2009 – CEB acquires Toronto-based Warrillow & Co, as well as the financial services firm TowerGroup

Toronto-based television station CFTO-TV created a series of spoofs in early 2009 starring local weather personality Dave Devall.

** Noah Weinberg, American-born Israeli rabbi, founder of Aish HaTorah ( d. 2009 )

Patrick Joseph McGoohan ( March 19, 1928 – January 13, 2009 ) was an American-born actor, brought up in Ireland and England, where he established an extensive stage and film career, with his most notable roles in the 1960s television series Danger Man ( renamed Secret Agent when exported to the US ), and The Prisoner, which he co-created.

When Laviolette became coach of the Philadelphia Flyers in 2009, the rivalry between the two teams became further heated with Tortorella and Laviolette being the American-born coaches with the most wins in NHL history.

Janet Jagan ( October 20, 1920 – March 28, 2009 ) was an American-born socialist politician who was President of Guyana from December 19, 1997, to August 11, 1999.

Michael Nicholas Salvatore Bongiorno (; May 26, 1924 – September 8, 2009 ), known as Mike Bongiorno, was an American-born Italian television host.

* 1950 – Jim Carroll, American poet and actor ( d. 2009 )

This period also saw the emergence of a new generation of Scottish poets that became leading figures on the UK stage, including Carol Ann Duffy, who was named as Poet Laureate in May 2009, the first woman, the first Scot and the first openly gay poet to take the post.

* 2009 – Triztán Vindtorn, Norwegian poet and performance artist ( b. 1942 )

* 1935 – W. S. Rendra, Indonesian poet and playwright ( d. 2009 )

* January 5 – William De Witt Snodgrass, American poet ( d. 2009 )

* July 22 – U. A. Fanthorpe, British poet ( d. 2009 )

* July 18 – Simon Vinkenoog, Dutch poet and writer ( d. 2009 )

* October 1 – T. Llew Jones, Welsh author and poet ( d. 2009 )

The island is mentioned in the novels The Enemy by Desmond Bagley ( 1977 ), Sea of Death by Richard P. Henrick ( 1992 ), The Fist of God by Frederick Forsyth ( 1994 ), Quantico by Greg Bear ( 2005 ), The Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde ( 2005 ), Forbidden Island by Malcolm Rose ( 2009 ), And then you die by Iris Johansen ( 1998 ), The Island by R J Price ( better-known as the poet Richard Price ) ( 2010 ) and The Impossible Dead by Ian Rankin ( 2011 ).

The present British Poet Laureate is Carol Ann Duffy, appointed poet laureate in May 2009.

* Anna Mendelssohn ( 1948 – 2009 ), British political activist and poet

At the National Theatre in late 2009 Nicholas Hytner directed Bennett's play The Habit of Art, about the relationship between the poet W. H.

As of 2009, notable residents living in or close to Wymondham include / have included George Szirtes, poet ; Oliver Winterbottom, car designer ; Simon Beaufoy, writer of the films ' The Full Monty ' and ' Slumdog Millionaire '; Bill Bryson, humorist, author and travel writer ; Justin Hawkins, singer with The Darkness ; and the late Edwin Gooch, MP and President of the National Union of Agricultural and Allied Workers.

Richard Tuttle served as Poet Laureate in 2007 and the reigning poet laureate for both 2008 and 2009 is Elise Paschen.

* September 21 – Henry Gibson, actor, poet ( died 2009 )

* Pink Narcissus is also the name of an alternative rock band, based in Brighton UK that was formed in 2009 by poet / author Oli Spleen.

* March 18-John Updike, novelist and poet ( died 2009 )

Glasgow-born Carol Ann Duffy was named as Poet Laureate in May 2009, the first woman, the first Scot and the first openly gay poet to take the post.

Franklin Rosemont ( 2 October 1943 – 12 April 2009 ) was a poet, artist, historian, street speaker, and co-founder of the Chicago Surrealist Group.

* Franklin Rosemont 1943 – 2009 This " cyber-tombeau " at Silliman's Blog by poet Ron Silliman includes comments, tributes, and links

* Franklin Rosemont, fellow worker, surrealist poet, great American comprehensive set of links to obituaries on Rosemont found around the web as of April 2009

And still this poetry is deeply moving, at the same moment emotionally charged and brightly intellegible, light-coloured in spite of breathtaking » gestuary of crime « denuded by the Kramberger's verses, as Osojnik observed in her later poetry book in which the poet is narrating the Dreyfuss Affair through the cycle of poems ( Opus quinque dierum, 2009 ).

Next to numerous translated poems and some prose texts of other writers published in journals, she translated into Slovene language a book of poetry of Italian poet Michele Obit ( Leta na oknu, ZTT EST, Trieste, 2001, ISBN 88-7174-054-8 ), a selection of poetry of Argentinian poet Roberto Juarroz for a book Vertikalna poezija ( Vertical Poetry-with her introduction, ŠZ, Ljubljana, 2006, ISBN 961-242-035-1 ), a book of Gao Xingjian ( Ribiška palica za starega očeta / Buying a Fishing Rod for My Grandfather, 1986 – 1990, from French together with Drago Braco Rotar ) ( Didakta, Radovljica, 2001, ISBN 961-6363-62-X ), a book of poetry written by Lithuanian poet Neringa Abrutyte ( Izpoved, CSK, Aleph, Ljubljana, 2004, ISBN 961-6036-50-5 ) and a book of fairy-tails for kids by Lucy Coats ( 100 grških mitov za otroke / Atticus the Storyteller, 2004 ; MK, Ljubljana, 2004, reprinted in 2009, ISBN 978-86-11-16964-4.

A reboot to Friday the 13th came to theaters in February 2009, with Freddy vs. Jason writers Damian Shannon and Mark Swift hired to script the new film.

Later it emerged that the source of the story had been Damian McBride, then a Treasury civil servant who as a result of this became a special adviser to the then Chancellor, Gordon Brown who in 2009 resigned from a similar position in Number 10 Downing Street following publication of emails indicating a plan to smear leading Conservative politicians.

In the 2009 novel The Language of Bees by Laurie R. King, it is stated that Irene Adler, who is deceased when the book begins, once had an affair with main character Sherlock Holmes and gave birth to a son, Damian Adler, an artist now known as The Addler.

On 1 May 2009, Clarke joined David Blunkett in criticising Gordon Brown's leadership and declared that he was " ashamed " to be a Labour MP, citing the Damian McBride scandal.

On 18 April 2009, Damian Green claimed that arresting officers had searched his computer documents and emails for key words " Shami Chakrabarti ", fuelling claims that his arrest had been politically motivated.

In July 2007 vocalist Mac left the band and original singer Damian Wilson returned as Threshold's frontman for the first time in nearly a decade for the band's tour dates which extended into 2009.

* Damian Plague ( DJ ) ( Live member from 2004 DE / 2009 USA )

Martin Crimp's adaptation, starring Damian Lewis and Keira Knightley, opened at the Comedy Theatre, London in December 2009.

In April 2009, Dorries claimed to have commenced legal action following the publication of emails sent by Damian McBride, Gordon Brown's head of strategy and planning, which suggested spreading a rumour that Dorries had a one-night stand with a fellow MP, in an email to Derek Draper, a Labour-supporting blogger.

Stefan Junghann and Damian Jörren were the first walking more than 200m ( 203m onsight full man, March 16, 2009 ).

On 11 April 2009, it was reported by the Daily Telegraph that Gordon Brown's special adviser, Damian McBride had sent a series of emails to Draper discussing plans to set up a blog which would be used to post false rumours about the private lives of senior members of the Conservative Party and their spouses.

3 ) # 22 ( 2009 ) reveals that she would eventually marry Ibn Al Xu ' ffasch ( aka Damian Wayne ), and have a daughter and son.

Actor Damian Pitt died in a car crash 30 km from the north coast town of Grafton, NSW on 25 August 2009.