- Behram Contractor
Behram Contractor, also known as Busybee, was one of the popular figured in Indian journalism. He worked at the "Free Press Journal", "Times of India" (Bombay), and "Midday" before founding his own newspaper "The Afternoon Dispatch and Courier" (now the "Afternoon") in 1985. - Hafeez Contractor
Hafeez Contractor a famous Indian architect. Hafeez Contractor commenced his career in 1968 with T. Khareghat as an apprentice architect. In 1977 he became the associate partner in the same firm. It was in 1982 that he began with his own private practice and from that moment onwards there has been no looking back. Between 1977 and 1980 Hafeez has been a visiting faculty at the Academy of Architechture, Mumbai. - Nari Contractor
Nariman Jamshedji "Nari" Contractor (7 March 1934 Godhra, Gujarat) was a left-handed opening batsman whose international career was ended abruptly by a serious injury. He had a fortuitous beginning to his first class career, when he was called up to replace the Gujarat captain who got injured on the morning of the match. Contractor scored hundreds on both innings of his debut, becoming the second man after Arthur Morris to do so. At Lord's in 1959, … - Mike Holmes
Mike Holmes (b. 1963) is a Canadian professional contractor best known for his television show "Holmes on Homes" where he rescues homeowners from renovations gone wrong. - Jada Pinkett Smith
Jada Pinkett Smith (born Jada Koren Pinkett on September 18, 1971) is an American actress and singer. - Roy Hallums
Roy Hallums (born June 23, 1948) is an American contractor who was kidnapped in Iraq in November 2004. He was held in Iraq for 311 days and freed in September 2005, making his captivity the longest for any of the foreigners taken hostage in Iraq. - John Wayne Gacy
John Wayne Gacy (March 17, 1942 - May 10, 1994) was an American serial killer. He was convicted and later executed for the rape and murder of 33 boys and men, 27 of whom he buried in a crawl space under the floor of his house, while others were found in nearby rivers, between 1972 and his arrest in 1978. He became notorious as the "Killer Clown" because of the many block parties he threw for his friends and neighbors, entertaining children in a clown suit and makeup, … - Sir Charles Fox
Sir Charles Fox (March 11 1810 - June 14 1874) was an English civil engineer and contractor. His work focused on railways, railway stations and bridges. - Jeffrey Ake
Jeffrey J. Ake (born February 28, 1958) is President and CEO of Equipment Express, an Indiana-based manufacturer of bottled water equipment. Ake has been a contractor assisting in the American led reconstruction efforts in Iraq, where, in 2003, his company built a machine that filled containers with cooking oil to be used by Iraqis. On April 11, 2005, Ake was kidnapped by unknown assailants. - Lane Carson
Lane Anderson Carson (born August 21, 1947) is a Covington (St. Tammany Parish) attorney who was a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1976-1983. He represented House District 99 in Orleans Parish, first as a Democrat (1976-1977) and thereafter as a member of the Republican Party. Carson was the first Vietnam veteran to serve in the Louisiana legislature. During his legislative tenure, Carson served on the Civil Law, House & Governmental, … - Mandy Barnett
Mandy Barnett (born September 28 1975 in Crossville, Tennessee) is a popular country music singer and stage actress. - Kirk von Ackermann
Kirk von Ackermann was an American contractor. He was employed by Ultra Services of Istanbul, Turkey when he disappeared in Iraq on October 9, 2003. His whereabouts and the exact circumstances of his disappearance are unknown. His car was found empty on a road between Kirkuk and Tikrit, with his equipment and $40,000 still inside. On December 14, 2003 his colleague, Ryan G. Manelick was gunned down just after leaving Camp Anaconda. - William Adam
William Adam (1689-June 24, 1748) was a Scottish architect, mason, and entrepreneur. Sometimes called Scotland's "Universal Architect", he was the foremost architect of his time in that country. Despite this, Adam's work has often been overlooked as it did not fit into the prevailing Palladian fashions of the day, and he is often overshadowed by his son Robert Adam. Adam designed and built numerous country houses and public buildings, … - Shlomo Benizri
Shlomo Benizri (born 7 February 1961) is an Israeli politician and member of the Shas party. From 1996-2001, he served as Deputy Health Minister, Health Minister, and Labor and Social Welfare Minister. On March 29, 2006, he was charged by the State Prosecutor's Office with accepting bribes and breaching the public trust. He allegedly accepted favors worth millions of shekels from his friend, contractor Moshe Sela, … - Winslow Lewis
Winslow Lewis (1770-1850) was a sea captain, engineer, inventor and contractor active in the construction of many American lighthouses during the first half of the nineteenth century. A resident of Wellfleet, Massachusetts, Lewis began developing his ideas during the embargo of American shipping during the Napoleonic wars. He created a new lighting system based on Argand lamps; in 1812 the United States Congress purchased his patent rights for the system. - Walter Scott Jr.
Walter Scott, Jr. (1931-) born in Omaha, Nebraska. Civil engineer, philanthropist, former CEO of Peter Kiewit Sons' Incorporated, which has built more miles of the U.S. Interstate Highway System than any other contractor. Scott was the 1997 recipient of the Horatio Alger Award and ranked among the wealthiest 400 Americans by "Forbes" in 2002. He sits on the Board of Berkshire Hathaway. - William Lauder
William Lauder (born April 6, 1794 - died January 17, 1845) was a Scots-Quebecer industrial contractor who helped develop the infrastructure of early 19th century Canada. He was born in Lauder, Berwickshire, a burgh 28 miles southeast of Edinburgh in Scotland named for his ancestors. He was trained to be a stonemason but the turmoil from the Lowland Clearances led to his decision to leave his native country. - Robert Gillespie Reid
Sir Robert Gillespie Reid (October 12, 1842, Coupar Angus, Perthshire, Scotland - June 3, 1908) was a Scottish railway contractor most famous for building large railway bridges in Canada and the United States. From 1889 until his death, he built, owned, and operated the Newfoundland Railway. Reid was a bridge builder and railway contractor of international fame. - Ryan G. Manelick
Ryan G. Manelick was an American defense contractor. He was employed by Ultra Services of Istanbul, Turkey when he was killed in Iraq on December 14, 2003 just after leaving Camp Anaconda. Also see Casualties of the conflict in Iraq since 2003. On October 9, 2003 his colleague, Kirk von Ackermann disappeared. Von Ackermann's car was found empty on a road between Kirkuk and Tikrit, with his equipment and $40,000 still inside. - Tommy Head
Tommy Head (born June 4, 1945 in Robertson County, Tennessee) is a Tennessee Democratic politician and a former member of that state's House of Representatives. He is also a farmer and a utility contractor. Head is a 1965 graduate of Cumberland College in Lebanon, Tennessee with an associate's degree, and a 1967 graduate of Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, Tennessee. He taught high school and coached basketball for two years after his university graduation. - Edward Betts
Edward Ladd Betts (5 June 1815 - 21 January 1872) was an English civil engineering contractor who was mainly involved in the building of railways. - Richard J. Green
Richard J. Green (* 1964 in Boston MA) is an American chemist known for his work against Holocaust denial. He is a member of The Holocaust History Project He was raised in a brick single-family dwelling located in Shaker Heights, Ohio, a shady suburb of Cleveland, and he graduated in 1983 from Hawken School a private preparatory day school for boys and girls. During his early years at Hawken he was known as 'Richy', … - Edward J. Debartolo Sr.
Edward John DeBartolo Sr. was an American businessman who is best remembered as the father of the American shopping mall. The second of six children, DeBartolo was born in Youngstown, Ohio, a center of steel production that was also a major destination for immigrants from southern and eastern Europe. DeBartolo's parents, Anthony Paonessa and Rose Villani Paonessa, had immigrated to the United States from Italy. - Thomas Grissell
Thomas Grissell (4 October 1801 - 26 May 1874) was an English public works contractor who was responsible for constructing a number of prestigious buildings in England. - Thomas Sheasby
Thomas Sheasby, Senior (c.1740-1799) was a British civil engineer and contractor. His date of birth is unknown, however, it is known that he was christened on October 28, 1740 in Tamworth, Staffordshire. He was described as a builder from Tamworth who carried out repairs to bridges for the Warwickshire Quarter Sessions from 1775 to 1787. In 1776, he was contracted to design and build Polesworth Bridge over the Coventry Canal at Polesworth, for which he was paid £364. - William Harrison Folsom
William Harrison Folsom (1815-1901) was an architect and contractor. He constructed many of the historic buildings in Utah, particularly in Salt Lake City. Folsom is probably best-know as a Latter-day Saint ("Mormon") architect. Many of his most prominent works were commissioned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Folsom was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire on March 25, 1815. By the age of 16 he held a supervisory position in his father's contracting firm. - Austin E. Lathrop
Austin Eugene "Cap" Lathrop (1865-1950) was an industrialist and outspoken opponent of Alaska statehood. He has been called "Alaska's first home-grown millionaire." "Cap" Lathrop was born in 1865 in Lapeer County, Michigan to Eugene Lathrop and Susan Miriah Parsons Lathrop. He was expelled from school in the ninth grade for damages caused when he tampered with a water heater. - Gary Williams
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Thomas Brassey (7 November 1805 - 8 December 1870) was an English civil engineering contractor and manufacturer of building materials who was responsible for building a large portion of the world's railways in the 19th century. By the time of his death he had been responsible for building about one-third of the railways in Britain, three-quarters of those in France, and major lines in many countries throughout Europe, and in Canada, Australia, South America and India, … - Jakob Heilmann
Jakob Heilmann (August 21, 1846 in Geiselbach, Aschaffenburg County (Lower Franconia) - February 15, 1927 in Munich) was a German contractor. Son of a glazier, Heilmann attended the construction school in Munich and graduated with the exam as a master builder. Since 1866, he was into railway construction and in 1871 established the builders J. Heilmann in Regensburg. In 1892, his son-in-law, the young architect Professor Max Littmann (1862-1931) joined him, … - W. L. Rambo
Willard Lloyd Rambo (March 22, 1917 - November 28, 1984) was a Democratic member of both houses of the Louisiana State Legislature, having represented districts in the north central portion of the state during the 1950s and the 1960s. As a native and lifelong resident of tiny Georgetown in Grant Parish north of Alexandria, Rambo was a member of the Long political dynasty through his second marriage to the former Mary Alice Long (born August 1, 1928). - Roy C. Strickland
Roy Clifton Strickland (born September 20, 1942) is a businessman in The Woodlands (Montgomery County), Texas, north of Houston, who was a pioneer in the development of the Republican Party in Louisiana. Strickland challenged the Democrat Gillis William Long for the United States House of Representatives in 1972. More than a decade later, he ran unsuccessfully for local office as a write-in candidate in Texas. - Otto Heilmann
Otto Heilmann (August 22, 1888 in Munich - August 19, 1945 at Schwaneck Castle, Pullach) was a German architect and contractor. After studying civil engineering, he joined his father's construction company Heilmann & Littmann, as a proxy holding manager. Later he joined the supervisory board. - Denis Lesley McSwiney
Denis Lesley McSwiney came to Singapore in 1828 and was responsible for the construction of the Cathedral of the Good Shepherd. Having been a merchant and contractor, he was at one time a clerk to George Drumgoole Coleman. Leaving Singapore in 1847, he had only one other building to his credit, the first Assembly Rooms, built on the site of the old Hill Street Police Station, which became unservicable in 1858, ten years after its erection. - Norman Igo
Norman Garrett Igo (October 31, 1921 - February 6, 2007) was a civil engineer from Lubbock, Texas, who supervised the construction of the Texas Tech University Medical School, Library, Museum, Architecture Building, and Law School through his position as "Director of Construction" from 1969-1979. He was a member and former president of the Texas Society of Professional Engineers, a subsidiary of the National Association of Professional Engineers. - Eduard Locher
Eduard Locher (born January 15th 1840 in Zurich, died June 2nd 1910 in Zurich) was a Swiss engineer, inventor and independent contractor who received a doctorate "honoris causa" for his work. He devised the Locher rack system. - Ivan Wilfred 'Ching' Johnson
Ivan Wilfred 'Ching' Johnson (December 7, 1897/1898, Winnipeg, Manitoba-June 16, 1979, Silver Spring, Maryland) was a professional ice hockey player. A native of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Johnson played the position of Defense for teams in the EHL, OHSHL, IHL, CHL, NHL, AHA, SCHL, WHL, WSRHL, USAHA, PCHL, and the NMHL hockey leagues. At 5'11, and 210lbs, Johnson played for the Winnipeg Monarchs from 1919 to 1920, Eveleth Rangers from 1920 to 1923, … - Rakan Muhsin Mohammad Alsaykhan
Rakan Muhsin Mohammad Alsaykhan was a terrorist who participated in a series of attacks against Westerners in Saudi Arabia in 2004 and in the kidnapping and beheading of American contractor Paul Johnson in Saudi Arabia. On the day after the murder, Alsaykan was shot dead along with Abdel Aziz al-Muqrin, who also participated and was the leader of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula at the time. - August Knuppel
August Knuppel was a German-born mason and contractor who assisted in the development of Appleton, Wisconsin. Knuppel was born in Germany in 1857. He came to the United States in 1879. After briefly residing in Philadelphia and Milwaukee, he settled in Appleton. In 1900, August Knuppel organized the Appleton Lumber & Fuel Company. In 1904 he organized the Fox River Marble, Granite and Cut Stone Works.<sup>1</sup> Knuppel also involved himself in politics, and, … - Tom Merilahti
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