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Kaia (name)
Kaia is an Estonian and Norwegian name. It is also used as a variant for the name Kai, which means 'sea' in Hawaiian. Notable people with the name include: Surname * Innocent Kaia (born 1992), Zimbabwean cricketer * Mircan Kaia, Turkish musician and engineer * Roy Kaia (born 1991), Zimbabwean cricketer * Za Kaia (1926–1949), Burmese soldier Given name * Kaia Gerber (born 2001), American model * Kaia Iva (born 1964), Estonian politician * Kaia Kanepi (born 1985), Estonian tennis player * Kaia Arua (born 1990), Papua New Guinean cricketer * Kaia Kater (born 1993), Canadian musician * Kaia Wøien Nicolaisen (born 1990), Norwegian biathlete * Kaia Bruland Nilssen (1868–1950), Norwegian novelist * Kaia Parnaby (born 1990), Australian softball player * Kaia Storvik (born 1976), Norwegian journalist and politician * Kaia Urb (born 1956), Estonian singer * Kaia Wilson (born 1974), American punk rock singer and guitarist See also *Kaja (name) Kaja or Kája is a given name and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Innocent Kaia
Innocent Kaia (born 10 August 1992) is a Zimbabwean cricketer. He made his Twenty20 debut for Zimbabwe in the 2017 Africa T20 Cup on 15 September 2017. In December 2020, he was selected to play for the Southern Rocks in the 2020–21 Logan Cup. Career He made his Twenty20 International (T20I) debut on 17 September 2021, for Zimbabwe against Scotland. He made his One Day International (ODI) debut on 4 June 2022, for Zimbabwe against Afghanistan Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan,; prs, امارت اسلامی افغانستان is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia. Referred to as the Heart of Asia, it is bordere .... During Zimbabwe's series against Bangladesh, he scored his first century in ODIs. On 4 February 2023, Kaia made his Test debut against the West Indies. References External links * 1992 births Living people Zimbabwean cricketers Zimbabwe One Day International cricketers Zim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaia Wøien Nicolaisen
Kaia Wøien Nicolaisen (born 23 November 1990) is a Norwegian biathlete. She was born in Trondheim, but represents the club Asker SK. She has competed in the Biathlon World Cup, and represented Norway at the Biathlon World Championships 2016 The 48th Biathlon World Championships was held in Oslo, Norway from 3 to 13 March 2016. There were 11 competitions in total: sprint, pursuit, individual, mass start, relay races for men and women, and mixed relay. All the events during this cham .... References External links * 1990 births Living people Sportspeople from Trondheim People from Asker Sportspeople from Akershus Norwegian female biathletes 21st-century Norwegian women 21st-century Norwegian people {{Norway-biathlon-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaja (name)
Kaja or Kája is a given name and surname. Kaja is regarded as a Polish language, Polish feminine given name that is a diminutive form of Karolina (other), Karolina, a derivative of Karl (given name), Karl . Kája is a Czech language, Czech unisex given name that is a diminutive form of Karolina (other), Karolína, Karla (name), Karla and Karel (given name), Karel, also derivatives of Karl. Kaja also has other root name derivations. Kaja is a Slovene language, Slovene feminine given name that is a short form of Kajetana, Karla (name), Karla and Katarina (given name), Katarina, names deriving from ''Caietanus'' (Cajetan), Karl and Aikaterine, respectively. It is also a Danish language, Danish, Finnish language, Finnish, German language, German, Norwegian language, Norwegian and Swedish language, Swedish feminine given name that is a diminutive form of Catherina, Katherina, Karen (name), Karen and Katrina (given name), Katrine as well as an alternate form of Kaia (n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaia Wilson
Kaia Lynn Wilson (born 1974) is an American musician from Portland, Oregon, best known as a founding member of both Team Dresch, a revered 1990s queercore punk band, and The Butchies, a pop-rock spin-off from her solo work. In addition to singing, songwriting and guitar, Wilson co-established and operated Mr. Lady Records from 1996 to 2004. Career Musician Wilson, born in 1974, was raised in the small town of Jasper, Oregon. As a teenager, Wilson was a member of the band Adickdid, which was distributed by several labels including Yoyo Records and Kill Rock Stars. From there, she went on to Team Dresch, in which she shared singing and songwriting duties with Jody Bleyle. Shortly after Team Dresch released their second album, ''Captain My Captain'', in 1996, Wilson left the group and released a solo acoustic album entitled ''Kaia''. Her second solo album, ''Ladyman'', featured Team Dresch drummer Melissa York, who would later join Wilson in The Butchies. In 1998, several songs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaia Urb
Kaia Urb (also Kaia Galina Urb; born on 26 February 1956 in Tallinn) is an Estonian singer (soprano). She is especially known by her oratorio performances. She has graduated from Tallinn State Conservatory in music pedagogics and singing speciality. Since 1982 she has been a member of Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir. She has sung many solo parts at the choir. Her repertoire is wide: from baroque music to contemporary classical music. She has also sung with the ensembles Camerata Tallinn and Corelli Consort. Awards:. * 1996 and 1998: Annual Prize of the Estonian Cultural Endowment for Music * 2013: Order of the White Star The Order of the White Star ( et, Valgetähe teenetemärk; french: Ordre de l'Etoile Blanche) was instituted in 1936. The Order of the White Star is bestowed on Estonia Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic ..., IV class. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Urb, Kaia Living people 1956 births Estonian operatic sopranos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaia Storvik
Kaia Storvik (born 10 October 1976) is a Norwegian journalist, former newspaper editor and politician. She has worked for several newspapers, including '' Vårt Land'', ''Dagbladet'', ''Dagens Næringsliv'' and ''Dagsavisen ''Dagsavisen'' is a daily newspaper published in Oslo, Norway. The former party organ of the Norwegian Labour Party, the ties loosened over time from 1975 to 1999. It has borne several names, and was called ''Arbeiderbladet'' from 1923 to 1997. ...''. She was chief editor of ''Dagsavisen'' from 2010 to 2014. References 1976 births Living people Norwegian newspaper editors Norwegian women editors Norwegian journalists Norwegian women journalists Red Party (Norway) politicians Dagsavisen editors {{Norway-writer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaia Parnaby
Kaia Parnaby (born July 14, 1990) is an Australian, former collegiate All-American, 2020 Olympian, left-handed professional softball pitcher, originally from Sydney, New South Wales. She is a pitcher and earned a scholarship to and played for the Australian Institute of Sport. She played university softball for the Hawaii Rainbow Wahine team in the Big West Conference where she was recognized as all-conference and the 2013 Pitcher of The Year. She also helped them to their first-ever appearance at the 2010 Women's College World Series. She also played for the Aussie Peppers, a traveling team affiliate in the National Pro Fastpitch. She is a member of the senior Australia women's national softball team and played in the 2020 Summer Olympics. Personal Parnaby is from New South Wales. She attended Narrabeen Sports High School and NBSC Freshwater Senior Campus. She currently attends the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. In 2011/2012, she was a junior. She is openly lesbian. Sof ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaia Bruland Nilssen
Kaia Bruland Nilssen (1868 – 18 January 1950) was a Norwegian novelist. Beginning in 1895, she published several novellas and novels, and occasionally poems. She has been noted as writing non-pretentious trivial literature for a female audience. The book ''Aagot Vangen - et livsbillede'' from 1903 is a biographical novel about the Norwegian sculptor Aagot Vangen, who received her artistic education in Paris but died when still in her twenties. Kaia Bruland-Nilssen's most popular book was 1897's ''Sjøgutten''. She also contributed to the scandal sheet ''Spidskuglen''. Bruland Nilssen resided near Bekkestua in Bærum Bærum () is a municipality in the Greater Oslo Region in Norway that forms an affluent suburb of Oslo on the west coast of the city. Bærum is Norway's fifth largest municipality with a population of 128,760 (2021). It is part of the electoral .... She died in 1950.Death announcement, ''Asker og Bærums Budstikke'' 23 January 1950 p. 3 Selected works First edi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaia Kater
Kaia Kater (born in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian singer-songwriter, guitar, piano and banjo player. Background Kater was born in Montreal, Quebec, where she spent her early childhood in Mile End. She started playing the banjo at 12 years old. She also lived in Wakefield, Ottawa and Winnipeg before attending Davis & Elkins college in Elkins, West Virginia on a banjo scholarship. In Elkins, she also learned to flatfoot and deepened her knowledge of body percussion ( hambone). Kater spoke about her experience being a woman of color in West Virginia, and experiencing racism. "If 70 or 75 percent of the time it was a wonderful experience, there was also that other part of the experience where I did encounter some racism, or I witnessed racism. I felt the racial divide very strongly, more so than in Canada". Her mother is from Quebec, and her father immigrated to Canada from Grenada as a teenager in 1986 as part of a young speakers program, after the U.S. invasion. She grew up spe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mircan Kaia
Mircan Kaia, alternate spelling Mircan Kaya, is a Turkish singer/songwriter and engineer. Early life and education Kaia was born in 1963 in Artvin, a town in the Black Sea Region in north-eastern Turkey. Her grandparents were Mingrelians who converted to Islam and had moved to the region from Batumi in Georgia. When Kaia was nine years old, her family moved to Istanbul. She had been interested in singing from an early age, and in Istanbul she started taking guitar lessons. When Kaia was 13, her 26-year-old brother died. He had been an engineer, and she decided to study engineering at university. She has a degree in civil engineering from Yıldız Technical University, an MSc in earthquake engineering from Boğaziçi University, and an advanced MSc degree in the structural analysis of historic constructions, for which she received a European Commission Scholarship. For her advanced degree, she carried out research work at the University of Padua, the Technical University of Cata ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaia Arua
Kaia Arua (born 27 October 1990) is a Papua New Guinean cricketer. She played for the Papua New Guinea women's national cricket team in the 2017 Women's Cricket World Cup Qualifier in February 2017. In June 2018, she was named in Papua New Guinea's squad for the 2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20 Qualifier tournament. She made her Women's Twenty20 International (WT20I) for Papua New Guinea against Bangladesh in the World Twenty20 Qualifier on 7 July 2018. She captained the side for the match against Ireland on 12 July 2018. In July 2018, she was named in the ICC Women's Global Development Squad. In November 2018, she was again named in the Women's Global Development Squad, to play fixtures against Women's Big Bash League (WBBL) clubs. In April 2019, she was named as the captain of Papua New Guinea's squad for the 2019 ICC Women's Qualifier EAP tournament in Vanuatu. In Papua New Guinea's penultimate match of the tournament, against Japan, she took her first five-wicket haul in WT ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaia Kanepi
Kaia Kanepi (; born 10 June 1985) is an Estonian professional tennis player. She achieved her career-high ranking of world No. 15 on 20 August 2012 and has won four singles titles on the WTA Tour. Described as a 'resident Grand Slam upset specialist' by ''The Guardian'' - with 19 wins over seeded players in the first week of Grand Slams; only three active players (Victoria Azarenka, Venus Williams and Serena Williams) have more. She has also reached seven Grand Slam quarterfinals in all four championships (French Open in 2008 and 2012, Wimbledon in 2010 and 2013, the US Open in 2010 and 2017, and Australian Open 2022), becoming the first Estonian to achieve this and was the first Estonian to be ranked inside the world's top 15. Kanepi's numerous achievements have made her one of Estonia's most famous and successful professional tennis players in history. Kanepi reached her first final in 2006, becoming the first Estonian female player to do so, at the Gaz de France Stars where ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
