Tucker
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People
First name- Tucker CarlsonTucker CarlsonTucker Swanson McNear Carlson is an American political news correspondent and conservative commentator for the Fox News Channel...
, former television host - Tucker MaxTucker MaxTucker Max is an American author and public speaker. He chronicles his drunken and sexual encounters in the form of short stories on his website TuckerMax.com, which has received millions of visitors since Max launched it for a bet in 2002, making him an Internet celebrity.Max's book I Hope They...
, Internet personality, author - Tucker MartineTucker MartineTucker Martine is an American, Grammy nominated record producer, musician and composer who has worked with artists such as My Morning Jacket, Mudhoney, Bill Frisell, The Decemberists, Sufjan Stevens, R.E.M., Laura Veirs, Spoon, and Tift Merritt...
, drummer and record producer - Tucker SmithTucker SmithTucker Smith, born Thomas William Smith , was an American actor/dancer/singer best known for his role as Ice in the movie musical West Side Story....
, actor, dancer and singer
Surname (last name)
- Tucker (surname)Tucker (surname)-Possible Derivation of the Name:The origin of the name is not entirely certain, but since it has a long history as a surname on the continent, as in England and from thereon, also in the United States, it presumably has the same Saxon roots. The Saxons were a North Germanic people living in the...
- Albert W. TuckerAlbert W. TuckerAlbert William Tucker was a Canadian-born American mathematician who made important contributions in topology, game theory, and non-linear programming....
, mathematician - Preston TuckerPreston TuckerPreston Thomas Tucker was an American automobile designer and entrepreneur.He is most remembered for his 1948 Tucker Sedan , an automobile which introduced many features that have since become widely used in modern cars...
, car manufacturer - Tony TuckerTony TuckerTony Craig Tucker is a retired professional heavyweight boxer. Tucker fought professionally from 1980 to 1998. Nicknamed "TNT," he won a gold medal at the 1979 Pan American Games, and was briefly a world heavyweight champion as a professional.-Amateur career:Tucker had a notable amateur career,...
, retired professional heavyweight boxer.
Food
- Tucker, Australian and New Zealand word for foodFoodFood is any substance consumed to provide nutritional support for the body. It is usually of plant or animal origin, and contains essential nutrients, such as carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamins, or minerals...
in general- Bush tucker, Australian word for food obtained from the bush
Fictional characters
- Tucker Foley, one of the titular character's best friends on the animated series Danny Phantom
- Charles Tucker IIICharles Tucker IIICharles "Trip" Tucker III , played by Connor Trinneer, is a fictional character in the television series Star Trek: Enterprise, which is the last generation of the Star Trek seriesTucker was the chief engineer on the Enterprise, and also briefly served as chief engineer aboard...
, fictional character on Star Trek: Enterprise - Peter Tucker JenkinsTucker JenkinsPeter "Tucker" Jenkins is a fictional character in Grange Hill, who appeared from the first episode in 1978 to 1982, and with cameo appearances in 2003 and the last ever episode in 2008. Tucker was played by British actor Todd Carty.-Series 1:...
, played by actor Todd Carty in the BBC television series Grange Hill and spin-off Tucker's Luck - Libby Tucker, the character played by Dinah Manoff in Neil Simon's play I Ought to Be in PicturesI Ought to Be in PicturesI Ought to Be in Pictures is a play by Neil Simon.The three-character comedy-drama focuses on Herbert Tucker, a struggling, writer's-blocked screenwriter who abandoned his New York family 16 years earlier...
as well as the 1982 filmI Ought to Be in Pictures (film)Neil Simon's I Ought to Be in Pictures is a 1982 American comedy film directed by Herbert Ross and based on Neil Simon's play of the same name. The film stars Walter Matthau, Ann-Margret, and Dinah Manoff... - Tucker Crowe, the fictional reclusive singer-songwriter in Nick HornbyNick HornbyNick Hornby is an English novelist, essayist and screenwriter. He is best known for the novels High Fidelity, About a Boy, and for the football memoir Fever Pitch. His work frequently touches upon music, sport, and the aimless and obsessive natures of his protagonists.-Life and career:Hornby was...
's novel Juliet, NakedJuliet, NakedJuliet, Naked is a novel by the British author Nick Hornby, released on 29 September 2009 by Riverhead Books. It tells the story of Annie, the long-suffering girlfriend of obsessed music fan Duncan, and the object of his obsession, fictional singer-songwriter Tucker Crowe. The plot revolves around... - Malcolm Tucker, master of spin in Armando IannucciArmando IannucciArmando Giovanni Iannucci is a Scottish comedian, satirist, writer, director, performer and radio producer. Born in Glasgow, he studied at Oxford University and left graduate work on a PhD about John Milton to pursue a career in comedy....
's The Thick of ItThe Thick of ItThe Thick of It is a British comedy television series that satirises the inner workings of modern British government. It was first broadcast on BBC Four in 2005, and has so far completed fourteen half-hour episodes and two special hour-long episodes to coincide with Christmas and Gordon Brown's...
and In the LoopIn the Loop (film)In the Loop is a 2009 British satirical black comedy film directed by Armando Iannucci. It is based on the BBC Television series The Thick of It satirising Anglo-American politics in the 21st century and the Invasion of Iraq... - Lavernius Tucker, fictional character in the machinima science fiction comedy video series Red vs. Blue
Places
Netherlands- Tukker, inhabitant of TukTukTuk and similar can mean:*Tuk band, a kind of Barbadian musical ensemble, which plays tuk music*T.U.K. , a British boot and shoe manufacturer*T.U.K. Tuk and similar can mean:*Tuk band, a kind of Barbadian musical ensemble, which plays tuk music*T.U.K. (or Tread United Kingdom), a British boot and...
, (NetherlandsNetherlandsThe Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...
) - Tukker, nickname for the inhabitants of TwenteTwenteTwente is a non-administrative region in the eastern Netherlands. It encompasses the most urbanised and easternmost part of the province of Overijssel...
, Netherlands
United States
- TuckerTucker, ArkansasTucker is an unincorporated area in Jefferson County, Arkansas. It has an elevation of 226 ft .-History:In 1871 John Woodfin Tucker established the Tucker Plantation, named after his wife, Sarah E. Tucker. The plantation, which mostly produced cotton, expanded to occupy . Paid farmworkers and...
, Arkansas - TuckerTucker, GeorgiaTucker is a census-designated place in DeKalb County, Georgia, United States. The population was 27,581 at the 2010 Census. Although central Tucker, also known as "Main Street Tucker", is laid out as a planned "railroad town," it has never been formally incorporated. Municipal services such as...
, Georgia - TuckerTucker, MississippiTucker is a census-designated place in Neshoba County, Mississippi, United States. The population was 534 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Tucker is located at ....
, Mississippi - TuckerTucker, UtahTucker is a ghost town located in Utah County, Utah, below Soldier Summit on U.S. Route 6 through Spanish Fork Canyon. It was once an important loading point and construction camp on the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad. After the town was abandoned, the state of Utah used the town site for...
, Utah, a ghost town - Tucker CountyTucker County, West VirginiaAs of the census of 2000, there were 7,321 people, 3,052 households, and 2,121 families residing in the county. The population density was 18 people per square mile . There were 4,634 housing units at an average density of 11 per square mile...
, West Virginia
Film and television
- Tucker: The Man and His DreamTucker: The Man and His DreamTucker: The Man and His Dream is a 1988 biographical film directed by Francis Ford Coppola and starring Jeff Bridges. The film recounts the story of Preston Tucker and his attempt to produce and market the 1948 Tucker Sedan, which was met with scandal between the "Big Three automobile...
, film about Preston Tucker - Tucker (television program)Tucker (television program)Tucker is an American television program on MSNBC that focused on politics, hosted by Tucker Carlson. The show aired from June 6, 2005–March 14, 2008....
, a program hosted by Tucker Carlson on MSNBC, previously called The Situation with Tucker Carlson - Tucker (TV series)Tucker (TV series)Tucker is a television family comedy series that aired on NBC from October 2, 2000 to March 27, 2001.-Premise:Tucker's parents have divorced, and so he is forced to move into his despised aunt Claire's house, with her decidedly calmer airplane pilot husband Jimmy and strange cousin Leon. Originally...
- Tucker's LuckTucker's LuckTucker's Luck was a British television series made by the BBC between 1983 and 1985.The series is a spin-off from the school drama Grange Hill and capitalised on the popularity of one of the series' original characters — Peter "Tucker" Jenkins, played by Todd Carty.Tucker's Luck followed the...
, BBC TV series starring Todd Carty as Tucker
Ships
- USS TuckerUSS TuckerTwo ships in the United States Navy have been named USS Tucker for Captain Samuel Tucker.* USS Tucker was the lead ship of her class of destroyers, commissioned in 1916, served in World War I, transferred to the United States Coast Guard as USCGC Tucker and struck in 1936.* USS Tucker was a...
, name of more than one United States Navy ship - USS Henry W. Tucker, name of more than one United States Navy ship
Other uses
- 1948 Tucker Sedan1948 Tucker SedanThe 1948 Tucker Sedan or Tucker '48 Sedan was an advanced automobile conceived by Preston Tucker and briefly produced in Chicago in 1948...
, also nicknamed "Tucker Torpedo", an automobile - Tucker decompositionTucker decompositionIn mathematics, Tucker decomposition decomposes a tensor into a set of matrices and one small core tensor. It is named after Ledyard R. Tuckeralthough it goes back to Hitchcock in 1927....
, mathematical decomposition for tensors - Tucker Sno-Cat, manufacturer of snowcats
- TuckerizationTuckerizationTuckerization is the act of using a person's name in an original story as an in-joke. The term is derived from Wilson Tucker, a pioneering American science fiction writer and fanzine editor, who made a practice of using his friends' names for minor characters in his stories...
, act of using a person's name in an original story as an in-joke - See the article on FullingFullingFulling or tucking or walking is a step in woolen clothmaking which involves the cleansing of cloth to eliminate oils, dirt, and other impurities, and making it thicker. The worker who does the job is a fuller, tucker, or walker...
, about the processing of woolen cloth.