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Brian Cornell was born in 1958 in Queens, New York City. He grew up in a fatherless household from the age of six, and his mother was living on welfare due to heart disease. [1] As a result, Cornell was mostly brought up by his maternal grandparents. [1] Cornell graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1981.
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Target chairman and CEO Brian Cornell reveals what it was like growing up with a challenged family life, which has in part helped him shape modern-day Target over the past decade.
The Cornell family of New England and New York began with the arrival from Saffron Walden, Essex, England of Thomas Cornell in Rhode Island in Boston in the 1630s. Cornell was a contemporary of Anne Hutchinson and was compelled to leave Puritan Boston due to the Antinomian Controversy for Portsmouth, Rhode Island, where he connected with Roger Williams.
Cornell is an English name derived from a shortened form of Cornwall, Cornwell or Cornhill, [1] and a Dutch Surname, which derives from the Latin Cornelius. Sometimes the name is an Americanized form of the Czech Kornel, or the German and Swedish Kornell.
Cornell is the only university in the world with three female winners of unshared Nobel Prizes among its graduates; Cornell alumni Pearl S. Buck, Barbara McClintock, and Toni Morrison each were unshared recipients of the prize. [5] [6] Many alumni maintain university ties through the university's homecoming. Its alumni magazine is Cornell ...
William Brian de Lacy Aherne (2 May 1902 – 10 February 1986) was an English actor of stage, screen, radio and television, who enjoyed a long and varied career in Britain and the United States. His first Broadway appearance in The Barretts of Wimpole Street in 1931 teamed him with Katharine Cornell , with whom he appeared in many productions.
Brian Francis Connolly (5 October 1945 – 9 February 1997) was a Scottish singer-songwriter, musician and actor, best known as the lead singer of glam rock band Sweet between 1968 and 1979 and known for his charismatic stage presence and distinctive voice.