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Riordan
Riordan is a surname of Irish origin (Irish: ''Ó Ríordáin''; Old Irish: ''Ó Ríorghbhardáin''); ''Rearden'' is a variant of it. From ''ri'' “king” and ''bard'' “poet”, it means “royal poet”. In Irish tradition, the poet was very highly regarded in any royal household, as he acted as scholar, historian and advisor to the king. People with the name * Ann Fienup-Riordan (born 1948), American cultural anthropologist *Bill Riordan (1908–1973), Australian politician from Queensland; minister for the navy 1946–1949 *Daniel J. Riordan (1870–1923), American politician from New York; U.S. representative 1899–1923 *Daniel Riordan (born 1984), Irish professional rugby union player *Daniel Riordan (born 1958), American voice actor *Darby Riordan (1888–1936), Australian politician from Queensland; member of the House of Representatives 1929–36 * Derek Riordan (born 1983), Scottish professional football player * Fergus Riordan (born 1997), Spanish actor *Hugh D. Riord ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Derek Riordan
Derek George Riordan (born 16 January 1983) is a Scottish professional footballer who plays as a striker. He has been capped three times by the Scotland national team. Riordan started his career with Hibernian in 2001 and had a brief spell on loan with Cowdenbeath in 2003. He became one of the top young players in the Scottish Premier League, winning the young player of the year awards in 2005. Riordan signed for Celtic in 2006, but failed to hold down a regular first-team place and returned to Hibernian in 2008. He totalled 104 goals in 260 appearances across all competitions in his two spells at Easter Road. Riordan left Hibs as a free agent in 2011 and signed for Chinese Super League club Shaanxi Baorong Chanba, but the two-year contract was mutually terminated after just four months. He then signed for St Johnstone on a short term contract in March 2012. Riordan then signed for Bristol Rovers, but he was released after a three-month deal. He has since had short spells ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrick William Riordan
Patrick William Riordan (August 27, 1841 – December 27, 1914) was a Canadian-born American prelate of the Catholic Church who served as Archbishop of San Francisco from 1884 until his death in 1914. He served during the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, and he was a prominent figure in the first case submitted to the Permanent Court of Arbitration. Early life Patrick Riordan was born in Chatham, New Brunswick, to Matthew and Mary (née Dunne) Riordan. His parents were both natives of Ireland, his father from Kinsale, County Cork, and his mother from Stradbally, County Laois. Soon after the birth of his sister Catherine in 1844, his parents returned to Ireland with their children and there his brother Dennis was born in 1846. However, the family was soon compelled to flee Ireland due to the Great Famine; after a brief return to New Brunswick, they settled in Chicago, Illinois, in 1848. As a boy in Chicago, Riordan met John Ireland (the future Archbishop of Saint Paul), wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rick Riordan
Richard Russell Riordan Junior (; born June 5, 1964) is an American author, best known for writing the ''Percy Jackson & the Olympians'' series. Riordan's books have been translated into forty-two languages and sold more than thirty million copies in the United States. 20th Century Fox adapted the first two books of his ''Percy Jackson'' series as part of a series of films, while a Disney+ adaptation is in production. His books have spawned related media, such as graphic novels and short story collections. Riordan's first full-length novel was '' Big Red Tequila'', which became the first book in the ''Tres Navarre'' series. His big breakthrough was ''The Lightning Thief'' (2005), the first novel in the five-volume ''Percy Jackson and the Olympians'' series, which placed a group of modern-day adolescents in a Greco-Roman mythological setting. Since then, Riordan has written ''The Heroes of Olympus'', a sequel to the ''Percy Jackson'' series; ''The Kane Chronicles'', a trilogy o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Riordans
''The Riordans'' was the second Irish television drama serial made by Raidio Telefís Éireann (then called ''Telefís Éireann''). It ran from 1965 to 1979 and was set in the fictional townland of Leestown in County Kilkenny. Its location filming with Outside Broadcast Units, rather than using only TV studios, broke the mould of broadcasting in the soap opera genre and inspired the creation of its British equivalent, ''Emmerdale Farm'' (now called ''Emmerdale'') by Yorkshire Television in 1972. Plot The show was called ''The Riordans'' after the name of the central family, consisting of the middle-aged parents, Tom and Mary, and their oldest son, Benjy, as well as the latter's siblings Michael and Jude, who had left farming for other careers and had more adventurous personal lives. Other leading characters included the family doctor, his Protestant gentry-born wife, the (radical Vatican II-oriented) Catholic priest, the conservative Church of Ireland rector, the local pub ow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Riordan
Richard Joseph Riordan (born May 1, 1930) is an American investment banker, businessman, lawyer, and former Republican politician who was the 39th Mayor of Los Angeles, from 1993 to 2001. Born in New York City and raised in New Rochelle, New York, he served in the United States Army during the Korean War before becoming a lawyer and investor in Los Angeles, eventually specializing in private equity. In 1993, he was elected mayor of Los Angeles and was re-elected in 1997. In 2002, he ran unsuccessfully for Governor of California, losing the Republican primary. After leaving politics, he continued to work in business. , he is the most recent Republican to have been mayor of Los Angeles. Early life, education, and career Riordan, an Irish-American, was born in Flushing, Queens, and raised in New Rochelle, New York. Riordan graduated with an A.B. in philosophy from Princeton University in 1952 after completing a senior thesis titled "A Study of the Thomistic Faculty Psycho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Riordan (mathematician)
John Francis Riordan (April 22, 1903 – August 27, 1988) was an American mathematician and the author of major early works in combinatorics, particularly ''Introduction to Combinatorial Analysis'' and ''Combinatorial Identities''. Biography Riordan was a graduate of Yale University. In his early life he wrote a number of poems and essays and a book of short-stories, ''On the Make'', published in 1929, and was Editor-in-Chief of ''Salient'' and ''The Figure in the Carpet'', literary magazines published by The New School for Social Research in New York. He married Mavis McIntosh, the well-known poet and literary agent and founder of McIntosh & Otis. The couple had two daughters: Sheila Riordan and Kathleen Riordan Speeth, and were long time residents of Hastings-on-Hudson, New York. Riordan's long professional career was at Bell Labs, which he joined in 1926 (a year after its foundation) and where he remained, publishing over a hundred scholarly papers on combinatorial analy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Linda Riordan
Linda June Riordan (née Haigh; 31 May 1953) is an English Labour Co-operative politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Halifax from the 2005 general election until standing down in 2015. Early life Riordan was born in Halifax and graduated from the University of Bradford.‘RIORDAN, Linda’, Who's Who 2013, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2013; online edn, Oxford University Press, December 2012; online edn, November 201Profile ukwhoswho.com; accessed 7 May 2015.Linda Riordan - Parliamentary candidates , ukpolitics.telegraph.co.uk; accessed 7 May 2015. She served as a Calderdale councillor for eleven years, representing the |
James Riordan (writer-sportsman)
James Riordan (10 October 1936 – 11 February 2012) was an English novelist, broadcaster, sports historian, association football player and Russian scholar. He was well known for his work '' Sport in Soviet Society'', the first academic look at sport in the Soviet Union, and for his children's novels. He claims to have been the first Briton to play football in the USSR, playing for FC Spartak Moscow in 1963. There are, however, no documents, match reports or eyewitness accounts that support his claim, and many details in the story were inaccurate. Life and career Born in Portsmouth in 1936, James Riordan learned to speak Russian during National Service training in the Royal Air Force from 1955 to 1957. In 1960, he graduated in Russian Studies at the University of Birmingham, before qualifying as a teacher at the London Institute of Education. In 1963, Riordan studied at the Communist higher party school in Moscow; he was an avowed Communist, and was one of the few English stud ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ann Fienup-Riordan
Ann Fienup-Riordan (born 1948) is an American cultural anthropologist known for her work with the Yup'ik of western Alaska, particularly on Nelson Island and the Yukon–Kuskokwim Delta. She lives in Anchorage, Alaska. She received her Ph.D. in anthropology in 1980 from the University of Chicago, where she was influenced by David M. Schneider. Her dissertation was based on 1976-77 fieldwork on Nelson Island, Alaska. Awards * Historian of the Year, Alaska Historical Society, 1991, 2001 * Distinguished Humanities Educator (Alaska), 2001 * Denali Award, 2000, Alaska Federation of Natives, for the greatest contribution by a non-Native Works * Fienup-Riordan, Ann. (1983). ''The Nelson Island Eskimo: Social Structure and Ritual Distribution''. Anchorage, AK: Alaska Pacific University Press. * Fienup-Riordan, Ann. (1986). ''When Our Bad Season Comes: A Cultural Account of Subsistence Harvesting & Harvest Disruption on the Yukon Delta''. Alaska Anthropological Assn. * Ann Fienup-Rior ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Darby Riordan
David "Darby" Riordan (23 July 1886 – 15 October 1936) was an Australian politician. Riordan was the Australian Labor Party member for Burke in the Queensland Legislative Assembly, winning the seat in 1918. He held Burke till 1929 at which time he resigned from the seat to successfully contest the House of Representatives seat of Kennedy at the 1929 federal election. Riordan won Kennedy from the sitting Nationalist Party member, Grosvenor Francis.LEGISLATIVE ELECTION OF 12 OCTOBER 1929 — . Retrieved 3 February 2015. He held the seat, improving his vote at each election, till his death in 1936 and succeeded by his nephew Bill. Darcy Riordan had two brot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Riordan (Australian Politician)
Richard Vincent Riordan (born 11 April 1972) is an Australian politician and businessman. He was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly as a Liberal Party member for Polwarth at a by-election held on 31 October 2015. This was the first Liberal Party by-election win in Victoria in thirty-five years. Riordan is from a prominent family in Polwarth. His great-grandfather came to Polwarth as a young Englishman in the 1800s to make a new start and create a better life for his family. His paternal great-grandfather W. T Parker established himself in the community and was involved in farming, education and the environment. During 1989, he completed his Year 12 education in Calgary, Alberta, Canada as a Rotary Exchange Student and completed his Victorian Certificate of Education at Trinity College Colac in 1990. Riordan was a prefect and admitted to Monash University to undertake a Bachelor of Business Management. During this time he was very active in university politics an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dallas Riordan
Dallas Riordan is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. She first appeared in ''Thunderbolts (comics), Thunderbolts'' #1 (April 1997). Fictional character biography Dallas Riordan's comic book family had a long storied history of being police officers. Dallas was once an New York Police Department, NYPD officer and a soldier before she went into politics and became the aide to the mayor of New York. When the Thunderbolts (comics), Thunderbolts arrived on the scene after the disappearances of Avengers (comics), The Avengers and the Fantastic Four, the mayor wanted to take advantage of the Thunderbolts publicity and chose to appoint Dallas as the liaison between his office and the new team of "heroes". Dallas was unaware that her new associates were super villains in disguise, plotting to use their newfound publicity to get security clearances that would allow them to take over the world. Dallas quickly began a flirtation with Thunderb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
