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Mark Allen (software Developer), Mark Allen
Mark Allen may refer to: *Mark Allen (businessman) (born 1950), former British spy turned businessman and lecturer *Mark Allen (triathlete) (born 1958), American world champion triathlete *Bull Allen (rugby union) (Mark Richard Allen, born 1967), New Zealand international rugby football player *Mark Allen (snooker player) (born 1986), Northern Irish snooker player *Mark Allen (footballer) (born 1963), former Burnley, Tranmere Rovers and Runcorn football player *Mark Allen (software developer), computer game programmer and designer *Mark Allen (DJ), British deejay and producer *Mark Allen (politician) (born 1949), American politician from Oklahoma *Mark G. Allen (born 1962), professor specializing in microfabrication at the Georgia Institute of Technology *Mark S. Allen (born 1965), American television host *Mark W. Allen (1877–1958), American lumber dealer and politician *Mark Johnston-Allen (born 1968), snooker player *Mark Allen, founder of Machine Project See also *Mark All ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Allen (businessman)
Sir Mark John Spurgeon Allen Order of St Michael and St George, KCMG (born 3 July 1950) is a British diplomat, intelligence officer, and businessman. Early life Mark Allen was born on 3 July 1950. His father, Peter Muir Spurgeon Allen, was headmaster of Cokethorpe School in Oxfordshire. He was educated at the Dragon School, Oxford, and at Downside School, the Roman Catholic public school in Somerset. He then read Arabic and Turkish at Exeter College, Oxford, Exeter College, University of Oxford. Career Allen joined the British Foreign Service, where he worked for 30 years. After studying at the Middle East Centre for Arab Studies, he was posted to Abu Dhabi in 1974. There he developed his love of falconry from his contacts with the Bedouin, to the extent that he wrote a series of books on the subject, including ''Falconry in Arabia'' (1980). He then spent much of the rest of his operational career in the Middle East. In 2003, as head of MI6’s counter-terrorism unit, Allen a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Allen (triathlete)
Mark Allen (born January 12, 1958, in Glendale, California) is an American triathlete and six-time Ironman Triathlon World Champion. Education He graduated from UC San Diego, where he was an All-America The All-America designation is an annual honor bestowed on outstanding athletes in the United States who are considered to be among the best athletes in their respective sport. Individuals receiving this distinction are typically added to an Al ...n swimmer, with a degree in biology. Career After competing and losing in the Ironman Triathlon Championships six times (often to Dave Scott), Allen emerged victorious in 1989, winning one of the most difficult one-day sporting events in the world. This was the first of six Ironman victories for Allen, the last coming in 1995 at age 37, making him the oldest winner of the event at that time. He has also excelled at the Olympic distance, winning the sport's inaugural World Championships in 1989 in Avignon, France, by more th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bull Allen (rugby Union)
Mark Richard Allen (born 27 July 1967), commonly known as Bull Allen, is a New Zealand former rugby union footballer and TV celebrity, reaching iconic status on the New Zealand sports scene in the 1990s. As well as 19 games and 8 test match appearances for New Zealand national rugby union team, New Zealand, Allen played 110 games for Taranaki Rugby Union, Taranaki and was captain of the inaugural Wellington Hurricanes Super Rugby, Super 12 team. He was also captain of the first and short-lived Central Vikings Rugby Union, Central Vikings team. Biography Childhood Mark Allen was born in Stratford, New Zealand, on 31 July 1967, to Steve Allen and Annette Richards. His father Steve ran an auto-electrical store which had been established by Steve's father Colin in 1945. Allen attended Stratford Primary School and received his secondary education at Stratford High School (New Zealand), Stratford High School. He stood out in both wrestling and in rugby, representing the First XV in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Allen (snooker Player)
Mark Allen (born 22 February 1986) is a Northern Irish professional snooker player from Antrim. He won the European and World Amateur Championship in 2004 and turned professional in 2005. Allen entered the world top 16 after only three seasons. He lifted his first ranking title at the 2012 World Open, defeating Stephen Lee 10–1 in the final; he has since won a career total of 11 ranking titles. He has won two Triple Crown titles—he defeated Kyren Wilson 10–7 to win the 2018 Masters and Ding Junhui by the same score to win the 2022 UK Championship—and has twice reached the semi-finals of the World Snooker Championship, in 2009 and 2023. The 2022–23 season was the best of Allen's career to date as he reached four ranking finals, won three ranking titles and reached number three in the world rankings. He was ranked world number one from May to August 2024. He has compiled over 600 century breaks in professional competition, including five maximum breaks. He is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Allen (footballer)
Mark Stephen Allen (born 18 December 1963) is an English former professional footballer who played as a striker. In 1984, Allen had a spell with second-level side Pallo-Iirot Pallo-Iirot (abbreviated P-Iirot) is a football club from Rauma, Finland, Rauma in Finland. The club was formed in 1930 and their home ground is at the Äijänsuon stadion. The men's first team currently plays in the Kakkonen. The Chairman of ... in Finland. References 1963 births Living people Footballers from Newcastle upon Tyne English men's footballers Men's association football forwards Burnley F.C. players Tranmere Rovers F.C. players Pallo-Iirot players Runcorn F.C. Halton players English Football League players Expatriate men's footballers in Finland English expatriate men's footballers English expatriate sportspeople in Finland {{England-footy-forward-1960s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Allen (software Developer)
Mark Allen is an American software engineer, game programmer and game designer. As a student at the University of California, San Diego, Allen used UCSD Pascal to develop a 6502 interpreter for the Pascal language in 1978, along with Richard Gleaves. This work later became the basis for Apple Pascal in 1979. Later, Allen developed a number of well-received video games for the Apple II, including ''Stellar Invaders'', See Mark Allen's entry ''Sabotage (computer game), Sabotage'',Sabotage entry on MobyGamesVideo play-through< ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Allen (DJ)
Mark Allen is a British psychedelic trance DJ and record producer. Allen is one of the pioneers of the Goa trance movement. He first got into psychedelic dance music in 1991, during his first visit to Goa, India Goa (; ; ) is a States and union territories of India, state on the southwestern coast of India within the Konkan region, geographically separated from the Deccan Plateau, Deccan highlands by the Western Ghats. It is bound by the Indian sta .... Allen collaborated with the producer Tim Healey in a band called Quirk. In 1994, he started organising parties in a London-based club Return to the Source. With the other club partners Chris Deckker, Phil Ross and Janice Duncan, he toured across the United Kingdom, United States, Europe, Japan and Israel until 2001. Discography As Mark Allen * 1995 – Brainforest – Chaos Unlimited * 1995 – Storming Heaven – Chaos Unlimited * 1995 – Aumniscience – Chaos Unlimited * 1996 – Trancentral Five – A Sonic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Allen (politician)
Mark Dean Allen (born January 2, 1949) is an American businessman and Republican politician who served as the state senator for the 4th district of the Oklahoma Senate The Oklahoma Senate is the upper house of the two houses of the Legislature of Oklahoma, the other being the Oklahoma House of Representatives. The total number of senators is set at 48 by the Oklahoma Constitution. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark G
Mark may refer to: In the Bible * Mark the Evangelist (5–68), traditionally ascribed author of the Gospel of Mark * Gospel of Mark, one of the four canonical gospels and one of the three synoptic gospels Currencies * Mark (currency), a currency or unit of account in many nations * Bosnia and Herzegovina convertible mark, the currency of Bosnia and Herzegovina * East German mark, the currency of the German Democratic Republic * Estonian mark, the currency of Estonia between 1918 and 1928 * Finnish markka (), the currency of Finland from 1860 until 28 February 2002 * Polish mark (), the currency of the Kingdom of Poland and of the Republic of Poland between 1917 and 1924 German * Deutsche Mark, the official currency of West Germany from 1948 until 1990 and later the unified Germany from 1990 until 2002 * German gold mark, the currency used in the German Empire from 1873 to 1914 * German Papiermark, the German currency from 4 August 1914 * German rentenmark, a currency issued on 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Johnston-Allen
Mark Johnston-Allen (born 28 December 1968) is an English former professional snooker player. Early life From Bristol, the son of David and older brother of Craig who was also a junior snooker player. Career He won three consecutive Avon County Championships and won the English junior and senior champion prior to turning professional ahead of the 1988-1989 snooker season. He reached the last-16 at the 1989 British Open, recording credible wins over Terry Griffiths and Eugene Hughes, before his run was ended by former world champion Joe Johnson. After his first season as a professional he had risen to number 52 in the world rankings. Over the next couple of seasons his ranking moved down to number 59 and then back to number 52 in the world. Johnston-Allen reached the final of the 1991 European Open while ranked #59 in the world, a run which included a 5–0 win over Stephen Hendry, but lost 7–9 to Tony Jones in the final. He reached the final of the same event again a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
