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Way (surname)
Way is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Albert Way (1805–1874), English antiquary *Ann Way (1915–1993), English actress *Anthony Way (born 1982), English singer *Benjamin Way (1740–1808), English politician * Brian Way (1923–2006), English theatre teacher *Charles Way (born 1972), American football player *Damon Way (born 1971), American businessman *Daniel Way (born 1974), American comic book writer *Danny Way (born 1974), American skateboarder * Darren Way (born 1979), English footballer and manager *Soulja Boy (born DeAndre Way in 1990), American rapper and music producer * Edward Willis Way (1836–1898), Australian doctor *Erin Way (born 1987), American actress *Gerard Way (born 1977), American lead singer *Gregory Holman Bromley Way (1776–1844), English general * Isabel Steward Way (1882–1973), American writer *James Way (1853-1939), Australian minister *Kelly-Ann Way (born 1964), Canadian cyclist *Mikey Way (born 1980), American bassist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English Language
English is a West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family, with its earliest forms spoken by the inhabitants of early medieval England. It is named after the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the island of Great Britain. Existing on a dialect continuum with Scots, and then closest related to the Low Saxon and Frisian languages, English is genealogically West Germanic. However, its vocabulary is also distinctively influenced by dialects of France (about 29% of Modern English words) and Latin (also about 29%), plus some grammar and a small amount of core vocabulary influenced by Old Norse (a North Germanic language). Speakers of English are called Anglophones. The earliest forms of English, collectively known as Old English, evolved from a group of West Germanic (Ingvaeonic) dialects brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers in the 5th century and further mutated by Norse-speaking Viking settlers starting in the 8th and 9th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erin Way
Erin Way (born September 13, 1987) is an American actress. She is known for her role as Kat in the Syfy drama series ''Alphas ''Alphas'' is an American superhero drama television series created by Zak Penn and Michael Karnow. It follows a group of people with superhuman abilities, known as "Alphas", as they work to prevent crimes committed by other Alphas. The series ...''. She joined the show in the third episode of the second season. A former ballet dancer, Erin Way started acting while in high school. Filmography References External links * Living people 1987 births Actresses from Portland, Oregon American film actresses American television actresses 21st-century American actresses Portland State University alumni {{US-screen-actor-1980s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tony Way
Tony Paul Way (born 7 October 1978) is an English actor, comedian, and writer. He is best known for playing characters in a number of British comedy TV series including '' Extras'', '' After Life'', ''Black Books'' and ''Bang, Bang, It's Reeves and Mortimer'', as well as comedy movies including ''Sightseers'' and ''Ali G Indahouse''. He has since moved into drama, appearing as Plague in ''The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo'', Dontos Hollard in HBO's ''Game of Thrones'', and Thomas Nashe in '' Anonymous''. Early life Way was born in Rochford, Essex and grew up in Wickford, Essex. Career Way started his career in comedy and acting at the age of 17 when he, Rhys Thomas, Stephen Burge, and Glynne Wiley started making comedy videos as sketch group Stay Alive Pepi while at college. The videos were noticed by Bob Mortimer and Charlie Higson, who gave Way his first television appearances in a sketch on ''The Fast Show'' and in several sketches in ''Bang, Bang, It's Reeves and Mortimer'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Way
Sir Samuel James Way, 1st Baronet, (11 April 1836 – 8 January 1916) was an English-Australian jurist who served as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of South Australia from 18 March 1876 until 8 January 1916. Background Way was born in Portsmouth, England. Reverend James Way, his father, was a clergyman in the Bible Christian Church, who emigrated to Adelaide, South Australia in 1850 along with his wife and four younger children to establish a mission. Samuel, the eldest child, remained behind, studying at Shebbear College in Shebbear, a small village in North Devon, and later at a school in Chatham in Kent. He left England to rejoin his family at the end of 1852, arriving in Adelaide in March 1853. He was soon employed in the office of John Tuthill Bagot, at that time a barrister, and in 1856 became an articled clerk to Alfred Atkinson (c. 1825 – 4 June 1861), solicitor of King William Street. Legal and judicial career On 25 March 1861, Way was admitted to the Sout ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Way
Sir Richard George Kitchener Way Order of the Bath, KCB Order of the British Empire, CBE (15 September 1914 – 2 October 1998), commonly known as Sam Way, was a British civil servant, Chairman of London Transport and Principal of King's College London. Way left school at 18 and joined the War Office as an executive officer working in the finance department of the ministry in London and Hong Kong. From 1949 to 1952 he worked with the British Army of the Rhine organising the army's civilian workforce. In 1955, Way was promoted to Deputy Secretary, and, in 1956, was recommended for the post of undersecretary#United Kingdom, Permanent Under-Secretary. The Prime Minister Anthony Eden considered him to be too young for this level of seniority, and he was moved to the Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom), Ministry of Defence and the Ministry of Supply. In 1960, he returned to the War Office as Permanent Under-Secretary, and, when the War Office was merged with the Ministry of Defenc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pete Way
Peter Frederick Way (7 August 1950 – 14 August 2020) was an English hard rock and heavy metal bassist. He was bassist for the rock band UFO from 1968 to 1982; Way rejoined the band briefly in 1988–1989, and full-time from 1991 to 2008. He was also a founding member of Waysted and Fastway and notably played with Michael Schenker Group and Ozzy Osbourne. Career Pete Way grew up in Enfield, London. He started playing bass guitar in bands with friends from high school. He and guitarist Mick Bolton became friends and they and a drummer formed their first serious band, The Boyfriends. After high school, Way left home at 17 and worked at a maritime insurance company and as a civil servant in the Ministry of Defence. The band eventually added singer Phil Mogg to the line-up and changed the band's name to Hocus Pocus. After the drummer had a nervous breakdown resulting from drug abuse, he was replaced by Andy Parker. They subsequently changed the band's name again, becoming ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mikey Way
Michael James Way (born September 10, 1980) is an American musician and actor. He is best known as the bassist of the rock band My Chemical Romance. He is also the multi-instrumentalist and backing vocalist of rock duo Electric Century. Mikey co-wrote ''Collapser'' with Shaun Simon, which was released July 2019 on DC Comics. Early life Way was born September 10, 1980, in Newark, New Jersey to Donna Lee Way (née Rush) and Donald Way and is of Scottish and Italian ancestry. He was raised in Belleville, New Jersey alongside his older brother Gerard. Growing up, he worked in a Barnes & Noble and later Eyeball Records. Both of these played a major part in the formation of My Chemical Romance. Eyeball signed the band and released their debut record. The first concert he ever went to was a Smashing Pumpkins concert with his brother. After seeing them perform he told him "we have to do this." He was asked to join My Chemical Romance, which involved him having to improve his bass ski ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kelly-Ann Way
Kelly-Ann Way (born September 18, 1964) is a Canadian retired track cyclist and road bicycle racer. Life and career Way was born in Windsor, Ontario, on September 18, 1964, and began cycling at the age of seven and in 1975 she joined the Windsor Bicycle Club. She became a member of the Canadian National Cycling Team in 1983. She studied at the University of Windsor between 1983 and 1987 and graduated with a Bachelor with Honours in Human Kinetics. In 1979 she won the Ontario provincial road championship at 15 years old and won her first national road race in 1980. She competed at the national track championships in 1982 where she won a silver medal in the individual points race and a bronze medal in the 3000m individual pursuit; in 1983 where she won a gold medal in the individual pursuit and a bronze medals in the 1000m time trial, the points race and the omnium event; and in 1991 where she won a gold medal in the omnium event. Way competed at the 1987 Pan American Games wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Way
Rev. James Way (17 June 1804 – 14 August 1884) was a Bible Christian minister in the early days of the colony of South Australia, and for whom Way College was named. He was the father of Sir Samuel Way. History Way was born in Morchard Bishop, Devon and entered the Wesleyan ministry in 1826 and was elected President of the English Conference in 1847. He had been urged to take charge of the Canadian missions, but demurred, as his widowed mother depended on him. Subsequently Rev. James Thorne, one of the founders of the sect and secretary to the Missionary Society, asked him and Rev. James Rowe (22 October 1824 – ) to form a mission to Australia. Rev. James Way left for South Australia on the ''Anna Maria'', arriving in Adelaide in August 1850 along with his three younger children, his wife Jane, and her son Edward. Samuel Way, the eldest, remained behind to complete his studies, arriving in Adelaide in March 1853. Rev. Way soon came across Samuel Coombe of Brompton and P. P. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isabel Steward Way
Isabel Stewart Way (October 25, 1882 - May 1973) was an American writer, in particular of short stories, who won the first prize for best story published in '' The Echo'' during 1927. Biography Isabel Stewart Way was born on October 25, 1882, in Michigan. She graduated from Jennings Seminary in Aurora, Illinois, and spent two years at Albion College in Michigan. She contributed numerous articles to ''Saturday Evening Post'', ''The New Yorker'' and other publications. She published short stories in '' Brief Stories'', ''Young's'', ''Breezy Stories'', ''New York World'', ''The Echo'' and others. She won the first prize for best story published in ''The Echo'' during 1927. She was the author of "Seed of the Land". Way was a member of the San Diego Writers' Club. She lived in Illinois, North Carolina and Florida, and moved to California in 1922, where she lived at 303 N. Mayflower, Monrovia. She married Scott Way. She died in May 1973 and is buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gregory Holman Bromley Way
Sir Gregory Holman Bromley Way (1776–1844) was an English lieutenant-general. Life Gregory, born in London on 28 December 1776, was the fifth son of Benjamin Way (1740–1808), FRS, of Denham Place, Buckinghamshire, MP for Bridport in 1765, and of his wife Elizabeth Anne (1746–1825), eldest daughter of William Cooke, provost of King's College, Cambridge. His grandfather, Lewis Way (died 1771), director of the South Sea Company, and descendant of an old west-country family, first settled in Buckinghamshire. His aunt Abigail was the wife of John Baker-Holroyd, 1st Earl of Sheffield. His brother, Lewis Way (1772–1840), was the father of the antiquary Albert Way (1805–1874). He died at Brighton on 19 February 1844, and was buried in the family vault at Denham Church, Buckinghamshire. Way married, on 19 May 1815, Marianne, daughter of John Weyland, of Woodeaton, Oxfordshire, and Woodrising, Norfolk. He had no children. Career He entered the army as an ensign in the 26th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerard Way
Gerard Arthur Way (born April 9, 1977) is an American singer, songwriter, and comic book writer. He is best known as the lead vocalist and co-founder of the rock band My Chemical Romance. He released his debut solo album, ''Hesitant Alien'', in 2014. Way co-created and wrote the comic mini-series ''The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys'' and the Eisner Award-winning comic book series ''The Umbrella Academy'', the latter of which was later adapted into a Netflix series released in 2019. Way is also the co-founder of DC Comics' Young Animal imprint. In the Marvel Universe, Way is the co-creator of Peni Parker, an alternative version of Spider-Man. Early life Way was born in Summit, New Jersey, on April 9, 1977, From the radio interview. the son of Donna Lee (''née'' Rush) and Donald Way. He is of Italian and Scottish ancestry. Raised in Belleville, New Jersey, alongside brother Mikey Way, he first began singing publicly in the fourth grade, when he played the role of P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
