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Sly (surname)
Sly or Slye is the surname of: People: * Allan Sly (born 1951), sculptor * Allan Sly (mathematician), probability theorist and MacArthur Fellow * Darryl Sly (1939–2007), Canadian National Hockey League player * Damon Slye (born 1962), computer game designer, director and programmer * Harold Sly (1904–1996), English professional association football player * James Calvin Sly (1807–1864), Mormon pioneer, scout, settler and missionary * Leonard Slye, birth name of Roy Rogers (1911–1998), America singer and actor * Maud Slye (1879–1954), American pathologist * Philippe Sly, Canadian singer * Richard Meares Sly (1849–1929), Australian judge * Tony Sly (1970–2012), American singer, songwriter and guitarist, best known as the frontman of the punk rock band No Use for a Name * William Sly (died 1608), Elizabethan actor and colleague of William Shakespeare Fictional characters: * Christopher Sly Christopher Sly is a minor character in William Shakespeare's ''The Tami ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Surname
In some cultures, a surname, family name, or last name is the portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family, tribe or community. Practices vary by culture. The family name may be placed at either the start of a person's full name, as the forename, or at the end; the number of surnames given to an individual also varies. As the surname indicates genetic inheritance, all members of a family unit may have identical surnames or there may be variations; for example, a woman might marry and have a child, but later remarry and have another child by a different father, and as such both children could have different surnames. It is common to see two or more words in a surname, such as in compound surnames. Compound surnames can be composed of separate names, such as in traditional Spanish culture, they can be hyphenated together, or may contain prefixes. Using names has been documented in even the oldest historical records. Examples of surnames are documented in the 11th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allan Sly
Allan Sly FRBS (born 1951) is an English sculptor and senior lecturer at Wimbledon College of Art, a constituent college of University of the Arts London. Sly was elected a Fellow of the Royal British Society of Sculptors in 1992. Early life and education Sly was born in 1951 in Windsor, and studied sculpture at the City and Guilds of London Art School (1971–1974) and the Royal Academy of Arts (1974–1977). Selected works ''The Window Cleaner'' (1990), outside Edgware Road tube station in London, is a bronze statue of a workman carrying his ladders and peering up at the windows of the nearby Capital House for which it was commissioned. ''The Messenger'' or ''Getting Back on the Right Foot'' (1993), outside St Mary's Hospital is a bronze statue of a man leaning on a lamp-post to replace his right shoe. ''Runaway Rotavator'' (1994) in iron filled resin, was commissioned by Harlow Arts Trust for a site outside Harlow Sports Centre. ''The Spirit of Cricket'' (1997) was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allan Sly (mathematician)
Allan Murray Sly is an Australian mathematician and statistician specializing in probability theory. He is a professor of mathematics at Princeton University and was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 2018. Education and career Sly was a member of the Australian team at the 1999 and 2000 International Mathematical Olympiads, earning an honourable mention and a silver medal respectively. He attended Radford College, where he was ''dux'' of the year in 2000. He then studied at Australian National University, winning the University Medal in 2004, earning a bachelor's degree, and in 2006 earning a M.Phil. He completed his Ph.D. in 2009 at the University of California, Berkeley. His dissertation, ''Spatial and Temporal Mixing of Gibbs Measures'', was supervised by Elchanan Mossel. After postdoctoral study at Microsoft Research, he joined the statistics faculty at Berkeley in 2011, and moved to Princeton University as a professor of mathematics in 2016. Contributions Sly's work has i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Darryl Sly
Darryl "Slip" Sly (April 3, 1939 – August 28, 2007) was a Canadian ice hockey player who played 79 games in the National Hockey League with the Vancouver Canucks, Toronto Maple Leafs and Minnesota North Stars. He also played parts of 11 seasons with the minor league Rochester Americans ( AHL), and seven seasons with the Barrie Flyers ( OHA). Internationally Sly played for Canada at the 1960 Winter Olympics The 1960 Winter Olympics (officially the VIII Olympic Winter Games and also known as Squaw Valley 1960) were a winter multi-sport event held from February 18 to 28, 1960, at the Squaw Valley Resort (now known as Palisades Tahoe) in Squaw Vall ..., where he won a silver medal, and the 1961 World Championship, where he won gold. Don Cherry referenced Darryl Sly on the 01 Mar 14 edition of Coach's Corner saying, "just like me and Darryl Sly used to" regarding playing a staggered D as opposed to side by side when a forward is coming in one-on-two. On the 7 June 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Damon Slye
Damon Slye (born June 15, 1962) is a computer game game designer, designer, director, and game programmer, programmer. In 1984 he founded Dynamix with Jeff Tunnell in Eugene, Oregon, Eugene, Oregon. He is best known for creating the historic flight simulations ''Red Baron (video game), Red Baron'', ''A-10 Tank Killer'', and ''Aces of the Pacific''. Slye's first product was ''Stellar 7'', an action game for the Apple II which used 3D wireframe graphics. He followed it up with ''Arcticfox'', the first original title Electronic Arts published for the new Amiga computer.DeMaria, Rusel and Wilson, Johnny. ''High Score!: The Illustrated History of Electronic Games'', first edition, p.145. 2003: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media In 1994 Slye left Dynamix and the game industry, saying that he wanted a "sabbatical" to study math and physics as well as "playing chess, and skiing, and playing basketball, and doing a lot of reading", but expected to be "building products again" in a year. He founded M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harold Sly
Harold Sly (26 February 1904 – 1996) was an English professional footballer of the 1920s and 1930s. Born in Appley Bridge, he played football for the Rover Company's team before joining Birmingham, however he never started a match for the club in the English Football League, and dropped back into the amateur game with Tamworth Castle. In 1927 he joined Gillingham of the Football League Third Division South, where he spent two seasons but never secured a regular place in the club's first team. He then moved to Brighton & Hove Albion, before joining French club FC Sète FC may refer to: Businesses, organisations, and schools * Fergusson College, a science and arts college in Pune, India * Finncomm Airlines (IATA code) * FranklinCovey company, NYSE stock symbol FC * Frontier Corps, a paramilitary force in Pakis .... References 1904 births Year of death missing People from Appley Bridge English men's footballers Men's association football utility players Birmingham ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Calvin Sly
James C. Sly (August 8, 1807 – August 31, 1864) was a Mormon pioneer, member of the Mormon Battalion in the Mexican–American War, scout for early west trails used during the California gold rush, journal keeper in 1848 and 1849, early US western settler of several communities, and Mormon missionary to Canada. Service in the Mormon Battalion In 1848, several men who had served in the Mormon Battalion were still working in California, waiting to proceed to the Valley of the Great Salt Lake as soon as a pass should open. According to a previous arrangement a company of eight people started May 1, 1848, Sgt. David Brewett being elected Captain, to pioneer, if possible, a wagon road of the Sierra, Nevada mountains eastward. At that time the Truckee route was still impassable. This company consisted of David Brewett, Captain Ira J. Willis, James C. Sly, Israel Evens, Jacob G. Truman, Esra Allen, J. R. Allred, Henderson Cox and Robert Pixton. Three days' travel brought the group t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roy Rogers
Roy Rogers (born Leonard Franklin Slye; November 5, 1911 – July 6, 1998) was an American singer, actor, and television host. Following early work under his given name, first as co-founder of the Sons of the Pioneers and then acting, the rebranded Rogers then became one of the most popular Western stars of his era. Known as the "King of the Cowboys", he appeared in over 100 films and numerous radio and television episodes of ''The Roy Rogers Show''. In many of his films and television episodes, he appeared with his wife, Dale Evans; his Golden Palomino, Trigger; and his German Shepherd, Bullet. His show was broadcast on radio for nine years and then on television from 1951 through 1957. His early roles were uncredited parts in films by fellow cowboy singing star Gene Autry and his productions usually featured a sidekick, often Pat Brady, Andy Devine, George "Gabby" Hayes, or Smiley Burnette. In his later years, he lent his name to the franchise chain of Roy Rogers Restaurants. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maud Slye
Maud Caroline Slye (February 8, 1879 – September 17, 1954) was an American pathologist who was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. A historian of women and science wrote that Slye "'invented' genetically uniform mice as a research tool." Her work focused on the heritability of cancer in mice. She was also an advocate for the comprehensive archiving of human medical records, believing that proper mate selection would help eradicate cancer. During her career, she received multiple awards and honors, including the gold medal of the American Medical Association in 1914, in 1915 the Ricketts Prize, and the gold medal of the American Radiological Society in 1922. In 1923, Albert Soiland, pioneer radiologist, nominated Maud Slye, cancer pathologist for the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. The nomination came as a result of her work as one of the first scientists to suggest that cancer can be an inherited disease, and for the development of new procedures for the care and breedin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philippe Sly
Philippe Sly (born 1988 or 1989 in Ottawa) is a Canadian bass-baritone and opera, oratorio and recital singer. Biography Sly grew up in Ottawa, joined local boys and adult choirs and studied music at McGill University. In 2011 he was one of the winners of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, during which time he was taught by Cynthia Hoffmann and receipient of the Choquette-Symcox Award conferred by JM Canada Foundation and Jeunesses Musicales Canada. The following year, 2012, he won the Grand Prize of the Montreal International Musical Competition. At San Francisco Opera, he joined the company's Merola training program in 2011 and won the SF Opera Adler Fellowship in 2013. Here in June 2013 he debuted as Guglielmo in ''Cosi fan tutte'' and in June 2015 as Figaro in ''Le nozze di Figaro''. In June 2017 he debuted in the title role of '' Don Giovanni'' at Aix-en-Provence Festival. He sang as ''Leporello'' in Don Giovanni at the Opéra de Paris The Paris Op ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Meares Sly
Richard Meares Sly (17 December 1849 – 11 October 1929) was an Australian lawyer, List of judges of the Supreme Court of New South Wales, judge of the Supreme Court of New South Wales from 1908 to 1919. Biography Sly was born in Sydney, the third son of Joseph Sly. He was educated at Sydney Grammar School and Sydney University, in a stellar academic career, winning the Gilchrist travelling scholarship in April, 1872. This enabled him to pursue legal studies at London University, where he qualified LLB. He was called to the Bar at the Middle Temple in June 1875 and was appointed an Acting Justice of the Supreme Court of New South Wales in June, 1898 and was appointed King's Counsel, KC in 1904 and appointed to the NSW Supreme Court in February 1908, following the retirement of Sir William Owen (New South Wales judge), William Owen. He retired from the Supreme Court in December 1919, to be replaced by Sir Charles Wade. He died suddenly at Burradoo, near Bowral, on a visit to his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
