Sam Harris

Samuel Benjamin "Sam" Harris (born April 9, 1967) is an American author, philosopher, and neuroscientist. Harris is the co-founder and chief executive of Project Reason, a non-profit organization that promotes science and secularism, and host of the podcast: Waking Up with Sam Harris. As an author, he wrote the book The End of Faith, which was published in 2004 and appeared on The New York Times Best Seller list for 33 weeks. The book also won the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction in 2005. In 2006, Harris published the book Letter to a Christian Nation as a response to criticism of The End of Faith. This work was followed by The Moral Landscape, published in 2010, in which Harris argues that science can help answer moral problems and can aid the facilitation of human well-being. He subsequently published a long-form essay Lying in 2011, the short book Free Will in 2012, Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion in 2014 and Islam and the Future of Tolerance: A Dialogue in 2015.

Sam Harris (basketball)

Sam Harris (born 3 May 1984) is an Australian former professional basketball player who played two seasons in the National Basketball League (NBL). At 7'3" (221 cm), he is the tallest player ever to play in the National Basketball League.

Basketball career

Early years

Growing up in the Launceston suburb of Newnham, Harris played junior basketball for the NW Tasmania Thunder and later joined their senior team in 2001 for the SEABL season. From 2002 to 2004, Harris attended the Australian Institute of Sport and Lake Ginninderra College in Canberra. Then from 2004 to 2008, he played college basketball for Old Dominion University in the United States on a four-year scholarship. Upon graduating from ODU, he returned home to Tasmania where he played for the NW Tasmania Thunder again in 2008 and 2009. He also played for the Singapore Slingers in 2008–09 during their International Challenge Series.

NBL

Harris joined the Perth Wildcats as a training player for the 2009–10 NBL season. He was elevated to the full squad early in the season as an injury replacement for Paul Rogers but returned to a training player role following the club's acquisition of Galen Young. He stuck around with the club for the rest of the season and subsequently became an NBL champion when the Wildcats defeated the Wollongong Hawks in the Grand Final series. In six games for the Wildcats, he averaged one point and 1.2 rebounds per game. In the NBL off-season, he joined the East Perth Eagles for the 2010 SBL season.

Sam H. Harris

Sam H. Harris (February 3, 1872 – July 3, 1941) was a Broadway producer and theater owner.

Career

After a stint as a cough drop salesman and boxing manager, Harris's first production was Theodore Kremer's The Evil That Men Do co-produced with Al Woods in 1903. Harris found success in 1904 as the producing partner of George M. Cohan, with whom he produced eighteen Broadway musicals, fifteen of which were Cohan's own. From 1916 to 1919, most of the these productions were in the Chandler Theater on 42nd street, renamed the Cohan and Harris Theater in 1916.

Harris separated from Cohan after a 1919 actors strike, and renamed the theater the Sam H. Harris Theatre. He sold it in 1926 to the Shubert Organization, but it continued to operate under the Harris name until 1933 when it was converted to a movie house.

He proposed a musical revue to his friend Irving Berlin in 1919, and with him built the Music Box Theatre in 1921, specially for Berlin's Music Box Revue. His estate held an interest in the theater through 1960. On Harris's death, most shares in the theater were sold to Berlin and to the Shubert Organization.

Sam Harris (rugby)

Samuel Richard "Sam" Harris (born 30 January 1980) is a former professional rugby footballer. He played representative rugby league for Sydney and in the National Rugby League for the Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles and Wests Tigers clubs. His usual position was in the second row. Harris also played rugby union for the NSW Waratahs in the Super 14 competition.

Harris' only representative appearance in rugby league came in 2004 when he played for City in the annual City v. Country match. His first match for the Wests Tigers was their loss to the Bradford Bulls in the 2006 World Club Challenge.

He returned to rugby union in 2007 when he signed on with the Waratahs franchise for the 2007 Super 14 competition playing at centre alongside another New Zealand-born centre, Morgan Turinui.

Career highlights

References

Sam Harris (disambiguation)

Sam Harris (born 1967) is an American author, philosopher, and neuroscientist.

Other notable people named Sam Harris include:

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Sam Harris (singer)

Samuel Kent "Sam" Harris (born June 4, 1961) is an American pop and theater musician as well as a television, theater and film actor.

Career

Singing

Harris got his start as the grand champion singer of Star Search in its premiere season in 1983. He gained acclaim and became best known for his winning rendition of the song "Over the Rainbow" on the show. "Over the Rainbow" has since become his signature song. His appearance on Star Search led to him landing a contract with Motown Records. His first single, "Sugar Don't Bite," was a Top 40 hit, reaching #36 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in November 1984. He is a multi-million selling recording artist with nine studio albums to his credit. He can also be heard on numerous concert, guest artist, and cast recordings. He has toured extensively in concert and has played to sold-out audiences at major venues including New York's Carnegie Hall, Los Angeles' Universal Amphitheatre, and London's West End. He has appeared with the Boston Pops Orchestra, at the White House, and has sung on a variety of television specials and live productions. On February 12, 2008, he released a new single entitled "War on War" that became an Internet phenomenon with music videos made by the general public. The song became a part of his album, Free, which was released that summer. The single "Change Is On The Way" was written to support the Obama campaign and was heard on numerous television shows and behind Internet videos around the time of the election. In 2010, Sam wrote and released "My Reclamation," which has become an anthem for marriage equality.