John Lloyd Young

John Lloyd Mills Young (born July 4, 1975) is an American actor and singer. In 2006, he won the Tony Award for Best Leading Actor in a Musical for his role as Frankie Valli in Broadway's Jersey Boys. He is the only American actor to date to have received a Lead Actor in a Musical Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and Theatre World Award for a Broadway debut. Young sang lead vocals on the Grammy-award winning Jersey Boys cast album, certified Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America. Young reprised his role as Frankie Valli in Warner Brothers' film adaptation of Jersey Boys, directed by Clint Eastwood and released June 20, 2014.

Young was appointed by President Barack Obama to the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities. He was sworn in by Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan on November 21, 2013.

Early life

Young was born in Sacramento, California, the son of Rosemarie Joan (Cianciola) and Karl Bruce Young, a Strategic Air Command tanker-squadron commander. His father had English, Welsh and German ancestry, and his mother was of Italian descent. After graduating from high school in Plattsburgh, New York, Young spent a year as a Rotary International exchange student in Caracas, Venezuela. Young went on to graduate with honors in theater arts from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. He spent his third year of college at the University of Salamanca, Spain, as a student of world and art history and Spanish language and literature.

John Lloyd (tennis)

John Lloyd (born 27 August 1954) is a former professional tennis player who reached an ATP world ranking of 21 from 23 July 1978 to 30 July 1978 and who was ranked as UK number 1 in 1984 and 1985. He now works as sports commentator.

During his career, he reached one Grand Slam singles final and won three Grand Slam mixed doubles titles with tennis partner Wendy Turnbull, the French Open in 1982 and Wimbledon in 1983 and 1984. He was the first husband of the former top woman player Chris Evert and is the younger brother of the former British Davis Cup captain David Lloyd. He served as the British Davis Cup Captain Himself from August 2006 – March 2010. He is a Member of the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club.

Education

Lloyd was educated at Southend High School for Boys, a state grammar school in Southend-on-Sea in Essex, in South East England.

Life and career

At the Australian Open in December 1977, Lloyd became the first British male tennis player in the Open era to reach a Grand Slam singles final. He lost in five sets to America's Vitas Gerulaitis 6–3, 7–6, 5–7, 3–6, 6–2. No other British player reached a Grand Slam final for 20 years, until British-Canadian Greg Rusedski reached the US Open final in 1997. In 1984 he reached the quarter-finals of the US Open. Lloyd never progressed beyond the third round in singles play at Wimbledon.

John Lloyd (Australian politician)

John Charles Lloyd (1818 – 23 January 1881) was an English-born Australian politician.

He was born at Acton Round in Shropshire to army officer John Lloyd and Mary Evans. He migrated to New South Wales in 1841 and managed property in the Liverpool Plains district. Around 1855 he married Eleanora Sparks, with whom he had fourteen children. He acquired land in the Liverpool Plains, and visited England in 1864. In 1864 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Liverpool Plains, serving until his retirement in 1869. He was bankrupted in 1871. Lloyd died at The Myalls near Narrabri in 1881.

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John Lloyd (Canadian politician)

John Edward Lloyd (2 August 1908 – 16 September 1985) was a Liberal party member of the Canadian House of Commons for the Halifax riding. He is a lecturer and chartered accountant by career. He was born in Aldershot, England.

After unsuccessfully campaigning for the riding in the 1962 federal election, he won the seat in the 1963 federal election and served in the 26th Canadian Parliament until 1965. He lost the seat to Progressive Conservative candidates in the 1965 federal election.

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