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Rhian Wyn Thomas
Rhian ( ) is a feminine given name, a variation of ''rhiain'', the common Welsh word for "maiden". Rhian ( is sometimes used, albeit rarely, as a male name, possibly a modern spelling variant of Ryan. The first root, ''Rhian-'', derives from British ''rix'' "king"; the second, ''Rhiein-'', derives from a word meaning "maiden, virgin". Bearers of the name * Saint Rhian, Welsh saint * Rhian Benson, (1977- ) British singer * Rhian Davies, (1981- ) Australian footballer * Rhian Dodds, (1979- ) Canadian footballer * Rhian Edwards, (1981- ) Welsh darts player * Rhian Pugh, (1989- ) British gymnast * Rhian Ramos, (1990- ) Filipino actress * Rhian Samuel, (1944- ) Welsh composer * Rhian Sheehan, New Zealand composer * Rhian Touyz, (1959- ) Canadian medical researcher * Rhian Wilkinson, (1982- ) British-Canadian footballer * Rhian Brewster, (2000- ) English footballer for Liverpool FC * Rhian Teasdale, (1994- ) British musician See also * Rhiannon (given name) Rhiannon is a feminine W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Welsh Language
Welsh ( or ) is a Celtic language family, Celtic language of the Brittonic languages, Brittonic subgroup that is native to the Welsh people. Welsh is spoken natively in Wales, by some in England, and in Y Wladfa (the Welsh colony in Chubut Province, Argentina). Historically, it has also been known in English as "British", "Cambrian", "Cambric" and "Cymric". The Welsh Language (Wales) Measure 2011 gave the Welsh language official status in Wales. Both the Welsh and English languages are ''de jure'' official languages of the Welsh Parliament, the Senedd. According to the 2021 United Kingdom census, 2021 census, the Welsh-speaking population of Wales aged three or older was 17.8% (538,300 people) and nearly three quarters of the population in Wales said they had no Welsh language skills. Other estimates suggest that 29.7% (899,500) of people aged three or older in Wales could speak Welsh in June 2022. Almost half of all Welsh speakers consider themselves fluent Welsh speakers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rhian Edwards
Rhian O'Sullivan ( née Edwards; 20 January 1981) is a Welsh female professional darts player who plays in events of the World Darts Federation (WDF). Darts career O'Sullivan was a quarter finalist in the 2009 Women's World Masters. She qualified for her first BDO Women's World Championship in 2010. She defeated fellow Welshwoman Julie Gore 2–0 in the quarter-finals, and Karen Lawman 2–0 in the semi-finals. In the final, she was beaten 2–0 by Trina Gulliver. In 2011, she again reached the World Championship final after victories over Gore in the quarter-finals and Deta Hedman in the semi-finals. She was beaten 2–0 by Gulliver for the second final in a row. In 2012, O'Sullivan was defeated in the first round by top seed and eventual runner-up Hedman. She hit the highest checkout (155) recorded in the history of the women's world finals. The record wasbeaten in 2014. Personal life O'Sullivan is not a full-time professional darts player, and works as a childcare nurser ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liverpool FC
Liverpool Football Club is a professional football club based in Liverpool, England. The club competes in the Premier League, the top tier of English football. Founded in 1892, the club joined the Football League the following year and has played its home games at Anfield since its formation. Domestically, the club has won 19 League titles, eight FA Cups, a record nine League Cups and 16 FA Community Shields. In international competitions, the club has won six European Cups, three UEFA Cups, four UEFA Super Cups—all English records—and one FIFA Club World Cup. The club established itself as a major force in domestic and European football in the 1970s and 1980s, when Bill Shankly, Bob Paisley, Joe Fagan and Kenny Dalglish, led the club to a combined 11 League titles and four European Cups. Liverpool won two further European Cups in 2005 and 2019 under the management of Rafael Benítez and Jürgen Klopp, respectively; the latter led Liverpool to a 19th League tit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rhian Brewster
Rhian Joel Brewster (born 1 April 2000) is an English professional association football, footballer who plays as a Striker (association football), striker for club Sheffield United F.C., Sheffield United. In 2017, he was part of the England squad which won the 2017 FIFA U-17 World Cup in India and was awarded the Golden Boot award for ending as the competition's leading goalscorer. Club career Early career Brewster was born in Chadwell Heath, Greater London, to a Barbadian father and Turkish Cypriots, Turkish Cypriot mother. Brewster attended school at Chadwell Primary School before joining the Chadwell Heath and Shield Academy YFC. At the age of seven, he was scouted by representatives from Chelsea F.C., Chelsea, Arsenal F.C., Arsenal, West Ham United F.C., West Ham United and Charlton Athletic F.C., Charlton Athletic. He ultimately joined Chelsea where he developed his game under coach Michael Beale (football coach), Michael Beale in Chelsea F.C. Under-23s and Academy, the cl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rhian Wilkinson
Rhian Emilie Wilkinson (born May 12, 1982) is a Canadian professional soccer coach and former player. She was most recently the head coach of Portland Thorns FC of the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL), where she led the team to the 2022 NWSL Championship. As a player, Wilkinson made over 180 appearances for the Canadian national team and won Olympic bronze medals in 2012 and 2016. She played as a forward and a midfielder at the club level, but was primarily an attacking right fullback for the national team. Early life Wilkinson was born in Pointe-Claire, Quebec, to parents Keith Wilkinson and Shan Evans. Her Danish-born English father is a former director of the Canada national rugby union team. Her mother, Shan Evans, was born in Wales. She has an older brother, David, and a twin sister named Sara. In 1990, she relocated to Wales for one year, where she attended Bont Faen Primary School in Cowbridge. The school did not offer soccer to girls and Wilkinson's mother joine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rhian Touyz
