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Sommers (surname)
Sommers is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Ben Sommers (1906–1985), American philanthropist *Charles Sommers (1862–1922), Australian politician *Christina Hoff Sommers (born 1950), American feminist academic *Dale Sommers, American radio personality and country music DJ * David W. Sommers (born 1943), Sergeant Major of the U.S. Marine Corps 1987–91 *Fred Sommers (1923–2014), American philosopher * Helen Sommers (1932–2017), American politician *Jack Sommers (1917–1975), American professional football player *Jay Sommers (1917–1985), American television writer and producer *Joanie Sommers (born 1941), American singer and actress *Robert Sommers (1911–2000), Canadian politician *Rudy Sommers (1886–1949), American professional baseball player *Samuel Sommers, American social psychologist *Stephen Sommers (born 1962), American film director and writer *Tamler Sommers, 21st century American philosopher *William Sommers (died 1560), court jester of He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Sommers
Ben Sommers (1906-1985) was a leading philanthropic figure in the world of dance, and president of the Capezio dance and theatre shoe company from 1940 to his death. He established the Capezio Foundation in 1951, which focused on dance, especially the regional ballet movement. In 1957, he founded the Capezio Awards which recognise the lifetime achievements of those in dance, including Martha Graham, Jerome Robbins, Alvin Ailey and Agnes de Mille. Sommers was also founder of the Association of American Dance Companies. In 1978, the same year he managed to persuade the United States Postal Service to issue stamps commemorating dance, he established National Dance Week, followed by International Dance Week in 1985. Born in New York City, Sommers became a stock boy at Capezio at the age of 14 and worked his way up to become company president in 1940. One of his earliest achievements was supplying shoes to the 1923 Ziegfeld Follies production. In 1962 Sommers married Estelle Losh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Sommers
Robert Edward Sommers (January 3, 1911 – October 28, 2000) was a Canadian elementary school principal and a politician. Sommers served as a Social Credit Member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 1952 to 1958, representing the riding of Rossland-Trail in the province of British Columbia. He served as Minister of Lands, Forests and Mines until his resignation February 27, 1956. He was tried and in 1958 was convicted of bribery and conspiracy making him the first cabinet minister in the British Commonwealth to serve a term of imprisonment for accepting bribes in connection with his office. Early life Born in Leduc, Alberta in 1911, Sommers was the son of J. L. Sommers and Elsie Armonies, both natives of Germany who came to Canada in 1889. Before entering politics, Sommers was an elementary school principal in Castlegar, BC. He was a trumpet player, a local band leader, a part-time insurance broker, a Kiwanis club president and a volunteer firefighter. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Somers (surname)
Somers is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Adeline Marie Somers (1852–1920), British humanitarian and advocate for penal reform *Alan Somers (born 1941), American swimmer *Alex Somers (born 1984), American visual artist and musician; partner of Jónsi *Andrew Lawrence Somers (1895–1949), American (New York) politician *Armonía Somers (1914–1994), Uruguayan feminist, pedagogue, novelist and short story writer *Art Somers (1902–1992), Canadian ice hockey player *Arthur Somers-Cocks, 6th Baron Somers (1887–1944), British Army officer, Governor of Victoria 1926–31 *Bart Somers (born 1964), Belgian politician, Minister-President of Flanders 2003-04 *Brett Somers (1924–2007), Canadian-born American actress, singer, and comedian *Charles Somers (1868–1934), American executive and investor in baseball *Daryl Somers (born 1951), Australian television personality *George Somers, (1554–1610), British admiral who founded the colony of Bermuda in 1609 * Han ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jaime Sommers (The Bionic Woman)
Jaime Sommers is a fictional character from the science fiction action series ''The Bionic Woman'' (1976–1978). She is portrayed by American actress Lindsay Wagner, who first played the role in the 1970s American television series ''The Six Million Dollar Man''. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, she reprised the role in several reunion television films. Jaime Sommers is a former professional tennis star who suffers near-fatal injuries in a skydiving accident. Following cutting-edge surgery, she becomes the first female cyborg. She is assigned to spy missions as an occasional agent of the Office of Scientific Intelligence, while also teaching middle school students at a local airbase. Through the use of cybernetic implants known as bionics, Jaime is given an amplified bionic ear which allows her to detect sounds, at frequencies outside of the human ability to hear, over uncommonly long distances. She also has extraordinary strength in her bionic right arm and both legs, whic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Sommers
William Sommers (or Somers; died 15 June 1560) was the best-known court jester of Henry VIII of England. Early life He was said to have been born in Shropshire, and came to the attention of Richard Fermor, a merchant of the Staple at Calais, who brought him to Greenwich in 1525 to present to the King. This comes from an 18th-century account; little is known for certain of his early life. He is first mentioned in the royal accounts on 28 June 1535. Career Sommers remained in service to the King for the rest of Henry's life. In the King's later years, when he was troubled by a painful leg condition, it was said that only Sommers could lift his spirits. The jester was also a man of integrity and discretion. Thomas Cromwell appreciated that Sommers sometimes drew the King's attention to extravagance and waste within the royal household by means of a joke. Court jesters were permitted familiarities without regard for deference, and Sommers possessed a shrewd wit, which he exercise ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tamler Sommers
Tamler Sommers is an American philosopher and writer. He is the son of the American philosopher Fred Sommers and the stepson of Christina Hoff Sommers. Sommers specializes in ethics and free will, and has commented on the ethics of the Alex Rodriguez performance-enhancing drugs scandal. His book ''Why Honor Matters'' examines the nature of honor in American discourse and defends several aspects of honor cultures. He currently co-hosts the podcast Very Bad Wizards with David A. Pizarro. Sommers received his Ph.D. in philosophy at Duke University in 2005 and is currently a professor of philosophy at the University of Houston. Books * ''A Very Bad Wizard: Morality Behind the Curtain'' (2009). * ''Relative Justice: Cultural Diversity, Free Will, and Moral Responsibility'' (2012). * ''Why Honor Matters'' (2018). References External links Tammler Sommers {{DEFAULTSORT:Sommers, Tamler Living people 21st-century American philosophers Year of birth missing (living people) Americ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Sommers
Stephen Sommers (born March 20, 1962) is an American filmmaker, best known for big-budget action movies, such as ''The Mummy'' (1999), its sequel, ''The Mummy Returns'' (2001), ''Van Helsing'' (2004), and '' G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra'' (2009). He also directed '' The Adventures of Huck Finn'' (1993), Disney's live action version of ''Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book'' (1994) and the cult classic horror film ''Deep Rising'' (1998). Early life Stephen Sommers was born in Indianapolis, and grew up in St. Cloud, Minnesota, where he attended St. Cloud Apollo High School. He is a 1980 graduate of Saint John's University in Collegeville, Minnesota, and the University of Seville in Spain. After graduating, he spent four years performing as an actor in theater groups and managing rock bands throughout Europe. He eventually returned to the United States and moved to Los Angeles, where he attended the USC School of Cinematic Arts for three years, earning a master's degree and writing a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Sommers
Samuel R. Sommers is an American social psychologist and professor of psychology at Tufts University. He is known for his research on implicit racial stereotyping and color-blind racism. For example, he has published multiple studies on the effects of increased racial diversity in mock juries. With Michael Norton, he also published a study in 2011 showing that, on average, white people think more racism against them exists than exists against black people. L. Jon Wertheim and Sommers wrote the book "This Is Your Brain on Sports: The Science of Underdogs, the Value of Rivalry, and What We Can Learn from the T-Shirt Cannon" to explore how psychological and neuroscience principles explain many phenomena in sports (Sports Psychology). Honors and awards Sommers has been a fellow of the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues since 2011. In 2009, he received the Gerald R. Gill Professor of the Year Award from Tufts. In 2008, he received the Saleem Shah Award for Early Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rudy Sommers
Rudolph Sommers (October 30, 1886 in Cincinnati, Ohio – March 18, 1949 in Louisville, Kentucky) was a pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the Chicago Cubs, Brooklyn Tip-Tops and Boston Red Sox The Boston Red Sox are an American professional baseball team based in Boston. The Red Sox compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) East division. Founded in as one of the American League's eight ... in all or part of four seasons spanning 1912–1927. References Baseball players from Cincinnati Major League Baseball pitchers 1886 births 1949 deaths Chicago Cubs players Brooklyn Tip-Tops players Boston Red Sox players Baseball players from Louisville, Kentucky Waco Navigators players Lawrenceburg (minor league baseball) players Terre Haute Hottentots players Terre Haute Stags players Dayton Veterans players Nashville Vols players Chattanooga Lookouts players Pawtucket Rovers players New Haven White Wings p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joanie Sommers
Joanie Sommers (born Joan Drost, February 24, 1941) is an American singer and actress with a career concentrating on jazz, standards and popular material and show-business credits. Once billed as "The Voice of the Sixties", and associated with top-notch arrangers, songwriters and producers, Sommers' popular reputation became closely tied to her biggest, yet most uncharacteristic, hit song, "Johnny Get Angry". Career Born in Buffalo, New York, United States, Sommers began singing in church to deal with "a difficult childhood". In 1951, aged 10, she appeared on a Buffalo television program singing Hank Williams' " Your Cheating Heart", winning an amateur talent contest. Throughout her youth, she lived with her father and 2 brothers in North Tonawanda, New York and attended school there until age 14. In 1955, her family relocated to Venice, California, where she won honors as a vocalist with her high school band at Venice High, and did so again at Santa Monica City College. Her b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Sommers
Charles Sommers (20 January 1862 – 19 March 1922) was an Australian businessman and politician who was a member of the Legislative Council of Western Australia from 1900 to 1918. He was a minister in the first government of George Leake. Sommers was born in Geelong, Victoria, and attended Geelong Grammar School. After a period farming at Bendigo, he went to Morwell (in the Gippsland region). Sommers was elected to the Traralgon Shire Council in 1883, aged only 21. He returned to Geelong in 1886, and was elected to the Geelong Municipal Council, serving until 1894. ''The Inquirer and Commercial News'' (Perth), 31 May 1901. The following year, Sommers left for Western Australia and settled in [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jay Sommers
Jay Sommers (January 3, 1917September 25, 1985) was an American producer, director and comedy writer whose career spanned four decades. He wrote more than 90 television comedy episodes, produced 63, and was creator and producer of the ''Green Acres'' television show. He also wrote for and executive produced ''Petticoat Junction'' during its second and third seasons, and also worked for ''The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet''. Early years Sommers studied chemistry at City College of New York before becoming a comedy writer. Career In 1940, he got a break by being brought in to write for a Milton Berle radio show. (Berle at the time was one of the most popular radio personalities.) He wrote for ''The Alan Young Show'',Sies, Luther F. (2014). ''Encyclopedia of American Radio, 1920-1960, 2nd Edition, Volume 1''. McFarland & Company, Inc. . P. 16. Eddie Cantor, Spike Jones, and Red Skelton on the radio, and for the radio comedy series ''Lum and Abner''. In 1950, he was the producer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
