- Tradesman
A tradesman is a skilled manual worker in a particular trade or craft. Economically and socially, a tradesman's status is considered between a labourer and a professional, with a high degree of both practical and theoretical knowledge of their trade. In cultures where professional careers are highly prized there can be a shortage of skilled manual workers, leading to lucrative niche markets in the trades. - Bricklayer
A bricklayer or mason is a tradesman who lays bricks to construct brickwork. The term also refers to personnel who use blocks to construct blockwork walls and other forms of masonry. In British and Australian English, a bricklayer is colloquially known as a "brickie". The training of a trade in European cultures has been a formal tradition for many centuries. - Bill Rancic
William "Bill" Rancic (born May 16, 1971) is an American entrepreneur who was the first candidate hired on national television by The Trump Organization at the conclusion of the first season of Donald Trump's reality business show, "The Apprentice". He is the first "Apprentice" winner. - John Brown
John Brown (1809-1876) was a Canadian builder of Scottish origin. He is best remembered today for building Ontario's Imperial Towers. Brown began his career as a stonemason's apprentice in Glasgow. At 23 he emigrated to the United States, to upstate New York. By 1838 he had moved again, this time to Thorold, Ontario, where he was to spend the remainder of his career. - John Taylor
John Taylor (November 1, 1808 - July 25, 1887) was the third President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1880 to 1887. Taylor was born in Milnthorpe, Westmorland (now Cumbria), England, the son of James and Agnes Taylor. He had formal schooling up to age fourteen, and then he served an initial apprenticeship to a cooper and later received training as a woodturner and cabinetmaker. He was christened in the Church of England, … - Kendra Todd
Kendra Todd (born 1978) was hired by Donald Trump on national television at the conclusion of Season 3 of NBC's "The Apprentice" live at New York University on May 19, 2005. She was the first female candidate, and the youngest, to be hired on the US "Apprentice". - John Martin
John Martin (July 19, 1789-February 17, 1854), English painter, was born at Haydon Bridge, near Hexham. He was apprenticed by his father to a coachbuilder in Newcastle upon Tyne to learn heraldic painting, but owing to a quarrel the indentures were cancelled, and he was placed under Bonifacio Musso, an Italian artist, father of the enamel painter Charles Musso. With his master, Martin removed from Newcastle to London in 1806, where he married at the age of nineteen, … - David Brown
Sir David Brown (May 10, 1904 - September 3, 1993) was an English entrepreneur, managing director of his family firm David Brown Limited and one time owner of shipbuilders Vosper Thornycroft. Brown was born in Huddersfield, Yorkshire. After attending Rossall School he started work as an apprentice in the family business, "David Brown Gear Company Ltd", aged 17, becoming managing director in 1931, on his uncle Percy's death. - Tana Goertz
Tana Goertz (born Tana Colaizzi) was one of the candidates for the title of Donald Trump's "Apprentice" in the television show's third season. Goertz was 37 when the season was recorded/produced. She was fired in the season finale and ended as the runner-up. After the season ended, she made some disparaging remarks about fellow contestant and eventual winner Kendra Todd and Trump. - David Thompson
David Thompson (April 30, 1770 - February 10, 1857), was an English-Canadian fur trader, surveyor, and map-maker, known to some native peoples as "the Stargazer". Over his career he mapped over 3.9 million square kilometres of North America and for this has been described as the "greatest land geographer who ever lived." - Giuliana Depandi
Giuliana DePandi (born August 17, 1974, in Naples, Italy) is an Italian-American celebrity news personality. DePandi was raised in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, received a bachelor's degree in Journalism from the University of Maryland, and a master's degree in Journalism from American University. DePandi is a host on "E! News", the E! Network's flagship entertainment news program, airing daily (with multiple reruns and weekend airings). - John Langdon
John Langdon (June 26, 1741-September 18, 1819) was a politician from New Hampshire and one of the first two United States Senators from that state. Langdon was an early supporter of the American Revolutionary War and later served in the Continental Congress. After being in Congress for 12 years, including serving as the first President pro tempore of the Senate, Langdon became Governor of New Hampshire. He turned down a nomination for Vice Presidential candidate in 1812, … - Angela Ruggiero
Angela Ruggiero (born January 3, 1980 in Panorama City, California) is an American ice hockey defenseman. She is also the author of a memoir about her hockey experiences and a former contestant on the NBC reality show The Apprentice. While still a high school senior at Choate Rosemary Hall, Ruggiero played on the gold medal-winning 1998 United States Olympic Hockey Team in Nagano, Japan. She was also a member of the silver medal-winning 2002 team in Salt Lake City, Utah. - William Miller
William Miller was a Quaker line engraver from Edinburgh, Scotland. Miller became an apprentice to William Archibald in 1814. His first published engraving was in that year, of an apple tree for William Archibald. This engraving appeared in Vol I of the Caledonian Horticultural Society. He spent four years with William Archibald, then setting up on his own account. At the end of 1819 he moved to Hackney to join the workshop of George Cooke. - Steve White
Steve White is an African-American stand-up comedian and actor best known for his roles in Spike Lee's films. He has worked with Lee five times and was his apprentice on the set of "Malcolm X". White also had a recurring role on the sitcom "Hangin' With Mr. Cooper". White often tells a joke in his stand-up show that his middle name is "Ain't" - John Curtis
John Curtis (1791-1862) was an English entomologist and illustrator. He was born in Norwich and learned his engraving skills in the workshop of his father, Charles. At the age of 16 he became an apprentice at a local lawyer's office but devoted his spare time to studying and drawing insects and, with insect collecting becoming a growing craze, he found he could make a living selling the specimens he found. - Richard Robinson
Sir Richard Atkinson Robinson, DL, (October 16, 1849–April 28, 1928) was a retail chemist and druggist, who later became a local politician and was the first Conservative to lead the London County Council (1907–1908). He was the eldest son of a Whitby family engaged in the owning and operating of sailing ships. His father died when he was 18, and with four sisters and four younger bothers, there was no money for expensive higher education. - David Stewart
David Stewart (born 1945 in Ayr, Scotland) is the master blender and malt master for William Grant & Sons distillers. He joined the company in 1963 as an apprentice blender and assumed his current post 7 years later. He is the longest serving master blender in the industry to remain with one distiller. - James Thomson
James Thomson (February 16, 1822 - May 8, 1892) was an Irish engineer and physicist whose reputation would have been substantial had it not been overshadowed by that of his brother William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin. Born Belfast, Thomson was interested in engineering from an early age and served as apprentice at the Horseley Ironworks, Tipton, and under John MacNeill and William Fairbairn. - Jack Sheppard
Jack Sheppard was a notorious English robber, burglar and thief of early 18th century London. Born into a poor family, he was apprenticed as a carpenter but took to theft and burglary in 1723, with little more than a year of his training to complete. He was arrested and imprisoned five times in 1724 but escaped four times, making him a notorious public figure, and wildly popular with the poorer classes. Ultimately, he was caught, convicted, and hanged at Tyburn, … - David Cox
David Cox (April 29, 1783 - June 7, 1859) was an English landscape painter. Cox was considered one of the prominent figures of British watercolour painting and at the time was rivalled only by John Constable in his portrayal of nature's moods. Cox was born in Deritend Birmingham, the son of a blacksmith. In around 1798, he was apprenticed to a maker of fancy articles named Fieldler, and soon learnt to paint portrait miniatures. - Steve Francis
Steve Francis is an ex-professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He began his career as an apprentice at Chelsea, making his debut as a 17 year-old. Francis was initially a regular in the side, but the arrival of new goalkeeper Eddie Niedzwiecki in 1983 saw him relegated to the substitute's bench for most of the next three seasons. Francis returned to the first team after an injury to Niedzwiecki, … - Thomas Heywood
Thomas Heywood (early 1570s-16 August1641) was a prominent English playwright, actor and miscellaneous author whose peak period of activity falls between late Elizabethan and early Jacobean theatre. Few details of Thomas Heywood's life have been documented with certainty. Most references indicate that the county of his birth was most likely Lincolnshire, while the year has been variously given as 1570, 1573, 1574 and 1575. - Alexander Gordon
Alexander Gordon (1635 in Aberdeen Scotland - 1697) of a noble line, fought as a Scot Royalist and was captured by Oliver Cromwell's army at the Battle of Worcester on 3 September 1651 at the end of theEnglish Civil War. He was imprisoned at Tothill Field outside London over the winter of 1651-1652. He was transported to the New World in 1652 and entered into indentured servitude. His later victory over servitude became the legal precedent in Massachusetts. - Alexander Wilson
Alexander Wilson (July 6, 1766 - August 23, 1813) was a Scottish-American poet, ornithologist, naturalist and illustrator. Wilson was born in Paisley, Scotland, the son of an illiterate distiller. In 1779 he was apprenticed as a weaver. His main interest at this time was in writing poetry, and his poems commenting on the unfair treatment of the weavers by their employers got him into trouble with the authorities. - Simon Crane
Simon Crane is a British stuntman, stunt co-ordinator and second unit director. Crane was originally a law student but dropped out to pursue a stunt career. His first major work came in the 1985 Bond film "A View to a Kill". In 1987 he became Timothy Dalton's stunt double in "The Living Daylights". - Martin Robinson
Martin Robinson (born 17th July 1957 in Ilford) was an English professional footballer who scored over 100 league goals in a career spanning over 15 years. Starting his career as an apprentice with Tottenham Hotspur in 1975, he made just 6 appearances for the London club, scoring twice in 3 seasons at White Hart Lane. He made a name for himself as a striker when moving across London to Charlton Athletic where he managed 58 goals in 228 games. - Duncan McNeil
Duncan McNeil (born 7 September 1950, Greenock) is a Labour politician and member of the Scottish Parliament for Greenock and Inverclyde. From 1965 to 1979 he worked in the shipyards, initially as an apprentice. After working as a co-ordinator for the Unemployed Workers Centres in Glasgow he became a full-time official in the GMB Union in 1981 and later a Regional Organiser. For six years prior to his election from his current constituency, in May 1999, … - Terry Cooper
Terence 'Terry' Cooper (born July 12 1944 in Knottingley, Yorkshire, England) was a classy and highly-rated full back in the great Leeds United team of the 1960s and 1970s. Cooper wasn't discovered as a young player in the conventional manner - he simply turned up at Leeds United one day with his football boots in a paper bag, asking for a trial. He was granted his wish and impressed enough to be offered an apprentice contract. - Kerry Dixon
Kerry Michael Dixon (born 24 July 1961, in Luton) is a retired English professional footballer who played most notably for Chelsea and England. A tall and athletic striker who had pace, an impressive heading ability and was effective with both feet, Dixon started out as an apprentice with Tottenham Hotspur but was released before ever playing for the club. After spells with Chesham United and Dunstable, he got his first taste of League football with Reading, … - Victor Hammer
Victor Hammer (September 9, 1882 - October 7, 1967), born in Vienna, Austria, was a painter, sculptor, printer, and typographer. In 1897, he studied as an apprentice as an architect and a town planner, and then studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. He produced his first type design, Hammer Uncial, in 1921. In 1922, he moved to Florence, Italy, where he set up a printing press. - E. Fay Jones
E. Fay Jones, (born 31 January 1921, died 31 August 2004) was a noted American architect and designer. He was an apprentice of Frank Lloyd Wright. E. Fay Jones, (first name Euine which is pronounced U-wan and is an old Welsh form of John), was born in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, on 31 January 1921. Jones became the only surviving child in his family after losing both of his sisters at an early age. His family moved to Little Rock, Arkansas, and later to El Dorado, Arkansas. - John Rudd
John Rudd (Yorkshire c.1498 - Durham 1579) was a Tudor cartographer and clergyman. In 1561 he was given two years' leave from his duties as Vicar of Dewsbury (1554-1570) and Rector of Thornhill (1558-1570/78) to travel the country with the objective of mapping England. Although he does not appear to have completed this objective, it was completed by his apprentice, Christopher Saxton. - Thomas Tryon
Thomas Tryon was an English merchant and early advocate of vegetarianism. Born in 1634 in Bilbury near Cirencester, Gloucestershire, England, he moved to London in 1652 to apprentice with a hatter. He became a Baptist in 1954 but later chose an ascetic lifestyle after reading the writings of Jakob Böhme. He married in 1661 and, after two business voyages to Barbados, settled in Hackney. During the latter part of his life, he wrote on a wide range of subjects, … - Rosemary Homeister Jr.
Rosemary Homeister, Jr. (born July 5, 1972 in Hollywood, Florida) is an American jockey in thoroughbred horse racing. Both of Homeister's parents were jockeys and as a result she grew up riding horses. Her mother is now a horse trainer at the Calder Race Course where Rosemary won her first race as an apprentice jockey. In 1991, she briefly attended Broward Community College but chose to leave to try to develop a career in racing. - Joey Smallwood
Joseph Roberts "Joey" Smallwood, PC, CC (December 24, 1900 - December 18 1991) was the main force that brought Newfoundland into Confederation, and became the first Premier of the province. Smallwood remains a controversial figure in Newfoundland, both for his role in ending its independent status and his acts while serving as its premier. He would dub himself "the last Father of Confederation." Smallwood was born in Gambo, Newfoundland to Charles and Minnie May Smallwood. - Les Sealey
Leslie Jesse Sealey (29 September, 1957 - 19 August 2001) was an English football goalkeeper who played for, amongst others, Coventry City, Luton Town, Manchester United, Aston Villa and West Ham United. He was a nephew of Alan Sealey. Sealey joined Coventry City as an apprentice in 1976 and made his debut as a 19-year-old on 11 April 1977, in a 1-1 draw at Queens Park Rangers. He spent the next five seasons at the West Midlands club before joining Luton Town in 1983. - Robert Blincoe
Robert Blincoe (c. 1792-1860) was an English child worker and workhouse boy. The story of his childhood was later published as "A Memoir of Robert Blincoe". Robert Blincoe was born around 1792. By 1796 he was an orphan and living in the St. Pancras workhouse in London. The fate of his parents is unknown. At the age of six he was sent to work as a chimney boy, an assistant of a chimney sweeper, but his master soon returned him to the workhouse. - Charles Fillmore
Charles Fillmore, born in St. Cloud, Minnesota. Originally involved in real estate, he founded the Unity School of Christianity, with his wife, Myrtle Page, in 1889. He became known as an American mystic for his contributions to interpretation of Biblical scripture. At the age of ten, an ice skating accident dislocated his hip and left him with a withered leg - this event had a profound effect on his later life. As a printer's apprentice, he studied Shakespeare, Tennyson, … - Alexander Grigoriev
Alexander Grigoriev, son of Lykov was a Russian cannon and bellmaker. In 1651, Alexander Grigoriev was accepted to the Moscow Cannon Yard as a "bell person" (колокольное лицо) at the recommendation of a bellmaker Yemelyan Danilov and a number of Muscovite cannonmakers.
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