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Rourke
Rourke is a surname that refers to: *Allan Rourke (b. 1980), Canadian professional ice hockey player * Andy Rourke (b. 1964), English bass guitarist * Colin P. Rourke (b. 1943), British mathematician *Constance Rourke (1885–1941), American author and educator * James Rourke (1838–1914), Canadian lumber manufacturer and politician from New Brunswick *John Patrick Rourke (b. 1942), South African botanist * John Rourke (b. 1969), British Photographer and Videographer * Josie Rourke (b. 1976), British theatrical director * Mickey Rourke (b. 1952), American film actor *Nathan Rourke (b. 1998), Canadian professional football player * Russell A. Rourke (1931–2003), American government administrator; Secretary of the Air Force 1985–86 {{surname Fictional characters * Dorothy Ann Rourke, one of the central characters of '' The Magic School Bus'' *Jack Rourke, protagonist of the 2011 video game '' Need for Speed: The Run'' * Lyle Tiberius Rourke, main antagonist of the 2001 Disney fil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mickey Rourke
Philip Andre "Mickey" Rourke Jr. (; born September 16, 1952) is an American actor and former boxer who has appeared primarily as a leading man in drama, action, and thriller films. During the star of the 1980s, Rourke played supporting roles in films like ''Body Heat'' (1981) and ''Diner'' (1982), before portraying leading roles in films like The Motorcycle Boy in ''Rumble Fish'' (1983), Charlie Moran in ''The Pope of Greenwich Village'' (1984), Captain Stanley White in '' Year of the Dragon'' and John Gray in ''9½ Weeks'' (1986). He received critical praise for his work in the Charles Bukowski biopic '' Barfly'' and the horror mystery ''Angel Heart'' (both 1987). In 1991, following a string of critical and commercial failures, Rourke—who trained as a boxer in his early years—left acting and became a professional boxer for a time. After retiring from boxing in 1994, Rourke returned to acting and had supporting roles in several films such as '' The Rainmaker'' (1997), '' Bu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nathan Rourke
Nathan Rourke (born May 24, 1998) is a Canadian professional gridiron football, football quarterback for the Jacksonville Jaguars of the National Football League (NFL). He previously played for the BC Lions of the Canadian Football League (CFL). Rourke played college football for the Ohio Bobcats football, Ohio Bobcats. Rourke set the single-season List of Canadian Football League records (individual), CFL record for completion percentage (78.7%) during the 2022 CFL season. Early years Rourke was born in Victoria, British Columbia but grew up in Oakville, Ontario. He played minor football for the Burlington Stampeders before playing for three years at Holy Trinity Catholic Secondary School (Oakville), Holy Trinity Catholic Secondary School in Oakville, Ontario, Oakville. He transferred to Edgewood Academy in Elmore, Alabama, for his senior season of high school football. After his grade 12 season, he committed to play college football at Fort Scott Community College in Fort Scott ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
O'Rourke
O'Rourke ( ga, Ó Ruairc) is an Irish Gaelic clan based most prominently in what is today County Leitrim. The family were the historic rulers of Breifne and later West Breifne until the 17th century. The O'Rourke Clan Chieftain is at odds with the O'Reilly Chieftain because both clans contest each other for the title Prince of Breifne. Newerkla, Stefan Michael (2020), Das irische Geschlecht O'Reilly und seine Verbindungen zu Österreich und Russland he Irish O'Reilly family and their connections to Austria and Russia In: ''Diachronie – Ethnos – Tradition: Studien zur slawischen Sprachgeschichte iachrony – Ethnos – Tradition: Studies in Slavic Language History'' Eds. Jasmina Grković-Major, Natalia B. Korina, Stefan M. Newerkla, Fedor B. Poljakov, Svetlana M. Tolstaja. Brno, Tribun EU, pp. 259–27(accessible online) here pp. 263–265. Naming conventions People O'Rourke may refer to several people: * O'Rourke (baseball), baseball player * Andrew O'Rourke, judge an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josie Rourke
Josie Rourke (born 3 September 1976) is an English theatre and film director. She is a Vice-President of the London Library and was the artistic director of the Donmar Warehouse theatre from 2012 to 2019. In 2018, she made her feature film debut with the Academy Award and BAFTA-nominated historical drama ''Mary Queen of Scots'', starring Saoirse Ronan and Margot Robbie. Early life and education Rourke was born in 1976 in Salford, Greater Manchester, to Vivienne and Sean Rourke. She has one brother, Damian. She attended St Mary's RC Primary School, Swinton, St Gilbert's RC Primary School, Winton, St Patrick's RC Secondary School, Eccles, and Eccles College of Further Education. She was the first person in the history of her school to attend Cambridge University, where she studied English at New Hall, now Murray Edwards College. She began directing for theatre at Cambridge and, amongst other credits, was the first woman in history to direct the Footlights Pantomime, which was co-w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andy Rourke
Andrew Michael Rourke (born 17 January 1964) is an English musician, best known as the bassist of the Smiths. He is known for his melodic approach to bass playing. Career Rourke's father was Irish while his mother was English. He received an acoustic guitar from his parents when he was seven years old. At the age of 11 he befriended the young John Maher (soon to be Johnny Marr) with whom he shared an interest in music. The pair spent lunch breaks in school jamming and playing on their guitars. When Marr and Rourke formed a band, he invited Rourke (still then a guitarist) to try on bass, which he fell in love with and has stuck with ever since. Rourke left school when he was 15. He passed through a series of menial jobs and played guitar and bass in various rock bands, as well as in the short-lived funk band Freak Party, with his schoolfriend Johnny Marr. Marr later teamed up with Morrissey to form the Smiths. Rourke joined the band after its first gig, and remained through m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Constance Rourke
Constance Mayfield Rourke (November 14, 1885 – March 29, 1941) was an American author and educator. She was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and attended Sorbonne and Vassar College. She taught at Vassar from 1910 to 1915. She died in Grand Rapids, Michigan in 1941. Rourke specialized in American popular culture. She wrote numerous pieces of criticism for magazines like ''The Nation'' and ''The New Republic''. However, she made her name as a writer of biographies and biographical sketches of notable American figures, such as John James Audubon, P.T. Barnum, Lotta Crabtree, Davy Crockett, and Charles Sheeler, as well as books exploring different components of American culture and its history, of which ''American Humor: A Study of the National Character'', first published in 1931, is the most famous. During the 1930s she worked on the Index of American Design as part of the Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration. Her work was essential in the formation of the schola ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Patrick Rourke
John Patrick Rourke FMLS (born 26 March 1942, in Cape Town) is a South African botanist, who worked at the Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden and became curator of the Compton Herbarium. He is a specialist in the flora of the Cape Floristic Region, in particular the family Proteaceae. Career Rourke studied at the University of Cape Town from 1960 to 1970, where he obtained his B.Sc., M.Sc. and Ph.D. He started working at Kirstenbosch from 1966, and succeeded Winsome Fanny Barker as curator of the Compton Herbarium in 1972. He published several revisions of Proteacean genera including ''Leucadendron'', ''Leucospermum'', ''Mimetes'', ''Vexatorella'', '' Sorocephalus'' and '' Spatalla''. During his career he collected approximately 2000 specimens of flora from the southwestern and southern Cape, Namaqualand and eastern Transvaal. In 1997 he was made foreign member of the Linnean Society of London. In 2003 Rourke was awarded the "Gold medal for Lifetime Preservation of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allan Rourke
Allan Rourke (born March 6, 1980) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player who played four seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Carolina Hurricanes, New York Islanders, and Edmonton Oilers. Biography Rourke was born in Mississauga, Ontario. As a youth, he played in the 1994 Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournament with the Mississauga Reps minor ice hockey team. Rourke was selected in the 6th round of the 1998 NHL Entry Draft, 154th overall, by the Toronto Maple Leafs, after a successful junior career with the Kitchener Rangers as an offensive defenceman. He was named as a second-team all-star in the 1999–2000 OHL season. After three seasons in the Maple Leafs organization, exclusively with the St. John's Maple Leafs of the AHL, Rourke was dealt to the Carolina Hurricanes for Harold Druken. Rourke appeared in 25 games for the Hurricanes, and spent most of two seasons with their AHL affiliate, the Lowell Lock Monsters. After signing a free agent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Rourke
James Rourke (June 27, 1838 – March 3, 1914) was a lumber manufacturer and political figure in New Brunswick, Canada. He represented St. John County in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick from 1890 to 1892 as a Liberal-Conservative. He was born in Musquash, New Brunswick Musquash is a Canadian rural community in Saint John County, New Brunswick. It is located west southwest of the community of Prince of Wales in Musquash Parish. History Musquash was settled in the early 1800s at the head of navigation on the M .... In 1871, he married Charlotte Wishart. Rourke was a captain in the local militia and served on the council for Saint John. He ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the provincial assembly in 1888. References The Canadian parliamentary companion, 1891 / edited by J.A. Gemmill. Members of the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick 1838 births 1914 deaths People from Saint John County, New Brunswick {{NewBrunswick-MLA-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Garner
James Garner (born James Scott Bumgarner; April 7, 1928 – July 19, 2014) was an American actor. He played leading roles in more than 50 theatrical films, including '' The Great Escape'' (1963) with Steve McQueen; Paddy Chayefsky's ''The Americanization of Emily'' (1964) with Julie Andrews; ''Cash McCall'' (1960) with Natalie Wood; ''The Wheeler Dealers'' (1963) with Lee Remick; ''Darby's Rangers'' (1958) with Stuart Whitman; Roald Dahl's '' 36 Hours'' (1965) with Eva Marie Saint; Raymond Chandler's ''Marlowe'' (1969) with Bruce Lee; ''Support Your Local Sheriff!'' (1969) with Walter Brennan; Blake Edwards's ''Victor/Victoria'' (1982) with Julie Andrews; and ''Murphy's Romance'' (1985) with Sally Field, for which he received an Academy Award nomination. He also starred in several television series, including popular roles such as Bret Maverick in the ABC 1950s Western series ''Maverick'' and as Jim Rockford in the NBC 1970s private detective show, ''The Rockford Files'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Rourke
John is a common English name and surname: * John (given name) * John (surname) John may also refer to: New Testament Works * Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John * First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John * Second Epistle of John, often shortened to 2 John * Third Epistle of John, often shortened to 3 John People * John the Baptist (died c. AD 30), regarded as a prophet and the forerunner of Jesus Christ * John the Apostle (lived c. AD 30), one of the twelve apostles of Jesus * John the Evangelist, assigned author of the Fourth Gospel, once identified with the Apostle * John of Patmos, also known as John the Divine or John the Revelator, the author of the Book of Revelation, once identified with the Apostle * John the Presbyter, a figure either identified with or distinguished from the Apostle, the Evangelist and John of Patmos Other people with the given name Religious figures * John, father of Andrew the Apostle and Saint Peter * Pope John ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colin P
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Colin may refer to: * Colin (given name) * Colin (surname) * ''Colin'' (film), a 2008 Cannes film festival zombie movie * Colin (horse) (1905–1932), thoroughbred racehorse * Colin (humpback whale), a humpback whale calf abandoned north of Sydney, Australia, in August 2008 * Colin (river), a river in France * Colin (security robot), in ''Mostly Harmless'' of ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'' series by Douglas Adams * Tropical Storm Colin (other) See also *Collin (other) *Kolin (other) *Colyn Colyn is a given name and surname. Notable people with the name include: * Alexander Colyn (1527–1612), Flemish sculptor * Colyn Fischer (born 1977), American violinist * Simon Colyn (born 2002), Canadian soccer player See also * Colin (given na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
