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Lena (name)
Lena is a female given name. The name has evolved in different languages as a variation of several earlier names. In most derivations, and means “light”, “bright” and “shining”. Lena is popular,Arabic, Hindi, Swedish, French, Finnish, and some other cultures. Lena was the most popular name for girls born in Poland in 2013. This name is very popular with parents-to-be and is often chosen as a baby name. People with the given name * , Malayalam film actress * (born 1950), Swedish comic cr ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helena (given Name)
Helena is the Latin language, Latin form of Helen (given name), Helen. People with this name include: Ancients Mononyms *Helena, mother of Constantine I (died 330), Roman mother of Emperor Constantine *Helena (wife of Julian) (died 360), Roman daughter of Emperor Constantine *Helena (niece of Justin II), niece of Empress Sophia of the Byzantine Empire *Helena (daughter of Robert Guiscard) (fl. 1076–1081), fiancée of Constantine Doukas *Helena (daughter of Alypius), wife of Constantine VIII *Helena of Adiabene (died c. 56), Assyrian queen *Helena of Egypt, 4th century BC painter *Saint Helena of Serbia (died 1314), Serbian queen Full names *Helena Lekapene, daughter of Romanos I Lekapenos and wife of Constantine VII *Helena Kantakouzene, daughter of John VI Kantakouzenos and wife of John V Palaiologos *Helena Dragaš, daughter of Konstantin Dejanović and wife of Manuel II Palaiologos Modern *Helena Basilova (born 1983), classical pianist *Helena Blackman (born 1982), English ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lena Bergström
Lena Bergström (born 1961 in Umeå) is a Swedish textiles and glass designer. Biography After high school, Bergström started working as a decorator at Domus department store. She moved to Stockholm to study at various art & crafts schools, and eventually started at Konstfack, the University college of art, crafts and design in Stockholm. Bergström describes her studies as interdisciplinary, which is also shown in her work.Helgeson, Susanne; Svenska former, p.56-67; Prisma förlag; Stockholm 2000 After graduating at Konstfack in 1989, Bergström started working as a freelance designer. She got her breakthrough in 1992 with the textile collection ''X-tra, O-lik och I-hop'' for textile manufacturer Ljungbergs, which was awarded Excellent Swedish Design. The success continued with an exhibition at the Swedish Pavilion at the Seville World Exhibition. The next year she was awarded Excellent Swedish Design once again for the collection "Ume, Lule, Pite"; a development of her graduatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lena Fiagbe
Lena Fiagbe is a British pop-soul singer-songwriter, best known for her 1993 UK top 20 hit single, "Gotta Get It Right". She was signed to U2's record label, Mother Records. Chart career Fiagbe's debut single, "You Come from Earth", was released in July 1993, with the single billed simply to 'Lena'. It was widely expected to chart well and had preemptive inclusion on the compilation album, '' Now That's What I Call Music 25'', with the inner booklet predicting that the single was 'chart-bound'. However, despite inclusion on ''Now 25'' and a playlisting on BBC Radio 1, it stalled at number 69 in the UK Singles Chart. Fiagbe's second single, "Gotta Get It Right", was released in November 1993, with her name now being credited in full as Lena Fiagbe. The single reached the UK top 40, charting at number 25 on the rundown of 23 October 1993 and peaking at number 20 a week later. This was the second single by Fiagbe to appear on the ''NOW'' numbered series, being included on ''Now T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lena Eriksson
Lena Christina Eriksson (born October 8, 1972, in Järfälla, Stockholm) is a former female breaststroke swimmer from Sweden, representing Spårvägens SF. She competed for her native country at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, where she ended up in ninth place in the Women's 200m Breaststroke. Clubs *Spårvägens SF
Spårvägens Simförening, commonly known as Spårvägens SF or Spårvägen, is a Swedish swimming club based in western Stockholm. The club is residing in Vällingbybadet, Spångabadet, Tenstabadet, Beck ...
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Lena Erdil
Lena Aylin Erdil (born 28 February 1989) is a professional windsurfer from İzmir, Turkey. She is competing in the PWA World Tour mostly in the slalom event. She is currently sponsored by NRV, Starboard Windsurfing, Point7, Salzbrenner Würstchen and FGH. Personal life Lena Aylin Erdil was born to a Turkish father and a German mother in İzmir, Turkey on 28 February 1989. When she was two years old, the family moved to Göttingen, Germany, and at the age of ten, she moved with her parents to Brussels, Belgium. Her father Güven Erdil is a professor of sports coaching serving as the Head of Sports Department at Marmara University's Faculty of Sports. Her mother Ellen was a primary school teacher of German language, and sports, who died from colorectal cancer at the age of 55 in 2016. Her father and mother had met each other while windsurfing. She spent her childhood years in Germany and Belgium. During summer holidays, she visited Çeşma, İzmir Province for windsurfing. Afte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lena Endre
Lena Endre (born 8 July 1955) is a Swedish actress of film and television,* primarily in the Swedish and Norwegian markets, known for her parts in the Liv Ullmann film '' Trolösa'' (2000), and the ''Millennium series'' of films (e.g., ''The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo''), based on the eponymous trio of Stieg Larsson books. Endre made her English-language debut in 2012, in Paul Thomas Anderson's movie '' The Master'', starring Joaquin Phoenix and Philip Seymour Hoffman. Early life Endre was born in Lidingö, Stockholm County to Beryl (née Forsman) and Ants Endre and she has two brothers, she grew up in Härnösand, Ångermanland, and Trollbäcken, Tyresö. Initially, she was studying marine biology before dropping out to work at a record store; she participated in amateur theater during this time. She acted as a part of the Teater Sputnik and Inge Waern's Theatre Studio theater groups in 1979. In 1983, she was accepted to the Stockholm Academy of the Performing Arts. Career E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lena Einhorn
