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Peter Johnson (other)
Peter Johnson may refer to: Sports * Peter Randall Johnson (1880–1959), Somerset cricketer * Peter Johnson (cricketer, born 1926) (1926–2017), English cricketer and Royal Navy officer * Peter Johnson (rugby union) (1937–2016), Australian national representative rugby union player * Peter Johnson (ice hockey, born 1946), retired British ice hockey player * Peter Johnson (Nottinghamshire cricketer) (born 1949), English cricketer * Peter Johnson (sports executive) (born 1950), American sports agent and business executive * Peter Johnson (footballer, born 1954), English football player * Peter Johnson (skier) (born 1956), American mogul skier * Peter Johnson (footballer, born 1958), English football player * Peter Johnson (ice hockey coach) (born 1959), American ice hockey coach and scout * Peter Bonu Johnson (1963–2019), Gambian football player and manager Other * Peter Johnson (pirate) (died 1672), Dutch pirate active in the Caribbean * Peter Johnson (Medal of Honor) (1857â ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Randall Johnson
Peter Randall Johnson (5 August 1880 – 1 July 1959) was a cricketer who played for Cambridge University, Somerset and several amateur sides in a long first-class cricket career that stretched from 1900 to 1927. During his career, he appears to have been known, somewhat formally, as "P. R. Johnson"; modern websites refer to him as "Randall Johnson". Somerset colleague Jack MacBryan, who didn't like him, called him "Peter Johnson". Background The son of George Randall Johnson who had captained Cambridge University at cricket in the 1850s and also played first-class cricket for Cambridgeshire, Johnson was born in New Zealand, where his father was a member of the state legislature from 1872 to 1890. He was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge. Early cricket career Johnson made his first-class debut for Cambridge University in a match against A. J. Webbe's XI in 1900, and played in five other first-class matches for the university side that season, without win ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Johnson Sr
Peter may refer to: People * List of people named Peter, a list of people and fictional characters with the given name * Peter (given name) ** Saint Peter (died 60s), apostle of Jesus, leader of the early Christian Church * Peter (surname), a surname (including a list of people with the name) Culture * Peter (actor) (born 1952), stage name Shinnosuke Ikehata, Japanese dancer and actor * ''Peter'' (album), a 1993 EP by Canadian band Eric's Trip * ''Peter'' (1934 film), a 1934 film directed by Henry Koster * ''Peter'' (2021 film), Marathi language film * "Peter" (''Fringe'' episode), an episode of the television series ''Fringe'' * ''Peter'' (novel), a 1908 book by Francis Hopkinson Smith * "Peter" (short story), an 1892 short story by Willa Cather Animals * Peter, the Lord's cat, cat at Lord's Cricket Ground in London * Peter (chief mouser), Chief Mouser between 1929 and 1946 * Peter II (cat), Chief Mouser between 1946 and 1947 * Peter III (cat), Chief Mouser between 1947 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Johnsen
Peter Berghsey Johnsen (born 1950) is an American scientist, administrator and adventurer. Education Johnsen received his bachelor's (1974) and Ph.D. (1978) degrees from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in zoology and continued his training as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Pennsylvania in neurobiology. He later completed an organizational leadership program at Harvard Kennedy School. Career Johnsen joined the Monell Chemical Senses Center in 1980 and taught in the Department of Biology and College of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. His principle field of research was in the area of animal sensory physiology working with fish including salmon and sharks, alligators and birds. He has published over 75 research papers, contributed to numerous technical books, received two patents and has been an invited speaker nationally and internationally. In 1986 Johnsen joined the USDA Agricultural Research Service at the Southern Regional Research ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pete Johnson (other)
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Pete Johnson may refer to: *Pete Johnson (musician) (1904–1967), American jazz pianist * Pete Johnson (rock critic), ''Los Angeles Times'' music writer * Pete Johnson (Mississippi politician) (born 1948), State Auditor of Mississippi from 1988 to 1992 * Pete Johnson (American football) (born 1954), American football running back * Pete Johnson (author) (born 1965), British children's author See also *Peter Johnson (other) Peter Johnson may refer to: Sports * Peter Randall Johnson (1880–1959), Somerset cricketer * Peter Johnson (cricketer, born 1926) (1926–2017), English cricketer and Royal Navy officer * Peter Johnson (rugby union) (1937–2016), Australian na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Johnson (Maine Politician)
Peter B. Johnson is an American politician from Maine, USA. A Republican, Johnson served in the Maine House of Representatives from 2006 and was unable to seek re-election in 2014 due to term limits. He served in the Maine Air National Guard The Maine Air National Guard (ME ANG) is the aerial militia of the State of Maine, United States of America. It is, along with the Maine Army National Guard, an element of the Maine National Guard. As state militia units, the units in the Maine .... References Year of birth missing (living people) Living people People from Greenville, Maine Republican Party members of the Maine House of Representatives University of Maine alumni {{Maine-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter M
Peter may refer to: People * List of people named Peter, a list of people and fictional characters with the given name * Peter (given name) ** Saint Peter (died 60s), apostle of Jesus, leader of the early Christian Church * Peter (surname), a surname (including a list of people with the name) Culture * Peter (actor) (born 1952), stage name Shinnosuke Ikehata, Japanese dancer and actor * ''Peter'' (album), a 1993 EP by Canadian band Eric's Trip * ''Peter'' (1934 film), a 1934 film directed by Henry Koster * ''Peter'' (2021 film), Marathi language film * "Peter" (''Fringe'' episode), an episode of the television series ''Fringe'' * ''Peter'' (novel), a 1908 book by Francis Hopkinson Smith * "Peter" (short story), an 1892 short story by Willa Cather Animals * Peter, the Lord's cat, cat at Lord's Cricket Ground in London * Peter (chief mouser), Chief Mouser between 1929 and 1946 * Peter II (cat), Chief Mouser between 1946 and 1947 * Peter III (cat), Chief Mouser between 1947 a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Johnson (railway Historian)
Peter Johnson is a British railway historian and author who specialises in books and articles on narrow-gauge railways. He is particularly associated with the Ffestiniog Railway. History Johnson is a retired local government officer who lives in Leicester. Johnson is known for his "meticulous research into all aspects of the festiniograilway’s operation". He was a director of the Ffestiniog Railway Society from 1991 to 2003 and editor (originally jointly with Norman Gurley and Dan Wilson) of the Festiniog Railway Society Magazine from 1974 to 2003. In 2003 he was appointed the Festiniog Railway Company's official photographer. From June 1995 until Match 2019, Johnson contributed a monthly column of narrow gauge railway news for ''Steam Railway'' magazine; as of September 2017 he was the magazine's longest serving continuous contributor. Since 2006 he has written obituaries of prominent railway people for The Guardian ''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Johnson (entrepreneur)
Peter Johnson is a British academic and entrepreneur who is the founder of Venturefest, an entrepreneurial festival. He is an Emeritus Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford. His most notable publications relate to the formal economic underpinnings of business strategy and valuation, and to the philosophical status of physical constants - such as the speed of light - in scientific theories. Education Born in York in 1956, Johnson moved to Hertfordshire in 1962. He attended local state schools until the age of 13 when he won a Fleming Scholarship to Eton College awarded by Hertfordshire. He excelled at Eton and was appointed Captain of the Oppidans. In 1974 he won an Open Scholarship to Balliol College, Oxford, to read Physics and Philosophy under Prof. Bill Newton-Smith. In 1978 his top First Class degree, emphasising Theoretical Physics, Logic and the Philosophy of Physics, led to a Masters in the Philosophy of Science, at Stanford University in 1979. Career Strategy consulting Johnso ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Johnson (poet)
Peter Johnson (b. 1951 Buffalo, New York) is an American poet, and novelist. Life He received his B.A. from the State University of New York at Buffalo, and his M.A. and Ph.D. in English from the University of New Hampshire. His poems and fiction have appeared in ''Field'', ''Denver Quarterly'', ''The Iowa Review'', ''Indiana Review'', ''Quarterly West'', ''North Dakota Quarterly'', ''The Party Train: A Collection of North American Prose Poetry'', and ''Beloit Fiction Journal''. Johnson is the founder and editor of'' The Prose Poem: An International Journal'', and the editor of ''The Best of The Prose Poem: An International Journal'' (White Pine Press, 2000). He is contributing editor to ''American Poetry Review'', ''Web del Sol'', and ''Slope'', and teaches creative writing and children's literature at Providence College, Rhode Island, where he lives with his wife, Genevieve, and two sons, Kurt and Lucas. Awards He is the winner of the 2001 James Laughlin Award for his se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Johnson (Australian Politician)
Peter Francis Johnson (born 27 August 1943) was an Australian politician. Born in Sydney, he was a wholesaler and exporter before entering politics. In 1975, he was elected to the Australian House of Representatives as the Liberal member for Brisbane, defeating Labor MP Manfred Cross amid the massive Coalition landslide that year. Johnson was behind in initial counting, but benefited from the National Country Party The National Party of Australia, also known as The Nationals or The Nats, is an Australian political party. Traditionally representing graziers, farmers, and regional voters generally, it began as the Australian Country Party in 1920 at a fe ... opting to contest seats outside its traditional rural heartland; he won on the third count when the National Country candidate's preferences flowed overwhelmingly to him. A redistribution ahead of the 1977 election technically made Brisbane a safe Liberal seat, but Johnson narrowly saw off a spirited challenge from C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Johnson (businessman)
Peter Robert Johnson, is a Birkenhead-based businessman and football investor. The son of a butcher, Johnson helped run a family-owned business Park Foods, a supplier of Christmas hampers in the early 1990s. During this time, Johnson was an investor in Tranmere Rovers football club, during which time they rose from the foot of the Football League to the Championship, and was chairman of Everton F.C. until 1999. After having an estimated fortune of £150M in the early 1990s, Johnson's fortune dropped to £58M in 2004. Park Foods The son of a butcher, Johnson branched the family butchery business out into a Christmas Savings club in 1967. The Park Hamper Company was formed in 1969, and Park Foods became a weekly cash savings business. By the early 1990s, Birkenhead based Park Foods had made Johnson one of the UK's richest people, with an estimated fortune of £150M. At its peak, Park Foods packed 1m Christmas hampers and delivered them to people who had saved up to £5 a week ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leslie Peter Johnson
Leslie Peter Johnson (3 July 1930 – 16 December 2016), also known as Peter Johnson, L. Peter Johnson, or L. P. Johnson, was a British Germanist, who specialized in the literature of the Middle High German "golden age". He was Reader in Medieval German Literature at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of Pembroke College. Biography Leslie Peter Johnson was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, England on 3 July 1930. He was awarded a BA in French and German from King's College, Durham (now the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne) in 1951, and his Dr.Phil. from the University of Kiel in 1955, with a thesis on Wolfram von Eschenbach under Wolfgang Mohr. After a brief period as a Lektor in Frankfurt, Peter Johnson returned from Germany to take up a lectureship at Cardiff University, before moving to Cambridge in 1959 for an Assistant Lectureship in the Department of German in the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages. Becoming a member of Pembroke College in the same year, he was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
