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Richard Dunn (other)
Richard Dunn may refer to: *Richard Dunn (politician) (1905–1988), American politician from Maine *Dick Dunn (boxer) (1908–2001), New Zealand boxing coach *Richard Dunn (footballer) (1919–1985), English footballer *Dick Dunn (rugby league) (1920–2006), Australian rugby league footballer *Richard B. Dunn (1927–2005), American solar physicist and astronomer *Richard Slator Dunn (1928–2022), American historian *Richard Dunn (actor) (1936–2010), American actor, regular cast member of ''Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!'' * Richard Dunn (television executive) (1943–1998), English television executive and Thames Television CEO from 1985 to 1995 *Richard Dunn (boxer) (born 1945), English boxer *Richie Dunn Richard L. Dunn (May 12, 1957 – September 20, 2016) was an American professional ice hockey defenseman. He played in the National Hockey League with the Buffalo Sabres, Calgary Flames, and Hartford Whalers between 1977 and 1989. In his NHL caree ... (1957–2016), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Dunn (politician)
Richard L. Dunn (November 13, 1905 – October 20, 1988) was an American politician from Maine. Dunn, a Republican from Denmark, Maine, served 5 terms (10 years) in the Maine Legislature, including 3 terms (1962–1968) in the Maine House of Representatives The Maine House of Representatives is the lower house of the Maine Legislature. The House consists of 151 voting members and three nonvoting members. The voting members represent an equal number of districts across the state and are elected via p ... and 2 terms (1968–1972) in the Maine Senate. During his first term in the Senate, Dunn was appointed by the Senate President to the Agriculture and the Appropriations and Financial Affairs Committees. In his second and final term, Dunn was appointed to the Appropriations and Financial Affairs Committee once more. References 1905 births 1988 deaths People from Denmark, Maine Republican Party members of the Maine House of Representatives Republican Party Maine state s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dick Dunn (boxer)
Richard John Dunn (19 May 1908 – 7 August 2001) was a New Zealand boxing coach. Biography Dunn was born in the coal-mining town of Millerton on the South Island's West Coast. His father was a stone-tunneller who bored into the sides of hills looking for seams of coal. He was trained by an Australian boxer and when Dunn was 18 he moved into training for himself. In 1929 he moved his gymnasium from Wellington to the Hutt Valley and eventually set up in Moera’s Railway Workshops, starting off training 100 boys. The gymnasium was open five nights a week and a local policeman used to bring trouble-making boys there in the hope it would give them an interest and to keep them off the streets. Dick had a simple policy on accepting people. Dunn still found time to compete in the ring and won the Hutt Valley and Wellington lightweight title in 1933, but retired shortly after. In the ring there was none tougher or of more determined mind, but outside the ring Dick made it his life ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Dunn (footballer)
Richard Dunn (23 December 1919 – December 1985) was an English footballer who played in the Football League for West Ham United and Hartlepools United as an inside-forward. Born in Easington, Dunn began his career at Ferryhill Athletic before moving to West Ham United in 1937. Dunn had not made a first-team appearance before the outbreak of the Second World War and served with the Essex Regiment and Royal Artillery after hostilities commenced. Dunn spent over six years in the Army and made guest appearances for Hartlepools United, Preston North End and York City, as well as 35 appearances for West Ham in the League South, where he scored 23 goals. He also made an appearance for Tottenham Hotspur in September 1944, when he was called on as a spectator after the Spurs team had arrived with just four players. After the war, Dunn made his competitive debut for West Ham on 9 September 1946, along with goalkeeper George Taylor, in a 3–2 defeat at Fulham. He made 11 appear ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dick Dunn (rugby League)
Richard Alfred Dunn (1920–2006) was an Australian rugby league footballer and coach in the New South Wales Rugby Football League premiership (NSWRFL). Playing career Dunn played 148 matches for the Eastern Suburbs club in the years (1938–47). A local junior of that club, Dunn grew up idolising the senior players, carrying the kit bags of legends like Dave Brown and Ray Stehr; a few years later he was playing alongside of them. Dunn played most of his career in the s though in later years he moved to . Dunn played in four premiership deciders in his career, winning in 1940 and 1945. Dunn is best remembered for the 1945 Grand Final in which he scored 19 of East's 22 points, a record that still stands today for the most points scored in a premiership decider. In an interview with Sean Fagan, Dunn recalls the final minutes of the match – “Yes well the situation was this, the game was very, very close. They led us 10 to 5 at half time and were playing a mighty game of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard B
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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Slator Dunn
Richard Slator Dunn, author and historian, was born 9 August 1928 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. He completed his B. A. in 1950 at Harvard College, his M. A. from Princeton University in 1952, and received his Ph. D. in history from Princeton University in 1955. He joined Phi Beta Kappa in 1950. Upon retirement from his position at the University of Pennsylvania in 1996, he was named the Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Professor Emeritus of American History. He was married to Mary Maples Dunn; together they raised two daughters. On 24 January 2022, he died. Academic career Dunn began his teaching career at Princeton University in 1954, moving to University of Michigan in 1955, then joined the History Department at the University of Pennsylvania in 1957, where he eventually became chair of the department. He founded and was the first director of the Philadelphia Center for Early American Studies, now called thMcNeil Center for Early American Studies according to his biography at t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Dunn (actor)
Richard Dunn (December 18, 1935 – June 4, 2010) was an American character actor popularized by Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim. Dunn was best known to audiences for his appearances on ''Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!'', a sketch comedy television series. Dunn portrayed many different characters (often bizarre versions of himself) in many episodes of ''Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!'' from 2007 until 2010. In addition, Dunn had small roles in ''House (TV series), House'', ''Parks and Recreation'', ''Weeds (TV series), Weeds'' and ''Nip/Tuck''. He also appeared in the 1998 film ''The Wedding Singer'' and the music video for Sean Combs, Diddy's 2000 single "Bad Boy for Life.". He first got into show business through his friend, producer Robert Marcus. He volunteered to be a 'gofer' (production assistant) for Marcus' productions. Marcus wrote a book about how to be a production assistant and dedicated it to Dunn. He first got his start as an actor by taking roles as a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Dunn (television Executive)
Richard Johann Dunn (5 September 1943 – 4 August 1998) was a British television executive who served as the Chief Executive Officer of Thames Television Thames Television, commonly simplified to just Thames, was a Broadcast license, franchise holder for a region of the British ITV (TV network), ITV television network serving Greater London, London and surrounding areas from 30 July 1968 until th .... References 1943 births 1998 deaths International Emmy Founders Award winners British television executives British chief executives Chief executives in the media industry {{UK-tv-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Dunn (boxer)
Richard Dunn (born 19 January 1945, in Halifax) is an English former heavyweight boxer who was the British (1975–76), European (1976) and Commonwealth (1975–76) Champion. He unsuccessfully challenged Muhammad Ali for the World Heavyweight title in 1976. Early life Dunn played rugby in his teens and early 20s. Starting boxing as an amateur in the early 1960s, he turned professional in his mid-20s whilst continuing to work as a scaffolder, living in Bradford, West Yorkshire. He was unable to afford the expense of sparring partners to train with for most of his career, and his coach was his father-in-law. He was a soldier in the British Army, serving as a non-commissioned officer with 4th Battalion, Parachute Regiment in the 1960s-70s, being awarded the Corps' Fishmongers' Trophy in 1974. Boxing career A southpaw, Dunn's professional career began with a win over Cardiff fighter Del Phillips in a heavyweight eliminator competition in Mayfair, London in July 1969. His sec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richie Dunn
Richard L. Dunn (May 12, 1957 – September 20, 2016) was an American professional ice hockey defenseman. He played in the National Hockey League with the Buffalo Sabres, Calgary Flames, and Hartford Whalers between 1977 and 1989. In his NHL career, Dunn appeared in 483 games. He scored 36 goals and added 140 assists. He was also a member of the US national team at the 1981 Canada Cup The 1981 Labatt Canada Cup was the second best-on-best ice hockey world championship and involved the world's top six hockey nations. Tournament games were held in Edmonton, Winnipeg, Montreal and Ottawa. The Soviet Union defeated Canada in a sin ... and 1986 Ice Hockey World Championship tournaments. Dunn died on September 20, 2016, aged 59. Career statistics Regular season and playoffs International References External links * 1957 births 2016 deaths American men's ice hockey defensemen Binghamton Whalers players Buffalo Sabres players Calgary Flames players Hartford Whalers pla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
