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Peter Ryan

Peter J. Ryan (1841–1908), Union Army soldier and Medal of Honor recipient


Anthony N. Brady

Brady partnered with leading East Coast business tycoons such as Thomas Edison, William C. Whitney, P. A. B. Widener and Thomas F. Ryan in various business ventures including the Electric Vehicle Co., initially a motorized taxicab business that evolved into Maxwell Automobile Co..

British Entomological and Natural History Society

Another title published by BENHS was New British Beetles - species not in Joy's practical handbook by Peter J. Hodge and Richard A. Jones, a companion volume to Norman H. Joy's A Practical Handbook of British Beetles.

Clendenin J. Ryan

He and Godfrey Stillman Rockefeller were stockholders in the Enterprise Development Corporation, a closed end investment trust for the heirs of William Rockefeller and Thomas Fortune Ryan, Clendenin's entrepreneurial grandfather, who invested heavily in Copper Mining and ore smelting.

College of Insurance

The Manhattan location of the college now houses many graduate business and professional programs of St. John's Peter J. Tobin College of Business.

Dan Zetterström

He is best known as a co-author of the highly acclaimed Collins Bird Guide, with Killian Mullarney, Lars Svensson and Peter J. Grant.

David Lewis Rice

Charles Goldmark's brother is Washington State Commissioner of Public Lands and head of the Washington Department of Natural Resources Peter J. Goldmark.

George X. Schwartz

He brought Lynne Abraham onto his staff to do legislative and policy work for him after she lost another city job because she got caught up in the political infighting between him, Frank Rizzo, and the head of the Democratic City Committee, Peter Camiel.

Hans Gulbranson

He was succeeded by Peter J. K. Petersen in both positions, in 1868 and 1858 respectively.

Harold M. Ryan

On February 13, 1962, in a special election, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of U.S. Representative Louis C. Rabaut, Ryan was elected as a Democrat from Michigan's 14th congressional district to the 87th Congress.

He was a delegate to Michigan state conventions every two years from 1940 to 1970 and a delegate to the Democratic National Conventions of 1956, 1960, and 1964.

In November 1962, Ryan was reelected to a full term in the 88th Congress, serving from February 13, 1962 to January 3, 1965.

Harris J. Ryan

Harris J. Ryan (January 8, 1866 - July 3, 1934) was an American electrical engineer and a professor first at Cornell University and later at Stanford University.

Jack Ryan

John J. Ryan, known as Jack, head football coach at Marquette University and the University of Wisconsin

Jack F. T. Ryan (born 1916), Footscray and North Melbourne VFL footballer

James M. Ryan

It was an imposing structure that was built to his specifications and known simply as The House, where it still stands today.

John Arthur Thomson

According to Peter J. Bowler Thomson was a popular science writer who had promoted a nonmaterialist interpretation of science though his interpretation was not accepted by all within the scientific community as some had claimed his views were neovitalist and thus outdated.

John J. Ryan

He joined the football team at Marquette University in 1916 as an advisory coach under fellow Dartmouth alumnus, John B. McAuliffe.

John M. Dunn

He established underworld connections including Joseph P. Ryan, who had sponsored him for union membership, and Meyer Lansky who had been in discussions regarding the use of the longshoremen's union to assist in the importation of heroin and cocaine into the United States.

John W. Ryan

In the 1979 movie classic Breaking Away he played the part as himself where the students are being lectured on their behavior at the dining hall where they fought the Cutters (a reference to stonecutters who worked in the limestone quarries in southern Indiana).

Justice Ryan

Michael D. Ryan, an Associate Justice on the Arizona Supreme Court

Kevin P. Ryan

MongoDB: develops and supports the open source, non-relational database MongoDB.

Kevin P. Ryan is an Internet entrepreneur in the United States who has founded several New York-based businesses, including Gilt Groupe, Business Insider, and MongoDB, and helped build DoubleClick from 1996 to 2005, first as president and later as CEO.

Manas International Airport

The American forces christened the site "Ganci Air Base", after New York Fire Department chief Peter J. Ganci, Jr., who was killed in the September 11 terrorist attacks.

Mark W. Ryan

He is also credited as a voice-over actor in the 1991 animated series Little Shop, based on the film Little Shop Of Horrors, in which he voiced the character Paine Driller.

Michael D. Ryan

Justice Ryan was appointed to the state's highest court on May 21, 2002 by Governor Jane Dee Hull.

Mike S. Ryan

He is most known for producing the indie hit feature Junebug, starring Amy Adams.

Perry Ryan

Perry T. Ryan, author and Assistant Attorney-General of Kentucky

Peter Brennan

Peter J. Brennan (1918–1996), United States Secretary of Labor under Presidents Nixon and Ford

Peter J. A. Lucas

The 8th DLI confronted the German assault with no supporting weapons – the few Valentine tanks and anti-tank guns were unable to cross the wadi - and no air support, since the aircraft had been grounded by torrential rain.

Peter J. Bentley

Peter J. Bentley is an Honorary Reader and College Fellow at UCL and a Collaborating Professor at KAIST.

Peter J. Brand

He completed his PhD in 1998 at the University of Toronto with his dissertation The Monuments of Seti I: Epigraphic, Historical and Art Historical Analysis.

This was later published by Brill in 2000 and is considered to be one of the most comprehensive studies on the reign of Seti I who is often eclipsed in history by the glorious 66-year reign of his son, Ramesses II.

It contains a catalogue of most of Seti I's monuments and an important discussion of the historical significance and reigns of Ramesses I and Seti I. Brand also attended the University of Texas at Arlington and the University of Memphis prior to the University of Toronto.

Peter J. Cutino Award

Former major league baseball commissioner and US Olympic Committee chair Peter Ueberroth, himself once a water polo player at San Jose State, presented the first awards on January 22, 2000.

Peter J. Dooling

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1920 to the Sixty-seventh Congress.

Peter J. Dyck

He graduated from Rosthern Junior College and attended the University of Saskatchewan, but dropped out to pastor several struggling local churches.

Peter J. Fos

Prior to accepting the presidency of UNO, Fos was provost and vice president for academic affairs at the University of Texas at Tyler.

Peter J. Moore

The album was released in early 1988 on Latent Records in Canada, and re-released worldwide in 1989 by RCA New York.

Peter J. Quinn

He is noted for his controversial support for OpenDocument, a standard format for office documents (ISO/IEC 26300).

Peter Kelly

Peter J. Kelly, Mayor of the Halifax Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia, Canada, 2000–2012

Peter Wagner

Peter J. Wagner (born 1964), American paleontologist and Smithsonian curator

Pig Goat Banana Cricket

The series was created by Dave Cooper and J. Ryan and was originally called "Pig Goat Banana Mantis".

R. R. Ryan

Reprinted in 2002 by Midnight House, including an essay by D. H. Olsen, titled "Honor, Sadism and Dysfunction: The Dark, Demented World of R. R. Ryan"

Shields Library

The Peter J. Shields Library or Shields Library is a four-story library named after Peter J. Shields.

Siavash Haroun Mahdavi

in Intelligent Systems at University College London and continued his research to complete a doctorate in Evolutionary robotics under the supervision of Dr. Peter J. Bentley.

Stephen V. Ryan

He served as Bishop of Buffalo from 1868 until his death in 1896.

The Sentimentalists

Peggy Clark Schwartz (the widow of clarinetist Willie Schwartz of the Glenn Miller Orchestra), later recalled, in the Tommy Dorsey biography, authored by Peter J. Levinson, that she and her sisters may have been a little naive when they originally went to work for Dorsey: "In those days, you had to be young and stupid. You also had to be pretty needy ... it was almost comical when you look at it; it was part of the growing-up process!"

Transportation in the Halifax Regional Municipality

The current mayor, Peter Kelly, and several regional councillors have favoured instituting a commuter rail or a light rail system on current and abandoned railway lines and several streets in the urban core, however such a proposal would require provincial and federal funding and agreement with railway companies.


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