* 1944 – Bob O ' Connor, American politician ( d. 2006 )

Together with Bob Braden, she received the 2006 Postel Award in recognition of her services to the Internet.

* 1929 – Bob Orton, American wrestler ( d. 2006 )

He brought Bob Seger back from semi-retirement during his pre-Super Bowl concerts on February 2 and 3, 2006 in Detroit.

* 1930 – Bob Mathias, American decathlete ( d. 2006 )

Bob Braden took over the role of RFC project lead, while Joyce K. Reynolds continued to be part of the team until October 13, 2006.

* 1945 – Bob Lassiter, American talk show host ( d. 2006 )

* 1955 – Bob Papenbrook, American voice actor ( d. 2006 )

A number of poets belong to both academia and slam: as noted above Jeffrey McDaniel slammed on several poetry slam teams, and has since published several books and currently teaches at Sarah Lawrence College ; Patricia Smith, a four-time national slam champion, went on to win several prestigious literary awards, including being nominated for the 2008 National Book Award, and being inducted into the International Literary Hall of Fame for Writers of African Descent in 2006 ; Bob Holman founded the Nuyorican Poetry Slam has taught for years at the New School, Bard, Columbia and NYU ; Craig Arnold won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition and has competed at slams ; Kip Fulbeck, a professor of Art at the University of California, Santa Barbara competed in slam in the early-1990s and initiated the first spoken word course to be taught as part of a college art program's core curriculum ; and poet / academics such as Michael Salinger, Felice Belle, Javon Johnson, Susan B. Anthony Somers-Willett, Robbie Q. Telfer, Phil West, Ragan Fox, and Karyna McGlynn have devoted much attention to the merging of the poetry slam community and the academic community in their respective works.

Theseus is played by Bob Mathias in the 1960 film Minotaur, the Wild Beast of Crete, and by Tom Hardy in the 2006 film Minotaur.

* Curran, Bob ( 2006 ) Encyclopedia of the Undead: A field guide to creatures that cannot rest in peace New Page Books, Franklin Lakes, New Jersey, ISBN 1-56414-841-6

The 2006 US reality series Knight School focused on students at Texas Tech University vying for a walk-on ( non-scholarship ) roster position on the school's men's basketball team under legendary coach Bob Knight.

He has written books on subsequent Prime Ministers, Bob Hawke ( The Hawke Ascendency, 1984 ), Paul Keating ( The End of Certainty, 1992 ) and John Howard ( Howard's Decade, 2006 ).

In 2006, Democrat Bob Casey Jr. received 54 % of its vote when he unseated incumbent Republican US Senator Rick Santorum and Ed Rendell received 56 % of the vote against Lynn Swann.

* 2006 Version directed by Bob Komar, set in the British Army.

Bob Herbert addressed this in an October 2006 New York Times editorial.

* Bashful Bob and Doleful Dorinda ( 2006 )

In 2006, he won an Emmy for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance for his work in the episode " The Italian Bob.

In 2006 IGN listed him as the second-best " peripheral character " on The Simpsons, commenting that Bob is " a man of contradictions ; his goofy appearance, complete with palm tree like hair, doesn't seem to match up to the well spoken and even musically talented maniac.

In 2006, Grammer won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance for his role in " The Italian Bob "; he had previously won four awards in the Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series category for his portrayal of the title role on Frasier.

Bob Briscoe, Andrew Odlyzko, and Benjamin Tilly, July 2006 IEEE Spectrum.

In February 2006, Disney CEO Bob Iger initiated a trade with NBC Universal in which a number of minor assets, including the rights to Oswald, were acquired by The Walt Disney Company in exchange for sending sportscaster Al Michaels from Disney's ABC and ESPN to NBC Sports.

Lucas was replaced by former Pacers coach Bob Hill for the 1994 – 95 season, which would turn out to be the Spurs ' most successful regular season until 2006.

Their efforts resulted in the publication of the Book of the SubGenius in 1983, followed by Three-Fisted Tales of " Bob " in 1990, Revelation X: The " Bob " Apocryphon in 1994 and The SubGenius Psychlopaedia of Slack: The Bobliographon in 2006.

Actor Brandon Beemer was recast as Shawn and debuted in the role September 28, 2006.

Beemer was nominated for several Academy Awards, and as of 2007, has won Academy Awards for four films: Speed ( 1994 ), Gladiator ( 2000 ), Ray ( 2004 ), and Dreamgirls ( 2006 ).

He was portrayed by Jared Harris in the 2006 movie The Notorious Bettie Page, which featured a ( fictional ) meeting between Willie and Page.

* Willie Smith ( outfielder ) ( 1939 – 2006 ), American outfielder in Major League Baseball, 1963 – 1971

Warren's novel was the basis of two motion pictures, a 1949 film and a more recent 2006 film, and the 1981 opera Willie Stark by American composer Carlisle Floyd.

* Willie The New Guy – drums ( 2000 – 2006 )

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Previously, the seat had been held by Willie Rennie for the Liberal Democrats since the Dunfermline and West Fife by-election in 2006.

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More recently, Foster produced Willie Nelson's 2006 Grammy Award nominated You Don't Know Me: The Songs of Cindy Walker, and Nelson's collaboration with Merle Haggard and Ray Price, Last of the Breed ( 2007 ).

Her death prompted the Dunfermline and West Fife by-election, held on 9 February 2006, in which her former seat was won by Willie Rennie for the Liberal Democrats.

The death of Willie MacRae received further attention when the events surrounding it formed the basis of a broadcast of the STV show " Unsolved ", originally broadcast in November 2006.

In 2006, Frankenreiter left Brushfire Records and signed with Lost Highway Records, home of such notable artists as Elvis Costello, Ryan Adams and Willie Nelson.

He also had a song called " Willie Bounce " that appeared on several mixtapes in early 2006.

Prior to the Premier League Snooker matches on 12 October 2006, players Jimmy White, Ronnie O ' Sullivan, Ken Doherty and Ding Junhui, along with referee Alan Chamberlain and commentators Willie Thorne and Phil Yates, all stood for a moment of silence to remember Hunter.

The song has come to represent the decade of its creation, and it has been covered by many artists, from his peers like Glen Campbell, Bob Dylan, Percy Sledge and Sam & Dave to artists of various genres, including Jimmy Velvit ( whose cover version was included on his 2001 Grammy nominated album Sun Sea & Sand ), Widespread Panic ( 2006 ), Waylon Jennings & Willie Nelson, Kenny Rankin, Dennis Brown, Michel Pagliaro, Jacob Miller, Michael Bolton ( whose version of the song reached # 11 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1988 ), Pearl Jam, The Format, T. Rex ( as a b-side of " Dreamy Lady " on March 11, 1975 ), Brent Smith of Shinedown ( during an acoustic set in 2008 ), Justin Nozuka ( 2007 ) and Sara Bareilles ( 2008 ).

In 2006, Groundskeeper Willie was named the fourth best peripheral character in the history of the show by IGN, who said " high-points for the character were being trained to be civilized, wrestling a wolf that was let loose in the school and becoming a substitute for the French language teacher-' Bon jourrr!

In February 2006, the Minister for Defence Willie O ' Dea announced that the Irish government would open talks on joining the European Union battle groups.

* Willie Jurado ( 1921 – 2006 ), journalist, founder of The Eye International Newspaper, and The Philippine National Press Club

Leigh endowed a chair in jazz at Yale University, the Willie Ruff Chair in Jazz, in 2006.

As of 2010, Willie Sotelo, who joined the group in 2006 as pianist, has become the band's de facto musical director on tours, with Ithier conducting the group and playing occasionally in select live performances.

In March 2006 American music icon Willie Nelson released a CD album featuring 13 of Walker's well-known songs.

Notable past Board members have included Caspar Weinberger ( 1967 – 1969 ), Jesse Unruh ( 1983 – 1987 ), Gray Davis ( 1986 – 1994 ), Matt Fong ( 1995 – 1998 ), Kathleen Connell ( 1995 – 2003 ), Phil Angelides ( 1999 – 2006 ), Willie Brown ( 2000 – 2005 ), and Steve Westly ( 2003 – 2006 ).

In 2006 Guitarist Willie Chambers brought the house down, sitting in with a group called Vince and the Invinceables at a benefit concert for Arthur Lee of the group Love.

Deputy Executive Director Stuart Sunshine, a former aide to Mayor Frank Jordan and Mayor Willie Brown, and a former head of the Department of Parking and Traffic, served as acting executive director until January 17, 2006, when Nathaniel P. Ford, Sr., previously the general manager and CEO of MARTA in Atlanta, took over as the new executive director.