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Ring (surname)
Ring is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Alexander Ring (born 1991), Finnish footballer * Bill Ring (born 1956), American football player * Bob Ring (born 1946), American ice hockey player * Børge Ring (1921–2018), Danish film writer, animator and director * Brad Ring (born 1987), American soccer player * Brian Ring, British architect * Christy Ring (1920–1979), Irish hurler * David Ring (born 1953), American evangelist and motivational speaker * Henry Ring (born 1977), American soccer player * Jeremy Ring (born 1970), American politician * Joey Ring (1758–1800), English cricketer * Jonathan Ring (born 1991), Swedish footballer * Justin Ring (born 1973), Canadian football player * Ken Ring (rapper) (born 1979), Swedish rapper * Ken Ring (writer), New Zealand writer * Kenneth Ring (born 1936), American psychologist * Kevin A. Ring, American lobbyist * Laurits Andersen Ring (1854–1933), Danish painter * Mark Ring (born 1962), Welsh rugby union pl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Ring
Alexander Michael Ring (born 9 April 1991) is a Finnish professional footballer who captains and plays as an midfielder for Major League Soccer club Austin FC. Club career Early career He moved to Bonn with his family when aged three, and grew up there and in Belgium. Ring went through the ranks of Bayer 04 Leverkusen before returning to Finland with his family in 2008. HJK He signed for HJK's reserve team Klubi-04 in 2009, and represented them until being promoted to the first team, and signed full professional contract with the club in August 2010. However, Ring was loaned out to Tampere United for the rest of that season. He returned to HJK after the season, and was established as the first choice holding midfielder for HJK in early 2011. On 26 September 2011, he signed a contract extension with HJK, keeping him in the Finnish capital until 2015. During December 2011, it was rumored that German Bundesliga side Borussia Mönchengladbach were interested in signing the young Fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kenneth Ring
Kenneth Ring is an American psychologist, born in San Francisco, California. He is the co-founder and past president of the International Association for Near-Death Studies (IANDS) and is the founding editor of the ''Journal of Near-Death Studies''.Author biography in Kenneth Ring and Evelyn Elsaesser Valarino, ''Lessons from the Light: What we can learn from the near-death experience'', Needham, MA: Moment Point Press (1998). He currently lives in Kentfield, California. Biography Among his first publications was the book ''Methods of Madness: The Mental Hospital as a Last Resort''. The book was released in 1969 and was co-authored with Benjamin Braginsky and Dorothea Braginsky.Waxler, N. E. (1970). eview of Methods of Madness: The Mental Hospital as a Last Resort., by B. M. Braginsky, D. A. Braginsky, & K. Ring ''American Sociological Review'', 35(5), 951–952. https://doi.org/10.2307/2093343Wax, John. Reviewed Work: Methods of Madness: The Mental Hospital As a Last Resort by B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tommy Ring (hurler)
Thomas O. Ring (1939 – 1 July 2020) was an Irish hurler. At club level he played for a number of clubs, including Castlepollard and Kilmacud Crokes, and was a long-time member of the Westmeath senior hurling team. Playing career Born in Castlepollard, Ring was the son of a Cork-born father and a Louth-born mother and first played hurling when he joined the local Castlepollard club. He earned a call-up to the Westmeath minor team in 1954, before later moving to Cork and lining out with the Meelin club as a junior. On his return to Castlepollard, Ring won a county minor medal in 1956 and was promoted to the Westmeath senior team as goalkeeper at 18 years of age, a position he retained on and off for a further seven years. After winning a National League Division 2 in 1961, he ended the year by captaining Castlepollard to a county senior championship. Work brought Ring to Dublin, where he hurled for New Irelands for three years before later joining the Kilmacud Crokes club. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tommy Ring
Thomas Ring (8 August 1930 – 5 October 1997) was a Scottish footballer, who played at outside left for Ashfield Juniors, Clyde, Everton, Barnsley, Aberdeen, Fraserburgh, Stevenage Town and for Scotland. Club career Ring was born in Glasgow and is best known for his time with Clyde, during which he won the Scottish Cup in 1954–55 and also in 1957–58. Ring scored the winning goal in the 1955 Scottish Cup Final replay versus Celtic. He started out as a promising junior player with Ashfield. After he represented an RAF XI against Blackpool Reserves, an opposition scout tried to recruit him. He'd already joined the ''Bullywee'', but that scout turned out to be ex Clyde captain Danny Blair. Clyde also won the Division Two title twice in 1951–52 and 1956–57. He scored 178 goals in 384 appearances for the club in national competitions. Ring was transferred to Everton in January 1960 for £12,000. He made a significant contribution for the ''Toffees'' in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Ring
Thomas Ring Petersen (born 17 February 1980 in Copenhagen, Denmark), better known as Thomas Ring or simply as Thomas, is a Danish singer who rose to fame as the winner of the third Danish series of ''The X Factor''. Thomas started as table tennis Table tennis, also known as ping-pong and whiff-whaff, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight ball, also known as the ping-pong ball, back and forth across a table using small solid rackets. It takes place on a hard table div ... player reaching the national level by the age of 17. When he turned 18, he got a guitar for birthday and Christmas present from his parents, Berit and Ib. He soon started writing lyrics and music leaving table tennis. He graduated from Falkonergårdens Gymnasium and is a qualified teacher at Københavns Dag- og Aftenseminarium (KDAS). In 2017, Thomas competed in Dansk Melodi Grand Prix 2017 with the song, "Vesterbro". but he did not advance to the superfinal. Performances during ''X Fa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royce Ring
Roger Royce Ring (born December 21, 1980) is an American former professional baseball pitcher and coach. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Mets, San Diego Padres, Atlanta Braves and New York Yankees. Early life Ring was born in La Mesa, California. He graduated from Monte Vista High School (Spring Valley, California) and attended San Diego State University where he was a star closer. Professional career Chicago White Sox He was selected by the Chicago White Sox as the 18th overall pick in the first round of the 2002 Major League Baseball draft. New York Mets In 2003, Ring was acquired by the Mets with Edwin Almonte and Andrew Salvo in the trade that sent Roberto Alomar and cash to the White Sox. Ring's performance suffered in the 2004 season and, for a time, he was no longer considered a top prospect. This was evidenced by the fact that the Mets left him unprotected in the Rule 5 draft. Part of Ring's problem was his nonchalant attitude about physic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ray Ring
Ray Ring is an American novelist and journalist. Ring has been based in the American West since the 1970s, with stints in Arizona, Colorado and Montana. Novels * Arizona Kiss' (Little, Brown, 1991) is a noir suspense/thriller about a cynical Arizona journalist who investigates illegal dogfighting. Literary novelist Barbara Kingsolver praised Arizona Kiss for exploring "the shadowy borderlands between cynicism and amorality, and the ways violence can detonate a psyche. This is a rattlesnake of a book: its plot curves and coils and finally strikes, unforgettably." A review in Publishers Weekly described Arizona Kiss as a "steamy, pitiless, tough-as-whipcord thriller ... a rousing experience." The Times Literary Supplement, in London, described the novel as "a well-crafted tale of sexual obsession, treachery and violence ... in its own distinctive shade of noir." A passage from Arizona Kiss describing the journalist's role was excerpted in Columbia Journalism Review, and The National ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nick Ring
Nick Ring (born February 10, 1979) is a Professional boxer and mixed martial artist who is best known for competing in the middleweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship. A professional MMA competitor since 2002, Ring fought in various promotions. Ring was a competitor on Spike TV's ''The Ultimate Fighter 11''. Mixed martial arts career Early career Ring's early background in fighting was as a kickboxer, where he compiled around 30 fights. His transition to MMA was quoted as being because "eventually what I liked about MMA versus kickboxing – and I love kickboxing – was just the whole ground aspect. I like the purity of an MMA fight." Ring was also a professional boxer (during his hiatus from MMA through injury) with a record of 4–1, with 2 victories coming by knockout. Ring started his MMA career in 2002 in local promotions in his home region of Alberta, Canada against Bill Mahood. Ring was able to win via verbal submission just 22 seconds into the first ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Ring
Michael Ring (born 24 December 1953) is an Irish Fine Gael politician who has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Mayo constituency since 1997, and previously from 1994 to 1997 for the Mayo West constituency. He served as Minister for Rural and Community Development from 2017 to 2020 and as a Minister of State from 2011 to 2017. Early and personal life Ring was born in Westport, County Mayo, in 1953. He was educated at Westport CBS and the local vocational school. He later worked as an estate agent and auctioneer in Westport. Political career Ring was unsuccessful as a Fine Gael candidate in the Mayo West constituency in the 1992 general election. However, he was elected at his second attempt in a 1994 by-election. He was appointed to the Fine Gael Front Bench in 2002, as Spokesperson on Social and Family Affairs. Ring stepped down from the Front Bench in 2004, after an expected demotion, however, he returned in 2007 as Spokesperson on Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Merritt Clarke Ring
Merritt Clarke Ring (October 30, 1850July 21, 1915) was an American lawyer and Republican politician from Clark County, Wisconsin. He was a member of the Wisconsin Senate during the 1885 session, and was a member of the State Assembly for 1889. Biography Born in Milton, Wisconsin, he moved with his family to Madison and then Sparta, Wisconsin, where he went to school. He taught school and then went to the University of Wisconsin Law School graduating in 1873. He then practiced law with Clarion A. Youmans in Neillsville, Wisconsin. He also owned a livestock farm. Ring served in the Wisconsin State Senate in 1885 and then in the Wisconsin State Assembly in 1889 as a Republican. In 1892, Ring was appointed special statistic agent for the United States Department of Agriculture for Europe with offices in London, England. He also served as United States deputy consul general in London. In 1895, he was appointed attorney for the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad. He died in Neillsvill ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matthias Ring
Matthias Franz Johann Ring (born 22 February 1963 in Wallenfels, District of Kronach, Upper Franconia) is a German theologian and the Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of the Old-Catholics in Germany. He attended elementary school in Wallenfels from 1969 to 1973 and secondary school ("Kaspar-Zeuss- Gymnasium") in the city of Kronach from 1977, from which he graduated in 1982 ("Abitur"). After graduation from secondary school he read Roman Catholic theology at the University of Würzburg and at the University of Bamberg and graduated with a diploma in 1988. After reception into the Old Catholic Church he subsequently studied at the Department for Old Catholic Theology at the University of Bonn for a further two semesters and passed the supplementary examination required for ordination on 25 October 1991. Ring was made a deacon by Bishop Sigisbert Kraft on 13 May 1989 to serve the Old Catholic communities of Würzburg and Nürnberg. Some six months later (18 November 1989) he was or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Ring
Mark Gerarde Ring (born 15 October 1962) played rugby union for Cardiff, Pontypool and Wales between 1982 and 1996. He was regarded as among the most gifted players of his generation but his career was hampered by serious injury. Club career A great entertainer, Ring was noted for his cheek, flair and individual skill. He first came to attention as outside half for the Cardiff RFC Youth team where he gained selection for Wales Youth, scoring a try on debut v England. He made his senior debut as an 18-year-old during his Youth season against Cote Des Basques in Biarritz for whom Serge Blanco scored three tries. He played in and won three Welsh Cup Finals and played for Cardiff when they defeated the 1984 Australian Tourists who completed the Grand Slam of Tests but yet again, failed to defeat a Cardiff team who still remain unbeaten against every Australian Touring team who ever crossed these shores. He became a great crowd favourite with his hometown club but also spent a few s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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