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Frederique
Frederique is a French female given name, which is equivalent to the male name Frederick, meaning "peaceful ruler". Alternative spellings include Frédérique and Frederieke. The name Frederique may refer to: People * Frédérique Apffel-Marglin (born 1951), American anthropologist * Frédérique Audouin-Rouzeau (born 1957), French writer *Frédérique Bel (born 1975), French actress *Frederique Darragon (1949), French explorer * Frederique Derkx (born 1994), Dutch hockey player *Frédérique Dumas (born 1963), French film producer * Frédérique Lambert (born 1992), Canadian racquetball player * Frédérique Lenger (1921–2005), Belgian mathematics educator *Fredrique Paijkull (1836-1899), Swedish educator * Frédérique Petrides (1903–1983), American conductor *Frédérique Ries (born 1959), Belgian politician *Frederieke Saeijs (born 1979), Dutch violinist * Frederique Trunk (born 1962), French musician * Frédérique Turgeon (born 1999), Canadian para-alpine skier *Frederiqu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederique Van Der Wal
Frederique Van Der Wal (also Frédérique van der Wal) is a former model from The Netherlands, known for having appeared in Victoria's Secret and on the covers of magazines such as ''Cosmopolitan'' and ''Vogue''. She grew up in The Hague. Career Van der Wal has appeared in campaigns for Revlon, Guess, and Victoria's Secret. She has also been profiled in Forbes and InStyle." In 2003, Van der Wal appeared in a stage production of ''The Vagina Monologues'' (Washington D.C.), and has performed in films by directors Barry Sonnenfeld (''Wild Wild West''), Woody Allen (''Celebrity''), James Toback (''Two Girls and a Guy'') and Wim Wenders. Van der Wal has produced and appeared on television programs including "''World Class with Frederique''" for the Scripts network, The Ultimate Holiday Towns USA, a two-hour special for A&E, as well as broadcasts in her native Holland. She was the "Mole" in the Hawaii celebrity edition of ABC's popular TV series, '' The Mole'', and was the host and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederique Derkx
Frederique Derkx (born 20 February 1994, Heeze) is a Dutch field hockey player. Life Derkx started her hockey career at Hockey Heeze. She later played for HC Den Bosch, where she won two national championships, before moving to Oranje Zwart in 2012. In 2015 she moved to SCHC, where she still plays. Derkx was a member of the junior Netherlands women's national field hockey team that won the field hockey tournament at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics. She was a member of the Netherlands team that won the 2014 Women's Hockey World Cup. In 2016 Derkx did not make the final squad for the Olympics. Following this, she announced her retirement from the Dutch national team, having suffered the second hernia in her career. She played a total of 56 caps for the Dutch national squad. In February 2018 Derkx was surprised to find that she had returned to fitness. She had stopped playing and had been concentrating on her job of coaching at a specialist sports school in Eindhoven. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederique Trunk
Frederique is a French female given name, which is equivalent to the male name Frederick, meaning "peaceful ruler". Alternative spellings include Frédérique and Frederieke. The name Frederique may refer to: People * Frédérique Apffel-Marglin (born 1951), American anthropologist * Frédérique Audouin-Rouzeau (born 1957), French writer *Frédérique Bel (born 1975), French actress *Frederique Darragon (1949), French explorer * Frederique Derkx (born 1994), Dutch hockey player *Frédérique Dumas (born 1963), French film producer * Frédérique Lambert (born 1992), Canadian racquetball player * Frédérique Lenger (1921–2005), Belgian mathematics educator * Fredrique Paijkull (1836-1899), Swedish educator * Frédérique Petrides (1903–1983), American conductor *Frédérique Ries (born 1959), Belgian politician *Frederieke Saeijs (born 1979), Dutch violinist * Frederique Trunk (born 1962), French musician * Frédérique Turgeon (born 1999), Canadian para-alpine skier *Frederiq ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frédérique Ries
