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Wilf
Wilf is a masculine given name, most commonly a diminutive form of Wilfred or Wilfrid. It is also a nickname and a surname. People Given name * Wilfred Arthur (1919–2000), Australian World War II fighter ace * Wilf Barber (1901–1968), English cricketer * Charles Wilf Carter (musician) (1904–1996), Canadian country music singer and yodeler * Wilf Copping (1909–1980), English footballer * Wilf Cude (1910–1968), Welsh hockey player * Wilf Field (1915–1979), Canadian hockey player * Wilf Hanni, politician and oil industry consultant * Wilf Homenuik (born 1935), Canadian golfer * Wilf Hurd (born 1950), Canadian politician * Wilf Kirkham (1901–1974), British football player * Wilf Low (1884–1933), Scottish footballer * Wilf Loughlin, Canadian hockey player * Wilf Lunn, British television presenter * Wilf Mannion (1918–2000), English footballer * Wilf McGuinness (born 1937), English football player and manager * Wilf O'Reilly (born 1964), British speed skater ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilfred (given Name)
Wilfred is a masculine given name derived from Germanic roots meaning "will" and "peace" (like Old English ''wil'' and ''frið''). The name was popular in the United Kingdom in the early twentieth century. Wilfried and its English spelling, Wilfrid, are closely related to Wilfred, with the same roots (''Will'' and ''Frieden'' in German). People named Wilfred *Wilfred the Hairy (died 897), a count in what is now Spain *Wilfred Baddeley (1872–1929), British tennis player *Wilfred Benítez (born 1958), Puerto Rican boxer *Wilfred Gordon Bigelow (1913–2005), Canadian heart surgeon *Wilfred Bion (1897–1979), British psychoanalyst *Wilfred Bouma (born 1978), Dutch footballer *Wilfred Bungei (born 1980), Kenyan middle-distance runner *Wilfred Burchett (1911–1983), Australian journalist * Wilfred de Soysa (1884–1968), Sri Lankan entrepreneur, landed proprietor, and philanthropist * Wilfred Edwards (other), multiple people *Wilfred Greatorex (1922–2002), English televi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leonard Wilf
Leonard A. Wilf (born 1947) is an American businessman, the president of Garden Homes, the co-owner and vice chairman of the Minnesota Vikings football team, and co-owner of the Nashville SC. Early life Leonard Wilf was born in Göggingen, Germany, the son of Holocaust survivors Harry Wilf and Judith Wilf (died 2006). From the age of nine, he grew up in New Jersey. Wilf earned a B.A. degree from Boston University, a J.D. degree from Georgetown University, and an LL.M. degree in taxation from New York University. Wilf grew up in Hillside, New Jersey in a home adjoining that of his cousin Zygi. Career Wilf is president of the family-owned real estate development company, Garden Homes. With his cousins, brothers Zygi and Mark Wilf, he co-owns the Minnesota Vikings football team. In August 2017, Wilf and his cousins became co-owners of the Nashville SC alongside lead investor John Ingram. In 2015, the Wilf family had an estimated net worth of $5 billion. Philanthropy Wilf h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilf Carter (musician)
Wilfred Arthur Charles Carter (December 18, 1904 – December 5, 1996), professionally known as Wilf Carter in his native Canada and also as Montana Slim in the United States, was a Canadian Country and Western singer, songwriter, guitarist, and yodeller. He wrote over 500 songs. In 1971, Wilf Carter was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. Widely acknowledged as the father of Canadian country music, Carter was Canada's first country music star, inspiring a generation of young Canadian performers. Early years Carter was born in Port Hilford, Nova Scotia, Canada. One of nine children, he began working odd jobs by the age of eight in Canning, Nova Scotia. He began singing after seeing a traveling Swiss performer named "The Yodelling Fool" in Canning. Carter left home at the age of 15 after a falling out with his father, who was a Baptist minister. In 1923, at age 18, after working as a lumberjack and singing with hobos in boxcars, Carter moved west to Calga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herbert Wilf
