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Perry (given Name)
Perry is a unisex given name. People Male A-G * Perry Adair (1899–1953), American golfer * Perry Adkisson (1929–2020), entomologist and Chancellor of the Texas A&M University System * Perry Anderson (born 1938), British historian and political essayist * Perry Anderson (ice hockey) (born 1961), Canadian hockey player * Perry Anzilotti (born 1959), American actor * Perry A. Armstrong (1823–1904), American politician * Perry Baker (born 1986), American rugby sevens player * Perry Bamonte (born 1960), guitarist and bassist best known for his work with The Cure * Perry Richardson Bass (1914–2006), American heir, investor and philanthropist * Perry Bellegarde (born 1962), Canadian First Nations and Métis activist and politician * Perry Benson (born 1961), English actor * Perry Berezan (born 1964), Canadian hockey player * Perry Bhandal (born 1968), British director and screenwriter * Perry Blake (born 1970), Irish singer and songwriter * Perry Bradford (1893–1970), Af ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English Language
English is a West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family, with its earliest forms spoken by the inhabitants of early medieval England. It is named after the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the island of Great Britain. Existing on a dialect continuum with Scots, and then closest related to the Low Saxon and Frisian languages, English is genealogically West Germanic. However, its vocabulary is also distinctively influenced by dialects of France (about 29% of Modern English words) and Latin (also about 29%), plus some grammar and a small amount of core vocabulary influenced by Old Norse (a North Germanic language). Speakers of English are called Anglophones. The earliest forms of English, collectively known as Old English, evolved from a group of West Germanic (Ingvaeonic) dialects brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers in the 5th century and further mutated by Norse-speaking Viking settlers starting in the 8th and 9th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Perry Bhandal
Perry Bhandal (born 12 January 1968) is a British film director, screenwriter, and producer of the films '' Interview with a Hitman'' and ''The Last Boy'' and author of ''_prelude'', a collection of short stories and artwork, and ''The Winter Man'' a crime thriller. Early life Bhandal was born in Taplow, England and is of Sikh heritage. He received a BSc from the University of Manchester and two M.A.s from the University of Brunel: one in film and one in creative writing. Career In May 2009 Bhandal set up the film production company Kirlian Pictures and set about developing the feature film ''Interview with a Hitman''. Bhandal shot ''Interview with a Hitman'' in 18 days in August 2011 on location in Newcastle and Bucharest. The film had its market premiere at the Cannes Film Festival The Cannes Festival (; french: link=no, Festival de Cannes), until 2003 called the International Film Festival (') and known in English as the Cannes Film Festival, is an annual film fes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Perry Collins
Perry McDonough Collins (1813–1900) timeline at frontiers.loc.govCorday Mackay The Collins Overland Telegraph in ''British Columbia Historical Quarterly'', Vol X, Victoria BC, July 1946, pp. 187–216. was the visionary behind the of 1865–1867. The failed venture aimed to connect America to Europe by telegraph via the Bering Strait. The early years Born ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Perry Cohea
Perry Cohea was an American pioneer of the early federal period in Tennessee and Mississippi. He is referred to in historic sources as Major. In the 1830s, he participated in the United States government's Indian Removal, removal of the Choctaw from their Mississippi homelands. Career In Tennessee, Cohea served the United States government in the Chickasaw Agency. He was a courier for General James Robertson (explorer), James Robertson of Tennessee. He also served as a town marshal in Columbia, Tennessee prior to removing to Mississippi. In 1822 Cohea moved to Lawrence County, Mississippi, Lawrence County, Mississippi, an area where European Americans were moving. He briefly became a merchant in Jackson (Mississippi), Jackson, Mississippi in 1834. By an act of the legislature in 1836, he was appointed to serve as a Commissioner of Public Buildings to oversee the building of the Old Mississippi State Capitol, State Capitol, after the territory was admitted as a state. He also serv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Perry Christie
Perry Gladstone Christie PC, MP (born 21 August 1943) is a Bahamian former politician who served as Prime Minister of the Bahamas from 2002 to 2007 and from 2012 to 2017. He is the second longest-serving Bahamian elected parliamentarian (behind the late Sir Roland Symonette who was first elected to parliament in 1925 and served until 1977), representing the Centreville constituency from 1977 to 2017. He is also a former athlete. His Progressive Liberal Party is the oldest Bahamian political party, holding solid majorities in the Bahamian Parliament several times in its long history. Political career Christie is believed to have been the youngest Bahamian ever appointed to the Senate. Named as a Senator by Prime Minister Lynden Pindling in November 1974, Christie served in that capacity until June 1977. In January 1977 he was appointed chairman of the Gaming Board, which regulates casinos in The Bahamas. Receiving the PLP's nomination for the Centreville constituency in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Perry Chen
Perry Chen is an American artist and entrepreneur known for being the creator and principal founder of Kickstarter, PBC, the online funding platform for creative projects. He came up with the idea for Kickstarter in 2001 and launched it in 2009 along with co-founders Charles Adler and Yancey Strickler. Education Chen is an alumnus of Hunter College High School in New York City and Tulane University in New Orleans. Work Chen co-founded the Southfirst gallery in Brooklyn in 2001, was a TED Fellow in 2010, a resident of Laboratorio para la Ciudad in Mexico City in 2014, and is a 2016 Director's Fellow at the MIT Media Lab. In 2017, he was appointed to the Knight Commission on Trust, Media and American Democracy — a nonpartisan commission of leaders across media, technology, and public policy tasked with guiding the public discourse on rebuilding trust in America's democratic institutions. In 2013, he was honored on the annual list of '' Time's'' 100 most influential people. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Perry Carter
Perry Lynn Carter (born August 15, 1971) is a former American football defensive back for the Kansas City Chiefs and the Oakland Raiders in the National Football League. He also played in the Canadian Football League for four seasons with the Edmonton Eskimos, Montreal Alouettes, and BC Lions while winning a Grey Cup championship with the Alouettes in 2002. He was drafted by the Arizona Cardinals in the 4th round of the 1994 NFL Draft. He played college football at the University of Southern Mississippi. He is the former assistant defensive backs coach for the Houston Texans The Houston Texans are a professional American football team based in Houston. The Texans compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the American Football Conference (AFC) AFC South, South division, and play their home ga .... External linksPerry Carter stats 1971 births Living people People from McComb, Mississippi American football defensive backs Southern Miss Golden ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Perry Caravello
Perry Frank Caravello (born November 17, 1963) is an American actor, comedian, and internet personality who is best known as the star of the 2003 movie ''Windy City Heat'' and the host of the internet stream ''Perry Caravello Live''. Early life Originally from the northwest suburbs of Chicago, Caravello was born in Park Ridge and lived there before moving to Des Plaines, Barrington, Palatine, and Arlington Heights. He moved with his family to Southern California in 1974. In 1979, three weeks after getting his driver's license, he was injured in a car accident that put him in a coma for three weeks. As a result of the accident, Caravello suffered brain trauma. Career Caravello started acting and standup comedy around 1988, performing in an aggressive style inspired by his idol Sam Kinison, which earned him the nickname "Scary Perry", and early in his career was trying to get into The Comedy Store when then host Don Barris challenged him to have his chest shaved onstage with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Perry Bullard
Winston Perry Bullard (September 2, 1942 – October 15, 1998), was a Democratic politician and lawyer in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Bullard was born in Cleveland, Ohio and attended Harvard University. After serving in the United States Navy during the Vietnam War, he obtained his law degree from the University of Michigan Law School. He then ran successfully for the Michigan House of Representatives in 1972. He continued to hold his 53rd district seat, representing Ann Arbor, until 1993. Bullard was known for his strongly liberal stances and his passion for defending and expanding personal civil liberties. He was one of a few members of the Democratic Socialists of America to be elected to public office. According to the Associated Press, Bullard was part of a group of young liberal representatives who, during the 1970s, were known as the "Kiddie Caucus"; other members included David Hollister of Lansing and Morris Hood of Detroit. Early in his tenure, Bullard was the subject of c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Perry E
Perry, also known as pear cider, is an alcoholic beverage made from fermented pears, traditionally the perry pear. It has been common for centuries in England, particularly in Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, and Worcestershire. It is also made in parts of South Wales and France, especially Normandy and Anjou, and in Commonwealth countries such as Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. Production Fruit Perry pears are thought to be descended from wild hybrids, known as ''wildings'', between the cultivated pear ''Pyrus communis'' subsp. ''communis'' and the now-rare wild pear ''Pyrus communis'' subsp. ''pyraster''. The cultivated pear ''P. communis'' was brought to northern Europe by the Romans. In the fourth century CE Saint Jerome referred to perry as ''piracium''. Wild pear hybrids were, over time, selected locally for desirable qualities and by the 1800s, many regional varieties had been identified. The majority of perry pear varieties in the UK originate from the counti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Perry Broad
Pery Broad, also Perry Broad (25 April 1921 – 28 November 1993) was a Brazilian non-commissioned officer in the ''Schutzstaffel'' (SS) active at Auschwitz concentration camp from April 1942 to 1945. He reached the rank of ''SS-Unterscharführer'' while working as a translator and stenographer in the camp headquarters. As a prisoner after the war, he wrote a historically valuable account of the camp's operation, dubbed the ''Broad Report''. Broad, born in Rio de Janeiro in 1921, came to Berlin with his mother at the age of five. He studied at the Technical University of Berlin and joined the ''Waffen-SS'' in 1941 as a foreigner. Detached on duty to Auschwitz, he requested a transfer to the ''Politische Abteilung'', where he conducted interrogations. According to Simon Laks, head of the prisoner's orchestra, Broad was a music lover who attended most of its performances, an exception being while choosing female prisoners for the camp brothel. He remained in Auschwitz until the d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Perry Bräutigam
Perry Bräutigam (born 28 March 1963) is a German Association football coach and a former player who works as goalkeeper coach for RB Leipzig. Playing career Bräutigam was born in Altenburg. A goalkeeper, he played over 450 matches at the first and second level of the East and unified German football pyramid. He also won three caps for the East Germany national team. Coaching career Immediately after his playing career ended, Bräutigam started working as goalkeeper coach for F.C. Hansa Rostock. When his contract ended in 2009, he moved to the newly formed RB Leipzig, also as goalkeeper coach. Honours * FDGB-Pokal The FDGB-Pokal (Freier Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund Pokal or Free German Trade Union Federation Cup) was an elimination football tournament held annually in East Germany. It was the second most important national title in East German football aft ...: runner-up 1987–88 References External links * * * 1963 births Living people German men's footbal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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