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Singleton (surname)
Singleton is a surname. People with the surname include: * Al Singleton (born 1975), American football linebacker * Alvin Singleton (born 1940), American composer * Antron Singleton, known as Big Lurch (born 1976), American rapper and cannibal * Benjamin "Pap" Singleton (1809–1892), African American separatist leader * Billy Singleton (born 1968), British basketball player * C. T. Singleton, Jr., (1905–1977), American admiral * Charles Laverne Singleton (1959–2004), executed inmate * Charles Singleton (songwriter) (1913–1985), American songwriter * Charles S. Singleton (1909–1985), American critic of literature * Chris Singleton (musician) (born 1977), Irish musician * Chris Singleton (American football) (born 1967), American football player * Chris Singleton (baseball) (born 1972), American baseball player * Frederick W. Singleton (1858–1941), New York assemblyman * George Singleton, (born 1958), American writer * Gordon Singleton (born 1956), Canadian Olympic cyclis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Surname
In some cultures, a surname, family name, or last name is the portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family, tribe or community. Practices vary by culture. The family name may be placed at either the start of a person's full name, as the forename, or at the end; the number of surnames given to an individual also varies. As the surname indicates genetic inheritance, all members of a family unit may have identical surnames or there may be variations; for example, a woman might marry and have a child, but later remarry and have another child by a different father, and as such both children could have different surnames. It is common to see two or more words in a surname, such as in compound surnames. Compound surnames can be composed of separate names, such as in traditional Spanish culture, they can be hyphenated together, or may contain prefixes. Using names has been documented in even the oldest historical records. Examples of surnames are documented in the 11th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
IronE Singleton
Robert "IronE" Singleton (born November 30, 1975) is an American actor. He is best known for portraying Alton in '' The Blind Side'' and for starring as Theodore "T-Dog" Douglas in the AMC series '' The Walking Dead''. Since leaving the cast of ''The Walking Dead'' he has continued to be involved in fan events and conventions as well as developing his own one-man show ''Blindsided by The Walking Dead''. Early life Singleton was born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia. He graduated from the University of Georgia, where he majored in speech communication and theatre. He played defensive back for the Georgia Bulldogs for two years until Champ Bailey, Kirby Smart, and several other highly recruited defensive backs joined the team. He then switched to running back A running back (RB) is a member of the offensive backfield in gridiron football. The primary roles of a running back are to receive American football plays#Offensive terminology, handoffs from the quarterback to Rush (Ame ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Penny Singleton
Penny Singleton (born Mariana Dorothy McNulty, September 15, 1908 – November 12, 2003) was an American actress, singer, dancer and labor leader. During her 60-year career on stage, screen, radio and television, Singleton appeared as the comic-strip heroine Blondie (comic strip), Blondie Bumstead in a Blondie (1938 film), series of 28 motion pictures from 1938 until 1950 and the popular ''Blondie (radio), Blondie'' radio program from 1939 until 1950. Singleton also provided the voice of Jane Jetson in the animated series ''The Jetsons'' from 1962 to 1963. Behind the scenes, Singleton served two terms as president of the American Guild of Variety Artists, and testified before a Senate subcommittee in 1962 on the union's treatment of women variety workers. Early life Singleton was born in Philadelphia to Bernard J. "Benny" McNulty and Mary Dorothy McNulty. She began performing professionally as a child, and only completed sixth grade in her schooling. Career Singleton ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Singleton
