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William Mulholland (September 11, 1855 – July 22, 1935) was an Irish American self-taught civil engineer who was responsible for building the infrastructure to provide a water supply that allowed Los Angeles to grow into the largest city in California.
Mulholland Estates sign. Mulholland Estates is a guard gated community in the Santa Monica Mountains of Southern California, US.It is named after pioneering Los Angeles civil engineer William Mulholland.
Lieutenant General John F. Mulholland Jr. (born 1955) [1] is a retired senior officer who served in the United States Army and is the former Associate Director for Military Affairs (ADMA) at the Central Intelligence Agency.
In the early 1950s, a four-man squad of LAPD detectives, frustrated with the rules and weaknesses of the legal system stopping them from more aggressively battling crime, commit an extrajudicial execution when they toss Jack Flynn, a powerful gangster from Chicago, off a cliff on Mulholland Drive, nicknamed "Mulholland Falls" for all the criminals they have thrown to their deaths.
Mulholland was born in Dublin in 1946, the eldest of six children of Ned Mulholland of Kinnegad and Betty O'Donoghue of Ballingary, County Tipperary.The family moved to Galway in 1948.
Mulholland or Mullholland (/ m ʌ l ˈ h ɒ l ə n d / mul-HOL-ənd) is a surname.It is the anglicized form of Irish: Ó Maolchalann, lit. '"descendant of Maolchalann", a personal name meaning "chief of the calends"'.
U.S. National Park Service map of Mulholland Highway and Santa Monica Mountains. Mulholland Highway is a scenic road in Los Angeles County, California, that runs approximately 50 miles through the western Santa Monica Mountains from near US Route 101 (Ventura Freeway) in Calabasas to Highway 1 (Pacific Coast Highway) near Malibu at Leo Carrillo State Park and the Pacific Ocean coast – at the ...
Joan Trumpauer Mulholland (born September 14, 1941) is an American civil rights activist who was active in the 1960s. She was one of the Freedom Riders who was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi in 1961, and was confined for two months in the Maximum Security Unit of the Mississippi State Penitentiary (known as "Parchman Farm"). [1]