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Lenore (given Name)
Lenore is a feminine given name which may refer to: *Lenore Aubert (1913–1993), American actress * Lenore E. Bixby (1914–1994), American statistician *Lenore Blum (born 1942), American mathematician and professor of computer science * Lenore Chinn (born 1949), American artist *Lenore Coffee (1896–1984), American writer *Lenore Kandel (1932–2009), American poet *Lenore Kight (1911–2000), American swimmer *Lenore RS Lim (born 1945), Filipino artist * Lenore Manderson (born 1951), Australian medical anthropologist *Lenore Marshall (1899–1971), American poet, novelist and activist *Lenore Muraoka (born 1955), American golfer *Lenore Carrero Nesbitt (1932–2001), American judge * Lenore Raphael (born 1942), American jazz pianist and educator *Lenore Romney (1908–1998), wife of American businessman and politician George W. Romney and mother of politician Mitt Romney *Lenore Skenazy (1907–2007), American newspaper columnist *Lenore Smith (born 1958), Australian actress *L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lenore Aubert
Lenore Aubert (born Eleonore Maria Leisner, April 18, 1913The book ''Women in Horror Films, 1940s'' says that Aubert was born "on April 18, 1913 (although 1918 was given in publicity)." – July 31, 1993) was a model and Hollywood actress best known for her movie roles as exotic, mysterious women. Early years Aubert was born in what is now Celje, Austro-Hungarian Empire. She grew up in Vienna. Career In New York, she found work as a model and was eventually offered a stage role as Lorraine Sheldon in ''The Man Who Came to Dinner'' at the La Jolla Playhouse in San Diego. She began her U.S. film career in the early 1940s, taking the French-sounding screen name Lenore Aubert. She was professionally pursued by Louis B. Mayer, to be put under a seven year contract to Metro Goldwyn-Mayer, however Samuel Goldwyn, with whom she was already under contract, refused to sell her contract to M.G.M. Her European accent limited her choice of roles, and she played such parts as a Nazi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lenore Muraoka
Lenore Muraoka Rittenhouse (born December 12, 1955) is an American professional golfer who played on the LPGA Tour The Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) is an American organization for female golfers. The organization is headquartered at the LPGA International in Daytona Beach, Florida, and is best known for running the LPGA Tour, a series of weekl .... She played under her maiden name, Lenore Muraoka, until her marriage in 1987, and then under her married name, Lenore Rittenhouse. Muraoka won once on the LPGA Tour in 1983. Muraoka Rittenhouse was inducted into the Hawaii Sports Hall of Fame in 2010. Professional wins LPGA Tour wins (1) LPGA Tour playoff record (0–1) References American female golfers LPGA Tour golfers Golfers from Honolulu University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa alumni American sportspeople of Japanese descent 1955 births Living people 21st-century American women {{US-golf-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lenore Ulric
Lenore Ulric (born Lenore Ulrich; July 21, 1892 – December 30, 1970) was a star of the Broadway theatre as well as Hollywood films of the silent-film and early sound era. Discovered in 1913 by theater director David Belasco, who would go on to manage her stage career, she was noted for portraying fiery, hot-blooded women of the typical vamp. Early life, theater, and silent films Lenore Ulrich was born on July 21, 1892 to Franz Xavier Ulrich, who was a United States Army hospital steward, and Ida Ulrich (née Engenhart). Both of her parents were first generation German-Americans. Franz reportedly named his daughter Lenore due to his fondness for the Edgar Allan Poe poem, "The Raven". She later dropped the "h" from her surname."Lenore Ulric, Broadway Star of Belasco Era, Is Dead at 78", ''New York Times'', December 31, 1970 She had four sisters, Isabel, Francis, Alma, and Florence, and a brother, Roy Richard. She left school after completing 3rd grade.https://www.ancestry.com/im ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lenore Tawney
Lenore Tawney (born Leonora Agnes Gallagher; May 10, 1907 – September 24, 2007) was an American artist known for her drawings, personal collages, and sculptural assemblages, who became an influential figure in the development of fiber art. Early life and education One of five children born in Lorain, Ohio to Irish American parents Sarah Jennings and William Gallagher. She left home at age 20 and worked in Chicago as a proofreader while taking night courses at the Art Institute of Chicago. In 1941 she married George Tawney, who died eighteen months later. After his death, she to moved to Urbana, Illinois to be near his family and enrolled at the University of Illinois to study art therapy. Tawney's introduction to the tenets of the German Bauhaus school and the artistic avant-garde began in 1946 when she attended László Moholy-Nagy's Chicago Institute of Design. There she studied with cubist sculptor Alexander Archipenko and abstract expressionist painter Emerson Woelffer, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lenore Smith
Lenore Smith (born 25 October 1958 in Balmain, Sydney, New South Wales) is an Australian actress best known for her work in television. Internationally, she is best known for her role as Kate Wellings in the drama series ''The Flying Doctors''. Career Smith studied economics as a teenager, but after being dissuaded by a teacher, she decided to take a course at Ensemble Studios in Sydney and become an actress. After being there for just over two years, Smith landed her first role in ''The Restless Years'' as Diane Archer. Smith left Australia after ''The Restless Years'' to work in London, but received a telegram asking her to return to play a role in ''The Flying Doctors''. Smith accepted and came back to Australia to begin work on the TV series. Lenore embarked on higher education later in life after a long and successful career as an actor in television, stage and screen. Lenore graduated with a Bachelor of Podiatry degree, 1st Class Honours, at Central Queensland Univers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lenore Skenazy
Lenore Skenazy () is president oLet Grow a non-profit promoting childhood independence and resilience, and founder of the Free-Range Kids movement. She is also a speaker, blogger, syndicated columnist, author, and reality show host. A mother who lives in the Queens borough of New York City, her controversial decision to let her then-9-year-old son take the New York City Subway home alone became a national story and prompted massive media attention. She was dubbed,America's Worst Mom" In response, Skenazy founded the book and blog "Free-Range Kids," with the aim of "fighting the belief that our children are in constant danger from creeps, kidnapping, germs, grades, flashers, frustration, failure, baby snatchers, bugs, bullies, men, sleepovers and/or the perils of a non-organic grape." Let Grow, co-founded in 2018 with Daniel Shuchman, Dr. Peter Gray and Prof. Jonathan Haidt, continues the quest to make it "easy, normal and legal" to give kids back some old-fashioned independe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lenore Romney
Lenore LaFount Romney (; November 9, 1908 – July 7, 1998) was an American actress and political figure. The wife of businessman and politician George W. Romney, she was First Lady of Michigan from 1963 to 1969. She was the Republican Party nominee for the U.S. Senate in 1970 from Michigan. Her younger son, Mitt Romney, is a U.S. Senator from Utah, a former Governor of Massachusetts, and was the 2012 Republican presidential nominee. Lenore LaFount was born in Logan, Utah, and raised in Salt Lake City. She went to Latter-day Saints High School, where she developed an interest in drama and first met George Romney. She attended the University of Utah and George Washington University, graduating from the latter in 1929. She studied acting at the American Laboratory Theatre in New York, then went to Hollywood, where she became a bit player who appeared in a number of films with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Turning down a contract offer with them, she married George Romney in 1931 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lenore Raphael
Lenore Raphael (born Lenore Hyams; June 1, 1942) is an American jazz pianist and educator influenced by Oscar Peterson, Bill Evans, and George Shearing. Early life Raphael was born in New York City. She studied classical music at the High School of Music & Art in Manhattan, going on to New York University, where she received a Bachelor of Arts degree in music. As a teenage prodigy, she performed in a classical concert at Carnegie Hall. She gave up a career as a music teacher and switched to playing jazz professionally after hearing Oscar Peterson in concert. She studied jazz piano under Barry Harris and Mike Longo. Later life and career Raphael has performed with Lionel Hampton, Ken Peplowski, Illinois Jacquet and Clark Terry . A composer as well as performer, her tribute tune to Oscar Peterson following his death ("Blues for OP") premièred at a memorial concert for Peterson at the International Association for Jazz Convention in Toronto, Ontario. Her compositions also include ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lenore Carrero Nesbitt
Lenore Carrero Nesbitt (July 19, 1932 – October 6, 2001) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida. Education and career Nesbitt was born in Miami, Florida. She received an Associate of Arts degree from Stephens College in 1952. She received a Bachelor of Science degree from Northwestern University in 1954. She received a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Miami School of Law in 1957. She was a research assistant for the Florida First District Court of Appeal in Tallahassee from 1957 to 1959. She was in private practice of law in Miami from 1960 to 1963. She was a special assistant state attorney general of the State of Florida from 1961 to 1963. She was a research assistant for the Eleventh Judicial Circuit of Florida in Dade County from 1963 to 1965. She returned to private practice in Miami from 1969 to 1975. She was a counsel for the Florida State Board of Medical Examiners from 1970 to 1971. State ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lenore Marshall
Lenore Guinzberg Marshall (September 7, 1899, New York City – September 23, 1971, Doylestown, Pennsylvania) was an American poet, novelist, and activist. Life She was the daughter of Harry and Leonie (Kleinert) Guinzburg. She graduated from Barnard College in 1919. She married James Marshall, son of New York lawyer Louis B. Marshall, Louis Marshall. Lenore and James had two children, Ellen and Jonathan Marshall (publisher), Jonathan; they lived in New York City. From 1929 to 1932, Lenore Marshall worked as an editor at Cape and Smith, where she was instrumental getting them to publish ''The Sound and the Fury'' by William Faulkner. She also edited ''As I Lay Dying (novel), As I Lay Dying''. Her work appeared in ''Harper's'', and ''The New Yorker''. Her son Jonathan Marshall (publisher), Jonathan Marshall owned and published the ''Scottsdale Daily Progress'' newspaper. Jonathan ran unsuccessfully for United States Senate against Barry Goldwater in 1974. Activism In 1933, she ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lenore E
Lenore may refer to: __NOTOC__ Arts and entertainment * "Lenore" (poem), by Edgar Allan Poe *Lenore, an unrelated character in the poem "The Raven", also by Edgar Allan Poe * "Lenore" (ballad), a 1773 poem by Gottfried August Bürger * "Lenore" (melodrama), a melodrama by Franz Liszt after Gottfried August Bürger's ballad * Symphony No. 5 (Raff), a symphony by Joachim Raff entitled "Lenore" *the title character of ''Lenore, the Cute Little Dead Girl'', a comic series Places *Lenore, Idaho, an unincorporated community *Lenore, West Virginia, an unincorporated community *Lake Lenore (Washington) *Lenore Lake (Saskatchewan), Canada People * Lenore (given name), a list of people See also *Leonore (other) * Lenora (other) *Lenor Downy, also known as Lenor in Europe, Russia and Japan, is a brand of fabric softener produced by Procter & Gamble that was introduced in 1960. Lenor is a brand name of fabric softener and dryer sheets, also produced by P&G, sold in Europ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lenore Manderson
Lenore Hilda Manderson (born 21 June 1951) is an Australian medical anthropologist. She is Professor of Medical Anthropology in the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, and the School of Political and Social Inquiry, Faculty of Arts, at Monash University, Australia. Early life Manderson was born in Melbourne, Victoria. She graduated from the Australian National University with a BA in Asian Studies (Hons) and then a PhD. Career Manderson was Professor of Tropical Health (University of Queensland, 1988–1998). In recognition of her research, she was made a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Social Sciences in 1995. In 1999 she became Professor of Women's Health (University of Melbourne and remained in this position until 2005. She was President of the International Association for the Study of Sexuality, Culture and Society 2001–2003. She was awarded an inaugural Australian Research Council Federation Fellowship in 2001, and took this up at Melbourne a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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