Mike Singleton (21 February 1951 – 10 October 2012) was a British video game designer who wrote various well-regarded titles for the ZX Spectrum during the 1980s. His titles include '' The Lords of Midnight'', ''Doomdark's Revenge'', ''Dark Sceptre'', '' War in Middle Earth'' and ''Midwinter''. Before developing video games, Singleton was an English teacher in Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, England. Early work Singleton was originally a teacher and started programming in the late 1970s, and writing ''Computer Race'', a horse racing game he designed for a betting shop on the Commodore PET. Moving on from this, he began working on arcade games for the Pet, working with PetSoft, where he wrote ''Space Ace'' entirely in 6502 machine code. The game broke sales records of the day by selling three hundred copies. Singleton's association with PetSoft turned out to be short-lived, as PetSoft, who had been due to enter into a contract with Sinclair Research in Cambridge to write s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Singleton
George Michael Singleton Order of the British Empire, CBE Military Cross, MC (12 May 191311 December 2002) was an English first-class cricketer who played in three matches, appearing once for Cambridge University Cricket Club, Cambridge University and twice for Worcestershire County Cricket Club, Worcestershire. He took five wickets with his left-arm spin and scored 34 runs in his five innings. He later played for the Free Foresters and I Zingari. Singleton was born in Repton, Derbyshire, where his father was a schoolmaster. In 1916, his father became headmaster of The Elms School, Colwall, The Elms School in Colwall. Michael was the eldest of four brothers. Sandy Singleton was a county cricketer who became captain of Oxford and Worcestershire. John became a farmer in Scotland, and Tim Singleton became President of the Law Society, and was knighted. He was educated at Uppingham School, Uppingham and Pembroke College, Cambridge, and became a teacher at West Down School near Wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Singleton (politician)
Mark Singleton (1762 – 17 July 1840) was an Anglo-Irish politician. He sat in the House of Commons of Great Britain as an MP for the borough of Eye from 1796 to 1799, in the Irish House of Commons in 1800 as the Member of Parliament (MP) for the rotten borough of Carysfort in County Wicklow, and then in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom as an MP for Eye from 1807 to 1820. Singleton was the third son of Dublin lawyer Sydenham Singleton (formerly Fowke) and his wife Elizabeth Whyte, only daughter of the Dublin attorney Mark Whyte.The London Magazine, and Monthly Chronologer, July 1753, p.3/ref> He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford and at Lincoln's Inn. In 1785 and eloped with Lady Mary Cornwallis, daughter of Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis, but her father soon endorsed the marriage. Despite qualifying as a barrister, Singleton turned to the British Army, becoming an ensign in the 1st Foot Guards "Shamed be whoever thinks ill of it." , color ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Singleton (actor)
Mark Singleton (1919–1986) was a British film and television actor. Partial filmography * ''The Gambler and the Lady'' (1952) - Waiter at Jack of Spades (uncredited) * ''Girdle of Gold'' (1952) - Waiter * ''Gilbert Harding Speaking of Murder'' (1953) - 2nd Drama critic * ''Take a Powder'' (1953) - (uncredited) * '' Face the Music'' (1954) - Waiter * '' You Lucky People!'' (1955) - Lt. Arthur Robson * ''Moment of Indiscretion'' (1958) - (Jeweller) * ''Innocent Meeting'' (1959) - (uncredited) * ''No Safety Ahead'' (1959) - Fordham * ''Top Floor Girl'' (1959) - (uncredited) * '' Bluebeard's Ten Honeymoons'' (1960) - Advertising Clerk (uncredited) * ''Compelled'' (1960) - Derek * ''Transatlantic'' (1960) - Mills * '' Sentenced for Life'' (1960) - Edward Thompson * ''A Taste of Money'' (1960) - Detective * ''The Court Martial of Major Keller'' (1961) - Captain Fuller * ''Murder in Eden (film)'' (1961) - Arnold Woolf * ''Part-Time Wife'' (1961) - Detective * '' Partners in Crime'' (19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lawrence Singleton
Lawrence Bernard "Larry" Singleton (July 28, 1927 – December 28, 2001), nicknamed the "Mad Chopper" in media accounts, was an American criminal known for perpetrating an infamous rape and mutilation of adolescent hitchhiker Mary Vincent in California in 1978, and then perpetrating a second attack on a woman shortly after being released from prison eight years later. He raped Mary and cut off her forearms, then left her to die in a culvert off Interstate 5 in Del Puerto Canyon. Mary managed to hike to safety and later acted as a key witness against the rapist. Released from prison on good behavior after serving eight years of his fourteen-year sentence, Singleton later murdered Roxanne Hayes, a mother of three. On February 19, 1997, police found him covered in blood after stabbing her in his new home. Biography Lawrence Singleton was born in Tampa, Florida. He worked as a merchant seaman. First conviction On September 29, 1978, Singleton picked up 15-year-old Mary Vincent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kenneth Singleton
Kenneth Jan Singleton (born 1951) is an American economist. He is a leading figure in empirical financial economics, and a faculty member at Stanford University. As the Adams Distinguished Professor of Management, Emeritus at Stanford Graduate School of Business, Singleton teaches a variety of degree courses in finance. Singleton received a BA in Mathematics from Reed College in 1973, and went on to complete his PhD in Economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His recent research in econometric methods for estimation and testing of dynamic asset pricing models has been highly influential in academic circles. He is the author of Credit Risk with Darrell Duffie and a new book titled Empirical Dynamic Asset Pricing: Model Specification and Econometric Assessment. He has coauthored significant academic papers with Lars Peter Hansen, Darrell Duffie, Jun Pan and Qiang Dai. Ken's research interests are in econometric methods for estimation and testing of dynamic asset pricin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ken Singleton
Kenneth Wayne Singleton (born June 10, 1947) is an American former professional baseball player and television sports commentator. He played in Major League Baseball as an outfielder and designated hitter from to , most prominently as a member of the Baltimore Orioles where, he was a three-time All-Star player and was a member of the 1983 World Series winning team. He also played for the New York Mets and the Montreal Expos. In 1982, Singleton was named the recipient of the prestigious Roberto Clemente Award and in 1986, he was inducted into the Baltimore Orioles Hall of Fame. Baseball career Born in Manhattan, New York City, and raised in nearby Mount Vernon, Singleton played both baseball and basketball in high school. He also played baseball in the Bronx Federation League at Macombs Dam Park, across the street from Yankee Stadium. Singleton was drafted out of Hofstra University by the New York Mets as the third overall pick in the 1st round of the 1967 Major League Baseball ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jon Singleton (baseball)
Jonathan Lee Singleton (born September 18, 1991) is an American professional baseball first baseman for the Houston Astros of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for the Milwaukee Brewers. Singleton grew up in Long Beach, California, and was drafted by the Philadelphia Phillies in 2009. He was one of several prospects traded to the Astros in exchange for Hunter Pence in 2011. He signed a $10 million contract with the Astros before making his major league debut in 2014, but he struggled, last playing for the Astros in 2015 before they relegated him to the minor leagues and released him in 2018. After playing in the Mexican League, Singleton signed a minor league contract with the Brewers, for whom he returned to the major leagues in 2023. Early life Singleton played baseball at Millikan High School in Long Beach, California. He committed to play at California State University, Long Beach a few months before the 2009 Major League Baseball Dra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Singleton (Australian Entrepreneur)
John Desmond Singleton (born 9 November 1941) is an Australian entrepreneur. He built his success and wealth in the advertising business in Australia in the 1970s and 1980s. He now has diverse investment interests in radio broadcasting, publishing and thoroughbred breeding and racing. In 2019, Singleton sold his 32.2% stake in Macquarie Media for A$80 million, to Nine Entertainment. Early life Singleton was born in the Sydney suburb of Enfield and educated at Fort Street High School. Advertising career He commenced a career in advertising in 1958 as a mail boy in the Sydney office of J. Walter Thompson and after five years took a creative role at Berry Currie Advertising. Five years hence he was the Creative Director at that agency. In 1968 together with his Art Director partner Dunc McAllan, he started his own agency in Sydney and the pair soon teamed-up with Rob Palmer and Mike Strauss who had an existing small Melbourne shop with media buying accreditation to start ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
