The 1956 Ballon d'Or was awarded to which player who was the first to receive a knighthood while still active?
Sir Stanley Matthews, CBE
Stanley Matthews
Sir Stanley Matthews, CBE (1 February 1915 – 23 February 2000) was an English footballer.
 Often regarded as one of the greatest players of the British game, he is the only player to have been knighted while still playing football, as well as being the first winner of both the European Footballer of the Year and the Football Writers' Association Footballer of the Year awards.
 Matthews' nicknames included "The Wizard of the Dribble" and "The Magician".
Ballon d'Or 1956
The 1956 Ballon d'Or, given to the best football player in Europe as judged by a panel of sports journalists from UEFA member countries, was awarded to Stanley Matthews on 18 December 1956.
Ballon d'Or
The Ballon d'Or (] ; "Golden Ball"), is an annual association football award presented by "France Football".
 It has been awarded since 1956, although between 2010 and 2015, an agreement was made with FIFA and the award was temporarily merged with the FIFA World Player of the Year, and known as the FIFA Ballon d'Or.
 Conceived by sports writer Gabriel Hanot, the Ballon d'Or award honours the male player deemed to have performed the best over the previous year, based on voting by football journalists.
 Originally, only European players were in contention for the Ballon d'Or: in 1995 the award was expanded to include all players at European clubs and in 2007 to all players from around the world. John Paul Getty Jr.
Sir John Paul Getty, KBE (born Eugene Paul Getty; 7 September 1932 – 17 April 2003), was a wealthy American-born British philanthropist and book collector.
 He was the elder son of Jean Paul Getty Sr. (1892–1976), one of the richest men in the world at the time, and his wife Ann Rork.
 The Getty family's wealth was the result of the oil business founded by George Franklin Getty.
 At birth he was given the name Eugene Paul Getty, but in later life he adopted other names, including Paul Getty, John Paul Getty, Jean Paul Getty Jr., and John Paul Getty II.
 A long-time Anglophile, he became a British citizen in 1997.
 In 1986, he was awarded an honorary knighthood for services to causes ranging from cricket, to art and to the Conservative Party.
 His honorary knighthood became substantive when he became a British citizen.
 In 1998 he changed his name by deed poll when he renounced the first name Eugene and wished to be known as Sir Paul Getty, KBE. Barry Beach railway line
Barry Beach in Australia was a railway branch line that opened on 2 April 1969 to service the oil fields in Bass Strait.
 During the existence of the branch line, twice or occasionally thrice weekly diesel fuel supplies were delivered to the Barry Beach Marine Terminal in order to serve the large ocean vessels that serviced the Bass Strait oil rigs south of Corner Inlet.
 The oil train was not the only main source of freight transported beyond Leongatha as the once or at times twice weekly superphosphate goods freight trains serving nearby farming communities and townships would usually combine in a mixed goods train configuration.
 The Esso-Mobil Barry Beach oil rail freight service operated until the closure of the South Gippsland line beyond Leongatha on June 30 1992 and the branch line itself was eventually dismantled in 1994.
 The oil fields in Bass Strait are still active with ocean ships still transporting the oil drilled from the still active Exxon-Mobil Marine Terminal at Barry Beach situated in Corner Inlet. Lucia Lucchesi-Ghiselli
Lucia Lucchesi-Ghiselli is a resident of Viareggio, Italy located in the Tuscan region.
 On 13 December 2004 she was recognized by the government of the United Kingdom for over 25 years of "outstanding contribution to linguistic and cultural exchange with the United Kingdom" as a member of the Anglo-Italian Club of Viareggio and was awarded the Order of the British Empire (MBE) on behalf of Queen Elizabeth II by the then British Ambassador to Italy Sir Ivor Roberts.
 The club has been active in Viareggio since 1959.
 The association is still active in Viareggio and you can check its present activities if you go to the Viareggio tourist board website: http://www.aptversilia.it/en/glieventi/glieventi.html . FIFA Ballon d'Or
The FIFA Ballon d'Or (] , "Golden Ball") was an annual association football award presented to the world's best men's player from 2010 to 2015.
 Awarded jointly by FIFA and "France Football", the prize was a merger of the FIFA World Player of the Year award and the Ballon d'Or, the two most prestigious individual honours in world football.
 The FIFA Ballon d'Or was awarded based on votes from international journalists and national team coaches and captains, who selected the players they deemed to have performed the best in the previous calendar year. William Dehning
Dr. William John Dehning (August 13, 1942 - June 23, 2017) was an American conductor, teacher, and author who spent almost his entire career in the collegiate realm.
 He was known primarily for his work as conductor of the University of Southern California Thornton Chamber Choir and as author of the book, "Chorus Confidential: Decoding the Secrets of the Choral Art", published in 2003.
 Under his leadership, the Thornton Chamber Choir won seven prizes in international European competitions, including Grand Prizes in Varna, Bulgaria and Tours, France.
 After winning the choral competition with the USC Chamber Choir in Bulgaria, Dehning was awarded the Judges' Conducting Prize by a panel of ten judges in 1999.
 During his tenure, the ensemble also appeared at American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) conventions six times, including nationals in 2001 and 2005.
 They also completed a tour of East Asia in 2006, performing at the National Concert Hall in Taipei.
 While at Northern Michigan University from 1970–1972, Dehning was the founder of the Marquette Choral Society, which is still active.
 Later, he was from 1985-1995 the founder/conductor of the California Choral Company, a semi-professional chamber chorus that attained a reputation in Europe as well as in the United States.
 As Chairman of the USC Department of Choral Music (now retired), Dehning was awarded the first annual Dean’s Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching, and he was also the 2007 recipient of the Thornton School's Ramo Award.
 Dehning was one of four founding members of the National Collegiate Choral Organization (NCCO), which held its first national conference in San Antonio in 2006. Joe Yezbak
Joseph P. Yezbak Sr. (born March 9, 1965) is a former USIU basketball (Coach Gary Zarecky) player who was 3rd in the nation - NCAA Division I - in scoring as a junior in 1985–86.
 A native of Southern California, Yezbak played at United States International University for two years and established himself as one of the schools all-time greatest players.
 Yezbak played in 58 career games and scored a career total of 1,380 points.
 He held the school scoring record for close to five years, but in 1992 Kevin Bradshaw surpassed him.
 In his NCAA junior season, he averaged 27.0 points per game, was named as a member of Basketball Times Junior College All American Transfer team and was team MVP as well as captain.
 Yezbak played in 61 games and is the 14th all-time leading scorer (908) ('84 - '85).
 He was also named an All California State and 1st team All South Coast Conference player at Cerritos Junior College ('85) (Coach Jack Bogdanovich).
 As a player at Cerritos High School, he was an All Southeast L.A. Times selection ('82), an All South Coast L.A. Times selection ('83), a two time All San Gabriel Valley League player ('82 & '83), was named the San Gabriel Valley league's M.V.P ('83) and an All C.I.F 3A 1st Team selection ('83).
 He broke Ben_Howland career scoring record (1042) his senior season (1315) - ('81 -'83) and is still the school's all-time career and single-season scoring leader (548) '(83) (Coach Ian Desbourgh).
 Joe Yezbak has coached at both the High School and College levels and is still active in this area. Royal Order of the Two-Sicilies
The Royal Order of the Two-Sicilies (Italian: "Ordine reale delle Due Sicilie" ) was a dynastic order of knighthood of the Kingdom of Naples and the Kingdom of Two Sicilies.
 The order was established 24 February 1808 by Joseph Bonaparte, who, at the time, was the King of Naples.
 The order was expanded and continued under the rule of Joachim Murat but was ultimately suppressed by Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies in 1819.
 Those Knights of the Order of the Two-Sicilies who were still active were instead awarded the Order of Saint George and Reunion.