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Fanny (given Name)
Fanny is a feminine given name. Its origins include diminutives of the French name Frances meaning "free one", and of the name "Estefanía", a Spanish version of Stephanie, meaning "crown". The name Fanny (פאני/פני) may also derive from Yiddish, as an anglicized Feigel, Feigele, Feiga or Fejga, meaning "bird". People Given name *Fanny Adams (1859–1867), English murder victim *Fanny Ardant (born 1949), French actress *Fanny Blankers-Koen (1918–2004), Dutch track and field athlete, Olympic and world champion and world record holder * Fanny Brice (1891–1951), stage name for the American comedian, actress and singer Fania Borach * Fanny Brownbill (1890–1948), Australian pioneering politician *Fanny Cano (1944–1983), Mexican actress and producer *Fanny DuBois Chase (1828–1902), American social reformer and author * Fanny Chmelar (born 1985), German alpine skier *Fanny Jackson Coppin (1837–1913), African-American educator and missionary *Fanny Cory (1877–1972) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frances
Frances is a French and English given name of Latin origin. In Latin the meaning of the name Frances is 'from France' or 'free one.' The male version of the name in English is Francis. The original Franciscus, meaning "Frenchman", comes from the Franks who were named for the francisca, the axe they used in battle. https://nameberry.com/babyname/frances Notable people and characters with the name include: People * Frances, Countess of Périgord (died 1481) * Frances (musician) (born 1993), British singer and songwriter * Frances Estill Beauchamp (1860-1923), American temperance activist, social reformer, lecturer * Frances Burke, Countess of Clanricarde (1567–1633), English noblewoman and Irish countess * Frances E. Burns (1866-1937), American social leader and business executive * Frances Carr, Countess of Somerset (1590–1632), central figure in a famous scandal and murder * Frances Lewis Brackett Damon (1857–1939), American poet, writer * Frances Davidson, Viscountess Da ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fanny Davies
Fanny Davies (27 June 1861 - 1 September 1934) was a British pianist who was particularly admired in Beethoven, Schumann, Brahms, and the early schools, but was also a very early London performer of the works of Debussy and Scriabin. In England, she was regarded as the 'successor' of Arabella Goddard, though her style and technique differed from Goddard's considerably. Davies was born in Guernsey. Her first public performances were in Birmingham at the age of six. She studied privately in Birmingham, then at Leipzig Conservatory under Carl Reinecke and Oscar Paul: she then studied under Clara Schumann at Frankfurt. Her concert career began with the Saturday and Monday popular concerts in 1885; with the Philharmonic concerts 1886; Berlin, 1887; Gewandhaus, Leipzig, 1888; Rome, 1889; Beethoven Festival at Bonn, 1893; Vienna Philharmonic, 1895; Milan, 1895 and 1904; Paris, 1902, 1904 and 1905; Netherlands, 1920 and 1921; Prague, 1920 and 1922; and Spain 1923. She was frequently e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fanny Létourneau
Fanny Létourneau (born June 24, 1979) is a Canadian former synchronized swimmer and Olympian. Career Létourneau was a two-time Olympian, competing for Canada in the team and duet events at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia, winning a bronze medal in the team event, and at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. With partner Claire Carver-Dias Létourneau won gold medals at the 1999 Pan American Games and at the 2002 Commonwealth Games The 2002 Commonwealth Games, officially known as the XVII Commonwealth Games and commonly known as Manchester 2002 were held in Manchester, England, from 25 July to 4 August, 2002. The 2002 Games were to be hosted in the United Kingdom to coin ... in Manchester. After the 2004 Olympics, Létourneau decided to retire from the sport. References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Letourneau, Fanny 1979 births Living people Canadian synchronized swimmers Olympic synchronized swimmers of Canada Olympic medalists in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fanny Law
Fanny Law Fan Chiu-fun (; ' Fan; born 24 February 1953) is a former non-official member of the Executive Council of Hong Kong. She was awarded the Grand Bauhinia Medal (GBM) by the Hong Kong SAR Government in 2017. Law held the posts of Secretary for Education and Manpower (until 2002), and Permanent Secretary for Education and Manpower (until 2006). In late 2006, she was appointed Commissioner, Independent Commission Against Corruption. She resigned from the post following a government inquiry into interference with academic freedom at the Hong Kong Institute of Education while she was Permanent Secretary. However the Court of First Instance held that Law did not violate the institute's right to academic freedom when she contacted academics directly. The judicial review was allowed on 13 March 2009 but this did not affect the commission's findings with regard to their terms of reference. Careers Law joined the Hong Kong Government as an Executive Officer in September 197 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fanny Lam Christie
Fanny Lam Christie (born 1952) is a Hong Kong-born artist who specializes in sculpture and works in Scotland. She currently works from her studio in Perthshire, Scotland. Education In 2004, Christie graduated with a Bachelor of Arts with Honours from the Edinburgh College of Art. She previously studied painting in Hong Kong in the 1970s, followed by studies in business administration and art education. Work Christie's work often focuses on the human relationship with nature. University of Stirling, Perth & Kinross Council and the Scottish Sculpture Park hold works by Christie. She works mainly in bronze and clay, and undertakes private and public commissions as well as site-specific artworks. In 2014–2015, Christie undertook a residency at Stirling University's Institute of Aquaculture. As part of the Grassroots Public Art Grant programme run by West Lothian Council, Christie created a work in Armadale in 2010. Christie is a member of several professional organisations i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fanny Kekelaokalani
