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Carrie (name)
Carrie is a female given name in English speaking countries, usually a pet form of Caroline or Carolyn. Other spellings include Cari, Kari, Karie, Kerry, Carri, Karri, Kerrie, Kerri, Keri, Cerry, and Karrie, as well as various other spellings. Related names may include Carol, Caroline, Carolyn, Carolyne, or Carolynne. It is also a surname. Given name *Carrie Acheson (born 1934), Irish Fianna Fáil politician *Carrie Akre (born 1966), American musician best known for her work with Seattle underground bands Hammerbox and Goodness *Carrie Ann Inaba (born 1968), American dancer, choreographer, television dance competition judge in ''Dancing with the Stars'', actress, game show host, and singer *Carrie-Anne Moss (born 1967), Canadian actress * Carrie Barton (born 1976), American synchronized swimmer * Carrie Bebris, American author, journalist and novelist *Carrie Best (1903–2001), Black Canadian journalist and social activist *Carrie Bethel (1898–1974), Native American basket ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caroline (given Name)
Caroline is a female given name, derived from the male name Karl (Charles). Common nicknames and variations include Caz, Callie, Carole, Carol, Carolyn, Carly and Carrie. People with the name Empresses consort * Caroline Augusta of Bavaria (1792–1873), Empress of Austria by marriage to Francis I of Austria Queens consort * Caroline of Ansbach (1683–1737), British queen consort of King George II *Caroline Amalie of Augustenburg (1796–1881), Danish queen consort of King Christian VIII *Caroline of Baden (1776–1841), first Queen consort of Bavaria by marriage to Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria *Caroline Bonaparte (1782–1839), queen consort of Joachim, King of Naples *Caroline of Brunswick (1768–1821), queen consort of George IV of the United Kingdom *Caroline Matilda of Great Britain (1751–1775), British monarch, sister of King George III and Queen of Denmark and Norway by marriage to King Christian VII Princesses * Princess Caroline Elizabeth of Great Britai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carrie Borzillo
Carrie Borzillo (formerly Carrie Borzillo-Vrenna; born June 20, 1970) is an American music and entertainment journalist and author of three books on aspects of the entertainment industry and of one advice book. Journalist Borzillo has dispensed love and sex advice as "Dr. Love" throughout the run of rock musician Gene Simmons’ short-lived glossy monthly, ''Tongue'', and has written the sex/love advice column "Miss Truth Hurts" for SuicideGirls.com SuicideGirls is an online community-based website that revolves around Pin-up model, pin-up photography sets of models known as the Suicide Girls. The website was founded in 2001 by Selena Mooney ("Missy Suicide") and Sean Suhl ("Spooky"). Mos .... Bibliography *''Cherry Bomb'', *''Eyewitness Nirvana: The Day-by-Day Chronicle'', author *''Nirvana: The Day-to-Day Illustrated Journals'', author *'' Kurt Cobain: The Nirvana Years'', *''Nobody Likes You: Inside the Turbulent Life, Times and Music of Green Day'', contributor (au ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carrie Chase Davis
Carrie Chase Davis (13 August 1863 – 22 March 1953) was an American physician and suffragist. After teaching for some years, she graduated with a Medical Degree from Howard University College of Medicine in 1897, with a specialization in Bacteriology. She was one of the leading women practitioners of the Western Reserve and was also prominent as a woman suffragist of the west. Davis served as secretary of the Erie County Medical Society, and recording secretary of the Ohio Woman Suffrage Association. Early years and education Carrie Chase Davis was born August 13, 1863, on a farm near Castalia, Ohio. She was a daughter of Thomas Robert and Sarah Ann (Chase) Davis. Her father was a native of New York, born February 14, 1824, and became well known as a leading farmer and stock raiser near Sandusky, Ohio. His home was one of the best known stations on the Underground Railroad between the United States and Canada. He was a highly educated man, a student of Oberlin College and a C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carrie Davis
Carrie Nicole Prideaux (née Davis; born 24 June 1976) in Barnstaple, England) is a sportsreader who previously worked for the BBC News Channel, best known for reading the sports news on ''The Chris Moyles Show'' on BBC Radio 1. Biography Prideaux attended school at Queen's College, Taunton, Somerset where she obtained 3 A-levels. She began sports reporting for BBC Radio 5 live and BBC News 24 before making her way to Radio One working within the Newsbeat team. Prideaux joined ''The Chris Moyles Show'' and BBC Radio 1 in October 2004, replacing Juliette Ferrington who moved on to work for BBC Radio 5 live. Prideaux reports regularly for BBC London sports news and occasionally for Match of the Day 2. She can sometimes be heard match reporting on the BBC's football results programme ''Final Score''. She also narrates for the National Geographic show ''What Would Happen If''. She left the BBC on Thursday 1 March 2012 after taking redundancy, Her last appearance was on the BBC ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carrie Daumery
Carrie Daumery (25 March 1863 – 1 July 1938) was a Belgian-born American film actress. She appeared in more than 60 films between 1908 and 1937. Personal life Daumery was the sister of violinist Eugène Ysaÿe. She was also the widow of Belgian pianist Ysaye Daumery and the mother of film director John Daumery. Daumery and her husband were traveling in Switzerland when World War I began; when they returned to Belgium, they discovered German soldiers occupying their home. Subsequently, their son fought in the war, and her husband's health failed. When the war ended, Daumery's husband was dead, and her son was recovering from poison gas and wounds. Daumery died in Los Angeles, California. Career Daumery began acting on stage at age 17 in roles that she described to a reporter as "artistic". Later she went to Hollywood, where she became "one of the best-known extras in the screen colony". She eventually progressed from being an extra to work as a stock actress at Warner Bro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carrie Daniels (basketball)
Carrie Lynn Daniels (née Thompson; born November 25, 1972) is an American college basketball coach and the former women's head coach at Austin Peay State University (APSU). Early life and education A native of Scottsburg, Indiana, Carrie Lynn Thompson attended Austin Peay after earning All-American honors as a senior at Scottsburg High School. At APSU, she starred on its first team to qualify for the NCAA women's basketball tournament in 1996. That season, she was awarded APSU's Joy Award, which is presented annually to the university's top athlete. She was presented the 1995 Wilma Rudolph Award, given by the National Association of Academic Advisors for Athletics to "...honor student athletes who have overcome great personal, academic, and/or emotional odds to achieve academic success while participating in intercollegiate athletics..." after missing most of the 1995–96 with a heart ailment. She earned her bachelor's degree from Austin Peay in 1996 and a master's degree in edu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carrie Cutter
Carrie Eliza Cutter (1842–1862) was an American nurse. She was the daughter of surgeon Calvin Cutter. An 1861 graduate of Mount Holyoke College, she helped her father in the 21st Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry as a nurse. She was referred to as "the Florence Nightingale of the 21st." During Burnside's North Carolina Expedition in 1862, she worked in the field with the regiment. Cutter served as a translator for German soldiers who did not speak English. She was engaged to Private Charles E. Colledge from the 25th Massachusetts. She traveled to Newbern Harbor after learning that he had contracted typhoid fever. He died and she was infected, dying on March 24, 1862. A memorial at the Elm Street Cemetery references her as the first female death of the Civil War. Congress granted special permission for Cutter to be interred with full military honors at New Bern National Cemetery in Section 10, grave 1698 next to her betrothed, Charles Colledge. She was the first woma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carrie Cunningham
Carrie Cunningham (born April 28, 1972) is an American former professional tennis player who played on the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) Circuit from 1987 until 1994. She comes from the state of Michigan, United States. Career singles highlights Cunningham's career highlights include a world ranking of 32 in 1991, ending the year with a rank of 51 after reaching the third rounds of both the Australian and French Opens. Her best Grand Slam performance was attaining the 4th round (round of 16) at the 1992 US Open, losing to eventual semi-finalist Manuela Maleeva-Fragniere, 6–3, 7–5. She reached the second round in Wimbledon from 1989-1991. She also holds one Grand Slam Junior title - the US Junior Open Championship in 1988. Doubles highlights Cunningham was also on the doubles circuit, reaching one WTA final - the 1991 Tokyo International, with doubles partner Laura Gildemeister, losing 6–3, 6–3 to the team of Pam Shriver and Mary Joe Fernandez. She does ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carrie Crowley
Caroline Anne Crowley (born 23 May 1964) is an Irish actress, Gaeilgeoir and former radio and television presenter. She appeared on television shows such as ''The Morbegs'' and ''Echo Island'' for Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ). She also had her own chat show, ''Limelight'', and co-presented Eurovision Song Contest 1997 with Ronan Keating. More recently she has had acting roles in shows such as ''The Clinic (TV series), The Clinic'', ''School Run'' and ''An Crisis''. She appeared as the character Jackie Ferguson in the RTÉ soap opera ''Fair City''. She has also appeared as Ellisef in the first two seasons of the TV series ''Vikings (2013 TV series), Vikings''. Early life Crowley was born and raised in Waterford, Ireland. Her mother Nodhlaig (originally from The Rosses, County Donegal) was a teacher and her father Con (originally from Cork (city), Cork) was a Garda Síochána, garda, while she also has one sister, Bríd. She first went on stage in a local production of ''Oliv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carrie Coon
Carrie Alexandra Coon (born January 24, 1981) is an American actress. In television, she is known for her starring roles as grieving mother Nora Durst in the HBO drama series '' The Leftovers'' (2014–2017) and as Gloria Burgle in the third season of the FX anthology series '' Fargo'' (2017). She won the TCA Award for Individual Achievement in Drama for both performances, won the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for ''The Leftovers'' and was nominated for the Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie for ''Fargo''. She also had a leading role in the second season of the anthology drama series '' The Sinner'' (2018), and is known for playing Bertha Russell in the HBO series '' The Gilded Age''. On stage, Coon was nominated for a Tony Award for her performance in the 2012 revival of ''Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?'' She has also appeared in numerous films, including the psychological thriller '' Gone Girl'' (2014), the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carrie Williams Clifford
Carrie Williams Clifford (September 1862 in Chillicothe, Ohio – November 10, 1934) was an author, clubwoman, and activist in the women's rights and civil rights movements in the United States. Biography Personal life Born in Chillicothe, Ohio and raised and educated in the state, Clifford left the state to teach in Parkersburg, West Virginia, for three years. In 1886, she returned to Cleveland, Ohio, married Ohio state legislator William H. Clifford, and became an engaged clubwoman. In 1908, she moved with her husband and two children, Maurice and Joshua, to Washington, D.C. Clifford died on November 10, 1934, and was buried at Woodland Cemetery in Cleveland, Ohio. Political work While living in Cleveland, Clifford founded the Minerva Reading Club, which discussed current social problems. Her work as the assistant recording secretary for the National Association of Colored Women led her to found the Ohio Federation of Colored Women's Clubs in 1901. She served as the o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carrie Chapman Catt
Carrie Chapman Catt (; January 9, 1859 Fowler, p. 3 – March 9, 1947) was an American women's suffrage leader who campaigned for the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which gave U.S. women the right to vote in 1920. Catt served as president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association from 1900 to 1904 and 1915 to 1920. She founded the League of Women Voters in 1920 and the International Woman Suffrage Alliance in 1904, Van Voris, pp. 59–63 which was later named International Alliance of Women. She "led an army of voteless women in 1919 to pressure Congress to pass the constitutional amendment giving them the right to vote and convinced state legislatures to ratify it in 1920" and "was one of the best-known women in the United States in the first half of the twentieth century and was on all lists of famous American women." Van Voris, p. vii Early life Carrie Clinton Lane was born on January 9, 1859, in Ripon, Wisconsin, the daughter of Maria Lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
