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Sparrow (surname)
Sparrow is a given name and a surname derived from the common name of the bird. Notable people with the surname include: * Aaron Sparrow (born 1972), American football player * Adolphus Sparrow (1869–1936), English cricketer * Alexey Vorobyov (born 1988), also known as Alex Sparrow, Russian pop singer and musician * Allan Sparrow (1944–2008), Canadian political activist * Bobbie Sparrow (born 1935), former Canadian politician * Brian Sparrow (1962–2019), English association footballer * Charles Sparrow (1808–1897), fifth mayor of Bytown, Quebec * Donald H. Sparrow (1935–1993), former Canadian politician * Don Sparrow, Canadian illustrator * Edward Sparrow (1810–1882), Confederate States of America politician * Emory Sparrow (1897–1965), Canadian ice hockey player * Ephraim M. Sparrow (1928–2019), American professor of engineering * Frank Sparrow (1927–2000), Australian rules footballer * George Sparrow (1869–1933), Australian rules footballer * Gerald Sparrow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aaron Sparrow
Aaron Sparrow (born January 27, 1972) is a former American football quarterback who played three seasons in the Arena Football League (AFL) with the Nashville Kats, Grand Rapids Rampage and Carolina Cobras. He played college football at Norfolk State University. He was also a member of the Calgary Stampeders, Augusta Stallions, Buffalo Destroyers, Norfolk Nighthawks and Wichita Stealth. Early years Sparrow played high school football at Woodrow Wilson High School (Portsmouth, Virginia), Woodrow Wilson High School in Portsmouth, Virginia. He was the All-Tidewater Player of the Year in 1989 and 1990. He also earned ''Parade (magazine), Parade'' All-American honors and helped the team win a state championship. Sparrow recorded career totals of 78 touchdown passes and 5,182 career passing yards. College career Sparrow originally committed to play football for the Virginia Cavaliers football, Virginia Cavaliers but ended up transferring to Norfolk State University after failing to me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herbert O
Herbert may refer to: People Individuals * Herbert (musician), a pseudonym of Matthew Herbert Name * Herbert (given name) * Herbert (surname) Places Antarctica * Herbert Mountains, Coats Land * Herbert Sound, Graham Land Australia * Herbert, Northern Territory, a rural locality * Herbert, South Australia. former government town * Division of Herbert, an electoral district in Queensland * Herbert River, a river in Queensland * County of Herbert, a cadastral unit in South Australia Canada * Herbert, Saskatchewan, Canada, a town * Herbert Road, St. Albert, Canada New Zealand * Herbert, New Zealand, a town * Mount Herbert (New Zealand) United States * Herbert, Illinois, an unincorporated community * Herbert, Michigan, a former settlement * Herbert Creek, a stream in South Dakota * Herbert Island, Alaska Arts, entertainment, and media Fictional entities * Herbert (Disney character) * Herbert Pocket (''Great Expectations'' character), Pip's close friend and ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Sparrow
Captain Jack Sparrow is a fictional character and the main protagonist of the '' Pirates of the Caribbean'' film series. The character was created by screenwriters Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio and is portrayed by Johnny Depp. The characterization of Sparrow is based on a combination of The Rolling Stones' guitarist Keith Richards and Looney Tunes cartoons, specifically the characters Bugs Bunny and Pepé Le Pew. He first appears in the 2003 film '' Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl''. He later appears in the sequels ''Dead Man's Chest'' (2006), '' At World's End'' (2007), ''On Stranger Tides'' (2011), and '' Dead Men Tell No Tales'' (2017). In the films, Sparrow is one of the nine pirate lords in the Brethren Court, the Pirate Lords of the Seven Seas. He can be treacherous and survives mostly by using wit and negotiation rather than by force, opting to flee most dangerous situations and to fight only when necessary. Sparrow is introduced seeking to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Shaw Sparrow
Walter Shaw Sparrow (1862–1940) was a Welsh writer on art and architecture, with a special interest in British sporting artists. He wrote a series of books on art, architecture and furniture. Biography Childhood Sparrow was born in 1862, the younger son of James Sparrow JP FGS (1824–1902) and his wife Caroline (1828–1904), of Gwersyllt Hill, near Wrexham, Wales. In 1855, James Sparrow had become proprietor of Ffrwd Works, a large colliery, ironworks and brickworks between Brymbo and Cefn-y-bedd, which he expanded into one of the most prominent businesses in North Wales. Sparrow in his boyhood got to know many of his father's colliers, furnacemen, blacksmiths, carpenters and farmworkers, and gained respect and admiration for the men, whom he described as "so big, strong, simple-hearted, and kind". He made a study of the cruel conditions endured by coal miners, and the fact that nationally over a thousand of them were killed every year in accidents. This engendered in hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Sparrow
Walter Leonard Sparrow (22 January 1927 – 31 May 2000) was an English film and television actor best known for his appearance as Duncan in the 1991 film '' Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves'' starring Kevin Costner. Born in Eltham, London in 1927, Sparrow began his career as a stand-up comic before moving to acting with a period with the Royal Shakespeare Company. His first film role was in 1964, in ''Dr. Terror's House of Horrors'', with Christopher Lee. Subsequent films, interspersed between countless TV appearances, included the 1969 sex fantasy ''Zeta One'', ''Young Sherlock Holmes'', and the acclaimed 1988 film ''The Accidental Tourist'' starring William Hurt, Kathleen Turner and Geena Davis. His career enjoyed a resurgence in the 1990s, with Sparrow playing key roles in the 1991 film '' Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves'' as the blinded retainer Duncan, 1993's ''The Secret Garden'' as gruff gardener Ben Weatherstaff, and the 1995 American coming-of-age film '' Now and Then' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas J
Clarence Thomas (born June 23, 1948) is an American jurist who serves as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. He was nominated by President George H. W. Bush to succeed Thurgood Marshall and has served since 1991. After Marshall, Thomas is the second African American to serve on the Court and its longest-serving member since Anthony Kennedy's retirement in 2018. Thomas was born in Pin Point, Georgia. After his father abandoned the family, he was raised by his grandfather in a poor Gullah community near Savannah. Growing up as a devout Catholic, Thomas originally intended to be a priest in the Catholic Church but was frustrated over the church's insufficient attempts to combat racism. He abandoned his aspiration of becoming a clergyman to attend the College of the Holy Cross and, later, Yale Law School, where he was influenced by a number of conservative authors, notably Thomas Sowell, who dramatically shifted his worldview from progressive to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rory Sparrow
Rory Darnell Sparrow (born June 12, 1958) is an American former professional basketball player who played in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Born in Suffolk, Virginia, Sparrow played at Eastside High School in Paterson, New Jersey, and was an inaugural inductee into the school's Hall of Fame.Fox Ron"STUDY HALL ON EASTSIDE INDUCTEES" ''The Record (Bergen County)'', April 26, 1999. Accessed August 26, 2008. He played collegiately at Villanova University, where he scored 1183 career points, and made 495 assists. In college, Sparrow made game-winning shots in the last ten seconds of the game on five occasions. Sparrow, a 6'2" guard, was selected 75th overall (round 4, pick 6) of the 1980 NBA Draft by the New Jersey Nets. Including the Nets, he played with the Atlanta Hawks, New York Knicks, Chicago Bulls, Miami Heat, Sacramento Kings and Los Angeles Lakers over a 12-year career, retiring after the 1991-92 season. He scored the first field goal in Miami Heat history, w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rajinder Singh Sparrow
Major General Rajinder Singh, Maha Vir Chakra, MVC medal bar, & bar (3 October 1911 – May 1994) was an Indian Army officer and a two time member of the Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Indian parliament. He was nicknamed 'Sparrow'. Career Singh served in the ranks of the British Indian Army from 3 October 1932 to 31 January 1938. He attended the Indian Military Academy, Dehra Dun, and was commissioned onto the Unattached List, Indian Army on 1 February 1938. He spent the next year attached to The King's Regiment (Liverpool), a British Army regiment, stationed on the North-West Frontier Province (1901–55), North West Frontier. He was then admitted to the Indian Army and joined the 7th Light Cavalry on 24 February 1939. He was promoted to lieutenant on 30 April 1939, and served during World War II. He was promoted temporary captain and acting major on 16 April 1942, to war-substantive captain and temporary major on 9 January 1943 and to substantive captain on 31 January 1945. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Sparrow
Paul Sparrow (born 24 March 1975 in Wandsworth, Greater London) is an English, retired professional footballer who played in the Football League for Crystal Palace, Preston North End and Rochdale, as a defender. He also played non-league football for Lancaster City, Stalybridge Celtic, Kendal Town and Chorley. Playing career Sparrow began his youth career at Crystal Palace and subsequently signed professional terms. He made his professional debut on 8 November 1995 as a substitute in an away 0–2 defeat to Middlesbrough in a League Cup replay. After one further appearance in the Football League, Sparrow moved to Preston North End, in March 1996. At Preston, Sparrow made 20 league appearances over the next two seasons, without scoring, before moving to Rochdale in 1998. At Rochdale, he made 25 appearances, scoring twice, before moving to Lancaster City Lancaster City Football Club is an English semi-professional non-League football club based in the northern ci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pater Sparrow
Pater Sparrow (born Zoltán Verebes in 1978, in Budapest) is a Hungarian filmmaker and production designer. He graduated from London Film School as a director with a production designer distinction. He is the son of Hungarian actor/director/media personality István Verebes and grandson of actor Károly Verebes. Starting as an amateur filmmaker, Sparrow made his first two short films (Without With 1998, The Something 1999,) which were nominated both year in competition in the biggest film festival in Hungary. Since being intertested in the boundaries of conventional filmmaking he applied to the very pragmatic London Film School. While studying in London he had made two short films Sense (2001) Limit (2002) and worked in several film projects as a production designer. He graduated as a MA director and production designer with his diploma film called T?ick (2004) and wrote dissertation in the topic of non-narrative film theories. After living and studying in the United Kingd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mighty Sparrow
Slinger Francisco ORTT CM OBE (born July 9, 1935), better known as Mighty Sparrow, is a Trinidadian calypso vocalist, songwriter, and guitarist. Known as the "Calypso King of the World", he is one of the best-known and most successful calypsonians. He has won Trinidad's Carnival Road March competition eight times, Calypso King/Monarch eight times, and has twice won the Calypso King of Kings title. Career Slinger Francisco was born in the fishing village of Grand Roy, Grenada, West Indies on July 9, 1935. He moved to Trinidad as a one-year-old with his mother, his father having relocated there in 1937.Thompson, p. 184.Harris He grew up in Port of Spain. He began singing as a small child, but his love of calypso was discouraged while at Newtown Boys Catholic School, where he sang in the choir. At the age of 14 he joined a steel band comprising neighbourhood boys, and performed with the band at Carnival. He received his performing name "Little Sparrow" during his early care ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matt Sparrow
Matthew Ronald Sparrow (born 3 October 1981) is an English former professional footballer who played as a midfielder Sparrow made 440 appearances in the Football League across his 17-year-long playing career, notably 369 over two spells with Scunthorpe United, also appearing professionally for Brighton & Hove Albion, Crawley Town, Cheltenham Town and Lincoln City. He went on to play at non-league level for Gainsborough Trinity, before emigrating to Australia going on to feature semi-professionally for Sorrento, Joondalup United, Bayswater City and Fremantle City. Club career Scunthorpe United Born in Wembley, London, Sparrow spent 11 years of his professional career at Scunthorpe United, playing in the bottom three tiers of league football for them. He formally signed for the club as a 16-year-old and played in the FA Youth Alliance final for Scunthorpe at the old Wembley stadium against West Bromwich Albion. After spending several months in prison in 2001, he be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
