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Robyn (name)
Robyn is a gender-neutral given name. Robin is a variant which is both masculine and feminine. It is of Germanic origin and means 'bright famous one'. Notable people with the name include: * Robyn (born 1979, Robin Miriam Carlsson), Swedish pop singer and songwriter * Robyn Archer (born 1948), Australian singer, songwriter and stage director * Robyn Arianrhod, Australian historian of science * Robyn Curnow (born 1972), South African anchor * Robyn Denholm (born 1962/1963), Australian businesswoman, chair of Tesla, Inc. * Robyn Donald (born 1940), New Zealand writer of romance novels * Robyn Ebbern (born 1944), Australian tennis player * Robyn Rihanna Fenty, often known as Rihanna (born 1988), Barbadian pop singer, fashion designer and billionaire businesswoman CEO and founder of Fenty Beauty * Robyn Gayle (born 1985), Canadian football player * Robyn Griggs (1973-2022), American actress * Robyn Hitchcock (born 1953), British singer-songwriter and artist * Robyn Lambird (born 1997) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robin (name)
Robin is a unisex given name and a surname. It was originally a diminutive masculine given name or nickname of Robert, derived from the prefix ''Ro''- (''hrod'', Old Germanic, meaning "fame" and ''berht'', meaning "bright"), and the suffix ''-in'' (Old French diminutive). In Europe, although it is sometimes regarded as a feminine name, it is generally given to boys. In 2014, 88% of babies named Robin in England were boys. In United States, it used to be more popular as a feminine name—during the 1990s, for example, it was the 325th most popular name for girls and the 693rd most popular name for boys. However the gap has been narrowing and recently the number of baby boys and baby girls named Robin in United States has been roughly similar (as visualized in the adjacent chart). In 2014 46% of babies named Robin in United States were boys, which is about three times that figure in 1990. There are several common variations, including ''Robyn'', ''Robbin'', ''Robine'', ''Robyne'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robyn Lawley
Robyn Lawley (born 13 June 1989) is an Australian model. Early life and family Robyn was born in Girraween, New South Wales, to Chris and Janne Lawley; and has two older sisters, Shona and Jennifer. Robyn attended Macarthur Girls High School. Robyn went to see a mainstream agency when she was 15 and although they were ready to sign her, she didn't feel ready. After taking a year off she returned and started doing straight size modeling for a year. Finding it to be not worth the effort of maintaining the size 8 that was required, she signed with Bella model management, a "plus size" modeling agency in Australia, when she was 18. Career Modelling Lawley's first magazine shoot was for '' Dolly'' in 2006. At the beginning of her career she appeared in a plus-size clothing range for New Zealand brand EziBuy. Lawley has modelled for the cover of French ''Elle'', '' Marie Claire'' (France, Australia) and ''Cosmopolitan''. In June 2011, Lawley featured on the cover of ''Vogue Italia'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robyn Stevens
Robyn Stevens (born April 24, 1983) is an American Olympic race walker. She competed for Vacaville High School, then went on to San José State University. Stevens suffered from an eating disorder and body dysmorphia while attending, which forced her to quit racing in 2004. She did not compete again until 2014. She competed in the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo in 2021. Competition In 2019, Stevens won the U.S. 50 kilometer race walk championship, and repeated her win on January 25, 2020, in Santee, California, with a time of 4:37:31, leading from start to finish and winning by over 9 1/2 minutes.Robyn Stevens excelling in USATF race walking meets '' |
Robyn Smith
Robyn Smith (born August 14, 1944) is an American retired jockey. Active from 1969 to 1980, Smith accumulated 247 wins in California and New York race tracks, and became the first female jockey to win a stakes race in 1973. Early life Smith is largely evasive about the details of her early life. She told ''Sports Illustrated'' in her 1972 cover profile that she was born in San Francisco, California on August 14, 1944, but the journal could find no birth record of a Robyn Caroline Smith for several years around that time. Claims that she had attended Stanford University as an English major, and that she was under contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer were similarly debunked. In 1997, she told the ''Los Angeles Times'' that she was "sold" as an infant, and went through a series of foster homes. Jockey career In April 1969, Kjell Qvale agreed to let Smith ride one of his horses, and on April 3, Smith became the first female jockey in Northern California, finishing second at a rac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robyn Slovo
