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Zeman
Zeman (feminine Zemanová) is a Czech and Slovak surname. The word originally denoted a member of low nobility. Notable people with the surname include: Culture and science * Brock Zeman, Canadian singer-songwriter * Jacklyn Zeman (born 1953), an American actress * Karel Zeman (1910–1989), Czech filmmaker * Ludmila Zeman (born 1947), Czech-Canadian artist, animator, and creator of children's book * Ned Zeman (born 1966), writer and screenwriter * Zbyněk Zeman (1928–2011), Czech historian Politics and business * Allan Zeman (born 1949), Hong Kong businessman * Edward J. Zeman (1905-1966), American politician * Ivana Zemanová, wife of Miloš Zeman * Miloš Zeman (born 1944), Czech president Sport American football * Bob Zeman (born 1937), American football defensive back * Ed Zeman (born 1963), American football player Association football * David Zeman (born 1942), Czech association football player * Josef Zeman (footballer) (1915–1999), Czech footballer * Marián ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miloš Zeman
Miloš Zeman (; born 28 September 1944) is a Czech politician serving as the third and current President of the Czech Republic since 2013. He previously served as the Prime Minister of the Czech Republic from 1998 to 2002. As leader of the Czech Social Democratic Party during the 1990s, he is credited with the revival of the party into one of the country's major political forces. Zeman briefly served as the President of the Chamber of Deputies from 1996 to 1998. Born in Kolín to a modest family, Zeman joined the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia in 1968, but was expelled two years later due to his opposition to the Warsaw Pact invasion. Following the Velvet Revolution in 1989, he joined the Czech Social Democratic Party, which he led into the successful 1996 election. Zeman became Prime Minister following the 1998 legislative election after striking a controversial pact with his long-time rival Václav Klaus. The pact became known as the Opposition agreement and was heavil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zdeněk Zeman
Zdeněk Zeman (; born 12 May 1947) is a Czech-Italian football coach. Known for his exciting, offensive footballing tactics and use of the 4–3–3 formation, Zeman has managed numerous teams over the years, mostly in Italian football. He has won the Serie B title twice, with Foggia and with Pescara. Career Early years Zeman's football coaching career started in Sicily, where he resided since the late 1960s. His first coaching experiences were for amateur football teams from Palermo neighborhood (''Cinisi'', ''Bacigalupo'', ''Carini'', ''Misilmeri'', ''Esacalza''). In 1974, thanks to his uncle Čestmír Vycpálek's aid, he had his first notable experience as part of the Palermo Calcio youth coaching staff, which ended in 1983. In 1975, he graduated with honours at the ''ISEF'' of Palermo (a sports school) with a dissertation in sports medicine. In 1979, he finally obtained the ''patentino'' (a kind of license for coaching football at the professional level) at the Coverciano ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karel Zeman
Karel Zeman (3 November 1910 – 5 April 1989) was a Czech film director, artist, production designer and animator, best known for directing fantasy films combining live-action footage with animation. Because of his creative use of special effects and animation in his films, he has often been called the "Czech Georges Méliès, Méliès". Life Zeman was born on 3 November 1910 in Ostroměř (near Nová Paka) in what was then Austria-Hungary. Published online: At his parents' insistence, he studied business education, business at high school in Kolín. In the 1920s, he studied at a French advertising school, and worked at an advertising studio in Marseilles until 1936. It was in France that he first worked with animation, filming an ad for soap. He then returned to his home country (by now the First Czechoslovak Republic, known as Czechoslovakia), after visiting Egypt, Yugoslavia, and Greece. Back in Czechoslovakia, Zeman advertised for Czech firms like Bata Shoes, Baťa and Tatr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allan Zeman
Allan Zeman GBM, GBS, JP (Chinese name: 盛智文; born 18 July 1949) is a Hong Kong business magnate. Background and personal life Allan Zeman was born into a Jewish family in Regensburg, Germany; and was raised in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, where his mother worked in a hospital. When Zeman was seven years old, his father died. He started working at the age of ten. He dropped out of college, and by the age of nineteen, while working for a lingerie company, he had earned his first US$1 million. He made his first fortune by importing clothes from Hong Kong. He frequently travelled to Hong Kong for work in the 1970s, and eventually moved there in 1975. Zeman is married to Charmaine Zeman; they have two children: Jonathan Zeman and Marisa Zeman-McConnell. He speaks English, French and some Cantonese, and is a teetotaler. Career In 1975, Zeman founded Colby International Group to source clothing in China and export it to Canada. In late 2000, by now a much larger and diversifi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacklyn Zeman
Jacklyn Zeman (born March 6, 1953) is an American actress. She is known for her role as Barbara "Bobbie" Spencer on '' General Hospital''. She is sometimes credited as Jackie Zeman. Early life and education Zeman was born in Englewood, New Jersey, to a family of Jewish descent. Her parents are Rita Zeman-Rohlman, a magazine supervisor, and Richard S. Zeman, a systems engineer. She grew up in Bergenfield, New Jersey and completed her high school studies at age 15, at Bergenfield High School, after which she studied dance on a scholarship at New York University. She was a Playboy Bunny at the Playboy Club in 1972. Career outside of acting In the 1990s, Zeman was the spokeswoman for Excedrin aspirin. She currently works with the Home Shopping Network, designing and presenting a signature line of jewelry. Personal life Zeman has been married three times. Her first marriage, to Murray Kaufman, a popular DJ known as Murray the K, lasted from September 16, 1979 to 1981. Her secon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ludmila Zeman
Ludmila Zeman (born 23 April 1947) is a Czech–Canadian artist, animator, and creator of children's books. She is the daughter of filmmaker Karel Zeman. Zeman was born in the Moravian Czech city of Zlín (renamed Gottwaldov in 1949, through 1989). She graduated from the college of art (Střední uměleckoprůmyslová škola) in Uherské Hradiště. She worked as her father's assistant for his final films, and married Eugen Spálený, the chief animator at his studio. They had two children, Linda and Malvinia. She launched a career in story books and animation for children. In 1983, Zeman and her husband were invited to teach film technique at Emily Carr University of Art and Design in Vancouver. When the couple attempted to emigrate, the Czechoslovakian communist government refused them permission, accusing them of pro-Western leanings. Zeman was told to leave the animation studio, and Spálený was drafted into menial construction work. In the summer of 1984, the family escap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Zeman
Edward Robert Zeman (February 22, 1937 – May 3, 2019) was an American football defensive back who played six seasons in the American Football League from 1960 to 1966. Playing career Early years Zeman attended Wheaton Warrenville South High School in Wheaton, Illinois, the home town as legendary collegiate and professional running back Red Grange."AFL All Stars," ''Sports All Stars 1963 Pro Football.'' New York: Maco Publishing, 1963; pg. 68. Also himself originally a running back, Zeman managed to break several of the "Galloping Ghost's" high school records. He was later inducted into its Hall of Fame. Wisconsin Badgers Zeman played on both sides of the ball at Wisconsin. However, he never eclipsed 600 yards of rushing, playing mostly defense. After playing in the Rose Bowl his senior year, Zeman met with executives in Los Angeles. Los Angeles/San Diego Chargers Zeman was drafted by the Los Angeles Chargers in the 1960 AFL draft. Zeman was part of a stellar defense ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brock Zeman
Brock Adam Zeman is a singer-songwriter from the Ottawa Valley based in Carleton Place, Ontario, Canada. He has released twelve albums and a live DVD/digital audio release called The Pinball Sessions. He is known as a prolific performer having given more than two hundred live performances across North America every year for the last decade. Before his mid-20s, Zeman had signed with indie label, Busted Flat Records, had played most major music festivals in Canada and performed on stage with some of the top talent of the contemporary roots and Americana scenes, including Steve Earle, Lynn Miles, Fred Eaglesmith, Corb Lund, Toby Keith, Prairie Oyster and Blackie & the Rodeo Kings. ''Exclaim!'' magazine calls Zeman "a songwriter worth hearing over and over again" while CKUA hails Zeman's work as "intelligent, tuneful, heart-felt songs served up with an authentic but understated style." The Waterloo Region Record says that "Zeman doesn't surrender an inch to any Texas singer-so ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivana Zemanová
Ivana Zemanová (née Bednarčíková; born 29 April 1965) is the current First Lady of the Czech Republic and wife of the 3rd President of the Czech Republic Miloš Zeman. References 1965 births Living people First Ladies of the Czech Republic People from Nové Město na Moravě 20th-century Czech economists Czech women economists {{Czech-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Zeman
Walter Zeman (1 May 1927 - 8 August 1991) was an Austrian football goalkeeper and an integral part of the second Austrian ''Wunderteam'' of the 1950s. Zeman began his youth career at local club SV Wienerberger, but he soon moved on to FC Vienna. In 1945 Zeman joined Rapid Vienna and also won his first cap for the Austria national football team. With Rapid, Zeman won eight Austrian league championships, one Austrian Cup, and the 1951 Zentropa Cup. For the national side Zeman competed at the 1954 FIFA World Cup in which Austria progressed to the semi-finals before being defeated by West Germany West Germany is the colloquial term used to indicate the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG; german: Bundesrepublik Deutschland , BRD) between its formation on 23 May 1949 and the German reunification through the accession of East Germany on 3 O .... In total Zeman won 41 caps for Austria, and is often regarded as Austria's second greatest keeper after Rudi Hiden. Throughout his ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ned Zeman
Ned Zeman (born 1966) is a writer for '' Vanity Fair'' magazine and also a screenwriter. He covers Hollywood, crime, politics, and wildlife.IMDB He joined Vanity Fair as a senior editor in May 1997. In June 2000, he became a contributing editor. Before working with Vanity Fair, Zeman wrote for a number of magazines which include GQ, Sports Illustrated, and Outside Magazine. Prior, he a staff writer at Newsweek from 1988 to 1993 during which he also wrote for Spy. Works He has covered and interviewed celebrities such as Jennifer Lopez, Mike Ovitz, and Julia Roberts. While reporting a 2001 story about Steven Seagal's links to the mafia, he was threatened by an unknown gunman. Zeman wrote a well known article about the death of Timothy Treadwell, who lived among bears. In 2011, Zeman published his memoir entitled " The Rules of the Tunnel: My Brief Period of Madness" where he details his battle with clinical depression. Awards and honors His article on the death of Timothy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrea Zemanová
Andrea Zemanová (born in Vrchlabí) is a Czech freestyle skier, specializing in ski cross and alpine skier. Zemanová competed at the 2014 Winter Olympics for Czech Republic. She placed 20th in the seeding run for the ski cross event. In the first round, she finished third in her heat, failing to advance. As of September 2015, her best showing at the Alpine World Championships is 32nd, in the 2011 Super-G. Her best showing at the Freestyle World Championships is 14th, in the 2015 File:2015 Events Collage new.png, From top left, clockwise: Civil service in remembrance of November 2015 Paris attacks; Germanwings Flight 9525 was purposely crashed into the French Alps; the rubble of residences in Kathmandu following the Apri ... ski cross. Zemanová made her Freestyle World Cup debut in December 2013. As of September 2015, she has one World Cup podium finish, a silver at Åre in 2014–15. Her best Freestyle World Cup overall finish in ski cross is 11th, in 2014–15. Ze ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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