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Waters (name)
Waters is a surname, derived from "Wat", or "Wa'ter", an old pronunciation of Gaultier or Walter, and similarly derived from the surname Watson ("Wat's son"). The name is common from an early date in Wales and Yorkshire, as well as Shropshire, England. P. H. Reaney, co author of the book ''A Dictionary of English Surnames'', said βwater was the normal medieval pronunciation of Walter. Theobald Walter is also called Theobaldus filius Walteri, Theobaldus Walteri and Tebaut Water in the Feet of Fines for Lancashire 1212-1236.β Statistics In the United States of America, Waters is the 429th most common surname, with an estimated 64,662 people. In New Zealand, Waters is the 350th most common surname, with an estimated 1,816 people. However, Waters is the 252nd most popular surname in Australia with an estimated 13,768 people, while the United Kingdom ranks Waters as the 381st most popular surname, with 16,725 people. People surnamed Waters Military people * Anna May Waters (1903β ... [...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] |
Derek Waters
Derek Matthew Waters (born July 30, 1979) is an American actor, comedian, screenwriter, producer, and director. He is best known for his work on the television series ''Drunk History'' (2013β2019), which earned him eight Primetime Emmy Award nominations. Early life Waters was raised in Lutherville, Maryland. Waters is dyslexic, and was in special education in school. As a child, he aspired to be a professional baseball player, but didn't make his high school team, and so became a Little League umpire. He attended Towson High School in Towson, Maryland, graduating in 1998. The following year, he went to Second City in Toronto, Canada, 1999 to study sketch and improv comedy. Career After moving to Los Angeles, he worked at Tower Video, a job he liked since he had never been exposed to independent movies before. He has performed sketch comedy in Los Angeles since 2000, and for many years was part of the comedy duo Derek & Simon with Simon Helberg. The two starred together in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne Marie Waters
Anne Marie Dorothy Waters (born 24 August 1977) is a far-right politician and activist in the United Kingdom. She founded and led the anti-Islam party For Britain until its dissolution in 2022. She is also the director of Sharia Watch UK, an organisation launched in April 2014. In January 2016, Waters launched Pegida UK in conjunction with activist Tommy Robinson and far-right politician Paul Weston. Having unsuccessfully attempted to become a Labour Party parliamentary candidate, Waters joined the UK Independence Party (UKIP) and stood in its 2017 leadership election. She came second, with Henry Bolton winning. She subsequently left UKIP to form her own party, "For Britain", in October 2017. Early life Waters was born and raised in Dublin in Ireland, and went to school in Stoneybatter on the Northside of the city. She became an au pair in Germany during her teens. After living in the Netherlands, she studied journalism at Nottingham Trent University in England, graduat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russell Waters
Russell Waters (born 10 June 1908, Glasgow, Lanarkshire β died 19 August 1982, Richmond, Surrey) was a Scottish film actor. Waters was educated at Hutchesons' Grammar School, Glasgow and the University of Glasgow. He began acting with the Old English Comedy and Shakespeare Company then appeared in repertory theatre, at the Old Vic and in the West End. On screen Waters generally found himself playing mild mannered characters. Waters played the leading man in Richard Massingham's amusing instructional short subjects, among them ''Tell Me If It Hurts'' (1936), ''And So Work'' (1937), ''The Daily Round'' (1947) and ''What a Life!'' (1948). In feature films, Waters played secondary roles such as Craggs in '' The Blue Lagoon'' (1949), Mr. West in '' The Happiest Days of Your Life'', Palmer in '' Chance of a Lifetime'' and "Wings" Cameron in ''The Wooden Horse'' (all three in 1950). In later years, Waters was briefly seen as the Harbour master in ''The Wicker Man'' (1973), and his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pink Floyd
Pink Floyd are an English rock band formed in London in 1965. Gaining an early following as one of the first British psychedelic music, psychedelic groups, they were distinguished by their extended compositions, sonic experimentation, philosophical lyrics and elaborate Pink Floyd live performances, live shows. They became a leading band of the progressive rock genre, cited by some as the greatest progressive rock band of all time. Pink Floyd were founded in 1965 by Syd Barrett (guitar, lead vocals), Nick Mason (drums), Roger Waters (bass guitar, vocals), and Richard Wright (musician), Richard Wright (keyboards, vocals). Under Barrett's leadership, they released two charting singles and the successful debut album ''The Piper at the Gates of Dawn'' (1967). Guitarist and vocalist David Gilmour joined in December 1967; Barrett left in April 1968 due to deteriorating mental health. Waters became the primary lyricist and thematic leader, devising the concept album, concepts behind ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roger Waters
George Roger Waters (born 6 September 1943) is an English musician, singer-songwriter and composer. In 1965, he co-founded the progressive rock band Pink Floyd. Waters initially served as the bassist, but following the departure of singer-songwriter Syd Barrett in 1968, he also became their lyricist, co-lead vocalist and conceptual leader until his departure in 1983. Pink Floyd achieved international success with the concept albums ''The Dark Side of the Moon'' (1973), ''Wish You Were Here (Pink Floyd album), Wish You Were Here'' (1975), ''Animals (Pink Floyd album), Animals'' (1977), ''The Wall'' (1979), and ''The Final Cut (album), The Final Cut'' (1983). By the early 1980s, they had become one of the most critically acclaimed and commercially successful groups in popular music. Amid creative differences, Waters left in 1985 and began a legal dispute over the use of the band's name and material. They settled out of court in 1987. Waters's solo work includes the studio albu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Latanza Waters
Latanza Waters is a female house music singer who has been featured on several big club hits by various producers and remixers. Her first record, "Love Struck", was produced by Dewey B and released in 1995. This union led to the creation of the house music group Love Tribe which included Waters, producer Dewey Bullock, and musician Victor Mitchell. Signed by renowned music A&R Simon Dunmore to AM:PM Records in the UK, Love Tribe's 1996 cult classic single "Stand Up" reached No. 1 on the U.S. Hot Dance Club Play chart, and No. 23 on the UK Singles Chart in July of that year. Waters is also the featured artist on two tracks by house music producer Eric Miller: "Deja Vu" (under Miller's alias E-Smoove) and "Insatiable" (under the Miller alias Thick Dick). "Insatiable" hit number 1 on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart in 2002. Waters and E-Smoove went on to release other songs as well; SubUSA's releases "Crazy" (E-Funk) and "Quiver" (E-Rock), Defected release "Beautiful" (2011) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rhod Gilbert's Work Experience
''Rhod Gilbert's Work Experience'' is a British comedy programme produced for BBC One Wales in which stand up comedian Rhod Gilbert attempts various jobs for a limited time (usually a week). Many of the jobs are conducted within his native Wales although some take him further afield to places including Belgium and Yorkshire. Episodes Series overview ''Broadcast dates sourced from the BBC'' ''Broadcast dates are for the original broadcast on BBC One Wales and not nationally on either BBC One or BBC Two'' Series 1 Series 2 Series 3 Series 4 Series 5 Series 6 Series 7 Series 8 Series 9 References {{reflist, 30em British comedy television shows 2010s British workplace television series Documentary television series about industry ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Muddy Waters
McKinley Morganfield (April 4, 1913 April 30, 1983), known professionally as Muddy Waters, was an American blues singer and musician who was an important figure in the post-war blues scene, and is often cited as the "father of modern Chicago blues". His style of playing has been described as "raining down Delta beatitude". Muddy Waters grew up on Stovall Plantation near Clarksdale, Mississippi, and by age 17 was playing the guitar and the harmonica, emulating the local blues artists Son House and Robert Johnson."His thick heavy voice, the dark colouration of his tone, and his firm, almost solid, personality were all clearly derived from House," wrote the music historian Peter Guralnick in ''Feel Like Going Home'', "but the embellishments, which he added, the imaginative slide technique and more agile rhythms, were closer to Johnson." He was recorded in Mississippi by Alan Lomax for the Library of Congress in 1941. In 1943, he moved to Chicago to become a full-time professi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Waters (actor)
John Russell Waters (born 8 December 1948) is an Australian film, theatre and television actor, singer, guitarist, songwriter and musician best known in Australia, where he moved to in 1968. He is the son of Scottish actor Russell Waters.Waters enjoying his "Peter Pan existence". ''The Age'', 25 March 2010. Retrieved 12 April 2013] John Waters has been in the industry for over 50 years, and was part of the Australian children's television series '' Play School (Australian TV series), Play School'' for 18 years. Career [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeff Waters
Jeff Waters (born February 13, 1966) is a Canadian guitarist and the founder and bandleader of the metal band Annihilator. He was born and resides in Ottawa, Ontario. Waters has owned Watersound Studios Inc. since 1994 (where it was in Maple Ridge, British Columbia) and from 2003 until 2018, in Ottawa, Ontario, and now in the UK. Early life Water's father was in the military and his mother was a teacher. His family had houses in Ottawa and Camp Borden, Ontario as well as London, England. He took some classical and jazz guitar lessons at a young age. Waters has referred to Van Halen, Randy Rhoads, Michael Schenker, Judas Priest, Iron Maiden and Black Sabbath as his early influences. In a 2013 interview witphotogroupie.comhe said, "I started listening to Elton John, Kiss, Sweet, AC/DC then it evolved from hard rock with electric guitar to Black Sabbath and the heavier stuff, Judas Priest, Maiden, Loudness, Van Halen was coming in. Then I get turned on to the thrash stuff, so th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Warner (actor)
Jack Warner, OBE (born Horace John Waters, 24 October 1895 β 24 May 1981) was a British actor. He is closely associated with the role of PC George Dixon, which he played in the 1950 film ''The Blue Lamp'' and later in the television series ''Dixon of Dock Green'' from 1955 until 1976, but he was also for some years one of Britain's most popular film stars. Early life Warner was born Horace John WatersWarner (1975), p. 2. in Bromley, Poplar, London, the third child of Edward William Waters, master fulling maker and undertaker's warehouseman, and Maud Mary Best.''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography''. OUP Oxford. His sisters, Elsie and Doris Waters, were comediennes who usually performed as "Gert and Daisy".Warner (1975), pp. 74β75. Warner attended the Coopers' Company's Grammar School for Boys in Mile End,Warner (1975), p. 10. while his sisters both attended the nearby sister school, Coborn School for Girls in Bow. The three children were choristers at St. Leonard's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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