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Ingrīda Labucka
Ingrīda is a Latvian feminine given name, a cognate of the name Ingrid. Notable people with the given name include: * Ingrīda Amantova (born 1960), Latvian luger *Ingrīda Andriņa (1944–2015), Latvian actress *Ingrīda Circene (born 1956), Latvian politician * Ingrīda Kadaka (born 1967), Latvian artist, book designer and illustrator *Ingrīda Priedīte (born 1954), Latvian chess Grandmaster *Ingrīda Ūdre Ingrīda Latimira, formerly Ingrīda Ūdre, (born 14 November 1958) is a Latvian politician who belongs to the Latvian Farmers' Union political party. Ūdre is a former professional basketball player who worked as an accountant after the end of h ... (born 1958), Latvian politician * Ingrīda Verbele (born 1948), Latvian sprinter References {{DEFAULTSORT:Ingrida Latvian feminine given names Feminine given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Latvia
Latvia ( or ; lv, Latvija ; ltg, Latveja; liv, Leţmō), officially the Republic of Latvia ( lv, Latvijas Republika, links=no, ltg, Latvejas Republika, links=no, liv, Leţmō Vabāmō, links=no), is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is one of the Baltic states; and is bordered by Estonia to the north, Lithuania to the south, Russia to the east, Belarus to the southeast, and shares a maritime border with Sweden to the west. Latvia covers an area of , with a population of 1.9 million. The country has a temperate seasonal climate. Its capital and largest city is Riga. Latvians belong to the ethno-linguistic group of the Balts; and speak Latvian, one of the only two surviving Baltic languages. Russians are the most prominent minority in the country, at almost a quarter of the population. After centuries of Teutonic, Swedish, Polish-Lithuanian and Russian rule, which was mainly executed by the local Baltic German aristocracy, the independent R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ingrid (given Name)
Ingrid is a feminine given name. It continues the Old Norse name ''Ingiríðr'', which was a short form of ''Ingfríðr'', composed of the theonym ''Yngvi, Ing'' and the element ''fríðr'' "beloved; beautiful" common in Germanic feminine given names. The name Ingrid (more rarely in the variant ''Ingerid'', ''Ingris'' or ''Ingfrid''; short forms ''Inga, Inger, Ingri'') remains widely given in all of Scandinavia, with the highest frequency in Norway. Norwegian usage peaked in the interbellum period, with more than 2% of newly born girls so named in 1920; popularity declined gradually over the 1930s to 1960s, but picked up again in the late 1970s, peaking above 1.5% in the 1990s.Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no People *Ingerid of Denmark (11th century), Danish princess, Norwegian Queen consort *Saint Ingrid of Skänninge (13th century), Swedish Roman Catholic abbess *Ingrid of Sweden (1910–2000), Swedish princess, Queen Consort of D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ingrida (name)
Ingrida is a predominantly Lithuanian feminine given name, a cognate of the name Ingrid Ingrid may refer to: * Ingrid (given name) * Ingrid (record label), and artist collective * Ingrid Burley, rapper known mononymously as Ingrid * Tropical Storm Ingrid, various cyclones * 1026 Ingrid, an asteroid * InGrid, the grid computing project .... Notable people with the given name include: * Ingrida Ardišauskaitė (born 1993), Lithuanian cross-country skier * Ingrida Šimonytė (born 1974), Lithuanian economist and politician, Prime Minister of Lithuania References {{given name Lithuanian feminine given names Feminine given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ingrīda Amantova
Ingrīda Amantova (born 21 June 1960 in Cēsis) is a Latvian-born Soviet luger who competed during the early 1980s. Competing in two Winter Olympics, she won the bronze medal in the women's singles event at Lake Placid, New York, in 1980 and finished fourth in the same event at the following Winter Olympics in Sarajevo. This was the only instances Soviet or Latvian athletes won Olympic medals in women's luge. Amantova's best overall Luge World Cup finish was second in 1982-3. She was three times the champion of Soviet Union in luge. She was mainly training on the domestic track near Sigulda Sigulda (; german: Segewold, pl, Zygwold, russian: Сигулда) is a town in the Vidzeme region of Latvia, from the capital city Riga. Overview Sigulda is on a picturesque stretch of the primeval Gauja river valley. Because of the reddish Dev .... The track was open in the 1970s and became the first one in Soviet Union. Amantova belonged to the first generation of Soviet athletes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ingrīda Andriņa
Ingrīda Andriņa (23 June 1944 – 17 September 2015) was a Latvian stage and film actress. Biography Born in Riga, Andriņa graduated from the All-Union State Institute of Cinematography in Moscow in 1967 and began working at the Latvian National Theatre. From 1966 she began appearing in films. Andriņa is possibly best recalled internationally for her role as Agnes von Mönnikhusen in the 1969 Soviet Estonian language film '' Viimne reliikvia'', directed by Grigori Kromanov. Throughout her film career, Andriņa performed in Latvian-, Russian-, Estonian-, Azerbaijani- and Georgian-language films. Her last appearance was in the 2014 Latvian film ''Džimlai Rudis rallallā''. Andriņa died unexpectedly in 2015 at the age of 71 and was interred at the Riga Forest Cemetery Forest Cemetery ( lv, Rīgas Meža kapi) is an large cemetery in the northwestern part of Riga, the capital of Latvia, between the neighbourhoods of Mežaparks and Čiekurkalns. Formally, the ceme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ingrīda Circene
Ingrīda Circene (born 6 December 1956 in Rīga) is a Latvian politician, who served as the Minister for Health of Latvia. She is a member of Unity. Ingrīda Circene has been member of the Council of Aizpute. In 2002 she joined New Era Party and became a member of the 8th Saeima. After the resignation of Āris Auders, Circene became the Minister for Health of Latvia on 10 April 2003, being in office until government resignation on 9 March 2004. In 2006 and 2010 she became a member of respectively the 9th and 10th Saeima The Saeima () is the parliament of the Latvia, Republic of Latvia. It is a unicameral parliament consisting of 100 members who are elected by proportional representation, with seats allocated to political parties which gain at least 5% of the po .... Circene was appointed Minister for Health of Latvia on 25 October 2011. References External links Cabinet profile 1956 births Living people Politicians from Riga New Era Party politicians New Unity pol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ingrīda Kadaka
Ingrīda Kadaka (born 29 July 1967, in Riga, Latvia) is an artist and book designer and illustrator,Jānis Baltvilks, ''Izmazgātās debesis: dzejoļi bērniem,'' Rasa ABC, 2000. best known for her work in the media of oil painting and etching. She matriculated at the Art Academy of Latvia (1989), from which she received her BA (1993) and MA (1995). She has been a member of the Artists' Union of Latvia since 1997, and has exhibited frequently in solo and group shows in her native country; she was awarded grants by the State Culture Capital Foundation of Latvia in 2003 and 2005. Her work is noteworthy for its exploitation of folklore motifs, brilliant color, simple and striking forms, and humor; in these respects, a comparison with the art of Marc Chagall Marc Chagall; russian: link=no, Марк Заха́рович Шага́л ; be, Марк Захаравіч Шагал . (born Moishe Shagal; 28 March 1985) was a Russian-French artist. An early modernism, modernist, he was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ingrīda Priedīte
Ingrīda Priedīte ( Bērziņa, born March 13, 1954, in Rīga) is a Latvian female chess player who holds the ICCF title of Lady Grandmaster (LGM, 1997) and the FIDE title of Woman FIDE Master (WFM, 2014). She is a two-time winner of the Latvian Chess Championship for women (1973 and 1979). Priedīte started to play chess at the age of 9. She won the Latvian Junior championship in 1970, Riga women championship in 1972, Latvian Student championship in 1974 and 1977, and achieved Master title in 1976. In her later years, Priedīte is also an excellent correspondence chess player. She was second in the 5th Ladies World Championship final (1993–1998). Priedīte graduated from the Latvian University University of Latvia ( lv, Latvijas Universitāte, shortened ''LU'') is a state-run university located in Riga, Latvia established in 1919. The ''QS World University Rankings'' places the university between 801st and 1000th globally, seventh ... and is an economist by profess ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ingrīda Ūdre
Ingrīda Latimira, formerly Ingrīda Ūdre, (born 14 November 1958) is a Latvian politician who belongs to the Latvian Farmers' Union political party. Ūdre is a former professional basketball player who worked as an accountant after the end of her basketball career. She was first elected to Saeima, the Latvian parliament, in 1998, from the list of the New Party. She was the presidential candidate of the New Party in 1999. In 2002, after the New Party ceased to exist, Ūdre joined the Latvian Farmers' Union and became the leader of the newly founded Union of Greens and Farmers. After the 2002 parliamentary election, she became Speaker of the Saeima. She served in this position until the 2006 election. In 2004, Ūdre was nominated as Latvia's candidate for European Commission. Her nomination caused a major controversy. Ūdre was a replacement for Latvia's previous commissioner Sandra Kalniete. Ūdre was also criticised, by ''Delna'' (the Latvian chapter of Transparency Internatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ingrīda Verbele
Ingrīda Verbele (born 18 January 1948) is a Latvian sprinter. She competed in the women's 400 metres at the 1968 Summer Olympics The 1968 Summer Olympics ( es, Juegos Olímpicos de Verano de 1968), officially known as the Games of the XIX Olympiad ( es, Juegos de la XIX Olimpiada) and commonly known as Mexico 1968 ( es, México 1968), were an international multi-sport eve ... representing the Soviet Union. References 1948 births Living people Athletes (track and field) at the 1968 Summer Olympics Latvian female sprinters Olympic athletes for the Soviet Union Place of birth missing (living people) Soviet female sprinters Olympic female sprinters {{Latvia-athletics-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Latvian Feminine Given Names
Latvian may refer to: *Something of, from, or related to Latvia **Latvians, a Baltic ethnic group, native to what is modern-day Latvia and the immediate geographical region **Latvian language, also referred to as Lettish **Latvian cuisine **Latvian culture **Latvian horse *Latvian Gambit, an opening in chess See also *Latvia (other) Latvia is a country in Europe. Latvia can also refer to: *Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic (1940–1990) *Latvia (European Parliament constituency) * 1284 Latvia - asteroid * Latvia Peak - mountain in Tajikistan Tajikistan (, ; tg, То ... * {{disambiguation Language and nationality disambiguation pages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |