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Arja (given Name)
Arja is a Finnish female name and may refer to: *Arja Alho (born 1954), Finnish politician *Arja Hannus, Swedish orienteering competitor * Arja Kajermo, cartoonist, born in Finland, raised in Sweden, currently residing in Ireland * Arja Koriseva (born 1965), award-winning Finnish singer * Arja Nuolioja, Finnish ski-orienteering competitor and world champion *Arja Saijonmaa (born 1944), Finnish singer, political activist and occasional actress *Arja Salafranca Arja Salafranca (born 1971, Málaga Málaga (, ) is a municipality of Spain, capital of the Province of Málaga, in the autonomous community of Andalusia. With a population of 578,460 in 2020, it is the second-most populous city in Andalus ... (born 1971), South African writer, poet and journalist {{given name Finnish feminine given names Feminine given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arja Alho
Arja Inkeri Alho (born 21 March 1954) is a Finnish politician. She was member of the Parliament of Finland from 1983 to 1999 and again from 2003 to 2007, representing the constituency of Helsinki until 1999 and then the constituency of Uusimaa since 2003. She also served as the Deputy Minister of Finance of Finland under Prime Minister Paavo Lipponen from 1995 to 1997.Arja Alho Parliament of Finland She resigned the government in October 1997 when it was revealed that she had agreed to reduce the compensation that had been sentenced to pay. Alho is member of the |
Arja Hannus
Arja Hannus is a Swedish orienteering competitor, competing for sports club Selånger SK. She won the 1987 Individual World Orienteering Championships The World Orienteering Championships (or WOC for short) is an annual orienteering event organized by the International Orienteering Federation. The first World Championships was held in Fiskars, Finland in 1966. They were held biennially up to 2 ....World Orienteering Championship, senior statistics 1966-2006 (Retrieved on November 24, 2007) She is three times Relay World Champion, from 1981, 1989 and 1991, as a member of the Swedish winning teams, and has a silver medal from 1987. References [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arja Kajermo
Arja Kajermo is a cartoonist, born in Finland, raised in Sweden, currently residing in Ireland. Kajermo was born in Kiuruvesi, Northern Savonia, where her family had a small farm. They moved to Stockholm in 1955 when she was six years old. Kajermo moved to Dublin originally as an au pair in the 1970s. Kajermo started working as a cartoonist for the magazine '' In Dublin''. She drew a fortnightly strip for ''In Dublin'' for ten years. Her first book of cartoons ''The Dirty Dublin Strip Cartoons'' (Poolbeg Press) was based on these strips. She contributed cartoons to the feminist publisher Attic Press and occasionally to ''The Sunday Press'' (now gone), ''The Irish Times'', '' Image magazine'', ''Magill'' and others. Her strip ''Dublin Four'' ran in the ''Sunday Tribune''. She also draws the strip '' Tuula'' in the Sunday edition of Swedish daily newspaper ''Dagens Nyheter''. The ''Tuula'' strip was turned into a book, ''En pillig sol i Särholmen'' (Nisses Böcker 2005). It is a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arja Koriseva
Arja Koriseva (born 21 April 1965) is a Finnish singer. She first came to fame as a tango singer; her repertoire now includes evergreen, pop, musical theatre, and sacred music. Koriseva has sold over 330,000 certified records, making her the seventh best-selling female soloist in Finland. Biography Koriseva said of the village school she attended: “The school was very small and homey; my class had just three pupils. We were good in different subjects and learned a lot from each other. Because we were so few, the classes were joined so that the first and second were together, the third and fourth similarly, and so on. During the breaks we went swimming; on Shrove Tuesday we tobogganed. The cook baked pulla buns and brought them to us with juice as a snack. In fine weather, we had lessons outside and when it was raining, we did sums in class. Once a storm blew down a birch tree in the school yard, we made firewood from it and carried them inside.” (Nyman, p. 51) Korise ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arja Nuolioja
Arja Nuolioja is a Finnish ski-orienteering competitor and world champion. She received an individual gold medal in the ''short distance'', and a bronze medal in the ''long course'' at the 1996 World Ski Orienteering Championships in Lillehammer Lillehammer () is a municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Gudbrandsdal. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Lillehammer. Some of the more notable villages in the municip .... She finished first overall in the World Cup in Ski Orienteering in 1993 and 1995.World Cup in Ski Orienteering – ''IOF'' (Retrieved on June 24, 2008) See also *[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arja Saijonmaa
Arja Enni Helena Saijonmaa (born 1 December 1944 in Mikkeli) is a Finnish singer, political activist and occasional actress. Life and career She studied at the Sibelius Academy and earned a Bachelor of Arts at the Helsinki University. She made her breakthrough as a singer in Sweden. She has made albums with Swedish translations of songs by Mikis Theodorakis, as well as covers of Zarah Leander songs. In 1978 she issued ''Miten voi kyllin kiittää'', an album of Finnish translations of the songs of the Chilean composer and singer Violeta Parra. A Swedish version, ''Jag vill tacka livet'', came out the following year. The title song, "Jag vill tacka livet" ("Gracias a la vida") was one of her greatest hits. Swedish prime minister Olof Palme had been a close friend, and his widow wanted Arja to sing at the funeral in 1986. She sang Enai Megalos O Kaimos in Swedish. In 1987, she participated at Melodifestivalen with the song " Högt över havet", ending up second. The same year, sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arja Salafranca
Arja Salafranca (born 1971, Málaga Málaga (, ) is a municipality of Spain, capital of the Province of Málaga, in the autonomous community of Andalusia. With a population of 578,460 in 2020, it is the second-most populous city in Andalusia after Seville and the sixth most pop ...) is a South African writer and poet. Salafranca was born in Spain to a Spanish father and a South African mother and has lived in South Africa since 1976. She has had fiction, poetry and essays published in a number of journals and anthologies. Her first poetry collection, ''A life stripped of illusions'', received the 1994 Sanlam Award for poetry, while a short story, 'Couple on the Beach' was a winner of the same award in 1999 for short fiction. Her second collection of poetry, ''The fire in which we burn'', was published by Dye Hard Press in 2000. An anthology of prose and poetry, ''Glass Jars Among Trees'', which she co-edited with Alan Finlay, was published by Jacana Media in 2003. She rece ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Finnish Feminine Given Names
Finnish may refer to: * Something or someone from, or related to Finland Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It shares land borders with Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of B ... * Culture of Finland * Finnish people or Finns, the primary ethnic group in Finland * Finnish language, the national language of the Finnish people * Finnish cuisine See also * Finish (other) * Finland (other) * Suomi (other) * {{disambiguation Language and nationality disambiguation pages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