Robyn Slovo is a South African film producer, based in the UK. Her work includes the 2000 film '' Morvern Callar'', the 2006 film ''Catch a Fire'', and the 2011 film '' Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy''. Biography Slovo started her career in theatre, before moving into the television and film industry, working first as a script editor and development executive for the BBC, and then as a film producer for Company Pictures and Working Title Films. Slovo's family is Jewish. She is the daughter of Joe Slovo and Ruth First — both major figures in the anti-apartheid struggle who lived perilous lives of exile, armed resistance, and occasional imprisonment, culminating in her mother's assassination in 1982. A family memoir in the form of a feature film, '' A World Apart'', was written by her sister Shawn Slovo and starred Barbara Hershey. She played her mother in the film ''Catch a Fire'', also written by her sister Shawn Slovo. She is the youngest sister of novelist Gillian Slovo Gill ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robyn Regehr
Robyn Regehr (born April 19, 1980) is a Brazilian-born Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman. He was a first round draft pick of the Colorado Avalanche, selected 19th overall at the 1998 NHL Entry Draft, but was traded to the Calgary Flames prior to the start of his professional career, and has also played for the Buffalo Sabres in an NHL career that has spanned 1,089 games. Regehr won his first Stanley Cup in 2014 with the Kings, on what was his 15th year in the NHL. He was a member of the Canadian team at the 2006 Winter Olympics, and has won silver medals at the World Junior and Senior championships, as well as the championship at the 2004 World Cup of Hockey. Regehr was born in Brazil, and spent his early childhood in Indonesia before his parents settled back in Canada. At 19, he was the youngest nominee for the Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy in NHL history after he made his NHL debut less than four months after suffering two broken legs in a serious automobi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robyn Ochs
Robyn Ochs (born 1958) is an American bisexual activist, professional speaker, and workshop leader. Her primary fields of interest are gender, sexuality, identity, and coalition building. She is the editor of the ''Bisexual Resource Guide'' (published annually from 1990 to 2002), '' Bi Women Quarterly'', and the anthology '' Getting Bi: Voices of Bisexuals Around the World.'' Ochs, along with Professor Herukhuti, co-edited the anthology ''Recognize: The Voices of Bisexual Men''. Ochs has appeared on a number of television talk shows, including ''Donahue'', ''Rolanda'', ''Maury Povich'', ''Women Aloud'', ''Real Personal'', ''Hour Magazine'' and ''The Shirley Show'', to discuss issues relating to bisexuality. She has also been in ''Seventeen'' and ''Newsweek''. She describes herself as Jewish, but not religious. Education Ochs has a Bachelor of Arts in Language and Culture, Latin American Studies from the State University of New York, Purchase. Additionally, she has a Certificat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robyn Nevin
Robyn Anne Nevin (25 September 1942) is an Australian actress, director, and stage producer, recognised with the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards and the JC Williamson Award at the Helpmann Awards for her outstanding contributions to Australian theatre performance art. Former head of both the Queensland Theatre Company and the Sydney Theatre Company, she has directed more than 30 productions and acted in more than 80 plays, collaborating with internationally renowned artists, including Richard Wherrett, Simon Phillips, Geoffrey Rush, Julie Andrews, Aubrey Mellor, Jennifer Flowers, Cate Blanchett and Lee Lewis. Nevin is also known for her roles in films and televisions series, including ''Water Under the Bridge'' (1980) as Shasta, role that earned her a Logie Awards and a Penguin Award, ''Upper Middle Bogan'' (2014) and ''Top of the Lake'' (2014), and international film acting as Councillor Dillard in ''The Matrix Reloaded'' and ''The Matrix Revolutions'' (both 2003), and as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robyn Miller
Robyn Charles Miller (born August 6, 1966) is the co-founder of Cyan Worlds (originally Cyan) with brother Rand Miller. He served as co-designer of the popular computer game ''Myst'', which held the title of best-selling computer game from its release in 1993 until the release of ''The Sims'' seven years later. He also co-directed and co-lead designed the sequel to ''Myst'', ''Riven'', which was the best-selling computer game of its year of release, 1997. Miller composed and performed the soundtracks to both games. He also acted in Myst, portraying one of the antagonists, Sirrus (with brother and Cyan-cofounder Rand appearing as Achenar and Atrus). He co-wrote the first Myst novel, ''The Book of Atrus''. After the release of ''Riven'', Miller left Cyan to pursue non-game interests, including films. He is the director of the 2013 film '' The Immortal Augustus Gladstone''. Early works Miller served as a designer on Cyan Worlds's early games ''The Manhole'', ''Cosmic Osmo an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robyn Malcolm
Robyn Jane Malcolm (born 15 March 1965) is a New Zealand actress, who first gained recognition for her role as nurse Ellen Crozier on the New Zealand soap opera ''Shortland Street''. She is best known for six seasons of playing Cheryl West, matriarch to a sometimes criminal working-class family in the television series '' Outrageous Fortune'', Kirsty Corella in the Australian television series '' Rake'', Julie Wheeler in ''Upper Middle Bogan'' and Marina Baxter in '' The Code''. Early life and education Malcolm was born in Ashburton, and attended Ashburton College, and graduated from Toi Whakaari (New Zealand Drama School) with a Diploma in Acting in 1987. She won an International Actors Fellowship at the Globe Theatre in London for 2003. Career Malcolm's first long-running television role was nurse Ellen Crozier in soap opera ''Shortland Street''. She appeared on the show for five years and was nominated for Best Actress at the 1998 TV Guide Television Awards. She was nomina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robyn Loau
Robyn Loau (; born 20 October 1972) is an Australian singer, songwriter and actress. From 1991 to 1994, she was lead singer of pop group Girlfriend, Note: n-lineversion established at White Room Electronic Publishing Pty Ltd in 2007 and was expanded from the 2002 edition. before leaving the group to become the face and voice of world music project Siva Pacifica. Loau launched her solo career in 1997 with the Adamski produced single "Sick with Love". Career 1991–1994: Girlfriend Robyn Loau first came into the spotlight as the lead singer of Australian all-girl pop group Girlfriend, with fellow vocalists Jacqui Cowell, Siobhánn Heidenreich, Lorinda Noble and Melanie Alexander. Their debut single, " Take It from Me", released in April 1992, peaked at #1 on the Australian ARIA singles chart. Two further Australian top 20 singles followed, with " Girl's Life" and " Without You", and the group's debut album, ''Make It Come True'', was certified platinum. Girlfriend's populari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robyn Lively
Robyn Elaine Lively Johnson (born February 7, 1972) is an American actress. She is known for her roles in the 1989 films ''Teen Witch'' and ''The Karate Kid Part III.'' She is also known for her roles in the TV shows ''Doogie Howser, M.D.''; ''Twin Peaks''; ''Savannah''; and '' Saving Grace''. Early life Robyn Lively was born into a family of actors in Powder Springs, Georgia; her mother, adoptive father, and all four siblings are, or have been,in the entertainment industry. She is the daughter of talent manager Elaine Lively (''née'' McAlpin) and her first husband Ronald Otis (Ronnie) Lively. Her siblings are sister Lori and brother Jason, and her half-siblings are Eric and Blake. Career Lively began her career as a child actress: at age six, she made her screen debut in the television movie '' Summer of My German Soldier'' in 1978. Throughout the 1980s, she appeared in several television shows including ''Silver Spoons'', ''Punky Brewster'' and ''Starman''. She appeared in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
