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Mimi (given Name)
Mimi is a feminine given name and a shorter form (hypocorism) of the given names Miriam, Emilia or Naomi. A–G * Mimi Aguglia (1884–1970), Italian actress * Mimi Ajzenstadt (born 1956), Israeli criminologist; President of the Open University of Israel * Mimí Ardú (born 1956), Argentinian actress * Mimi Benzell (1924–1970), American soprano * Mimi Berdal (born 1950), Norwegian lawyer and businessperson * Maria Francisca Bia (1809–1889), Dutch actress called Mimi * Mimi Cazort (1930–2014), Canadian gallery curator and author * Mimi Chakib (1913–1983), Egyptian actress * Mimi Chakraborty (born 1989), Bengali film and television actress * Mimi Coertse (born 1932), South African operatic soprano * Mimi Dietrich, American quilter and writer * Mimi Fariña (1945–2001), American singer-songwriter, sister of Joan Baez *Mimi Fawaz, Nigerian-Lebanese journalist * Mimi Fox, American jazz guitarist * Mimi Freedman, American documentary filmmaker * Mimi Gardner Gates (born c. 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hypocorism
A hypocorism ( or ; from Ancient Greek: (), from (), 'to call by pet names', sometimes also ''hypocoristic'') or pet name is a name used to show affection for a person. It may be a diminutive form of a person's name, such as ''Izzy'' for Isabel or ''Bob (given name), Bob'' for Robert, or it may be unrelated. In linguistics, the term can be used more specifically to refer to the morphological process by which the standard form of the word is transformed into a form denoting affection, or to words resulting from this process. In English, a word is often Clipping (morphology), clipped down to a closed monosyllable and then suffixed with ''-y/-ie'' (phonologically /i/). Sometimes the suffix ''-o'' is included as well as other forms or templates. Hypocoristics are often affective in meaning and are particularly common in Australian English, but can be used for various purposes in different semantic fields, including personal names, place names and nouns. Hypocorisms are usually ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mimi Fawaz
Mimi Fawaz is a Nigerian-Lebanese sports journalist, show host and presenter who currently works as a sports presenter on Focus on Africa, a BBC news programme broadcast on BBC World News alongside BBC Africa and BBC Sports. She has worked for CNN, ESPN and ITV Television networks. In January 2017, she hosted the 2016 GLO-CAF Awards alongside Nigerian actor Richard Mofe-Damijo. Early life and education Fawaz was born in Lebanon to a Nigerian mother who comes from Asaba, Delta State, Nigeria and a Lebanese father, but never lived there herself. She grew up in Nigeria. She is a graduate of City University of London where she studied for a masters in journalism. Career Fawaz started out as a journalist intern at CNN. She later went on to work at the ITN, ITV London and ITV News London platforms during which she interviewed the Sarah, Duchess of York. Whilst at ITV news she produced their coverage of the 2008 Champions League final between Manchester United and Chelsea w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mimi Jakobsen
Mimi Jakobsen (born 19 November 1948 in Copenhagen) is a Danish former politician and government minister and secretary general of the Danish chapter of the International Save the Children Alliance. After 15 years she resigned from her position as secretary general of Save the Children Denmark on 17 June 2015. From 1989 to 2005 she was leader of the Centre Democrats, a political party formed by her father, former Social Democrat Erhard Jakobsen, in 1973. She was Minister of Culture in the mid-1980s. On the 21 December 2006 she announced that she joined the Social Democratic Social democracy is a Political philosophy, political, Social philosophy, social, and economic philosophy within socialism that supports Democracy, political and economic democracy. As a policy regime, it is described by academics as advocati ... party. External linksSave the Children profile [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mimi Hughes
Mimi Hughes is an American long-distance swimmer who began her long-distance swims by crossing the Bering Strait. She has since swum the lengths of the rivers Tennessee, Danube, Drava, and Mur (river), Mura. Mimi dedicates her swims to a variety of causes: understanding between nations (the Bering Strait), environmental awareness (rivers Tennessee, Danube, Drava, and Mura), and lifeskills' training and education for women and girls (Ohio River, 2010). Declared one of the most important women of the last 100 years by Für Sie magazine, Mimi's philosophy encourages each individual to envision change and then take action. References External links [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |