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Oates (surname)
Oates is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Adam Oates (born 1962), professional ice hockey player *Alice Oates (1849–1887), actress and musical theatre pioneer *Colin Oates (born 1983), English judoka *Corey Oates (born 1994), Australian rugby league player * Cynthia de la Vega Oates, Mexican model * Dan Oates, American police chief * Denese Oates (born 1955), Australian artist *Eugene William Oates (1845–1911), English naturalist *Frank Oates, British African explorer *Graham Oates (footballer, born 1943), English footballer *Graham Oates (footballer, born 1949), English footballer *Jackie Oates (born 1983), English folk musician * John Oates (other) *Joyce Carol Oates (born 1938), American writer *Lawrence Oates, British Antarctic explorer *Lynette Frances Oates (1921–2013), Australian linguist * Reginald Oates (born 1950), American spree killer * Sheila Oates (born 1939), British and Australian mathematician *Simon Oates, British actor * Stephen B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam Oates
Adam Robert Oates (born August 27, 1962) is a Canadian Canadians (french: Canadiens) are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of ... former professional ice hockey player, former co-head coach for the New Jersey Devils and former head coach for the Washington Capitals. He played 19 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Detroit Red Wings, St. Louis Blues, Boston Bruins, Washington Capitals, Philadelphia Flyers, Anaheim Ducks, Mighty Ducks of Anaheim and Edmonton Oilers. Known as an elite playmaker, Oates' career total of List of NHL players with 1,000 assists, 1,079 Assist (ice hockey), assists was the fifth-highest total in NHL history at the time of his 2004 retirement. He has the highest amount of games played and points scored among undrafted NHL players with 1337 and 1420 respectively. Af ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates (born June 16, 1938) is an American writer. Oates published her first book in 1963, and has since published 58 novels, a number of plays and novellas, and many volumes of short stories, poetry, and non-fiction. Her novels '' Black Water'' (1992), ''What I Lived For'' (1994), and ''Blonde'' (2000), and her short story collections ''The Wheel of Love'' (1970) and ''Lovely, Dark, Deep: Stories'' (2014) were each finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. She has won many awards for her writing, including the National Book Award, for her novel ''them'' (1969), two O. Henry Awards, the National Humanities Medal, and the Jerusalem Prize (2019). Oates taught at Princeton University from 1978 to 2014, and is the Roger S. Berlind '52 Professor Emerita in the Humanities with the Program in Creative Writing. Since 2016, she has been a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley, where she teaches short fiction in the spring semesters. Oates was elected to the A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warren Oates
Warren Mercer Oates (July 5, 1928 – April 3, 1982) was an American actor best known for his performances in several films directed by Sam Peckinpah, including ''The Wild Bunch'' (1969) and ''Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia'' (1974). Another of his most acclaimed performances was as officer Sam Wood in '' In the Heat of the Night'' (1967). Oates starred in numerous films during the early 1970s that have since achieved cult status, such as ''The Hired Hand'' (1971), ''Two-Lane Blacktop'' (1971), and ''Race with the Devil'' (1975). Oates also portrayed John Dillinger in the biopic ''Dillinger'' (1973) and as the supporting character U.S. Army Sergeant Hulka in the military comedy ''Stripes'' (1981). Another notable appearance was in the classic New Zealand film '' Sleeping Dogs'' (1977), in which he played the commander of the American forces in the country. Early life Warren Oates was born and reared in Depoy, a tiny rural community in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, loca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wallace Eugene Oates
Wallace E. Oates (March 21, 1937 – October 30, 2015) was a Distinguished University Professor of Economics at the University of Maryland. He taught in the fields of public economics and environmental economics, and was considered a major international figure in both fields. His first book was ''Fiscal Federalism'' (1972) and he authored numerous other books and articles, including ''The Theory of Environmental Policy'' (1975), coauthored with William J. Baumol William Jack Baumol (February 26, 1922 – May 4, 2017) was an American economist. He was a professor of economics at New York University, Academic Director of the Berkley Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, and Professor Emeritus at Prin .... A Festschrift, ''Environmental and public economics : essays in honor of Wallace E. Oates'', was published in his honor in 1999, and an additional volume of his selected essays in 2004. Another Festschrift, ''The Tiebout Model at fifty : essays in public economics in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Oates
Thomas William Oates (9 August 1875 – 18 June 1949) was a first-class cricketer and Test match umpire. Born in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, in 1875, Oates played 434 matches for London County and Nottinghamshire as a wicket keeper and right-handed batsman between 1897 and 1925. He took 758 catches and completed 235 stumpings and scored 5976 runs with a best of 88. He then turned to umpiring, standing in 5 Tests between his first, the England v West Indies match at the Oval in 1928 and his last, the Ashes match at Headingley in 1930. He died in Eastwood in 1949. He held the Nottinghamshire record for dismissals (967: 744 catches and 223 stumpings) until it was broken by Chris Read Christopher Mark Wells Read (born 10 August 1978) is an English former cricketer who was the captain of Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club. He played for the England cricket team in 15 Tests and 36 ODIs. He was a wicket-keeper. Personal life ... in 2017. References External links * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Titus Oates
Titus Oates (15 September 1649 – 12/13 July 1705) was an English priest who fabricated the " Popish Plot", a supposed Catholic conspiracy to kill King Charles II. Early life Titus Oates was born at Oakham in Rutland. His father Samuel (1610–1683), of a family of Norwich ribbon-weavers,Dictionary of National Biography, 1885–1900, vol. 41, Nichols-O'Dugan, ed. Sidney Lee, Macmillan & Co., 1895, p. 296 was a graduate of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and became a minister who moved between the Church of England (sometime rector of Marsham, Norfolk) and the Baptists; he became a Baptist during the English Civil War, rejoining the established church at the Restoration, and was rector of All Saints' Church at Hastings (1666–74). Oates was educated at Merchant Taylors' School and other schools. At Cambridge University, he entered Gonville and Caius College in 1667 but transferred to St John's College in 1669; he left later the same year without a degree. A less than ast ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen B
Stephen or Steven is a common English first name. It is particularly significant to Christians, as it belonged to Saint Stephen ( grc-gre, Στέφανος ), an early disciple and deacon who, according to the Book of Acts, was stoned to death; he is widely regarded as the first martyr (or "protomartyr") of the Christian Church. In English, Stephen is most commonly pronounced as ' (). The name, in both the forms Stephen and Steven, is often shortened to Steve or Stevie. The spelling as Stephen can also be pronounced which is from the Greek original version, Stephanos. In English, the female version of the name is Stephanie. Many surnames are derived from the first name, including Stephens, Stevens, Stephenson, and Stevenson, all of which mean "Stephen's (son)". In modern times the name has sometimes been given with intentionally non-standard spelling, such as Stevan or Stevon. A common variant of the name used in English is Stephan ; related names that have found some c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simon Oates
Simon Oates (6 January 1932 – 20 May 2009) was an English actor best known for his roles on television. Born in Canning Town, east London and moving to Finchley in his teens, Oates trained as a heating engineer for his father's firm before becoming an actor. He was in the Intelligence Corps during his Army National Service. Working in theatrical rep during the 1950s he was leading man at York Theatre Royal for some years before being cast as Dr. John Ridge in the science fiction television series ''Doomwatch''. (Co-stars included John Paul as Dr. Spencer Quist and Robert Powell as Toby Wren). He appeared regularly as Anthony Kelly in the 1960s espionage series ''The Mask of Janus'' and its spin-off series '' The Spies''. His many guest appearances included: '' The Avengers'', ''Man in a Suitcase'', '' Department S'', '' Jason King'', '' The New Avengers'', ''The Professionals'', '' Bergerac'' and ''The 10 Percenters''. His film appearances were few but included ''Night Tr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sheila Oates
Sheila Oates Williams (born 1939, also published as Sheila Oates and Sheila Oates Macdonald) is a British and Australian mathematician specializing in abstract algebra. She is the namesake of the Oates–Powell theorem in group theory, and a winner of the B. H. Neumann Award. Education and career Sheila Oates was originally from Cornwall, where her father was a primary school headmaster in Tintagel. She was educated at Sir James Smith's Grammar School, and inspired to become a mathematician by a teacher there, Alfred Hooper. She read mathematics in St Hugh's College, Oxford, with Ida Busbridge as her tutor, and continued at Oxford as a doctoral student of Graham Higman. She completed her doctorate (D.Phil.) in 1963. She became a lecturer and fellow at St Hilda's College, Oxford, before moving to Australia in 1965. In 1966, she took a position as senior lecturer at the University of Newcastle and later moved again to the University of Queensland, as reader. She retired i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reginald Oates
Reginald Vernon Oates (born 1950) is an American spree killer who killed four young boys within the span of two days in April 1968, in Baltimore, Maryland. He was found not guilty by reason of insanity, and sent for treatment at a psychiatric hospital. Biography Reginald Oates was born in 1950, in Baltimore, Maryland, and was adopted at an early age by the Oates couple. The family lived in an urban area. As a result, they were subjected to segregation, with Oates spending his childhood and adolescence in a socially disadvantageous atmosphere, being attacked by his peers. In 1965, while he was in the 9th grade, Oates was accused of attempting to rob another student at gunpoint for a few cents, a claim forwarded by other students at his school, which he himself denied committing. He was found guilty, convicted and sentenced to two years imprisonment, which he served in an institution for juvenile offenders. During his imprisonment, Oates was physically and sexually abused by othe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lynette Frances Oates
The Indigenous languages of Australia number in the hundreds, the precise number being quite uncertain, although there is a range of estimates from a minimum of around 250 (using the technical definition of 'language' as non-mutually intelligible varieties) up to possibly 363. The Indigenous languages of Australia comprise numerous language families and isolates, perhaps as many as 13, spoken by the Indigenous peoples of mainland Australia and a few nearby islands. The relationships between the language families are not clear at present although there are proposals to link some into larger groupings. Despite this uncertainty, the Indigenous Australian languages are collectively covered by the technical term "Australian languages", or the "Australian family". The term can include both Tasmanian languages and the Western Torres Strait language, but the genetic relationship to the mainland Australian languages of the former is unknown, while the latter is Pama–Nyungan, thoug ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lawrence Oates
Lawrence Edward Grace "Titus" Oates (17 March 188017 March 1912) was a British army officer, and later an Antarctic explorer, who died from hypothermia“Oates, Lawrence Edward Grace - Captain (1880-1912) - Biographical notes” Cool Antarctica. during the ''Terra Nova'' Expedition when he walked from his tent into a blizzard. His death, which occurred on his 32nd birthday, is seen as an act of self-sacrifice when, aware that the gangrene and frostbite from which he was suffering was compromising his three companions' chances of survival, he chose certain death for himself in order to relieve them of the bu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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