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Lizzie (other)
Lizzie or Lizzy is a nickname for Elizabeth or Elisabet, often given as an independent name in the United States, especially in the late 19th century. Lizzie can also be the shortened version of Lizeth, Lissette or Lizette. People * Elizabeth II (1926–2022), Queen of the United Kingdom * Elizabeth Sewall Alcott (1835–1858), real-life model for the character Beth March in the novel ''Little Women'' * Marie Elisabeth Lizzy Ansingh (1875–1959), Dutch painter * Lizzie Arlington, alias of Elizabeth Stroud, regarded by many historians as the first female to play organized baseball in the 19th century * Lizzie Arnot (born 1996), Scottish footballer * Elizabeth Mary Lizzie Deignan (née Armitstead) (born 1988), world champion British track and road racing cyclist * Lizzy Bardsley (born 1973), English media and television personality * Elizabeth Bolden (1890–2006), world's oldest person at the time of her death * Lizzie Borden (1860–1927), tried and acquitted for the no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth (given Name)
Elizabeth is a feminine given name, a variation of the Hebrew language, Hebrew name (), meaning "My God is an oath" or "My God is abundance", as rendered in the Septuagint. Occurrence in the Bible "Elizabeth" appears in the Hebrew Bible as the name of Aaron's wife ("Elisheba, Elisheva" in the Hebrew Bible), and in the New Testament as the name of the Elizabeth (biblical figure), wife of the priest Zechariah (New Testament figure), Zechariah and mother of John the Baptist. It has also been the name of several saints and queens. Statistics The name has many variants in use across the world and has been in consistent use worldwide. 'Elizabeth' was the tenth most popular name given to baby girls in the United States in 2007 and has been among the 25 most popular names given to girls in the United States for the past 100 years. It is the only name that remained in the top ten US girls' names list from 1925 to 1972. In the early 21st century, 'Elizabeth' has been among the top 50 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lizzie Crozier French
Margaret Elizabeth Crozier French (May 7, 1851 – May 14, 1926) was an American educator, women's suffragist and social reform activist. She was one of the primary leaders in the push for women's rights in Tennessee in the early 1900s, and helped the state become the 36th state to certify the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution, giving women the right to vote, in 1920. She also founded the Ossoli Circle, the oldest federated women's club in the South, and led efforts to bring coeducation to the University of Tennessee.East Tennessee Historical Society, Lucile Deaderick (ed.), ''Heart of the Valley: A History of Knoxville, Tennessee'' (Knoxville, Tenn.: East Tennessee Historical Society, 1976), p. 342. Biography Early life Lizzie Crozier was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, in 1851, one of the five daughters of John H. Crozier and Mary Williams Crozier. Her father was a politician who had served in the Tennessee House of Representatives from 1837 to 1839, repre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lizzy Lind Af Hageby
Emilie Augusta Louise "Lizzy" Lind af Hageby (20 September 1878 – 26 December 1963) was a Swedish-British feminist and animal rights advocate who became a prominent anti-vivisection activist in England in the early 20th century. Born to a distinguished Swedish family, Lind af Hageby and another Swedish activist enrolled at the London School of Medicine for Women in 1902 to advance their anti-vivisectionist education. The women attended vivisections at University College London, and in 1903 published their diary, ''The Shambles of Science: Extracts from the Diary of Two Students of Physiology'', which accused researchers of having vivisected a dog without adequate anaesthesia. The ensuing scandal, known as the Brown Dog affair, included a libel trial, damages for one of the researchers, and rioting in London by medical students.Coral Lansbury, ''The Old Brown Dog: Women, Workers, and Vivisection in Edwardian England'', University of Wisconsin Press, 1985, pp. 9–11. In 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lizzie Kiama
Lizzie Kiama is a Kenyan disability rights activist. She is the founder and managing trustee of This Ability Trust, a Kenyan disability rights organization. Early life and education Kiama is from Mombasa and was the first born of four children. She has a bachelor's degree in Business Administration from the United States International University. At the age of 18, Kiama was injured in a car crash, which resulted in a physical disability. Complications while giving birth a few years later resulted in her disability becoming permanent. Career Kiama founded This Ability Trust, in 2012, to support companies with inclusion of people with disabilities and to empower women and girls with disabilities, and to promote rights enshrined in the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities is an international human rights treaty of the United Nations intended to protect the rights and dignity of persons with disabi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lizzy Igasan
Elizabeth Jane Igasan (now Horlock; born 16 September 1982) is a New Zealand field hockey player who was captain of the national team and a participant in the 2004 Summer Olympics and 2008 Summer Olympics. Early life Igasan was born in Whangārei and attended Whangārei Girls' High School and Rangitoto College. She grew up with her mother, two sisters, Connie and Mary-Anne, and a brother, James. Her parents separated when she was four years' old. Field hockey Igasan is a penalty corner specialist and defender, and plays for North Harbour in the New Zealand Hockey League. She played her first game in the New Zealand women's national field hockey team in 2001, and, after playing in the 2004 Summer Olympics and the 2006 Commonwealth Games, but being unavailable for the World Cup qualifying tournament, was chosen as captain of the team for the 2008 Summer Olympics. She won the New Zealand women's Player of the Year award in 2004, 2005 and 2008. Other activities Igasan was a partic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lizzie Halliday
Lizzie Halliday ( – June 28, 1918, born Eliza Margaret McNally) was an Irish-American serial killer responsible for the deaths of four people in upstate New York during the 1890s. In 1894, she became the first woman to be sentenced to death by the electric chair. Halliday's sentence was commuted and she spent the rest of her life in a mental institution. She killed a nurse while institutionalized and is speculated to have killed her first two husbands. Biography Halliday, originally Eliza Margaret McNally, was born around 1859Harold Schechter, Psycho USA: Famous American Killers You Never Heard Of, Random House Publishing Group – 2012, page 58 (born 1859) in County Antrim, Ireland. Her family moved to the US when she was young (given as aged three or eight). In 1879, Halliday married a Greenwich, New York, man known by the alias Charles Hopkins; his real name was Ketspool Brown. They are said to have had one son who ended up institutionalized. In 1881, after Hopk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lizzie Hopley
Elizabeth Hopley is a British actress and writer. She has appeared in several audio plays based on the BBC science fiction television series ''Doctor Who''. Her first appearance was as the Eighth Doctor’s companion Gemma Griffin in ''Terror Firma''. She also portrayed Yarvell, the sister of Davros, in the ''I, Davros'' mini-series and Dorothea Waddingham in the 2005 film '' Pierrepoint''. Hopley was born in Liverpool and trained at RADA. Her film and television work includes the recent TV adaptation of Andrea Levy's ''The Long Song'' and ITV's 2017 drama series ''Little Boy Blue'', the film adaptation of ''Jane Eyre'' directed by '' Sin Nombres Cary Fukunaga, '' The Last Hangman'', Channel 4's adaptation of ''Any Human Heart'', '' Randall and Hopkirk'', the BBC's ''The Day of the Triffids'' with Joely Richardson and Eddie Izzard, ITV's adaptation of ''The Suspicions of Mr Whicher'' starring Paddy Considine and ''The Thirteenth Tale'' for the BBC. Notable theatre work includes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lizzie Holmes
Lizzie Holmes (, Hunt; after first marriage, Swank; after second marriage, Holmes; pen name, May Huntley; December 21, 1850 – August 8, 1926) was an American anarchist, writer, and organizer of Chicago's working women during the late 19th century in the United States. She was a key figure in Chicago's labor movement in the years just preceding the Haymarket affair, during which she worked with and played a leading role in a range of unions including the Knights of Labor and the International Working People's Association. Prior to becoming a labor organizer, she worked as a school teacher and music instructor in Ohio. In addition to her work as a labor organizer, Holmes served as a writer and editor in various radical and anarchist newspapers. She worked as the assistant editor of ''The Alarm'', and she published articles in ''Lucifer, the Light-Bearer'', ''Freedom'', and ''Free Society.'' In contrast to some of her anarchist contemporaries, she was also willing to publish in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lizzie Grubman
Elizabeth Grubman (born January 30, 1971) is an American publicist, manager and socialite. In 2002, Grubman served 38 days in jail for an incident where she intentionally backed a Mercedes SUV into a crowd, injuring 16 people. Early life She is the daughter of entertainment lawyer Allen Grubman and his first wife, the late Yvette Grubman.WEDDINGS; Eric Gatoff and Lizzie Grubman '' The New York Times''. Accessed September 10, 2007. Her parents divorced in 1988. Her mother had multiple sclerosis, and died of ovarian cancer at 58 in 2001. Career Grubman is well known as a publicist and ma ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lizzie Grey
Stephen M. Perry (August 13, 1958 – August 5, 2019), who used the stage name Lizzie Grey, was an American musician. He is perhaps best known for his membership as a guitarist in the heavy metal band London and for co-writing the Mötley Crüe song "Public Enemy #1". From 1990 until his death in 2019, he performed with the glam rock band Spiders & Snakes. He is not to be confused with Lizzi Grei, a Russian hip-hop artist. Career Perry was the guitarist for the band Sister with Blackie Lawless and Nikki Sixx in the mid-to-late 1970s. Thereafter he formed the band London with Nikki Sixx, drummer Dane Rage, keyboardist John St. John and lead vocalist Michael White. Followed shortly thereafter by lead vocalist Henri Valentine, who was later replaced by Nigel Benjamin, formerly of Mott. The band garnered a following of glam rock fans from the late 1970s, spearheaded by Rodney Bingenheimer and Kim Fowley. Differences arose between Nikki Sixx and Nigel Benjamin, and the b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lizzie Greenwood-Hughes
Elizabeth Greenwood-Hughes (née Greenwood) is an English television presenter working for the BBC. She is currently a regular presenter of Sports News on the BBC News Channel and the '' BBC Weekend News''. Education She studied film and photography at Salisbury College of Art, which became Wiltshire College. Presenting career After working on '' BBC South Today'' she presented ''Newsround'', the children's current affairs show on BBC One between 2001 and 2008. She co-presented the show's 30th Anniversary edition with original presenter John Craven. She then went on to present '' Sportsround'' on BBC Two from 2005, with co-host Jake Humphrey. Moving to sports presenting, she was part of the BBC's presenting line-up at the 2006 Melbourne Commonwealth Games, the 2008 Beijing Olympics and Paralympics and the 2006 Turin and 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics. She then worked on '' The Football League Show'', a highlights show covering all the lower English leagues on Saturday ni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lizzy Greene
Elizabeth Anne Greene (born May 1, 2003) is an American actress known for her title role as Dawn Harper in the Nickelodeon sitcom ''Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn'' from 2014 to 2018. She has been starring as Sophie Dixon in the ABC family drama ''A Million Little Things'' since 2018. Life and career Elizabeth Anne Greene was born on May 1, 2003 in Dallas, Texas. She made her television debut in the Nickelodeon sitcom ''Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn'' in the title role of Dawn Harper, the only girl of quadruplets. The show ran from September 13, 2014 to August 4, 2018. In 2018, she was cast as Sophie Dixon in the ABC drama ''A Million Little Things ''A Million Little Things'' is an American family drama television series created by DJ Nash for ABC. Produced by ABC Signature and Kapital Entertainment, it features an ensemble cast including David Giuntoli, Grace Park, Romany Malco, Christi ...''. Filmography Awards and nominations References External links * * * {{DEFA ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
