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Catriona
Catriona (pronounced "ka-TREE-nah" is a feminine given name in the English language. It is an Anglicisation of the Irish language, Irish Caitríona or Scottish Gaelic Catrìona, which are forms of the English Katherine (given name), Katherine. Bearers of the name Caitríona * Caitríona Balfe, Irish actress and former model * Caitríona O'Leary, Irish singer * Caitríona O'Reilly, Irish poet and critic * Caitríona Ruane, Irish politician * Caitríona Ryan, Irish camogie player Caitriona * Caitriona Beggs, Irish cricketer * Caitriona Jennings, Irish athlete * Caitriona Reed, American Buddhist teacher Catriona * Catriona Carey, Irish field hockey and camogie player * Catriona Cuddihy, Irish athlete * Catriona Fallon, American rower * Catriona Forrest, Scottish field hockey player * Catriona Grant, Scottish politician * Catriona Gray, Filipino-Australian beauty pageant titleholder who won Miss Universe 2018 * Catriona Le May Doan, Canadian speedskater * Catriona MacColl, English ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catriona Gray
Catriona Elisa Magnayon Gray (; born 6 January 1994) is a Filipino-Australian model, singer, beauty queen, television personality, youth advocate and arts ambassador best known for having been crowned Miss Universe 2018. She is the fourth Filipina to win the Miss Universe competition. Previously, Gray was crowned Miss Universe Philippines 2018 and Miss World Philippines 2016. Early life and education Catriona Elisa Magnayon Gray was born in Cairns, Queensland, Australia to an Australian father of Scottish descent, Ian Gray, and a Filipino mother, Normita Ragas Magnayon, from Oas, Albay, Philippines. Gray is reportedly named after her paternal grandmother, Catherine Gray (née Ross), an immigrant to Western Australia from Scotland in 1952 and Elsa Magnayon (née Ragas), her maternal grandmother from Oas, Albay, Philippines. Gray was a student at Trinity Anglican School in Cairns where she was a house captain and a school chorister. She received a graduate certificate in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catriona Seth
Catriona Jane Seth, FBA (born 30 August 1964) is a British scholar of French literature and the history of ideas. Since 2015, she has been Marshal Foch Professor of French Literature at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. Early life and education Seth was born on 30 August 1964 in Worsthorne, Lancashire, England.'SETH, Prof. Catriona Jane', ''Who's Who 2017'', A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2017; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2016; online edn, Nov 201accessed 30 Aug 2017/ref> She holds Irish and British citizenship. She was brought up in England, Scotland, Switzerland, Belgium, and South America. She was educated at Colegio Francia in Caracas, Venezuela, at Lycée Sainte-Croix in Fribourg, Switzerland, and at Lycée français de Belgique in Belgium. Seth studied law and modern languages (French and Spanish) at Magdalen College, Oxford, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1986: as per tradition, her BA ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catriona Le May Doan
Catriona Ann Le May Doan, (born December 23, 1970) is a retired Canadian speed skater and a double Olympic champion in the 500 m and served as the chef de mission for Team Canada at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing. Career Speed skating Born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, of Scottish ancestry, Le May Doan won the Olympic 500 m title at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan and she repeated this feat at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah, giving rise to the title "the fastest woman on ice". At the Nagano Olympics, she also won a bronze on the 1,000 m. She was World Sprint Champion 1998 and 2002 and World Champion 500 m 1998, 1999, and 2001, and she won a 500 m bronze in 2000. She has also won the 500 m World Cup 4 times (in 1998, 1999, 2001, and 2003) and the 1,000 m World Cup once (in 1998). She has twice been Canada's flag bearer at the Winter Olympics, for the 1998 Nagano Olympics closing ceremony and the opening ceremony of the 2002 Salt L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catriona Carey
Catriona Carey is an Irish former international hockey player and camogie player. Convicted of tax offences in 2008 and of theft and fraud in 2020, in early 2022, '' RTÉ Investigates'' reported that Carey was connected to fraudulent business practices. Sport From Gowran in County Kilkenny, Carey is the sister of hurler D. J. Carey. As a camogie player, Carey was a member of the Clara GAA team that won the Féile na nGael Camogie Division 1 competition in 1992. She later went on to play for the Kilkenny camogie team. Also playing field hockey, she earned 72 caps for the Ireland women's national field hockey team, including at the 2005 Women's EuroHockey Nations Championship in Dublin. She retired from international competition in 2006, after the 2006 Women's Intercontinental Cup, though continued to play club hockey for Hermes Ladies' Hockey Club. She reportedly rejoined the Irish squad in 2008. Financial activities Trained as an accountant, she worked with her brothe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catriona MacDonald
Catriona Macdonald is a musician and teacher from Shetland and is considered to be one of the world's leading traditional fiddle players. Background Macdonald started studying fiddle with Dr Tom Anderson MBE in 1981 at age 11 (she considers herself to be a late starter), was a founding member of Shetland's Young Heritage and won the Shetland Young Fiddler of the Year competition in 1983. In 1992 Macdonald won the BBC Radio Two Young Tradition Award and went on to study voice for four years at the Royal College of Music in London. She lives in Scotland and focuses both on an her international music playing and an academic career . Macdonald is an active teacher with a passion for sharing her knowledge of traditional fiddle techniques and vernacular. Professionally she is Head of Music Performance and Degree Program Director for British Folk at Newcastle University as well a Doctoral candidate. Catriona has worked as a tutor and course assessor for the Scottish Music Degre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catriona Morison
Catriona Morison (born 1986 in Edinburgh) is a Scottish mezzo-soprano. Early life and education The daughter of a musician mother (Fiona) and a teacher of German (Alan), Morison grew up in Barnton, Edinburgh. Both she and her sister played violin and sang in choirs such as the Waverley Singers as youths. Morison also played the viola in her youth. She formally studied music at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama (now the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland CS, and spent a year in Berlin on the Erasmus programme. In Berlin, at the Universität der Künste, her teachers included Julie Kaufmann. Career Morison began her professional singing career in Germany, initially with an opera studio in Weimar Weimar is a city in the state of Thuringia, Germany. It is located in Central Germany between Erfurt in the west and Jena in the east, approximately southwest of Leipzig, north of Nuremberg and west of Dresden. Together with the neighbouri .... She subsequently joined ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catriona Matthew
Catriona Isobel Matthew (née Lambert; born 25 August 1969) is a Scottish professional golfer who plays mainly on the US-based LPGA Tour and is also a member of the Ladies European Tour. Amateur career Catriona Lambert was born in Edinburgh, and grew up in North Berwick. She learned to play golf on the Children's Course and North Berwick West Links in the town. She had a successful junior and amateur career, becoming Scottish Girls champion in 1986 and Scottish Under-21 Stroke Play champion in 1988 and 1989. She captured the Scottish Amateur title in 1991, 1993 and 1994, and the British Amateur title in 1993. She is also a two-time winner of the St Rule Trophy played at St Andrews. She was a member of the 1990, 1992 and 1994 Great Britain & Ireland Curtis Cup teams. She graduated from the University of Stirling in 1992 having studied accountancy, this being one of a few British universities offering golf scholarships. Professional career Matthew qualified for the LPGA To ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catriona Rowntree
Catriona Rowntree (born 19 July 1971) is an Australian television presenter. Rowntree is currently a presenter on the Nine Network's '' Getaway'' program. Career Rowntree studied journalism at Macleay College in Sydney, after working as a researcher with Business Review Weekly, 2GB and Prime Television. In 1991, she moved to FM radio as a newsreader and music and lifestyle program host, first in community radio and then with the ABC youth station Triple J, for which she presented until 1996. In 1992, Rowntree was hired as a researcher for the Nine Network children's series ''Wonder World!'', graduating to the position of reporter the following year, and host in 1994. In that same year, whilst still working at Triple J, she also became the host of a Nine Network children's show called ''What's Up Doc?''. Rowntree went on to become the show's writer/producer. In 1996, Rowntree became a reporter on '' Getaway'', a popular Nine Network travel series. While retaining this posit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catriona Morrison
Catriona ("Cat") Morrison MBE (born 11 January 1977, in Glasgow) is a Great Britain, British triathlete and duathlete of Scotland, Scottish origin. Career In 2005, she won the silver medal at the ITU Duathlon World Championships. In 2006, she followed this up with gold and took another silver medal at the Long Distance Duathlon World Championships. In 2007, she took the bronze medal at the Long Distance Triathlon World Championships in Lorient. She won the World Powerman Duathlon Long Distance Championships in 2007 and 2008. In 2010 in Edinburgh she took gold for a second time at the Duathlon World Championships in a time of 2:02:48. Catriona's triathlon career wins include numerous Ironman World Championship, Ironman 70.3 events including St Croix (4 times), UK, Galveston and Ironman titles including Ironman Texas and Ironman Lanzarote where she famously battled back from a 45min mechanical to win the event. Catriona retired from professional triathlon and duathlon in January ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catriona Millar
Catriona Millar (born 1956) is a Scottish figurative painter born in Milngavie, Glasgow. She studied at Grays School of Art, Aberdeen, where her tutors included Joyce Cairns RSA and Keith Grant. Since the success of her 2005 degree show she has exhibited across the UK including the Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh. Her works are in both private and public collections. In October 2006 she came to the attention of Charles Saatchi Charles Saatchi (; ar, تشارلز ساعتجي; born 9 June 1943) is an Iraqi-British businessman and the co-founder, with his brother Maurice, of advertising agency Saatchi & Saatchi. The brothers led the business – the world's largest a ... with her first solo exhibition at the Dundas Street Gallery, Edinburgh. In April 2007 '' The Herald'' ranked her in the top five most collectable artists in Scotland. In 2012 she moved from Scotland to England, and currently resides in East Sussex. References External linksArtist's website {{DEFAULT ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catriona MacColl
Catriona MacColl (born 3 October 1954) is an English actress who has worked extensively in both film and television across Europe. She is best known for her work in Italian horror films, as she has appeared in Lucio Fulci's ''City of the Living Dead'' (1980), '' The Beyond'' (1981) and ''The House by the Cemetery'' (1981). Early life MacColl was born in London on 3 October 1954. In her youth, she trained professionally as a ballerina from the age of five, attending the Royal Ballet School. As a young adult, MacColl suffered a foot injury that prevented her from continuing her career path in dancing. Career MacColl is recognised for her work on European television and film, mainly in Italy. She has gained somewhat of a cult status, by horror fans, because of her career as an Italian horror actress. MacColl began her career in the late 1970s, making her debut in the French romantic drama ''Le dernier amant romantique'', in which she received a small role. In 1979, she received h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catriona Forrest
Catriona Forrest (born 27 February 1984, in Glasgow) is a female field hockey defender from Scotland. She plays club hockey for Glasgow Western Ladies, and made her debut for the Women's National Team in 2005. Her older brother James represented Scotland at cricket up to U19 level. She is a physiotherapist for the British National Health Service. See also * Catriona Catriona (pronounced "ka-TREE-nah" is a feminine given name in the English language. It is an Anglicisation of the Irish Caitríona or Scottish Gaelic Catrìona, which are forms of the English Katherine. Bearers of the name Caitríona * Cait ... References sportscotland 1984 births Living people Scottish female field hockey players Field hockey players at the 2006 Commonwealth Games Field hockey players from Glasgow Commonwealth Games competitors for Scotland {{Scotland-fieldhockey-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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