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Paula (given Name)
Paula is a common female given name (from Latin ''Pauline'', petite). It is used in German, English, Estonian, Finnish, Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Romanian, Hungarian, Polish, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Latvian, Lithuanian and Croatian languages. Notable people with this name include: *Saint Paula (347–404), saint and follower of St Jerome *Paula Abdul (born 1962), American pop singer and television personality *Paula Acker (1913–1989), German correspondent, journalist, communist activist *Paula Angel (c. 1842–1861), Mexican-American woman executed for the murder of her lover *Paula Barker, British Labour politician *Paula Berry (born 1969), American javelin thrower *Paula Byrne (born 1967), English author *Paula Cole (born 1968), American singer-songwriter *Paula Creamer (born 1986), American golfer *Paula Nicho Cumez (born 1955), Mayan-Guatemalan artist *Paula Davis (born 1973), American state legislator *Paula DeAnda (born 1989), American R&B singer *Paula Deen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paulina (name)
Paulina is a female given name. It is a female version of ''Paulinus'', a variant of Paulus (other), Paulus meaning ''the little''. Paula (given name), Paula and Pauline (given name), Pauline are variants on this name. Notable people * Paulina, the name of several Roman women related to Emperor Hadrian * Lollia Paulina (15-49), third wife of Emperor Caligula * Caecilia Paulina (died 236), wife of Emperor Maximinus Thrax, posthumously deified as ''diva Paulina'' * Aurelia Paulina, daughter of the Emperor Carus * Aurelia Paulina, a Roman noblewoman from Anatolia * Saint Paulina (1865–1942), of the Agonizing Heart of Jesus * Paulina Peled, nee Peisachov (born 1950), Israeli tennis player * Paulina Porizkova (born 1965), Swedish model and actress * Paulina Rubio (born 1971), Mexican singer and actress * Paulina Vega (born 1993), Colombian beauty pageant titleholder who won Miss Universe 2014 Fictional characters * List of Danny Phantom characters#Recurring human characters ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paula Echevarría
Paula Echevarría Colodrón (born 7 August 1977 in Candás, Carreño, Asturias, Spain) is a Spanish model and actress. Career In the year 2000 she made her television debut on series such as ''Al salir de clase'', ''Policías'', and ''Compañeros (TV series), Compañeros''. During that year she also worked as a reporter of the summer Telecinco news show ''Emisión Imposible''. In 2002 she participated as an actress on the Spanish version of Agatha Christie's mystery novel And Then There Were None (play), And Then There Were None. In 2003 she was part of the cast of the television series ''London Street'' by Antena 3 (Spain), Antena 3- and made an appearance in the movie ''Carmen (2003 film), Carmen'' by Vicente Aranda. In 2004 she was part of the cast of the movie ''El chocolate del loro'' of Ernesto Martín and became part of the regular cast of the Telecinco's series ''El comisario''. until the end of 2007. In 2005 she made an appearance in the documentary ''Las locuras ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paula Nenette Pepin
Antonietta Paule Pepin Fitzpatrick (9 April 1908 – 14 November 1990), also known as Nenette, was a French composer, pianist and lyricist. Biography Nenette was born on the island of Saint Pierre et Miquelon, a French overseas territory located in the Atlantic coast of Canada. Her father Emmanuel Victor Pepin was French, and her mother Henriette Fitzpatrick was Canadian of Irish origin. She was known by her family as Nenette, diminutive of Antonietta. While still a child during the First World War, she moved to France with her parents and her older sister, Jeanne Henriette. In 1926 Jeanne finished school and travelled with a dance company to Buenos Aires, where she met her first husband. Two years later, once Nenette finished school, Jeanne invited her and her father to come out to Argentina. The two settled in Villa Ballester in Buenos Aires in 1928. Nenette entered the National Music Conservatory, where she studied piano under Juan José Castro, Pascual de Rogatis and Isabe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paula Lane
