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Kirkland (surname)
Kirkland is a surname. It originated from a habitational name with variant spellings Kirtland and Kirtlan, from the English word Kirk meaning church, plus land, and was originally given either as a topographical name to someone resident on land belonging to the church, or as a locational name from any of the several places named Kirkland. A *Alexander Kirkland (1901– c.1986), American actor *Alfred Younges Kirkland Sr. (1917–2004), American judge *Angus Kirkland (born 1965), British microscopist *Anthony Kirkland (born 1968), American serial killer *Arthur Kirkland (other), Arthur Kirkland, several people B *B'Ho Kirkland (1912–2004), American football player *Boyd Kirkland (1950–2011), American director *Brian Joseph Kirkland (born 1981), American politician C *Caroline Kirkland (1801–1864), American writer *Cassandra Kirkland (1984–2017), French professional golfer *Charles Kirkland (born 1950), American basketball player *Charles-Aimé Kirkland ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Alexander Kirkland
William Alexander Kirkland (September 15, 1901, Mexico City, Mexico – 1986) was a leading man in Hollywood during the early sound era as well as a stage actor who starred in productions of the Group Theatre (New York), Group Theatre in New York. Biography Kirkland was born on September 15, 1901, in Mexico City, the son of Robert Gowland Kirkland and Charlotte Megan. He was the grandson of rear admiral William Alexander Kirkland and Consuela Gowland. Kirkland attended the Taft School in Watertown, Connecticut and the University of Virginia. He later attended the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and while in Philadelphia, he began his acting career at the Hedgerow Theatre in Media, Pennsylvania. His first play on Broadway was ''The Devil to Pay''. He was also a freelance writer and contributed stories to popular national magazines. In the late 1920s, Kirkland moved to Hollywood and starred as leading man to Tallulah Bankhead in ''Tarnished Lady'' (1931). Other credits includ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Eddie Kirkland
Eddie Kirkland (August 16, 1923 – February 27, 2011) was an American electric blues guitarist, harmonicist, singer, and songwriter. Kirkland, known as the "Gypsy of the Blues" for his rigorous touring schedules, played and toured with John Lee Hooker from 1949 to 1962. After his period of working in tandem with Hooker he pursued a successful solo career, recording for RPM Records, Fortune Records, Volt Records, and King Records, sometimes under the stage name Eddie Kirk. Kirkland continued to tour, write and record albums until his death in February 2011. His last performance, the night before his death, was at Dunedin Brewery, Florida. Biography Kirkland was born in Kingston, Jamaica to a mother, aged 11 (Kirkland was raised believing his mother was his sister and he was in his early twenties when the truth was revealed to him by his mother), and first heard the blues from "field hollers", and raised in Dothan, Alabama until 1935, when he stowed away in the Sugar Girls M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Jessica Kirkland
Jessica Kirkland (born November 10, 1987) is a former professional tennis player from the United States. In her career, Kirkland won a total of four ITF titles, of which three were in singles and one in doubles. As a junior, she was runner-up in singles at the 2004 US Open and was ranked No. 1 junior in the world in 2005. Her highest ranking on the WTA Tour was world No. 151 in March 2005. Career Kirkland started playing tennis at the age of four. In 2004 Kirkland won the Girls'18-and-under singles title at the Orange Bowl held at Crandon Park in Key Biscayne, Florida after a straight sets win in the final against Alla Kudryavtseva. Kirkland's career highlight was reaching the fourth round of the Tier I Pacific Life Open at Indian Wells in March 2005, beating No. 22 seeded Marion Bartoli in straight sets en route. Her biggest ITF title came when she won the singles of the $50,000 event at Carson, California Carson is a city in the South Bay (Los Angeles County), South Ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Jesse Kirkland
Jesse Kirkland (born 22 January 1988) is a Bermudian competitive sailor. He is also a professional sports team owner of Futbol Longshots, a San Francisco based fantasy football franchise. Futbol Longshots are the current champions of the Boats and Hectors League. Boats and Hectors is widely referred to as the most competitive league in the country. Kirkland is the first and only international champion of Boats and Hectors. Jesse Kirkland is a native of Bermuda and grew up sailing there. He attended college in the United States at St. Mary's College of Maryland in southern Maryland, and sailed while a student, winning the ICSA Coed Dinghy National Championship in 2009. Following college, two years prior to the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, Kirkland and his brother Zander Kirkland began training full-time in an attempt to qualify as Bermuda's representatives in the Olympics 49er competition. The 49er, a small two-person racing dinghy, is a relatively new sailing competition ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Jerusha Bingham Kirkland
Jerusha Bingham Kirkland (October 15, 1743 – January 23, 1788) was a prominent colonial American pioneer in the missionary cause. During the years of her residence and labors among the Oneida people, where she and her husband, Rev. Dr. Samuel Kirkland, brought about many conversions to Christianity, Mrs. Kirkland was noted for her kind deeds as a nurse and medical benefactor to the Native Americans. Both she and her husband gained a wide influence among the indigenous people of the region, many of whom they were afterwards and during the American Revolutionary War, able to win over to the colonialist cause. Early life Jerusha (sometimes referred to as "Jemima") Bingham, was born in Windham, Connecticut, October 15, 1743. Her parents were Joseph Bingham of Windham, and Sarah Wheelock, sister to Rev. Eleazar Wheelock, D. D., a successful laborer in missionary work among Indigenous Americans. Kirkland came of a devout Christian family, and was reared amid the privileges of her C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Jaxson Kirkland
Jaxson Kirkland (born July 30, 1998) is an American professional football guard for the Cincinnati Bengals of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Washington Huskies. Early life Kirkland grew up in Camas, Washington and attended Jesuit High School. He was rated a three-star recruit and initially committed to play college football at UCLA during the summer before his senior year. Kirkland decommitted from UCLA at the end of his senior football season and ultimately signed a letter of intent to play at Washington over an offer from Oregon. College career Kirkland redshirted his true freshman season at Washington. He was named the Huskies starting right guard going into his redshirt freshman season and started all 14 of the Huskies' games. Kirkland started the first 11 games of his redshirt sophomore season before sustaining an injury. He moved from right guard to left tackle going into the 2020 season and was named first team All-Pac-12 Confer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Jari Kirkland
Jari aka "Yari" Kirkland (born 1976) is an American ski mountaineer and marathon mountain biker. She has been member of the national ski mountaineering selection since 2010. Selected results * 2010: ** 9th, World Championship relay race, together with Molly Zurm and Amy Fulywer ** 10th, World Championship team race, together with Nina Cook Silitch * 2011: ** 7th, World Championship A world championship is generally an international competition open to elite competitors from around the world, representing their nations, and winning such an event will be considered the highest or near highest achievement in the sport, game ... relay, together with Nina Cook Silitch and Janelle Smiley ** 1st, Power of Four, Aspen Mountain, women's team, together with Eva Hagen * 2012: ** 5th, North American Championship, individual ** 5th, North American Championship, total ranking ** 7th, North American Championship, sprint * 2013: ** 1st, 12 Hours of the Hill of Truth External links ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
James Kirkland (other)
James or Jim Kirkland may refer to: * James I. Kirkland (born 1954), American paleontologist * James Kirkland (boxer) (born 1984), American boxer * James Hampton Kirkland James Hampton Kirkland (September 9, 1859 – August 5, 1939) was an American Latinist and university administrator. He served as the second List of Chancellors of Vanderbilt University, chancellor of Vanderbilt University from 1893 to 1937. ... (1859–1939), American academic * James Kirkland (giant), Irish soldier with gigantism * James Robert Kirkland (1903–1958), United States federal judge * Jim Kirkland (born 1946), English footballer {{hndis, Kirkland, James ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Isabella Kirkland
Isabella Kirkland (born 1954) is an American visual artist and biodiversity researcher.Johnson, Ken"Isabella Kirkland,"''The New York Times'', June 10, 2011. Retrieved March 12, 2024.Phillips, Anna Lena"Ars Scientifica,"''American Scientist'', May-June 2008. Retrieved March 12, 2024. She is known for intricate, representational paintings that straddle art history, natural science and ecological activism.Revkin, Andrew C"Permanent Art, Evanescent Life,"''The New York Times'', November 1, 2007. Retrieved March 12, 2024.Roth David M"The Nature Conundrum,"''SquareCylinder'', June 2, 2021. Retrieved March 12, 2024.Baker, Kamrin"Artist Advocates For Endangered & Extinct Species Through Paintings,"''Good Good Good'', July 14, 2023. Retrieved March 12, 2024. Since the mid-1990s, she has documented organism, biota in series focused on species that are extinct, disappearing, collected or illegally trafficked, or emerging from near-extinction.Weir, Alex"Life in its Fleeting Glory,"''Riverfr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Graeme Kirkland
Graeme Kirkland is a Canadian record producer, composer, musician, and performance artist active during the late 1980s and 1990s. Musical career At age 15, while too young to be formally enrolled, Kirkland studied music in advanced classes at York University. During his teen years, he received three full scholarships to The Banff Centre School of Fine Arts studying and working alongside Big Miller, John Abercrombie, Kenny Wheeler, Don Thompson, Dave Holland, Hugh Fraser, and Albert Mangelsdorff. He also studied privately in Toronto & New York City. During his musical career, Kirkland played alongside and recorded with the Leslie Spit Treeo, Varga, Jeff Healey, Ashley MacIsaac, Tim Brady, Holly Cole, Mark Feldman, John Zorn, George Koller, Fred Stone, Jane Bunnett, Bob Wiseman, John Gzowski, The Shuffle Demons, Joey Goldstein, as well as the National Ballet of Canada. Kirkland, together with Tom Walsh, composed and played for the Hemispheres Orchestra in 1988. His music was fe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Gordon Kirkland (coach)
Gordon Ashby Kirkland (July 26, 1904 – June 23, 1953) was an American football, basketball, and baseball coach and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at Catawba College in Salisbury, North Carolina from 1934 to 1948, compiling a record of 106–32–7. Kirkland also had two stints as the head basketball coach at Catawba, from 1934 to 1936 and 1942 to 1945, tallying a mark of 60–37, and was the school's head baseball coach from 1934 to 1948, amassing a record of 179–70–3. He led the Catawba Indians football team to six North State Conference titles and consecutive bowl game victories, in the 1947 and the 1948 Tangerine Bowls. A native of Durham, North Carolina, Kirkland was a graduate of Elon College. He was the athletic director and head coach at Oxford High School in Oxford, North Carolina, where he led the football team to the finals of the North Carolina class B state championship in 1929. Kirkland was hired in 1930 as the athletic dir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Geoffrey Kirkland
Geoffrey Kirkland (born 1939) is an English production designer. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film '' The Right Stuff''. He is also a two-time BAFTA winner for his work in ''Bugsy Malone'' and '' Children of Men''. He was also nominated for a Primetime Emmy for his work in ''Hemingway & Gellhorn''. Selected filmography * ''Bugsy Malone'' (1976) * '' Midnight Express'' (1978) * '' Fame'' (1980) * ''WarGames'' (1983) * '' The Right Stuff'' (1983) * '' Space Jam'' (1996) * '' Children of Men'' (2006) * ''Hemingway & Gellhorn ''Hemingway & Gellhorn'' is a 2012 American biographical drama television film directed by Philip Kaufman and written by Jerry Stahl and Barbara Turner, about the lives of journalist Martha Gellhorn (Nicole Kidman) and her husband, writer Er ...'' (2012) References External links * 1939 births Living people British film designers English designers Best Production Design BAFTA Award winne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
