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Wiens (other)
Wiens is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Berny Wiens (born 1945), Canadian politician *Dallas Wiens (born 1985), American recipient of a full face transplant *David Wiens, American cross-country mountain bike racer *Douglas Wiens, Canadian mathematician *Douglas A. Wiens, American geophysicist * Edith Wiens (born 1950), Canadian opera, recital and concert singer *John Wiens, American ornithologist * Mark Wiens, American travel and food blogger and television host *Nathan Wiens, Canadian naturalistic designer and woodworker *Paul Wiens (1922–1982), German poet, translator and author * Robert Wiens (born 1953), Canadian visual artist * Rudolph H. Wiens, an aurora scientist ** Wiens Peak, a peak in Antarctica named after Rudolph H. Wiens * Rylan Wiens (born 2002), Canadian sports diver See also * Wien (Vienna) *Wein Wein means grape, vine, wine in German and Yiddish (װײַנ). According to Nelly Weiss,Nelly Weiss. ''The Origin of Jewish Family Names''. p. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Berny Wiens
Bernhard Henry "Berny" Wiens (b. September 2, 1945) is a former political figure in Saskatchewan, Canada. He represented Rosetown-Elrose (former electoral district), Rosetown-Elrose from 1991 to 1995 and Rosetown-Biggar (provincial electoral district), Rosetown-Biggar from 1995 to 1999 in the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan as a Saskatchewan New Democratic Party, New Democratic Party (NDP) member. He was born in Rosetown, Saskatchewan, the son of Jacob Bernhard Wiens, and grew up on the family farm in Herschel, Saskatchewan, Herschel. Wiens was educated in Herschel, in Rosthern, Saskatchewan, Rosthern and at the University of Saskatchewan. In 1968, he married Cheralyn Winona Marie Krug. Wiens taught science for one year and began operating a farm near Herschel around the same time. He also served as president of the Saskatchewan School Trustees Association and of the Canadian School Board Association. Wiens served in the provincial cabinet as Ministry of Agriculture (Saskatchew ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dallas Wiens
Dallas Wiens (born May 6, 1985) is the recipient of the United States first full face transplant operation, performed at the Brigham and Women's Hospital during the week of March 14, 2011. It was the first such operation in United States and the third in the world. Facial disfigurement Wiens was burned by a high voltage wire on November 13, 2008, when he was painting Ridglea Baptist Church in Fort Worth, Texas. He was standing inside a boom lift when his forehead made contact with a high-voltage wire. Transported by helicopter to Parkland Memorial Hospital, surgeons performed more than a dozen debridement procedures over approximately two months to remove the burned skin. As part of this process, they enucleated his left eye, and set his right eye back in its socket before covering it with a skin flap to protect it from further damage. Later, surgeons spent 36 hours over two days working to reconstruct Wiens's face using muscle from his back. This left him with half of his scalp, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Wiens
David Wiens is an American former professional cross-country mountain bike racer. He is known for his six consecutive wins in the Leadville Trail 100 MTB mountain bike race including defeating Tour de France riders Floyd Landis and Lance Armstrong. Wiens, a 2000 inductee to the Mountain Bike Hall of Fame, won the Leadville Trail 100 every year from 2003 to 2008. In 2007, he broke the 7 hour mark for the first time at 6:58:46 while holding off Floyd Landis by just under 2 minutes. In 2008, Wiens won again beating 7-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong by just under 2 minutes and setting a new course record of 6:45:45. In 2009, Wiens finished second behind Armstrong in Leadville with a time of 6:57:02. Wiens was also the US National cross country champion in 1993 and the US National marathon champion in 2004. He won two UCI World Cup races and numerous NORBA National Series races during his career. In 2006, Wiens founded Gunnison Trails, a non-profit organization dedicated t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Douglas Wiens
Douglas Paul Wiens is a Canadian statistician; he is a professor in the Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences at the University of Alberta. Wiens earned a B.Sc. in mathematics (1972), two master's degrees in mathematical logic (1974) and statistics (1979), and a Ph.D. in statistics (1982), all from the University of Calgary.Education and Professional Experience from Wiens' web site at Alberta, retrieved 2010-02-07. As part of his work on mathematical logic, in connection with , Wiens helped find a [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Douglas A
Douglas may refer to: People * Douglas (given name) * Douglas (surname) Animals *Douglas (parrot), macaw that starred as the parrot ''Rosalinda'' in Pippi Longstocking *Douglas the camel, a camel in the Confederate Army in the American Civil War Businesses * Douglas Aircraft Company * Douglas (cosmetics), German cosmetics retail chain in Europe * Douglas (motorcycles), British motorcycle manufacturer Peerage and Baronetage * Duke of Douglas * Earl of Douglas, or any holder of the title * Marquess of Douglas, or any holder of the title * Douglas Baronets Peoples * Clan Douglas, a Scottish kindred * Dougla people, West Indians of both African and East Indian heritage Places Australia * Douglas, Queensland, a suburb of Townsville * Douglas, Queensland (Toowoomba Region), a locality * Port Douglas, North Queensland, Australia * Shire of Douglas, in northern Queensland Belize * Douglas, Belize Canada * Douglas, New Brunswick * Douglas Parish, New Brunswick * Douglas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edith Wiens
Edith Wiens OC (born 9 June 1950) is a Canadian opera, recital and concert singer with a soprano voice. Early life and education Wiens, daughter of a Mennonite pastor, grew up in Vancouver where she finished high school at the age of 16. She studied theology and church music at Columbia Bible College in Clearbrook. At age 20 she received a bursary to study singing in Hannover, Germany. She went on to Oberlin Conservatory of Music to study with Richard Miller. She received her Bachelor and Master of Music degrees here. Career Her international career started in 1980 when the Berlin Philharmonic engaged her. This collaboration extended to well over 30 concerts with that orchestra. She has worked with well known conductors like Daniel Barenboim, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Kurt Masur, Seiji Ozawa, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Klaus Tennstedt and Sir Georg Solti. Wiens had her operatic debut in 1986 at the Glyndebourne Festival as Donna Anna in Mozart's ''Don Giovanni'' under Bernard Haitink ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Wiens
John A. Wiens is an American ecologist. His research has focused on birds and insects in semiarid environments on several continents, emphasizing community ecology and spatial relationships. He is a pioneer in the field of landscape ecology (encompassing geographic and land-use patterns in the study of ecosystems). John Wiens was the 2005 recipient of the Cooper Ornithological Society’s Loye and Alden Miller Research Award, which is given in recognition of lifetime achievement in ornithological research. He was Chief Conservation Science Officer at PRBO Conservation Science Point Blue Conservation Science, founded as and formerly named the Point Reyes Bird Observatory (PRBO), is a California-based wildlife conservation and research non-profit organization. Overview Point Blue was founded in 1965 to study bird migra ... from 2008 - 2012. References American ornithologists American ecologists Living people Year of birth missing (living people) {{US-ornithologist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Wiens
Mark may refer to: Currency * Bosnia and Herzegovina convertible mark, the currency of Bosnia and Herzegovina * East German mark, the currency of the German Democratic Republic * Estonian mark, the currency of Estonia between 1918 and 1927 * Finnish markka ( sv, finsk mark, links=no), the currency of Finland from 1860 until 28 February 2002 * Mark (currency), a currency or unit of account in many nations * Polish mark ( pl, marka polska, links=no), the currency of the Kingdom of Poland and of the Republic of Poland between 1917 and 1924 German * Deutsche Mark, the official currency of West Germany from 1948 until 1990 and later the unified Germany from 1990 until 2002 * German gold mark, the currency used in the German Empire from 1873 to 1914 * German Papiermark, the German currency from 4 August 1914 * German rentenmark, a currency issued on 15 November 1923 to stop the hyperinflation of 1922 and 1923 in Weimar Germany * Lodz Ghetto mark, a special currency for Lodz Ghet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |