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Minna (given Name)
Minna is a feminine name of Germanic origin, meaning courtly love, and is also a diminutive of Wilhelmina. It is now particularly known in Finland and Sweden.http://verkkopalvelu.vrk.fi/Nimipalvelu/default.asp?L=1 nimipalvelu Notable people A–F * Minna Aalto (born 1965), Finnish sport sailor * Minna Aaltonen (1966–2021), Finnish actress * Minna Antrim (1861–1950), American writer * Minna Arve (born 1974), Finnish politician * Minna Atherton (born 2000), Australian competitive swimmer * Minna Beckmann-Tube (1881–1964), German painter and opera singer, and wife of Max Beckmann * Minna Canth (1844–1897), Finnish writer and social activist * Minna Carleton (1847–1918), English novelist * Minna Cauer (1841–1922), German educator, journalist and radical activist * Minna Citron (1896–1991), American painter and printmaker * Minna Cowan (1878–1951), British political activist * Minna Craucher (1891–1932), Finnish socialite and spy * Minna Everleigh (1866–19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minna Canth
Minna Canth (; born Ulrika Wilhelmina Johnson; 19 March 1844 – 12 May 1897) was a Finnish writer and social activist. Canth began to write while managing her family draper's shop and living as a widow raising seven children. Her work addresses issues of women's rights, particularly in the context of a prevailing culture she considered antithetical to permitting expression and realization of women's aspirations. ''The Worker's Wife'' and ''The Pastor's Family'' are her best known plays, but the play '' Anna Liisa'' is the most adapted to the films and operas. In her time, she became a controversial figure, due to the asynchrony between her ideas and those of her time, and in part due to her strong advocacy for her point of view. Minna Canth was the first major Finnish-language playwright and prose writer after Aleksis Kivi, the national author of Finland, and the first Finnish-language newspaper woman. She was also the first woman to receive her own flag flying day in Finland ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minna Craucher
Madame Minna Craucher (23 August 1891 – 8 March 1932) was the false name of Maria Vilhelmiina Lindell, a Finnish socialite and spy. Her home was a noted salon for various writers and artists. She also did espionage, originally for the Cheka, the Soviet secret police, and was arrested three times for fraud. She also had connections to the right-wing Lapua Movement.Blomstedt, Yrjö: ”Minna Craucher.” ''Suomen historia'', volume 7, p. 198–199. Weilin + Göös 1987. (in Finnish) She became the subject of several books and stories. In 1932 she was murdered with a shot to the head. Biography Early years Maria Vilhelmiina Lindell, originally from Aalto, was born in poor conditions in Pirkkala as the illegitimate child of a 16-year-old Nokia-born maid, Olga Aalto. Maria got a new surname from her stepfather Vilho Oskari Lindell. Maria's mother died on 29 August 1906, when Maria was only 15 years old. After living with relatives for some time, the early independent Maria moved to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minna Karhu
Minna Karhu (born 2 November 1971) is a Finnish freestyle skier. She was born in Vantaa. She competed at the 1992 Winter Olympics, at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, and at the 1998 and 2002 Winter Olympics. Her best Olympic achievement was sixth place in women's moguls in Nagano Nagano may refer to: Places * Nagano Prefecture, a prefecture in Japan ** Nagano (city), the capital city of the same prefecture *** Nagano 1998, the 1998 Winter Olympics *** Nagano Olympic Stadium, a baseball stadium in Nagano *** Nagano Universi ... in 1998. References External links * 1971 births Living people Sportspeople from Vantaa Finnish female freestyle skiers Olympic freestyle skiers for Finland Freestyle skiers at the 1992 Winter Olympics Freestyle skiers at the 1994 Winter Olympics Freestyle skiers at the 1998 Winter Olympics Freestyle skiers at the 2002 Winter Olympics {{Finland-freestyle-skiing-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minna Hesso
Minna Hesso (born 15 March 1976) is a Finnish snowboarder. She was born in Vantaa. She competed at the 1998 Winter Olympics, in halfpipe, and also at the 2002 Winter Olympics The 2002 Winter Olympics, officially the XIX Olympic Winter Games and commonly known as Salt Lake 2002 ( arp, Niico'ooowu' 2002; Gosiute Shoshoni: ''Tit'-so-pi 2002''; nv, Sooléí 2002; Shoshoni: ''Soónkahni 2002''), was an internation .... Hesso moved to Verbier, Switzerland, in her early twenties. References External links * 1976 births Living people Sportspeople from Vantaa Finnish female snowboarders Olympic snowboarders for Finland Snowboarders at the 1998 Winter Olympics Snowboarders at the 2002 Winter Olympics Finnish expatriate sportspeople in Switzerland {{Finland-snowboarding-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minna Herzlieb
Christiane Friederike Wilhelmine Herzlieb, known as Minna (22 May 1789 – 10 July 1865) was the foster-daughter of the German publisher Carl Friedrich Ernst Frommann (1765–1839). Life Her father was a superintendent in her birthplace of Züllichau, Lower Silesia. Orphaned in infancy, she was brought up in the house of the publisher Carl Friedrich Ernst Frommann in Jena. In 1807 she came to Weimar, where she met Goethe, who presented her with some sonnets. She also served as an inspiration for the character of "Ottilie" in his '' Elective Affinities''. In 1821 she married professor but it was not a love match and may have contributed to her mental breakdown and death in a mental hospital in Görlitz Görlitz (; pl, Zgorzelec, hsb, Zhorjelc, cz, Zhořelec, :de:Ostlausitzer Mundart, East Lusatian dialect: ''Gerlz'', ''Gerltz'', ''Gerltsch'') is a town in the Germany, German state of Saxony. It is located on the Lusatian Neisse River, and ... in 1865. Externa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minna Heponiemi
Minna Heponiemi (born 10 August 1977) is a Swedish former women's international footballer who played as a forward. She was a member of the Sweden women's national football team and took part in the 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup. Early life Heponiemi was born to Finnish parents and grew up in Vagnhärad Vagnhärad is a locality situated in Trosa Municipality, Södermanland County, Sweden with 3,324 inhabitants in 2010. Landslide On 23 May 1997 a landslide along the banks of the Trosaån, or Trosa River, damaged or destroyed 7 residential house ..., Sweden. A Finnish citizen by birth, she changed to Swedish citizenship when she was 15 years old. References 1977 births Living people Swedish women's footballers Sweden women's international footballers Place of birth missing (living people) 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup players Women's association football forwards Hammarby Fotboll (women) players Naturalized citizens of Sweden Swedish people of Finnish descent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minna Harkavy
Minna Harkavy (November 13, 1887 – 1987) (birth occasionally listed as 1895) was an American sculptor. She was born in Estonia to Yoel and Hannah Rothenberg and immigrated to the United States around 1900. She studied at the Art Students League, at Hunter College and in Paris, France, Paris with Antoine Bourdelle. Harkavy was a Works Progress Administration, WPA Federal Art Project artist, for whom she created a 1942 wood relief piece, ''Industry and Landscape of Winchendon'' for the post office in Winchendon, Massachusetts.Park, Marlene and Gerald E. Markowitz, Democratic Vistas: Post Offices and Public Art in the New Deal, Temple University Press, Philadelphia, 1984, p. 214 She was a founding member of the Sculptors Guild and showed a work, ''My Children are Desolate Because the Enemy Prevailed'' in the Second Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition ''Negro Head'' in the 1940-1941 and ''Woman in Thought'' in 1941.Sculptors Guild Third Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition: 1941, Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minna B
Minna is a city in Middle Belt Nigeria. It is the capital city of Niger State, one of Nigeria's 36 federal states. It consists of two major ethnic groups: the Gbagyi and the Nupe. History Archaeological evidence suggests settlement in the area dates back to about 47,000–37,000 years ago. Muslim culture filtered into Minna by way of the ancient Saharan trade routes much later, and the city contains many mosques including Minna Central Mosque and Muslim organizations like the Islamic Education Trust, Minna, Muslim Students' Society of Nigeria - Minna Area Council (MSSN-MNAC), Da'watu-Ilallahi-Wa-Rasulihi Association (DAWRA), etc. Sharia law is practiced. Christianity is the second major population in Niger State, and institutions include a Faith Church, a Grace Baptist Church, Nupe Kalvari Churches, Anglican Churches, ECWA Churches, Baptist Churches, Victory Christian Church, the Apostolic Church and many others. Minna is the home state of Nigeria's former military P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minna Haapkylä
Minna-Maria Erika Haapkylä (born 10 June 1973 in Helsinki) is a Finnish actress. She has won two Jussi Awards; one for the best actress in a supporting role for a 1999 Veikko Aaltonen film ''Rakkaudella Maire'', and another in 2009 for the best actress in a leading role for ''Kuulustelu'', directed by Jörn Donner. Haapkylä was married to actor Hannu-Pekka Björkman from 2002 to 2014. They have two sons. Since 2014, she has been in a relationship with actress Joanna Haartti. Selected filmography *''Suolaista ja makeaa'' (1995) *''Rakkaudella Maire'' (1999) *'' Kuutamolla'' (2002) *''Helmiä ja sikoja'' (2003) *'' Lapsia ja aikuisia'' (2004) *''FC Venus'' (2005) *'' Charlie Says'' (2006) *'' The Serpent'' (2006) *''Joulutarina'' (2007) *'' Raja 1918'' (2007) *''Erottamattomat'' (2008) *''Kuulustelu'' (2009) *''Sovinto'' (2010) *''Armi elää! ''Armi elää!'' is a 2015 Finnish drama film directed by Jörn Donner. The film is based on the life of Finnish entrepreneur Armi Ratia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minna Grey
Minna Grey (1877 in London, England – 1935) was an English actress of the silent era. Death Grey died in 1935, 2 days before her 59th birthday. Selected filmography * '' The Shulamite'' (1915) * ''Just a Girl'' (1916) * ''The Second Mrs. Tanqueray'' (1916) * ''The Manxman'' (1917) * '' The Happy Warrior'' (1917) * ''Little Women'' (1917) * ''The Sorrows of Satan'' (1917) * '' The Elder Miss Blossom'' (1918) * ''Onward Christian Soldiers'' (1918) * ''Mrs. Thompson'' (1919) * '' The Edge O' Beyond'' (1919) * '' The Husband Hunter'' (1920) * ''The Last Rose of Summer'' (1920) * '' Dangerous Lies'' (1921) * ''When We Were 21'' (1921) * '' All Roads Lead to Calvary'' (1921) * '' If Four Walls Told'' (1922) * '' Wee MacGregor's Sweetheart'' (1922) * ''Afterglow'' (1923) * ''The York Mystery'' (1924) * ''A Daughter of Love ''A Daughter of Love'' is a 1925 British silent drama film directed by Walter West and starring Violet Hopson, John Stuart and Jameson Thomas.Low p.153 Cast ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minna Gombell
Minna Marie Gombell (''née'' Gombel; May 28, 1892 – April 14, 1973) was an American stage and film actress. Early years She was born Minna Marie Gombel in Baltimore, Maryland, the daughter of William and Emma M. Debring Gombel. Her father was a medical doctor who came to the United States from Germany in 1880. Her mother was from Baltimore and of German descent. Life and work Gombell was active in stock theater, starring with troupes in Albany, Atlanta, Cleveland, New Orleans, and Los Angeles. Her Broadway credits include ''Indiscretion'' (1928), ''The Great Power'' (1928), ''Ballyhoo'' (1926), ''Alloy'' (1924), ''Mr. Pitt'' (1923), ''Listening in'' (1922), ''On the Hiring Line'' (1919), ''The Indestructible Wife'' (1917), ''Six Months' Option'' (1917), and ''My Lady's Garter'' (1915). She had a successful stage career from 1912 as Winifred Lee before being signed by the Fox Film Corporation in the late 1920s. Her first film was ''Doctors' Wives'' (1931) in which she pla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minna Gale
Minna Gale (September 26, 1869 – March 4, 1944), also credited as Minna K. Gale and Minna Gale Haynes, was an American actress. Early life Minna Kathalina Gale was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey, the daughter of C. K. Gale; after her father's death, she lived in Europe and studied music and theatre in Paris and Frankfort. "She speaks two languages besides English sufficiently well to play in either of them," noted one reviewer in 1886. Career Minna Gale was known for Shakespearean roles in her early career. In 1885, at age fifteen, Gale was cast as Queen Gertrude, in Lawrence Barrett's production of ''Hamlet'' (Barrett, playing her son in the title role, was 47 years old). She stayed with Barrett's company for six seasons, sometimes as a rival to Helena Modjeska. Later, she played Ophelia to Edwin Booth's last performance as Hamlet. Her beauty was often mentioned in reviews. "If there is a young lady in this land who wishes to look bewitching when mad, she must assiduously cu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
