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Chee (given Name)
Chee is a unisex given name. Notable people with the name include: * Chee Dodge (1860–1947), American politician * Chee Soo (1919–1994), English writer See also * * Chee (surname) * Chet (given name), English masculine given name *Ji (Korean name) Ji, also spelled Jee, Chi, or Chee, is a Korean family name, as well as a popular element in Korean given names. The meaning differs based on the hanja used to write it. Family name As a family name, Ji may be written with either of two hanja, one ..., surname and given name also spelled "Chee" {{given name Unisex given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chee Dodge
Henry Chee Dodge (1860–1947), also known in Navajo The Navajo (; British English: Navaho; nv, Diné or ') are a Native American people of the Southwestern United States. With more than 399,494 enrolled tribal members , the Navajo Nation is the largest federally recognized tribe in the United ... by his nicknames ("Mister Interpreter") and ("Red Boy"), was the last official Head Chief of the Navajo Tribe from 1884 until 1910, the first Tribal Chairman of the Navajo Business Council from 1922 until 1928, and chairman of the then Navajo Tribal Council from 1942 until 1946.''Navajo Nation Government. Fourth Edition.'' Office of Navajo Nation Development. /Window Rock, AZ: 1998. p. 13. He was the father of Thomas Dodge,Lock, Raymond F. ''The Book of the Navajo. 6th Edition.'' Mankind Publishing. Los Angeles: 2001. who served as Tribal Council chairman from 1932 until 1936, and activist Annie Dodge Wauneka. Biography Dodge was born around 1860 near (Fort Defiance) into the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chee Soo
Chee Soo (born Clifford Soo, also known as Clifford Gibbs, 4 June 1919 – 29 August 1994) was an author of books about the philosophy of Taoism and in particular Lee-style tai chi, Qigong, Ch'ang Ming, Traditional Chinese Medicine and Feng Shou 'Hand of the Wind' kung fu. Biography Early life Born on 4 June 1919 in All Souls, Marylebone, London, Chee Soo was the son of Ah Chee Soo, a Chinese seaman and a pastry chef at the Westminster restaurant. His English mother was Beatrice Annie Alice Gibbs. They lived in Westminster. Although he enlisted in the British Army under the name Clifford Gibbs, his mother's maiden name, in later life he took his father's name and was known as Chee Soo. In a 1977 LBC radio interview Chee Soo described meeting a Chinese Martial Arts teacher from Shandong called Chan Kam Lee in Hyde Park when he was fourteen years old. Chee Soo said he was invited to Chan Lee's class in the summer of 1934, and this was the beginning of his martial arts training. C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chee (surname)
Chee is a Chinese surname. It may refer to the Min Nan/Hokkien pronunciation of the Chinese surname pronounced Xú (徐) in Mandarin. Notable people with the surname include: 徐 * Chee Kim Thong (1920–2001), Chinese martial artist * Chee Soon Juan (born 1962), Singaporean politician * Chee Hong Tat (born 1974), Singaporean politician 朱 * Jason Chee Weng Fai (born 1983), Singaporean para table tennis player 齐 * Pamelyn Chee, 21st century Singaporean actress Chee * Alexander Chee (born 1967), American writer *Benjamin Chee Chee (1944–1977), Canadian painter * Chee Wan Hoe (born 1971), Malaysian footballer * Karen Chee (born 1995), American comedian and essayist *Robert Chee (1937–1972), Navajo artist * Traci Chee, (born 1985), American writer * Chee Dodge (1860–1947), Navajo leader Fictional characters *Jim Chee, Navajo Tribal Police detective in the novels of Tony Hillerman See also *Chee (given name) Chee is a unisex given name. Notable people with the name incl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chet (given Name)
Chet is a masculine given name, often a nickname for Chester, which means ''fortress'' or ''camp''. It is an uncommon name of English origin, and originated as a surname to identify people from the city of Chester, England. Chet was ranked 1,027th in popularity for males of all ages in a sample of the 1990 US Census. People named Chet include: * Chet (murza) (fl. 14th century), murza of the Golden Horde and legendary progenitor of several Russian families * Chet Allen (1939–1984), American child opera and choir performer * Chester Chet Atkins (1924–2001), American country guitarist and record producer * Chesney Chet Baker (1929–1988), American jazz musician and vocalist * Chet Bitterman (1952-1981), American linguist and Christian missionary * Chet Brooks (born 1966), American former National Football League player * Chester Chet Bulger (1917–2009), American National Football League player * Chester Chet Culver (born 1966), former Governor of Iowa * Thomas Chester Chet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ji (Korean Name)
Ji, also spelled Jee, Chi, or Chee, is a Korean family name, as well as a popular element in Korean given names. The meaning differs based on the hanja used to write it. Family name As a family name, Ji may be written with either of two hanja, one meaning "wisdom" (), and the other meaning "pond" (). Each has one ''bon-gwan'': for the family name meaning "wisdom", Pongju Village, Pongsan County, North Hwanghae in what is today North Korea, and for the family name meaning "pond", Chungju, Chungcheongbuk-do in what is today South Korea. The 2000 South Korean census found 147,572 people with this family name. In a study by the National Institute of the Korean Language based on 2007 application data for South Korean passports, it was found that 79.5% of people with this surname spelled it in Latin letters as Ji in their passports. Another 9.0% spelled it as Jee, and 8.5% as Chi. Rarer alternative spellings (the remaining 3.0%) included Gi, Chee, Je, and Jy. List People with this f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |