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Raissa Verakso
Raissa is a female given name. It is a variant of Raisa (given name) popular in Russia and South Asia (as a feminine form of Rais) People Mononym *Raissa (singer, born 1971), full name Raissa Khan-Panni, English singer-songwriter *Raissa (Malaysian-British singer), known for her debut single "Bullying Boys" Given name * Raissa Santana (b. 1995), Miss Brasil 2016 *Raissa Kelly (b. 1976) French singer in Tachelhit *Raissa Calza (1894-1979) Ukrainian dancer who became a prominent classical archaeologist *Raissa Myshetskaya, better known as Nadia Boulanger, French musicologist and music teacher *Raïssa Maritain (1883-1960), Russian poet and philosopher who immigrated to France *Raissa Feudjio (b. 1995), Cameroonian footballer *Raïssa Koublitskaïa (1928–2021), Soviet Belarusian agricultural worker and politician *Raissa Venables (b. 1977), American photographer *Raissa Ruus (1942–1986), Estonian middle-distance runner at the 1972 Summer Olympics * Raissa L. Berg (1913-2006), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raisa (given Name)
Raisa or Raissa is a female personal name. It is popular in Russia and South Asia (as a feminine form of ''Rais''). It was also a historically typical female name amongst Jews of the Russian Empire,''Russian-Jewish Given Names'', Boris Feldblyum (1998), page 39 as a Hebrew and Yiddish origin variant. Notable people named Raisa include: * Raisa Akhmatova, internationally recognized Chechen poet * Raisa Andriana, Indonesian singer * Raisa Blokh, Russian poet * Raisa Bogatyrova, Ukrainian politician * Raisa Gorbacheva, wife of former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and a fundraiser for preservation of Russian heritage * Raissa Khan-Panni, English singer * Raissa Maritain, Russian-French philosopher and poet * Rayisa Nedashkivska, Ukrainian and Soviet-era theater and cimema actress * Raisa Orlova, Soviet/Russian writer and Americanist * Raisa Smekhnova, former Soviet/Belarusian long-distance runner * Raisa Smetanina, former Soviet/Russian Nordic skiing champion * Raisa Surnachevs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raissa Venables
Raїssa Venables (born 1977) is an American photographer. Background and education Venables was born in 1977 in New Paltz, New York, USA. From 1993 to 1997, she attended the Arts Student’s League in New York City, concentrating on the Anatomy for Life Drawing. In 1999 she received a BFA in Photography and Ceramic Sculpture from the Kansas City Art Institute. She received a master's degree in photography at the Milton Avery Graduate School of Arts at Bard College and a MFA in Photography in 2002. Philosophy and style Venables' photographs deal with planar relationship, passage of time, motion, and perceptual fields, blurring the realm of the real world with the imagined one. Venables is influenced by Early Renaissance Flemish painters like Jan van Eyck, Rogier van der Weyden and Robert Campin, particularly with their usage of colour and lighting. Venables' work is also influenced by the neo-cubistic approach to splitting and dissolving an object or space before reassemb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raissa Gourevitch
Raissa Gourevitch (russian: Раиса Гуревич, born 1 March 1984) is a former Russian tennis player. In her career, she won twelve doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. On 24 September 2001, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 396. On 2 February 2004, she peaked at No. 257 in the doubles rankings. Gourevitch made her WTA main-draw debut at the 2001 Tashkent Open in the doubles event partnering Yuliya Beygelzimer Yuliya Markovna Beygelzimer ( ua, Юлія Марківна Бейгельзимер; born 20 October 1983) is a retired tennis player from Ukraine. Career She is perhaps best known for nearly defeating Jennifer Capriati at the 2004 French Op .... She retired from the professional tour in 2010. ITF finals Single ...
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Raissa D'Souza
Raissa M. D'Souza is the Associate Dean of Research for the College of Engineering and a Professor of Computer Science and Mechanical Engineering at the University of California, Davis as well as an External Professor and member of the Science Board at the Santa Fe Institute. She was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2016 and Fellow of the Network Science Society in 2019. D'Souza works on theory and complex systems. Early life and education When D'Souza was younger she faced the personal choice of going to college or moving to Paris to become a fashion designer. She eventually settled on university and studied physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. She earned her doctoral degree in theoretical physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1999, where she worked with Mehran Kardar and Norman Margolus. After graduation, she worked in both the fundamental mathematics group at Bell Labs and the Theory group at Microsoft Resear ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raissa Martin
Raissa Martin (born 3 March 1991) is an Australian goalball player who represented Australia at the 2016 Rio Paralympics and the 2020 Summer Paralympics. Personal life Martin was born on 3 March 1991 in Hervey Bay, Queensland. She has been legally blind since birth with rod monochromatism. She grew up in Hervey Bay but moved to Brisbane to attend Queensland Institute of Technology where she completed a Bachelor of Business. In 2015, she undertook a Graduate Diploma of Education at the University of Queensland. in 2021, Raissa works as Middle School Officer - Vision Impairment, Ambrose Treacy College. Goalball Martin made her debut for Australia at the 2014 Japan Goalball Championships as part of the development squad. She is classified as a B3 competitor. In May 2015, she was a member of the Australian Women's Goalball team which came fourth at the IBSA World Games in Seoul. She was a member of the Australian team that finished third at the 2015 IBSA Goalball Asia/Pacific ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raissa Nitabuch
Raissa Nitabuch (born 1859) was a Russian pathologist who is known for her histological studies of the human placenta. The layer of fibrin that was thought to separate the uterine decidua from the fetoplacental trophoblast after birth was named the Nitabuch layer or Nitabuch membrane, thus becoming the only woman whose name is "affiliated with a macroscopic anatomical structure." She was also the first to describe the spiral arteries which connect the uterine and placental blood flow during pregnancy, providing the developing fetus with oxygen and nutrients. Part of a group of Russian women who studied medicine at the University of Zurich, she then completed her doctoral thesis in 1887 at the Institute of Anatomy in Bern under the supervision of pathologist Theodor Langhans Theodor Langhans (28 September 1839 – 22 October 1915) was a German pathologist who was a native of Usingen, Duchy of Nassau. He studied medicine at the University of Heidelberg, and at the University ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raissa L
Raissa is a female given name. It is a variant of Raisa (given name) popular in Russia and South Asia (as a feminine form of Rais) People Mononym * Raissa (singer, born 1971), full name Raissa Khan-Panni, English singer-songwriter * Raissa (Malaysian-British singer), known for her debut single "Bullying Boys" Given name *Raissa Santana (b. 1995), Miss Brasil 2016 *Raissa Kelly (b. 1976) French singer in Tachelhit * Raissa Calza (1894-1979) Ukrainian dancer who became a prominent classical archaeologist *Raissa Myshetskaya, better known as Nadia Boulanger, French musicologist and music teacher *Raïssa Maritain (1883-1960), Russian poet and philosopher who immigrated to France * Raissa Feudjio (b. 1995), Cameroonian footballer * Raïssa Koublitskaïa (1928–2021), Soviet Belarusian agricultural worker and politician *Raissa Venables (b. 1977), American photographer * Raissa Ruus (1942–1986), Estonian middle-distance runner at the 1972 Summer Olympics *Raissa L. Berg (1913-2006 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raissa Ruus
Raissa Ruus (18 September 1942 – 14 January 1986) was an Estonian middle-distance runner. She competed in the women's 800 metres at the 1972 Summer Olympics The 1972 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XX Olympiad () and commonly known as Munich 1972 (german: München 1972), was an international multi-sport event held in Munich, West Germany, from 26 August to 11 September 1972. .... References 1942 births 1986 deaths Athletes (track and field) at the 1972 Summer Olympics Estonian female middle-distance runners Soviet female middle-distance runners Olympic athletes of the Soviet Union Place of birth missing {{USSR-athletics-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raïssa Koublitskaïa
Raïssa Vladimirovna Koublitskaïa ( be, Раіса Уладзіміраўна Кубліцкая; 10 April 1928 – June 2021) was a Soviet Belarusian agricultural worker and politician who was the head of the cultivation of flax at the Kalinin collective farm from 1948 to her retirement in 1983. She served during the Great Patriotic War and was an elected deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic between 1967 and 1971. Koublitskaïa was twice the recipient of the Order of Lenin and also received the Medal "For the Capture of Königsberg", the Order of the Patriotic War, Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd class and the Hero of Socialist Labour. Biography On 10 April 1928, Koublitskaïa was born in the village of Kałyški, Liozna District, Minsk Region, Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, Byelorussian SSR (today in Belarus). She was a graduate of the Kolyshansk Secondary School in the seventh grade in 1941. In October 1943, at the age of 15, Koub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raissa (singer, Born 1971)
Raissa Khan-Panni (born 1971) is an English singer-songwriter who records under the name Raissa. She is best known for the 2000 single, "How Long Do I Get", which was playlisted by UK radio stations. The song reached No. 47 in the UK Singles Chart. Biography Raissa was born and grew up in middle-class south London, in Lambeth. Her mother is English and her father of mixed Chinese, Indian, and Mexican ancestry. ''Theguardian.com'' Raised in , Raissa met regular collaborators Paul Sandrone and Dan Birch while studying music in Bristol during the 1990s. This partnership has produced three ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raissa Feudjio
Raissa Feudjio Tchuanyo (born 29 October 1995) is a Cameroonian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Spanish Liga F club UD Granadilla Tenerife and the Cameroon women's national team. She has previously played for Trabzon İdmanocağı in the Turkish Women's First Football League and for Merilappi United and Åland United in the Finnish Naisten Liiga. She represented Cameroon at the 2012 Summer Olympics The 2012 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXX Olympiad and also known as London 2012) was an international multi-sport event held from 27 July to 12 August 2012 in London, England, United Kingdom. The first event, the .... References 1995 births Living people Footballers from Yaoundé Cameroonian women's footballers Women's association football midfielders Trabzon İdmanocağı women's players UD Tenerife players Cameroon women's international footballers Olympic footballers for Cameroon Footballers at the 2012 Su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raïssa Maritain
Raïssa Maritain (née Oumansoff) (12 September 1883 in Rostov-on-Don – 4 November 1960 in Paris) was a Russian poet and philosopher. She immigrated to France and studied at the Sorbonne, where she met the young Jacques Maritain, also a philosopher, whom she married in 1904. She was raised Jewish but, following a period in which she considered herself an atheist, converted to Catholicism The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.3 billion baptized Catholics worldwide . It is among the world's oldest and largest international institutions, and has played a ... with her husband in 1906. References * Moore, Brenna. (2013).''Sacred dread: Raïssa Maritain, the allure of suffering, and the French Catholic revival (1905-1944)''. Notre Dame, Ind: Univ. of Notre Dame Press. 1883 births 1960 deaths Converts to Roman Catholicism from atheism or agnosticism Converts to Roman Catholicism from Judai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
