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Meri (name)
Meri is both an Estonian and Finnish surname meaning "sea" and a feminine given name. Notable people with the name include: ; Surname: *Arnold Meri (1919–2009), Soviet World War II veteran and Soviet Estonian politician *Enn Meri (born 1942), Estonian politician *Georg Meri (1900–1983), Estonian diplomat, writer and translator *Helle Meri (born 1949), Estonian actress, First Lady of Estonia 1992–2001, wife of President Lennart Meri *Hindrek Meri (1934–2009), Estonian statesman *Lennart Meri (1929–2006), Estonian politician and writer, President of Estonia 1992–2001 *Veijo Meri (1928–2015), Finnish writer ; Given name: * Meri Cetinić, Croatian pop singer * Meri St. Mary, American punk poet * Meri Utrio, Finnish writer * Meri Wilson, American singer * Meri von KleinSmid, American composer and sound artist References {{Given name, type=both Estonian-language surnames Feminine given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arnold Meri
Arnold Meri (1 July 1919 – 27 March 2009) was a Soviet World War II veteran and the first Estonian Hero of the Soviet Union. After Estonia became independent, he was later charged with genocide for his role in the deportation of some Estonians to the inhospitable regions of the USSR. He was the cousin of President of Estonia, Lennart Meri. At the time of his death, Meri was an honorary chairman of the Estonian Anti-Fascist Committee. Early life His parents were Konstantin, an Estonian, and Olga, a Russified German from Saint Petersburg, the daughter of a wealthy merchant. In 1926, due to economic reasons and political convictions, Meri's family emigrated to Yugoslavia, which was the main centre of the White emigrants. There, Arnold's father worked as a chef and his mother as a maid and young Arnold was baptised into the Russian Orthodox church and renamed Adrian. He completed Russian primary school in Skopje and at the Russian-Serbian Gymnasium in Belgrade in 1938. After r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Enn Meri
Enn Meri (born 15 January 1942) is an Estonia Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, a ...n politician. He was a member of XIII Riigikogu. References Living people 1942 births Estonian Free Party politicians Members of the Riigikogu, 2015–2019 Recipients of the Order of the White Star, 5th Class People from Kuressaare {{Estonia-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georg Meri
Georg-Peeter Meri (7 October 1900 – 10 June 1983) was an Estonian diplomat, literary scholar and translator. He took part in Estonian War of Independence, belonging to Tallinn Defence Battalion. 1934-1938 he was a diplomat of Estonia to Germany. In 1938 he was awarded with 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 ..., III class. His son was Estonian president Lennart Meri. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Meri, Georg 1900 births 1983 deaths Estonian diplomats Estonian translators Estonian literary scholars Recipients of the Order of the White Star, 3rd Class Estonian military personnel of the Estonian War of Independence Gulag detainees Prisoners and detainees of the Soviet Union Burials at Metsakalmistu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helle Meri
Helle Meri (born 14 March 1949), widow of Lennart Meri, is an Estonian actress who also served as the First Lady of Estonia from 1992 to 2001. Helle Meri (née Pihlak) was born in the small town of Rapla where she also went to school. In her spare time she actively participated in different sports and played basketball. After secondary school, she went on to study at the Stage School of Tallinn Conservatory. Before serving as the First Lady, she played in the Estonian Drama Theatre from 1972 up until 1992 when Lennart Meri became the Estonian Ambassador to Finland prior to his nine years of presidency. The couple got married in 1992 when her acting career came to an end. In theatre, Helle Pihlak had roles in numerous classical pieces to a good critical acclaim, including the pieces by Estonian playwrights like August Kitzberg, A. H. Tammsaare, Jaan Kross and Jaan Kruusvall among many. She had roles also in musical theatre, musicals, in children's plays and in film. Prior to her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hindrek Meri
Hindrek-Peeter Meri (21 February 1934 – 29 September 2009) was an Estonian statesman. 1957–1990, he worked at State Planning Committee of the Estonian SSR. 1990–1997, he was Auditor General of Estonia. Personal life His brother was Estonian writer and president Lennart Meri Lennart Georg Meri (; 29 March 1929 – 14 March 2006) was an Estonian politician, writer, and film director. He served as the second president of Estonia from 1992 to 2001. Meri was among the leaders of the movement to restore Estonian independ .... References {{DEFAULTSORT:Meri, Hindrek-Peeter 1934 births 2009 deaths Estonian civil servants ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lennart Meri
Lennart Georg Meri (; 29 March 1929 – 14 March 2006) was an Estonian politician, writer, and film director. He served as the second president of Estonia from 1992 to 2001. Meri was among the leaders of the movement to restore Estonian independence from the Soviet Union. Early life Meri was born in Tallinn, a son of the Estonian diplomat and later Shakespeare translator Georg Meri, and Estonian Swedish mother Alice-Brigitta Engmann. With his family, Lennart left Estonia at an early age and studied abroad, in nine different schools and in four different languages. His warmest memories were from his school years in Lycée Janson de Sailly in Paris. In addition to his native Estonian, Lennart Meri fluently spoke five other languages: Finnish, French, German, English and Russian. Lennart Meri and his family were in Tallinn when Estonia became occupied by the Soviet Union armed forces in June 1940. The extended Meri family was split in the middle, half of whom opposed, the other ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Veijo Meri
Veijo Väinö Valvo Meri (31 December 1928 – 21 June 2015) was a Finnish writer. Much of his work focuses on war and its absurdity. The work is anti-war and has dark humor. Born in Viipuri (today Vyborg, Russia), Meri graduated from secondary school in Hämeenlinna, then studied history and became an independent writer. His diverse body of work includes novels, short stories, poetry, and essays. Translations into English * ''Manila rope: A novel.'' (Translated from the Finnish by John McGahern and Annikki Laaksi.) 1967. * ''Private Jokinen’s marriage leave''. (Translated from the Finnish by J. R. Pitkin.) 1976. * ''Beneath the Polar Star: Glimpses of Finnish History.'' (English translation by Philip Binham.) 1999. References External links * Biographyby Finnish Literature Society The Finnish Literature Society ( fi, Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura ry or fi, SKS) was founded in 1831 to promote literature written in Finnish. Among its first publications was the ''Kal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meri Cetinić
Meri Cetinić (born 15 June 1953) is a Croatian pop singer and soprano vocalist. Cetinić was born in Split and graduated at the Teachers Academy of the University of Split The University of Split ( hr, Sveučilište u Splitu) is a university located in Split, Croatia. It was founded in 1974. and is organized in 13 faculties and 124 faculty programmes. As of 2009, a total of approximately 40,000 students have gradua .... Her first major contribution was the song "More" (lit. "the Sea") with the band Grupa More in 1973. Between the 1970s and the 1990s, she released 12 albums under major Yugoslav and Croatian record labels, some of which went gold and platinum. References External links * 1953 births Croatian pop singers 20th-century Croatian women singers Living people Musicians from Split, Croatia {{Croatia-singer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Meri may refer to: *Meri (name) *Meri (mythology), folk hero in Bororo mythology *Meri, term in shakuhachi music *''The Meri'', novel by Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff *''Meri'', release title of La Mer (film) in Finland * Meri (political party), now-defunct political party in Israel * Meri or Mery, an ancient Egyptian name Places *Merì, town in Italy *Meri, Cameroon, commune in Extrême-Nord region *Meri, Iran (other) *Meri, a village in Drăgăneşti Commune, Prahova County, Romania *Meri, a village in Vedea The Vedea () is a river in southern Romania that flows from the Cotmeana Plateau and empties into the Danube. It has a total length of 224 km, of which 33 km is regulated. Its drainage basin area is 5,430 km2. It flows in Argeș Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meri Utrio
Meri Marjatta Utrio (née Vitikainen; 23 March 1919 – 14 December 2004) was a Finnish editor and translator to Finnish. She was married with Urho Untamo Utrio, who was the chief executive officer of the publishing company Tammi and has three children with him: Kaari (1942–) Pirkka (1943–2000) and Martti (1945–). The first above, Kaari Utrio has written over forty historical novels as well as often non-fictional books which deal with position of women and children in the history of Europe. Meri Utrio's sister, Pirkko Vitikainen, M.A. in Architecture, worked in the 1980s and 1900s as the City Planning Architect of Helsinki, the capital of Finland. Works * Jack O'Brien: Silver Chief, Dog of the North (translation to Finnish 1957) * Jack O'Brien: Silver Chief to the Rescue (translation to Finnish 1957) * Jack O'Brien: The Return of Silver Chief (translation to Finnish 1958) * Sata vuotta sitten 1886 (Finnish: ''One hundred years ago: 1886'') (with her son-in-law Kai Li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meri Wilson
Meri Wilson Edgmon (June 15, 1949 – December 28, 2002), known professionally as Meri Wilson, was an American singer best known for singing double entendre novelty songs. Personal history She was born in Nagoya, Japan, at a United States military base, but raised in Marietta, Georgia, United States. She came from a musical family. She earned a BS in music at Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music, and received a master's degree in music education at Georgia State University. She moved to Dallas, Texas in the 1970s. Initially a guitar soloist, she later fronted a trio in such popular clubs as Daddy's Money, Arthur's, and Papillion. After a car accident in 1975, she was forced to wear a body cast for months. After her recovery, she began performing at a club in Underground Atlanta and made ends meet by working as a model and singing for commercial jingles. "Telephone Man" and success While singing some jingles in a Dallas–Fort Worth, Texas studio in early 1977, she c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meri Von KleinSmid
Meri von KleinSmid (born 1974) is an American musician, artist and composer. Life Meri von KleinSmid was born in Los Angeles, California, and studied choral music, piano, violin and flute as a child. She was educated at the University of Washington and Columbia College Chicago, where she studied music history and ethnomusicology. She lived for a while in Cambridge, England, but later moved to the Seattle/Vancouver area. She has been a member of the experimental musical collective SoniCabal and the Chinese Music Society of North America, among other organizations. The CD ''60X60'', including her work, won an award at the Just Plain Folks Music Awards in Nashville, Tennessee Tennessee ( , ), officially the State of Tennessee, is a landlocked state in the Southeastern region of the United States. Tennessee is the 36th-largest by area and the 15th-most populous of the 50 states. It is bordered by Kentucky to th .... Works Selected works include: *''Monorail'' *''What Happe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
