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Notable McGraths |
Here are just a few of the McGraths from around the world who have made a name for themselves. If you can think of any more, then drop us an email, giving us their name, a short bio, a picture and website if relevant.
| Bob McGrath |
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Bob McGrath just celebrated his 34th year on Sesame Street. He has bridged two generations of viewers as one of the original hosts. I can’t believe I’m really meeting you is a common response heard by Bob from not only kids, but their parents as well, who also grew up with the show.
In addition to his role as music teacher on Sesame Street, Bob is a successful author, recording artist and concert performer. His newest book OOPS! EXCUSE ME PLEASE! And Other Mannerly Tales has received tremendous acclaim. His previous Barron’s title, UH OH! GOTTA GO ! is still one of the nation’s best-selling potty-training books and has been featured on Regis & Kathy Lee, Caryl and Marilyn, Pat Bullard , Home and Family and Rosie O’ Donnell.
Bob’s recent creative music curriculum, MUSIC FOR FUN published by Warner Bros. Publication, and co-authored with Marilyn Davidson, provides teachers with meaningful and light-hearted music classes. All seven sequential lessons are correlated to the MENC National Music Standards for Early Childhood. Included is a teacher and student book, and a CD with appealing songs by Bob which are the basis for the seven lessons.
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| Elizabeth Mcgrath |
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| Influenced by a Roman Catholic upbringing, punk rock, Erte and Edward Gorey, Hollywood native Elizabeth Mcgrath is one of her generations more unique and prolific artists. She creates in a number of mediums and materials with undeniable artistry and imagination. Her paintings are haunted whispers of color, depicting subtly dangerous creatures that creep toward the edge of the canvas. Her stitched and bandaged dolls and toys are a united army of soft strangeness, and her mixed media dioramas are isolated freak shows displaying rotting, subhuman figures luxuriously dressed for your pleasure or contempt. |
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| Glenn McGrath |
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| Glenn Donald McGrath (born 9 February, 1970) is an Australian cricket player, one of the best fast bowlers in the country's cricketing history, and a primary contributor to Australia's domination of world cricket during the 1990s and into the 2000s. As of December 19, 2004, he has taken 499 Test wickets, second in Australia's all time wicket-taking list, and fourth in the world, at the outstanding average of 21.22. His best test bowling figures are 8/24, made against Pakistan during the 1st Test at Perth (during the 2004/05 season). His ODI record is nearly as impressive; in 205 one-day internationals he has captured 315 wickets at an average of 22.05 at a cost of 3.87 runs per over. |
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| Jeremy McGrath |
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Jeremy McGrath is the most successful rider in AMA Supercross history. With a record 74 250cc supercross wins, the 2000 season marked yet another milestone... Jeremy won his seventh Supercross title - a feat no other racer in supercross history has even come close to!
With two additional 125 Western Region Supercross Championships, one 250 Outdoor National Championship and two FIM World Supercross Championships, most within this spectacular sport feel Jeremy is to supercross what Michael Jordan is to basketball.
Jeremy is not only a world class athlete, but an exceptional entrepreneur ... forming and operating his own supercross race team.
Supercross retirement has presented Jeremy with a new race opportunity...the AMA Red Bull Supermoto Championship Series. Spring 2003, Jeremy, former supercross champ Jeff Ward and popular motorsports artist, Troy Lee formed the Troy Lee Designs/Honda Supermoto team. Albeit a new and emerging sport, Jeremy has quickly become the sought after commodity within this competitive and exciting race series.
Jeremy recently completed his autobiography, which is being published by publishing giant Harper Collins and hit book shelves, January 6, 2004.
A California native, Jeremy and his wife Kim reside in Southern California. In spare time, Jeremy enjoys both snow and wake boarding, boating, bmx and golf and he is currently developing his own line of motocross inspired streetwear. |
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| John McGrath (TV Director / Writer) |
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John McGrath has had a career marked by absolute commitment to working-class politics in theatre, film, and television. McGrath's theatrical career spans London's Royal Court and the Liverpool Everyman to his own 7:84 Company ("7% of the population own 84% of the wealth"), while his film credits extend from Russell's Billion Dollar Brain to rewrites on Fox's Adventures of Robin Hood.
His TV career opened with Kenneth Tynan's formative arts programme Tempo, while his 1963 Granada documentary The Entertainers won critical plaudits. With Troy Kennedy Martin and John Hopkins, McGrath stamped BBC's Z Cars as the breakthrough cop drama of the 1960s, fired by moral uncertainty and Royal Court grittiness. McGrath hallmarked the series with a profound compassion for his protagonists, instituting a concern for real lives among the social problems that were already, however comfortably, addressed by earlier genre offerings. |
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| Matt McGrath (Actor) |
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| Matt McGrath is accomplished in film, TV, and especially theatre. Credits include the final off-Broadway Hedwig in Hedwig and the Angry Inch from January 2000- May 2000 and the third Emcee in the Broadway revival of Cabaret from October 2000- October 2001. He most recently played Wilhelm in The Black Rider in London, San Francisco, and Australia from May 2004- January 2005 |
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| Paul McGrath |
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For many in Ireland, Paul McGrath is a living legend. No player in Ireland's history has had so many column inches written in his honour, yet the defender has always remained modest about his ability.
Born in London, McGrath spent the first 16 years of his life in an orphanage and started his football career with Dalkey United before joining St Patrick's Athletic. He won the Young Player of the Year award in 1982 and joined Manchester United for a bargain £30,000 the following season.
On the pitch, McGrath settled in easily alongside Manchester United's superstar, winning a FA Cup medal in 1985, but off the field he turned to alcohol to deal with the pressures of being a professional footballer.
In 1985, he won the first of his 83 caps though it wasn't until Jack Charlton became manager that McGrath became a key member of the side. Chosen regularly in midfield by Charlton, McGrath helped Ireland to the European Championships in 1988 and World Cup two years later. Four years later, he was also part of the Ireland side that qualified for its second World Cup.
However, the story was not as straightforward as it may sound. McGrath's drinking problems meant that on two occasions, he missed Ireland matches, while at club level, Manchester United decided to cut their losses and let him leave for Aston Villa. He was also injury prone and during the course of his career he had eight knee operations, which meant that towards the end of his career, he was not training in the accepted sense.
It is testament to his natural fitness that despite this, he still played football at the highest level until he retired in 1998. To this day, the greatest player ever to play in two world cups and don a green jersey. |
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| Thomas McGrath (Poet) |
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| Thomas McGrath was born in 1916 on a farm near Sheldon, North Dakota, of Irish Catholic parents. Every aspect of this heritage--the place, the hard times, the religious and political culture--informs his art in a multitude of ways. His religious upbringing figures centrally in Part Three--'the Christmas section"--of Letter, and in his poetry at large there is a steady preference for the ritualistic forms and sacramental language of the Church. Being Irish also worked in his favor when, in 1941, he entered the maritime world of seamen and longshoremen--the Irish community that worked Manhattan's West Side docks--where the fight for reform went forward on the piers and in the bars and walkups of Chelsea. There McGrath worked as a labor organizer and, briefly, as a shipyard welder. His politics led him into a world of experience that, in turn, backed up his political beliefs in concrete ways. To be a Red on the waterfront was to be the natural prey of goon squads patrolling the docks for the bosses and the racketeers. It was also to see the world of industrial work at firsthand. In Part Two of Letter McGrath recalls his job as a welder at Federal Drydock & Shipyard: |
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