Mike Gibbons and Stanley Ketchel were both what type of people?
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Mike Gibbons Mike Gibbons (July 20, 1887 in St. Paul, Minnesota – August 31, 1956) was an American boxer from 1908 to 1922. The brother of heavyweight Tommy Gibbons, Mike claimed Middleweight Champion of the World status in 1909 following Stanley Ketchel's murder. Although he never won the title, Gibbons is regarded as one of the all-time best welter and middleweight boxers by historians. Statistical boxing website BoxRec lists Gibbons as the #18 ranked middleweight of all time, while "The Ring Magazine" founder Nat Fleischer placed him at #9. The International Boxing Research Organization rates Gibbons as the 17th best middleweight ever and boxing historian Bert Sugar placed him 92nd in his Top 100 Fighters catalogue. Gibbons retired due to deteriorating vision. Following his boxing career he entered business in his native St. Paul, and became a member of the Minnesota Athletic Commission. Gibbons was elected to the Ring Magazine Hall of Fame in 1958, the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 1992, the World Boxing Hall of Fame in 1997, and the Minnesota Boxing Hall of Fame in 2010.
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Stanley Ketchel Stanisław Kiecal (September 14, 1886 – October 15, 1910), better known in the boxing world as Stanley Ketchel, was a Polish American professional boxer who became one of the greatest World Middleweight Champions in history. He was nicknamed "The Michigan Assassin." He was murdered at a ranch in Conway, Missouri, at the age of 24.
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Mike McGinnity Michael "Mike" McGinnity, M.B.E. (11 September 1941 – 9 January 2016) was chairman and life president of Coventry City Football Club.
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Mike Salisbury John Michael "Mike" Salisbury, OBE (born March 1942) is an English documentary filmmaker specialising in natural history programmes for television. In a career spanning four decades, he spent over 30 years working for the BBC Natural History Unit where he produced a string of award-winning series, many in collaboration with David Attenborough. He retired from the Unit in 2006 but continues to work as a freelance producer. In 2007, he was made an OBE in the New Year Honours List for his services to broadcasting.
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Mike Patto Mike Patto (born Michael Thomas McCarthy, 22 September 1942 – 4 March 1979) was an English musician, who was primarily notable as lead singer for Spooky Tooth and Boxer.
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Mike Summers Michael Victor Summers OBE (born 1952) is a Falkland Islands politician who has served as a Member of the Legislative Assembly for the Stanley constituency since he won a by-election in 2011. He was previously a from 1996–2009.
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Mike Sheffield Mike Sheffield (November 3, 1949 - February 19, 2011) was an American attorney who practiced in Georgia, who served as a prosecutor at the DeKalb County District Attorney’s Office for nearly a decade, and who later practiced at his own law firm. He ran for a seat on the Georgia Court of Appeals in 2008, served in numerous leadership positions throughout Georgia, and practiced law before his death in Atlanta, and the Georgia counties of DeKalb, Gwinnett, Fulton, Cobb, Walton, Rockdale, Forsyth and Henry.
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Mike Mentzer Mike Mentzer (November 15, 1951 – June 10, 2001) was an American IFBB professional bodybuilder, businessman, philosopher and author.
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Kathy Keeton Kathryn "Kathy" Keeton (February 17, 1939 – September 19, 1997) was a magazine publisher along with her partner, and later husband, "Penthouse" publisher Bob Guccione.
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Mike's Corner Mike's Corner is a 148-page collection of short stories generally considered to be in the genre of literary nonsense, written by Phish bassist Mike Gordon, first published in 1997.
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Billy Miske Billy Miske, alias "The Saint Paul Thunderbolt" (April 12, 1894 – January 1, 1924), was a professional boxer from Saint Paul, Minnesota. During his tenure as a pugilist he had multiple-bout series with a plethora of all-time greats including Harry Greb, Jack Dempsey, Jack Dillon, Tommy Gibbons, Bill Brennan and Battling Levinsky, among others. Despite a career shortened by illness and an early death, statistical website BoxRec still lists Miske as the No. 26 ranked heavyweight of all-time.
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Ed Bearss Edwin Cole Bearss ( ; born June 26, 1923), a United States Marine Corps veteran of World War II, is a military historian and author known for his work on the American Civil War and World War II eras. He is a popular tour guide of historic battlefields for The Smithsonian Associates. He served as Chief Historian of the National Park Service from 1981 to 1994 and is currently Chief Historian Emeritus.
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Mike Tyson (baseball) Michael Ray Tyson (January 13, 1950), is a former Major League Baseball second baseman and shortstop. He played in the majors from to for the St. Louis Cardinals and Chicago Cubs.
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Mick Gallagher Michael William "Mick" Gallagher (born 29 October 1945) is an English Hammond organ player best known as a member of Ian Dury and the Blockheads and for his contributions to albums by the Clash. He has also written music for films such as "Extremes" (1971) and "After Midnight" (1990), and the Broadway play "Serious Money" (1987).
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Mike Hooper (footballer) Michael Dudley "Mike" Hooper (born 10 February 1964 in Bristol) is an English former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He was most notable for his spell with Liverpool, where he mainly operated as an understudy to Bruce Grobbelaar. He also played for Newcastle United, his last professional club.
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Mike McColgan Michael "Mike" McColgan is best known as the original lead singer of the American outfit Dropkick Murphys and the lead singer of the Street Dogs.
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Michael Sharland Michael Stanley Reid Sharland (1899-1987) was an Australian journalist, photographer, author and amateur ornithologist. He was born, and spent most of his life, in Tasmania, though he also lived and worked in Sydney, Melbourne and London.
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Jim Gibbons (American football) James Edwin Gibbons (September 26, 1936 – August 20, 2016) was an American professional football tight end for the NFL's Detroit Lions (1958–68).
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Ivan Mitchell Ivan Gladstone "Mike" Mitchell (July 9, 1893 – May 8, 1942) was a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender who played three seasons in the National Hockey League for the Toronto St. Patricks. In 1922, Mitchell was injured during the second game of the season and missed the rest of the season. He is still credited with winning the Stanley Cup that season.
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William Stanley (mammalogist) William T. "Bill" Stanley (ca. 1957 – October 6, 2015) was an American mammalogist who was a manager of the collections at one of the world’s largest natural history museums and a student of the mammals of eastern Africa. He was an evolutionary biologist and mammalogist, and at the time of his death was the Director of the Field Museum of Natural History (FMNH) Collections Center and the Collection Manager of the “FMNH Collection of Mammals”. Stanley studied the biogeography, ecology, evolution, and systematics of shrews, bats and rodents that live on mountains within Tanzania and surrounding countries.
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Michael Roarty Michael J. Roarty (August 24, 1928 – March 16, 2013) was an American marketing executive for the Anheuser-Busch brewing company. He has been widely credited with turning Anheuser-Busch and its products, including Budweiser, into globally recognized brands through advertising. Roarty created the advertising slogans "This Bud's for you" for Budweiser and "Weekends were made for Michelob." He also oversaw the creation of the Bud Light ad campaign featuring Spuds McKenzie during the late 1980s.
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John Joseph Gibbons John Joseph Gibbons (born December 6, 1924) is a former federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and is currently a partner at the law firm of Gibbons P.C.