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Gisele (given Name)
Gisele or Gisèle is a given name. The name is from Old German gesel meaning to "pledge" and variant of Giselle, Gisela etc. Notable people with the name include: Gisele * Gisele Ben-Dor (born 1955), American Israeli orchestra conductor of Uruguayan origin * Gisele Bennett, American Professor of Electrical Engineering * Gisele Bomentre, Brazilian belly dancer and Brazilian Arabic singer * Gisele Bündchen (born 1980), Brazilian supermodel * Gisele Barreto Fetterman, Brazilian-American activist * Gisele Jackson, American house music diva *Gisele MacKenzie (1927–2003), Canadian singer *Gisele Marvin (born 1987), American ice hockey player * Gisele Miró (born 1968), Brazilian tennis player * Gisele de Oliveira (born 1980), Brazilian triple jumper Gisèle * Gisèle Barreau (born 1948), French composer * Gisèle Biémouret (born 1952), French politician and member of the National Assembly of France * Gisèle Bienne (born 1946), French writer and novelist * Gisèle Caille, French ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Female
Female (Venus symbol, symbol: ♀) is the sex of an organism that produces the large non-motile ovum, ova (egg cells), the type of gamete (sex cell) that fuses with the Sperm, male gamete during sexual reproduction. A female has larger gametes than a male. Females and males are results of the anisogamous reproduction system, wherein gametes are of different sizes, unlike isogamy where they are the same size. The exact mechanism of female gamete evolution remains unknown. In species that have males and females, Sex-determination system, sex-determination may be based on either sex chromosomes, or environmental conditions. Most female mammals, including female humans, have two X chromosomes. Female characteristics vary between different species with some species having pronounced Secondary sex characteristic, secondary female sex characteristics, such as the presence of pronounced mammary glands in mammals. In humans, the word ''female'' can also be used to refer to gender i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gisèle Bienne
Gisèle Bienne (born 1946 in Chavanges, Aube) is a List of French authors, French writer who has written many novels. She lives in Reims, where she conducts writing workshops after she has been literature teacher and painter. She has published more than a dozen novels and won two literary awards. She also writes for magazines. She writes for adults but for teens that she met in college and high schools. Works * ''Marie-salope'', 1976 * ''Douce amère'', 1977 * ''Rose enfance'', 1978 * ''Je ne veux plus aller à l'école'', 1980 * ''Bleu, je veux'', 1983 * ''Premières alliances'', 1988 * ''Rémuzor'', 1994 * ''Un cheval sans papiers'', 2005 * ''Chicago, je reviendrai'', 2007 * ''Tatiana, sous les toits'', 2008 * ''La chasse à l'enfant'', 2009 * ''Grandir avec le Stade de Reims'', 2022 External links 1946 births Living people People from Aube 20th-century French novelists 21st-century French novelists 20th-century French women writers 21st-century French women {{Franc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gisèle Ory
Gisèle Ory (born 30 April 1956 in Biel/Bienne) is a politician from the Canton of Neuchâtel in Switzerland. She is a member of the Socialist Party. Gisèle Ory graduated from the University of Lausanne (political sciences) in 1978. In 1996, she was elected to the Communal Council of Neuchâtel, the local Parliament. In 2001 she was elected to the National Council. From 2001 to 2002 she was Chairwoman of the Neuchâtel section of the SP, but had to leave because of her nomination as spokeswoman of the Federal Department of the Interior. Gisèle Ory was elected to the Council of States in 2003 along with Socialist Jean Studer. After Studer's resignation in 2006, she was joined by Pierre Bonhôte (Social Democratic Party of Switzerland), who won a by-election against Philippe Bauer (Liberal Party of Switzerland french: Parti liberal suisse it, Partito Liberale Svizzero rm, Partida liberala svizra , logo = LPS.Logo.jpg , foundation = , dissolution = , merged = FDP.The Li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gisèle Meygret
Gisèle Meygret (30 July 1963 – 25 July 1999) was a French fencer. She competed in the women's foil events at the 1988 and 1992 Summer Olympics. He won a bronze medal in the individual sabre event at the 1991 Mediterranean Games The XI Mediterranean Games, commonly known as the 1991 Mediterranean Games, were the 11th Mediterranean Games. The Games were held in Athens, Greece, from 28 June to 12 July 1991, where 2,762 athletes (2,176 men and 586 women) from 18 countries p .... References External links * 1963 births 1999 deaths French female foil fencers Olympic fencers for France Fencers at the 1988 Summer Olympics Fencers at the 1992 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Nice 20th-century French women Fencers at the 1991 Mediterranean Games Mediterranean Games bronze medalists for France Mediterranean Games medalists in fencing {{France-fencing-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gisèle Mendy
Gisèle Mendy (born 19 December 1979) is a Senegalese judoka, who played for the middleweight category. She won three medals for her division at the African Judo Championships (2005, 2006, and 2008). She also captured a silver medal in the same division at the 2007 All-Africa Games in Algiers, Algeria, losing out to Algeria's Rachida Ouerdane. Mendy represented Senegal at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where she competed for the women's 70 kg class. She lost the first preliminary round match, by an ippon (full point) and a te gatame (hand armlock), to German judoka and Olympic bronze medalist Annett Böhm. Because her opponent advanced further into the semi-finals, Mendy offered another shot for the bronze medal by entering the repechage rounds. Unfortunately, she was defeated in her first match by Ukraine's Nataliya Smal, who successfully scored a waza-ari-awasete-ippon (full point) and a kuchiki taoshi is a single leg takedown in Judo adopted later by the Kodokan i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gisèle Lestrange
Gisèle Lestrange or Gisèle de Lestrange, and after marriage, Gisèle Celan-Lestrange (19 March 1927 – 9 December 1991), was a French graphic artist. Biography Born in Paris, Lestrange studied drawing and painting at the Académie Julian in Paris from 1945 to 1949, and then etching at the Atelier Friedlaender, in Paris, from 1954 to 1957. She became a well-known engraver, working for the Atelier Lacourière-Frélaut in Paris as of 1964. Her father, a known supporter of the Vichy regime, died in 1943. On 21 December 1952 she married the poet Paul Celan, whom she had met in November 1951. The couple had two sons, Francois (b. 1953), who died immediately after birth, and Eric (b. 1955). As of 1967, however, she and Celan lived in separate homes. As a graphic artist, she illustrated the works of a number of well-known poets. Many of her works are linked to Celan's poems. She died in Paris, and was buried in the same grave as her husband, at Cimetière parisien de Thiais. Illust ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gisèle Lamoureux
Gisèle Lamoureux, (October 5, 1942 – June 23, 2018) was a Canadian photographer, botanist and ecologist. Biography Born in Montreal, Quebec, Lamoureux studied at the Université de Montréal and the Université Laval. She is the founder of Guides Fleurbec which made their debut in the 1970s. She is an activist for the protection of wild garlic since 1979, an initiative taken up when the Quebec law for the protection of endangered species was enacted. Awards and honours *1989 - Prix Georges-Préfontaine from the Association des biologistes du Québec *1996 - Knight of the Ordre national du Québec *1997 - Mérite de la conservation de la flore from the Quebec Ministry of Environment *1998 - Honoris causa Doctor of Sciences of the Université Laval *1999 - Made a Member of the Order of Canada for having "contributed to the protection of Canada's exceptional environment". *2015 - Prix Georges-Émile-Lapalme The Prix Georges-Émile-Lapalme is an award by the Government of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gisèle Lalonde
Gisèle Lalonde, (; June 28, 1933 – July 26 or 27, 2022) was a Canadian politician and community activist, who served as the mayor of Vanier, Ontario from 1985 to 1991. Biography She was born in Eastview (later renamed Vanier in 1969). She received a teaching certificate from the University of Ottawa and taught in the Ottawa area from 1951 to 1973. During that time, she was also a member of the French Separate School Board for 13 years. She acted as an advisor on the subject of francophone education to Ministry of Education in Ontario and also chaired a council which advised Premier of Ontario on francophone matters. She ran for the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario in the 1977 Ontario general election in the riding of Ottawa East, losing to Liberal Albert Roy. She married Gilles Lalonde. She was elected mayor of Vanier in 1985. In 1988, she founded and was the first president of the Francophone Association of Municipalities of Ontario. She was a key leade ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gisèle Lagacé
Gisèle Lagacé (born June 16, 1970, in New Brunswick, Canada) is a Canadian comics writer and artist, writer and illustrator of webcomics. She is best known for her series '' Ménage à 3''. Biography She was born in 1970 in New Brunswick, Canada, and presently () lives there. She attended high school at l'ESN in Bathurst, New Brunswick, and studied visual arts for a year at Université de Moncton before graduating in graphic design from La Cité collégiale in Ottawa. She was a bassist for the Quebec all-female band Barbarella in the early 1990s, then worked as a graphic designer for Avenue Design Group in Ottawa laying out advertisements and designing logos. Works In 2000, she wrote and illustrated the webcomic '' Cool Cat Studio'' which quickly became popular in 2001 and won the Web Cartoonists' Choice Awards for best art. That led to the 2002 co-winning of the Kimberly Yale Award for Best New Talent. ''Cool Cat'' went on hiatus at the end of 2001 and returned in 200 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gisèle Halimi
Gisèle Halimi (born Zeiza Gisèle Élise Taïeb; 27 July 1927 – 28 July 2020) was a Tunisian-French lawyer, politician, essayist and Feminism in France, feminist activist. Biography Zeiza Gisèle Élise Taïeb was born in La Goulette, Tunisia, on 27 July 1927 to a practicing very modest Jewish Berber people, Berber family (to Edouard et Fortunée dite "Fritna" Taïeb). She was educated at a French ''lycée'' in Tunis, and then attended the University of Paris, graduating in law and philosophy. Her childhood and the ways in which she blends a Jewish-Muslim identity are discussed in her memoir, ''Le lait de l'oranger''. She was first married to Paul Halimi, and then to Claude Faux. She died the day after her 93rd birthday, on 28 July 2020. Career In 1948, Halimi qualified as a lawyer and, after eight years at the Tunis bar association, bar, moved to practise at the Paris bar in 1956. She acted as a counsel for the National Liberation Front (Algeria), Algerian National Liberatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gisèle Gautier
Gisèle Gautier (born 9 December 1938) is a French politician and a member of the Senate of France. She represents the Loire-Atlantique department and is a member of the Union for a Popular Movement The Union for a Popular Movement (french: link=no, Union pour un mouvement populaire, ; UMP, ) was a centre-right political party in France that was one of the two major contemporary political parties in France along with the centre-left Social ... Party. ReferencesPage on the Senate website 1938 births Living people French senators of the Fifth Republic Women members of the Senate (France) People from Loire-Atlantique Union for a Popular Movement politicians 21st-century French women politicians 20th-century French women politicians Senators of Loire-Atlantique {{France-politician-UMP-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gisèle Freund
Gisèle Freund (born ''Gisela Freund''; 19 December 1908 in Schöneberg District, Berlin 31 March 2000 in Paris) was a German-born French photographer and photojournalist, famous for her documentary photography and portraits of writers and artists. Her best-known book, ''Photographie et société'' (1974), is about the uses and abuses of the photographic medium in the age of technological reproduction. In 1977, she became president of the French Association of Photographers, and in 1981, she took the official portrait of French President François Mitterrand. She was made Officier des Arts et Lettres in 1982 and Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur, the highest decoration in France, in 1983. In 1991, she became the first photographer to be honored with a retrospective at the Musée National d'art Moderne in Paris (Centre Georges Pompidou). Freund's major contributions to photography include using the Leica Camera (with its ability to house one film roll with 36 frames) for document ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
