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Richard Evans (record Producer)
Richard Evans may refer to: Artists * Richard Evans (designer) (born 1945), English creative artist for record album covers * Richard Evans (portrait painter) (1784–1871), English portrait-painter and copyist Entertainment * Dik Evans (born 1957), Irish rock guitarist * Richard Evans (AI researcher) (born 1969), computer game developer * Richard Evans (actor) (1935–2021), American actor * Richard Evans (radio presenter) (born 1958), British radio presenter * Richard Bunger Evans (born 1942), American composer * Richard Evans (Canadian composer), Canadian television score and new age composer * Richard Evans, a character in the 1950 film '' State Penitentiary'' * Rich Evans III, actor and filmmaker, most notably associated with '' Red Letter Media'' Religion * R. C. Evans (1861–1921), Canadian leader in the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints; led schism in 1918 * Richard L. Evans (1906–1971), American leader in The Church of Jesus Christ of L ...
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Richard Evans (designer)
Richard Evans (born 30 March 1945, Wilmslow, Cheshire, England) is a graphic designer, art director and illustrator. He studied fashion and textile design at Nottingham School of Art and graphic design and illustration at Leicester College of Art. On leaving art school in 1968, he began what was to be a brief career as a fashion illustrator, mainly for teen magazines Petticoat and Honey, published by Fleetway Publications. In 1971 he formed fashion footwear company Daisy Roots Shoes with a showroom in Beauchamp Place, Knightsbridge, London and a retail outlet in Harrods Way In boutique, designing and producing high fashion footwear for the hip rock generation featuring stacked heel and platform shoes and boots in brightly coloured leathers and exotic reptile skin. His footwear was favoured by the likes of Elton John, George Harrison, The Osmonds, Roxy Music, Redbone and Irish blues guitarist Rory Gallagher. He then worked as a graphic designer and illustrator in the mid- to la ...
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Richard Evans (executive)
Richard H. Evans is an American sports and entertainment executive. Early life and career Evans was born in Ogden, Utah. In 1966, he graduated from the University of Denver with a bachelor's degree in business administration. Evans held various management positions in the amusement park industry. He helped plan and develop Disney World for Walt Disney Productions, developed Marriott Corporation's two Great America amusement parks (now known as California's Great America and Six Flags Great America), and planned an amusement park in Orlando, Florida for Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus that was never built. Radio City Music Hall In 1980, Evans was named chief executive officer of Radio City Music Hall Productions. Evans identified five areas that could operate inside the building as well as work outside the Hall. These were the ''Christmas Spectacular Starring the Radio City Rockettes'', concerts (Radio City eventually controlled 60% of the New York concert market), a th ...
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Richard Paul Evans
Richard Paul Evans (born October 11, 1962) is an American author, best known for writing ''The Christmas Box'' and, more recently, the Michael Vey series. Biography Evans graduated from Cottonwood High School in Murray City, Utah. He graduated with a B.A. degree from the University of Utah in 1984. While working as an advertising executive he wrote a Christmas story for his children. Unable to find a publisher or an agent, he self-published the work in 1993 as a paperback novella entitled ''The Christmas Box''. He distributed it to bookstores in his community. The book became a local bestseller, prompting Evans to publish the book in this region. The next year ''The Christmas Box'' hit #2 on the ''New York Times'' bestseller list, inciting an auction for the publishing rights among the world's top publishing houses. Evans signed a publishing deal with Simon & Schuster, who paid him $4.2 million in an advance. Released in hardcover in 1995, ''The Christmas Box'' became the ...
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Richard J
Richard is a male given name. It originates, via Old French, from Old Frankish and is a compound of the words descending from Proto-Germanic ''*rīk-'' 'ruler, leader, king' and ''*hardu-'' 'strong, brave, hardy', and it therefore means 'strong in rule'. Nicknames include "Richie", "Dick", "Dickon", " Dickie", "Rich", "Rick", "Rico", "Ricky", and more. Richard is a common English, German and French male name. It's also used in many more languages, particularly Germanic, such as Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, Icelandic, and Dutch, as well as other languages including Irish, Scottish, Welsh and Finnish. Richard is cognate with variants of the name in other European languages, such as the Swedish "Rickard", the Catalan "Ricard" and the Italian "Riccardo", among others (see comprehensive variant list below). People named Richard Multiple people with the same name * Richard Andersen (other) * Richard Anderson (other) * Richard Cartwright (other) * Ri ...
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Richard Evans (Australian Politician)
Richard David Conroy Evans (born 7 September 1953) is an Australian writer and a former federal politician, peak industry body executive, and business and leadership consultant. Evans is an author in the emerging genre of Australian political and parliamentary thriller, with his first fiction novel – ''Deceit'' – published in July 2018. Evans served as a Liberal Party of Australia member in the Australian House of Representatives. He was the member for Cowan from 1993 to 1998. From the late 1970s, Evans forged a successful career as a corporate executive and has led several national industry associations. He has served as the CEO of the Franchise Council of Australia, Executive Director of the Australian Retailers Association, Executive Director of Clubs Victoria and the Council of Textile and Fashion Industries Australia. In 2005 he graduated Bachelor of Arts and in 2012 graduated Masters of Creative Writing. Early life Evans, the second of two sons, was born in Me ...
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Richard Evans (businessman)
Sir Richard Harry Evans (also known as Dick Evans), (born 1942, Blackpool)''Who's Who (UK), Who's Who'' is a British businessperson who is chairman of the Kazakh state holding company Samruk-Kazyna. He is formerly chairman of the British arms manufacturer BAE Systems. In 2001 he became Chancellor (education), Chancellor of the University of Central Lancashire. Evans was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire, CBE in the 1986 Birthday Honours for services to export and was Knight Bachelor, knighted in the 1996 Birthday Honours. Career Evans was educated at the Royal Masonic School for Boys, Royal Masonic School in Bushey, Hertfordshire. In 1960, he joined the Department for Transport, Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation and was soon moved into the then newly formed Ministry of Technology. In 1967, Evans was appointed as Government Contracts Officer at Ferranti in Manchester and two years later joined British Aircraft Corporation (BAC) at Warton, Fylde, ...
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Richard Evans (British Diplomat)
Sir Richard Mark Evans (Chinese: 伊文思爵士, 15 April 1928 – 24 August 2012) was a British diplomat who was the ambassador to the People's Republic of China from January 1984 to May 1988, during which he and Zhou Nan, the Chinese representative, initialed the Sino-British Joint Declaration on 26 September 1984. Education Evans was educated at Repton School, a boarding independent school for boys in the village of Repton in Derbyshire, followed by Magdalen College, Oxford. Life and career Evans joined the Foreign Office in 1952. Before becoming ambassador to China, he had stationed in the British charge d'affaires office in Peking twice from 1955 to 1957 and from 1962 to 1964. During his ambassadorship, he also acted as the chief representative of the British delegation from the eighth to the twenty-second round of Sino-British negotiations over the sovereignty issue of Hong Kong. In fact, much of the core negotiations had been done by his predecessor Sir Percy Cra ...
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Richard Thomas Evans
Richard Thomas Evans (18 November 1890 – 20 July 1946) was a British Liberal Party (UK), Liberal Party politician. Before Parliament Evans was educated at the University of Wales. During the First World War he served in the 11th (2nd Gwent) Battalion, South Wales Borderers and attained the rank of captain. In 1918 he married Edith Rhys Williams. In 1923 he published the book ''Aspects of the Study of Society'', in the series Library of Philosophy and Religion. He was for a time a lecturer in economics at University College, Cardiff.The Times, 18.5.29 Parliamentary candidate Evans had fought the Carmarthenshire seat of Llanelli (UK Parliament constituency), Llanelly in the general elections of 1923 United Kingdom general election, 1923, 1924 United Kingdom general election, 1924 and 1929 United Kingdom general election, 1929 but was on all three occasions unsuccessful, albeit having campaigned with energy and ability against a complacent Labour party. At the 1929 general electio ...
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Richard Evans (1811–1887)
Haydock Collieries were collieries situated in and around Haydock on the Lancashire Coalfield which is now in Merseyside, England. The company which operated the collieries was Richard Evans & Co Ltd. Background The shallow coal measures in the area had been worked from at least the 18th century when the major landowners were the Leghs of Lyme. Around 1830, the collieries were run by Thomas Legh and William Turner and had a horse-drawn tramway connection to the Sankey Canal. Richard Evans (1778–1864), a printer from Paternoster Row in London, bought a share in Edge Green Colliery in Golborne in 1830. An explosion in May 1831 killed up to twelve workers and the following May another explosion killed another six. In 1831 the collieries were connected to the growing railway network by a branch line to the Warrington and Newton Railway at Newton Junction. Evans bought Legh's share off Turner and Legh's business, which then took the title Turner & Evans. When Turner died, in 1847 ...
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Richard Evans (1778–1864)
Haydock Collieries were collieries situated in and around Haydock on the Lancashire Coalfield which is now in Merseyside, England. The company which operated the collieries was Richard Evans & Co Ltd. Background The shallow coal measures in the area had been worked from at least the 18th century when the major landowners were the Leghs of Lyme. Around 1830, the collieries were run by Thomas Legh and William Turner and had a horse-drawn tramway connection to the Sankey Canal. Richard Evans (1778–1864), a printer from Paternoster Row in London, bought a share in Edge Green Colliery in Golborne in 1830. An explosion in May 1831 killed up to twelve workers and the following May another explosion killed another six. In 1831 the collieries were connected to the growing railway network by a branch line to the Warrington and Newton Railway at Newton Junction. Evans bought Legh's share off Turner and Legh's business, which then took the title Turner & Evans. When Turner died, in 1847 ...
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Richard Evans (died 1762)
Richard Evans (died 1762) of Queenborough, Kent was a British army officer and Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1729 to 1754. Evans’ parentage is unknown, but a two-storey red brick house at 72 and 74 High Street, Queenborough, dating from the early 18th century, has a plaster plaque above the doors, bearing the date and initials '1706 ERE', possibly referring to Richard Evans and his wife. He joined the army and was a captain in Colonel Richard Sutton's Foot in 1709. He was on half-pay in 1713 and captain of Invalids for Portsmouth in 1715. From 1725 he was lieutenant governor of Sheerness, remaining in post for the rest of his life. He was mayor of Queenborough several times. Evans was returned as Member of Parliament for Queenborough on his own interest with government support at a by-election on 27 January 1729. He was returned again unopposed in 1734 and 1741 and in a contest in 1747. He was also able to secure the return of other government nominees a ...
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Ricky Evans (rugby Union)
Richard Lloyd "Ricky" Evans (born 23 June 1960) is a former Welsh international rugby union player. History Born in Aberporth Cardigan in West Wales in 1960, Ricky Evans played most of his club rugby for Llanelli RFC playing in the victorious side which beat the touring Wallabies who were then World Champions. He was capped 19 times by Wales playing at loose head prop. His debut was against England at Cardiff Arms Park in 1993, a game which Wales won 10-9. In 1994 he played in the Five Nations winning Welsh team although losing to England in the final game at Twickenham a try was on the cards for Ricky, however a desperate tap tackle by Dewi Morris prevented a certain score, however retaining the ball and making it available Nigel Walker scored the vital try in the corner to reduce the points difference and secure the title for Wales. Despite a serious ankle injury sustained in the Five Nations match against France in Paris in January 1995, he recovered fitness and went on to ...
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