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Reeves (surname)
Reeves is a surname. Some notable persons with the surname include: * A. J. Reeves (born 1999), American basketball player * Al Reeves Al Reeves (18641940) was an American vaudeville and minstrel show entertainer, vocalist, and banjo player. Catch phrase: "Give me credit, boys." He began performing in 1878, and was heavily involved in the burlesque scene. He later toured with ... (1864–1940), American vaudeville entertainer * Alan Reeves (footballer), English former football player * Alec Reeves (1902–1971), English electronics engineer * Amber Reeves, feminist writer * Ana Reeves, Chilean television, film and theatre actress * Anita Reeves (died 2016), Irish film and stage actress * Bass Reeves, famous lawman from the late 1800s * Billy Reeves (footballer) * Bryant Reeves, American basketball player * Charles Stephen Reeves (1836–1912), New Zealand businessman and Mayor of Dunedin * Charles Reeves (architect) (1815–1866), British architect * Conner Reeves, British s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Al Reeves
Al Reeves (18641940) was an American vaudeville and minstrel show entertainer, vocalist, and banjo player. Catch phrase: "Give me credit, boys." He began performing in 1878, and was heavily involved in the burlesque scene. He later toured with his own company, Al Reeves' Specialty Co. and produced his famous "Big Beauty Show" ("99% Girls 99%") which bragged packed houses for twenty years. He was later known as the "King of Burlesque." Reeves made his only known recordings with Columbia Records and Edison Records from 1891 and 1893, and around the same time had an inadvertent influence on the young Al Jolson Al Jolson (born Eizer Yoelson; June 9, 1886 – October 23, 1950) was a Lithuanian-American Jewish singer, comedian, actor, and vaudevillian. He was one of the United States' most famous and highest-paid stars of the 1920s, and was self-billed ...'s interest in show business. {{DEFAULTSORT:Reeves, Al 1864 births Place of birth missing 1940 deaths Place of death ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dianne Reeves
Dianne Elizabeth Reeves (born October 23, 1956) is an American jazz singer. Biography Dianne Reeves was born in Detroit, Michigan, into a musical family. Her father sang, her mother played trumpet, her uncle is bassist Charles Burrell, and her cousin is George Duke. Her father died when she was two years old, and she was raised in Denver, Colorado, by her mother, Vada Swanson, and maternal family. She was raised Catholic and attended Cure D'Ars Catholic School in Denver for much of her early schooling. Career In 1971, she started singing and playing piano. She was a member of her high-school band, and while performing at a convention in Chicago was noticed by trumpeter Clark Terry, who invited her to sing with him. "He had these amazing all-star bands, but I had no idea who they all were! The thing I loved about it was the way they interacted with each other – the kind of intimate exchange that I wasn't part of. For a young singer, it was fertile soil." She studied cla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matt Reeves
Matt Reeves (born April 27, 1966) is an American film director, producer and screenwriter. He first gained recognition for the WB drama series ''Felicity (TV series), Felicity'' (1998–2002), which he co-created with J. J. Abrams. Reeves came to widespread attention for directing the hit monster film ''Cloverfield'' (2008). He also directed the romantic vampire drama ''Let Me In (film), Let Me In'' (2010), and the critically acclaimed science fiction sequels ''Dawn of the Planet of the Apes'' (2014) and ''War for the Planet of the Apes'' (2017). He directed the superhero film ''The Batman (film), The Batman'' (2022), which stars Robert Pattinson as Batman, the title character. Early life Reeves was born on April 27, 1966, in Rockville Centre, New York, on Long Island. He moved with his family to Los Angeles when he was five. There he became fascinated by movies, making them from the age of eight, directing friends and using a wind-up camera. Reeves met and befriended J. J. Abr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martha Reeves
