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Evangelina Himitian
__NOTOC__ Evangelina and Evangeline are feminine given names, diminutives of Latin "evangelium" (" gospel", itself from Greek Ευαγγέλιο "gospel", meaning "good news"). People with these names include: Evangelina *Evangelina Carrozzo, Argentine model, dancer, and beauty queen *Evangelina Cosio y Cisneros, Cuban rebel * Evangelina Elizondo, Mexican actress *Evangelina Guerrero Zacarías, Filipina poet *Evangelina Oyo Ebule, Equatorial Guinean politician *Evangelina Salazar, Argentine actress * Evangelina Sobredo Galanes, known as Cecilia, Spanish singer and songwriter * Evangelina Villegas, Mexican biochemist *Evangelina Vigil-Piñón, poet Evangeline *Evangeline (singer), Australian singer/songwriter signed to Razor Recordings *Evangeline Anderson Rajkumar, American theologian * Evangeline Booth, British evangelist *Evangeline Bruce, American writer * Evangeline Lilly, Canadian actress *Evangeline Marrs Whipple, American theologian * Evangeline Walton (1907–1996), Ame ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evangelia
Evangelia is a Greek feminine given name. Notable people with this name include: * Evangelia Atamian, (1922 – 23 February 1957), an Armenian-Greek rebetiko singer, known as Marika Ninou *Evangelia Aravani, Greek fashion model and TV presenter * Evangelia Chantava, Greek volleyball player * Evangelia Chatziefraimoglou, Greek volleyball player *Evangelia Christodoulou, Greek rhythmic gymnast *Evangelia Micheli-Tzanakou, biomedical engineer and professor * Evangelia Moraitidou, Greek water polo player * Evangelia Platanioti, Greek artistic swimmer *Evangelia Psarra Evangelia Psarra ( el, Ευαγγελία Ψάρρα; born June 17, 1974 in Thessaloniki) is a Greek archer who has competed at the Summer Olympics six times from 2000 to 2020. Career At the 2004 Summer Olympics, Psarra entered the women's competi ..., Greek archer * Evangelia Tsagka, Greek swimmer See also * MV ''E Evangelia'', a ship References {{given name Greek feminine given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evangelina Vigil-Piñón
Evangelina Vigil-Piñón is a Chicana poet, children's book author, director, translator, and television personality. Life Her mother's family emigrated to Texas in the early 1900s from Parras, Mexico. As a child, Vigil-Piñón lived with her maternal grandmother. Her interest in literature started since she was a little girl. As a sixth grader, her principal sent her to the Inman Christian Center, a private art school in San Antonio, where she was in attendance with people in their twenties. Vigil-Piñón earned a scholarship for business administration and started school at Prairie View A&M University. She graduated from University of Houston. She studied at St. Mary's University, and University of Texas at San Antonio. She was assistant editor of ''Americas Review''. She teaches Mexican American and U.S. Hispanic literature as an adjunct lecturer at University of Houston. She currently is a television journalist extensively involved in community affairs with ABC-KTRK TV Cha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julia Evangeline Brooks
Julia Evangeline Brooks (June, 1882 – November 24, 1948) was an incorporator of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated, the first sorority founded by African-American women. The sorority has continued to generate social capital for nearly 100 years. Having earned a B.A. degree at Howard University and M.A. at Columbia University, Brooks was a devoted educator for the rest of her life. She worked most of her life at the academic, prestigious Dunbar High School in Washington, DC. She was an assistant principal there for 26 years, and also served as dean of girls. These were unusual positions of authority for any woman of that time. Brooks inspired generations of students. Early life Julia was one of ten children born to Walter Henderson Brooks and Eva Holmes Brooks in New Orleans, Louisiana. Her father, a slave as a child, grabbed at the chance for education, earning B.A. and theology degrees from Lincoln University in Oxford, Pennsylvania in 1873. He became the pastor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evangeline Russell
Evangeline Frances Russell (August 18, 1902 – February 22, 1966) was an American actress known for her work in silent Westerns of the 1920s. She was the daughter of actor John Lowell Russell and screenwriter Lillian Case Russell. Her brother was Academy Award–nominated cinematographer John L. Russell. Biography Russell was born in Manhattan to actor John Russell Lowell and screenwriter Lillian Case Russell. She had a brother, John L. Russell, who became a cinematographer. She was noted as an expert horsewoman and race car driver. She pursued a career as an actress in Westerns, often playing the wife of characters played by her father (in scripts written by her mother). Her credits include films like ''The Isle of Sunken Gold'', ''The Big Show'', and ''Lost in a Big City''. She was something of a method actor; she recounted trying to harden her feet by walking barefoot for six weeks in preparation for a role in 1927's '' Hawk of the Hills''. Russell was married at le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evangeline Atwood
Evangeline Atwood (1906–1987) was an American historian, activist, and philanthropist. She was the co-founder of numerous organizations in Alaska, including the Alaska Statehood Association, the Anchorage League of Voters, the Alaska World Affairs Council, Parent-Teacher Council of Anchorage, and the Cook Inlet Historical Society. In 2009, she was named to the Alaska Women's Hall of Fame. Her husband was Robert Atwood and was the co-owner, alongside him, of the '' Anchorage Times''. Early life and work Maud "Evangeline" Rasmuson was born in 1906 in Sitka, Alaska. Her parents were Edward Anton Rasmuson and Jenny Olsen. She had one brother, Elmer. She attended the University of Washington and the University of Chicago, where she received her Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts, respectively. After graduation, she worked as a social worker in Springfield, Illinois. She married Robert Atwood on April 2, 1932, whom she met while working in Springfield. They moved to Anchorag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evangeline Edwards
Evangeline Dora Edwards, known as Eve D. Edwards (13 August 1888 – 29 September 1957) taught Chinese language and Chinese literature at SOAS, University of London from 1921 to 1955, and was head of the Department of the Far East from 1937 to 1953. She was the third Professor of Chinese at SOAS, from 1939 to 1947, following J. Percy Bruce (1925–1931) and Reginald Johnston (1931–1937), and the first female professor of Chinese anywhere in the Western world. Biography Edwards was born 13 August 1888, the third daughter of a vicar, John Edwards (1857–1934). She went to school at Redbrooke College in Camborne, Cornwall, and later studied at Islington College in London. She then prepared for missionary work by taking a course at St Colm's College in Edinburgh, and in 1913 went to China as a missionary. After arriving in China, Edwards studied Chinese at the Peking Language School, and continued studying whilst working as a missionary, obtaining a Diploma in Mandarin and Cla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evangeline Barongo
Evangeline Barongo is a Ugandan author of children's literature. Barongo is a founding member of the Uganda Children’s Writers and Illustrators Association (UCWIA), a platform that brings together writers and illustrators of children’s books, librarians, teachers, publishers, and booksellers. She is also a member of the Reading Association of Uganda (RAU), Uganda Library and Information Association and the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY) Uganda chapter established in 2004. She has served on the board of the National Book Trust of Uganda since its inception in 1997. Early life and education She trained as a nursery nurse and worked for a year in England after studying a course in children's psychology. She later earned a diploma in Library Science from Bayero University Kano in Nigeria before working as a librarian at the university. She returned to Uganda in 1986 to work with the Uganda Public Libraries Board while running a children's library service ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evangeline Walton
Evangeline Walton (24 November 1907 – 11 March 1996) was the pen name of Evangeline Wilna Ensley, an American writer of fantasy fiction. She remains popular in North America and Europe because of her “ability to humanize historical and mythological subjects with eloquence, humor and compassion”.Spencer, Paul. “Evangeline Walton: an interview.” ''Fantasy Review'', March 1985. Life Born in Indianapolis, Indiana to Marion Edmund Ensley and Wilna Eunice Ensley née Coyner, Walton came from a lively, educated, Quaker family. Walton suffered chronic respiratory illnesses as a child, and was privately or self-taught at home. Her parents separated and divorced in 1924. Growing up and living with her mother and her grandmother and witnessing her parents’ marital difficulties roused a natural feminism in Walton which appears throughout her writings. As a child, Walton enjoyed the works of L. Frank Baum, James Stephens, Lord Dunsany and Algernon Blackwood, which she would lat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evangeline Marrs Whipple
Evangeline Marrs Simpson Whipple (January 15, 1857 – September 1, 1930) was an American philanthropist and author, who was known for her humanitarian activities as a member of the American Red Cross in Europe during the First World War. Early life Evangeline E. Thurston Marrs was born in Wayland, Massachusetts. She was the only daughter born to Jane Van Poelien Marrs (1832–1906), an immigrant from England, and Dana Francis Marrs (b. 1826), a machinist and farmer from Ireland. Her older brother was photographer Kingsmill Marrs, who married Laura Norcross (a daughter of mayor Otis Norcross). Marriages First marriage In 1882, Evangeline was first married to Michael Hodge Simpson (1809–1884), a wealthy cotton manufacturer from Saxonville, Massachusetts, who was 48 years her senior. As a wedding present, he gave her $1 million () in bonds. While the newlyweds went on their honeymoon in Europe, Simpson commissioned a $150,000 () mansion to be built for Evangeline in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evangeline Lilly
Nicole Evangeline Lilly (born 3 August 1979) is a Canadian actress and author. She is the recipient of various accolades including a Screen Actors Guild Award and an MTV Movie Award. She has also received nominations for a Golden Globe Award, a Critics' Choice Movie Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a Saturn Award, an Empire Award and 10 Teen Choice Awards. She gained popular acclaim for her first leading role as Kate Austen in the ABC series ''Lost'' (2004–2010), which garnered her the nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Drama Series and won her a Screen Actors Guild Award. In 2008, she starred as Connie James in the Academy Award–winning war film ''The Hurt Locker'' (2008) and followed it with a role in the science fiction film ''Real Steel'' (2011). Lilly is also the author of a children's book series, ''The Squickerwonkers'' (2013–present). Lilly starred as Tauriel in Peter Jackson's ''The Hobbit'' film series, appearing in ''The Desola ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evangeline Bruce
Evangeline Bruce (née Bell) (November 27, 1914 – December 12, 1995) was an American society hostess and writer. Early life Evangeline was born on November 27, 1914. She was the eldest of two daughters born to Etelka Bertha (née Surtees) Bell (1891–1974) and American diplomat Edward J. Bell. Her father died in Peking while serving as the acting British Minister to China (when Minister Jacob Gould Schurman was back in Washington) in 1924. Her younger sister Virginia, married (and later divorced) Sir Henry Ashley Clarke, the British Ambassador to Italy. After the death of her father in 1924, her mother remarried to Sir James Leishman Dodds, a British career diplomat who served as the British Minister to Bolivia, Cuba and the Ambassador to Peru. From her mother's second marriage, she had a younger half-sister, Josephine Leishman Dodds, who married Squadron Leader Hugh Glyn Laurence Arthur Brooking, the King's Messenger, in 1949. Her maternal grandfather was Brig. G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evangeline Booth
Evangeline Cory Booth, OF (December 25, 1865July 17, 1950) was a British evangelist and the 4th General of The Salvation Army from 1934 to 1939. She was the first woman to hold the post. Early life She was born in South Hackney, London, England, the seventh of eight children born to William Booth and Catherine Mumford, who had earlier in the year founded The Christian Mission, which became The Salvation Army in 1878. Catherine Booth had recently read ''Uncle Tom's Cabin'' and wanted to name her baby 'Evangeline', but William Booth did not like the name and wrote 'Evelyne' on the birth certificate. Years later, while in the United States, Evelyne would be persuaded by Frances Willard, founder of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, to adopt the name 'Evangeline' as being more dignified and more befitting the commander of The Salvation Army in America.Notable American Women 1607–1950: A Biographical Dictionary, James, James, and Boyer Editors, The Belknap Press of Harvard ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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