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Connie is a given name. It is often a pet form (hypocorism) of Concetta, Constance, Cornelia, Cornelius or Connor. Many Asian-American women were named after journalist Connie Chung in the 1980s even though the name was not otherwise popular at the time. Given name or nickname Women * Connie Achurra, Chilean chef * Connie Binsfeld (1924–2014), American politician * Connie Booth (born 1944), American actress and writer, former wife of John Cleese * Connie Britton (born 1967), American actress, singer and producer * Connie Brockway (born 1954), American historical and romance novelist * Connie Carpenter-Phinney (born 1957), American retired cyclist and speed skater * Connie Chung (born 1946), American journalist * Constance Clayton (born 1933), American educator and civic leader * Connie Constance (born 1995), British singer and songwriter * Connie Conway (born 1950), American politician * Connie Desmond (1908–1983), American baseball sportscaster * Connie Dierking (19 ...
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Connie Lawson
Connie Lawson (born April 20, 1949) is an American politician. A Republican, Lawson was Indiana Secretary of State from 2012 to 2022 and was a member of the Indiana Senate from 1996 to 2012. While in the state senate, she was Republican floor leader. Early life, education, and career Lawson was born and raised in Danville, located in Hendricks County in central Indiana. She graduated from Danville High School. She attended Darden School of Legislative Leadership and in 1998 she went to Bowhay Institute for Legislative Leadership. Lawson was elected Clerk of the Hendricks County Circuit Court in 1988. She was subsequently reelected twice to four-year terms As clerk, her responsibilities included maintaining all records of the court and overseeing elections. During this period, Lawson was also president of the Indiana Clerks’ Association and chair of the group’s legislative committee. She also served as Vice Chair of the Hendricks County Republican Party from 1995 to 2005 ...
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Connie Lewcock
Constance Mary Lewcock OBE born Constance Mary Ellis (11 April 1894 – 11 November 1980) was a British suffragette, arsonist and socialist. Life Lewcock was born in Horncastle in 1894. In 1913 she volunteered her services to the Women's Social and Political Union and was initially warning against getting arrested. She learnt about politics by chairing and talking at WSPU meetings across County Durham. She tried to set alight a pier of Durham Cathedral but failed. She later committed what she called the "perfect crime". In 1914 she burnt down a railway building at Esh Winning. She had designed a system where a jar of flammable liquid was set alight when a candle burnt down. This meant that by the time the wooden building was alight she was miles away establishing an alibi. She was also lucky to have the assistance of a miner named Joss Craddock. They had met and they had worked together at meetings where he could hold back the stewards whilst she made her point. This meant tha ...
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Connie Conway
Connie Marie Conway (born September 25, 1950) is an American politician who served as the U.S. representative for from 2022 to 2023. She served as a member of the California State Assembly from 2008 to 2014. Before that, Conway was a member of the board of supervisors for Tulare County from 2001 until 2008. She is a member of the Republican Party. Early life and career Conway was born in Bakersfield, California. She attended the College of the Sequoias and California State University, Fresno. Her father, John Conway, served on the Tulare County Board of Supervisors from 1981 until his death in 1991. From 1988 to 1991, Conway worked as a wellness coordinator at the Kaweah Delta Medical Center. From 1991 to 1994, she worked at Sweet's Home Medical. From 1994 to 2000, Conway worked as a district manager at CorVel Corporation. Tulare County Board of Supervisors Conway served on the Tulare County Board of Supervisors for eight years. She also chaired the board in 2005 and 2008. ...
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Hypocorism
A hypocorism ( or ; from Ancient Greek: (), from (), 'to call by pet names', sometimes also ''hypocoristic'') or pet name is a name used to show affection for a person. It may be a diminutive form of a person's name, such as ''Izzy'' for Isabel or ''Bob (given name), Bob'' for Robert, or it may be unrelated. In linguistics, the term can be used more specifically to refer to the morphological process by which the standard form of the word is transformed into a form denoting affection, or to words resulting from this process. In English, a word is often Clipping (morphology), clipped down to a closed monosyllable and then suffixed with ''-y/-ie'' (phonologically /i/). Sometimes the suffix ''-o'' is included as well as other forms or templates. Hypocoristics are often affective in meaning and are particularly common in Australian English, but can be used for various purposes in different semantic fields, including personal names, place names and nouns. Hypocorisms are usually ...
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Connie Egan
Connie Egan is a Northern Irish politician who is an Alliance Party Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA). She was elected as an MLA in the 2022 Northern Ireland Assembly election for North Down. Political career Early career (2019-2022) Egan was elected as an Alliance Party Councillor for Bangor West DEA in Ards and North Down Borough Council in the 2019 local elections. She topped the poll with 20.16% of the vote and gained a seat at the expense of the DUP. She was the youngest woman elected ever to the council. Previously, she was employed as Constituency and Research Officer to Chair of the Assembly Education Committee, Alliance MLA Chris Lyttle. Member of the Legislative Assembly (2022-) Connie Egan ran alongside Andrew Muir, who had been co-opted into the Assembly in December 2019 to replace Stephen Farry, as an Alliance candidate for the 2022 Assembly election in North Down. She polled 5,224 FPVs as Alliance increased their vote in the constituency by 10. ...
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Connie Nielsen
Connie Inge-Lise Nielsen (born 3 July 1965) is a Danish actress. She has starred as Lucilla in the film '' Gladiator'' (2000) and as Hippolyta in the DC Extended Universe, and in the films ''Wonder Woman'' (2017), ''Justice League'' (2017), ''Wonder Woman 1984'' (2020), and ''Zack Snyder's Justice League'' (2021). She has also starred in films such as ''Soldier'' (1998), ''Mission to Mars'' (2000), ''One Hour Photo'' (2002), ''Basic'' (2003), '' The Hunted'' (2003), ''The Ice Harvest'' (2005), ''Nymphomaniac'' (2013), '' 3 Days to Kill'' (2014), ''Inheritance'' (2020), and ''Nobody'' (2021). She also had roles in the NBC crime drama series '' Law & Order: Special Victims Unit'' (2006), the Starz political drama series ''Boss'' (2011–2012), the Fox crime thriller series ''The Following'' (2014), the TNT limited drama series '' I Am the Night'' (2019) and starred in the Channel 4 drama series '' Close to Me'' in 2021. Early life Nielsen was born on 3 July 1965 in Frederiksha ...
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Connie Newman
Connie Baum Newman is an American endocrinologist and physician-scientist specializing in hypercholesterolemia and lipid disorders, women's rights, and access to reproductive healthcare. She is an adjunct professor of medicine at the New York University Grossman School of Medicine. Newman was president of the American Medical Women's Association from 2019 to 2020. Life Connie Joy Baum was born to homemaker Ethel Stuhlbach and pediatrician Samuel Baum in Passaic, New Jersey. Her family is Jewish. Newman's three siblings are all physicians. In 1970, she graduated as the valedictorian of Passaic High School. Newman completed a B.A. in biology and Spanish from Wellesley College in 1974 where she was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. On August 7, 1977, she married lawyer Jay Hartley Newman. Rabbi Leon Katz performed the ceremony in Livingston, New Jersey. Newman earned an M.D. from Weill Cornell Medicine in 1978. At the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, she conducted an internal me ...
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Connie Morrison
Constance "Connie" Morrison was an American politician. Morrison lived with her husband and family in Burnsville, Minnesota and was involved with the real estate business. Morris served on the Burnsville City Council from 1977 to 1983 and as mayor of Burnsville from 1983 to 1986. She then served in the Minnesota House of Representatives from 1987 to 1994 and was a Republican Republican can refer to: Political ideology * An advocate of a republic, a type of government that is not a monarchy or dictatorship, and is usually associated with the rule of law. ** Republicanism, the ideology in support of republics or agains .... References Year of birth unknown Living people People from Burnsville, Minnesota Businesspeople from Minnesota Women state legislators in Minnesota Women mayors of places in Minnesota Women city councillors in Minnesota Republican Party members of the Minnesota House of Representatives Year of birth missing (living people) {{Minnesota-politici ...
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Connie Mitchell
Connie Thembi Mitchell (born ), also known as Miss Connie, is a South African-born Australian singer-songwriter. In 1995 she was a founding member of Primary. Briefly, in 2004, she was vocalist for Machine Gun Fellatio under the pseudonym Feyonce. Since mid-2005 Mitchell is the lead vocalist with Sneaky Sound System, appearing on their singles: " I Love It" (July 2006), "Pictures" (December), "UFO" (April 2007), "Goodbye" (October), " Kansas City" (July 2008), " When We Were Young" (November), " 16" (February 2009) and "We Love" (May 2011). Early years to 2004 Connie Thembi Mitchell was born c. 1977 in South Africa. Her mother was a singer in a musical troupe, Ipi Tombi, while her grandfather and father had extensive record collections. After leaving South Africa, Mitchell lived in New Zealand and attended a primary school, where "I discovered I could sing. I'd heard some opera singers, someone like Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, and I could put on that voice". She arrived in Australia ...
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Connie Meijer
Connie Meijer (5 February 1963 – 17 August 1988) was a Dutch cyclist who won a bronze medal in the road race at the 1987 UCI Road World Championships. She won a national title in this event in 1984, as well as individual stages of the Tour of Norway in 1987 and 1988. On 17 August 1988, while competing in a criterium A criterium, or crit, is a bike race consisting of several laps around a closed circuit, the length of each lap or circuit ranging from about 400 m to 10,000 m. Overview Race length can be determined by a number of laps or total time, ... in Naaldwijk, she complained of severe nausea and died on the way to the hospital. Initial reports stated that she died of a brain hemorrhage. However, later reports stated that she died of a heart attack, likely caused by a neglected flu. In her memory, the Connie Meijer Trofee was created, for which women compete in Parel van de Veluwe (Meijer herself won this race in 1988). References {{DEFAULTSORT:Meijer, Con ...
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Connie Laliberte
Connie Laliberte (born October 21, 1960) is a Canadian curler from Manitoba and world champion. In 2019, Laliberte was named the tenth greatest Canadian curler in history in a TSN poll of broadcasters, reporters and top curlers. Championships Laliberte became world champion in 1984 as skip for the Canadian team."Curling – Women: World Championships"
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She won the 1984, 1992 and 1995 , and reached the final in 1994, finishing second. She was selected as skip on the tournament's All-Star team in 1994, and again in

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Connie Hedegaard
Connie Hedegaard Koksbang (born 15 September 1960) is a Danish politician and public intellectual. She was European Commissioner for Climate Action in the ( second Barroso) European Commission from 10 February 2010 through 31 October 2014. On behalf of Denmark, Hedegaard hosted the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen 2009. She was Danish Minister for Climate and Energy from 23 November 2007 as a member of the Cabinet of Anders Fogh Rasmussen III and that of Lars Løkke Rasmussen and had been the Danish Minister for the Environment from 2 August 2004 to 23 November 2007, as a member of the Cabinet of Anders Fogh Rasmussen I and II. In Denmark, Hedegaard is a member of the Conservative People's Party (DKF), and elected member of parliament (Folketing) from 10 January 1984 to 3 October 1990 and again in the 2005 Danish parliamentary election. Prior to becoming a minister, she worked as a journalist at DR, the Danish national broadcaster. Education and early career ...
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