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Elsa (given Name)
Elsa is a female given name mostly used in the Scandinavian countries. Provenance Originally Elsa was simply a short form for the biblical name Elisabeth and some of its variants: Elisabet, Elisabetta and Elizabeth.NamepediA Blog – The Real Elsa Retrieved 7 July 2016. The first record mentioning the name were in at the 15th century, and became generally used after the 19th century. Variants *Eli *Elis *Elise * *Ella *Elle *Else *Elsie *Elys *Elza *Ilsa *Ilse *ElsStatistics [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Élise
Élise, Elise, Elyse or Elize is the shortened feminine French form of Elizabeth, coming originally from the Hebrew name אלישבע (אלי = My God שבע = oath) and meaning "My God is an oath" or "My God is abundance". People Élise * Élise Bruyère (1776–1847), a French painter who specialized in portraits and floral still lives * Élise Bussaglia (born 1985), French football player * Élise Crombez (born 1982), Belgian fashion model * Élise Fajgeles (born 1970), French politician * Élise Guilbault (born 1961), Canadian film and television actress * Élise Lucet (born 1963), French investigative journalist and television host * Élise Paré-Tousignant (1937–2018), Canadian music educator and administrator * Élise Rivet (1890–1945), French World War II heroine * Élise Turcotte (born 1957), Canadian writer Elise * Elise Averdieck (1808–1907), German social activist * Elise Burgin (born 1962), American tennis player * Elise Christie (born 1990), British ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elsa Fougt
Elsa Fougt (15 or 25 December 1744 – 19 June 1826) was a Swedish printer and newspaper editor. She managed the Royal Printery between 1772 and 1811 (first as a coworker with her spouse, from 1782 alone as director), and was responsible for the country's official print. She was also and the publisher and chief editor of the newspaper ''Stockholms Weckoblad'' from 1774 to 1779. She was an important figure in the literary market in Sweden. Life Fougt was the daughter of the royal printer Peter Momma and the publisher Anna Margareta von Bragner. In 1762 she married the official Henric Fougt Sr. When her parents died, both in 1772, Elsa and her spouse took over their businesses, of which the most important was the Royal Printery, which they managed together until the death of her spouse in 1782. As a widow, she managed the business herself and in her own name for nearly thirty years. Elsa Fougt published French, German and Swedish drama, and imported books from the Société typ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elsa Maxwell
Elsa Maxwell (May 24, 1883 – November 1, 1963) was an American gossip columnist and author, songwriter, screenwriter, radio personality and professional hostess renowned for her parties for royalty and high society figures of her day. Maxwell is credited with the introduction of the scavenger hunt and treasure hunt for use as party games in the modern era. Her radio program, ''Elsa Maxwell's Party Line'', began in 1942; she also wrote a syndicated gossip column. She appeared as herself in the films ''Stage Door Canteen'' (1943) and ''Rhapsody in Blue'' (1945), as well as co-starring in the film ''Hotel for Women'' (1939), for which she wrote the screenplay and a song. Biography In spite of the persistent rumor that Elsa Maxwell was born at a theater in Keokuk, Iowa, during a performance of the opera ''Mignon'', she actually admitted late in life that the outlandish story was a fabrication that she went along with, since she was actually born at her maternal grandmother's h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elsa Martinelli
Elsa Martinelli (born Elisa Tia; 30 January 1935 – 8 July 2017) was an Italian actress and fashion model. Life and career Born Elisa Tia in Grosseto, Tuscany, she moved to Rome with her family. In 1953, she was discovered by Roberto Capucci who introduced her to the world of fashion. She became a model and began playing small roles in films. She appeared in Claude Autant-Lara's ''Le Rouge et le Noir'' (1954), but her first important film role came the following year with ''The Indian Fighter'' opposite Kirk Douglas, who claimed to have spotted her on a magazine cover and hired her for his production company, Bryna Productions. Douglas subsequently signed her to a two pictures a year for two years non-exclusive contract with Bryna Productions in February 1956. She was loaned out from Bryna Productions to Universal-International Pictures in March 1956 for the film ''Four Girls in Town''. In 1956, she won the Silver Bear for Best Actress at the 6th Berlin International Film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elsa Majimbo
Elsa Majimbo (born June 29, 2001) is a Kenyan internet comedienne from Nairobi. Her satirical monologues usually feature her eating potato crisps, leaning back to a pillow and using a pair of tiny 1990's sunglasses as a prop. Majimbo gained recognition in early 2020 during the COVID-19 quarantine period by making home-based funny quarantine videos. In February 2021, she partnered with luxury brand Valentino. By the end of that year, she had received endorsements from both Fenty and MAC. Career and education Elsa was a student of journalism from Strathmore University, Nairobi. Her monologue videos went viral during the COVID-19 lockdown. Chess career Majimbo is a chess player and she has participated in chess tournaments in the past. However, she has not embarked on a professional chess career and she is not rated by FIDE. In 2017 she played in the Kenya National Youth Chess Championship Finals - U16 Girls and scored fourth. She also participated in school chess tournaments ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elsa Lunghini
Elsa Lunghini, stage name Elsa (born 20 May 1973), is a French singer and actress. She was a teenage pop-star in the late-1980s. In 1986, she was the youngest singer to reach number one in the French charts, with the single " T'en va pas", and she went on to sell millions of records during the decade. '' Elsa'', her album of 1988, had achieved double-platinum status by 1993. Biography Daughter of George Lunghini (actor, photographer and songwriter) and Christiane Jobert (painter and also sister of actress Marlène Jobert and Charles Jobert, a camera operator and director of photography), she is of Italian origin on her father's side, and of Sephardic Jewish origin on her mother's side.Telle mère, quelle fille'', Novembre 2010, Par Sophie Carquain, ''Madame'', Le Figaro She is a cousin of actresses Eva Green and Josephine Jobert. Lunghini first performed in a movie at age seven, in 1981, in Claude Miller's ''Garde à vue'' (also starring Romy Schneider). She was the youngest a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elsa Lindberg-Dovlette
Elsa Cecilia Maria Lindberg-Dovlette (13 February 1874 – 8 October 1944) was a Swedish people, Swedish writer and Qajar Iran, Persian princess, known for her stories from a harem, an environment little understood in Europe at the time. Born in Stockholm to Finnish parents, she married a Persian prince in 1902 and moved into a harem, initially in Constantinople and later in Monaco. She wrote about harem life informed by her own experience, particularly that of being a European in an Asian culture. Her stories covered the complexity of harem life in the Ottoman Empire in the period before the World War I, First World War when traditional beliefs and practices were being challenged by new ideas. The books proved popular and were translated into Dutch, Finnish, French and German. Biography Elsa Cecilia Maria Lindberg was born in Stockholm on 13 February 1874, the daughter of Johan Lindberg, a professor of music and Emmy Wiik, a native of Finland. She started writing for children. Her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elsa Leviseur
Bibliography Elsa Leviseur is a South African architect specializing in landscape and ecology. She practiced in South Africa and later in England and the US. She was born in Pretoria, South Africa in 1932. Her mother was Beryl Iris Basson (1887-1970) and her father was doctor Ernest Alfred Leviseur (1890-1976). She married conductor Ernest Fleischmann in 1953 at the age of 22. Motivated by her friends and her keen interest in forestry, she joined architecture and earned a B.Arch. degree at the University of Cape Town School of Architecture in 1954. She started a small office in South Africa and worked on designing hospitals, housing complexes and commercial projects. The political and social conditions in her home town were difficult due to Apartheid. In 1959, when her husband got an opportunity to work as director at the London Symphony Orchestra, they decided to move to England. There she gave birth to two daughters and a son (Stephanie, Martin and Jessica) to whom she devote ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elsa Lanchester
Elsa Sullivan Lanchester (28 October 1902 – 26 December 1986) was a British-American actress with a long career in theatre, film and television.Obituary ''Variety'', 31 December 1986. Lanchester studied dance as a child and after the First World War began performing in theatre and cabaret, where she established her career over the following decade. She met the actor Charles Laughton in 1927, and they were married two years later. She began playing small roles in British films, including the role of Anne of Cleves with Laughton in ''The Private Life of Henry VIII'' (1933). Her success in American films resulted in the couple moving to Hollywood, where Lanchester played small film roles. Her role as the title character in ''Bride of Frankenstein'' (1935) brought her recognition. She played supporting roles through the 1940s and 1950s. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for ''Come to the Stable'' (1949) and ''Witness for the Prosecution'' ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elsa Klensch
Elsa Klensch ( Aeschbacher; 21 February 1930 – 4 March 2022) was an Australian-American journalist, novelist, and television personality, often working in the world of fashion. She was the producer and host of '' Style with Elsa Klensch'', CNN's weekly fashion and design television program, which ran from 1980 to 2001. Biography Klensch was born on 21 February 1930 in Cooranbong, in the Lake Macquarie District of New South Wales, to Johann Ernst and Mary Margaret (née Miles) Aeschbacher. She was married to Charles Klensch, whom she met in Hong Kong while he was on leave from his post as Saigon, South Vietnam, news bureau manager for the American Broadcasting Company. They were married in 1966 in wartime Saigon and then settled in New York City. Klensch worked at the ''Sydney Telegraph'', ''Australian Broadcasting Corporation'', and the Public Information Office of the Territory of Papua and New Guinea. She edited the ''Hong Kong Trade Bulletin'', ''Women's Wear Daily'', a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elsa Kazi
Elsa Kazi (1884–1967), commonly known as "Mother Elsa", particularly in the Sindh province of Pakistan was a German writer of one-act plays, short stories, novels and history, and a poet. She was a composer and a musician of considerable achievement, involved in virtually every conspicuous branch of fine arts. Her paintings are often seen in many distinguished family homes. Although not well conversant with the Sindhi language, she managed to develop some of the best translations of selected verses of Shah Abdul Latif into English with the support of her husband, Allama I. I. Kazi. She successfully couched the substance of those verses in a poetical setting which, in musical terms, reflects the original Sindhi metrical structure and expression in which Latif had cast them. Her translation of Shah Abdul Latif's poetry is considered by many to be the best in English. Her works have been the subject of several doctoral theses. She is also famous for her stories for children. Fur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elsa Hosk
Elsa Anna Sofie Hosk (born in Stockholm on 7 November 1988) is a Swedish-based model and former Victoria's Secret Angel, who has worked for brands including Dior, Dolce & Gabbana, Ungaro, H&M, Anna Sui, Lilly Pulitzer and Guess. She modeled for Victoria's Secret, appearing in the brand's annual fashion show from 2011 to 2018. She has also appeared in many of the brand's campaigns, especially for the sub-division PINK. In 2015, she was announced as one of 10 new Victoria's Secret Angels. She has also played professional basketball in Sweden. Career Hosk was born in Stockholm on 7 November 1988 in Stockholm. Growing up in Sweden, Hosk was presented with offers to model during high school after her father submitted photographs to various modeling agencies in Sweden when she was 13; she began modeling at 14. She did some modeling in high school but decided to primarily concentrate on her studies instead (she did some notable work with Guess and other companies however). After gr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
