Howard is a popular English language occupational given name of Middle English origin, meaning "sheep herder". A diminutive is "Howie" and its shortened form is "Ward" (most common in the 19th century). Between 1900-1960, Howard ranked in the U.S. Top 200; between 1960–1990, it ranked in the U.S. Top 400; between 1990–2004, it ranked in the U.S. Top 600. People with the given name Howard or its variants include:
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... Howard is a census-designated place in southern Howard Township, Knox County, Ohio, United States ... United States Postal Service has assigned Howard the ZIP Code 43028 ... East Knox High School is located in Howard ...
... VIII, but twice incurred the King's anger, first for her unauthorized engagement to Lord Thomas Howard, who died in the Tower of London in 1537 because of his misalliance with her, and again in 1540 ...
... Thomas Howard, 5th Duke of Norfolk (9 March 1627 – 13 December 1677) was an English noble ... He was born to Henry Frederick Howard, 22nd Earl of Arundel and Lady Elizabeth Stuart ... The duties of Earl Marshal were exercised by his brother, Sir Henry Howard, who, in 1677, succeeded him as Duke ...
... Howard provided the Mavericks with a back-to-the-basket player who moved into the starting power-forward position, enabling Dirk Nowitzki to play small ... During the season, Howard tallied 16 double-doubles and five 30-point performances in 81 games, while averaging 18.0 points and 7.1 rebounds ... Michael Finley and future MVPs Steve Nash and Nowitzki, Howard was the highest paid player ...
... In college, Howard was regarded as one of the best defensive big men in the country ... After the 1994 NBA Draft, NBA analyst Doug Collins described Howard as a player who can "play with his back to the basket and can shoot from about 16 feet outside" and who "plays with a lot of ... The Bullets' general manager, John Nash, told Jerry Bembry of The Baltimore Sun that Howard was "as fundamentally sound as any player in the draft" and that he "has a discipline about his game ...
Famous quotes containing the word howard:
“Any woman who does not live for unselfish service is a useless cumberer of the earth.”
—Anna Howard Shaw (1847–1919)
“The laboring man and the trade-unionist, if I understand him, asks only equality before the law. Class legislation and unequal privilege, though expressly in his favor, will in the end work no benefit to him or to society.”
—William Howard Taft (1857–1930)
“I think it is a wise course for laborers to unite to defend their interests.... I think the employer who declines to deal with organized labor and to recognize it as a proper element in the settlement of wage controversies is behind the times.... Of course, when organized labor permits itself to sympathize with violent methods or undue duress, it is not entitled to our sympathy.”
—William Howard Taft (1857–1930)