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Zimmer (surname)
Zimmer is German surname meaning "room" or "chamber". Derivative names include Zimmermann ( Zimmerman), the occupational surname meaning Carpenter, literally translated "room man" (i.e. someone who builds wooden structures to be lived in). List of people with this surname Sciences * Andreas Zimmer, German neurobiologist * Carl Zimmer, popular science writer specializing in evolution * Carl Wilhelm Erich Zimmer, German zoologist * John Todd Zimmer (1889-1957), American ornithologist * Karl Zimmer, German physicist and radiation biologist * Louis Zimmer, Belgian clockmaker and astronomer Sports * Adam Zimmer (1984–2022), American football coach * Andy Zimmer, American basketball player * Bradley Zimmer, American baseball player * Chief Zimmer (Charles Louis Zimmer, 1860–1949), catcher in Major League Baseball * Cyril Zimmer, Australian rules footballer * Don Zimmer, Major League Baseball manager and coach * Kyle Zimmer, American baseball player * Mike Zimmer, head coach fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zimmerman (surname)
Zimmerman is a surname variant of the German language, German ''Zimmermann'', meaning "carpenter". The modern German terms for carpenter are ''Zimmerer'', ''Tischler'', or ''Schreiner'', but ''Zimmermann'' is still used. It is also commonly associated with Ashkenazi Jews. ''Zimmer'' in literal German means "room" or archaically a chamber within a structure; it is cognate with the English word "wikt:timber, timber". The German ''mann'' means "man" or "worker". Combining the two German words, one gets "a worker of wood", or, literally translated, "room man" or "room worker".Combined from several sources including: ''Webster's New Universal Unabridged Dictionary'', 1996 by Barnes & Noble Books, and ''Concise Oxford Dictionary - 10th Edition'' by Oxford University Press. Within the United States, it is ranked as the 441st-most common surname.U.S. Census Bureau; "Frequently Occurring First Names and Surnames From the 1990 Census, (Table) Name Files dist.all.last"; published May 9, 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chief Zimmer
Charles Louis "Chief" Zimmer (November 23, 1860 – August 22, 1949) was an American professional baseball player whose playing career spanned from 1884 to 1906. He played for 19 seasons as a catcher in Major League Baseball (MLB), including 13 seasons for the Cleveland Blues/Spiders (1887–1899), three seasons for the Pittsburgh Pirates (1900–1902), and one season as the player/manager of the Philadelphia Phillies (1903). Zimmer is regarded by some as "the finest defensive catcher of his day." He set major-league catching records for assists (188 in 1890), double plays (16 in 1895), runners caught stealing (183 in 1893), games at catcher (125 in 1890), and career fielding percentage (.943 as of 1896). As one of the game's first every-day catchers, ''The Sporting News'' in 1949 called Zimmer "baseball's original 'iron man'." Offensively, Zimmer had a career batting average of .269, but hit above .300 four times, including a career-high .340 batting average in 1895. Zimmer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kim Zimmer
Kimberly Jo Zimmer (born February 2, 1955) is an American actress, best known for her role as Reva Shayne on the CBS soap opera ''Guiding Light''. For this portrayal, she has won four Daytime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series. Career Zimmer's career began with stage work; an early television role was her portrayal of the character of Bonnie Harmon on ''One Life to Live'' in 1978. In 1979, she was tapped to replace Kathleen Turner as Nola Dancy Aldrich on '' The Doctors''. She later appeared opposite Turner in the 1981 film ''Body Heat'' in a plot that addressed similarities in their appearance. For much of her stint, she was the show's leading lady, but left the show in July 1982 on a maternity leave, escorted off the show by her real life husband, A.C. Weary, who played Nola's newest conquest. She would return one last time later in the year for the funeral of her former mother-in-law, Mona Croft. She had a brief return to ''One Life to Live'' from F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Constance Zimmer
Constance Zimmer (born October 11, 1970) is an American actress. She rose to prominence for playing Dana Gordon in the television series ''Entourage'' (2005–2011) and Claire Simms in the television series ''Boston Legal'' (2006–2007). She went on to appear in many television series, notably ''Love Bites'' (2011) and ''House of Cards'' (2013–2018). Zimmer gained recognition for her role in the television series ''Unreal'' (2015–2018), for which she received a Critics' Choice Television Award and a Primetime Emmy Award nomination in 2016. Early life and education Zimmer was born in Seattle, Washington, to German migrant parents from the former East Prussia. She speaks fluent German, saying in a 2015 interview that although her parents spoke English with her as a child, she spent six weeks of every summer in Germany, with her grandmother who only spoke German. Zimmer decided to pursue a career in acting after she fell in love with the craft as a high school student. Fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rod Zimmer
Rod A. A. Zimmer (December 19, 1942 – June 7, 2016) Winnipeg Free Press. Retrieved June 7, 2016 was a Canadian Senate of Canada, senator, businessman, and philanthropist. He was also a significant fundraiser for the Liberal Party of Canada.Who the heck is Rod Zimmer? Macleans.com He resigned suddenly from the Senate due to ill health on August 2, 2013. Early life Born in Kuroki, Saskatchewan, Kuroki, Saskatchewan, he received a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Saskatchewan in 1973.Business career From 1979 to 1983, ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matthias Zimmer
Matthias Zimmer (born 3 May 1961) is a German author and politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Hesse from 2009, winning a constituency in Frankfurt am Main for three terms until 2021. Political career Zimmer became a member of the Bundestag in the 2009 German federal election. In parliament, he was a member of the Committee on Labour and Social Affairs and the Committee on Human Rights and Humanitarian Aid, the latter of which he chaired from 2017 until 2018. In addition to his committee assignments, Zimmer co-chaired the German-Canadian Parliamentary Friendship Group. In an internal vote on the CDU candidate for the 2021 elections, Zimmer lost against Axel Kaufmann. Political positions In June 2017, Zimmer voted against his parliamentary group’s majority and in favor of Germany’s introduction of same-sex marriage. In 2019, Zimmer joined 14 members of his parliamentary group who, in an o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gabi Zimmer
