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MacNeil
MacNeil can have a number of different meanings and spellings: Clan MacNeil is a Scottish clan. Notable people * Al MacNeil (1935–2025), Canadian ice hockey player and coach * Angus MacNeil (born 1970), Scottish politician * Archibald Macneil of Colonsay (fl. 1773–1805), Scottish laird * Bernie MacNeil (born 1950), Canadian ice hockey player * Bhreagh MacNeil, Canadian actress * Brett MacNeil (born 1967), Canadian gridiron football player * Carol Brooks MacNeil (1871–1944), American sculptor * Carole MacNeil (born 1964), Canadian television journalist * Charles Grant MacNeil (1892–1976), Canadian politician * Chuck MacNeil (born 1944), Canadian politician * Colin MacNeil, British comics artist * Colin MacNeil (footballer) (1936–2025), Australian rules footballer * Cooper MacNeil (born 1992), American racecar driver * Cornell MacNeil (1922–2011), American baritone * Donald C. MacNeil (1924–1978), Canadian politician * Drew MacNeil (born 1964), Scottish shinty playe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clan MacNeil
Clan MacNeil, also known in Scotland as Clan Niall, is a Scottish Highlands, highland Scottish clan of Irish people, Irish origin. According to their early genealogies and some sources they're descended from Eógan mac Néill and Niall of the Nine Hostages. The clan is particularly associated with the Outer Hebrides, Outer Hebridean island of Barra. The early history of Clan MacNeil is obscure. However, despite this the clan claims to descend from the legendary Irish King Niall of the Nine Hostages, who is counted as the 1st Clan Chief, the current Clan Chief being the 47th. The clan itself takes its name from a ''Niall'' who lived in the 13th or early 14th century and who belonged to the same dynastic family of Cowal and Knapdale as the ancestors of the Clan Lamont, Lamonts, Clan Ewen of Otter, MacEwens of Otter, Clan Maclachlan, Maclachlans, and the Clan Sweeney, MacSweens. While the clan is centred in Barra in the Outer Hebrides, there is a branch of the clan in Argyll (McNeil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Al MacNeil
Allister Wences MacNeil (September 27, 1935 – January 5, 2025) was a Canadian professional ice hockey player, coach and executive. MacNeil played 524 games in the National Hockey League and was a four-time Stanley Cup winner. He was the first native of Atlantic Canada to serve as a head coach in the NHL. He won three Stanley Cups with the Montreal Canadiens, first as the team's rookie head coach in 1971, and then back-to-back championships as Director of Player Personnel in 1978 and 1979. He went back into coaching in 1979, becoming the last head coach of the Atlanta Flames and then the first one for the Calgary Flames in 1980. As an NHL head coach, with the Canadiens and Flames, his career win-loss-tie total was 160–134–55. The final time he won a Stanley Cup was as the assistant general manager of the Calgary Flames in 1989. MacNeil won three Calder Cup Championships as the general manager and head coach of the Montreal Canadiens' farm team, the Nova Scotia Voyageurs, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angus MacNeil
Angus Brendan MacNeil (; born 21 July 1970) is a Scottish politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for from 2005 to 2024. Early life and education Angus MacNeil was born on 21 July 1970 in Barra. He was educated at Castlebay Secondary School on the island of Barra and the Nicolson Institute in Stornoway on the Isle of Lewis before attending Strathclyde University where he played shinty and in 1992 gained a degree in civil engineering. After graduation he worked as a civil engineer for Morrison Construction and as a reporter for the Gaelic section of BBC Radio Scotland. After qualifying as a teacher at Jordanhill College in 1996, he then taught the first Gaelic Medium Class at Salen and Acharacle Primary Schools in Argyll on the Scottish mainland. Parliamentary career At the 2001 general election, MacNeil stood as the SNP candidate in Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, coming second with 25.6% of the vote behind the incumbent Labour MP David Stewart. MacNe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laine MacNeil
Laine MacNeil (born October 28, 1996) is a Canadian actress. MacNeil made her motion picture debut at the age of 13, and is best known for her role as List of Diary of a Wimpy Kid characters#Patty Farrell, Patty Farrell in the ''Diary of a Wimpy Kid (film series), Diary of a Wimpy Kid'' feature film franchise, which earned her five Young Artist Award nominations, including a win as 33rd Young Artist Awards#Best Performance in a Feature Film - Supporting Young Actress, Best Young Supporting Actress in a Feature Film. Life and career MacNeil was born on October 28, 1996, in Surrey, British Columbia. She attended Lord Tweedsmuir Secondary School. Her brother Donnie is also an actor. MacNeil began her acting career at a young age and appeared in her first significant film production in a non-negligible marginal role. In'' Mr. Troop Mom'' with all-rounder George Lopez in 2009, MacNeil had the role of the Kayla. The following year, MacNeil had her international breakthrough when sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flora MacNeil
Flora MacNeil, MBE (6 October 1928 – 15 May 2015) was a Scottish Gaelic traditional singer. MacNeil gained prominence after meeting Alan Lomax and Hamish Henderson during the early 1950s, and continued to perform into her later years. Early life MacNeil was born in 1928 into a Gaelic-speaking and Roman Catholic family inside her parents' croft at Ledag, Castlebay, on the island of Barra, which is sometimes called, "the island the Reformation never reached". There were singers on both sides of the MacNeil family, but the menfolk were often away at sea for long periods, leaving the women to raise the children and tend the croft – while constantly singing to assuage their labours. Her mother was Ann Gillies. Her father, Seumas MacNeil, worked as a fisherman and died when Flora was 14. In these pre-television and pre-radio days, ceilidhs were a regular occurrence on Barra, and from earliest childhood MacNeil later remembered "soaking up" literally hundreds of songs, as if b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cooper MacNeil
Cooper Ian MacNeil (born September 7, 1992 in Hinsdale, Illinois) is a retired professional American racecar driver. He most recently competed in the WeatherTech SportsCar Championship driving the No. 79 WeatherTech Racing Mercedes-Benz AMG GT3 with co-drivers Dani Juncadella, Maro Engel, and Jules Gounon. He is son of WeatherTech owner and car collector David MacNeil. Cooper has won the 24 Hours of Daytona, Petit Le Mans three times, 12 hours of Sebring twice, and has been on the podium at the 24 Hours of Le Mans three times (2x third place, 1x second place). He has also won the SCCA Runoffs and is a 4 time Ferrari Challenge Champion. 2010 Cooper won the National SCCA Touring 2 Points Championship and finished 2nd Place in the SCCA Runoffs at Road America. 2011 Cooper competed in his first 24 Hours of Daytona. He captured his first win in Ferrari Challenge at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca as well as his first win in IMSA GT3 Cup Challenge at Montreal. 2012 Alex Job Racing racing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carole MacNeil
Carole MacNeil is a Canadian television journalist, known for her work with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation which spanned over thirty years. MacNeil began her career anchoring local news programs in New Brunswick and Ontario in the early 1990s, before joining CBC Newsworld in 1998. Her most recent program was ''CBC Rundown with Carole MacNeil'', a daytime news program on CBC News Network. Biography MacNeil grew up in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. From 1990 to 1994, she worked at CBC affiliate station CHSJ-TV in Fredericton, New Brunswick, where she was a co-anchor for the evening news program and the host of a current affairs program. In October 1994, she moved to Windsor, Ontario, where she became the anchor of the local evening newscast on CBET, the local CBC station. MacNeil replaced David Kyle as the station's late-night news anchor in February 1996, becoming the anchor of both the evening and late-night newscasts. Leaving the Windsor station in August 1998, she joined ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heather MacNeil
Heather MacNeil is a professor at the Faculty of Information of the University of Toronto, Canada. She teaches archives and record keeping related topics. She is a former General Editor of ''Archivaria'' (2014-2015) and helped develop the concept of the Archival bond. Bill Landis, Head of Public Services, Manuscripts and Archives at Yale University Library, nominated MacNeil's 2005 paper "Picking Our Text: Archival Description, Authenticity, and the Archivist as Editor" as his favourite article from ''American Archivist The ''American Archivist'' is a biannual peer-reviewed academic journal and the official publication of the Society of American Archivists. It covers theoretical and practical developments in archival science, particularly in North America. The jou ...'', saying "Heather MacNeil does an incredible job of unpacking the hidden assumptions we've developed as a profession ...". In 2016 MacNeil was awarded the James J. Talman Award by the Archives Association of Ontar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hermon Atkins MacNeil
Hermon Atkins MacNeil (February 27, 1866 – October 2, 1947) was an American sculptor born in Everett, Massachusetts. He is known for designing the ''Standing Liberty'' quarter, struck by the Mint from 1916 to 1930; and for sculpting ''Justice, the Guardian of Liberty'' on the east pediment of the United States Supreme Court building. Career MacNeil graduated from Massachusetts Normal Art School, now Massachusetts College of Art and Design, in 1886, became an instructor in industrial art at Cornell University from 1886 to 1889, and was then a pupil of Henri M. Chapu and Alexandre Falguière in Paris. Returning to America, he aided Philip Martiny (1858–1927) in the preparation of sketch models for the World's Columbian Exposition, and in 1896 he won the Rinehart scholarship, passing four years (1896–1900) in Rome. In 1906 he became a National Academician. His first important work was ''The Moqui Runner'', which was followed by ''A Primitive Chant'', and '' The S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ken MacNeil
Ken MacNeil (born 16 December 1975) is a Canadian professional darts player who plays in World Darts Federation (WDF) events. Career MacNeil qualified for the 2010 PDC World Darts Championship by finishing fourth in the North American Order of Merit. In the preliminary round, he defeated Guyana's Norman Madhoo 4–2. In the first round, he lost 3–2 to Alan Tabern. He represented Canada with John Part in the 2012 PDC World Cup of Darts and together they reached the second round by defeating Hungary 5–3. MacNeil then beat 15-time World Champion Phil Taylor in his singles match, but they would eventually succumb 3–2 to the English duo of Taylor and Adrian Lewis, having lost a sudden death leg. In June MacNeil lost in the final of the Canadian Open to Terry Hayhurst. MacNeil entered Q School in an attempt to win a PDC Tour Card to play the full circuit in 2013 and 2014 and succeeded on the first day, defeating David Copley 6–2 in his final match. He dedicated his suc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carol Brooks MacNeil
Carol Brooks MacNeil (January 15, 1871 – June 22, 1944) was an American sculptor, born in Chicago where she studied at the Art Institute of Chicago under Lorado Taft. MacNeil modeled many charming and unique designs for vases, teapots, inkstands, and other decorative and useful objects, as well as children's busts, including those of her two sons, and statuettes. Life The daughter of a painter father, MacNeil chose instead to work in sculpture. MacNeil studied in Paris under Frederick William MacMonnies and Jean Antoine Injalbert. She was one of the " white rabbits" who worked for Lorado Taft at the World Columbian Exposition of 1893, along with other female artists including Helen F. Mears. In 1895, she married Hermon Atkins MacNeil, a sculptor of American Indians and heroic monuments. They had two sons, Claude A. MacNeil and Alden B. MacNeil. MacNeil evidently collaborated with her husband on at least one project, a sculpture of William McKinley in the '' William McKinley ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cornell MacNeil
Cornell MacNeil (September 24, 1922 – July 15, 2011) was an American operatic baritone known for his exceptional voice and long career with the Metropolitan Opera, which spanned 642 performances in twenty-six roles. ''Opera News'' opined he "was a great baritone in era of great baritones — Warren, Gobbi, Merrill, Milnes — and in the contemporary press, comparisons to his colleagues were frequent. But MacNeil's performances had singular musical richness, and moral and intellectual complexity that were his alone. MacNeil may have had rivals, but he had no equals." Life and career Cornell MacNeil was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota to a dentist and a singer. He was interested in opera from a young age, but suffered from severe asthma, which also contributed to his rejection from World War II. He then took on a wartime job as a lathe operator, after which, on his mother's advice, began his vocal studies. Among his teachers were Friedrich Schorr and Dick Marzollo. Before the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
