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Michael White
Michael or Mike White may refer to: Academics * Michael White (criminologist) (born 1951), professor of criminology at Arizona State University * Michael White (psychotherapist) (1948–2008), inventor of narrative therapy * Michael J. D. White (1910–1983), British zoologist * L. Michael White, American theologian Journalism and literature * Michael White (author) (1959–2018), British science writer and novelist * Michael White (journalist) (born 1945), associate editor and former political editor of ''The Guardian'' newspaper * Michael K. White (born 1961), American writer * Mike White (journalist), New Zealand investigative journalist, photographer and author * Mike White (born 1972), journalist and filmmaker and host of ''The Projection Booth'' podcast Music * Michael White (clarinetist) (born 1954), New Orleans jazz musician * Michael White (singer), country music artist * Michael White (violinist) (1933–2016), jazz musician * Michael White & the White, American hard roc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael White (snooker Player)
Michael White (born 5 July 1991) is a Welsh professional snooker player from Neath, Glamorgan. Nicknamed ‘Lightning’ due to his fast playing style, White is a former top 16 player and two-time ranking event winner. A highly rated junior, he became the youngest player to have made a century break in competitive play aged 9, and won the World Amateur Championship at 14. White won his first ranking event at the 2015 Indian Open, before breaking into the top 16 during the 2015-16 season and capturing his second ranking title at the 2017 Paul Hunter Classic. White's form started to decline in the 2018-19 season however, eventually leading to him dropping off the professional tour in 2020. He regained his tour card in 2022 by qualifying for the 2022 Snooker World Championship, becoming only the second amateur ever to qualify for the tournament in the process. Career Early career White first showed potential by becoming the youngest player to make a century break: a 105 in Mar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael White (clarinetist)
Michael White (born November 29, 1954 in New Orleans) is a jazz clarinetist, bandleader, composer, jazz historian and musical educator. Jazz critic Scott Yanow said in a review that White "displays the feel and spirit of the best New Orleans clarinetists". Early life White was raised Catholic Church, Catholic in New Orleans (by a father who was a Knights of Peter Claver, Knight of Peter Claver), and attended a number of Black Catholicism, Black Catholic schools in the city, including Saint Francis de Sales, Holy Ghost, and St Joan of Arc. While at the latter school, he studied clarinet and played in his first parade. Career White is a classically trained musician who began his jazz musical career as a teenager playing for Doc Paulin's Brass Band in New Orleans. He was a member of an incarnation of the Fairview Baptist Church Marching Band, established by banjoist Danny Barker. He was discovered by Kid Sheik Colar, who heard him performing in Jackson Square, New Orleans, Louisi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael White (psychotherapist)
Michael White (29 December 1948 – 4 April 2008) was an Australian social worker and family therapist. He is known as the founder of narrative therapy, and for his significant contribution to psychotherapy and family therapy, which have been a source of techniques adopted by other approaches. Biography Michael Kingsley White was born and raised in Adelaide, South Australia. His first professional job was as a probation and welfare worker. He earned an undergraduate social work degree from the University of South Australia in 1979 and worked as a psychiatric social worker at the Adelaide Children's Hospital. He founded the Dulwich Centre in 1983 and began a private practice as a family therapist. He continued to be associated with Dulwich Centre until his death. White was a practicing social worker and co-director of the Dulwich Centre in Adelaide, South Australia, and was author of several books of importance in the field of family therapy and narrative therapy. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael White (criminologist)
Michael Douglas White (born January 25, 1951) is a professor in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Arizona State University, where he is also the associate director of the Center for Violence Prevention and Community Safety and director of the doctoral program in criminology and criminal justice. He is known for his research on the effects of police use of body-worn cameras. He produced a report for the United States Department of Justice The United States Department of Justice (DOJ), also known as the Justice Department, is a federal executive department of the United States government tasked with the enforcement of federal law and administration of justice in the United State ... summarizing the arguments for and against the use of such cameras. The report concluded that "there is not enough evidence to offer a definitive recommendation regarding the adoption of body-worn cameras by police." Since then, he has predicted that all police departments with 50 or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael D
Michael D may refer to: * Mike D (born 1965), founding member of the Beastie Boys Arts * Michael D. Cohen (actor) (born 1975), Canadian actor * Michael D. Ellison, African American recording artist * Michael D. Fay, American war artist * Michael D. Ford (1928–2018), English set decorator * Michael D. Roberts, American actor Business * Michael D. Dingman (1931–2017), American businessman * Michael D. Ercolino (1906–1982), American businessman * Michael D. Fascitelli, (born c. 1957), American businessman * Michael D. Penner (born 1969), Canadian lawyer and businessman Education * Michael D. Aeschliman (born 1948), American–Swiss educator * Michael D. Cohen (academic) (1945–2013), professor of complex systems, information and public policy at the University of Michigan * Michael D. Hanes, American music educator * Michael D. Hurley (born 1976), British Professor of Literature and Theology * Michael D. Johnson, a former President of John Carroll University * Mic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael White (judge)
