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Anne Warner (American Politician)
Anne Warner may refer to: *Anne Warner (politician) (born 1945), Australian state politician *Anne Warner (rower) (born 1954), American rower *Anne Warner (scientist) Anne E. Warner (25 August 1940 – 16 May 2012) was a British biologist and a professor in the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology at University College London. Her major field of research was morphogenesis. Warner was known for her wo ... (1940–2012), British biologist * Anne Warner (swimmer) (born 1945), American Olympic swimmer * Carol-Ann Warner (born 1945), British Olympic figure skater * Anne Warner (novelist) (1869–1913), American author * Anne Warner (folklorist) (1905–1991), American folklorist and song collector {{hndis, Warner, Anne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne Warner (politician)
Anne Marie Warner (born 5 December 1945) is a former Australian politician who served in the Queensland Legislative Assembly from 1983 to 1995. She was a government minister under Wayne Goss from 1989 to 1995. Early life Warner was born in Lucknow, India, and is of Anglo-Indian descent.James Jupp, 2001, ''The Australian People: an encyclopedia of the nation, its people and their origins'', Melbourne, Cambridge University Press, pp. 438. She was a social welfare union organiser before entering politics. Politics Warner was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Queensland for Kurilpa in 1983, and for South Brisbane in 1986. She was Minister for Family Services and Minister for Aboriginal and Islander Affairs in the Labor Party government of Wayne Goss Wayne Keith Goss (26 February 1951 – 10 November 2014) was Premier of Queensland from 7 December 1989 until 19 February 1996, becoming the first Labor Premier of the state in over thirty two years. Prior to entering pol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne Warner (rower)
Anne Elizabeth Taubes Warner or Anne Warner Taubes (born August 24, 1954) is an American lawyer and a rower who competed in the 1976 Summer Olympics for the United States. Early life Warner was born in Boston, Massachusetts. She grew up in Lexington, Massachusetts. Warner attended Yale University, graduating with a B.A. in Russian studies, cum laude, in 1977. While at Yale, she conducted the Yale Slavic Chorus and was a member of St. Anthony Hall. She was also a member of the women's crew team, in the position of stroke. Warner was part of a protest of the women's crew for equal facilities under Title IX.Daniel J. Boyne, The Red Rose Crew: A True Story of Women, Winning, and the Water', 2005, p. 204. via Google Books. By the water, there was no locker room for the women's crew team, so they had to wait on the bus after practice while the men showered before they could return to campus. ''The New York Times'' ran a story about their protest and quoted Warner saying, "We'll pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne Warner (scientist)
Anne E. Warner (25 August 1940 – 16 May 2012) was a British biologist and a professor in the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology at University College London. Her major field of research was morphogenesis. Warner was known for her work and leadership in a variety of research projects and organisations. She is perhaps most well known for her roles as a cell electrophysiologist, politician of science, and founder of the organisation UCL centre CoMPLEX. Education Born Anne Elizabeth Brookes on 25 August 1940 at Golders Green, she was the only child of Elizabeth (''née'' Marshall) and James Frederick Crompton Brooks (1914–1996), an engineer in the Ministry of Aircraft Production. She was educated at Pate's Grammar School for Girls in Cheltenham, going on to study at University College London where she graduated with a BSc in physiology. She studied for her PhD at the National Institute for Medical Research under the supervision of Otto Hutter, receiving her docto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne Warner (swimmer)
Anne Kindel Warner (born January 6, 1945), also known by her married name Anne Cribbs, is a retired American breaststroke swimmer who won a gold medal over 200 m at the 1959 Pan American Games. She placed sixth in this event at the 1960 Olympics, and also swam for the gold medal-winning U.S. team in the qualifying heats of the 4×100-meter medley relay. She did not receive a medal because only those relay swimmers who competed in the event final were medal-eligible under the 1960 Olympic rules. In 1996 Anne was a co-founder of the American Basketball League, often abbreviated to the ABL. It was the first independent professional basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular Basketball court, court, compete with the primary objective of #Shooting, shooting a basketball (ball), basketball (appr ... league for women in the United States. In November 2015, Warner received the Athletes in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carol-Ann Warner
Carol-Ann Warner (born 13 July 1945) is a British figure skater. She competed in the ladies' singles event at the 1964 Winter Olympics The 1964 Winter Olympics, officially known as the IX Olympic Winter Games (german: IX. Olympische Winterspiele) and commonly known as Innsbruck 1964 ( bar, Innschbruck 1964, label=Austro-Bavarian), was a winter multi-sport event which was celebr .... References External links * 1945 births Living people British female single skaters Olympic figure skaters for Great Britain Figure skaters at the 1964 Winter Olympics Figure skaters from London {{UK-figure-skating-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne Warner (novelist)
Anne Richmond Warner French ( – ) was an American popular humorous author, best known for her local color stories about the character Susan Clegg. Anne Warner was born on in Saint Paul, Minnesota, the daughter of lawyer William Penn Warner and Anna Elizabeth Richmond. In 1888, when she was 18, she married Charles Elting French, a Minneapolis flour manufacturer twenty five years older than her. They had two children: Anna Hathaway French (April 6 1892-December 17, 1892) and Charles Elting French (born September 19, 1896). Her first published work was an extensive family genealogy, ''An American Ancestry'' (1894). She lived for two years in Tours, France and published her first novel, ''His Story, Their Letters'' (1902), a story told in conversations of a man and a woman who fall in love in Tours but eventually marry other people. She moved back to Saint Paul in 1903, but soon returned to Europe permanently, living in Hildesheim, Germany and Marnhull, Dorset Dorse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |