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Rawlins (surname)
Rawlins is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Adrian Rawlins, British actor * Andrew Rawlins, Rhodesian army officer * Chip Rawlins, writer * Delray Rawlins, Bermudian and Sussex cricketer *Dennis Rawlins, American astronomer, historian, and publisher * Horace Rawlins, English professional golfer *John Aaron Rawlins, American Civil War general * Joseph Lafayette Rawlins, American politician and lawyer *Michael Rawlins, chairman of UK's Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency * Monica Rawlins, British artist * Nicholas Rawlins, British experimental psychologist * Pat Rawlings, American technical illustrator and space artist * Richard Rawlins, bishop of St. Davids *Rondell Rawlins, Guyanese gang leader *V. Lane Rawlins, president of Washington State University *Xander Rawlins Alexander Rawlins is an English singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and record producer. He is the lead vocalist and one half of the Indie Electronic duo LAIKIPIA, who in Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adrian Rawlins
Adrian John Rawlins (born 27 March 1958) is an English actor best known for playing Arthur Kidd in '' The Woman in Black'' and James Potter in the ''Harry Potter'' films. In 2019, he starred in ''Chernobyl'' as Nikolai Fomin. Early life Rawlins was born in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, the son of Mavis (née Leese) and Edward Rawlins, a market trader. . Accessed 27 January 2016 Rawlins was educated at Stanfield Technical High School in Stoke-on-Trent and the Stoke VI Form College. He then studied art and a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Rawlins
Major-General G. A. D. "Andrew" Rawlins was a Rhodesian Army officer. He served in the Rhodesian African Rifles during the pre-independence years when Rhodesia was part of the British Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland. He remained in the unit following Rhodesia's unilateral declaration of independence in 1965. He was a proponent of psychological warfare in the early years of the Rhodesian Bush War but his proposals were not acted upon. In 1967 he recommended other changes in tactics to the Rhodesian chief of staff, Brigadier Keith Coster. Rawlins retired from the army as a brigadier in 1976 but was brought back to command, as a major general, the newly formed Guard Force. This unit was established to defend the protected villages, where the Rhodesian government had moved black civilians to isolate them from the guerrillas. He left this role in February 1977 to become the Rhodesian Army's director of psychological warfare. Rawlins left the army in 1979 as the Rhodesi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chip Rawlins
Chip Rawlins (born 1949) is an American writer and the co-author of '' The Complete Walker IV'' with Colin Fletcher. He also publishes under the name C. L. Rawlins . Rawlins is a non-fiction writer, poet, outdoor guide, and instructor. Previous jobs include: firefighter, science editor, and field hydrologist. Biography Rawlins was born in 1949, in Laramie, Wyoming. He went to Utah State University and was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. He lives in Laramie, where he has served as president of the Wyoming Outdoor Council and on the Greater Yellowstone Coalition. He has also lived in New Zealand . Books * ''A Ceremony on Bare Ground'' (1985) * ''Sky's Witness: A year in the Wind River Range'' (Henry Holt, 1993) * ''Broken Country: Mountains and Memory'' (Henry Holt, 1996) * ''In Gravity National Park'' (University of Nevada, 1998) * ''The Complete Walker IV'' (Alfred A. Knopf, 2002) Awards * USFS The United States Forest Service (USFS) is an agency of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Delray Rawlins
Delray Millard Wendell Rawlins (born 14 September 1997) is a Bermudian international cricketer currently listed with Sussex in English county cricket. He made his senior debut for Bermuda's national team at the age of 15 (in February 2013), and has since made regular appearances for the team in international competitions. Rawlins has also played for the England under-19s, qualifying by attending an English boarding school. On 14 April 2017, he made his first-class cricket debut for Sussex in the 2017 County Championship. On 19 May 2017, he made his List A debut for Sussex against the South Africans team, during South Africa's tour of England. Early life and domestic career Rawlins was born in Bermuda, attending Warwick Academy and playing his junior cricket for Warwick Workmen's Club and Pembroke Hamilton Club. He was inducted into the national youth programme at a young age, where he was coached by former national captain Clay Smith.Lawrence Trott"Early success has Rawlins t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dennis Rawlins
Dennis Rawlins (born 1937) is an American astronomer and historian who has acquired the reputation of skeptic primarily with respect to historical claims connected to astronomical considerations. He is known to the public mostly from media coverage of his investigations into two early twentieth-century North Pole expeditions. In his first book, ''Peary at the North Pole: fact or fiction?'' (1973), Rawlins argued that Robert Peary never made it to the North Pole in 1909. His second book (1993) is the standard critical edition of Tycho Brahe's 1598 catalogue of 1004 stars which detected ten star places that were fabricated, partially or entirely. In 1976, as the only astronomer on the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry, he looked into the purported Mars effect. In 1996 he made headlines when page one of the ''New York Times'' covered his report to Ohio State University which concluded that in 1926 Richard E. Byrd's airplane flight towards the North Pole turned back 150 miles from the p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horace Rawlins
Horace Thomas Rawlins (5 August 1874 – 22 January 1935) was an English professional golfer who won the first U.S. Open Championship in 1895. Early life Rawlins was born at Shanklin on the Isle of Wight, England, the son of Thomas Horatio and Sarah Maria Rawlins. Thomas Horatio Rawlins had married Sarah Maria Brown in Bombay in 1871. Rawlins had an older sister and two younger brothers; all of whom were born in India. Sarah was widowed by the time of the 1891 census and returned to the Isle of Wight, living in Brading. In 1891 Horace and his younger brother Harry are described as golf caddies. The Royal Isle of Wight Golf Club was situated nearby. Golf career Rawlins was one of a number of near-contemporaries who learnt their golf at the now-defunct Royal Isle of Wight Golf Club and went on to become successful professional golfers. The group included Rowland Jones, the cousins Alfred and Walter Toogood, as well as his brother, Harry Rawlins. Rawlins became the club profe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Aaron Rawlins
John Aaron Rawlins (February 13, 1831 September 6, 1869) was a general officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War and a cabinet officer in the Presidency of Ulysses S. Grant, Grant administration. A longtime confidant of Ulysses S. Grant, Rawlins served on Grant's staff throughout the war, rising to the rank of Brevet (military), brevet major general (United States), major general, and was Grant's chief defender against allegations of insobriety. He was appointed United States Secretary of War, Secretary of War when Grant was 1868 United States presidential election, elected President of the United States. Rawlins was a self-made man who overcame an impoverished family background, scanty education, and an absentee father who was prone to drink. After studying law, Rawlins passed the bar in 1854 and started a practice in Galena, Illinois. He was a Douglas Democrat at the outbreak of the American Civil War, Civil War; a noted public speaker, he gave a notable pro-Union ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Lafayette Rawlins
Joseph Lafayette Rawlins (March 28, 1850May 24, 1926) was a delegate to the U.S. Congress from Utah Territory and a Senator from Utah after statehood was achieved. Rawlins was born at Millcreek in the Provisional State of Deseret (Millcreek is in present-day Salt Lake County, Utah). Rawlins pursued a classical course at Indiana University in Bloomington. He was a professor at the University of Deseret in Salt Lake City from 1873 to 1875. He then studied law; he was admitted to the bar in 1875, and he commenced practice in Salt Lake City. Raised in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), young Rawlins disliked the practice of plural marriage and was grateful that his father, Joseph Sharp Rawlins, resisted the pressure of the church to take a second wife. However, when the elder Rawlins did succumb to the wishes of the authorities, his son began questioning the principles and practices of the Latter-day Saints. By the time Rawlins returned to Utah after ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Rawlins
Sir Michael David Rawlins (28 March 1941 – 1 January 2023) was a British clinical pharmacologist and emeritus professor at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. During his medical career he chaired several executive agencies including the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) for 14 years from its formation in 1999 and the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) for six years from 2014. From 2012 to 2014 he was president of the Royal Society of Medicine. Rawlins delivered several eponymous lectures during his medical career including the 2008 Harveian Oration at the Royal College of Physicians (RCP), where he argued that there were other ways of collecting useful clinical evidence other than only randomised controlled trials and he encouraged a range of methods to provide a more holistic evaluation. For his contributions to protecting people from the side-effects of medicines he was knighted in 1999, and for his services to the safety o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monica Rawlins
Monica Rawlins (1903-1990) was a British poster designer and artist. Rawlins studied at the Central School of Arts and Crafts in London from 1925 to 1928. She created numerous poster designs for London transport, including for London County Council Tramways, in the 1920s. A portrait of her daughter, painted in 1946, was part of the exhibition ''Writing the Century: The View from the Windows''. She died in 1990. The Victoria and Albert Museum in London holds examples of her work. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Rawlins, Monica 1903 births 1990 deaths 20th-century British artists 20th-century British women artists Alumni of the Central School of Art and Design People associated with transport in London Transport design in London ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicholas Rawlins
Nicholas Rawlins (born 1949) is a British experimental psychologist, and one of the pro-vice-chancellor and vice-president of The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Life Born in 1949, he is the only son of Sir John Rawlins and the grandson of Stuart Rawlins. He was educated at Westbury House School and Winchester College before reading for a BA in Psychology, Physiology and Philosophy at University College, Oxford. He was awarded first class honours in 1971. He subsequently studied for a D.Phil at Oxford under the supervision of Jeffrey Gray. He was married to the philosopher Susan Hurley from 1986 until her death on 16 August 2007. Rawlins is Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Professor of Behavioural Neuroscience at the University of Oxford. His research interests include animal learning and memory, brain mechanisms of memory storage, animal models of psychosis, attentional deficits in schizophrenia, functional magnetic resonance imaging studies of pain in humans, and behavioural phen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pat Rawlings
Patrick Rawlings (born 1955) is an American technical illustrator and space artist. Since 1970s his illustrations related to spaceflight featured in hundreds of books and magazines, as well as in film and television. Pat Rawlings is a B.A. in Art earned from the University of Houston–Clear Lake. He is a Charter Fellow, and Trustee of the International Association of Astronomical Artists. Pat Rawlins bio (retrieved April 17, 2019) He is the 1989 recipient of the Space Pioneer Awards from the National Space Society
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