Martha Rose Reeves (born July 18, 1941) is an American R&B and pop singer. She is the lead singer of the Motown girl group Martha and the Vandellas which scored over a dozen hit singles, including "Come and Get These Memories", " Nowhere to Run", "Heat Wave", "Jimmy Mack", and their signature "Dancing in the Street". From 2005 until 2009, Reeves served as an elected council woman for the city of Detroit, Michigan. Martha Reeves and the Vandellas were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995. Early life Martha Rose Reeves was born in Eufaula, Alabama, the first daughter of Elijah Joshua Reeves and Ruby Lee Gilmore Reeves, and the third of the couple's 11 children. She was a baby when the family moved from Eufaula to Detroit, Michigan, where her grandfather, Reverend Elijah Reeves, was a minister at Detroit's Metropolitan Church. The family was very active in the church and its choir. Elijah played guitar, and Ruby liked to sing; the children acquired their love o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lois Reeves
Sandra Delores Reeves (born April 12, 1948), better known as Lois Reeves, is an American singer, most notable for being the younger sister of Motown legend Martha Reeves, for having replaced popular Martha and the Vandellas member Betty Kelly as member of her sister's group in 1967, and for later singing background for records by Al Green in the 1970s as a member of the backing group Quiet Elegance. Lois' nickname was "Pee Wee" as she is only 5'1" tall. Biography Music career The daughter of Elijah Joshua Reeves and Ruby Lee Gilmore, Lois was part of a family of 11 children. Before her older sister, Martha, was a year old, the family moved from Eufaula, Alabama to Detroit. Both Elijah and Ruby enjoyed singing and playing the guitar, passing their love of music on to their children. Elijah's father, Reverend Elijah Reeves, was a minister at Detroit's Metropolitan Church; the family was very active in the church and in its choir. Upon graduatation from high school, Lois Reev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kenneth Reeves
Kenneth E. Reeves (born 1951) is an American politician who served as the mayor of Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, from 1992 to 1995 and again from 2006 to 2007. Reeves is the first openly gay African-American man to have served as mayor of any city in the United States. Early life and education Reeves was born to Jamaican parents in Detroit, Michigan. Reeves attended Detroit's public schools, graduating from Cass Technical High School in 1968. After one year at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, Reeves transferred to Harvard University. At Harvard, Reeves would meet his longtime partner, Gregory Johnson. Reeves earned his degree in American history and literature from Harvard 1973. In 1976, Reeves graduated from the University of Michigan Law School. Political career Cambridge politics Reeves was elected Mayor of Cambridge in January 1994. Cambridge's elections are non-partisan, but he identifies himself with the Democratic Party. While mayor, he was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keanu Reeves
Keanu Charles Reeves ( ; born September 2, 1964) is a Canadian actor. Born in Beirut and raised in Toronto, Reeves began acting in theatre productions and in television films before making his feature film debut in '' Youngblood'' (1986). He had his breakthrough role in the science fiction comedy ''Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure'' (1989), and he reprised his role in its sequels. He gained praise for playing a hustler in the independent drama ''My Own Private Idaho'' (1991) and established himself as an action hero with leading roles in ''Point Break'' (1991) and ''Speed'' (1994). Following several box office failures, Reeves's performance in the horror film '' The Devil's Advocate'' (1997) was well received. Greater stardom came for playing Neo in the science fiction series ''The Matrix'', beginning in 1999. He played John Constantine in ''Constantine'' (2005) and starred in the romantic drama '' The Lake House'' (2006), the science fiction thriller ''The Day the Earth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph M
Joseph is a common male given name, derived from the Hebrew Yosef (יוֹסֵף). "Joseph" is used, along with "Josef", mostly in English, French and partially German languages. This spelling is also found as a variant in the languages of the modern-day Nordic countries. In Portuguese language, Portuguese and Spanish language, Spanish, the name is "José". In Arabic, including in the Quran, the name is spelled ''Yusuf, Yūsuf''. In Persian language, Persian, the name is "Yousef". The name has enjoyed significant popularity in its many forms in numerous countries, and ''Joseph'' was one of the two names, along with ''Robert'', to have remained in the top 10 boys' names list in the US from 1925 to 1972. It is especially common in contemporary Israel, as either "Yossi" or "Yossef", and in Italy, where the name "Giuseppe" was the most common male name in the 20th century. In the first century CE, Joseph was the second most popular male name for Palestine Jews. In the Book of Genes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Reeves (other)
John Reeves may refer to: Sports * John Reeves (baseball), American baseball player * John Reeves (Australian footballer) (1929–1970), Australian rules footballer * John Reeves (footballer, born 1963), English football (soccer) player for Fulham and Colchester United * John Reeves (American football) (born 1975), American football linebacker Others *John Reeves (activist) (1752–1829), British judge, public official and conservative activist * John Reeves (naturalist) (1774–1856), English naturalist *John Sims Reeves (1821–1900), English operatic, oratorio and ballad tenor vocalist *John W. Reeves Jr. (1888–1967), U.S. Navy admiral *John Reeves (composer) (born 1926), Canadian composer, broadcaster, author, recipient of John Drainie Award *John Reeves (judge) (born 1952), Australian politician, lawyer and judge *John M. Reeves, after whom the Reeves Peninsula in Antarctica is named See also *John Reaves Thomas Johnson "John" Reaves (March 2, 1950 – August 1, 2017) w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Reeves
James Travis Reeves (August 20, 1923July 31, 1964) was an American country and popular music singer-songwriter. With records charting from the 1950s to the 1980s, he became well known as a practitioner of the Nashville Sound. Known as "Gentleman Jim", his songs continued to chart for years after his death in a plane crash. He is a member of both the Country Music and Texas Country Music Halls of Fame. Biography Early life and education Reeves was born at home in Galloway, Texas, a small rural community near Carthage. He was the youngest of eight children born to Mary Beulah Adams Reeves (1884-1980) and Thomas Middleton Reeves (1882-1924). He was known as Travis during his childhood years. Winning an athletic scholarship to the University of Texas, he enrolled to study speech and drama but quit after only six weeks to work in the shipyards in Houston. Soon he resumed baseball, playing in the semi-professional leagues before contracting with the St. Louis Cardinals "farm" team dur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Reeves (other)
James, Jim, Jimmy or Jamie Reeves may refer to: *James Reeves (footballer) (1869–1937), English footballer who played in Spain *James Reeves (physician) (1829–1896), American physician *James Reeves (writer) (1909–1978), British writer *Jimmy Reeves (1904–1974), American boxer *Jim Reeves (1923–1964), American country and popular music singer-songwriter * James J. Reeves (born 1938), member of the Florida House of Representatives *Jamie Reeves (footballer) (born 1953), football pundit and former footballer *Jamie Reeves (born 1962), former coal miner, strongman and professional wrestler *James Reeves (baseball) (born 1993), American pitcher * Nathan West (''General Hospital'') or James Nathan Reeves, a character from ''General Hospital'' See also *James Reeve James Hengist Reeve, born 25 June 1950, is an English broadcaster, journalist, raconteur and radio phone-in host based in the Manchester area. Reeve has hosted shows on Piccadilly Radio, BBC GMR (now BBC Radio Manch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hubert Reeves
Hubert Reeves (born July 13, 1932), is a Canadian astrophysicist and popularizer of science. Early life and education Reeves was born in Montreal on July 13, 1932, and as a child lived in Léry. Reeves attended Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf, a prestigious French-language college in Montreal. He obtained a BSc degree in physics from the Université de Montréal in 1953, an MSc degree from McGill University in 1956 with a thesis entitled "Formation of Positronium in Hydrogen and Helium" and a PhD degree at Cornell University in 1960. His PhD thesis was "Thermonuclear Reaction Involving Medium Light Nuclei." Career From 1960 to 1964, he taught physics at the Université de Montréal and worked as an advisor to NASA. He has been a Director of Research at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) since 1965. Personal life Reeves resides in Paris, France. He often speaks on television, promoting science. Honours and recognition * In 1976, he was made Knight of Ordr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
