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Morrow (surname)
Morrow is a surname of Scottish origins.''The Morrows and Related Families'', Dr. J. T. Morrow''Irish Pedigrees'', John O'Hart''Some Anglicised surnames in Ireland'', Padraig Mac Giolla Domhnaigh''The Scotch-Irish in America'', Henry Ford Jones''The Scot in Ulster. Sketch of the history of the Scottish population of Ulster'' (1888), John Harrison''In memoriam, John Morrow Cochran'', Jere Morrow Cochran''Edwin P. Morrow--Kentuckian: A Contemporaneous Biographical Sketch'', Willard Rouse Jillson''Dictionary of Surnames (1994)'', Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges Scottish Originating in the Scottish Lowlands the name is ultimately Gaelic, from ''Moireach'' or ''Moireabh'', meaning a 'seafarer' or a 'coastal settlement'; most probably derived from the placename ''Moray'' in northern Scotland, by merit of being, at times, a variation of Murray. It may also be patronymic, from ''Murchadh'', meaning 'sea warrior'. It has been variously spelt Morow, Morro, Morwe, Murrow, and Morrewe, the l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scottish Gaelic
Scottish Gaelic ( gd, Gàidhlig ), also known as Scots Gaelic and Gaelic, is a Goidelic language (in the Celtic branch of the Indo-European language family) native to the Gaels of Scotland. As a Goidelic language, Scottish Gaelic, as well as both Irish and Manx, developed out of Old Irish. It became a distinct spoken language sometime in the 13th century in the Middle Irish period, although a common literary language was shared by the Gaels of both Ireland and Scotland until well into the 17th century. Most of modern Scotland was once Gaelic-speaking, as evidenced especially by Gaelic-language place names. In the 2011 census of Scotland, 57,375 people (1.1% of the Scottish population aged over 3 years old) reported being able to speak Gaelic, 1,275 fewer than in 2001. The highest percentages of Gaelic speakers were in the Outer Hebrides. Nevertheless, there is a language revival, and the number of speakers of the language under age 20 did not decrease between the 2001 and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barry Morrow
Barry Morrow (born June 12, 1948) is an American screenwriter and producer. He wrote the story and co-wrote the screenplay for ''Rain Man''. He is the father of Emmy Award-winning animator, writer, and storyboard artist, Clayton Morrow, and father-in-law of animator and storyboard artist, Cindy Morrow. Morrow was born in Austin, Minnesota and studied at St. Olaf College. Several of Morrow's scripts are inspired by real people, especially people with disabilities and/or extraordinary talents. These include the savant played by Dustin Hoffman in the film ''Rain Man'', inspired by the real savant Kim Peek; and mentally disabled Bill Sackter, played by Mickey Rooney in the TV movie ''Bill''. Both works received writing Oscar, Emmy and other awards for Morrow and for the actors who portrayed them. Morrow gave his Oscar statuette as a gift to Kim Peek. Morrow wrote CBS's '' Bill: On His Own'' (1983) and his relationship with Sackter is presented in the feature-length 2008 documen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buddy Morrow
Buddy Morrow (born Muni Zudekoff, aka Moe Zudekoff; February 8, 1919 – September 27, 2010) was an American trombonist and bandleader. Career On a scholarship at age 16, Morrow studied trombone with Ernest Horatio Clarke (1865–1947) at Juilliard from October to December 1936. During the next year he began playing trombone with Sharkey Bonano's Sharks of Rhythm, an Eddie Condon group. He then worked with Eddy Duchin, Vincent Lopez, and Artie Shaw. He became known as "Buddy Morrow" in 1938 when he joined the Tommy Dorsey band. In 1939 he performed with Paul Whiteman's Concert Orchestra for their recording of Gershwin's ''Concerto in F''. In 1940, Morrow joined the Tony Pastor band, but this was only a short detour on his way to replacing Ray Conniff in the Bob Crosby band. Shortly thereafter, he joined the U.S. Navy, during which he recorded with Billy Butterfield, leading a ten-piece band with three trombones, accompanying Red McKenzie singing four arrangements, including "Swe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruce Morrow (footballer)
Bruce Morrow (born 5 May 1936) is an Australian former footballer who played as a winger. During his playing time in New South Wales, Morrow scored more than 368 goals in league and cup competitions. He represented Australia at the 1956 Summer Olympics. He scored twice in their second match, a 4–2 loss to India. Morrow was inducted into the Football Federation Australia Hall of Fame in 2005, alongside Robbie Slater and Craig Johnston Craig Peter Johnston (born 25 June 1960) is a South African-born Australian former professional footballer. He played as a midfielder in the English Football League between 1977 and 1988, winning the European Cup, five league titles and an FA Cu .... References Living people 1936 births Australian men's soccer players Men's association football wingers Australia men's international soccer players Footballers at the 1956 Summer Olympics Olympic soccer players for Australia Place of birth missing (living people) {{Austra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruce Morrow (author)
Bruce Morrow (born 1963 in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American, LGBTQ writer and editor living in New York City. Biography Bruce Morrow was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and attended Rochester Institute of Technology from 1981 to 1985. For seven years, he served as a research associate at the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University. He then received his Master’s of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing - Fiction from Columbia University School of the Arts in 1992. He was the Associate Director of Teachers & Writers Collaborative in New York City for eleven years and received a Charles H. Revson Foundation Fellowship for Mid-Career Civic Leaders at Columbia University, in 2007. From 1991 to 2000, Morrow was on the editorial board of '' Callaloo: A Journal of African American and African Diaspora Arts & Letters''. In 1994, he published an essay in ''The New York Times'' titled "Gay and Black: A High-Wire Act," which described his early experiences of living in New Yo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruce Morrow
Bruce Morrow (born Bruce Meyerowitz on October 13, 1935 or October 13, 1937) (sources differ) is an American radio performer, known for professional purposes as Cousin Brucie or Cousin Bruce Morrow. In an October 2020 interview, Morrow said he received the moniker "Cousin" while in the lobby of his midtown Manhattan WABC studio when an elderly woman once asked him "Cousin, lend me fifty cents to get home" to whom he did give that fifty cents. The name stuck for six decades. Early life Morrow was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Mina & Abe Meyerowitz. Raised in the Sheepshead Bay neighborhood, he attended elementary school at P.S. 206. While attending James Madison High School, he was involved with the All City Radio Workshop at Brooklyn Technical High School. Wanting to pursue a radio career, he spent 10 hours a week working for dramatic educational productions at radio station WNYE-FM. He is Jewish. Morrow enrolled as a student at Brooklyn College but transferred to New ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brenden Morrow
Brenden Blair Morrow (born January 16, 1979) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey left winger. Morrow was drafted in the first round, 25th overall, by the Dallas Stars at the 1997 NHL Entry Draft, the organization he would play with for 13 seasons before brief stints with the Pittsburgh Penguins, St. Louis Blues, and Tampa Bay Lightning. Morrow played major junior hockey in the Western Hockey League (WHL) for the Portland Winter Hawks. During his junior career, he helped Portland win the 1998 Memorial Cup during the 1997–98 season. Internationally, Morrow represented Canada, first winning a silver medal at the 1999 World Junior Championships with the junior team. He has also represented the senior Team Canada squad, most often at the Ice Hockey World Championships (four times), winning a gold medal in 2004 and a silver medal in 2005. He also played for Canada at the 2004 World Cup of Hockey, which Canada won. Morrow was named to Canada's roster for the 2010 Winter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brandon Morrow
Brandon John Morrow (born July 26, 1984) is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Seattle Mariners, Toronto Blue Jays, San Diego Padres, Los Angeles Dodgers and Chicago Cubs. Amateur career High school Morrow attended Rancho Cotate High School in Rohnert Park, California. As a senior, he was 9–2 with a 0.61 ERA and had 84 strikeouts in 63 innings. He earned first-team all-league, first-team All-Redwood Empire, first-team All-North Coast Section and second-team all-state honors, and competed for the California All-Stars at the 2002 Sunbelt Classic in McAlester, Oklahoma. He was selected by the Anaheim Angels in the 40th round, 1200th overall, in the 2003 Major League Baseball Draft. However, he did not sign with the Angels and decided to attend college at UC Berkeley. He majored in American studies. College He attended the University of California. He appeared in 19 games for the Golden Bears with five starts in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bradford Morrow
Bradford Morrow (born April 8, 1951) is an American novelist, editor, essayist, poet, and children's book writer. Professor of literature and Bard Center Fellow at Bard College, he is the founding editor of '' Conjunctions'' literary magazine. Life Born in Baltimore, Maryland, on April 8, 1951, Morrow grew up in Littleton, Colorado, and, "after a decade of vagabonding from Honduras to France, Italy to England", settled in New York City, where he remains.http://www.webdelsol.com/morrow/ Web page titled "A Web DelSol Featured Writer" at the ''Web Del Sol'' Web site, accessed December 14, 2006 In 1966, he was selected by the Colorado Medical Association to serve with a small number of other teenage volunteers as a medical assistant with the Amigos de las Americas program, giving inoculations and working with health-care professionals in poor, very rural areas in Honduras. The following year, 1967–1968, Morrow was a foreign exchange student under the auspices of the American F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brad Morrow
Brad Morrow, (born Bradley Steven Mora; May 12, 1942 – November 7, 1997) also known as Bradley Mora, was a child actor who appeared on Broadway, in film and on television beginning at the age of two. Career Morrow was spotted in New York by MGM and appeared in films during the 1950s. He worked for Disney where he was cast as a Mousketeer before being pulled from the project to appear in Disney's '' Spin and Marty'' series. As a young adult, he changed his name to Morrow and toured with the stage productions of both ''West Side Story'' and ''The Diary of Anne Frank''. In 1961, he appeared in the final episode of the television police drama '' The Asphalt Jungle''. Later life and death After his acting career ended, he married Marilyn Keenberg in 1965. Morrow later went into business management and was president of CII Premium Finance in Burbank, California Burbank is a city in the southeastern end of the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles County, California, Unite ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bobby Morrow
Bobby Joe Morrow (October 15, 1935May 30, 2020) was an American sprinter who won three gold medals at the 1956 Olympics. He has been called "the dominant sprinter of the 1950s" and "the most relaxed sprinter of all time, even more so than his hero Jesse Owens". Early life Morrow was born in Harlingen, Texas, on October 15, 1935, and raised on a cotton and carrot farm on the outskirts of San Benito, Texas. Before becoming a sprinter, Morrow played football for San Benito High School. Morrow also was a sprinter at Abilene Christian University, and became a member of the men's club Frater Sodalis in 1955. Career Morrow won the 1955 AAU 100-yard title. His most successful season was in 1956, when he was chosen by ''Sports Illustrated'' as "Sportsman of the Year". Morrow won the sprint double in the national college championships and defended his AAU title. Morrow then went to the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, where he won three gold medals and was the leader of the Ameri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Morrow (American Football)
Robert Edward Morrow (May 5, 1918 – July 9, 2003) was an American professional football player and coach. He played as a fullback in the National Football League (NFL). Morrow was drafted in the 12th round of the 1941 NFL Draft by the Chicago Bears and played that season with the Chicago Cardinals. He played two more seasons with the team before spending a year away from the NFL. During the 1945 NFL season The 1945 NFL season was the 26th regular season of the National Football League. The Pittsburgh Steelers and the Chicago Cardinals resumed their traditional operations. The remains of the final Ohio League member Dayton Triangles, then known a ..., he was a member of the New York Giants. The following season, he played with the New York Yankees (AAFC), New York Yankees. Morrow served as the head football coach at his alma mater, Illinois Wesleyan University, from 1947 to 1950. Head coaching record References External links * * 1918 births 2003 de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