Herbert Saul Wilf (June 13, 1931 – January 7, 2012) was a mathematician, specializing in combinatorics and graph theory. He was the Thomas A. Scott Professor of Mathematics in Combinatorial Analysis and Computing at the University of Pennsylvania. He wrote numerous books and research papers. Together with Neil Calkin he founded ''The Electronic Journal of Combinatorics'' in 1994 and was its editor-in-chief until 2001. Biography Wilf was the author of numerous papers and books, and was adviser and mentor to many students and colleagues. His collaborators include Doron Zeilberger and Donald Knuth. One of Wilf's former students is Richard Garfield, the creator of the collectible card game ''Magic: The Gathering''. He also served as a thesis advisor for E. Roy Weintraub in the late 1960s. Wilf died of a progressive neuromuscular disease in 2012. Awards In 1998, Wilf and Zeilberger received the Leroy P. Steele Prize for Seminal Contribution to Research for their joint pap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilfred Arthur
Wilfred Stanley Arthur, (7 December 1919 – 23 December 2000) was a fighter ace and senior officer of the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) during World War II. Commonly known as "Woof",Alexander, "Cleaning the augean stables"Newton, ''Clash of Eagles'', p. 59 and sometimes "Wolf" or "Wulf",Wilson, ''The Brotherhood of Airmen'', pp. 81, 127 he was officially credited with ten aerial victories. As a commander, he led combat formations at squadron and wing level, becoming at 24 the youngest group captain in the history of the RAAF. Arthur joined the Air Force the day after Australia declared war in September 1939. He first saw action with No. 3 Squadron in North Africa, where he was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for shooting down four aircraft in a single sortie. Posted to the South West Pacific, he commanded first No. 75 Squadron, and later Nos. 81 and 78 Wings. He earned the Distinguished Service Order for continuing to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orin Wilf
Orin S. Wilf (born 1974) is an American real estate developer, the founder and president of Skyline Developers, a division of Garden Homes, a company founded by his grandfather, Harry Wilf. Early life He is the only son of Leonard Wilf and his first wife, Marcia Robbins-Wilf, and the grandson of Harry Wilf, the co-founder of Garden Homes. Wilf was educated at the Hun School in Princeton, New Jersey, and graduated in 1992. Career In 1998, he founded Skyline Developers. Together with his father, he owns 5-10% of the New York Yankees. Wilf is a member of the board of trustees of the Hun School of Princeton. Personal life In 2000 or 2001, Wilf married Lisa, and they have two sons together. In 2013, it was reported that they were "estranged" and in divorce proceedings after 12 years of marriage, following allegations that Wilf had "gambled away up to $20 million of their fortune in the Bahamas and Atlantic City over the 12 years they were married." Wilf lives in New York Ci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Wilf
Joseph Wilf (1925 – August 3, 2016) was a Polish-American businessman, Holocaust survivor, and the co-founder of Garden Homes, one of the largest real estate development companies in the United States. Early life Joseph Wilf was born in Jarosław, Poland in 1925. In 1950, Wilf, his brother, and their wives, emigrated to the US, and settled in New Jersey. Career In 1954, together with his older brother, Harry Wilf, he co-founded Garden Homes, one of the largest real estate development companies in the United States. In 1964, they founded the Wilf Family Foundation, which later expanded into seven foundations. Joe Wilf volunteered with and donated to numerous organizations, including Yeshiva University, American Society for Yad Vashem, United Jewish Appeal, Israel Bonds, Jewish Agency for Israel, Joint Distribution Committee, Conference on Material Claims Against Germany, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and many other organizations. He was also the first North Amer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Wilf
Harry Wilf (1921 – 1992) was a Polish-born American businessman, and the co-founder of Garden Homes, one of the largest real estate development companies in the United States. Early life Harry Wilf was born in Poland in 1921, the son of Ella and Oscar Wilf. At the start of World War II, the Russians deported the family from Jaroslaw, Poland, to a Siberian labor camp. In 1950, they emigrated to the US, and settled in Hillside, New Jersey. Career In 1954, together with his brother, Joseph Wilf, he co-founded Garden Homes, one of the largest real estate development companies in the United States. In 1964, they founded the Wilf Family Foundation, which later expanded into seven foundations. Personal life He was married to Judith Jakubowiez (died 2006), and they had a son, Leonard Wilf. Legacy In 1996, the Jerusalem Foundation renovated a park in central Jerusalem (originally called Independence Park, and planted in 1958 by the South African Zionist Federation to commemorate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilf Slack
Wilfred Norris Slack (12 December 1954 – 15 January 1989) was an English cricketer, who played in three Test matches and two One Day Internationals for England in 1986. A left-handed opening batsman, Slack was a victim of mysterious blackouts while playing, and he died, apparently, of a heart attack while batting in The Gambia, aged 34. Early life Slack's family migrated from the Windward Islands to High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire, England, when he was 11 years old. He was a left-handed opener and played county cricket for Middlesex between 1977 and 1988. He also played for his native Windward Islands in their opening seasons of the West Indies domestic competition in 1981–82 and 1982–83, at the request of Michael Findlay, the former West Indian wicket-keeper to whom he was distantly related. He spent time playing cricket for various local sides, progressing into the Buckinghamshire team in 1976, at the age of 21, becoming the minor county's leading run-scorer fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Einat Wilf
Einat Wilf ( he, עינת וילף, born 11 December 1970) is a former Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Independence and the Labor Party. Biography Einat Wilf was born in Jerusalem and raised in a Labor Zionist family. She studied at the Hebrew University Secondary School. She completed her military service as an Intelligence Officer in Unit 8200 with the rank of Lieutenant. She then went to Harvard University, receiving a BA in government and fine arts, before earning an MBA from INSEAD in France, and subsequently a PhD in political science at Wolfson College, University of Cambridge. Wilf married German journalist and television personality Richard Gutjahr in 2007. She gave birth to their son in 2010. Wilf describes herself as a Zionist, a feminist and an atheist. Political and business career Wilf served as a Foreign Policy Advisor to Vice Prime Minister Shimon Peres, a strategic consultant with McKinsey & Company in New York City and a Gener ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilf Lunn
Wilfred Makepeace Lunn (born 1942 in Rastrick, West Yorkshire, England) is an English inventor, prop maker and TV presenter. He is best known for his regular appearances on the 1960s and 1970s UK children's television show '' Vision On''. Early life and career Lunn was born in Rastrick, West Yorkshire, England to deaf parents. His upbringing was to later allow him to teach lip-reading as well as religious education at Odsal House School for the Deaf in Bradford. In the first part of this self-made interview video series "My Best Cellar", available through his website, Lunn claims he was "brought up in a cellar by deaf mutes". The parents of actor James Mason lived on the same street as Lunn who met Mason when he was visiting them. Mason introduced Lunn to agent Blanche Marvin. Lunn had already written a television play entitled ''Benny Rolly'' which, unusually for the time, was without dialogue and Marvin thought it would be of interest to the deaf. She arranged an interview wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilf Barber
Wilfred Barber (18 April 1901 – 10 September 1968) was a professional first-class cricketer who played for Yorkshire County Cricket Club from 1926 to 1947. He played two Test matches for England in 1935 against South Africa. An opening batsman with an excellent batting technique, Barber often batted in the middle order. He scored 16,402 runs in first-class cricket at an average of 34.28 with 29 centuries. Barber made his debut in 1926 and made several appearances over the next few seasons. Despite a sound defence, Barber did not secure a regular first team place until 1932. He scored a thousand runs for the first time that season, a feat he was to achieve eight times, while he scored over 2,000 runs in 1935. Until the Second World War broke out, Barber continued as a regular member of the Yorkshire side. After the war, he played one more full season before retiring in 1947. His career continued in club cricket and he went on to coach local sides before his death in 1968. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
