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Steve Knight (Mayor)
Steve, Steven, or Stephen Knight may refer to: *Steve Knight (musician) (1935–2013), American jazz/rock keyboard *Steve Knight (politician) (born 1966), former U.S. Representative from California * Steve Knight (pool player) (1973–2019), British pool player *Steven Knight (born 1959), British writer and co-creator of ''Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?'' * Steven Knight (footballer) (1961–2009), Australian rules footballer *Stephen Knight (author) (1951–1985), British author * Stephen Knight (martyr) (died 1555), English Protestant martyr *Stephen Knight (poet) (born 1960), Welsh writer *Stephen Knight (politician), former Member of the London Assembly (2012-2016) *Stephen Knight (rugby) (born 1948), former representative Australian rugby league and rugby union footballer *Stephen Thomas Knight Stephen Thomas Knight MA (Oxon.), PhD (Sydney), F.A.H.A., F.E.A. (born 21 September 1940) was, until September 2011, a distinguished research professor in English literature at Cardiff ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Knight (musician)
Stephen Sanders "Steve" Knight (12 May 1935 – 19 January 2013) was an American musician best known as the keyboardist for the rock band Mountain from 1969 until his departure in 1972. Biography Knight was born in New York to artist parents. From 1938–1950 his family lived in Woodstock, New York. In 1950, his father became a professor at Columbia University and moved the family to New York City. In 1952, Knight graduated from high school (New Lincoln School) and enrolled at Columbia later that year. He stayed at Columbia for most of the 1950s (1952–1959) studying art, music and psychology. He earned a B.S. degree majoring in psychology, and had one year of graduate work in psychology. From 1959 to 1968, Knight recorded with or was a member of various bands including the Feenjon Group, the Peacemakers, Devil's Anvil and Wings (not McCartney's group). In 1969, producer/vocalist/bassist Felix Pappalardi organized Mountain. The initial line-up included Leslie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Knight (politician)
Stephen Thomas Knight (born December 17, 1966) is an American politician, military veteran and former police officer. A member of the Republican Party, he served as the U.S. representative for California's 25th congressional district from 2015 to 2019. Knight previously represented California's 21st State Senate district from 2012 to 2015 and California's 36th State Assembly district from 2008 through 2012; he also served as Assistant Minority Leader in the California State Assembly from 2010 until 2012. Knight served in the U.S. Army from 1985 to 1993 and 18 years with the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD). He was first elected to the Palmdale City Council in 2005. He lost his reelection bid in 2018 to Democrat Katie Hill. After Hill resigned the following year, he ran in the 2020 special election to complete her term, as well as the concurrent election for the next term, but he did not advance past the primary in either election. Early life, military service, and priv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Knight (pool Player)
Steve Knight (12 July 1973 – 13 January 2019) was an English professional pool player. Knight spent four times representing the European team at the Mosconi Cup and was the winner of the 2000 World Pool League. Career Knight's first major competition was at the 1997 World Pool Masters, reaching the second round of the competition. The following year he reached the quarter-finals of the event. Knight's best result at a world championship was at the 1999 World Professional Pool Championship, reaching the quarter-finals, before losing to Chao Fong-Pang. In 2000, Knight reached the last 16 of the 2000 WPA World Nine-ball Championship, before losing to former champion Kunihiko Takahashi 9–0. He would compete once again in the World Pool Masters, this time reaching the semi-final. Knight has also competed at the Mosconi Cup on four occasions. He played for the team between 1998 and 2001. Achievements * 2000 World Pool League The World Pool League (WPL) was a nine ball pool to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steven Knight
Steven Knight (born 1 April 1959) is a British screenwriter, film director and film producer. Knight wrote the screenplays for the films ''Closed Circuit'', '' Dirty Pretty Things'', and ''Eastern Promises'', and also wrote and directed the films '' Locke'' and ''Hummingbird'' (a.k.a. ''Redemption''). Knight is also one of three creators of ''Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?'', a game show that has been remade and aired in around 160 countries worldwide, and has written for BBC's ''Commercial Breakdown'', '' The Detectives'', ''Peaky Blinders'', ''See'' and ''Taboo''. Early life and education Knight's father was a blacksmith. He attended The Streetly School (now The Streetly Academy) as a teenager, in Streetly, Walsall, in the West Midlands. He then went on to study English at University College London (UCL) where he is an Honorary Fellow. His first experience of writing was in preparing property descriptions for an Estate Agent. Career Screenplays Knight is best known for scre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steven Knight (footballer)
Steven Knight (16 March 1961 – 24 February 2009) was a former Australian rules footballer who played with Footscray in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Following his stint in the VFL, Knight transferred to South Australian National Football League (SANFL) club Port Adelaide Port Adelaide is a port-side region of Adelaide, approximately northwest of the Adelaide CBD. It is also the namesake of the City of Port Adelaide Enfield council, a suburb, a federal and state electoral division and is the main port for the ... where he played 42 games and kicked 67 goals from 1984 to 1986. He died in February 2009 after a long illness. Notes External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Knight, Steven 1961 births 2009 deaths Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state) Western Bulldogs players People educated at Geelong College Port Adelaide Football Club (SANFL) players Port Adelaide Football Club players (all competitions) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Knight (author)
Stephen Knight (26 September 1951 – 25 July 1985) was a British journalist and author. He is best remembered for the books '' Jack the Ripper: The Final Solution'' (1976) and ''The Brotherhood'' (1984). Life and works Born in Hainault in Essex as Stephen Victor Knight, he attended West Hatch Technical High School, at nearby Chigwell. He was not successful academically,Obituary for Knight on Casebook: Jack the Ripper by Richard Whittington-Egan and after leaving school at 16 Knight went to work as a salesman for the [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Knight (martyr)
Stephen Knight was a sixteenth-century English Protestant martyr. His story was recorded in ''Foxe's Book of Martyrs''. For denying transubstantiation, he was burned to death at Maldon, Essex.p.257, John Foxe, ''Foxe's Book of Martyrs The ''Actes and Monuments'' (full title: ''Actes and Monuments of these Latter and Perillous Days, Touching Matters of the Church''), popularly known as Foxe's Book of Martyrs, is a work of Protestant history and martyrology by Protestant Engli ...'', 2000, Ambassador Publications References 16th-century Protestant martyrs 16th-century executions by England People executed for heresy Executed British people People executed by the Kingdom of England by burning Year of birth unknown People executed under Mary I of England Protestant martyrs of England {{England-reli-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Knight (poet)
Stephen Knight (born 1960 in Swansea, Wales) is a British (Welsh) poet, novelist, theatre director and tutor in creative writing. Biography Knight was born in Britain in 1960, at Swansea. He studied English at Oxford University (Jesus College) and theatre directing at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. He has worked as a theatre director in London, and as a tutor in creative writing in the University of Glamorgan and at Goldsmiths' College in London University. His books of poems include ''Flowering Limbs'' (1993), ''Dream City Cinema'' (1996), ''Sardines'' (2004) and ''The Prince of Wails'' (2012). His novel, ''Mr Schnitzel'', was published in 2000. He received an Eric Gregory Award in 1987 and won the National Poetry Competition in 1992. He won the 2003 Times Literary Supplement, TLS/ Blackwells Poetry Competition for "The Long Way Home". His writing deals with disappointment and decay, albeit with a lightness of touch. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Knight, Stephen 1960 b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Knight (politician)
Stephen Knight is a Labour politician in the United Kingdom who has previously been a member of the London Assembly for the Liberal Democrats. Political career Knight was a councillor in Richmond upon Thames and a past leader of the Liberal Democrat group there. From 2006 to 2010, he served as Deputy Leader with responsibility for finance. He was largely responsible for the rebuilding of Teddington School under the Building Schools for the Future programme. He was elected as a London-wide member of the London Assembly in 2012, but did not stand in 2016 after being demoted by party members from second place to fifth place on the Liberal Democrat candidate list. He defected to the Labour Party in January 2018 and was not re-elected on 3 May 2018. Personal life His partner, Jennifer Churchill, was a Labour Labour or labor may refer to: * Childbirth, the delivery of a baby * Labour (human activity), or work ** Manual labour, physical work ** Wage labour, a socioeconomic re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Knight (rugby)
Stephen Oliver "Steve" Knight (born 24 July 1948 in Manly, New South Wales) is an Australian former rugby union and professional rugby league footballer - a dual code international. He played as a winger or centre. Rugby union Knight's rugby union career was with the Manly RUFC, Manly club in Sydney. He represented the Australia national rugby union team, Wallabies on six occasions between 1969 and 1971, once against Scotland and five times against South Africa national rugby union team, South Africa. Knight's international debut was against South Africa on the Wallabies' 1969 tour and he met them again during the tumultuous Springbok tour of 1971 that resulted in a groundswell of anti-apartheid expression by Australian demonstrators. He earned a seventh international rugby union cap as a member of a Presidents XV against England in 1970. Rugby league Knight switched to rugby league in 1972, joining the Western Suburbs Magpies. He was selected to represent Australia national ru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Thomas Knight
Stephen Thomas Knight MA (Oxon.), PhD (Sydney), F.A.H.A., F.E.A. (born 21 September 1940) was, until September 2011, a distinguished research professor in English literature at Cardiff University; and is a professorial fellow of Literature at the University of Melbourne. His areas of expertise include medieval English and European literature, Robin Hood, Merlin, cultural studies, crime fiction, and Australian matters. He has authored over thirty books, and is well known in the public sphere for his contribution to a range of fields. His most recent books have been ''The Politics of Myth'' (2015), ''Towards Sherlock Holmes: A Thematic History of Crime Fiction in the 19th Century World'' (2017), ''Australian Crime Fiction: A 200-year History'' (2018), ''The Fiction of G.W.M. Reynolds: The Man Who Outsold Dickens'' (2019) and ''The University is Closed for Open Day: Themes and Scenes from 21st Century Australia'' (2019). Biography Knight was educated at Bournemouth Grammar School a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Knight (jockey)
Steve, Steven, or Stephen Knight may refer to: *Steve Knight (musician) (1935–2013), American jazz/rock keyboard *Steve Knight (politician) (born 1966), former U.S. Representative from California *Steve Knight (pool player) (1973–2019), British pool player *Steven Knight (born 1959), British writer and co-creator of ''Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?'' *Steven Knight (footballer) (1961–2009), Australian rules footballer *Stephen Knight (author) (1951–1985), British author *Stephen Knight (martyr) (died 1555), English Protestant martyr *Stephen Knight (poet) (born 1960), Welsh writer *Stephen Knight (politician), former Member of the London Assembly (2012-2016) *Stephen Knight (rugby) (born 1948), former representative Australian rugby league and rugby union footballer *Stephen Thomas Knight Stephen Thomas Knight MA (Oxon.), PhD (Sydney), F.A.H.A., F.E.A. (born 21 September 1940) was, until September 2011, a distinguished research professor in English literature at Cardiff Uni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