Rhian M. Touyz Koppel MBBCh, MSc (Med), PhD, FRCP, FRSE, FMedSci, FCAHS (born September 14, 1959) is a Canadian medical researcher. She is currently serving as the Executive Director and Chief Scientific Officer of the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre in Montreal, Canada, since 2021. A clinician scientist, her research primarily focuses on hypertension and cardiovascular disease. Early life and education Touyz earned her BSc (1980), MBBCh (1984), MSc (1986) and PhD (1992) from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. She completed a post-doctoral fellowship (1992-1996) at the Institut de recherches cliniques de Montréal (IRCM). Career Touyz was Staff Scientist and Professor at the IRCM, in Montreal, Canada until 2005. From 2005 to 2011, Touyz joined the Kidney Research Centre of the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, University of Ottawa, where she held a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Hypertension. In 2011, Touyz mov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rhian Sheehan
Rhian Sheehan is a New Zealand composer and producer born in Nelson and now based in Wellington. He is known for his fusing of orchestral chamber music and piano, with ambient electronic and post-rock cinematic atmospheres. He has also written music for film, television, video games, exhibitions, advertisements, roller coaster rides, and planetarium dome shows. Career Sheehan released his debut album ''Paradigm Shift'' in 2001. The record was issued in the UK almost two years later in 2003, and received praise from music critics. In 2004, Britain's ''Future Music Magazine'' magazine named Sheehan as "The Next Big Thing" in ambient music. His 2009 album ''Standing in Silence'', 2013's ''Stories from Elsewhere'', and 2018's ''A Quiet Divide'' step away from his earlier electronica work into more of a shoegaze, post-rock, ambient, chamber music direction. Eminent US reviewer John Diliberto (host of Echoes) called ''Stories from Elsewhere'' "a modern ambient chamber music masterpiec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rhian Samuel
Rhian Samuel (born Aberdare, Wales, 1944) is a Welsh woman composer who resided in the USA for many years. She has composed over 140 published works, including orchestral, chamber, vocal, and choral music. She now divides her time between mid-Wales and London. Composition Samuel's orchestral music spans from ''Elegy-Symphony'' (St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin, cond., 1981) to ''Tirluniau/Landscapes'' (BBC commission, BBC NOW, BBC Proms 2000); in 1983 she won the ASCAP/Rudolf Nissim Prize (USA) for her choral/orchestral work, ''La Belle Dame sans Merci''. A BIS CD containing her BBC-commissioned work for soprano and orchestra, ''Clytemnestra'', was short listed for a Gramophone Award in 2020. As well as orchestral song-cycles (''Clytemnestra'' and ''The White Amaryllis''), she has written a large number of voice-and-piano cycles for major festivals including the Oxford Lieder Festival (''Wildflower Songbook'', to poems by Anne Stevenson), the Three Choirs Festival ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rhian Ramos
Rhian Denise Ramos Howell (; born October 3, 1990), professionally known as Rhian Ramos, is a Filipino actress, commercial model, singer, host and race car driver. She is an exclusive talent of GMA Network Career Ramos started working in commercials including McDonald's Philippines McJelly Trio. Her first television series was ''Captain Barbell'' in 2006, and a year later she was part of ''Lupin''. She has played the lead role in ''My Only Love''. In 2007, Ramos had her film debut in '' The Promise'' in which she won her first Golden Screen Award for Breakthrough Performance by an Actress. She also starred in the horror film ''Ouija''. In 2008, Ramos was chosen to host '' Pinoy Idol Extra'', the daily update edition of ''Pinoy Idol''. Ramos also starred in two Philippine dramas, '' Codename: Asero'', and in ''LaLola'', a remake of the 2007 Argentine television comedy telenovela of the same name. By the end of the year, Ramos finished two feature films, ''My Monster Mom'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rhian Pugh
Rhian Pugh (born 16 April 1989) is a British gymnast. Born in Wales, she is also a member of the Welsh National Squad and part of British Gymnastics World Class Potential Programme. Pugh became British Junior Bar Champion for 2003 and was selected for the Great Britain Junior National Squad from 2003 to 2004. First competing for Great Britain in Canada in March 2003 where she achieved silver on bars & team silver in the Jurassic Classic plus silver on beam at the Bluewater International. In 2004, Rhian became champion on asymmetric bars and balance beam at the Junior British National Championships. She also won gold on the bars at the European Junior Championships with a routine described as "uniquely original" by the judges. She later joined the senior squad representing Wales at the 2006 Commonwealth Games The 2006 Commonwealth Games, officially the XVIII Commonwealth Games and commonly known as Melbourne 2006 (Boonwurrung/Woiwurrung: ''Narrm 2006'' or ''Naarm 2006' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rhian Dodds
Rhian Dodds (born 3 October 1979) is Canadian footballer who played as a midfielder in the Canadian Soccer League, and the Scottish Premiership. He also holds British citizenship, but represented Canada internationally on the Under-20 level. Playing career Born in Irvine, Scotland, Dodds grew up in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. He attended Robert Morris University, playing for the Colonials before joining Kilmarnock. He was given the nickname "Dick Turpin" after scoring a late winner against Motherwell at Fir Park in season 2006–07 by the stadium announcer, insinuating that Kilmarnock had "stolen" the victory with virtually the last kick of the ball. After a seven-year tenure in Scotland he returned to his hometown of Hamilton, and signed with Hamilton Croatia of the Canadian Soccer League. Where he was united with his younger brother Jamie Dodds. He made his debut for the club on 11 June 2010 in a match against Brantford Galaxy Brantford Galaxy Soccer Club was a semi-pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
