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Ailsa (name)
Notable people with the name Ailsa include: *Ailsa Berk, British actress and choreographer *Ailsa Mellon Bruce (1901–1969), American socialite *Ailsa Carmichael, Lady Carmichael, Scottish judge *Ailsa Chang, American journalist for NPR *Ailsa McGown Clark (1926–2014), British zoologist * Ailsa Craig (journalist) (1917–2012), Australian journalist * Ailsa Garland (1917–1982), British fashion journalist and editor * Ailsa Hughes (born 1991), Irish rugby player *Ailsa Keating, French-British mathematician *Ailsa Land (1927–2021), English professor * Ailsa Lister (born 2004), Scottish cricketer * Ailsa Mainman, British archaeologist and pottery specialist * Ailsa Maxwell (1922–2020), British code breaker and historian * Ailsa McGilvary, New Zealand bird conservationist and photographer *Ailsa McKay (1963–2014), Scottish economist *Ailsa O'Connor (1921–1980), Australian artist and sculptor *Ailsa Piper (born 1959), Australian actress and writer * Ailsa A. Welch (born 1956) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ailsa Berk
Ailsa Berk is a British dancer, actress, and puppeteer. She is well known for playing Aslan on British television with William Todd Jones in ''The Chronicles of Narnia'' television serial which was aired by the BBC from 1988 to 1990. Berk has been a choreographer in a number of episodes of ''Doctor Who'' from 2005 to 2009. She has appeared on six episodes of ''Doctor Who Confidential'' and two episodes of ''Totally Doctor Who'' as herself. Filmography/television work Miscellaneous work *Doctor Who (40 +episodes) - choreographer 2005 - 2017 *Doctor Who Confidential as Herself (6 episodes, 2006–2008) *Totally Doctor Who as Herself (2 episodes, 2007) * Max mon amour (1986 The role of Max ) * Classic Creatures: Return of the Jedi (1983) (TV) (uncredited) as Herself/Amanaman *Return of the Jedi ''Return of the Jedi'' (also known as ''Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi'' is a 1983 American epic space opera film directed by Richard Marquand. The screenplay is by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ailsa Lister
Ailsa Lister (born 8 April 2004) is a Scottish cricketer. In October 2020, Lister was named in Scotland's squad to play Ireland at the La Manga Club during their tour of Spain. However, the matches were called off due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In May 2021, Lister was again named in Scotland's squad to face Ireland, this time for a four-match Women's Twenty20 International (WT20I) series in Belfast. She made her WT20I debut on 24 May 2021, for Scotland against Ireland. In January 2022, she was named in Scotland's team for the 2022 Commonwealth Games Cricket Qualifier The 2022 Commonwealth Games Qualifier was a cricket tournament played in Malaysia in January 2022. Five national teams competed for one place in the cricket tournament at the 2022 Commonwealth Games, in Birmingham, England, in July to August 20 ... tournament in Malaysia. References External links * 2004 births Living people Scottish women cricketers Scotland women Twenty20 International cricketers Place ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Ailsa may refer to: People *Ailsa (name), including a list of people with the name *Marquess of Ailsa, title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom created in 1831 Places *Ailsa Craig, an island in the outer Firth of Clyde, Scotland *Ailsa Craig, Ontario, North Middlesex, Ontario, Canada *Ailsa Craig (South Orkney Islands) *Ailsa Farms, New Jersey, U.S. Other uses * Ailsa (car) (1907–1910), car manufactured in Glasgow by Hugh Kennedy & Company * Ailsa Bay Distillery, a whisky distillery, co-located with the Girvan distillery and owned by William Grant & Sons * Ailsa Course, a golf course in Scotland, near Ailsa Craig * ''Ailsa'' (film), a 1994 Irish film *Ailsa Craig Engines, manufacturer of marine and specialist made to order engines from 1891 to 1972 *Ailsa Shipbuilding Company, shipbuilding company based in Troon, Scotland *Ailsa Stewart, fictional character in the Australian soap opera ''Home and Away'' *Volvo Ailsa B55, double-decker bus chassis built in Scotland *''Ailsa Cr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ailsa Piper
Ailsa Mary-Ellen Piper (born 1959) is an Australian writer, director and performer. Career Acting Ailsa Piper worked as an actress in theatre in Perth, Sydney and Melbourne from the early 1980s until 2000. She made her first appearance on TV in 1984 in '' Man of Letters'', but is best known for playing Ruth Wilkinson in the soap opera '' Neighbours'' from 1996 until 1999. She reprised the role in a cameo for the series' 20th anniversary in 2005. Piper is an accomplished narrator of audio books, and continues to work in this field. In 2016, she narrated ''Hope Farm'' by Peggy Drew and '' The Natural Way of Things'' by Charlotte Wood. She also performs a monologue based on the influence of poetry in her life and in particular, on her walking. This was first broadcast on ABC radio's Poetica programme, but has been adapted by Piper for live performance. Writing and directing Ailsa Piper has written for ABC radio, for the theatre, and for ''The Age'', ''The Australian'', "Slow Li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ailsa O'Connor
Ailsa Margaret O'Connor (née Donaldson) (26 January 1921 – 3 February 1980) was an Australian artist specialising in sculpture and painting in the style of realism. Following her belief that art and artists cannot be separated from questions of society and politics, she was an activist against social injustice in Australia and abroad, and particularly against suppression of the rights of women. Background The discovery of gold in Australia was first made public overseas in September 1851. As a result, hundreds of thousands of people arrived in Australia over the next 10 years, amongst them Ailsa O’Connor's ancestors – miners from Ireland and Wales and stonemasons from Scotland. Their various destinations were in the future state of Victoria.Mather, K 2019, 'One gene leads to another', ''Lanarkshire Family History Society Journal'', February, Issue 69, pp. 3–8. Maternal family – Maldon Ailsa O'Connor's maternal ancestor who landed in Australia in 1862, was Willi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ailsa McKay
Ailsa McKay (7 June 1963 – 5 March 2014) was a Scottish economist, government policy adviser, a leading feminist economist and Professor of Economics at Glasgow Caledonian University. She was noted for her research on gender inequalities and the economics of the welfare state, for her contributions to feminist economics, as a leading proponent of the universal basic income concept and as one of the UK's foremost experts on gender budgeting. She served as Vice Dean of the Glasgow School for Business and Society, and was also well known for her support of Scottish independence and as a key adviser to the Scottish government and First Minister Alex Salmond on economic and welfare state policies. Ailsa McKay is highlighted as a leading intellectual figure in the campaign for independence in Alex Salmond's 2015 book ''The Dream Shall Never Die''.Alex Salmond, ''The Dream Shall Never Die: 100 Days that Changed Scotland Forever'', William Collins, 2015, Both Salmond and his succe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ailsa McGilvary
Ailsa Diane McGilvary (also known as Ailsa McGilvary-Howard) is a New Zealand bird conservationist, and photographer. Banded dotterel conservation Research In 2012, McGilvary noted from casual observations at South Bay, Kaikōura that the banded dotterels or pohowera nesting there were having poor breeding success, with failures of all the nests that she had located. She launched a self-funded project, the Banded Dotterel Study, in the 2015/16 breeding season to systematically monitor the bird's breeding success. Of the 20 nests studied in the 2015/16 season, there were only eight chicks hatched, and just one fledgling survived. The study has continued over multiple breeding seasons, confirming the poor breeding success, with the leading cause being cat predation of eggs, chicks and adult birds. Other predators and threats she identified include hedgehogs, dogs, and disturbance from human activities. In addition to direct observations, including cat prints in beach g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ailsa Maxwell
Ailsa Maxwell (Née Macdonald) (16 December 1922 – 10 February 2020) was a British Bletchley Park code breaker and historian. Early life and education Ailsa Giles Macdonald was born in Gourock on 16 December 1922, to Douglas Macdonald a railway manager, and his wife Grace, a school teacher. The family moved to London when her father was transferred to Euston Station, and Ailsa began her schooling in the city. She completed her schooling at Dumfries Academy, and then took up a place at the University of Edinburgh in 1942 to study economics. Bletchley Park After completing the first year of her economics degree with distinction, Maxwell planned to join the WRENS, however she was approached by the Foreign Office in the summer of 1943, and invited to interview for an unspecified job. A fellow student of History at her university, Cecily Giles, was also made a similar offer. She and Maxwell accepted the offer and Maxwell was appointed to work as a Temporary Assistant at Statio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ailsa Mainman
Ailsa Jean Mainman is a British archaeologist and pottery specialist. Career Mainman completed her PhD at the University of Sheffield and is now a research associate at the University of York. She is a former assistant director of York Archaeological Trust. She was elected as a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London on 12 January 1989. Personal life In 1991 Mainman married fellow archaeologist Richard Hall (1949–2011). In 2014 Mainman fulfilled her late husband's "last wish" by helping to publish the final volume in a progressive series of publications about York Archaeological Trust's excavations of Jorvik Scandinavian York ( non, Jórvík) Viking Yorkshire or Norwegian York is a term used by historians for the south of Northumbria (modern-day Yorkshire) during the period of the late 9th century and first half of the 10th century, when it was do .... Select publications *MacGregor, A., Mainman, A. J. and Rogers, N. S. H. 1999. ''Craft, industry and everyda ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ailsa Land
Ailsa Horton Land (; 14 June 1927 – 16 May 2021) was a Professor of Operational Research in the Department of Management at the London School of Economics and was the first woman professor of Operational Research in Britain. She is most well-known for co-defining the branch and bound algorithm along with Alison Doig whilst carrying out research at the London School of Economics in 1960. She was married to Frank Land, who is an Emeritus Professor at the LSE. Early life Ailsa Dicken was born on 14 June 1927 in West Bromwich, Staffordshire, the only daughter of Elizabeth (nee Greig) and Harold Dicken. Her father worked in his family sports retail business and was later became a salesman for Dunlop. Ailsa was keen on science in school, but didn't thrive in her local grammar school in Lichfield, disliking the discipline, so her parents sent her to Rocklands, a small, mixed boarding school in Hastings in East Sussex for a year. This school had only around 50 students, and stude ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ailsa Mellon Bruce
Ailsa Mellon Bruce (June 28, 1901 – August 25, 1969) was a prominent American socialite and philanthropist who established the Avalon Foundation. Early life Ailsa was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on June 28, 1901. She was the daughter of the banker and diplomat Andrew W. Mellon and Nora Mary (née McMullen) Mellon (1879–1937). Her parents divorced in 1912 and from 1921 to 1932, Ailsa served as her father's official hostess during his tenure as United States Secretary of the Treasury, and again when he was U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom in 1932–1933. Her only sibling was brother Paul Mellon (1907–1999), who was also a philanthropist and was known as a prominent owner/breeder of thoroughbred racehorses. Ailsa attended Miss Porter's School in Farmington, Connecticut and spent her summers as a teenager in Europe. Philanthropy and legacy Bruce established the Avalon Foundation in 1940, which made grants to colleges and universities, medical schools and hospitals, y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ailsa Keating
Ailsa Macgregor Keating is a French and British mathematician specialising in symplectic geometry and homological mirror symmetry. She is a professor in the Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics at the University of Cambridge. Education and career Keating grew up in Toulouse, France. She read mathematics in Clare College, Cambridge from 2005 to 2009, earning a master's degree through Part III of the Mathematical Tripos. She went on to graduate study at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, completing her dissertation in 2014 with the dissertation ''Symplectic properties of Milnor fibres'' supervised by Paul Seidel. She returned to Cambridge as a Junior Research Fellow in Trinity College in 2014, at the same time doing postdoctoral research as a Simons Junior Fellow at Columbia University and a member of the Institute for Advanced Study. She became a lecturer at Cambridge in 2017 and was promoted to professor in 2023. Recognition Keating is the winner ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
