User:Roman Spinner/M (name disambiguation)

=James Manson= James Manson, Jim Manson or Jimmy Manson may refer to:

Footballers

 * Jim Manson (Australian footballer) (1937–2010), ruckman and forward who played 210 games for Glenorchy Football Club in Tasmania, winning its best and fairest award in 1964; member of Glenorchy City Council from 1996; council's deputy mayor from 2005 until his death; father of footballer James Manson
 * James Manson (Australian footballer) (born 1966), ruckman and forward who played in VFL/AFL for Collingwood Magpies (1985–92) and Fitzroy (1993–95); in 120 games with Magpies, kicked 106 goals; part of 1990 premiership side; traded to Fitzroy (47 games, 20 goals) son of Jim Manson
 * John James Manson (born 1968), Scottish rugby union footballer and manager who played with Hillfoots, Dundee HSFP, Stirling County & West of Scotland FC; also played professionally for Caledonia Reds and Glasgow Caledonians; Scottish Rugby Union's Regional Development Manager for Central/West Lothian

Others

 * James Manson (engineer) (1845–1935), Scottish superintendent at Glasgow and South Western Railway (GSWR) where he worked from 1861 to 1869, again during 1875–83, then became locomotive superintendent at Great North of Scotland Railway, returning to GSWR in 1890–91 and retiring in 1911
 * James Manson (before 1875–after 1914), Scottish store foreman with who assisted his employer's son, gliding airplane pioneer Preston Watson in repairing his second aeroplane in 1908, personally built Watson's third plane in 1913 and participated in flying during July 1914 Paris competition
 * James Bolivar Manson (1879–1945), English painter and art critic who worked at Tate Gallery for 25 years and served as its director from 1930 to 1938; his subjects were primarily flowers; two posthumous exhibitions in 1946 included 58 works: 32 oils, 14 watercolours and 12 pastels
 * James Williamson Manson (1908–1974), Australian legislator; born in Glasgow, immigrated to Sydney in 1935; served with Australian Imperial Force during WWII; among Liberal Country Party and Liberal Party members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, 1970–1973; served from 1955 to 1973
 * Jim Manson (born 1936), Scottish news presenter, one of eleven primary on-screen personalities who inaugurated, in 1972, Glasgow-based regional news programme, Scotland Today

Fictional characters

 * Little Jimmy Manson, psychotic hippie who auditioned and was rejected for Gorillaz, English musical visual project created in 1998 by Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett; bearing continuous grudge, Manson became musical industry executive set on sabotaging Gorillaz and their self-proclaimed leader Murdoc Niccals

Writers

 * Alan Marshall (Australian writer) (1902–1984) whose numerous, mainly bush-set short stories, newspaper columns, magazine articles and celebrated autobiographical trilogy have become part of his country's culture; three-time winner of Australian Literature Society Short Story Award
 * Alan Marshall (American writer), one of numerous pen names used by Donald E. Westlake (1933–2008), whose prolific œuvre encompasses crime fiction, especially comic capers, science fiction as well as non-fiction; three-time Edgar winner
 * Alan Marshall (New Zealand writer) (born 1970), environmental ethics researcher in Europe and Asia-Pacific; founded Ecomimicry Project in 2006; historical (Lancewood) 1999, science (The Unity of Nature) 2002 and science fiction (This Pointless Thing Called Life) 2013 author

Others

 * Allan Marshall (1851–1915), British-Maori New Zealand river captain and engineer who, between 1886 and his death, worked on North Island's Whanganui River which he was said to know "every inch" and developed many advanced innovations in river dredging and travel
 * Alan Marshall (cricketer) (1895–1973), India-born English right-handed batsman and right-arm slow bowler who played first-class for Somerset between 1914 and 1931; in military during World War I; wicketkeeper 1929–31
 * Alan Marshall (producer) (born 1938), English film producer in Hollywood (Jacob's Ladder [1990], Basic Instinct [1992]) who, from 1976 (Bugsy Malone) to 1987 (Angel Heart), partnered on seven features with director Alan Parker
 * Alan G. Marshall (born 1944), American analytical chemist and academic known for development of scientific technique known as Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance (FT-ICR) mass spectrometry; recipient of 2007 Chemical Pioneer Award

Writers

 * Ralph G. Martin (1920–2013), American writer and editor whose popular biographies of recent historical figures (Lady Randolph Churchill, Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson, Prince Charles and Lady Diana, John F. Kennedy, Joseph P. Kennedy, Golda Meir, Henry and Clare Luce) became bestsellers
 * Ralph P. Martin (1925–2013), English academic and New Testament scholar who taught at London Bible College, University of Manchester, University of Sheffield, Azusa Pacific University, and Fuller Theological Seminary; wrote commentaries on Mark, Romans, Philippians and James
 * David Ralph Martin (1935–2007), English television and film writer who, in collaboration with Bob Baker between 1971 and 1979, contributed numerous scripts for TV series Doctor Who between 1971 and 1979; also wrote for Sky and Into the Labyrinth; pen name Dave Martin
 * Rafe Martin (born 1946), American writer of children's literature (The Rough-Face Girl, 1992; Birdwing, 2005) and introductions to Buddhism (Endless Path: Awakening Within the Buddhist Imagination, published by North Atlantic Books, received 2011 Storytelling World Resource Award)
 * Ralf-Peter Märtin, (born 1951), German historian and academic whose profiles of El Cid, Julius Caesar, Genghis Khan, Akhenaten and Moses have appeared in Die Zeit, National Geographic and GEO; has written books on Battle at the Harzhorn and Battle of the Teutoburg Forest

Others

 * Ralph Martin (1933–2009), American jazz musician who founded Southern California Banjo Band and Oregon Trail Banjo Camp; following induction in 2003, appears on List of National Four-String Banjo Hall of Fame members
 * Ralph P. Martin, American character actor, mostly in brief cameos, starting in mid-1970s; seen in numerous TV episodes (Who's the Boss?, 1989–92; Northern Exposure, 1992–93) and occasional films (The Dentist 2, 1998); also billed as Ralph Martin
 * Ralph Martin, Australian astronomer who, during 2000s, has been serving as Western Australian Government Astronomer at Perth Observatory; founding member of Probing Lensing Anomalies Network of Telescopes; conducting gravitational microlensing research since 1995
 * Ralph Martin, American publishing entrepreneur, based in Alabama, who founded, in 1997, Community Newspaper Holdings, financed by Retirement Systems of Alabama and focusing on newspapers and advertising-related publications throughout eastern U.S.
 * Ralf Martin (born 1967), German racecar driver who, starting in 1999, accumulated numerous wins: German Ford Fiesta Cup champion 2003 and 2007, 2008 European Touring Car Cup champion in the S1600 class; winner of 2008 24h Nürburgring in SP1-SP2 class

Fictional characters

 * Ralph Martin, Fast-talking, hard-drinking American vaudeville comic, played in typically raucous style by Ted Healy (without his Stooges, although Larry Fine makes a brief appearance) in 1933 MGM backstage drama, Stage Mother (film)