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| Alan Henson |
Alan Henson played first class rugby union for Maesteg RFC as a loose head prop forward. He was club captain from 1990 to 1992, when they were promoted to division one. He also played for Glamorgan county. After he retired from playing, he coached the Maesteg front row. Regarded by many as the ideal captain of a Maesteg dream team. He is the father of Wales rugby international Gavin Henson. His father-in-law, Trevor Watkins, played for the 1949 invincible Maesteg team. (references) |
| Bill Henson |
Bill Henson (b. 1955 in Melbourne) is an Australian photographic artist. Much of his art deals with the subject of adolescence. (references) |
| Brian Henson |
Brian Henson (born 1963) is a puppeteer, director, and producer. The son of Jim Henson, he, along with his sister Lisa, is co-chair and co-CEO of the Jim Henson Company. (references) |
| Drew Henson |
Drew Henson is a former Major League Baseball player and current American football quarterback who plays for the Dallas Cowboys. From 1998 to 2000, Henson split time between playing baseball in the New York Yankees' minor-league system and playing college football at Michigan. Henson was the Wolverines' starting quarterback for most of the 2000 football season, leading the team to a share of the Big Ten title. (references) |
| Gavin Henson |
Gavin Lloyd Henson (born February 1, 1982 in Bridgend) is a Welsh rugby union footballer, currently of the Ospreys region. He came to wider notice in 2004, with a series of excellent performances in Wales' Autumn Internationals against New Zealand and South Africa. He was man of the match in the Wales victory over the England in the Six Nations Championship on 5 February 2005. He was the International Rugby Board's "Young Player Of The Year" in 2001, and is currently dating Welsh superstar songstress Charlotte Church. He played rugby for his school Brynteg Comprehensive in Bridgend South Wales. (references) |
| Henson Creek Golf Course |
Henson Creek Golf Course is a 9-hole, par 36 public golf course, located in Oxon Hill, Maryland. (references) |
| Jim Henson |
United States puppeteer who created a troupe of puppet characters (1936-1990). Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Jim Henson Foundation |
The Jim Henson Foundation was founded by puppeteer and Muppet creator Jim Henson to promote and develop puppetry in the United States. It is the only grantmaking institution with this mission. (references) |
| John Henson |
John Henson was host of The John Henson Project and was the host of Talk Soup on E! Entertainment. (references) |
| John Henson (Muppet performer) |
John Henson is an American puppeteer best known for his association with The Muppets. He is the son of legendary Muppets creator Jim Henson. (references) |
| Josiah Henson |
Josiah Henson (June 15, 1789 - May 5, 1883) was born into slavery in Charles County, Maryland. He escaped to Canada in 1830, and founded a settlement and labourer's school for other fugitive slaves at Dawn, Ontario. Henson's autobiography "Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction" is widely believed to have inspired Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin. He died at Dresden, Ontario. (references) |
| Keith Henson |
Howard Keith Henson (born 1942) is an American Electrical Engineer and writer on life extension, cryonics, memetics and Evolutionary psychology. He is also a founding member of the L5 Society, a lifetime member of the National Space Society, and an activist against the Church of Scientology. (references) |
| Lou Henson |
Lou Henson (born January 10, 1932 in Okay, Oklahoma, USA) was a collegiate basketball coach. (references) |
| Matthew Henson |
Matthew Henson (8 August 1866 - 1955) was an American explorer who may have been the first to reach the Geographic North Pole with Robert Peary in 1909. However, some have estimated that Peary's party missed the pole by up to 30 km. Due to his being black and his status as Peary's employee, he never reached the same fame as Peary in an America where racist views were still common. (references) |
| The Jim Henson Company |
The Jim Henson Company is a company founded in 1958 by puppeteer Jim Henson, creator of The Muppets. Henson died in 1990; the company is now run by his son Brian and daughter Lisa, who serve as co-chairs and co-CEOs. The Muppets helped the company gain worldwide acclaim in family entertainment for more than four decades. The company's units include Jim Henson Pictures, Jim Henson Television, Henson Recording Studio, and Jim Henson's Creature Shop. (references) |
| William Samuel Henson |
William Samuel Henson (1812 - 1888) was an engineer and pre Wright Brothers aviation inventor. (references) |
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