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Wild (surname)
Wild is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Allan Wild (1927–2019), New Zealand architect and academic *Anke Wild (born 1967), German field hockey player * (1908–1946), British Army officer *Dölf Wild (born 1954), Swiss historian and archaeologist *Earl Wild (1915–2010), American pianist * Ed Wild (1935–2020), Canadian basketball player *Edward A. Wild (1825–1891), American homeopathic doctor and US Civil War General *Sir Ernest Wild (1869–1934), British Judge and Conservative Member of Parliament *Frank Wild (1873–1939), British Antarctic explorer * Franz Wild (1791–1860), Austrian opera singer *Gerald Wild (1907–1996), Australian MP and government minister *Hans-Peter Wild (born 1941), chairman of the WILD GmbH & Co.KG *Harry J. Wild (1901–1961) American cinematographer *Heinrich Wild (1877–1951), Swiss designer of geodetic instruments *Heinrich von Wild (1833–1902), Swiss physicist and meteorologist *Jack Wild (1952–2006), British act ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allan Wild
Allan Arthur Wild (20 February 1927 – 11 February 2019) was a New Zealand architect and architecture academic. He was a founding member of the Architectural Group in Auckland, which made an important contribution to modern architecture in New Zealand, and later served as head of the School of Architecture at the University of Auckland from 1969 to 1993. Early life and family Born in Feilding on 20 February 1927, Wild was the son of Geoffrey Victor Wild and Harriett Newport Wild (née Porter). He was educated at Hutt Valley High School in Lower Hutt, where he was a contemporary of Bill Toomath. Wild went on to study architecture at Auckland University College, graduating Bachelor of Architecture in 1951. Architectural practice After leaving school, Wild worked in the office of the Government Architect in Wellington during 1944, before going to Auckland to study architecture. While at university, he was a founding member of the Architectural Group, participating in the cons ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Daniel Wild
John Daniel Wild (April 10, 1902 – October 23, 1972) was a twentieth-century American philosopher. Wild began his philosophical career as an empiricist and realist but became an important proponent of existentialism and phenomenology in the United States. Life and career Wild was born in Chicago, Illinois. After undergraduate studies at the University of Chicago, he received his master's degree from Harvard University and completed his PhD at the University of Chicago in 1926. He taught for a year at the University of Michigan and then at Harvard from 1927 until 1961 when he left to assume the chairmanship of the philosophy department at Northwestern University, a leading center for phenomenology and existentialism in the United States. Wild moved to Yale in 1963 and, in 1969, to the University of Florida. He received an honorary doctorate from Ripon College and served as visiting professor at the Universities of Chicago, Hawaii, and Washington. He served as preside ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wolfgang Wild (curator)
Wolfgang "Chris" Wild is a curator, writer, speaker and creator of the history branRetronaut Retronaut Wild started Retronaut in January 2010, sharing daily archival images that show "the past like you wouldn't believe". As Wild has described, during his time working in museums and archives: "there were some objects and pictures I saw that for me had an enormous and seemingly untapped power – a power to disrupt our sense of time, to dissolve the barrier between present and past. I figured that if I could harness that power, I might be able to build something akin to a time-machine. Hence Retronaut." In its article on Retronaut, Fast Company wrote: "the images on Retronaut are chosen to make the viewer feel like they’re looking not at the past, but rather at a different version of the present" In November 2013, Retronaut was listed by The Times as one of "The 50 people you should follow on Twitter". In August 2014, Mashable announced that Wild had joined Mashable's editor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vic Wild
Victor Ivan "Vic" Wild (russian: Виктор Айван Уайлд; born August 23, 1986) is an American-born Russian snowboarder. Career Wild won a bronze medal in the parallel giant slalom at the 2013 FIS Snowboarding World Championships and gold medals in the parallel slalom and parallel giant slalom at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, which made him the first snowboarder ever to win two medals at the same Winter Games. At the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, he won a bronze medal in parallel giant. Wild originally competed for the United States, but after the 2010 Winter Olympics, the United States Ski and Snowboard Association shut down its alpine snowboarding program. According to a 2014 story by Jeff Passan of Yahoo! Sports, Wild had been viewed by US snowboarding officials "as an enfant terrible, someone who didn't understand alpine's place in the SAsnowboarding power structure. Halfpipe is king, with slopestyle creeping up in importance, and snowboardcross racing t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Susan Wild
Susan Wild (née Ellis; born June 7, 1957) is an American attorney and politician from the commonwealth of Pennsylvania. A Democrat, she is a member of the United States House of Representatives from . The district is in the heart of the Lehigh Valley, and includes Allentown, Bethlehem, Easton, Bangor, and East Stroudsburg. Wild spent the last two months of 2018 as the member for after Charlie Dent resigned in 2018. Since September 2022, she has been chair of the House Ethics Committee. She also co-chairs the New Democrat Coalition Climate Change Task Force and is vice chair of both the Congressional Labor and Working Families Caucus and the Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights and International Organizations. Wild is the first woman to represent the Lehigh Valley in Congress. Early life Wild is the daughter of Norman Leith and Susan Stimus Ellis. Her mother was a journalist. Her father served in the United States Air Force during World War II and the K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Wild
Stephen Wild (born 26 April 1981) is an English former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 2000s and 2010s. He played at representative level for Great Britain, England and Lancashire, and at club level for the Wigan Warriors, the Huddersfield Giants, the Salford Red Devils, Salford City Reds and the North Wales Crusaders, as a or . Background Wild was born in Wigan, Greater Manchester, England. Playing career Wild signed for Wigan Warriors from local amateurs Wigan St Patricks. He joined Wigan Warriors' first-team after progressing through the lower ranks at the club, making his début in 2001. He made his first representative appearance in 2002 for Lancashire. He was signed by Huddersfield Giants in 2006 and agreed a new contract keeping him at the club until 2009. He was used as a at Huddersfield Giants, but he has previously played in the and also as a . He has previously been compared to Nathan Hindmarsh, currently one of the sport's best players i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rudolf Wild
Rudolf Wild (February 25, 1904 in Wiesloch, Baden – September 16, 1995 in Eppelheim) was a German entrepreneur, and the founder of WILD, a producer of natural ingredients for food products and beverages. Biography After studying chemistry in Heidelberg, Frankfurt and Freiburg, in 1931, Rudolf Wild founded his first company – Zick Zack Werk Rudolf Wild. He set the goal of producing basic materials for non-alcoholic drinks using only natural raw materials. He presented the first completely natural alcohol-free drink, with no artificial flavorings, preservatives or colorings under the brand Libella at the Interbrau trade fair in 1951. Although Rudolf Wild initially received a skeptical response from customers, his philosophy eventually won recognition as a quality characteristic throughout the beverage and food industries. Under his leadership, WILD developed into an international company. The company is now owned and operated by one of his sons, Hans-Peter Wild. Social i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rebeca Wild
Rebeca Wild (1939, Berlin - 2015, Tumbaco, Quito) was a German educator and author in Ecuador. Life and work Rebeca Wild lived in Ecuador with her husband Mauricio Wild from 1961. Both worked first as managers of a plantation, then as employees of an import-export company in the harbour city of Guayaquil. From 1965 to 1970, she studied social sciences in New York and Puerto Rico and then returned to Ecuador to manage an agricultural development project in the Andes. In 1980, Rebeca Wild and her husband opened a primary school and in 1986 a secondary school in Quito, Ecuador. They founded non-directive education. In 1989, the so-called learning environment ''Pesta'' was recognised as an experimental school for Ecuador. Since 1989, the institution has been authorised to award a secondary school leaving certificate equivalent to the German Realschulabschluss. The young people were able to continue studying at ''Pesta'' for the school-leaving examination as external students; after ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter J
Peter may refer to: People * List of people named Peter, a list of people and fictional characters with the given name * Peter (given name) ** Saint Peter (died 60s), apostle of Jesus, leader of the early Christian Church * Peter (surname), a surname (including a list of people with the name) Culture * Peter (actor) (born 1952), stage name Shinnosuke Ikehata, Japanese dancer and actor * ''Peter'' (album), a 1993 EP by Canadian band Eric's Trip * ''Peter'' (1934 film), a 1934 film directed by Henry Koster * ''Peter'' (2021 film), Marathi language film * "Peter" (''Fringe'' episode), an episode of the television series ''Fringe'' * ''Peter'' (novel), a 1908 book by Francis Hopkinson Smith * "Peter" (short story), an 1892 short story by Willa Cather Animals * Peter, the Lord's cat, cat at Lord's Cricket Ground in London * Peter (chief mouser), Chief Mouser between 1929 and 1946 * Peter II (cat), Chief Mouser between 1946 and 1947 * Peter III (cat), Chief Mouser between 1947 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Wild
Peter T. Wild (April 25, 1940 – February 23, 2009) was a poet, historian, and professor of English at the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona. Born in Northampton, Massachusetts, he grew up in and graduated from high school in Easthampton, Massachusetts. Wild worked as a rancher and firefighter for the U.S. Forest Service, and served as a lieutenant with the U.S. Army in Germany. Wild earned his M.F.A. in 1969 from the University of California, Irvine. He then began teaching for nearly 40 years and wrote over 2,000 poems; also, he edited or wrote some 80 fiction and non-fiction books, largely dealing with the American West. His 1973 volume of poetry, ''Cochise'', a eulogy to the Chiricahua Apache Indians and their leader Cochise, was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. __NOTOC__ Bibliography * Poetry ** ** ** ** ** ** (print and on-line) ** (print and on-line) ** ** ** ** (Editor, with Frank Graziano; print and on-line) ** * University of Utah Pre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Wild (Swiss Astronomer)
Paul Wild (; 5 October 1925 – 2 July 2014) was a Swiss astronomer An astronomer is a scientist in the field of astronomy who focuses their studies on a specific question or field outside the scope of Earth. They observe astronomical objects such as stars, planets, natural satellite, moons, comets and galaxy, g ... and director of the Astronomical Institute of the University of Bern, who discovered numerous comets, asteroids and supernovae. Biography Wild was born on 5 October 1925 in the village of Wädenswil near Zürich, Switzerland. From 1944 through 1950, he studied mathematics and physics at the ETH Zurich. Thereafter, he worked at the California Institute of Technology where he researched galaxies and supernovas under the leadership of countryman Fritz Zwicky from 1951 through 1955. At the Zimmerwald Observatory, near Bern, Wild made his first cometary discovery C/1957 U1 (1957 IX) on 2 October 1957. The parabolic comet was later named "Latyshev-Wild–Robert Burn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Wild (rugby League)
Paul Wild is a former professional rugby league Rugby league football, commonly known as just rugby league and sometimes football, footy, rugby or league, is a full-contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular field measuring 68 metres (75 yards) wide and 112 ... footballer who played in the 1980s. He played at club level for Featherstone Rovers ( Heritage No. 633). Club career Paul Wild made his début for Featherstone Rovers on Sunday 9 November 1986.Bailey, Ron (20 September 2001). ''Images of Sport - Featherstone Rovers Rugby League Football Club''. The History Press. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Wild, Paul Featherstone Rovers players Place of birth missing English rugby league players Year of birth missing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
