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Kaye (given Name)
Kaye is a feminine given name. Notable people with the name include: *Kaye Abad, Filipino-American actress *Kaye Adams (presenter), British television presenter *Kaye Ballard, American actress who has appeared on Broadway and on television *Kaye Bell, American jockey * Kaye Coppoolse, Dutch footballer *Kaye Dacus, American author *Kaye Darveniza, Australian politician *Kaye Don, Irish speedboat racer *Kaye Elhardt, American actress *Kaye Forster, British weather presenter *Kaye Gibbons, American author *Kaye Hall, American competition swimmer *Kaye Kory, American politician *Kaye Stevens, American actress and singer *Kaye Umansky, British children's author and poet *Kaye Webb, British journalist and publisher *Kaye Wragg Kaye Michelle Wragg (born 15 December 1972) is an English actress best known for her television roles as Sergeant Diane Noble in ''The Bill'', Kate Oakley in ''No Angels'', Essie Harrison (now known as Essie di Lucca) in ''Holby City'' from 201 ..., British actr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaye Abad
Katherine Grace Abad-Castillo (born May 17, 1982), known professionally as Kaye Abad, is a Filipino-American actress and singer. Abad started in 1993 and is a member of ABS-CBN's Star Magic. She was launched as a member of Star Circle (now Star Magic Batch 3) in 1996. Career Kaye Abad starts since 1993 in the Philippine entertainment industry was being cast in the Youth Oriented show ''Ang TV''. She also starred in numerous teen-oriented films and TV series, notably paired with John Lloyd Cruz. The tandem of Cruz and Abad is best remembered in the television series ''Tabing Ilog'' which ran from 1999 to 2003. In 2006, Abad plays Cynthia in the prequel fantaserye ''Super Inggo'' opposite Makisig Morales followed by its sequel in 2007 '' Super Inggo 1.5: Ang Bagong Bangis''. In 2009, Abad returned to television via ''Precious Hearts Romances Presents: Bud Brothers Series''. She took over the role originally intended for Roxanne Guinoo, who was supposed to play the lead role o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaye Forster
Kaye Forster (born ) is a freelance weather presenter based at BBC East Midlands weather hub. Her usual role is providing weekday breakfast and lunchtime and weekend forecasts for the East Midlands, West Midlands and North West regions following budget cuts as part of the BBC's Delivering Quality First in England program. Forster took a BSc in Geography at Brunel University where her final year dissertation was on the effect of global warming on Atlantic hurricanes. In 2001 she started Met. Office training at 'several RAF airfields'. She became a regular weather presenter at BBC South East Today before leaving to become freelance; she then spent a spell covering for a leave of absence for Dianne Oxberry at BBC North West Tonight ''BBC North West Tonight'' is the BBC's regional television news programme covering North West England and the Isle of Man. Produced by BBC North West, the programme airs at 1.30pm (as ''North West Today''), 6.30pm and 10.30pm, with shorter bu .... ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaye Webb
Kathleen ("Kaye") Webb (26 January 1914 – 16 January 1996), was a British editor and publisher. She was a recipient of the Eleanor Farjeon Award. Early life and education Kathleen Webb was born in Chiswick, London, in 1914, the second of three children of Arthur Webb, a journalist, and Ann (née Stevens), a film and theatre critic.Trotman 2015Grove 2010. Her paternal great-great-grandfather was W. G. (William George) Webb, publisher of toy theatres in the Victorian era. Webb was educated first at a dame school, then at Hornsey High School, and then, in 1926, aged twelve, started boarding at Ashburton School, Ashburton, Devon, where her older brother was already a student. Webb herself described her time there as "bullied, miserable, had jaundice", but was inspired and encouraged by the teacher of English, Ben R. Gibbs, author of textbooks about literature and history. She left the school in 1930, and although Gibbs had suggested that she go on to university, she was s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaye Umansky
Kaye Umansky (; born 6 December 1946) is an English children's author and poet. She has written over 130 books for children and her work ranges from picture books to novels. She is best known for the Pongwiffy & Jim Series. Early life Kaye Umansky was born in Plymouth, Devon. Her mother was a music teacher and encouraged her to play from a young age and her father was also a teacher who encouraged her reading. As an only child, Kaye wrote stories and plays, which she tried to get her friends to act in. After Kaye left school, she went to London to train as a teacher. Kaye enjoyed teaching music, drama and creative writing, but not mathematics. Alongside her husband, Kaye formed a soul band and played in the evenings and at weekends; she says they "never became rich and famous, but we had a lot of fun". She continued writing as a hobby and began writing full-time when her daughter was born. Personal life She lives in North London with her husband Mo, an engineer, they have b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaye Stevens
Kaye Stevens (born Catherine Louise Stephens, also sometimes spelled Kay Stevens, July 21, 1932 – December 28, 2011) was an American singer and actress. Her big break in show business came at the Riviera Hotel in Las Vegas, when the headliner for the night, Debbie Reynolds, became ill and Stevens filled in for the night. She then went on to do small shows in New York City at the Plaza Hotel's Persian Room and the Waldorf Astoria, and Caesars Palace on the Las Vegas Strip. Early life Born Catherine Louise Stephens in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on July 21, 1932, she was an only child. Her family eventually moved to Cleveland, where she got her start as a drummer and singer as a teenager. Career Acting Stevens started out in film in '' The Interns'' (1962), where she played Didi Loomis, a nurse, and its 1964 sequel ''The New Interns''. She also appeared in ''The Man From the Diners' Club'' (1963), which starred Danny Kaye. Stevens had a role in the television movie ''Let's Switch!' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaye Kory
L. Kaye Kory (born April 18, 1947) is an American politician. Since 2010 she has served in the Virginia House of Delegates, representing the 38th district in Fairfax County. She served on the Fairfax County School Board 1999–2009. Kory is a member of the Democratic Party. , Kory serves as the Chair of the Counties, Cities Towns Committee and as a member of the Labor and Commerce Committee, Finance Committee, and Public Safety Committee. Early life Kory was born in Chicago. She attended The American School in Japan, and received a B.A. degree from Oxford College, now part of Miami University in 1969. She has also attended the University of Iowa and George Mason University. Kory married Ross C. Kory, Jr. They have three children. Community activism Kory became involved with the parent-teacher associations (or, PTA) at her children's schools, and was elected president and treasurer of the Justice High School PTA (formerly J.E.B. Stuart High School). Electoral history I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaye Hall
Kaye Marie Hall (born May 15, 1951), later known by her married name Kaye Greff, is an American former competition swimmer, two-time Olympic champion, and former world record-holder in two events. Hall was born in Tacoma, Washington,Sports-Reference.com, Olympic Sports, Athletes Kaye Hall Retrieved March 18, 2015. and attended Woodrow Wilson High School in Tacoma. She trained with the Tacoma Swim Club with coach Dick Hannula. Hall made her international debut at the 1967 Pan American Games in Winnipeg, where she won a silver medal in the 100-meter backstroke behind Canadian gold medalist Elaine Tanner. In December 1967, she became the first woman to swim the 100-yard backstroke in under one minute. Early life In Tacoma, Hall was in the YWCA with her sister, and her brothers were in the YMCA where they all took swimming lessons. During this time the YWCA only had a few levels of swimming lessons, unlike the YMCA. At age 8, Hall was put into the high-level swimming lesso ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaye Gibbons
Kaye Gibbons (born May 5, 1960) is an American novelist. Her first novel, ''Ellen Foster'' (1987), received the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, a Special Citation from the Ernest Hemingway Foundation and the Louis D. Rubin, Jr. Prize in Creative Writing from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Gibbons is a member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers and two of her books, ''Ellen Foster'' and '' A Virtuous Woman'', were selected for Oprah's Book Club in 1998. Gibbons was born in Nash County, North Carolina, and went to Rocky Mount Senior High School. She attended North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, studying American and English literature. She has three daughters. Gibbons has bipolar disorder and notes that she is extremely creative during her manic phases, in which she believes that everything is instrumented by a "real magic". ''Ellen Foster'' was wr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaye Elhardt
Kaye Elhardt (August 28, 1935 – September 1, 2004) was an American actress with dozens of television appearances in a career spanning from 1956 to 1977. She was perhaps best known for her comedic role as Josephine St. Cloud opposite James Garner and Jack Kelly in the 1959 "Pappy" episode of ''Maverick''. Elhardt played Peaches in the 1958 ABC comedy ''Love That Jill''. She also made more than 40 appearances on television series. Among her three guest appearances on ''Perry Mason'' with Raymond Burr, she played defendant Ginny Talbot in the 1962 episode, "The Case of the Borrowed Baby." She was featured on ''Family Affair''; ''Highway Patrol'' with Broderick Crawford; ''Wagon Train'' with Ward Bond; ''Sea Hunt'' with Lloyd Bridges; seven different roles in ''77 Sunset Strip'' with Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.; ''Bourbon Street Beat'' with Andrew Duggan, Richard Long, and Van Williams; ''Bat Masterson'' with Gene Barry; ''My Three Sons'' with Fred MacMurray; ''The Tab Hunter Show'' wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaye Adams (presenter)
Kaye Adams (born 28 December 1962) is a Scottish television presenter and journalist. She was an anchor on ITV topical discussion show ''Loose Women'' from 1999 to 2006 and again from 2013 and was a regular panellist on Channel 5's daily morning show ''The Wright Stuff'' from 2007 until 2012. She hosts the morning show on BBC Radio Scotland weekdays from 9am to 12 noon. Early life Adams attended Abbotsgrange Middle school in Grangemouth and Grangemouth High before moving to the fee-paying St George's School, Edinburgh and the University of Edinburgh, from which she graduated with an MA Honours in Economics and Politics. Media career Adams started her media career as a graduate trainee at Central Television, concentrating on political and news journalism – her first coup was a one-hour interview with Margaret Thatcher. For the next few years, Adams remained focused on hard news when in early 1988 moved to Scottish Television's nightly news programme, ''Scotland Today''. S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaye Don
Kaye Ernest Donsky (10 April 1891 – 29 August 1981), better known by his ''nom de course'' Kaye Don, was an Irish world record breaking car and speedboat racer. He became a motorcycle dealer on his retirement from road racing and set up Ambassador Motorcycles. Early life Kaye Ernest Donsky was born in Dublin on 10 April 1891. He was of Polish ancestry and shortened his name to Don. He was brought up in Kingston-upon-Thames and was an RFC pilot during the First World War. Early racing career Kaye Don began his career as a motorcycle racer but soon switched to cars and won the inaugural 1928 Ards-Belfast circuit, Northern Ireland, Tourist Trophy with a Lea-Francis. Between 1926 and 1928 Kaye raced a 1921 Grand Prix Sunbeam at Brooklands which was an ex-Malcolm Campbell 'Blue Bird' and extensively contributed to what W Boddy described as "the best run of success by any Brooklands car in such a period". In 1928 he had three ex-works Sunbeam cars which he named "Cub", "Tiger" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaye Darveniza
Kaye Mary Darveniza (born 15 February 1955) is an Australian politician. She was a Australian Labor Party (Victorian Branch), Labor Party member of the Victorian Legislative Council from 1999 to 2014, first representing Melbourne West Province. In the 2006 Victoria State election, she transferred to the Northern Victoria Region and was re-elected. Darveniza was born in the town of Mooroopna, Victoria, Mooroopna and educated in Shepparton, Victoria, Shepparton. She studied nursing, becoming a registered psychiatric nurse in 1975. She then left the workforce for six years, before returning in 1981. In 1986, Darveniza became involved with the trade union movement, becoming an organiser with the Health and Community Services Union. Three years later, she rose to become the union's state secretary—a position she held for ten years, until her election to parliament. She also acted as the national president of the Hospital Employees Federation of Australia from 1990 to 1991, and as t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
