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Astra (name)
Astra is a unisex given name. People with the name include: Given name * Astra Biltauere (born 1944), Latvian volleyball player * Astra Blair (born 1932), British opera singer * Astra Clément-Bayard, French manufacturer of dirigibles * Astra Desmond (1893–1973), British contralto * Astra Edwards (born 1981), Trinidadian table tennis player * Astra Goldmane (born 1956), Latvian chess player * Astra Klovāne (born 1944), Latvian chess player *Astra Rībena (born 1959), Latvian luger * Astra Sharma (born 1995), Australian tennis player * Astra Taylor (born 1979), American-Canadian filmmaker * Astra Zarina (1929–2008), Latvian architect Surname *Gunārs Astra Gunārs Astra (22 October 1931 – 6 April 1988) was a Latvian human rights activist and anti-Soviet dissident arrested by the Soviet Union in 1961 and sentenced to prison for 15 years. He was released in 1976. In 1983, he was arrested again but ... (1931–1988), Latvian human rights activist {{given name, type=both ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Astra Biltauere
Astra Biltauere (born October 9, 1944) is a former Latvia Latvia ( or ; lv, Latvija ; ltg, Latveja; liv, Leţmō), officially the Republic of Latvia ( lv, Latvijas Republika, links=no, ltg, Latvejas Republika, links=no, liv, Leţmō Vabāmō, links=no), is a country in the Baltic region of ...n competitive volleyball player and Olympic silver medalist. References External links * , retrieved 2010-12-11. Soviet women's volleyball players Latvian women's volleyball players Olympic volleyball players for the Soviet Union Volleyball players at the 1964 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medalists for the Soviet Union 1944 births Sportspeople from Riga Living people Olympic medalists in volleyball Medalists at the 1964 Summer Olympics {{Latvia-volleyball-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Astra Blair
Astra Blair (born 2 September 1932) is a British former opera singer, agent, and charity fundraiser. Life and career Blair was born Margaret Jean Waugh in India and educated in England and West Africa. After finishing school Blair took up a scholarship at The Royal Academy of Music with singing as her principal study. Her professional debut was as a mezzo-soprano with Glyndebourne Festival Opera; she later joined the Sadlers Wells Opera, which became the English National Opera. In 1954 she married the opera singer Raimund Herincx and had three children. In 1972 she established Music and Musicians Artists' Management, an operatic and concert agency in London. Early in her musical career Blair and her husband converted part of their Bedfordshire home into a small concert hall and founded the Quinville Concerts Trust to raise funds for disabled children.Evan Senior (ed.)''Music and Musicians'', Volume 18 Hansom Books, 1969, pp. 51, 59, 71 Sir Colin Davis and Sir Charles Groves beca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Astra Clément-Bayard
Astra Clément-Bayard was a French manufacturer of dirigibles. In 1908 the French industrialist Adolphe Clément-Bayard, who had already made a fortune manufacturing cars, motorcycles and bicycles, diversified into the aviation industry. His first project was a lens-shaped airship designed by Louis Capazza, which was never built. He then collaborated with the Société Astra (Société Astra des Constructions Aéronautiques) on the manufacture of a more conventional craft. Astra were responsible for the manufacture of the envelope, and Clement-Bayard took responsibility for the nacelle and engine. After this collaborative effort the company started manufacturing the envelopes as well, at a new factory in La Motte-Breuil built in anticipation of orders from the French Army, who had decided to commence airship operations. The Clément-Bayard No.1 airship was offered to the French government but was too expensive so it was bought by Tsar Nicholas II for the Russian army. In 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Astra Desmond
Astra Desmond (10 April 1893 – 16 August 1973) was a British contralto of the early and middle twentieth century. Biography Early years Astra Desmond was born Gwendoline Mary Thomson (she would later modify the spelling of her first name to Gwendolyn), in Torquay, England, the daughter of George Thomson, a Melbourne-born Australian dentist, and Viva Louisa (nee Blain), a London-born British schoolteacher and suffragist. Prior to Desmond's birth the family had lived in Australia, her two older siblings Mabel and Claude being born in Melbourne. During Desmond's childhood the family moved first to Upper Norwood and then to West Kensington, both in what is now the Greater London Area. She was educated at Notting Hill High School and Westfield College, where she was a classical scholar and received a BA.''The Times'', obituary notice, Friday, 17 August 1973, p. 16 She studied singing with Blanche Marchesi (as did her colleague Muriel Brunskill) and Louise Trenton, and in Berli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Astra Edwards
Astra Rosetta Edwards-Bennett () is a Trinidadian table tennis player. Born in Port of Spain, Edwards came to prominence in 1997, becoming the top junior female player in Trinidad and Tobago. That year she won the Silver Bowl, the National Junior Championship, and the Port of Spain Classified B Division. In international competitions, she won a silver medal at the Puerto Rico Federation Championships in the junior girls' doubles event with Shane Bhopa, three bronzes at the Caribbean Federation Championships in the girls' singles event, team event, and mixed doubles with Terrence Kallicharran. At the Barbados Championships she took silver in the girls' doubles with Bhopa and a bronze in the singles and mixed doubles, again with Kallicharran. As an adult, she participated at the 2006 Central American and Caribbean Games The 20th edition of the Central American and Caribbean Games was held in the city of Cartagena, Colombia. The tournament began on July 15 and ended on July 30. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Astra Goldmane
Astra Goldmane ( Ozola, born June 24, 1956), also known as Astra Goldman, is a former Latvian chess player. Goldmane was born in Riga, Latvia. In the 1970s and 1980s she was one of the best women's chess player in Latvia. In 1974, she took 4th place in Championship of USSR juniors in Tallinn. Astra Goldmane won the Latvian Chess Championship for women three times: 1975, 1981, and 1983. She played for Latvia in Soviet team competitions: *In 1974, the best result at nine board in the Team Cup of USSR in Moscow (+7, =2, -0). *In 1975, at eighth board in Spartakiada of USSR in Riga (+1, =2, -5). *In 1976, at nine board in the Team Cup of USSR in Tbilisi (+2, =3, -2). *In 1983, at seventh board in Spartakiada of USSR in Moscow Moscow ( , US chiefly ; rus, links=no, Москва, r=Moskva, p=mɐskˈva, a=Москва.ogg) is the capital and largest city of Russia. The city stands on the Moskva River in Central Russia, with a population estimated at 13.0 million ... (+2, =4, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Astra Klovāne
Astra Klovāne ( Ērgle, born 13 October 1944 in Baldone) is a former Latvian chess player. Astra Klovāne won the Latvian Chess Championship for women seven times - 1963, 1964, 1965, 1969, 1970, 1977, and 1978. She won also the Latvian women speed championship in 1977, 1978, and 1981. Chess career She learned to play chess at the age of 11. Her first teachers were her father and brother, but her first coach was Zigurds Pigits. In 1959, at the age of 15, she won the Latvian Girl Championship, and two years later she won the Baldone Club Championship. In 1961 she shared 1-3 prize in a Moscow tournament. Astra Klovāne won three Latvian Ladies Championships in a row - 1963, 1964, and 1965, without losing a game, and won also the Riga Ladies Championship in 1964. Astra Klovāne played for Latvia in Soviet team competitions: * In 1962, the best result at ten board in the 8th Soviet Team Chess Championship in Leningrad (+3, =5, -0). * In 1967, the best result at nine board in the 10th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Astra Rībena
Astra Rībena (born 21 June 1959) is a Latvian luger. She competed in the women's singles event at the 1980 Winter Olympics The 1980 Winter Olympics, officially the XIII Olympic Winter Games and also known as Lake Placid 1980, were an international multi-sport event held from February 13 to 24, 1980, in Lake Placid, New York, United States. Lake Placid was elected .... References 1959 births Living people Latvian female lugers Olympic lugers for the Soviet Union Lugers at the 1980 Winter Olympics People from Cēsis {{Latvia-luge-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Astra Sharma
Astra Sharma (born 11 September 1995) is a Singaporean-born Australian professional tennis player. She has career-high WTA rankings of 84 in singles and world No. 91 in doubles. Sharma has won one singles title and three doubles titles on the WTA Tour, as well as seven singles and four doubles titles on the ITF Women's World Tennis Tour, ITF Circuit. In December 2017, she won the 2018 Australian Open – Main Draw Wildcard Entries#Australian Wildcard Playoff, Australian Open Wildcard Playoff alongside Belinda Woolcock, their main-draw entry into the 2018 Australian Open. The highlight of her career came in the 2019 Australian Open – Mixed doubles, 2019 Australian Open, when she and fellow Australian John-Patrick Smith reached the final of the mixed-doubles competition, after receiving a wildcard to enter the main draw. Personal life Astra was born and raised in Singapore to Singaporean parents, before her parents moved to Perth, Western Australia in 2005, when she was ten ye ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Astra Taylor
Astra Taylor (born September 30, 1979) is a Canadian-American documentary filmmaker, writer, activist, and musician. She is a fellow of the Shuttleworth Foundation for her work on challenging predatory practices around debt. Life Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Taylor grew up in Athens, Georgia,http://www.hiddendriver.com/about Astra Taylor's official bio, accessed February 8, 2009 and was unschooled until age 13 when she enrolled in ninth grade. At 16 she abandoned high school to attend classes at the University of Georgia; at the university she studied Deleuze and Guattari under Ronald L. Bogue. She has described herself as a "teenage Deleuzian." Taylor enrolled at Brown University, where she attended classes for a year before dropping out. Reflecting on her decision to leave, Taylor stated "Why had I felt compelled to enroll in an Ivy League school, to excel by the standards of conventional education and choose a 'difficult' major, instead of making my own way? What was I afra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Astra Zarina
Astra Zarina (August 25, 1929 – August 31, 2008) was an architect and professor in the University of Washington Department of Architecture. She is best known for her creation of the University of Washington Italian Studies programs and her founding of the UW Rome Center. Biography Zarina was born in Riga, Latvia. She came to the United States with her family after World War II and matriculated at the University of Washington in 1947. In the UW architecture program she studied under faculty including Lionel Pries, Wendell Lovett, and Victor Steinbrueck. She completed her B.Arch. in 1953. After graduation she worked in the office of Paul Hayden Kirk and married architecture classmate Douglas Haner (1930–2011). Zarina moved to Boston in 1954 and entered the architecture program at MIT; her husband enrolled at Harvard. At MIT, hethesisfocused on retail design in Boston. Zarina and Haner both graduated in 1955 with M.Arch. degrees and went to work in the office of Minoru Y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gunārs Astra
Gunārs Astra (22 October 1931 – 6 April 1988) was a Latvian human rights activist and anti-Soviet dissident arrested by the Soviet Union in 1961 and sentenced to prison for 15 years. He was released in 1976. In 1983, he was arrested again but released several weeks before his death. Biography Gunārs Astra was born in Riga, on 22 October 1931. He graduated primary school and later continued his education in an electromechanical technical school. After graduation in 1952, he started to work in one of the largest electromechanical factories in the Latvian SSR – VEF. Because Astra was a very erudite and industrious worker, he was granted a promotion and became chief of the 7th Radio manufacturing workshop. He also studied the English language in university as an external student. In 1958, Gunārs Astra had the chance to meet American diplomats in Riga. This encounter had a great influence on him in his later life, allowing him to consider Western culture and develop an innate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