Michael White (born 1953) is an Irish judge who served as a judge of the High Court between 2011 and 2021 and a judge of the Circuit Court between 1996 and 2011. He was formerly a politician and solicitor and was one of the first solicitors to be appointed the Irish judiciary. Early career White was born in Carndonagh, County Donegal. His father Michael was a solicitor. He attended St Patrick's Boys' National School, Carndonagh Boys Secondary School and Gormanston College. He graduated with a degree in law from University College Dublin in 1973 and qualified as a solicitor in 1975. He engaged in socialist activism during his time in university and joined the Workers' Party of Ireland. He contested three general elections and one by-election in the Dublin Central constituency between 1981 and 1983 for the Workers' Party. He set up a law firm with Pat McCartan and Paula Scully in 1976, before setting up his own practice in 1987. He later specialised in family law and labou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike White (filmmaker)
Michael Christopher White (born June 28, 1970) is an American writer, actor, producer, and director for television and film, and reality television show contestant. He has won numerous awards, including the Independent Spirit John Cassavetes Award for the 2000 film ''Chuck & Buck'', which he wrote and starred in. He has written the screenplays for films such as ''School of Rock'' (2003) and has directed several films that he has written, such as ''Brad's Status'' (2017). He was the co-creator, executive producer, writer, director and actor on the HBO series '' Enlightened''. White is also known for his appearances on reality television, competing on two seasons of ''The Amazing Race'' and later becoming a contestant and runner-up on '' Survivor: David vs. Goliath''. He created, wrote, and directed the 2021 HBO satire comedy anthology series ''The White Lotus''. Early life White was born in Pasadena, California. He is the son of Lyla Lee (née Loehr), a fundraising executive, and fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Jai White
Michael Jai White (born November 10, 1967) is an American actor, director and martial artist. He was the first African American to portray a major comic book superhero in a major motion picture, starring as Al Simmons, the protagonist in the 1997 film ''Spawn''.''Spawn'' was released on August 1, 1997, two weeks before the release of ''Steel'', which starred NBA basketball player Shaquille O'Neal. Robert Townsend and Damon Wayans also starred in the superhero films '' The Meteor Man'' (1993) and ''Blankman'' (1994), respectively, both parodies. White appeared as Marcus Williams in the Tyler Perry films ''Why Did I Get Married?'' and ''Why Did I Get Married Too?'', and starred as the character on the TBS/OWN comedy-drama television series ''Tyler Perry's For Better or Worse''. White portrayed Jax Briggs in '' Mortal Kombat: Legacy'' and the Cyborg Seth in '' Universal Soldier: The Return''. He portrayed boxer Mike Tyson in the 1995 HBO television film ''Tyson''. He also played the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael White (producer)
Michael Simon White (16 January 1936 – 7 March 2016) was a British theatrical impresario and film producer. White was responsible for 101 stage productions and 27 films over 50 years. Early life Michael White was born in Glasgow, Scotland, the son of Victor White, a merchant who ran a glove making business, and Doris (née Cohen), a property developer. His parents were from Eastern European Jewish backgrounds. As White suffered from asthma as a boy, his parents decided he would be educated as a boarder at the Lyceum Alpinum Zuoz in Switzerland from age 7, where he was the only boy who did not speak the French language. He then graduated from the Sorbonne in Paris. Career After working as a Wall Street runner in New York City in the 1950s, White took an interest in theatre, spending five years as assistant to Sir Peter Daubeny for his World Theatre seasons in London. White produced his first West End play, the London premiere of Jack Gelber's '' The Connection'' in 1961. K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike White (softball)
Mike White is a New Zealand-born American softball coach who is the current head coach at Texas. Early life A native of New Zealand's capital of Wellington, White grew up playing multiple sports, most notably soccer and softball. In a 2023 interview, White told ESPN writer Dave Wilson that he had hopes of making the national soccer team, but a planned training trip to Fiji and New Caledonia was scuttled due to civil unrest in Fiji. He had been a star pitcher in New Zealand, a hotbed for men's fast-pitch softball, and around the time his soccer trip was canceled, he received a call from the U.S. inviting him to play softball there. At the time, men's fast-pitch had a noticeably higher profile in the U.S. than it does today. White then spent the next decade-plus playing for various fast-pitch teams while running a resale shop in Iowa. In that day, many New Zealand men's softball players were recruited by American fast-pitch teams, typically spending a season or two in one place ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike White (quarterback)
Michael White (born March 25, 1995) is an American football quarterback for the New York Jets of the National Football League (NFL). He played his first two years of college football at South Florida and his last two at Western Kentucky. White was selected in the fifth round of the 2018 NFL Draft by the Dallas Cowboys, where he spent one season, before joining the Jets the following year. A backup during his first three seasons, White did not see any playing time until 2021 in relief of injured starter Zach Wilson. He later replaced Wilson as the starter near the end of the 2022 season. Early years White attended NSU University School in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. He did not become a starter at quarterback until his senior season, passing for 2,201 yards, 22 touchdowns and two interceptions and led his team to victory in the 3A state championship. He was named Class 3A Florida Player of the Year. He committed to the University of South Florida (USF) to play college football. White ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike White (defensive Lineman)
James Michael White (born August 11, 1957) is an American college football coach and former professional player. He served as head football coach at Albany State University (ASU) in Albany, Georgia from 2000 to 2014 and Benedict College in Columbia, South Carolina from 2015 to 2019. White played college football as a defensive tackle at Albany State during the late 1970s, and later was drafted by the Cincinnati Bengals in the fourth round of the 1979 NFL Draft. He also played for the Seattle Seahawks. Coaching career After his playing career ended, White joined the coaching staff at his alma mater in 1984 as the defensive line coach, and was promoted to defensive coordinator in 1989. In 1997, White became the assistant head coach, and in 2000, was named head coach of the Albany State Golden Rams. He continued to serve as the defensive coordinator while he was head coach. His 2010 Albany State team was named SBN Black College National Champions. On December 18, 2014, White was nam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
