defended her Under 19 world champion title in Switzerland. Her achievements in mountain biking won her a Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) scholarship under the tutelage of legendary Swiss ex-pro, Chantal Daucourt, at the coaching facility in Aigle, Switzerland. Major awards already bestowed on Mathison include 2004 Australian Female MTB Cyclist of the Year; 2003 Sport Industry Australia Young Female Athlete of the Year; Australian Female Junior MTB of the Year for 2002 and 2003; and Queensland Cyclist of the Year for 2003. In an interview in 2002 she said Cadel Evans, was a role model: "''I've been following his progress ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruce Mathison
Bruce Martin Mathison (born April 25, 1959) is a former American football quarterback who played in the NFL for the San Diego Chargers (two stints), Buffalo Bills, and as a replacement player for the Seattle Seahawks during the 1987 strike season. He played college football at the University of Nebraska A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. Universities typically offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. In the United States, the .... References 1959 births Living people American football quarterbacks San Diego Chargers players Buffalo Bills players Seattle Seahawks players Nebraska Cornhuskers football players Sportspeople from Superior, Wisconsin Players of American football from Wisconsin National Football League replacement players {{quarterback-1950s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alonzo J
Alonzo is both a given name and a Spanish surname. Notable people with the name include: Mononym *Alonzo (rapper), French singer and hip hop artist, formerly Segnor Alonzo of Psy 4 de la Rime Given name *Alonzo de Barcena, 16th-century Spanish Jesuit missionary and linguist *Alonzo de Santa Cruz (–1567), Spanish cartographer, mapmaker, instrument maker, historian and teacher *Alonzo Babers (b. 1961), U.S. athlete *Alonzo L. Best (1854–1923), U.S. politician *Alonzo Bodden, U.S. comedian *Alonzo Church (1903–1995), U.S. mathematician and computer scientist * Alonzo Clemons, U.S. autistic savant clay sculptor *Alonzo B. Cornell (1832–1904), a Governor of New York *Alonzo Drake (1884–1919), English footballer and cricketer *Alonzo J. Edgerton (1827–1896), U.S. politician * Alonzo Dillard Folger (1888–1941), U.S. politician *Alonzo Gee, American basketball player * Alonzo A. Hinckley (1870–1936), U.S. official of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints * Al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brooke Mathison
''Designated Survivor'' is an American political thriller drama television series created by David Guggenheim. It aired for three seasons, first on ABC and then exclusively on Netflix for the third and final season. Kiefer Sutherland stars as Thomas Kirkman, an American academic named as the designated survivor for the State of the Union address, who suddenly ascends from the position of U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to President of the United States after an explosion kills everyone ahead of him in the presidential line of succession. Kirkman deals with his inexperience as head of state while looking to uncover the truth behind the attack. The project skipped the pilot stage. It was ordered straight to series on December 14, 2015, with a formal announcement on May 6, 2016. The first episode premiered on September 21, 2016, to an audience of over 10 million viewers. Eight days later, a full-season order was announced. The series was renewed for a second season ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matheson (surname)
Matheson is a surname derived from either an anglicised form of Scottish Gaelic surnames or the patronymic form of a short form of the English ''Matthew''.. This webpage cited: . This English personal name is ultimately derived from the Hebrew ''Mattathia'', which means "gift of God".. An early record form of the surname ''Matheson'' is ''Mathyson'', recorded in 1392;.. this recorded name literally means "son of ''Mathi''"—''Mathi'' being a pet form of ''Matthew''. Two different Scottish Gaelic surnames have been Anglicised ''Matheson''. One such surname is ''Mac Mhathghamhuin'' (Clan Matheson), which became Anglicised ''Matheson'' on account of its similar sound.. This Gaelic surname is of an entirely different etymology than ''Matheson'', as the Gaelic ''mathghamhuin'' means "bear".. Another Gaelic surname Anglicised ''Matheson'' is ''Mac Matha''. This Gaelic surname is derived from the patronymic form of a Gaelic form of ''Matthew''. This webpage cited: . (for example, the mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