Lena Einhorn (born 19 May 1954) is a Swedish director and writer and former physician. Early life and family Einhorn was born on 19 May 1954 in Spånga, Sweden. Her mother, Nina, escaped the Warsaw ghetto during World War II and settled in Sweden, and her father, Jerzy, was a cancer specialist, politician and Holocaust survivor who wrote in 1966 a book about what he had experienced. Her younger brother is doctor and author, Stefan Einhorn. Career After graduating from the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm with a doctorate in virology and tumor biology, she worked as a doctor, specialising in tumour viruses and the causes of cancer in fetuses and newborns. She changed careers when she lived in the United States in the 1980s and began working as a medical editor at Lifetime Television where she also produced and wrote medical documentaries. She also produced scientific and medical documentaries for independent companies and for PBS until she returned to Sweden in 1994. She ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lena Dunham
Lena Dunham (, born May 13, 1986) is an American writer, director, actress, and producer. She is known as the creator, writer, and star of the HBO television series ''Girls'' (2012–2017), for which she received several Emmy Award nominations and two Golden Globe Awards. Dunham also directed several episodes of ''Girls'' and became the first woman to win the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Comedy Series. Prior to ''Girls'', Dunham wrote, directed, and starred in the semi-autobiographical independent film ''Tiny Furniture'' (2010), for which she won an Independent Spirit Award for Best First Screenplay. Her second feature film, '' Sharp Stick'', written and directed by Dunham, was released in 2022. Her third film, '' Catherine Called Birdy'', had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 12, 2022. It was released in a limited release on September 23, 2022, by Amazon Studios, prior to streaming on Prime Video on Octobe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lena Doolin Mason
Lena Doolin Mason (May 6, 1864 – August 28, 1924) was an American Methodist preacher and poet. Biography Lena Doolin was born on May 6, 1864 in Quincy, Illinois to Vaughn and Relda Doolin. She joined the congregation of Hannibal, Missouri's African Methodist Episcopal Church in 1872. She attended Douglass High School in Hannibal and Professor Knott's School in Chicago. In 1883, she married George Mason. Their daughter was the only one of their six children to survive to adulthood. When she was 23, Mason entered the ministry Ministry may refer to: Government * Ministry (collective executive), the complete body of government ministers under the leadership of a prime minister * Ministry (government department), a department of a government Religion * Christian ..., preaching exclusively to white people for her first three years. Mason was a noted orator. During her career, she was a member of the Colored Conference and preached in "nearly every state in the Union." ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lena Christ
Lena Christ (née Magdalena Pichler; 30 October 188130 June 1920) was a German writer. Life and works Lena Christ was born as the nonmarital child of Magdalena Pichler (1860–1928), then a cook on Zinneberg near Glonn.Marita Panzer: ''Lena Christ. Keine Überflüssige.'' Verlag Friedrich Pustet, Regensburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-7917-2307-5. Smith journeyman and salesman Karl Christ from Mönchsroth near Dinkelsbühl admitted to paternity. Despite this explicit profession by Karl Christ, then employed with Munich cavalry captain Rittmeister Ewald Hornig, and his commitment to alimony, later contemporaries and biographers doubted his paternity. Rather Scanzoni zu Lichtenfels at Schloss Zinneberg was to be suspected as true father. This speculation was fed through Lena Christ's statement that her mother claimed her father went missing and lost his life in the sinking of the ''Cimbria'' on 19 January 1883 on route to America at the high seas. There was however no Karl Christ regis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lena Chamamyan
Lena Chamamyan ( ar, لينا شماميان, hy, Լենա Շամամեան; born 27 June 1980) is a Syrian-Armenian singer-songwriter known for her soprano voice and unique style, which fuses jazz, Middle Eastern folk music and Western classical music. Personal life Lena was born in Damascus to Artine Chamamyan, an Armenian Catholic from Aleppo with roots from Marash, and Ghada, a Syriac woman originally from Mardin. Her paternal great-grandfather, Sarkis Chamamyan, was a calligrapher, originally from Marash, Cilicia. She has said that his education and skills saved him and his family during the Armenian genocide, as the Ottoman army made use of his skills to write military communiqués and his life was spared. After the war, he and his family settled in Aleppo, along with a large number of Armenians who had been deported from Cilicia. Her grandfather, Hovhannes Chamamyan, worked as a tailor in Aleppo and was a member of the Syrian Communist Party. While many of his friends ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lena Burke
Lena Burke, also known as Lena Pérez or simply Lena (February 18, 1978, in Havana, Cuba) is a Cuban singer-songwriter. Biography She is the oldest daughter of Malena Burke and granddaughter of Elena Burke. She wrote her first songs at age 3, followed by guitar classes at age 5 by her father ( Rey Nerio), and classical piano at age 7. After 12 years of studio recording, Burke becomes a concert pianist, winning several prizes. At this point her voice was discovered. Burke learned to play guitar and classical piano as a child. Burke started her musical career singing backing vocals on albums by Gloria Estefan, Julio Iglesias, Jennifer Lopez, Thalía, Jaci Velasquez, Chayanne and Alejandro Sanz. Sanz introduced Burke to executives at his label, who signed her. Her debut single, "Tu Corazón", a duet with Sanz, received a Latin Grammy nomination for Song of the Year. Her second album ''La Mala'' was released in 2008. She participated in the chorus of many important productions: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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