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Mimi (given Name)
Mimi is a feminine given name and a shorter form (hypocorism) of the given names Miriam (given name), Miriam, Emilia (given name), Emilia or Naomi (given name), 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, Ameri ... [...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 which ... [...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, social, and economic philosophy within socialism that supports political and economic democracy. As a policy regime, it is described by academics as advocating economic and social interventions to promote soci ... party. External linksSave the Children profile [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mimi Hughes , and Mura. Mimi dedicates her swims to a variety of causes: understanding between nations (the Bering Strait), environmental awareness (rivers Tennessee,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 The Drava or Drave''Utrata Fachwörterbuch ... Danube, Drava, and Mura), and lifeskills' training and education for women and girls (Ohio River, 2010). Declared one of the mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mimi Hines
Mimi Hines (born July 17, 1933) is a Canadian singer and comedian best known for her appearances on ''The Ed Sullivan Show'', ''The Tonight Show'' and her work on Broadway. She succeeded Barbra Streisand in the original production of '' Funny Girl''. Life and career Hines was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, and resides in the United States. She worked for a time in Anchorage, Alaska, where she met comedian Phil Ford in 1952 while they were working at different night clubs. They married in 1954. On August 28, 1958, she and Ford appeared on ''The Tonight Show'' for the first time. Hines sang "Till There Was You".Profile feinsteinsattheregency.com; accessed September 11, 2010. In a later stand-up routine on ''The Tonight Show'', she portrayed the |
Mimi Heinrich
Mimi Heinrich (1 November 1936 – 31 May 2017) was a Danish actress and writer. Outside Denmark she was mostly known for her roles in the cult movies ''Reptilicus'' and ''Journey to the Seventh Planet''. She had her debut at the Det Ny Teater in 1957 and starred in 19 Danish movies between 1953 and 1964. From 1962 to 1974, she lived in the United States. Heinrich was married three times. The first time was with the American writer Kells Elvins (a close friend of William S. Burroughs) who died in 1962. The second time to Joseph Dubin – head of the legal department of Universal Studios, whom she later divorced and with whom she had two daughters, the painter Maria Dubin and film producer Kristina Dubin. After returning to Denmark, she married the Danish painter Christian Reesen Magle with whom she had a son, the composer Frederik Magle Frederik Reesen Magle (; born 17 April 1977) is a Danish composer, concert organist, and pianist. He writes contemporary classical music as w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mimi Haas
Miriam "Mimi" Lurie Haas (born 1946) is an American billionaire businesswoman. She is the widow of Peter E. Haas, who was the great-grandnephew of Levi Strauss, the founder of denim manufacturer Levi Strauss & Co. Early life She was born Miriam Ruchwarger in 1946 in New Jersey, the daughter of Nancy (née Zdenka) and Avram Ruchwarger, Jewish refugees from Yugoslavia. She was raised in Annapolis, Maryland and then in the Washington D.C. suburbs where her father was a psychiatrist. She attended Oxon Hill High School, in Oxon Hill, a suburb of Washington, DC, and graduated in the class of 1964. She earned a degree in political science from George Washington University. Career Haas is president of the Miriam and Peter Haas Fund, since August 1981. In July 2004, Haas was elected as a director of Levi Strauss & Co, succeeding her husband, who stood down as chairman emeritus. Haas is vice chair of the board of trustees and chair of the committee on painting and sculpture of the New Y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mimi Gurbst
Mimi Gurbst served as the head of news coverage and vice president of the network for ABC News. In 2010, she resigned from ABC after almost 30 years of employment to become a high school guidance counselor. About Gurbst joined ABC news in the early 1980s where she served as head of news coverage for more than two decades. In 2008, ABC promoted Gurbst to the post of Senior Producer for Diane Sawyer and World News with Charles Gibson, with responsibility for futures, features, and domestic news stories. She left the network in 2010 to enroll in the Harvard School of Education, in the master's degree program for "Risk and Prevention," with the hopes of turning her counseling skills into a new career as a high school guidance counselor. Gurbst graduated from the Harvard in 2011 and served as a Teaching Fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Education in 2012. Controversy In May 2010 Gurbst became the focus of an online controversy. After ABC News announced that Gurbst was leaving ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mimi Gross
Mimi Gross (born 1940) is a New York City born American artist. Biography Early life Gross was born in New York City in 1940. She is the daughter of the sculptor Chaim Gross. She grew up on the Upper West Side of Manhattan among the artist community of her parents, which included Raphael Soyer, Moses Soyer, Arnold Newman, Max Weber and David Burliuk. From 1963-1976 she was married and collaborated with the artist Red Grooms. Career Mimi Gross's work spans from painting and drawing, films, mail art, book design, costume and set design, indoor and out of door installations, diorama and sculpture. Gross is known for her work in oil crayon, chalk pastel, and oil paint. She began exhibiting in Provincetown, MA, an artist colony where she spent her summers with her family, in 1957, including a three-woman show at the Sun Gallery in 1958. She had a solo show at the Provincetown Art Association in 1997, as well as several solo shows in various galleries there. She became well known ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mimi Goese
Mimi Goese (last name rhymes with ''hazy'') is an American professional musician. Career Goese was the vocalist for dream pop band Hugo Largo. Solo Under the mononym "Mimi", she released a solo album, ''Soak'', on the Luaka Bop label, with contributions from French record producer Hector Zazou and some tracks produced by former Hugo Largo bandmate Hahn Rowe. She released a cover of Screamin' Jay Hawkins' "I Put a Spell on You" as a single. Collaborations Two collaborations with Moby, tracks " Into the Blue" and "When It's Cold I'd Like to Die", appear on Moby's 1995 album '' Everything Is Wrong''. The latter was heard during the closing credits of ''The Sopranos'' episode " Join the Club" and the season 1 and 4 finale of the Netflix series '' Stranger Things''. In 2006, Goese collaborated and performed onstage with the "mutantrumpeter" Ben Neill on a project called XIX. In 2010, the duo collaborated on a musical theater piece titled "Persephone", which was premiered at the B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mimi Gibson
Mimi Gibson is an American real estate agent and a former child actress, from 1951 to 1968. Early life After the early death of her father, her mother, Agnes Gibson, took Mimi and her sister to Los Angeles. At only 18 months, she was a popular calendar model, posing with animals. By age two she was appearing in movies. She had an agent before she was 3 years old, and soon thereafter she began appearing in films. Her income supported the three of them. In 1951, Gibson was designated Miss Glamour in Miniature during ceremonies in Sun Valley. Career During the 1950s and early 1960s, Gibson appeared in 34 films and approximately 200 television episodes. Her film debut came in '' I'll See You in My Dreams'' (1951). Her last TV roles came as a teenage girlfriend in episodes of ''My Three Sons'' in the late 1960s. In 1957, she and child actress Evelyn Rudie played the daughters of John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara in ''The Wings of Eagles''. Although they had some significant scenes, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mimi Gianopulos
Mimi Gianopulos is an American actress. She is best known for her supporting role as Molly in the 2012 film '' What to Expect When You're Expecting''. Career Gianopulos' first screen acting role was in the 2007 film ''Moondance Alexander'', starring Kay Panabaker and Don Johnson. In 2013, she starred in the titular role in the unsold ABC Family sitcom pilot ''Continuing Fred''. Also in 2013, she was cast in the film '' Get a Job'', also starring Anna Kendrick and Miles Teller. Gianopulos also had a recurring role as Angela on the ABC Family sitcom ''Baby Daddy''. Personal life Gianopulos is of Greek descent. She is the daughter of film executive Jim Gianopulos James N. Gianopulos ( el, Δημήτρης Γιαννόπουλος) is an American businessman. He served as the head of 20th Century Fox and most recently as the chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of Paramount Pictures until his ouster ..., and has two younger sisters. Filmography References External ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |