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Mike O'Brien (footballer)
Michael or Mike O'Brien may refer to: Politicians * Michael O'Brien (Fianna Fáil politician), Irish former councillor and mayor of Clonmel * Michael O'Brien (Ohio politician) (born 1955), American politician in the state of Ohio * Michael O'Brien (South Australian politician) (born 1949), Australian Labor Party member of the South Australian House of Assembly, 2002– * Micheal O'Brien (Canadian politician), Retired politician, now Editor-in-chief of the global edition of Feminine-Perspective Magazine. present * Michael O'Brien (Victorian politician) (born 1971), Liberal Party of Australia member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, 2006–present * Michael H. O'Brien (1954–2018), American politician in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania * Michael J. O'Brien (born 1939), American politician in the state of Iowa * Michael John O'Brien (1851–1940), Canadian politician, railway builder, industrialist and philanthropist * Mike O'Brien (British politician) (born 1954), United King ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael O'Brien (Fianna Fáil Politician)
Michael O'Brien (born 1933) is a former councillor and mayor of Clonmel. Caroline O’Doherty, Irish Examiner, 27 May 2009, retrieved 22 October 2009 He is also, allegedly a survivor of abuse at and came to national prominence through his campaigning on this subject. Early life Born in Clonmel in 1933, O'Brien was one of 13 siblings.[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike O'Brien (swimmer)
Michael Jon O'Brien is an American former competition swimmer who won the gold medal in the men's 1,500-meter freestyle event in a time of 15:05.20 at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California.Sports-Reference.com, Olympic Sports, AthletesMike O'Brien Retrieved September 17, 2012. See also * List of Olympic medalists in swimming (men) * List of University of Southern California people This is a list of notable alumni, faculty, and students, from the University of Southern California. Those individuals who qualify for multiple categories have been placed under the section for which they are best known. Academia Architectu ... References External links * * 1965 births Living people American male backstroke swimmers American male freestyle swimmers Olympic gold medalists for the United States in swimming Swimmers at the 1983 Pan American Games Swimmers at the 1984 Summer Olympics Swimmers at the 1987 Pan American Games USC Trojans men's swimm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guardsman (Michael O'Brien)
Guardsman was the name of a supervillain/superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The name was later applied to a squad of agents who wear suits of power armor while working security at the Vault. The character first appeared in ''Iron Man'' #43 (Nov 1971). Fictional character biography Kevin O'Brien Kevin O'Brien was born in Chicago. He became an engineer and inventor working for the newly opened Lakani Island plant of Stark Industries who came to the attention of Tony Stark when he invented a stun-ray that managed to harmlessly disperse a crowd of violent protestors. Tony invited Kevin to transfer to the main plant on Long Island, and he accepted. Despite a careless streak that once caused the laboratory he was working in to explode, he became a close friend of Tony and was soon appointed head of Stark Industries' research department. On several occasions, Kevin assisted Tony and the supposed bodyguard Iron Man, notably against the Spymaster and t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike O'Brien (game Developer)
Mike O'Brien is the former president and co-founder of ArenaNet and executive producer of its games ''Guild Wars'' and ''Guild Wars 2''. He led the design and content creation teams of the original ''Guild Wars''. Before co-founding ArenaNet, he worked as a company director and a lead programmer at Blizzard Entertainment where he developed the 3D rendering engine of ''Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos'' and led the development of ''Battle.net''. He also worked on ''Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness'', ''Diablo (video game), Diablo'' and ''StarCraft'', where he, among other things, designed and created the MPQ (file format), MPQ archives used in all Blizzard games after Diablo. Mike O'Brien was featured as one of the most influential people in the video game industry on ''PC Gamer's'' September 1999 cover story ''"Game Gods"''. O'Brien also previously developed an Apple II emulator for Windows, AppleWin, and old DOS ASCII game, ''Pyro 2''. In early October 2019, through the official Guil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike O'Brien (actor)
Michael Patrick O'Brien (born June 22, 1976) is an American comedian, actor, and writer. O'Brien is best known for his tenure as a writer and featured player on the NBC sketch comedy series ''Saturday Night Live'' from 2009 to 2015. He is also the creator of the 2018 NBC comedy series ''A.P. Bio''. Career O'Brien was born in Blissfield, Michigan to Connie and James O’Brien. He attended the University of Michigan, where he majored in film-video and was the founder and editor of a monthly comedy newspaper named ''The Anti-Daily''. O'Brien moved to Chicago and began taking improv and sketch classes. At iO Chicago he performed with a group called The Reckoning (2001–present). He trained at the Second City in Chicago, eventually joining the company's mainstage, where he performed for one year as a part of "America: All Better". ''Saturday Night Live'' O'Brien worked as a staff writer on ''Saturday Night Live'' for seven seasons, joining the show in 2009, and also appeared as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael K
''Life & Times of Michael K'' is a 1983 novel by South African-born writer J. M. Coetzee. The novel won the Booker Prize for 1983. The novel is a story of a man named Michael K, who makes an arduous journey from Cape Town to his mother's rural birthplace, amid a fictitious civil war during the apartheid era, in the 1970-80s. Plot summary The novel is split into three parts. The novel begins with Michael K, a poor man with a cleft lip who has spent his childhood in institutions and works as a gardener in Cape Town. Michael tends to his mother who works as a domestic servant to a wealthy family. The country descends into civil war and martial law is imposed, and Michael's mother becomes very sick. Michael decides to quit his job and escape the city to return his mother to her birthplace, which she says was Prince Albert. Michael finds himself unable to obtain the proper permits for travel out of the city so he builds a shoddy rickshaw to carry his mother, and they go on their ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael O'Brien (photographer)
Michael O'Brien (born June 27, 1950) is an American photographer noted for his portraiture and documentary photography. Over the past four decades, O'Brien has photographed subjects from presidents, celebrities, and financiers to small-town Texans, including ranchers, beauty queens, writers, and bar owners. O'Brien has completed three books: ''The Face of Texas: Portraits of Texans'' (2003), updated with 24 new photographs in 2014; ''Hard Ground'' whose portraits of homeless individuals are paired with poems by Tom Waits (2011); and ''The Great Minds of Investing'' (2015), a collection of 33 portraits of famous investors such as Warren Buffett, Charlie Munger, Joel Greenblatt, and Bill Ackman, with accompanying profiles written by William Green. Early life Michael O'Brien was born on June 27, 1950 in Memphis, Tennessee. In high school, he set up a darkroom in his grandmother's basement with his friend Chris Bell and started photographing his close friends Alex Chilton, Andy Hum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael O'Brien (musician)
Michael David O'Brien (born August 23, 1964) is an American Christian musician and worship leader, who primarily plays Christian pop and contemporary worship music. He released eight solo albums since 1990. He was a touring member of the Heritage Singers, before becoming a full-fledged member of NewSong, in 1999. Early and personal life Michael David O'Brien was born on August 23, 1964, in Miami, Florida, where he resided until he was 11 years old. Then he moved to Lafayette, Louisiana where he got involved in music at Comeaux High School. He graduated there and attended USL studying vocal performance. He worked as a bartender in several restaurants and then in his early-twenties, moved back to Miami to live with his sister Dana for a couple of years. He met his wife, Heidi, in the singing group the Heritage Singers. They were married on March 3, 1989, and then in August they moved to Encinitas, California where Michael took a job as a Young Adult Pastor at North Coast Christian F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael O'Brien (historian)
Michael O'Brien (13 April 1948 – 6 May 2015) was an English historian, specialising in the intellectual history of the American South. He was Professor of American Intellectual History at the University of Cambridge from 2005 to 2015. Life Michael O'Brien was born in Plymouth, and was educated at Devonport High School in the city. He was an undergraduate and research student at Trinity Hall, Cambridge in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and studied for a further postgraduate degree at Vanderbilt University. He then taught at University of Michigan, University of Arkansas, Miami University. He was a fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge from 2002 until his death in 2015. Awards * Woodward-Franklin Award for the Writing of Southern History, from the Fellowship of Southern Writers (2013) * Fellow of the British Academy (2008). * 2005 Merle Curti Award The Merle Curti Award is awarded annually by the Organization of American Historians for the best book in American social and/or Americ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael O'Brien (game Designer)
Michael O'Brien is a game designer who has worked primarily on role-playing games. Career With David Hall, Nick Brooke and Rick Meints, Michael O'Brien and others staffed the leading Glorantha fanzine '' Tales of the Reaching Moon'' (1989-2002). When new ''RuneQuest'' line editor Ken Rolston kicked off the so-called "''RuneQuest'' Renaissance" for Avalon Hill, his first publication was O'Brien's ''Sun County'' (1992). O'Brien contributed to ''later RuneQuest'' releases in the product line during Rolston's tenure at Avalon Hill. O'Brien published two issues of another fanzine, the Glorantha Con Down Under fundraiser ''Questlines'' (1995-1998). These were published in 1995 and 1998 as fund-raisers for gaming conventions held in Melbourne, Australia. O'Brien also created ''Gorp'' #1 (Summer, 2000) a fake fanzine that purported to be a rare collectible from 1982. This magazine was produced for a British gaming convention in 2000, and because it nevertheless featured original materi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael O'Brien (Canadian Author)
Michael David O'Brien (born 1948) is a Canadian author, artist, and essayist and lecturer on faith and culture. Born in Ottawa, he is self-taught, without an academic background. He writes and speaks on Catholic themes and topics, and creates the cover art for his novels in a neo-Byzantine style. He lives with his family in Combermere, Ontario, Canada. O'Brien's books have been published in a number of foreign languages, including Croatian, Czech, French, German, Italian, Lithuanian, Polish, Spanish, and Swedish. Early life O'Brien was born in Ottawa and lived in Kugluktuk (then known as Coppermine) from ages 12 to 16. He attended a residential school in Inuvik, where he says he was abused by a dormitory supervisor. He graduated from grade 12 at St Patrick's College High School only with difficulty. As a youth, he was agnostic, leaning towards atheism, until his conversion to Catholicism when he was 21. He began to draw and paint shortly after, and had a successful gallery exhi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |