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Cristina M
Cristina is a female given name, and it is also a surname. Notable people with the name include: Given name *Cristina (daughter of Edward the Exile), 11th-century English princess *Cristina (singer), Cristina Monet-Palaci (1956–2020), American singer *Infanta Cristina of Spain (born 1965), Spanish princess *Cristina D'Avena (born 1964), Italian singer and actress * Cristina Bazgan, French computer scientist *Cristina Boiț (born 1968), Romanian discus thrower *Cristina Bowerman, Italian chef *Cristina Butucea, French statistician * Cristina Cini (born 1969), Italian football assistant referee *Cristina Conati, Italian and Canadian computer scientist *Cristina Deutekom (1931–2014), Dutch opera singer *Cristina Dorcioman (born 1974), Romanian football referee *Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (born 1953), President of Argentina * Cristina Fink (born 1964), Mexican high jumper *Cristina Gallardo-Domâs, Chilean soprano *Cristina Lasvignes (born 1978), Spanish television and radio br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cristina (daughter Of Edward The Exile)
Cristina, daughter of Edward the Exile and Agatha, was the sister of Edgar Ætheling and Saint Margaret of Scotland, born in the 1040s. Cristina's nieces Edith and Mary were sent to Romsey Abbey, near Southampton, in 1086 when she was abbess. Life Cristina came to the Kingdom of England with her family in 1057, from Hungary. Along with her siblings, she went into exile in the Kingdom of Scotland, at the court of Malcolm III, her future brother-in-law. At some time before 1086, Cristina returned to England, and entered the nunnery at Romsey Abbey, where she tutored her nieces Edith and Mary. Edith gave testimony to a conclave of bishops summoned by Archbishop Anselm of Canterbury to determine whether Edith could lawfully marry Henry I of England. During that enquiry she stated that she had never taken holy vows, insisting that her parents had sent her and her sister to England for educational purposes, and that her aunt Cristina had veiled her to protect her "from the lust of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cristina Odone
Cristina Patricia Odone (born 11 November 1960) is an Italian-British journalist, editor, and writer. She is the Founder and Chair of the Parenting Circle Charity. Odone is formerly the Editor of ''The Catholic Herald'', Deputy Editor of the ''New Statesman'' and director of the Centre for Character and Values at the Legatum Institute. Early life Odone was born in Nairobi, Kenya, to an Italian father, Augusto Odone, and a Swedish mother. Her half-brother was Lorenzo Odone, after whom Lorenzo's oil is named. Odone's father was a World Bank official, which led to the family regularly moving. Odone went initially to Marymount School, then later to the National Cathedral School, Washington, D.C. After her parents' divorce, Odone moved to Britain to go to St Clare's, a boarding school in Oxford. Odone studied French literature and history at Worcester College, Oxford. Journalist Odone edited ''The Catholic Herald'' from 1991–95. Odone later worked for the World Bank in Washin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dolores Cristina
Dolores Cristina (born January 10, 1949Page at Maltese Department of Information website ) is a former Maltese politician who served in a number of ministerial positions under a number of Nationalist Governments. Early life and education Cristina was born in . She graduated from the Royal University of Malta with a Bachelor of Arts (Hons.) degree in 1971 and held teaching posts in History and English at Secondary and Post-Secondary levels.Political career Cristina, a member of the[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Cristina
Albert Maximo Cristina (born 18 November 1970 in Curaçao, Dutch Antilles) is a volleyball player from the Netherlands, who represented his native country at two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 2000 File:2000 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Protests against Bush v. Gore after the 2000 United States presidential election; Heads of state meet for the Millennium Summit; The International Space Station in its infant form as seen from S .... After having finished in fifth place in Sydney, Australia he ended up in ninth place with the Dutch Men's National Team four years later in Athens, Greece. References *Dutch Olympic Committee* 1970 births Living people Dutch men's volleyball players Dutch people of Curaçao descent Volleyball players at the 2000 Summer Olympics Volleyball players at the 2004 Summer Olympics Olympic volleyball players of the Netherlands Curaçao men's volleyball players {{Curaçao-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cristina Zenato
Cristina Zenato is an Italian-born shark diver and conservationist. She is known for her work with Caribbean reef sharks in The Bahamas. Early life Zenato was born in Italy in 1971. Her father was a special forces military diver. She was raised in the Congo until she was 15. She completed high school in Italy. Career Zenato began training as a dive instructor and working with sharks in 1995. The same year, she began working for Underwater Explorer's Society (UNEXSO). Later, she became both a PADI Course Director and NSS-CDS Cave Diving Instructor with UNEXSO. Zenato's cave diving projects have included remapping the underwater caves in the Lucayan National Park. Zenato was inducted into the Women Divers Hall of Fame in 2011. She is known for promoting the conservation of, diving with, removing fish hooks from Caribbean reef sharks around Grand Bahama Island. Her work has garnered her the titles of "shark whisperer". Zenato has been featured in numerous films and televi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cristina Torrens Valero
Cristina Torrens Valero (born 12 September 1974) is a former professional female tennis player from Spain. She won two singles and two doubles WTA titles. Cristina reached her career-high singles ranking world No. 27 on 4 March 2002. In 1993, Torrens Valero helped Spain recapture the Fed Cup The Billie Jean King Cup (or the BJK Cup) is the premier international team competition in women's tennis, launched as the Federation Cup in 1963 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the International Tennis Federation (ITF). The name was chan ... title. WTA career finals Singles: 5 (2 titles, 3 runner-ups) Doubles: 4 (2 titles, 2 runner-ups) ITF Circuit finals Singles: 12 (6–6) Doubles: 9 (5–4) Grand Slam singles performance timeline External links * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Torrens Valero, Cristina 1974 births Living people Spanish female tennis players Sportspeople from Pamplona ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cristina García-Orcoyen Tormo
Cristina García-Orcoyen Tormo (born 2 January 1948) is a Spanish People's Party politician and environmentalist who served a single term as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) in the European Parliament between 1999 and 2004. She was the general secretary of the World Wide Fund for Nature in Spain () from 1983 to 1996 and was made head of the private non-profit Environment Foundation in 1996. Tormo worked on several directives and community initiatives relating to the environment, industrial and foreign policy when she was a elected member of the European Parliament. Biography Tormo was born in Madrid, Spain on 2 January 1948. She obtained a degree in Political and Economic Sciences from the Complutense University of Madrid and has an MBA in Business Management and Business Administration from Madrid's IESE Business School. Tormo also graduated from the EOI Business School in Madrid with a diploma in Foreign Trade. Between 1983 and 1996, she was the general secretary of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cristina Stenbeck
Cristina Mayville Stenbeck, born 27 September 1977 in New York City, United States, is a Swedish business woman and investor. She is the principal owner and former executive chairman of Investment AB Kinnevik, one of the largest family-controlled companies in Sweden. Early life Stenbeck was born in New York City as the eldest daughter of Jan Stenbeck (1942-2002), a Swedish industrialist and entrepreneur, and her American mother, Merrill McLeod. Her parents had three other children, Hugo, Sophie and Max Stenbeck. Her father also had the son Felix Granander. Stenbeck is the granddaughter of Hugo Stenbeck (1890 – 1977), a Swedish industrialist and lawyer who was one of the co-founders of the family company, Investment AB Kinnevik. Stenbeck attended St. Andrew's School in Delaware (where she later served as a trustee), and graduated from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. with a Bachelor of Science in 2000 at age 22. Career Stenbeck's business career began in 1997 after ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cristina Scarlat
Cristina Scarlat (; born 3 March 1981) is a Moldovan pop singer. She was born in Chișinău and represented Moldova in the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 in Copenhagen, Denmark, with the song "Wild Soul Moldova participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 with the song "Wild Soul" written by Ivan Aculov and Lidia Scarlat. The song was performed by Cristina Scarlat. The Moldovan broadcaster TeleRadio-Moldova (TRM) organised the national final ...". She finished last in the semi-final, failing to qualify for the grand final.Eurovision.tv 15 martie 2014Moldova: Woman with the wild soul Accesalt la 16 martie 2014. Eurovision Song Contest References 21st-century Moldovan women singers Eurovision Song Contest entrants for Moldova Eurovision Song Contest entrants of 2014 Living people English-language singers from Moldova Musicians from Chișinău 1981 births Articles containing video clips {{Moldova-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cristina Scabbia
Cristina Adriana Chiara Scabbia (; born 5 June 1972) is an Italian singer, best known as one of the two vocalists of gothic metal band Lacuna Coil. Scabbia used to write an advice column in the popular rock magazine ''Revolver'', alongside musician Vinnie Paul. Scabbia is featured in a Megadeth song " À Tout le Monde (Set Me Free)". She also featured on " The Theory of Everything", an album from Arjen Anthony Lucassen's Ayreon project, with which she is cast as the Mother. She is also the featured artist in the Apocalyptica song "S.O.S. (Anything But Love)" and another version of the Alter Bridge song "Watch Over You". Scabbia performed a duet with the Italian ex-singer of Linea 77 Emiliano Audisio on the track "Beautiful Lie" to be part of the soundtrack for the 2013 Italian film ''Passione sinistra''. Lacuna Coil In 1991, Scabbia began singing professionally as a touring musician for other bands and providing backing vocals. Later that year, she met the male vocalist A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cristina Saralegui
Cristina María Saralegui de Ávila (born January 29, 1948) is a Cuban-born American journalist, television personality, actress and talk show host of the Spanish-language eponymous show, '. Before her television career, she worked for ten years as editor-in-chief of the Spanish-language version of ''Cosmopolitan'' magazine distributed throughout Latin America. Early life and family Cristina María Saralegui Santamarina was born in Miramar, Havana, Cuba, to Francisco Rene Saralegui Álvarez, Jr. and María Cristina de las Nieves Santamarina Díaz. She is the eldest of five, she had two sisters Vicky and María Eugenia, as well as two brothers, Patxi and Iñaki. Saralegui is of Basque Country descent with all four grandparents having origins in Spain. Her paternal grandfather Francisco Saralegui Arizubieta was a Basque from Lizarza and her paternal grandmother Amalia "Amalita" Álvarez Cuesta, an Asturian from Gijon; her maternal grandfather was José Santamarina Iviricu, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cristina Rosato
Cristina Rosato (born January 6, 1983) is a Canadian actress. She has also appeared in TV series such as ''Rookie Blue'', ''Trauma'' and ''Turner and Hooch''. Early life Rosato grew up in the Italian neighborhood of Montreal and spent summers in Italy. Her family moved to Canada in the 1950's and Rosato spoke Italian for the first few years of her life until she attended school where she learnt French and English. At age 6, Rosato decided she wanted to act after watching Indiana Jones and thinking that would be fun to live out. She started taking classes and doing plays to gain experience. Rosato studied acting at The American Academy of Dramatic Arts in Los Angeles and found the course to be grueling and almost quit until she received a pep talk from her mother. Career Rosata has appeared in films such as ''Let the Game Begin'', '' Hidden 3D'' and ''Bad Santa 2 and'' has voiced characters in video games such as Caterina Sforza in the '' Assassin's Creed'' video game seri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |