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Terence (given Name)
Terence is a male given name, derived from the Latin name Terentius. The diminutive form is Terry. Spelling variants include Terrence, Terrance, Terance and (in Scotland) Torrance. Notable people with this name * Terence (c. 195/185 - c. 159 BC), Latin playwright * Saint Terence, several people * Geezer Butler (born Terence Butler in 1949), British musician of Black Sabbath fame * Terry Callier (1945–2012), American jazz and folk singer and guitarist * Terry Crews, American actor and TV presenter * Terence Trent D'Arby (b. 1962), R&B musician * Terry A. Davis (1969 -2018), developer of TempleOS * Terence Dials (b. 1983), American basketball player * Terry Fox (1958-1981), Canadian athlete, humanitarian, and cancer research activist * Terence Garvin (b. 1991), American football player * Torry Gillick (1915-1971), Scottish footballer * Terence Hill, Italian actor * Terrence Howard, American actor and singer * Terrence Hughes, American professional wrestler * Terrence Jenkins, A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terry
Terry is a unisex given name, derived from French Thierry and Theodoric. It can also be used as a diminutive nickname for the names Teresa or Theresa (feminine) or Terence (given name), Terence or Terrier (masculine). People Male * Terry Albritton (1955–2005), American shot putter, world record holder in 1976 * Terry Antonis (born 1993), Australian association football player * Terry A. Davis, (1969–2018), American programmer * Terry Baddoo, CNN journalist * Terry Balsamo (born 1972), American lead guitarist for the rock band Evanescence * Terry Beckner (born 1997), American football player * Terry Bollea (born 1953), professional wrestler, better known by his ring name Hulk Hogan * Terry Bowden (born 1956), American football coach and former player * Terry Bradshaw (born 1948), American former National Football League quarterback * Terry Branstad (born 1946), American politician * Terry Brooks (born 1944), American fantasy writer * Terry Brooks (basketball) (born c. 1968), A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terence Hill
Terence Hill (born Mario Girotti; 29 March 1939) is an Italian actor, film director, screenwriter and producer. He began his career as a child actor and gained international fame for starring roles in action and comedy films, many with longtime film partner and friend Bud Spencer. During the height of his popularity Hill was among Italy's highest-paid actors. His most widely seen films include comic and standard Spaghetti Westerns, some based on popular novels by German author Karl May about the Wild West. Of these, the most famous are ''Lo chiamavano Trinità'' (''They Call Me Trinity'', 1970); …''continuavano a chiamarlo Trinità'' (''Trinity Is Still My Name'', 1971), the highest grossing Italian film to date; and ''Il mio nome è Nessuno'' (''My Name Is Nobody'', 1973), co-starring Henry Fonda. Hill, whose stage name was the product of a publicity stunt by film producers, also went on to a successful television career in Italy, playing the title character in the long-run ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terence Newman
Terence Newman (born September 4, 1978) is a former American football cornerback. He played 15 seasons in the National Football League (NFL) for the Dallas Cowboys, Cincinnati Bengals, and Vikings. He played college football at Kansas State Wildcats football, Kansas State, where he received unanimous All-American recognition, and was drafted by the Cowboys fifth overall in the 2003 NFL Draft. Early years A native of Salina, Kansas, Newman attended Salina High School Central, where he letterman (sports), lettered as a junior and senior in high school football, football, three times in track & field and high school basketball, basketball and once in baseball for the Mustangs. As a senior in football, he had 10 receptions for 251 yards and three touchdowns playing as a wide receiver on offense, while also making 45 tackle (football move), tackles, five interceptions and five PBUs on the defensive side. In addition, he also returned 13 Punt (gridiron football), punts for 271 yards (20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Israel Basketball Premier League
Ligat HaAl ( he, ליגת העל, lit., ''Supreme League or Premier League''), or the Israeli Basketball Premier League, is the top-tier level league of professional competition in Israeli club basketball, making it Israel's primary basketball competition. The league's name is abbreviated as either BSL (Basketball Super League) or ISBL (Israeli Basketball Super League). For sponsorship reasons, the league is also referred to as Ligat Winner Sal ( he, ליגת ווינר סל), lit. ''Winner Basket League'', with "Winner" being the name of a game operated by the league's primary sponsor, Toto Winner. The league is run by the Israeli Basketball Super League Administration Ltd. Overview Ligat HaAl comprises the top 12 basketball clubs in Israel, and was founded in 1954. The league itself is most known in Europe, due to the success of the Israeli teams in European-wide competitions, such as the EuroLeague, EuroCup (formerly called the ULEB Cup), and FIBA's EuroChallenge (formerly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terence Morris
Terence Darea Morris (born January 11, 1979) is an American former professional basketball player. He was twice the Israeli Basketball Premier League Defensive Player of the Year, in 2007 and 2008. He was an All-EuroLeague First Team selection in 2008. High school career Terence Morris played his high school basketball for Governor Thomas Johnson High School in Frederick, Maryland, leading the TJ Patriots to the Maryland Class 3A state title as a senior in 1997. He played under former TJ Patriots coach Tom Dickman, who until recently was the record holder for wins by a public school coach in Maryland with 592 wins in 29 seasons. College career A forward from the University of Maryland, College Park, Morris was hailed as one of the best prospects in all of college basketball after his sophomore season in 1998–99. But while the consensus was that he would have been a Top-5 pick in the 1999 NBA draft had he left school after that year along with teammate Steve Francis, Morris ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terence Millin
Terence John Millin FRCSI FRCS LRCP (9 January 1903 - 1980) was a British-born Irish urology, urological surgeon, who in 1945, introduced a surgical treatment of benign prostatic hypertrophy, benign large prostates using the retropubic prostatectomy, later known as the Millin's prostatectomy, where he approached the prostate from behind the pubic bone and through the prostatic capsule, removing the prostate through the retropubic space and hence avoided cutting into the bladder. It superseded the technique of transvesical prostatectomy used by Peter Freyer, where the prostate was removed through the bladder. Millin graduated in medicine in 1927 from Dublin University after also gaining a degree in maths and arts, and representing both his university and Ireland at rugby. He first became a house surgeon at Sir Patrick Dun's Hospital, Dublin, following which he gained postgraduate qualifications and moved to London with a travelling scholarship. Here, he came across the Irish urolo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terence McKenna (film Producer)
Terence McKenna is a Canadian documentary filmmaker. He has collaborated with his brother Brian McKenna, also an award-winning filmmaker. In 2007, he won the Pierre Berton award. ''Meltdown: The Secret History of the Global Financial Collapse'' In the CBC series ''Doc Zone'', McKenna investigated the history of the global financial collapse from "backrooms at the highest levels of world governments and banking institutions," and "from Wall Street to Dubai to China which began in September 2008. The series included "After the Fall", "Paying the Price", "A Global Tsunami", "The Men who Crashed the World". Partial filmography *'' Meltdown: The Secret History of the Global Financial Collapse'' * '' The Secret History of 9/11'', 2006 * '' Land, Gold and Women'', 2006 * '' Son of al Qaeda'', 2004 * ''Life and Times of John Paul II'', 2003 * ''Korea: The Unfinished War'', 2003 * ''Trail of a Terrorist'', 2001 * '' Black October (film)'', 2000 * '' The Valour and the Horror'', 1992 *' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terence McKenna
Terence Kemp McKenna (November 16, 1946 – April 3, 2000) was an American ethnobotanist and mystic who advocated the responsible use of naturally occurring psychedelic plants. He spoke and wrote about a variety of subjects, including psychedelic drugs, plant-based entheogens, shamanism, metaphysics, alchemy, language, philosophy, culture, technology, environmentalism, and the theoretical origins of human consciousness. He was called the "Timothy Leary of the '90s", "one of the leading authorities on the ontological foundations of shamanism", and the "intellectual voice of rave culture". McKenna formulated a concept about the nature of time based on fractal patterns he claimed to have discovered in the ''I Ching'', which he called novelty theory, proposing that this predicted the end of time, and a transition of consciousness in the year 2012. His promotion of novelty theory and its connection to the Maya calendar is credited as one of the factors leading to the widespr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terry McAuliffe
Terence Richard McAuliffe (born February 9, 1957) is an American businessman and politician who served as the 72nd governor of Virginia from 2014 to 2018. A member of the Democratic Party, he was co-chairman of President Bill Clinton's 1996 reelection campaign, chairman of the Democratic National Committee from 2001 to 2005 and chairman of Hillary Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign. McAuliffe was an unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic nomination in the 2009 Virginia gubernatorial election. In the 2013 gubernatorial election, after he ran unopposed in the Democratic primary, he defeated Republican Ken Cuccinelli and Libertarian Robert Sarvis in the general election. Due to Virginia law barring governors from serving consecutive terms, he was succeeded by his lieutenant governor, Ralph Northam. McAuliffe ran for a non-consecutive second term as governor in the 2021 gubernatorial election but narrowly lost to Republican nominee Glenn Youngkin. Throughout his te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terence MacSwiney
Terence James MacSwiney (; ga, Toirdhealbhach Mac Suibhne; 28 March 1879 – 25 October 1920) was an Irish playwright, author and politician. He was elected as Sinn Féin Lord Mayor of Cork during the Irish War of Independence in 1920. He was arrested by the British Government on charges of sedition and imprisoned in Brixton Prison. His death there in October 1920 after 74 days on hunger strike brought him and the Irish Republican campaign to international attention. Background Born at 23 North Main Street, Cork, MacSwiney was one of eight children. His father, John MacSwiney, of Cork, had volunteered in 1868 to fight as a papal guard against Garibaldi, had been a schoolteacher in London and later opened a tobacco factory in Cork. Following the failure of this business, he emigrated to Australia in 1885 leaving Terence and the other children in the care of their mother and his eldest daughter. MacSwiney's mother, Mary (née Wilkinson), was an English Catholic with strong I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terrence Malick
Terrence Frederick Malick (born November 30, 1943) is an American filmmaker. His films include '' Days of Heaven'' (1978), '' The Thin Red Line'' (1998), for which he received Academy Award nominations for Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay, '' The New World'' (2005) and ''The Tree of Life'' (2011), the latter of which garnered him another Best Director Oscar nomination and the Palme d'Or at the 64th Cannes Film Festival. Malick began his career as part of the New Hollywood wave with the films '' Badlands'' (1973), about a murderous couple on the run in 1950s American Midwest, and ''Days of Heaven'' (1978), which detailed a love triangle between two laborers and a wealthy farmer during the First World War, before a lengthy hiatus. Malick's films have explored themes such as transcendence, nature, and conflicts between reason and instinct. They are typically marked by broad philosophical and spiritual overtones, as well as the use of meditative voice-overs from individu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terrence Magee
Terrence Tyler Magee (born March 16, 1993) is a former American football running back. He was signed by the Baltimore Ravens as an undrafted free agent following the 2015 NFL Draft. He played college football at LSU. Professional career Baltimore Ravens Following the 2015 NFL Draft, Magee was signed by the Baltimore Ravens as an undrafted free agent. On September 5, 2015, he was released by the Ravens. On September 8, 2015, he was re-signed by the Ravens and was added to the active roster. On September 22, 2015, Magee was released by the Ravens to make room for cornerback Will Davis, who the Ravens acquired via trade. He cleared waivers and was signed to the Ravens' practice squad. On October 17, 2015, Jacobs was promoted to the 53-man roster, replacing cornerback Charles James. On October 26, 2015, Magee was waived as the Ravens promoted wide receiver Jeremy Butler. On October 28, 2015, he was re-signed to the practice squad. On November 28, 2015, he was released from practi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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