Fanny Kekuʻiapoiwa Kailikulani Leleoili Kulua Kekelaokalani Young Naʻea (July 21, 1806 – September 4, 1880), was a Hawaiian high chiefess and a member of the royal family of the Hawaiian Kingdom, and mother of Queen Emma of Hawaii. Early life She was born, July 21, 1806 in Kawaihae, in the Kohala District, on the Island of Hawaiʻi. Her father was John Young, a former English sailor who became the royal advisor of Kamehameha I. Her mother was the High Chiefess Kaʻoanaʻeha, the niece of Kamehameha I. She was given the name of Fanny or Fannie and sometimes referred to as Pane the Hawaiian version of Fanny. Her Hawaiian name Kekelaokalani derived from her great-great grandmother, the High Chiefess Kekelaokalani, the sister of Keeaumoku-nui, the grandfather of Kamehameha the Great. Her name Kekuiapoiwa derived from Kamehameha's mother and her great-grandmother. She was raised on her father's homestead on a barren hillside overlooking Kawaihae Bay. It is now part of Puʻ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fanny Kaplan
Fanny Efimovna Kaplan (russian: Фа́нни Ефи́мовна Капла́н, links=no; real name Feiga Haimovna Roytblat, ; February 10, 1890 – September 3, 1918) was a Ukrainian Jewish woman, Socialist-Revolutionary, and early Soviet dissident. She was arrested for the attempted assassination of Vladimir Lenin and was executed by the Cheka in 1918. As a member of the Socialist Revolutionary Party, Kaplan viewed Lenin as a "traitor to the revolution" when the Bolsheviks enacted one-party rule and banned her party. On August 30, 1918, she approached Lenin, who was leaving a Moscow factory, and fired three shots, which badly injured him. Interrogated by the Cheka, she refused to name any accomplices and was executed. The Kaplan attempt and the Moisei Uritsky assassination was used by the government of Soviet Russia for the reinstatement of the death penalty, which had been abolished by the Russian Provisional Government in March 1917. Early life Relatively little is known for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fanny Howe
Fanny Howe (born October 15, 1940 in Buffalo, New York) is an American poet, novelist, and short story writer. Howe has written more than 20 books of poetry and prose. Her major works include poetry such as ''One Crossed Out'', ''Gone'', and ''Second Childhood'', the novels ''Nod'', ''The Deep North'', and ''Indivisible,'' and collected essays ''The Wedding Dress: Meditations on Word and Life and The Winter Sun: Notes on a Vocation''. She was awarded the 2009 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize by the Poetry Foundation as well as awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Poetry Foundation, the California Council for the Arts, and the Village Voice. She is professor emerita of Writing and Literature at the University of California, San Diego. She lives in Boston, Massachusetts. Early life and education Howe was born in Buffalo, New York. When her father Mark De Wolfe Howe left to join the fighting in World War II, Howe and her mother, the Irish playwright Mary Manning, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fanny Holland
Fanny Holland (14 September 1847 – 18 June 1931) was an English singer and comic actress primarily known as the creator of principal soprano roles in numerous German Reed Entertainments. Life and career Holland was born in London and trained at the Royal Academy of Music. She was the daughter of John Holland and his wife Meriel Ann ''nee'' Marshall. For several years, she was a popular concert singer in London and the British provinces. Frederic Clay engaged her for a part in an operetta he had written. It was performed in Canterbury and included a song for Holland that she popularised, "She Wandered Down the Mountain Side." Soon after that experience, Holland made her London stage debut with the German Reed Entertainments at the Gallery of Illustration, in November 1869, as Rose in W. S. Gilbert and Clay's ''Ages Ago''. Holland eventually appeared in scores of German Reed productions. They included four more of Gilbert's German Reed pieces: ''Our Island Home'' (1870), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fanny Hertz
Fanny Hertz (1830 – 31 March 1908) was a British educationalist and feminist who worked to establish and promote various institutions for female education in Bradford. Early life Hertz was born in Hanover in Germany to diamond merchant Bram Hertz. She counted herself a descendant of Heinrich Hertz. She moved to London in 1837, and lived in both London and Bradford during that decade. She married her cousin, mill owner and yarn merchant William David Hertz at St James's Church, Westminster in 1851, with whom she had three children. Their Bradford home served as a meeting place for artists, thinkers and radicals. She met and befriended Frederic Harrison. Through Harrison and her circle of associates in Bradford, Hertz embraced the philosophy of positivism. Women's education Hertz was a proponent of women's education, in particular for working-class women who were not eligible to study in Mechanics' Institutes. She was associated with the Huddersfield Female Educational Instit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fanny Furner
Fanny Furner (1864–1938) was an activist who worked to further the rights of women and children in the early 1900s in Sydney. Accomplishments Fanny Furner was one of the first female JPs in New South WalesNew South Wales Government Gazette, 16 August 1922 and along with fellow member of the Theosophical Society, Mrs AV Roberts, the first women to stand for election in local government - Mrs Roberts in North Shore, Fanny in Manly. Furner was instrumental in setting up a Memorial at the gates at the Wharves in Woolloomooloo to commemorate the place from where most of the men embarked for the First World War. She was also instrumental in getting the Children's Playground near the wharf at Manly built (opposite the police station). Furner was responsible for the Home Mission Society bins being placed at the Manly Wharves. Media Attention Furner had many articles in The Manly Daily on civic and social matters and was friendly with the editor and owner. However the paper was bur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fanny Fischer
Fanny Fischer (born 7 September 1986 in Potsdam) is a German sprint canoer who has been competing since 1996 and on the senior circuit since 2006.Website biography. – accessed 22 August 2008. She won a gold in the women's K-4 500 m event at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing and finished fourth in the K-2 500 m event at those same games. At the |
