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Moira (given Name)
The name Moira, sometimes spelled Moyra, is an Anglicisation of the Irish name ''Máire'', the Irish equivalent of Mary.Daria Izdebska, ''The Oxford Handbook of Names and Naming'', 2016, , p. 538 Transliterated with Greek letters Μοίρα is the Greek word for Destiny, i.e. the three Fates. People Television and film * Moira Brooker, English actress * Moira Buffini, English dramatist, director and actor associated with the In-yer-face theatre style * Moira Chen, a pseudonym for actress Laura Gemser * Moyra Fraser, Australian-born English actress * Moira Harris, American actress * Moira Kelly, American actress * Moira Lister, South African actress * Moira McLean, Australian morning television presenter * Moira Quirk, English actress * Moira Redmond, English actress * Moira Shearer, Scottish ballerina and actress * Moira Stuart, the first Black woman newsreader on British television * Moira Dela Torre, Filipina singer-songwriter Other fields * Moira Anderson, Scottish singer * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary (name)
Mary is a feminine given name, the English form of the name Maria, which was in turn a Latin form of the Greek name grc, Μαρία, María, label=none or grc, Μαριάμ, Mariam, label=none, found in the Septuagint and New Testament. The latter reflects the original Hebrew pronunciation of the name (Masoretic pronunciation ), as attested by the Septuagint. The vowel "a" in a closed unaccented syllable later became "i", as seen in other names such as "Bil'am" (Balaam) and "Shimshon" (Samson). Etymology The name may have originated from the Egyptian language; it is likely derivative of the root , meaning "love; beloved"A. Maas"The Name of Mary" ''The Catholic Encyclopedia'' (1912), citing Fr. von Hummelauer (''in Exod. et Levit.'', Paris, 1897, p. 161) (compare , "Merit-Amun", i.e. "beloved of Amun"). The name was early etymologized as containing the Hebrew root , meaning "bitter" (cf. myrrh), or , meaning "rebellious". St. Jerome (writing ), following Eusebius of Caesarea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moira Redmond
Moira Redmond (14 July 1928 – 16 March 2006) was an English actress. Biography She was born in Bognor Regis, Sussex, England. Her parents were actors and director managers, although she was also cared for by other relatives. Her grandfather was the actor manager playwright E Hill Mitchelson. As a young actress, she joined the Windmill Girls (evoked in the film ''Mrs Henderson Presents'') who performed non-stop revues and nude tableaux at the Windmill Theatre in the West End. Several years later, she married her first husband and emigrated to Australia, but the marriage did not endure so she returned to Britain in 1957. While in Australia, Redmond became a successful radio actress. She played in the major radio features, Caltex Theatre and General Motors' Hour as well as plays for the Australian Broadcasting Commission. Her best remembered radio drama was Linday Hardy's ''Stranger in Paradise'' alongside Guy Doleman, a New Zealand actor who later had a movie career both in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moira O'Neill
Moira O'Neill was the pseudonym of Agnes Shakespeare Higginson (1864–1955), a popular Irish ethnicity, Irish-Canadians, Canadian poet who wrote ballads and other verse inspired by County Antrim, where she lived at Cushendun. In 1895, she and her husband Walter Skrine lived on a 16,500 acre ranch in Alberta. But they returned to Ireland and were, in 1921, burned out of their mansion Ballyrankin House near Bunclody. She also used the name Nesta. She published ''Songs of the Glens of Antrim'' (1900) and ''More Songs of the Glens of Antrim'' (1921). From the first of these collections, composer Charles Villiers Stanford selected the six poems of his song-cycle 'An Irish Idyll' (publ. 1901), dedicated to baritone Harry Plunket Greene, which includes one of Stanford's best-known songs, 'The Fairy Lough'. Her poem ''Sea Wrack'' was also set to music for voice and piano by the composer Hamilton Harty and this remains a popular work today. Early life and family Moira O'Neill was bor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moira MacLeod
Moira MacLeod (born 16 October 1957) is a retired female field hockey player from Scotland, who was a member of the British squad at the 1988 Summer Olympics The 1988 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XXIV Olympiad () and commonly known as Seoul 1988 ( ko, 서울 1988, Seoul Cheon gubaek palsip-pal), was an international multi-sport event held from 17 September to 2 October .... External links * * English female field hockey players Field hockey players at the 1988 Summer Olympics Olympic field hockey players for Great Britain British female field hockey players 1957 births Living people {{England-fieldhockey-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moira Gunn
Moira Gunn is both an academic and a professional journalist. She is perhaps best known as the host of the public radio program technation.com, Tech Nation, its regular segment BioTech Nation, as well as the weekly tech-sci commentary, Five Minutes. It airs on the NPR, National Public Radio "NPR Now" channel at Sirius XM Holdings, SiriusXM 122, public radio stations both nationally and internationally, and the Internet in a number of podcast syndication outletpodcast A former NASA computer scientist and engineer, Dr. Gunn is an associate professor at the University of San Francisco, where she is the Director of Bioentrepreneurship, where her work on BioTech Nation dovetails with academic, reflecting the multidisciplinary nature of moving scientific breakthroughs on the lab bench through to the commercial products. On Tech Nation, Gunn's focus has always been on the societal impact of technology and science, understanding the nature of innovation, and giving everyday listeners a se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moira Gatens
Moira Gatens is an Australian academic feminist philosopher and current Challis Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sydney. She previously held the Spinoza Chair at the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands. Biography Academic career Gatens served as president of the Australasian Association of Philosophy in 2011. She was appointed in her current position as Challis Professor of Philosophy in 2012. Gatens was elected Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia in 1999 and of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 2010. Select publications *''Feminism and Philosophy: Perspectives on Difference and Equality'' United Kingdom, Polity Press, 1991 *''Imaginary Bodies: Ethics, Power and Corporeality''. United Kingdom: Routledge, 1996. *''Feminist Interpretations of Benedict Spinoza''. United States: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2009. *''Spinoza's Hard Path to Freedom''. Assen, Netherlands, Royal Van Gorcum, 2011. References External linksMoir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moira Leiper Ducharme
Moira Leiper Ducharme was the first female mayor of Halifax, Nova Scotia (1991–1994). Ducharme lives in Windsor Forks, Nova Scotia. She was previously the President of Soccer Nova Scotia Soccer Nova Scotia is the governing body for soccer in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia. It is a member association of the Canadian Soccer Association The Canadian Soccer Association (Canada Soccer) is the governing body of soccer in Canada. .... References Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Acadian people Mayors of Halifax, Nova Scotia Women mayors of places in Nova Scotia {{NovaScotia-mayor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moira Crone
Moira Crone (born 1952) is an American fiction author. She was born and raised in Goldsboro, in the tobacco country in eastern North Carolina. She is the author of three collections of short fiction and two novels. Her short stories have been classified as "Southern Gnostic", and as exemplifying the spirit of the New South. Her work has been compared to Flannery O'Connor's for its spiritual overtones and to Sherwood Anderson's for its depiction of small-town life and characters. She taught fiction writing at Louisiana State University, where she served for a number of years as Director of the MFA Program in Creative Writing and is now Professor Emerita. She also worked as fiction editor for the University Press of Mississippi. Her works have been chosen for the "Year's Best" by the award anthology ''New Stories From The South'' five times. In 2009, she was awarded the Robert Penn Warren Award in Fiction from the Fellowship of Southern Writers in recognition of her body of work. I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moira Cameron
Moira Cameron was a Yeoman Warder of the Tower of London, United Kingdom. She is the first woman to ever hold the position. In 2007, after a 22-year career in the British Army, Cameron became one of the 35 resident Warders in the Tower of London, commonly known as the Beefeaters. Originally prison guards, the Yeoman Warder's position dates back to 1485. It is now a largely ceremonial role, with responsibility for conducting guided tours and generally looking after public visitors to the Tower, as well as conducting certain other duties both inside and outside the Tower. Career British Army Cameron joined the Women's Royal Army Corps (WRAC) in June 1985 at the age of 20. She was trained as a Data Telegraphist with the Royal Corps of Signals before transferring to the Royal Army Pay Corps (RAPC) in 1988 to train as a Military Accountant, and in 2000 Cameron was awarded her Long Service and Good Conduct Medal. In 1992, WRAC and RAPC were replaced by the Adjutant General's Corps, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moira Brown
Moira Brown is a Canadian North Atlantic right whale researcher. She is leading the initiative to convince the Government of Canada, shipping industry and scientists to address ship strikes and North Atlantic right whale mortality in the Bay of Fundy, Canada. Brown has conducted research on whales for more than 30 years. Early life and education Brown was born in Montreal, Quebec and grew up in Lachine. She attended McGill University. Career Brown taught Physical Education Class for four years in schools in the West Island District of Montreal, Quebec. She then enrolled in McGill University in Montreal to study renewable resources and graduated with a Bachelor of Science Degree. Brown worked as a research assistant for Fisheries and Oceans Canada on a project about the history of whaling. In 1985 she started to work as a volunteer at the New England Aquarium, studying North Atlantic right whale population biology in the Bay of Fundy, and later in Cape Cod Bay. Her studie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moira Brinnand
Moira Martha Brinnand (born May 10, 1962) is a retired female field hockey player from Argentina. She was a member of the Women's National Team that finished in seventh place at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea after having won the gold medal the previous year at the Pan American Games in Indianapolis Indianapolis (), colloquially known as Indy, is the state capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Indiana and the seat of Marion County. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the consolidated population of Indianapolis and Marion .... References *sports-reference*santafedeportivo External links * 1962 births Living people Las Leonas players Argentine female field hockey players Field hockey players at the 1988 Summer Olympics Olympic field hockey players for Argentina Pan American Games gold medalists for Argentina Pan American Games medalists in field hockey Field hockey players at the 1987 Pan American Games Medalists at the 1987 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moira Anderson
Moira Anderson (born 5 June 1938) is a Scottish singer. Life and career Moira Anderson was born on 5 June 1938 in Kirkintilloch, Dunbartonshire, Scotland. She was educated at Lenzie Academy, She then attended the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow, before getting her big break in the media after a successful audition at the BBC. She landed her first job in the media, presenting the radio programme ''Can't Help Singing'' where she sang with some prestigious names from the world of opera. She went on to make many appearances in the TV series ''The White Heather Club'' hosted by Andy Stewart. She subsequently hosted her own television show, the popular ''Moira Anderson Sings'' on BBC1 in 1968. By 1970 she had signed up with the Decca Record Company, performed at the London Palladium and was hosting another show ''Stars On Sunday'' which ran for a decade from 1969. She is renowned for her charity work. In her early career Anderson made frequent appearances a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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