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Jean Lee (economist)
Jean Lee may refer to: * Jean Lee (aircraftwoman) (born 1924), Canadian aircraftwoman * Jean Lee (murderer) (1919–1951), Australian murderer, and the last woman to be hanged in Australia * Jean Lee (archer) (1925–2010), American archer * Jean H. Lee, Korean-American journalist See also * Jeanne Lee (1939–2000), U.S. jazz singer * Jeanne Lee Crews (born 1940), U.S. aerospace engineer * Jeannie Cho Lee (born 1968), Korean-American Hongkonger journalist * Jeannie T. Lee, U.S. geneticist * * Jeannette Lee (other) {{hndis, Lee, Jean ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Lee (aircraftwoman)
Jean Suey Zee Lew (née Lee; July 26, 1924) is a Canadian veteran of World War II who was the only woman of Chinese-Canadian descent to serve in the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF). As a member of the RCAF Women's Division, Lee was stationed from 1942 to 1945 at the Royal Canadian Air Force Depot, Eastern Air Command, at Rockcliffe, Ontario. Lee was born on July 26, 1924, in Cranbrook, British Columbia to Lee Look (Chow Man) and Huey Shee Lee. She had two brothers who also served in the military – Wilson John Lee who served with training command at Fort Macleod,Wong, pg. 51 and William, who served in the Korean War. She was awarded her Canadian Citizenship Canadian nationality law details the conditions in which a person is a national of Canada. With few exceptions, almost all individuals born in the country are automatically citizens at birth. Foreign nationals may naturalize after living in Ca ... Certificate in a ceremony in February 1947, along with 6 other veterans. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Lee (murderer)
Jean Lee (10 December 1919 – 19 February 1951) was an Australian murderer who, together with her lover Robert Clayton and accomplice Norman Andrews, was convicted for the 1949 killing of William 'Pop' Kent, an SP bookmaker from the Melbourne suburb of Carlton. The victim was bound to a chair, tortured with the aim of finding hidden money, and finally strangled. All three were convicted and sentenced to death in March 1950. They were hanged eleven months later at Pentridge Gaol. Lee was the last woman to be executed in Australia. Biography Early life Jean Lee was born Marjorie Jean Maude Wright in Dubbo, New South Wales, on 10 December 1919, the youngest child of Charles Wright and Florence (''née'' Peacock).Family records, per Ancestry.com. Marjorie's father was a railway worker and the Wright family was described as "highly respectable". In 1927, the family re-located to the Sydney suburb of Chatswood, where Marjorie attended Chatswood Public School, a convent in North ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Lee (archer)
Jean Lee (also Jean Lee Lombardo) (1925–2010) was a former World Champion archer who represented the United States. Lee took up archery while studying at the University of Massachusetts. She dominated the world of competitive archery in the late 1940s and early 1950s, winning four consecutive national titles between 1948 and 1951, and consecutive world championships in 1950 and 1952. She broke numerous world records in the process, and at the 1950 World Championships became the first woman to attain a higher score than the winner of the men's championship Hans Deutgen Hans Teodor Deutgen (born 28 February 1917 in Stockholm, Sweden; died 3 October 1989) was a World Champion archer who represented Sweden Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden,The United Nations Group of Experts on Geogra .... Lee caused controversy as an early user of artificial points of aim (the 1950 World Championships were the first where the use of them was allowed). Sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean H
Jean may refer to: People * Jean (female given name) * Jean (male given name) * Jean (surname) Fictional characters * Jean Grey, a Marvel Comics character * Jean Valjean, fictional character in novel ''Les Misérables'' and its adaptations * Jean Pierre Polnareff, a fictional character from ''JoJo's Bizarre Adventure'' Places * Jean, Nevada, USA; a town * Jean, Oregon, USA Entertainment * Jean (dog), a female collie in silent films * "Jean" (song) (1969), by Rod McKuen, also recorded by Oliver * ''Jean Seberg'' (musical), a 1983 musical by Marvin Hamlisch Other uses * JEAN (programming language) * USS ''Jean'' (ID-1308), American cargo ship c. 1918 * Sternwheeler Jean, a 1938 paddleboat of the Willamette River See also *Jehan * * Gene (other) * Jeanne (other) * Jehanne (other) * Jeans (other) * John (other) John is a common English name and surname: * John (given name) * John (surname) John may also refer to: New ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeanne Lee
Jeanne Lee (January 29, 1939 – October 25, 2000) was an American jazz singer, poet and composer. Best known for a wide range of vocal styles she mastered, Lee collaborated with numerous distinguished composers and performers who included Gunter Hampel, Andrew Cyrille, Ran Blake, Carla Bley, Anthony Braxton, Marion Brown, Archie Shepp, Mal Waldron, and many others. Biography Jeanne Lee was born in New York, United States. Her father, S. Alonzo Lee, was a concert and church singer whose work influenced her at an early age. She was educated at the Walden School (a private school), and subsequently at Bard College, where she studied child psychology,Ben Ratliff, "Jeanne Lee, 61, Jazz Singer Who Embraced Avant-Garde" (obituary) '' |
Jeanne Lee Crews
Jeanne Lee Crews (born 1940) was an American aerospace engineer at NASA, and also one of the first female engineers to join the agency. She retired in November 2002 and is now living in Satellite Beach, Florida. In order to protect spacecraft from debris, she designed a "flexible multi-shock shield to protect spacecraft from debris," which is still in use on the International Space Station today. Jeanne Lee Crews is also one of the first women at NASA to participate on a zero-G flight. She has more recently been working on a way to gather and accumulate orbital debris, through a large balloon that will return to Earth once full. Jeanne Lee Crews has been awarded with Aerospace Lifetime Achievement Award, the NASA Exceptional Service Medal, and the NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal. Early life Jeanne Lee Crews was born in 1940. Jeanne Lee Crews's interest in space and science began when she was about 8 years old. She loved all kinds of science. Jeanne first believed she would be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeannie Cho Lee
Jeannie Cho Lee (born 1968) is a Hong Kong-based, Korean-American wine critic, author, journalist, consultant, wine educator and Master of Wine, the first ethnic Asian to achieve this accreditation.Pilling, David, ''Financial Times'' (March 05, 2010)Asia’s first Master of Wine/ref>Robinson, Jancis, JancisRobinson.com (September 6, 2008Weekes, Claire, ''Harpers Wine & Spirit'' (November 10, 2008)Nerenberg, Jenara, ''Fast Company'' (July 29, 2010)Jeannie Cho Lee Is the Asian Wine Market's Own Julia Child/ref> She was 25th on Decanter's Power List 2013. Biography Lee was born in Seoul, Korea and shortly thereafter moved to the United StatesLe-Min, Lim, ''Bloomberg.com'' (April 28, 2010)Harvard Woman Defies Skeptics as Wine Master/ref> where she later received her undergraduate degree in arts from Smith College and a master's in public policy from Harvard University. Since 1994, Lee has been based in Hong Kong where, initially pursuing a career in business journalism in Asia, she be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeannie T
Jeannie may refer to: * Jeannie (given name), a given name and a list of people with the name * Jeannie (''I Dream of Jeannie''), a main character of ''I Dream of Jeannie'' ** ''Jeannie'' (TV series), an animated series based on ''I Dream of Jeannie'' ** "Jeannie", the theme song of ''I Dream of Jeannie'' * ''Jeannie'' (film), a 1941 British film by Harold French * Jeannie River, Queensland, Australia See also * Genie (other) * Jeanie, a given name * Jeanny Jeanny is a given name. Notable people with the name include: * Jeanny Canby (1929–2007), American archaeologist and scholar * Jeanny Dom (born 1954), Luxembourgian table tennis player * Jeanny Marc (born 1950), French National Assembly member ..., a given name {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
