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Owens (surname)
Owens is a surname representing two separate Celtic ethnicities: the Welsh from ab Owain meaning "son of Owen" (Owen meaning 'noble') with English patronymic-s, and the Irish by the Gaelic surname Mac Eoghain. This is a list of notable people born with the last name Owens and people who married into the Owens family. * Bill Owens (baseball) (1901–1999), African-American negro league baseball player * Bill Owens (Colorado politician) (born 1950), 40th Governor of Colorado * Bill Owens (Massachusetts politician) (born 1937), African-American Massachusetts businessman and politician * Bill Owens (New York politician) (born 1949), Representative for New York * Bill Owens (photographer), American author of ''Suburbia'' * Billy Owens (born 1969), American basketball player * Billy Owens (American football) (born 1965), American football player * Bob Owens (businessman) (1921–1999), New Zealand businessman and mayor * Bob Owens (born c. 1935), American football coach * Bob Owens ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Celts
The Celts (, see pronunciation for different usages) or Celtic peoples () are. "CELTS location: Greater Europe time period: Second millennium B.C.E. to present ancestry: Celtic a collection of Indo-European peoples. "The Celts, an ancient Indo-European people, reached the apogee of their influence and territorial expansion during the 4th century bc, extending across the length of Europe from Britain to Asia Minor."; . " e Celts, were Indo-Europeans, a fact that explains a certain compatibility between Celtic, Roman, and Germanic mythology."; . "The Celts and Germans were two Indo-European groups whose civilizations had some common characteristics."; . "Celts and Germans were of course derived from the same Indo-European stock."; . "Celt, also spelled Kelt, Latin Celta, plural Celtae, a member of an early Indo-European people who from the 2nd millennium bce to the 1st century bce spread over much of Europe."; in Europe and Anatolia, identified by their use of Celtic langua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Owens
Bob Owens (born ) is an American former college football player and coach. He served as the interim head football coach at Arizona State University for the final seven games of the 1979 season after the firing of Frank Kush Frank Joseph Kush (January 20, 1929 – June 22, 2017) was an American football player and coach. He served as the head coach at Arizona State University from 1958 to 1979, compiling a record of 176–54–1. Kush was also the head coach of the ..., compiling a record of 3–4. Head coaching record References {{DEFAULTSORT:Owens, Bob Year of birth missing (living people) 1930s births Living people American football halfbacks Arizona State Sun Devils football coaches Fresno State Bulldogs football coaches Fresno State Bulldogs football players Arizona State University alumni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Graeme Owens
Graeme Adam Owens (born 1 June 1988) is an English former professional footballer. Career Owens can play on either wing but prefers to play on the right. He was a member of Middlesbrough's FA Youth Cup winning side of 2004 at the age of 15. After good performances for the reserve team, he was included in the first team squad for the trip to Bristol City in the FA Cup, and although he didn't make the final sixteen, manager Gareth Southgate suggested he was one to watch for the future. Owens made his full debut in the League Cup against Tottenham Hotspur during the 2007–08 season. In 2008, he spent a short spell on loan at Chesterfield where he played four league games. On 8 January 2009, he signed for Championship club Blackpool on loan initially for one month, but with an option to extend it until the end of the season. He made his debut for ''the Seasiders'' as an 83rd-minute substitute in a 2–1 defeat to Coventry City at the Ricoh Arena The Coventry Building So ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ginny Owens
Virginia Leigh Owens (born April 22, 1975) is an American singer, songwriter, author, and blogger. She is known for performing Contemporary Christian music, but has more recently had her songs featured on ''WB'', ''ABC'' TV shows, and independent films. Owens had three albums chart on ''Billboard'' albums charts in the 2000s. Career Owens was born in Jackson, Mississippi, with poor eyesight and has been blind since the age of three. She earned her bachelor of music education in 1997 from Belmont University, but found that most people were skeptical about hiring a blind music teacher. She entered the music business by writing songs for Michael Puryear's Final Four Publishing, which led to a number of labels competing for her, before she chose Rocketown Records. She concentrated in singing and songwriting and began making CDs, and has been producing them since 1999 with Rocketown Records, a label under Michael W. Smith. Owens won the Nashville "Lilith Fair '99 Talent Search", whi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gary Owens
Gary Owens (born Gary Bernard Altman; May 10, 1934 – February 12, 2015) was an American radio announcer, personality, disc jockey and voice actor. His polished baritone speaking voice generally offered deadpan recitations of total nonsense, which he frequently demonstrated as the announcer on ''Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In''. Owens was equally proficient in straight or silly assignments and was frequently heard on television and radio as well as in commercials. He was best known, aside from being the announcer on ''Laugh-In'', for providing the voices of the titular superhero on ''Space Ghost'' and of Blue Falcon in ''Dynomutt, Dog Wonder''. He also played himself in a cameo appearance on ''Space Ghost Coast to Coast'' in 1998. Owens' first cartoon-voice acting was performing the voice of Roger Ramjet on the ''Roger Ramjet'' cartoons. He later served as announcer of Antenna TV. Early life Owens was born in Mitchell, South Dakota, the son of Venetta (née Clark), an educator and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Delia Owens
Delia Owens (born c. 1949) is an American author, zoologist, and conservationist. She is best known for her 2018 novel ''Where the Crawdads Sing''. Owens was born and raised in Southern Georgia, where she spent most of her life in or near true wilderness. She received a Bachelor of Science degree in zoology from the University of Georgia, and a PhD in animal behavior from the University of California, Davis. Owens met Mark Owens in a protozoology class at the University of Georgia when they were both graduate students studying biology. They married in 1973, and in 1974 moved to southern Africa to study animals in the Kalahari Desert and Zambia. She wrote about Africa in her memoirs ''Cry of the Kalahari'', ''The Eye of the Elephant'', and ''Secrets of the Savanna''. The couple were expelled from Botswana and are wanted for questioning in Zambia in relation to a murder investigation. They are no longer married. Since returning to the United States, Delia Owens has been involved i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Darryl Owens
Darryl T. Owens (November 10, 1937 – January 4, 2022) was an American politician who was a Democratic Party member of the Kentucky House of Representatives, representing District 43 from 2005 to 2019. Owens retired from the House in 2018. He died on January 4, 2022, at the age of 84. Early life and education Owens was born in 1937 in Louisville, Kentucky. He graduated from Central High School in Louisville and earned a bachelor's degree from Central State University in Wilberforce, Ohio. Owen earned a juris doctor degree from Howard University Law School in 1962. Career Legal Starting in 1965, Owen practiced civil and criminal law in Louisville. From 1965 to 1969, he served as the first African American assistant prosecutor of Louisville police court, and he was the first African American in Kentucky to hold the position of Assistant Attorney General. Uwens also served on the Jefferson County Fiscal Court There are 120 counties in the U.S. Commonwealth of Kent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Queen Latifah
Dana Elaine Owens (born March 18, 1970), known professionally as Queen Latifah, is an American rapper, actress, and singer. Born in Newark, New Jersey, she signed with Tommy Boy Records in 1989 and released her debut album ''All Hail the Queen'' on November 28, 1989, featuring the hit single "Ladies First". ''Nature of a Sista''' (1991) was her second and final album with Tommy Boy Records. Latifah starred as Khadijah James on the Fox sitcom ''Living Single'' from 1993 to 1998. Her third album, '' Black Reign'' (1993), became the first album by a solo female rapper to receive a gold certification from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), and spawned the single "U.N.I.T.Y.", which was influential in raising awareness of violence against women and the objectification of Black female sexuality. The track reached the top 40 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100, and won a Grammy Award. She then starred in the lead role of '' Set It Off'' (1996) and released her fourth al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Craig Owens (critic)
Craig Owens (1950–1990) was an American post-modernist art critic, gay activist and feminist. Biography Craig Owens was a senior editor of ''Art in America'', a contributor to such scholarly journals as ''Skyline'' and ''October'', a graduate of Haverford College, and a professor of art history at Yale University and Barnard College. He wrote many essays on such diverse topics as photography, feminism, gay politics, art in the marketplace, serial art, and psychoanalysis, as well as a number of seminal essays on individual contemporary individual artists, including Allan McCollum, William Wegman, and Barbara Kruger. According to his colleague Douglas Crimp, Owens's great interest in ballet was important to his critical work. According to the critic Thomas Lawson, Owens was "on the one hand... this very high-minded, very abstract thinker, but he also had this mischievous, playful side that was a little cruel, maybe." One of Owens's most influential essays was ''The Allegorical I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Craig Owens
Craigery "Craig" Owens (born August 26, 1984) is an American musician best known as the lead vocalist of Chiodos. He has also had an involvement in various projects such as Cinematic Sunrise, The Sound of Animals Fighting, Isles & Glaciers, and Destroy Rebuild Until God Shows. He has recorded as a solo artist, is an established music producer, has written and recorded with the likes of Dr. Dre, and has also acted in the 2012 film '' K-11''. He currently performs under the stage name badXchannels. Music career Chiodos In 2001, Owens joined Bradley Bell, Pat McManaman, Jason Hale, Matt Goddard and Derrick Frost to form a band in Davison, Michigan. Originally named "Chiodos Bros." in tribute to special effects trio the Chiodo Brothers, the band recorded its first demo in June 2002. Following several years of national touring and independent recording, they were signed by Equal Vision Records in 2004 and, under the name Chiodos, released their first full-length album, '' All's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Candace Owens
Candace Amber Owens Farmer ( Owens; born April 29, 1989) is an American conservative author, talk show host, political commentator, and activist. Initially critical of United States President Donald Trump and the Republican Party, Owens has been recognized in part for her pro-Trump activism as a black woman, in addition to her criticism of Black Lives Matter and the Democratic Party. On several occasions she has claimed that the effects of white supremacy and nationalism are exaggerated, especially when compared to other issues facing Black Americans. She worked for the conservative advocacy group Turning Point USA between 2017 and 2019 as its communications director. In 2021, she joined ''The Daily Wire'', where she hosts ''Candace'', a political talk show. Owens has promoted conspiracy theories, mostly through her social media profiles and television & media appearances. She has expressed anti-lockdown views and anti-vaccination opinions during the COVID-19 pandemic. Earl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buck Owens
Alvis Edgar Owens Jr. (August 12, 1929 – March 25, 2006), known professionally as Buck Owens, was an American musician, singer, songwriter, and band leader. He was the lead singer for the Buckaroos, Buck Owens and the Buckaroos, which had 21 No. 1 hits on the ''Billboard magazine, Billboard'' country music chart. He pioneered what came to be called the Bakersfield sound, named in honor of Bakersfield, California, Owens's adopted home and the city from which he drew inspiration for what he preferred to call "American music". While the Buckaroos originally featured a fiddle and retained pedal steel guitar into the 1970s, their sound on records and onstage was always more stripped-down and elemental. The band's signature style was based on simple story lines, infectious choruses, a twangy electric guitar, an insistent rhythm supplied by a prominent drum track, and high, two-part vocal harmonies featuring Owens and his guitarist Don Rich. From 1969 to 1986, Owens co-hosted the p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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