Frédérique Ries (born 14 May 1959) is a Belgian politician and Member of the European Parliament for the French Community of Belgium with the MR/ MCC/ PRL, part of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe. She is a member of the delegation of the European Parliament for relations with Israel. She is vice-president of the Israel lobby group European Friends of Israel. Early life and career Ries graduated in Economics and mastered in Journalism at the University of Liège in 1981. Ries worked as commercial director at Radio FM56 from 1981 to 1984. In 1984, she was hired at RTL (Radio Télévision Luxembourg) first in Luxembourg, as a producer and TV presenter from 1984 to 1987, then in Brussels where she edited and presented the news from 1987 to 1998. Political career In 1999, Ries joined the MR (PRL at the time) to become a candidate on the European elections list. Elected Member of the European Parliament since 1999, she has since been a member of the Committe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frédérique Petrides
Frédérique Petrides (pronounced peh TREE dis), (September 26, 1903 – January 12, 1983), was a Belgian-American conductor and violinist. In 1933, she founded and conducted the Orchestrette Classique in New York. It consisted of women musicians and premiered works by then relatively untried American composers, such as Paul Creston, Samuel Barber and David Diamond, that are now widely played and celebrated. She also edited and published the ground-breaking newsletter, ''Women in Music'', which highlighted the activities of professional women musicians throughout the ages. In addition, she founded several concert series in Manhattan, including the West Side Orchestral Concerts, the Student Symphony Society of New York, and the Carl Schurz Park concerts. A pioneer and advocate In 1933, when Frédérique Petrides first presented her Orchestrette Classique, it was almost unheard of for a woman to be an orchestral conductor. And even at the close of her career, in 1977, not ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frédérique Lenger
Frédérique Papy-Lenger (August 12, 1921 – January 9, 2005) was a Belgian mathematician and mathematics educator active in the New Math movement of the 1960s and 1970s. Early life and education Frédérique Lenger was born on August 12, 1921 in Arlon, Belgium, one of three daughters of a lawyer. After studying classics in the Lycée Royal d’Arlon, she studied for a licentiate in mathematics at the Université libre de Bruxelles from 1939 to 1943. The University officially closed in 1941 to prevent its takeover by the German occupation, and her studies continued underground. In 1968, she completed a doctorate with a two-part thesis, one part on mathematics education and the other on geometric transformation groups. Career From 1947 to 1950, Lenger taught mathematics at the l’Ecole Decroly, while working as an assistant to mathematician Paul Libois, who suggested that she perform research involving projective geometry and triality. This became a precursor to the work of a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frédérique Bel
Frédérique Bel (born 24 March 1975) is a French actress and model. A native of Annecy in the French Alps, she became known for her role as Dorothy Doll in the ''La Minute Blonde'' sequence from '' Le Grand Journal'' on Canal+. She has since played main and supporting roles in many productions. Early life and education Frédérique Bel was born in Annecy in the department of Haute-Savoie. After obtaining her baccalauréat, she moved to the region of Alsace where she studied modern literature at the Marc Bloch University of Strasbourg. She then graduated with a master degree and a DEUG in history of arts before joining the University Theater of Strasbourg. She later began a career as a lingerie and body lining model to pay her comedy classes. Acting career Movie roles Frédérique Bel made her acting debut in 2000 playing a small role in the comedy film ''Deuxième vie'' and later in the 2003 comedy film '' La Beuze''. She then had famous supporting roles in comedy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederique Darragon
Frederique Darragon (29 May 1949, Paris) is a French explorer known for her documentary film ''The Secret Towers of the Himalayas'', which chronicled her expedition to the mystifying stone towers of Sichuan and Tibet. She wrote a book also titled ''The Secret Towers of the Himalayas''. She is founder and president of the Unicorn Foundation, to which profits from the film were contributed. She is the co-founder of the Sichuan University Unicorn Heritage Institute. She made several important discoveries. By carbon-dating bits of wood from the internal structure of the towers, she confirmed that they were built 500 to 1,800 years ago. The fact that many of the towers have survived hundreds of earthquakes and tremors over the years, is probably due to their star-shaped design as well as to their construction method which intersperses masonry with wood planks or beams – an anti-seismic technique specific to this part of China and still employed in the region today. Combined with the v ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frédérique Lambert
Frédérique Lambert (born March 27, 1992) is a Canadian racquetball player. Lambert is the current Canadian Champion in Women's Singles and Women's Doubles, and has won seven Canadian Championships: four in Women's Singles and three in Women's Doubles. She has been a member of the Canadian National Team since 2008, and has won several medals in international competitions, most recently a bronze medal in Women's Doubles at the 2016 World Championships. Lambert was the #2 ranked player at the end of the 2017-18 Ladies Professional Racquetball Tour (LPRT) season. International career Lambert's first international appearance was at the 2008 Pan Am Championships, where she was a bronze medalist in doubles with Josée Grand'Maître, losing in the semi-finals to Chileans Angela Grisar and Fabiola Marquez. Since then, Lambert has played for Canada on nine other occasions. Her best results to date are silver medals at the 2016 and 2012 Pan American Championships. In 2016, she lost ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederick (given Name)
Frederick is a masculine given name meaning "peaceful ruler". It is the English form of the German name Friedrich. Its meaning is derived from the Germanic word elements ''frid'', or peace, and ''ric'', meaning "ruler" or "power". Frederick ranked among the top 100 names in the United States between 1880 and 1957 and has declined thereafter. It was ranked as the 536th most popular name for boys in 2009 in the United States. It ranked as the 99th most popular name for boys in England and Wales in 2007. Freddy, a short form, ranked as the 60th most popular name for boys in England and Wales in 2008. Short form Fred was among the most popular names for boys in Lower Saxony, Germany in 2010. Frederica is a feminine variant of the name Frederick. Variants *Afrikaans: Frederik *Breton: Frederig *Catalan: Frederic * Croatian: Fridrik, Miroslav *Czech: Bedřich, Bedříšek, Béda *Danish: Frederik, Frede *Dutch: Frederick, Frederik, Fred, Frits, Freek, Rik, Fedde * Emiliano-Romagnol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frédérique Dumas
Frédérique Dumas (born 18 May 1963) is a French film producer and politician of the Union of Democrats and Independents (UDI) who served as a member of the National Assembly from 2017 to 2022. She is the CEO of Studio 37, the film production subsidiary of Orange. Early life and education Dumas studied at the Institut Libre for International Relations Studies ( Panthéon-Assas University), and holds a bachelor's degree in information/communication. Film career From 1989 to 1993, Dumas was a film consultant for the French Ministry of Culture. At the same time, she was holding a director of development position at Polygram. In 1996, Dumas created NoéProductions, and IngaFilms in 2004, two independent film production companies based in Paris, France. In parallel, she was President of the ''Bureau de Liaison des Industries Cinématographiques'', the office that syndicates most of the French film unions. In 2005, she was a member of the jury for the 20th movie festival in Paris. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frédérique Turgeon
Frédérique Turgeon (born March 25, 1999) is a Canadian para-alpine skier. Career She won gold at the 2015 Canada Winter Games and silver and bronze twice at the 2019 World Para Alpine Skiing Championships. She also represented Canada at the 2018 Winter Paralympics and finished ninth in the giant slalom. She was born with congenital femoral deficiency Proximal femoral focal deficiency (PFFD), also known as Congenital Femoral Deficiency (CFD), is a rare, non-hereditary birth defect that affects the pelvis, particularly the hip bone, and the proximal femur. The disorder may affect one side or ... resulting in one of her legs being 50% shorter than the other. She broke her leg during a crash in December 2013. After the crash she stopped competing on both legs and now competes on one leg. References External links * * 1999 births Living people Paralympic alpine skiers of Canada Alpine skiers at the 2018 Winter Paralympics Skiers from Montreal 21st-century Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |