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Major is a military rank. The word derives from Latin maior, which means greater. It may also refer to:

Music[link]

• Major and minor, types of scale, key, chord or interval; also,
  • Major scale
  • Major chord
  • The names of various intervals, such as a Major third or Major sixth
• Major, a method of Change ringing rung on eight church bells
• The Majors (band), an American R&B group
• Majors (band), a Danish hip-hop group

People[link]

Surname

• Clarence Major (born 1936), American poet
• Edward Major (1615–c. 1655), Virginia colonial politician
• John Major (born 1943), British Prime Minister
• John C. Major (born 1931), Canadian jurist
• Corporal Leo Major (1921–2008), Corporal in the Canadian Army
• Mark Major (born 1970), Canadian ice hockey player
• William James Major (1881–1953), Canadian politician and jurist
• Bill Majors (born 1960), American Christian missionary
• Johnny Majors (born 1935), American football player and coach
• Lee Majors (born 1939), American actor
• Shirley Majors (1914–1981), American football coach; father of several notable football players and coaches, the most famous being Johnny Majors
• Les Major (1926–2001), English footballer
• William T. Major (1790-1867), American pastor

Given or nickname

• Major Applewhite (born 1978), American football quarterback and coach
• Major Harris (born 1968), American football quarterback
• Marshall Taylor (1878–1932), known as 'Major' Taylor, American cyclist
• Rod Majors, nom de porn of porn star and award winning journalist Matt Sanchez

Fictional

• Major Gowen, character on the British television series Fawlty Towers
• Major Major Major Major, character in Joseph Heller's novel Catch-22
• The Major (Hellsing), character in the Japanese manga series Hellsing
• The Major, nickname of Motoko Kusanagi, character in the Japanese anime/manga series Ghost in the Shell

Places[link]

• Major, Saskatchewan, a village in Canada
• Lake Major, Nova Scotia, Canada
• Mount Major, a small mountain in New Hampshire, United States
• Major, the Hungarian name for Maieru Commune, Bistriţa-Năsăud County, Romania

Species[link]

Latin binomial abbreviations for species

Sport[link]

• Description of some professional sports leagues when they represent an important (often the highest) level of competition in the hierarchy:
  • Major League Baseball
  • Major League Soccer
  • mid-major (American college sports)

• In golf, a "major championship" is one of an elite tier of annual tournaments:
  • Men's golf:
    • Men's major golf championships (these are the first ever "major" titled annual tournaments in any sport)
      • The Masters
      • U.S. Open
      • The Open Championship (also called "British Open")
      • PGA Championship
    • Senior major golf championships
      • Senior PGA Championship
      • The Tradition
      • Senior Players Championship
      • U.S. Senior Open
      • The Senior Open Championship
  • Women's major golf championships
    • Kraft Nabisco Championship
    • LPGA Championship
    • U.S. Women's Open
    • Women's British Open

• In tennis, the four Grand Slam events are referred to as the "majors":
  • Australian Open
  • French Open
  • The Championships, Wimbledon
  • US Open

• The Major Brothers, the professional wrestling tag team of Curt Hawkins and Zack Ryder,
• "Major score" or "major", an alternate term in Canadian football for the scoring play also known as a touchdown.

Other[link]

• Academic major, the primary focus of a Bachelor's degree, in the United States and some other countries
• Major (law), a person with the full legal rights of an adult
• Major (manga), a baseball-related Japanese manga/anime series
• Major film studios, film studios (mostly United States-based) that produce many films per year
• Major, an older sibling, when two British Public school students have the same surname
• Major, an American tactical missile developed by Redstone Arsenal
• Major, an Irish cigarette brand produced by Carroll's, a subsidiary of British American Tobacco

See also[link]

• Majority
• Majorat
• Mayor

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Shaher "Ronnie" Khalil is an Egyptian-American stand-up comedian and actor. He has headlined across four continents, toured the United States as a guest performer with the “Axis of Evil”, performed with “Arabs Gone Wild” and taped two “Friday Night Live” Showtime Comedy specials in Dubai,^[1][2] including “Minorities Rule” and “New World Order”, both were shown across 14 countries in the Middle East. Ronnie has performed in sold-out shows across the Middle East and was part of the first-ever Amman Stand-up Comedy Festival in Jordan,^[3] as well as numerous other comedy festivals including the New York Underground, NY Arab-American, South Beach, Los Angeles and Boston Comedy Festivals. He was also twice invited to the Montreal Comedy Festival's "Just for Pitching."^[4] Ronnie has been featured on sketches for “Conan O’Brian”, ABC News, NPR, Air America, CNN and Al Jazeera, as well as in Comedy Central's online show "The Watch List", which was later picked up for a pilot, and A&E's "15 Films About Madonna."

Khalil is Executive Producer of the first ever Middle Eastern Comedy Festival in Los Angeles, which premiered September 2009, with the goal of changing stereotypes in the Hollywood entertainment industry.^[5][6]

Khalil grew up in Miami, FL, where he was a founding member of "The Miami Comics", an ethnically diverse group of stand-up comedians.^[7]

In addition to stand-up, Khalil earned his M.B.A. from the University of Miami,^[7] and lectures in colleges throughout the United States regarding success and motivation. His most popular lectures are “Success through C.O.M.E.D.Y.” and “Networking: How to Avoid Really Hard Work.” Both Khalil’s parents were university professors, and his father is currently President of Nile University in Cairo, Egypt.

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official website
• Ronnie Khalil on Twitter
• Ronnie Khalil at IMDB
• "Ronnie Khalil - Ronnie Khalil's parents may throw him a surprise wedding." (video). The Watch List. Comedy Central.
• Ronnie Khalil's The Comedy Course. ArabComedy.org. New York Arab-American Comedy Festival.