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Yeager
Yeager is a mostly American surname, a phonetic transcription of the common German surname Jaeger (Jäger), meaning hunter. Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022 Notable people with the surname include: *, (1892-1961) American horticulturalist *, American actor * Bunny Yeager (1929–2014), American photographer and model * (1923–2020), A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chuck Yeager
Brigadier General Charles Elwood Yeager ( , February 13, 1923December 7, 2020) was a United States Air Force officer, flying ace, and record-setting test pilot who in October 1947 became the first pilot in history confirmed to have exceeded the speed of sound in level flight. Yeager was raised in Hamlin, West Virginia. His career began in World War II as a private in the United States Army, assigned to the Army Air Forces in 1941. After serving as an aircraft mechanic, in September 1942, he entered enlisted pilot training and upon graduation was promoted to the rank of flight officer (the World War II Army Air Force version of the Army's warrant officer), later achieving most of his aerial victories as a P-51 Mustang fighter pilot on the Western Front, where he was credited with shooting down 11.5 enemy aircraft (the half credit is from a second pilot assisting him in a single shootdown). On October 12, 1944, he attained "ace in a day" status, shooting down five enemy aircr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bunny Yeager
Linnea Eleanor "Bunny" Yeager (March 13, 1929 – May 25, 2014) was an American photographer and pin-up model. Early life and career Linnea Eleanor Yeager was born in the Pittsburgh suburb of Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania, to Raymond Conrad and Linnea (née Sherlin) Yeager on March 13, 1929. Her family moved to Florida when she was 17. She adopted the nickname "Bunny" from Lana Turner's character Bunny Smith in the 1945 movie ''Week-End at the Waldorf''. The nickname has also been attributed to her portrayal of the Easter Bunny in a high school play. She graduated from Miami Edison High School and afterwards enrolled at the Coronet Modeling School and Agency.Reprinted May 28, 2014 at bocamag.com/blog. She won numerous local |
Steve Yeager
Stephen Wayne Yeager (born November 24, 1948) is an American former professional baseball catcher. Yeager spent 14 of the 15 seasons of his Major League Baseball career, from 1972 through 1985, with the Los Angeles Dodgers. His last year, 1986, he played for the Seattle Mariners. From 2012 to 2018, Yeager was the catching coach for the Dodgers. He was co-MVP of the 1981 World Series. Early and personal life Yeager was born in Huntington, West Virginia. He attended Meadowdale High School in Dayton, Ohio. Yeager hit two grand slams in a single game while playing for Meadowdale. He is the cousin of the late test pilot Chuck Yeager. Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley was the best man at his wedding to local rock musician Gloria Giaone. Yeager is Jewish, having converted to Judaism when his career was over. He later moved to Granada Hills, California. Minor league career He was drafted by the Los Angeles Dodgers on June 6, 1967, in the 4th round of the 1967 Major League Baseball dra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ken Yeager
Ken Yeager (born December 12, 1952) is an American politician. He served on the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors, representing District 4. First elected to the board in 2006, he represented the cities of Campbell, California, Campbell and Santa Clara, California, Santa Clara, as well as west San Jose, California, San Jose and the Burbank, Santa Clara County, California, Burbank and Cambrian Park, San Jose, California, Cambrian neighborhoods. Previously, Yeager served on the San Jose City Council from 2000 to 2006. Before that, he served two terms on the San Jose/Evergreen Community College Board. He was a candidate for the California's 23rd State Assembly district, 23rd district seat in the California State Assembly in 1996, coming in second. Early life and education Ken Yeager was born December 12, 1952. His parents were Ernest Eugene "Gene" Yeager (1924–2010) and Carolyn French Yeager (d. 2003). Yeager attended San José State University, where he earned a B.A. in p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eren Yeager
, named Eren Jaeger (Turkish: Eren, "Saint"; German: Jaeger/Jäger, "Hunter") in the subtitled and dubbed versions of the anime '' Attack on Titan'', is a fictional character and the protagonist of the '' Attack on Titan'' manga series created by Hajime Isayama. Eren is a teenager who swears revenge on enormous humanoid creatures known as Titans that devoured his mother and destroyed his town in the Shiganshina district in Wall Maria. In order to defeat the Titans, Eren enlists in the Military and joins the Survey Corps—an elite group of soldiers who fight Titans outside the walls and also study the physiology of Titans in order to know what they are fighting. As the story progresses, Eren gains the power of becoming a Titan later identified as . He has also appeared in other related media including anime and video games. Isayama created Eren with the idea of a character whose fears and dreams were relatable but often clashed with his own darkness, resulting into multiple ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeana Yeager
Jeana Lee Yeager (born May 18, 1952) is an American aviator. She co-piloted, along with Dick Rutan, the first non-stop, non-refueled flight around the world in the Rutan Voyager aircraft from December 14 to 23, 1986. The flight took 9 days, 3 minutes, and 44 seconds and covered 24,986 miles (40,211 km), almost doubling the old distance record set by a Boeing B-52 strategic bomber in 1962. Early life and career Jeana Lee Yeager was born on May 18, 1952, in Fort Worth, Texas, to Royal Leland "Lee" Yeager (March 12, 1918 - March 17, 2001) and Alice Evaree Snider ( Harris; October 21, 1924 – February 5, 2013). As a child, she and her family variously lived in Garland, Texas, Oxnard, California, and Commerce, Texas. Following graduation from high school, Yeager, at age 19, married a police officer; they divorced five years later. She then worked as a draftsman and surveyor for a geothermal energy company in Santa Rosa, California. In 1978, Yeager obtained her private pilot's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Yeager (filmmaker)
Steve Yeager (born 1948) is an independent filmmaker from Baltimore, Maryland, U.S. He is best known for his film on the indie filmmaking of fellow director John Waters, titled ''Divine Trash'', which won the Filmmakers Trophy for Best Documentary at the Sundance Film Festival in 1998. Career overview Steve Yeager got his start as a resident director at the Corner Theatre ETC, an experimental theatre company in Baltimore, Maryland (a branch of Ellen Stewart's New York-based Cafe La Mama ETC), with such productions as ''Pigeons'' by Lee Dorsey and ''Marguerite'' by C. Richard Gillespie. Yeager also directed an original play entitled ''Chiaroscuro'' while working at Corner. It was during this period that Steve Yeager also had occasion to work with two emerging talents of the day: Howard Rollins, in a 1972 production of John Steinbeck's ''Of Mice and Men;'' and Kathleen Turner, who appeared in Yeager's highly regarded original adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's '' Dr. Jekyll & ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laura Yeager
Major General Laura L. Yeager (née Brandt; born 1963 or 1964) is a retired officer in the United States Army National Guard. She became the commander of the National Guard's 40th Infantry Division on June 29, 2019 and served in that role until May 15, 2022. She is the first woman to command a United States Army infantry division. Early life and education Yeager grew up in Fountain Valley, California. Her father, Robert Brandt, is a retired army major general and a veteran of the Vietnam War. She attended California State University, Long Beach, where she joined the Reserve Officer Training Corps to help pay for her college education. She has a bachelor's degree in psychology from the University of California, Irvine, and two master's degrees, one in marriage and family therapy from Chapman University and one in strategic studies from the United States Army War College. Military career Yeager was commissioned a second lieutenant on May 30, 1986, after which she completed the A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Yeager
George J. "Doc" Yeager (June 4, 1874 – July 5, 1940) was a professional baseball player. He played all or part of six seasons in Major League Baseball, primarily as a catcher. He played for the Boston Beaneaters from 1896 to 1899, the Cleveland Blues in 1901, the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1901, the New York Giants in 1902, and the Baltimore Orioles in 1902. During his career, he was measured at and weighing 190 lbs."George Yeager Statistics and History" ''baseball-reference.com''. Retrieved 2010-12-03. Biography Yeager was born in , to Henry Yeager and the former Anna Leister.[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Yeager
Joseph Francis Yeager (August 28, 1875 – June 29, 1937), nicknamed "Little Joe", was an American professional baseball infielder and pitcher. He played 10 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Brooklyn Bridegrooms/Superbas, Detroit Tigers, New York Highlanders, and St. Louis Browns. Early years Yeager was born in Philadelphia in 1875. Professional baseball Yeager began playing professional baseball in the minor leagues, including two years with the Lancaster Maroons from 1896 to 1897. In 1897, he compiled a 26–11 win–loss record as a pitcher and had a .345 batting average. In 1898, Yeager made his major league debut with the Brooklyn Bridegrooms. He had 32 complete games and a respectable earned run average but lost 22 games for a team that finished in 10th place."Joe Yeager Statistics and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ralph Oscar Yeager
Ralph Oscar Yeager, AIA, (1892 – 1960) was an American architect who worked in Indiana.archINFORM Bernard Vonnegut Accessed February 27, 2010 He was a partner in the , architectural firm of and the , architectural firm of |
Meredith Yeager
Stella Meredith Yeager is an American geneticist who specializes in cancer genomics. She was the scientific director of the cancer genomics research laboratory at the National Cancer Institute. Yeager is an assistant professor of biology at Hood College. Life Yeager completed a B.S. at Radford University. She earned an M.S. at Hood College. She completed a Ph.D. at the Pennsylvania State University. Her 1998 dissertation was titled, ''Peptide binding function and MHC evolution''. At its founding in 2001, Yeager was part of the scientific and operations management team of Core Genotyping Facility at the National Cancer Institute (NCI). The team included director Stephen Chanock, deputy director Robert A. Welch, and director of operations Amy A. Hutchinson. By 2015, Yeager was the scientific director of the NCI cancer genomics research laboratory. In 2018, she was part of the HPV genomics team awarded a NCI director award for innovative development of novel HPV assays. In 201 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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