Paula Lane (born 17 April 1986) is an English actress. She is known for portraying the role of Kylie Platt in the ITV soap opera ''Coronation Street'' from 2010 to 2016. Early life Lane is originally from Hebden Bridge near Halifax. Lane attended Catholic High School in Halifax and then Huddersfield Technical College. At the age of 19 she was accepted to train at the prestigious Central School of Speech and Drama in London, graduating in 2008 with a 1st class honours degree in acting. On finishing drama school, Lane was cast immediately in the ITV 1960s-based drama '' Heartbeat'' where she made her television debut playing a teacher, Wendy Kelshaw, in the episode 'School Of Hard Knocks'. Career Lane made her professional acting debut in '' Heartbeat'' in 2009. Since then she has appeared in ''Going Postal'' by Terry Pratchett for Sky, ''The Royal'' and ''Doctors''. Lane was also featured in the short film ''War Wounds'' alongside Stephen Mangan. ''Coronation Street'' Lane joine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paula Kelly (singer)
Paula Kelly (April 6, 1919 – April 2, 1992) was an American big band singer. Early life Kelly was born in Grove City, Pennsylvania, United States. to Dr. Herbert Augustus & Julia Clarice (née Kennedy) Kelly. Kelly started her singing career in her hometown with her two sisters Julia and Martha; following Martha's death in September, 1938 she turned to big time singing. Career Kelly sang with orchestras led by Dick Stabile, Artie Shaw, and Al Donahue. In early 1941, she joined Glenn Miller's orchestra, replacing Dorothy Claire and Marion Hutton. Kelly originally performed solo, but also soon became the female lead of The Modernaires, originally a male trio, then a quartet, resulting in the group becoming a quintet of four male singers and herself. Her first recording with the group was "Perfidia", on which they sang with Dorothy Claire. In 1942, Glenn Miller went into World War II military service and his band broke up. The Modernaires continued with Kelly as lead singer unt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paula Kelly (actress)
Paula Alma Kelly (October 21, 1942 – February 8, 2020) was an American actress, singer, dancer and choreographer in films, television and theatre. Kelly's career began during the mid–1960s in theatre, making her Broadway debut as Mrs. Veloz in the 1964 musical ''Something More!'', alongside Barbara Cook. Kelly's other Broadway credits include ''The Dozens'' (1969), '' Paul Sills' Story Theatre'' (1971), ''Ovid's Metamorphoses'' (1971), and ''Sophisticated Ladies'' (1981), based on the music of Duke Ellington, appearing with Gregory Hines and Phyllis Hyman. Early life and education Born in Jacksonville, Florida, Kelly was one of three daughters born to Ruth and Lehman Kelly, a jazz musician. By age six, Kelly's family had relocated to Harlem neighborhood of New York City. For high school, Kelly attended the Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art, majoring in music. Kelly continued her studies at the Juilliard School of Music, where she majored in dance under Martha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paula Kelley
Paula Kelley (born September 10, 1971) is an American indie pop singer-songwriter and orchestral arranger/composer from Boston, Massachusetts. Career She began her musical career in the 1990s with the band Drop Nineteens before leaving them in 1994 to start her own career in songwriting. She worked with several other bands before finally going solo with her first album, '' Nothing/Everything'', which was released in 2001 on Stop, Pop, and Roll Records in the US and then later on Caraway in Japan. '' The Trouble with Success or How You Fit into the World'' was released in 2003 on the independent Kimchee Records label in the US and again on Caraway in Japan. She followed this up with a US tour and a tour of France after the album's European release through Polaris Musique/Sony. Her latest release is the "Airports EP (2008)," a collection of four orchestrated tracks intended to be a teaser for her forthcoming album. Paula is known for her melodic, emotional songs, expansive inst ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paula Hitler
Paula Hitler, also known as Paula Wolff and Paula Hitler-Wolff, (26 January 1896 – 1 June 1960) was the younger sister of Adolf Hitler and the last child of Alois Hitler and his third wife, Klara Pölzl. Early life Paula Hitler was born in Hafeld, Austria on 26 January 1896 to Alois Hitler and Klara Hitler née Pölzl. She was Adolf Hitler's only full sister and only full sibling who would survive to adulthood. She was six years old when her father, a retired customs official, died, and eleven when she lost her mother Klara, after which the Austrian government provided a small pension to Paula and Adolf. However, the amount was relatively meager and Hitler, who was by then old enough to support himself, agreed to sign his share over to her. Adult life Paula later moved to Vienna. In the early 1920s, she was hired as a housekeeper at a dormitory for Jewish university students. In 1921, while she worked at the dormitory, she was visited by her brother who she said appeared ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paula Hertwig
Paula Hertwig (11 October 1889 – 31 March 1983) was a German biologist and politician. Her research focused on radiation health effects. Hertwig was the first woman to habilitate at the then Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin (now Humboldt University of Berlin) in the field of zoology. She was also the first biologist at a German university. Hertwig is one of the founders of radiation genetics alongside Emmy Stein. Hertwig-Weyers syndrome, which describes oligodactyly in humans as a result of radiation exposure, is named after her and her colleague, Helmut Weyers. Biography Paula Julie Elisabeth Hertwig was born in Berlin on 11 October 1889. She was the daughter of Oscar Hertwig, a university professor; sister of the anatomist, Günther Hertwig; and niece of the zoologist, Richard Hertwig. She graduated from high school in 1908, at the Realgymnasium. She studied zoology, botany, and chemistry at the University of Berlin, medical PhD. After that she was an assistant at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paula Hawkins (politician)
Paula Hawkins (née Fickes; January 24, 1927 – December 4, 2009) was an American politician from Florida. She is the only woman elected to the U.S. Senate from Florida. She was the second woman ever elected to the Senate from the American South. She was the first woman in the country to be elected to a full Senate term without having a close family member who previously served in major public office. Early years Hawkins was the eldest of three children born to Paul and Leone Fickes in Salt Lake City, Utah. Her father was a Naval Chief Warrant Officer. In 1934, the family moved to Atlanta, Georgia, where her father taught at Georgia Tech. Her parents split when Paula was in high school, and Leone and the children returned to Utah.Women in Congress: Paula Fickes Hawkins She finished high ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paula Gunn Allen
Paula Gunn Allen (October 24, 1939 – May 29, 2008) was a Native American poet, literary critic, activist, professor, and novelist. Of mixed-race European-American, Native American, and Arab-American descent, she identified with her mother's people, the Laguna Pueblo and childhood years. She drew from its oral traditions for her fiction poetry and also wrote numerous essays on its themes. She edited four collections of Native American traditional stories and contemporary works and wrote two biographies of Native American women. In addition to her literary work, in 1986 she published a major study on the role of women in American Indian traditions, arguing that Europeans had de-emphasized the role of women in their accounts of native life because of their own patriarchal societies. It stimulated other scholarly work by feminist and Native American writers. Biography Born Paula Marie Francis in Albuquerque, New Mexico Allen grew up in Cubero, New Mexico, a Spanish-Mexican land g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paula Green (poet)
Paula Joy Green (born 1955) is a New Zealand poet and children's author. Background Green was born in 1955, in Auckland. She attended the Kamo High School. In 2005 Green received her PhD in Italian, supervised by Bernadette Luciano, and was Literary Fellow at the University of Auckland. Green is married to the painter Michael Hight and currently lives in Auckland. Career Green has published several collections of her own poetry including: * ''Cookhouse'' (1997, Auckland University Press) * ''Chrome'' (2000, Auckland University Press) * ''Crosswind'' (2004, Auckland University Press) * ''Making Lists for Francis Hodgkins'' (2007, Auckland University Press) * ''Slip Stream'' (2010, Auckland University Press) * ''The Baker's Thumbprint'' (2013, Seraph Press) * ''New York Pocket Book'' (2017, Seraph Press) * "The Track" (2019, Seraph Press) Her books for children include: * ''Flamingo Bendalingo: Poems from the Zoo'' (2006, Auckland University Press), as editor, written in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
