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McGann
Origin McGann is an Irish surname, derived from the Gaelic ''MagAnnaidh'', an Old Irish translation or sept of the '' Mac Cana'' clan. Etymology The ''Cana'' particle is a personal name meaning ' cub/whelp', although some sources claim it is derived from the personal name ''Annadh''. Due to anglicization and Ulster migration the original form ''Mac Cana'' has had many variations, such as MagAnnaidh, MacAnna and MacCanna, later anglicized to McGann and McCann. The name became McGann upon Ulster migration to Connaught and became Canny and Canney upon Ulster migration to the south ( Leinster and Munster). Notable people named McGann * Ambrose McGann, American baseball player * Andrew J. McGann, American politician and businessman * Bernie McGann, Australian jazz alto saxophone player * Brad McGann, New Zealand film director and screenwriter * Ciarán McGann, Irish hurler from Castlelyons, County Cork * Dennis Lawrence "Dan" McGann (1871–1910), American baseball player * G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul McGann
Paul John McGann (; born 14 November 1959) is an English actor. He came to prominence for portraying Percy Toplis in the television serial ''The Monocled Mutineer'' (1986), then starred in the dark comedy ''Withnail and I'' (1987), which was a critical success and developed a cult following. McGann later became more widely known for portraying the eighth incarnation of the Doctor in the 1996 ''Doctor Who'' television film. He is also known for playing Lieutenant William Bush in the series '' Hornblower''. Early life Paul John McGann was born in Liverpool on 14 November 1959, into a Roman Catholic family. His ancestors immigrated from Ireland in the mid-19th century, having left due to the Great Famine. His mother, Clare, was a teacher, and his father Joe who died in 1984 was a metallurgist. His cousin, Ritchie Routledge, was in the 1960s band The Cryin' Shames. He has an older brother, Joe, and three younger siblings: brothers Mark and Stephen and sister Clare. All three ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dan McGann
Dennis Lawrence "Dan" McGann (July 15, 1871 – December 13, 1910) was an American professional baseball first baseman and second baseman. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1896 to 1910, and won the World Series in 1905 with the New York Giants. After beginning his professional career in minor league baseball in 1895, McGann played in MLB for the Boston Beaneaters (1896), Baltimore Orioles (1898), Brooklyn Superbas (1899), Washington Senators (1899), and St. Louis Cardinals (1900–1901) of the National League (NL) before jumping to the rival American League to play for the Baltimore Orioles in 1902. He returned to the NL, playing for the New York Giants (1902–1907) and Boston Doves (1908). In 1909–10, he played for the Milwaukee Brewers in the American Association. McGann had a troubled personal life. He suffered from depression, and several members of his family committed suicide. After the 1910 season, with rumors of McGann signing with another minor league ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernie McGann
Bernard Francis McGann (22 June 1937 – 17 September 2013) was an Australian jazz alto saxophone player. He began his career in the late 1950s and remained active as a performer, composer and recording artist until near the end of his life. McGann won four ARIA Music Awards between 1993 and 2001. McGann led the Bernie McGann Trio and Bernie McGann Quartet through his career. The most well-known lineup of the Trio was McGann (alto sax), John Pochee (drums), Lloyd Swanton (bass), with the addition of Warwick Alder (trumpet) in the quartet. Career Born in Granville, in Sydney's western suburbs, McGann first came to prominence as part of a loose alliance of modern jazz musicians who performed at the ''El Rocco Jazz Cellar'' in Kings Cross, Sydney in the late 1950s and early 1960s. He had an enduring collaboration with drummer John Pochee. During the 1960s and early 1970s, McGann also performed with rock and pop groups and as a session musician, and in the 1970s he was a member ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen McGann
Stephen Vincent McGann (born 2 February 1963) is a British actor, best known for portraying Dr Patrick Turner in the BBC One medical period drama series ''Call the Midwife''. He is one of a family of acting brothers, the others being Joe, Paul, and Mark. McGann was born in Kensington, Liverpool, and began his professional acting career in 1982, starring in the West End musical ''Yakety Yak''. He has since worked extensively in British theatre and on screen. Early life Stephen's father Joe was a Royal Naval Commando who died in 1984, and his mother Clare was a teacher. Along with his acting brothers Paul, Mark, and Joe who's named after his father, he also has a younger sister named Clare after their mother. Career Acting In 1989, he starred as Mickey in the West End hit musical '' Blood Brothers''. In 1990, he played Johann Strauss in the international mini-series, ''The Strauss Dynasty''. In 1993, he created, co-produced and starred in the award-winning BBC drama ''The H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark McGann
Mark Anthony McGann (born 12 July 1961) is an English actor. Early life He attended the De La Salle Grammar School, Liverpool. Mark's father Joe was a Royal Naval Commando who died in 1984, and his mother Clare was a teacher. His three brothers Paul, Stephen, and Joe (named after his father), are all actors. He also has a younger sister, named Clare after their mother. Career Acting McGann's first breakthrough role was as the eponymous hero in the company's production of ''Lennon'' in 1981, which received good reviews and ran for 10 months at the London Astoria Theatre, winning McGann the first of his two Olivier Award nominations for best actor in a West End theatre production. He was later to reprise the role for the film '' John and Yoko: A Love Story'' for NBC television in the United States in 1985. His first television appearances were in 1982 in ''Recording Studio'' opposite Peter Howitt and Robert Stephens for Granada TV, and ''Moving On The Edge'', a BBC ''Pl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe McGann
Joseph McGann (born 24 July 1958) is an English actor. His roles include the lead role of Charlie Burrows, the "housekeeper" in the TV comedy series ''The Upper Hand'' (1990–1996), '' Night and Day'' and his voice role as Sir Gideon Ofnir in the video game ''Elden Ring'' (2022) Life and career McGann was born in Kensington, Liverpool to a metallurgist father also named Joe, and a teacher mother named Clare. His three younger brothers – Paul, Mark and Stephen – are also actors. He also has a younger sister named Clare after their mother. Together with Stephen and Mark, he starred in ''Tom, Dick and Harry'', a play by Ray and Michael Cooney at the Duke of York's Theatre, in 1995. That same year, all four brothers starred in the BBC drama ''The Hanging Gale''. In 1989, he portrayed Lord Glozelle in the BBC version of ''Prince Caspian''. The following year, he started playing the role of Charlie Burrows in the long-running ITV sitcom The Upper Hand, alongside Diana Weston ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oisín McGann
Oisín McGann (born 1973) is an Irish writer and illustrator, who writes in a range of genres for children and teenagers, mainly science fiction and fantasy, and has illustrated many of his own short story books for younger readers. As of 5/10/22, his most recent book is about climate change Biography Oisín McGann was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1973 and spent most of his childhood living there and in Drogheda, County Louth. He had an interest in writing and illustrating from an early age, doing a foundation art course in Ballyfermot Senior College in 1990–1991, Dublin before joining a diploma course in animation at Dún Laoghaire School of Art and Design in 1991. He dropped out of college in 1992 to set up as a freelance illustrator/artist later becoming Background Layout Designer for Fred Wolf films in 1997. In February 1998, he left Dublin for London where he spent most of his time as an art director and copywriter in an advertising company. After four and a half years he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Preston McGann
Preston McGann is an American football wide receiver for the Orlando Rage. He played college baseball at Seminole Community College and attended Groves High School in Garden City, Georgia Garden City is a city in Chatham County, Georgia, United States, located just northwest of Savannah. As of the 2020 census, the city had a population of 10,289. Part industrial and part residential, the city is home to much of the heavy industry .... He has also been a member of the Columbus Lions and Pittsburgh Power. McGann appeared on Michael Irvin's reality show ''4th and Long''. Early years McGann played high school baseball for the Groves High School Fighting Scottish Rebels. He did not play football in high school. College career McGann played college baseball for the Seminole Community College Raiders from 2005 to 2006. Professional career Orlando Rage McGann played for the semi-pro Orlando Rage from 2006 to 2009, earning 2008 Southern States Football MVP honors as the team ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gary McGann
Gary McGann (born August 1950) is an Irish accountant, the chairman of Flutter Entertainment, and former CEO of Smurfit Kappa and Aer Lingus. Education McGann earned a bachelor's degree from University College Dublin and also an MSc in management science from Trinity College Dublin. Career McGann was CEO of Smurfit Kappa from November 2002 to August 2015, when he retired from executive roles. McGann was a non-executive director and member of the audit committee, of failed Irish bank, Anglo Irish Bank Anglo Irish Bank was an Irish bank headquartered in Dublin from 1964 to 2011. It began to wind down after nationalisation in 2009. In July 2011 Anglo Irish merged with the Irish Nationwide Building Society, forming a new company named the Iri ... from 2004 to its nationalisation in 2009. In 2019, McGann lost a tax appeal against tax treatment on two payments totalling €2.3 million from when he was chief executive of Smurfit Kappa in 2011. The Tax Appeals Commission ru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jake McGann
Jake McGann (born 1990) is an English voice actor who has appeared in ''Doctor Who'' audio dramas. ''Doctor Who'' In 2007, he appeared in two ''Doctor Who'' audio dramas starring his father as the Doctor: '' Immortal Beloved'' and '' The Girl Who Never Was'', before playing the title role in the 2009 audio, '' An Earthly Child'', where he played the Doctor's great-grandson Alex Campbell. He reprised his role in the audio dramas '' Relative Dimensions'' and '' To the Death''. Family He is the second and younger son of actor Paul McGann and Annie Milner. He has an elder brother, Joseph McGann, born in 1988. He is the nephew of actors Joe, Mark and Stephen McGann Stephen Vincent McGann (born 2 February 1963) is a British actor, best known for portraying Dr Patrick Turner in the BBC One medical period drama series ''Call the Midwife''. He is one of a family of acting brothers, the others being Joe, Pau .... References 1990 births 21st-century English male acto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brad McGann
Brad McGann MNZM (22 February 1964 – 2 May 2007), was a New Zealand film director and screenwriter. McGann was born in Auckland, New Zealand in 1964. He completed a Bachelor of Commerce degree at the University of Otago and in 1988 completed a one-year post-graduate course at the Swinburne School of Film and Television (now a part of the Victorian College of the Arts) in Melbourne. He directed the drama ''It Never Rains'' in 1996 as well as co-directing the documentary ''Come As You Are'' for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), and the award-winning short film ''Possum''. In 2004 and 2005 McGann won international acclaim for his first full-length feature film, ''In My Father's Den,'' which was based on Maurice Gee's novel. McGann wrote the screenplay and directed the film. The film won the Fipresci Prize at the 2004 Toronto International Film Festival and the Mercedes Benz Youth Jury Prize at the 52nd San Sebastian Film Festival in Spain in the same ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jerome McGann
Jerome John McGann (born July 22, 1937) is an American academic and textual scholar whose work focuses on the history of literature and culture from the late eighteenth century to the present. Career Educated at Le Moyne College ( B.S. 1959), Syracuse University ( M.A. 1962) and Yale University ( Ph.D., 1966), McGann currently teaches at the University of Virginia (1986–present), where he arrived after leaving Caltech. McGann is a member of the American Philosophical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and has received honorary doctoral degrees from University of Chicago (1996) and University of Athens (2009). Other awards include: Melville Cane Award, American Poetry Society, 1973, for his work on Swinburne as "The Year's Best Critical Book about Poetry"; Distinguished Scholar Award from the Keats- Shelley Association of America (1989); Distinguished Scholar Award from the Byron Society of America, 1989; and the Wilbur Cross Medal, Yale University Gra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
