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Woody (name)
Woody, also spelled Woodie, is a masculine given name in its own right or a pet form of Woodrow and other names such as Elwood or Heywood. It was especially popular in the US during and after the presidency of Thomas Woodrow Wilson, who was always called by his middle name. It is also a surname. Woody may refer to: Given name or nickname People * Woody Abernathy (outfielder) (1908–1961), American baseball player * Woody Abernathy (pitcher) (1915–1994), American baseball player * Woody Allen (born 1935), American screenwriter and actor * Woody Austin (born 1964), American golfer * Woody Bennett (born 1956), American football player * Woody Blackburn (born 1951), American golfer * Woodie Blackman (1922–2010), Caribbean author * Woody Bledsoe (1921–1995), American mathematician and computer scientist * Woody Bowman (1941–2015), American politician * Woody Bredell (1884–1976), British cinematographer and actor * Woody Brown (actor) (born 1956), American actor * Woody ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Woodrow (name)
Woodrow is an English given name which was originally an English surname which may originally derive from a toponym meaning "row of houses by a wood" in Old English. Other sources suggest the name directly derives from ''woodroe'' ("the border hedge"), an appellation for a border guard. Other sources suggest that the name is a variant of wood+reeve, a local official, thus a forest keeper or guardian. The name was made popular, in part, by US president Woodrow Wilson, whose mother's maiden name was Woodrow. The pet form of Woodrow is Woody. People with the name Woodrow Given name People with the given name Woodrow include: * Woodrow A. Abbott (1919–1994), United States Air Force officer who served as director of intelligence, J-2, and inspector general of the U.S. Readiness Command, which was then headquartered at MacDill Air Force Base * Woodrow Adams (1917–1988), American Delta blues guitarist and harmonica player * Woodrow Borah (1912–1999), U.S. historian of col ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Woody Campbell (basketball)
Ralph "Woody" Woodrow Campbell (January 31, 1925 – November 2004) was a Canadian basketball player who competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics The 1952 Summer Olympics ( fi, Kesäolympialaiset 1952; sv, Olympiska sommarspelen 1952), officially known as the Games of the XV Olympiad ( fi, XV olympiadin kisat; sv, Den XV olympiadens spel) and commonly known as Helsinki 1952 ( sv, Helsin .... Campbell was part of the Canadian basketball team, which was eliminated after the group stage in the 1952 tournament. He played all six matches. References External linksprofile 1925 births [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Woody Evans
Woody Evans is an American librarian and author of short stories and nonfiction works, who is known for critical commentary on technology, technoculture, and transhumanism.Articles published in '' The Journal of Evolution and Technology'', Acceler8or, H+ Magazinebr> and others. He has written for Rain Taxi, Boing Boing, Juked, Blunderbuss Magazine, was a Library Journal columnist i2007 and is a frequent contributor to Information Today publications. His books and articles are referenced in Library and Information Science courses. Partial bibliography Fiction * ''Bastard Sword''. Split Lip Magazine, 2016. * ''Sirius Numb''. Blunderbuss Magazine, 2016. * ''Pashtun Probs''. Blip Magazine, 2012. * ''Eyes Only''. TRNSFR, 2011 * ''The Devil Plus Russians''. Primal, 1999. Poetry * ''Locusts Throng the Corn''. Tanka Journal, 2016 * ''The Dowager's Goat''. Haiku Journal, 2013 * ''Buildup''. Juked, 2004 Nonfiction * ''Them Skulls.'' Star 82 Review, 2018. * ''Cyberspace is the Chil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Woody Erdman
Ellis E. "Woody" Erdman (April 16, 1926, Ashland, Pennsylvania – February 10, 1997, Greensboro, North Carolina) was an American sportscaster, television producer, and businessman who served as chairman of Trans-National Communications, International Trade & Commerce Corporation and Boston Celtics. Ellis Erdman was a combat veteran of World War II, having served with the US Army Air Corps from 1944 to the V-J Day. He was a crew member on several B-29s based on the island of Tinian, and received the Air Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster. He remained in the Air Force Reserve until after the birth of his third child, and received an Honorable Discharge at the rank of 1st Lieutenant. Erdman's career in broadcasting began while he was a student at Penn State University in the late 1940s, and worked at several radio stations in central Pennsylvania, where he met his future wife, Phebe Mae Weeks, and they were married in 1948. In 1952 they moved to Elmira, NY where Erdman worked for WELM, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Woody English
Elwood George English (March 2, 1906 – September 26, 1997) was an American professional baseball shortstop and third baseman. He played twelve seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) between 1927 and 1938 for the Chicago Cubs and Brooklyn Dodgers. His uncle Paul Carpenter also played professional baseball. Early life English was born on March 2, 1906, on a farm in Licking County, Ohio. He went to Newark High School, where he played second base on the baseball team. In English's senior season, the team went undefeated. After high school, English worked for Pure Oil and Firestone Rubber. During breaks, he would play baseball with Pure Oil's local team. In 1924, English played for the semi-pro Zanesville Greys. The league that the Greys played in had other Major League players, including Al Schweitzer. Career Minor leagues In the following year of 1925, English signed a contract with the Toledo Mud Hens, a Double-A team apart of the American Association, for $300 a month ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Woody Durham
Woody Lombardi Durham (August 8, 1941 – March 7, 2018) was an American play-by-play radio announcer for the North Carolina Tar Heels football and men’s basketball programs from 1971 to 2011. Early life Born in Mebane, North Carolina, Durham grew up in Albemarle, North Carolina. He grew up a Tar Heel fan; as a child, Durham attended Tar Heel football games with his family after World War II. Durham was close with Bob Harris, who would eventually become the Voice of the Duke Blue Devils. The two played on the same Little League Baseball team. In 1957, Durham was a guard for Albemarle High School's football team; Harris was the team's manager. Durham and Harris also sang together for Albemarle High School's chorus as well as in a double quartet. In 1961, while Durham was an undergraduate at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, he was initiated into the Alpha Rho chapter of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia. Durham graduated with a bachelor's degree in radio, television and m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Woody Dumart