Gabriele "Gabi" Zimmer (born 7 May 1955) is a German politician who served as leader of the Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS) from 2000 to 2003. After leaving office as leader, she was a member of the European Parliament from 2004 to 2019. Zimmer sat with the European United Left–Nordic Green Left (GUE/NGL) group, which she chaired from 2012 to 2019. Personal life Zimmer was born in East Berlin in 1955. After graduating from high school, she studied Russian and French in the Theoretical and Applied Linguistics section of the Karl Marx University in Leipzig from 1973 to 1977, graduating as a qualified linguist. Then she worked as a clerk at VEB vehicle and hunting weapons factory "Ernst Thälmann" in Suhl. From 1981 to 1987 she was the editor of the company's newspaper, and from 1987 to 1989 she was a member of the SED party leadership of this company. Zimmer is non-denominational, married, and has two children. Political career She joined the Socialist Unity Party of Ge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dick Zimmer
Richard Alan Zimmer (born August 16, 1944) is an American Republican Party politician from New Jersey, who served in both houses of the New Jersey Legislature and in the United States House of Representatives. He was the Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate from New Jersey in 1996 and 2008. In March 2010, he was appointed by Governor Chris Christie to head the New Jersey Privatization Task Force. Early life and career Zimmer was born on August 16, 1944 in Newark, New Jersey to William and Evelyn Zimmer, the second of two children. In his early years he was raised in Hillside, New Jersey. His father, a physician, died of a heart attack when he was 3 years old. After his father's death, his mother moved from Hillside to Bloomfield, New Jersey, where she supported the family by working as a clerk at the Sunshine Biscuits warehouse. They lived in a Bloomfield garden apartment, which Zimmer has referred to as "the New Jersey equivalent of a log cabin."Wald, David. "Campaign images ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dawn Zimmer
Dawn Zimmer (born April 16, 1968) is an American politician who served as the 38th mayor of Hoboken, New Jersey. As president of the Hoboken City Council, she became acting mayor after incumbent Peter Cammarano's resignation on July 31, 2009 following his arrest on corruption charges. Zimmer is the first female mayor of Hoboken. She was first elected mayor in a special election for the balance of Cammarano's term on November 6, 2009 and was re-elected mayor for another four-year term in November 2013. In 2012, 2013 and 2014, she was ranked #3, #4 and #5, respectively, on ''The Hudson Reporter'''s list of the 50 most influential people in Hudson County. Early life Dawn Zimmer was born in Towson, Maryland, and raised in Laconia, New Hampshire. She is of German and Irish descent. She attended public schools and graduated ''cum laude'' in 1990 from the University of New Hampshire with a degree in history. Early career Zimmer taught English at a private language school in Japan from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Zimmer
Thomas Jeffrey Zimmer (born June 30, 1952, in Mobile, Alabama) has held multiple roles in professional baseball. He played in the minor leagues non-consecutively from 1971 to 1979, coached for the St. Louis Cardinals in 1976, managed in the minor leagues from 1977 through 1980 and coached the St. Petersburg Pelicans in 1989. He is currently a scout for the San Francisco Giants. A catcher, he began his professional career in 1971 at the age of 19 after being taken in the third round of that year's draft. He played until 1979, missing 1976 and 1978, hitting .247 in 318 games. He played in the Cardinals (1971–1975) and the Pittsburgh Pirates (1979) organizations. He managed the Victoria Rosebuds (1977), Butte Copper Kings (1978), Shelby Pirates (1979) and Salinas Angels (1980). He has scouted for the Giants since at least 1981. His father was longtime baseball figure Don Zimmer. His uncle, Hal Zimmer, played in the minor leagues in the early 1950s. References External links ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sabine Zimmer
Sabine Krantz (née Zimmer; born 6 February 1981) is a German race walker. She was born in Potsdam Potsdam () is the capital and, with around 183,000 inhabitants, largest city of the German state of Brandenburg. It is part of the Berlin/Brandenburg Metropolitan Region. Potsdam sits on the River Havel, a tributary of the Elbe, downstream of B .... International competitions References * * External links * * * 1981 births Living people Sportspeople from Potsdam German female racewalkers German national athletics champions Olympic athletes of Germany Athletes (track and field) at the 2004 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2008 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2012 Summer Olympics World Athletics Championships athletes for Germany 20th-century German women 21st-century German women {{Germany-racewalk-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Zimmer
Michael Zimmer (born June 5, 1956) is an American football coach for the Colorado Buffaloes football, Colorado Buffaloes. Prior to this, Zimmer was with Jackson State Tigers football, Jackson State, both college programs being led by Deion Sanders. He previously also served as the head coach of the Minnesota Vikings of the National Football League (NFL) from 2014 to 2021. Prior to joining the Vikings, Zimmer served as a defensive assistant for the Dallas Cowboys, Atlanta Falcons, and Cincinnati Bengals from 1994–2013. Zimmer also won Super Bowl XXX with the 1995 Dallas Cowboys season, Dallas Cowboys in 1996. Playing career In high school, Zimmer was a successful multi-sport athlete who earned all-conference honors in football (1972–73), baseball, and wrestling at Lockport Township High School in Lockport, Illinois. He enrolled at Illinois State University, majoring in physical education. He played quarterback in 1974, but he redshirted the following year and moved to lineback ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
