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Fontaine (surname)
Fontaine is a French topographic surname for someone who lived near a spring or well. It was originally found in northern and central France. Variants of Fontaine include Fountain, La Fontaine, Lafontaine, and de La Fontaine. Notable people with the name include: People * Adélard Fontaine (1892–1967), Liberal party member of the Canadian House of Commons *Anne Fontaine, filmmaker. * Anne Fontaine (designer) (born 1971), Paris-based fashion designer *Arturo Fontaine Talavera (born 1952), Chilean writer and political philosopher * Audrey Fontaine (born 1992), a French badminton player * Bertha V. Fontaine (1929–1986), American home economist *Brigitte Fontaine (born 1939), a French singer and musician * Carole R. Fontaine (born 1950), American biblical scholar *Chris Fontaine (born 1981), American professional stock car racing driver * Claudia Fontaine, British backing singer *Cynthia Lee Fontaine, Puerto Rican drag queen *Del Fontaine, Canadian boxer executed for murder * Dick ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Topographic Surname
A toponymic surname or topographic surname is a surname derived from a place name."Toponymic Surnames as Evidence of the Origin: Some Medieval Views" , by Benjamin Z. Kedar. This can include specific locations, such as the individual's place of origin, residence, or of lands that they held, or can be more generic, derived from topographic features.Iris Shagir, "The Medieval Evolution of By-naming: Notions from the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem", ''In Laudem Hierosolymitani'' (Shagir, Ellenblum & Riley-Smith, eds.), Ashgate Publishing, 2007, pp. 49-59. Toponymic surnames originated as non-hereditary personal s, and only subsequently came to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cynthia Lee Fontaine
Cynthia Lee Fontaine is the stage name of Carlos Díaz Hernández, a Puerto Rican drag performer and reality television personality from Austin, Texas, best known for competing on the RuPaul's Drag Race (season 8), eighth and RuPaul's Drag Race (season 9), ninth seasons of ''RuPaul's Drag Race''. She won the title of Miss Congeniality on season 8. Early life and education Hernández was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico as the oldest child of Maria Hernandez. He has a degree in clinical psychology and worked in the mental health field for six years before starting drag. Hernández began doing drag in Puerto Rico in 2006, and moved to Killeen, Texas in 2008, where he started performing at Oil Can Harry's. He moved to Austin, Texas, Austin in 2011 and continued performing. Career Fontaine competed on the RuPaul's Drag Race (season 8), eighth season of ''RuPaul's Drag Race'', which premiered on March 7, 2016. During the show, she frequently referred to her "cucu", meaning buttocks, whic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacquelynne Fontaine
Jacquelynne Noelle Fontaine (born September 20, 1982) is an American opera singer, actress, and beauty pageant titleholder. She held the title of Miss California 2006, finished in the top 10 and won a preliminary talent award at Miss America in 2007. She is known for her performance as Carlotta Giudicelli in the adaptation of ''The Phantom of the Opera'' by Andrew Lloyd Webber at the Academy of Music. Early life Fontaine graduated from Oxnard High School. In 2004, she graduated from the California Lutheran University in Thousand Oaks with a bachelor's degree in music. Fontaine completed her master's degree in Vocal Arts from University of Southern California in 2008. She completed two years at the Thornton School of Music, and currently studies with David Jones in New York City. She is a member of the Actors Equity Association (AEA). She is represented for classical engagements by John Miller of Pinnacle Arts Management, and by Professional Artists for musical theater and stag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isaac Fontaine
Isaac Henry Sedric Fontaine IV (born April 16, 1975) is an American former professional player. Born in , he played collegiately at . He played in the NBA for the |
Hippolyte Fontaine
Hippolyte Fontaine (born François-Hypolite Fontaine, 12 April 1833 in Dijon – 17 February 1910 in Hyères) was a French electrical engineer who worked with Zénobe Gramme on the development of the Gramme machine (the first industrially viable electrical generator), and whose contributions were essential to the creation of the dynamo. He was the first to transmit electricity via electrical wires. During the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–1871, Fontaine managed the production of cannons in Paris. Colleagues he met in this position recommended him to Zenobe Gramme, and in 1871, Fontaine was hired to administer the newly established Société des Machines magnéto-électriques Gramme, a corporation dedicated to the development of the Gramme machine. In this role, he accompanied Gramme to the Weltausstellung 1873 Wien, where he demonstrated the reversibility of the electrical generator and the transmission of electricity over a two-kilometre distance via copper wiring. In 1881, he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henri Fontaine
Henri Fontaine (; 20 July 1924 – 31 January 2020), was a French Roman Catholic missionary. He was also a pre-Tertiary geologist/paleontologist, Paleozoic corals specialist, and archaeologist. Biography Fontaine was born in Normandy, France in July 1924. Admitted into the Society of Foreign Missions of Paris and ordained in 1948, he was sent to Hanoi (Vietnam) in 1951 as professor at the Petit Séminaire. Meantime, he plunged into the study of Devonian corals of Indochina and Yunnan. In 1954 when Viet Nam was divided into North and South, he settled at Saigon. When he arrived in Saigon, there was neither a geological survey nor geologists. Upon the request of the Government of South Viet Nam, he set up and oversaw the new Geological Survey, and carried out research into limestone and coal for developing a cement factory and coal mine, pure silica sands for glassworks, and mineral springs for drinking and medicinal waters. Mineral water of the Dangun Spring (Province of Binh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Godfrey Of Fontaines
Godfrey of Fontaines (born sometime before 1250, died 29 October 1306 or 1309), in Latin Godefridus de Fontibus, was a scholastic philosopher and theologian, designated by the title Doctor Venerandus. He made contributions to a diverse range of subjects ranging from moral philosophy to epistemology. However, he is best known today for his work on metaphysics. Early biography Godfrey was born sometime before 1250 in the principality of Liège in present-day Belgium. He was likely born at Fontaines-les-Hozémont, a château owned by his noble family. Formation Godfrey was a student at the University of Paris by at least 1277, but more probably as early as 1270, as he was likely there during the second regency of Thomas Aquinas (1269-1272) who had returned to Paris from the Santa Sabina ''studium provinciale''. Aquinas' teaching was perhaps the strongest influence on Godfrey's own thought, though he differed on issues such as the principle of individuation, and the distinction ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gabriel Fontaine
Gabriel Fontaine (born 17 September 1940 in Saint-Lambert-de-Lauzon, Quebec) was a Progressive Conservative member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was a chartered administrator and consultant by career. He represented the Quebec riding of Lévis where he was first elected in the 1984 federal election and re-elected in 1988, therefore becoming a member in the 33rd and 34th Canadian Parliament The 34th Canadian Parliament was in session from December 12, 1988, until September 8, 1993. The membership was set by the 1988 federal election on November 21, 1988, and it changed only somewhat due to resignations and by-elections until it wa ...s. Fontaine did not seek a third term in Parliament and left federal politics in 1993. External links * 1940 births Living people Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Quebec Progressive Conservative Party of Canada MPs People from Chaudière-Appalaches {{ProgressiveConservative-Quebec-MP-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Fontaine
Frank Fontaine (April 19, 1920 – August 4, 1978) was an American stage, radio, film and television comedian, singer and actor. Early years and personal life Born and raised in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Fontaine came from a family of entertainers. His father, Ray Fontaine, of French-Canadian descent, was a popular vocalist whose career in Canada resulted in his being compared to Bing Crosby. His mother, Anna McCarthy, of Irish and Scottish descent, performed as a dancer, and he had a brother who also became a singer. Fontaine left school and married at age sixteen. Two days before his 17th birthday, he married his childhood sweetheart, Alma Clair Wakeham, and moved to Medford. He went right to work as an all‐purpose singer‐dancer‐comedian in Boston area supper clubs. After Pearl Harbor, he spent three years in the Army. He had a reputation as a family man, known for being devoted to his wife and children. He would rearrange his schedule so that he was never away from th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Fontaine
Francis Fontaine (May 7, 1845 – May 3, 1901) was an American Confederate soldier, plantation owner, newspaper editor, poet and novelist from the state of Georgia. Early life Francis Fontaine was born on May 7, 1845, in Columbus, Georgia. In 1885, he remarried to Nathalie Hamilton. They resided in Atlanta, Georgia. Fontaine died in Atlanta, Georgia on May 3, 1901, at the age of 55. He was buried at Lindwood Cemetery in Columbus, Georgia. Bibliography Poetry *''The Exile: A Tale of St. Augustine'' (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1878). Non-fiction *''The State of Georgia: What It Offers to Immigrants, Capitalists, Producers and Manufacturers, and Those Desiring to Better their Condition'' (1881). Novels *''Etowah: A Romance of the Confederacy'' (1887). *''Amanda, the Octoroon'' ( J. P. Harrison, 1891). *''The Modern Pariah: A Story of the South'' (1892). References {{DEFAULTSORT:Fontaine, Francis 1845 births 1901 deaths Writers from Columbus, Georgia Writers from Atlanta Conf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fontaine (singer)
Fontaine Weyman, better known mononymously as Fontaine, and more recently “Saint Joan”, is a singer, songwriter, who spent the better part of eighteen years writing and recording in Los Angeles, California. She now resides in Charleston, South Carolina. Born May 7, 1979, in a small village in France, she was raised in South Carolina. In 2006, she self-released her debut album, ''The Chemistry Between Us''. The track "Long Way Home" is featured in the film '' All In'', starring Michael Madsen, Dominique Swain and Louis Gosset Jr. The track "Running on Empty" was used in a scene of the Fx network television show ''Justified'' (Season 5, episode 3). In 2009, she released a follow-up album, ''Beautiful Thing''.. Years later, Fontaine worked with friend and producer, Joseph Holiday, the other half of their electronica side project, “Ex Lions”. Their song “Hail Mary” was featured in an episode of ''True Blood'' (Season 6, episode 5) and also appeared in an episode of '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eva Fontaine
Eva Fontaine (born 1974) is an English actress, known for her role as Faith Walker in the BBC soap opera ''Doctors'' between 2001 and 2006. The role gave her nominations in 2004 and 2006 for the British Soap Award for Best Actress. Life and career Fontaine received her training as an actress at the Anna Scher Theatre School. Fontaine was also a member of the British Shakespeare Company, playing Juliet in their touring production of ''Romeo and Juliet'', and she later played the leading character of Fran in the 2001 British horror film ''Dead Creatures''. From 2001 to 2006, Fontaine portrayed the role of Faith Walker in the BBC soap opera ''Doctors''. Her portrayal of the role resulted in two nominations for the British Soap Award for Best Actress. From 2018 to 2019, Fontaine appeared in the ITV soap opera ''Emmerdale'', as Dr Hamley. Later in 2019, she appeared in the BBC soap opera ''EastEnders'' as Claire Amartey, a case worker for Ruby Allen. She appeared in five episodes. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