Woodrow Wilson Clarence Dumart (December 23, 1916 – October 19, 2001) was a Canadian professional ice hockey player, most notably for the Boston Bruins of the National Hockey League. He is an Honoured Member of the Hockey Hall of Fame. Dumart's uncle Ezra Dumart was also a professional ice hockey player. Amateur career Dumart was raised in Kitchener, Ontario. He played his junior hockey with the Kitchener Greenshirts of the Ontario Hockey Association on a line with childhood friends Milt Schmidt and Bobby Bauer, which was dubbed the " Kraut line" by Albert Leduc, a defenceman for the Montreal Canadiens. After two seasons with the Greenshirts, the entire Kraut Line was signed by the Bruins. Professional career After spending the bulk of the 1935–36 and 1936–37 seasons in the minor leagues with the Boston Cubs of the Can-Am League, Dumart made the Bruins for good in early 1937. Reunited with Schmidt and Bauer, the trio become one of the most famous lines in hockey hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Woodie Dixon
Woodie H. Dixon, Jr. is the General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of Chegg, Inc. (NYSE: CHGG) as of 2020. Dixon oversees all legal, governance, government affairs and stock administration matters for Chegg. Previously, Dixon served as the General Counsel and Senior Vice President of Business Affairs for the Pac-12 Conference from 2010-2020. He was formerly the salary cap manager and General Counsel for the Kansas City Chiefs. He had been with the team since August 2004; previously, he worked in the National Football League offices and for the law firms Sidley, Austin, Brown & Wood LLP (in Chicago) and Dorsey & Whitney (in Minneapolis, Minnesota). Dixon is a native of Minneapolis. He graduated from Amherst College in 1995 and went on to earn his J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1999 and his Masters of Sport Management from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2004. Dixon has also been an adjunct professor at the Washburn University School of Law in Topeka, Kansas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Woody De Othello
Woody De Othello (born 1991) is an American ceramicist and painter. He lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area, California. Early life and education Woody De Othello was born in 1991 in Miami, Florida. He is of Haitian descent. Othello received a BFA degree from Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, and an MFA degree from the California College of Arts in San Francisco in 2017. Career In 2015, Othello's debut solo exhibition, ''It's Going To Be Ok,'' was held at Unit 1 gallery in Lake Worth, Florida. In 2018, Othello was included in Yerba Buena Center for the Arts triennial exhibition, "Bay Area Now 8." In 2019 the San Jose Museum of Art hosted, ''Woody De Othello: Breathing Room''. ''Looking In,'' a solo exhibition of Othello's work at Jessica Silverman Gallery in 2021 included ceramic sculptures, paintings, and framed works on paper. His eight-foot tall, bronze sculpture of a yellow box fan, entitled ''Cool Composition,'' received critical attention at 2019's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Woody Deck
Woody Deck (born June 8, 1983 in Nashville, TN) is an American professional poker player residing in Vilnius, Lithuania. A former student at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Deck pledged Alpha Epsilon Pi, the Jewish Fraternity, where he has been seen ironing $100 bills in his dorm room. Deck has also played poker in casinos since the age of 17. Discovered in the Bellagio's top section as being underage, he was thrown out and shortly thereafter left Las Vegas for Europe where he could play legally. In Europe he quickly became one of the top tournament and cash game players, winning five tournaments in the span of 12 months. A cash game specialist who seldom enters tournaments, Deck holds the best record in Pot Limit Omaha Hi/Lo tournaments with a current streak of 3 consecutive final tables (1 win), and owns the record for consecutive heads-up tournaments matches won, 13. During his streak of heads-up matches, he won back to back heads-up titles at the 2005 Barcelona ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Woody Davis
Woodrow Wilson Davis (April 25, 1913 – July 18, 1999), nicknamed "Babe", was a Major League Baseball pitcher In baseball, the pitcher is the player who throws ("pitches") the baseball from the pitcher's mound toward the catcher to begin each play, with the goal of retiring a batter, who attempts to either make contact with the pitched ball or draw ... who played in two games for the Detroit Tigers in . External links 1913 births 1999 deaths Brewton–Parker Barons baseball players Detroit Tigers players Major League Baseball pitchers Baseball players from Georgia (U.S. state) Valdosta Trojans players Jacksonville Tars players Toronto Maple Leafs (International League) players Zanesville Greys players New Orleans Pelicans (baseball) players Galveston Buccaneers players Cordele Reds players {{US-baseball-pitcher-1910s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Woodrow Dantzler
Woodrow "Woody" Dantzler III (born October 4, 1979) is a former American football running back and safety in the National Football League for the Dallas Cowboys and Atlanta Falcons. He played college football at Clemson University. Early years Dantzler attended Orangeburg-Wilkinson High School, where he played quarterback. As a sophomore, he became a starter in the fourth game of the season, finishing with 1,761 passing yards and 17 touchdowns. As a junior, he passed for 2,461 yards, 22 touchdowns and 5 interceptions. As a senior, he led the state with 2,891 passing yards and 21 touchdowns, while also collecting 1,628 rushing yards, 19 rushing touchdowns and 5 interceptions. He received SupePrep All-American, All-State, All-Region, All-Area, All-Area Player-of-the-Year, District Player-of-the-Year and Offensive Player-of-the-Year in the state honors. In his three-year career, he completed 507-of-791 passes (.640) for 7,113 yards, 60 passing touchdowns, 3,134 rushing yards, 35 r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |