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Selina
Selina () is a feminine given name, considered either a variant of Selene, the goddess and personification of the Moon in Greek mythology and religion, or a spelling variation of the name Celina, which is derived from the Roman name Cecilia, referring to a woman from the Caecilia gens. This spelling variant had begun to be used in the United Kingdom by the 1600s. People * Selina Brown, British author and founder of the Black British Book Festival * Selina Büchel (born 1991), Swiss middle-distance runner * Selina Chow (born 1945), Hong Kong politician and broadcaster * Selina Cooper (1864–1946), English suffragist * Selina Cossgrove (1849–1929), one of the early developers of the Girl Peace Scouts movement in New Zealand * Selina Egle (born 2003), Austrian luger * Selina Fillinger (born 1994), American playwright, TV writer, and screenwriter * Selina Foote (born 1985), New Zealand artist * Selina Gasparin (born 1984), Swiss biathlete * Selina Griffiths (born 1969), Br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Selina Jen
Selina Jen Chia-hsüan (; born 31 October 1981) is a Taiwanese singer, television host and actress. She is a member of the Taiwanese girl group S.H.E."我猜我猜我猜猜猜 20070212." Web. Retrieved 10 December 2009. On 11 June 2004, she graduated from the National Taiwan Normal University with a Bachelor of Education degree, majoring in Civic Education and Leadership. On 22 October 2010, Selina was seriously injured in an explosive accident while filming the television series ''I Have a Date with Spring'' (), along with co-star Yu Haoming. Selina suffered third-degree burns on more than 54% of her body and needed to undergo skin grafting treatment/operation where her hands, legs, and back were injured. Her sister is actress and singer Lorene Ren. Career On 8 August 2000, HIM International Music held a 'Universal 2000 Talent and Beauty Girl Contest' in search for new artists to be signed under their label. Her younger sister Lorene Ren had wanted to join but she was too young ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Selina Foote
Selina Foote (born 1985) is a visual artist from New Zealand. Pieces by Foote are included in the collections of the Chartwell Trust and Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. Education Foote graduated with a Master of Fine Arts from Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland, in 2011. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2008, also from Elam. Career While her paintings are abstract in style, Foote often draws inspiration from historic paintings. This has included referencing nineteenth century women Impressionist painters such Berthe Morisot and Mary Cassett. Her series in the exhibition ''Ray'' (2014) took their starting point from the portrait paintings by Manet and Rembrandt and the ''Pink Morning'' exhibition references Eva Gonzalès's 1874 work ''La Matinee Rose''. Foote's paintings are often small scale, using silks and canvas and her works include ''Vilain'' (2013) and ''Devereux'' (2011). Between 2014 and 2015 Foote lived in London, traveling ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Selina Hastings, Countess Of Huntingdon
Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon ( Shirley; 24 August 1707 – 17 June 1791) was an English Methodist leader who played a prominent part in the religious revival of the 18th century and the Methodist movement in England and Wales. She founded an evangelical branch in England and Sierra Leone, known as the Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion. She helped finance and guide early Methodism and was the first principal of Trevecca College, Wales, established in 1768 to train Methodist ministers. With the construction of 64 chapels in England and Wales, plus mission work in colonial America, she is estimated to have spent over £100,000 on these activities, a huge sum when a family of four could live on £31 per year. A regular correspondent of George Whitefield and John Wesley, she is also remembered for her adversarial relationships with other Methodists. Personal life Selina Shirley was born in August 1707 at Astwell Castle, Northamptonshire, second daughter of Washing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Selina Hossain
Selina Hossain (born 14 June 1947) is a Bangladeshi novelist. Her major works include ''Hangor Nodi Grenade'' (1976) and ''Poka Makorer Ghor Boshoti'' (1996). She earned all major national awards – Bangla Academy Literary Award in 1980, Ekushey Padak in 2009 and Independence Day Award in 2018. Her novels and short stories have been translated into English, Russian, French, Japanese, Korean, Finnish and Malay. She served as the chairperson of Bangladesh Shishu Academy from 2014 until 2018. Selina served as the president of the Bangla Academy from 3 February 2022 until her resignation on 17 October 2024. Early life and education Hossain was born to A. K. Mosharrof Hossain and Mariamennesa Bakul. She earned MA degree in Bengali language and literature from Rajshahi University in 1968. Career In 1994–95, Hossain won a scholarship from the Ford Foundation for her novel, ''Sandhya Gayatri''. Hossain retired as the director of the Bangla Academy. She served as a member of the Na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Selina Chow
Selina Chow Liang Shuk-yee (; born 25 January 1945) is a former Hong Kong television executive and politician. She was a member of the Legislative Council for nearly three decades, and was also a member of the Executive Council. She is honorary chairwoman of the Liberal Party, having formerly been its chairwoman. Joining Television Broadcasts Limited (TVB) after graduating from the University of Hong Kong (HKU), she was Hong Kong's first weather girl. She went on to executive roles at all three of Hong Kong's major television broadcasting companies: TVB from 1967 to 1977, general manager of Commercial Television (CTV) from 1977 to 1978 and chief executive of Asia Television (ATV) from 1988 to 1991. She was first appointed to the Legislative Council in 1981 and the Executive Council in 1991. She was the founding member of the pro-business Liberal Party and the vice-chairwoman from 1998 to 2008. She was appointed to the Executive Council for the second time in 2003. In 2004, she ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Selina Brown
Selina Brown is a British author and literary events producer of Jamaican heritage. She has written three children's picture books, two about a girl named Nena and a third titled ''My Rice is Best''. She is the founder and CEO of the Black British Book Festival, which has become the largest Black literature festival in Europe. Early life and education Selina Brown was raised by her British mother and Jamaican grandmother.Brown, Selina (31 October 2023)was time to change the narrative': How I created the Black British Book Festival Big Issue. Retrieved 30 April 2025 Brown attended Cumberland Community School in Plaistow and completed her A Levels at Newham Sixth Form College in 2008. Brown graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Sociology from the Goldsmiths, University of London and then a Master of Science (MSc) from the University of East London. As a teenager, she became active in public service: at age 16 she was elected Youth Mayor (Youth MP) of Nottingham. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Selina Fillinger
Selina Fillinger (born 1994) is an American playwright, TV writer, and screenwriter. Early life and education Fillinger was born in Berkeley, California. She is Jewish. When she was three her family moved to Eugene, Oregon, where she grew up. She went to South Eugene High School before attending Northwestern University, where she studied acting and playwriting. While at Northwestern she received the first Judith Barlow Prize, an annual student award given to work inspired by a historic female playwright. She was one of three playwrights selected for Northwestern's Agnes Nixon Playwriting Festival, two years in a row. Career During her senior year at Northwestern, Fillinger was commissioned by two local theaters, Northlight Theatre and Sideshow Theatre. Her play ''Faceless'' was produced at Northlight in January 2017 and was Fillinger's first professional production, opening only six months after she graduated. Her Sideshow commission, ''Something Clean'', premiered at the Roundabou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Selina Leem
Selina Neirok Leem is a climate change activist and spoken word performer from the Marshall Islands. She was the youngest speaker at COP21 and has also spoken at COP26, making a "passionate plea" to world leaders for increased action on addressing climate change. Selina just recently became a TED speaker at the 2021 TED countdown summit. Early life Leem was born and raised in Majuro, the capital city of the Marshall Islands. At the age of 16, she moved to Germany to finish high school at the Robert Bosch United World College, UWC Robert Bosch College. She learned about climate change from stories her grandfather told her, who spoke about the impacts of a Sea level rise, rising ocean to their home islands. Her concerns over global warming motivated her studies into the science of climate change in school. While at UWC, Selina developed into a powerful public speaker. She shared her lived experience, as she talked about the reality of rising sea levels, drought and flooding on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Selina Jenkinson
Lady Selina Charlotte Jenkinson, Viscountess Milton (3 July 1812 – 24 September 1883), also known by her married names as Selina Wentworth-Fitzwilliam and Selina Foljambe, was a British aristocrat in the 19th century. She was the mother of the Earl of Liverpool Cecil Foljambe. Biography Selina Jenkinson was born in London, England, and was christened on 28 July 1812 at St Marylebone Parish Church. She was the second child of the influential politician Charles Jenkinson, 3rd Earl of Liverpool and his wife Julia Shuckburgh-Evelyn. She was a niece of the Prime Minister Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool. When her father died she took ownership of a rare collection of works of William Shakespeare. On 15 August 1833, she married William Charles Wentworth-FitzWilliam, Viscount Milton (1812–1835), with whom she had one child, a daughter. Her husband was one of the youngest people to serve in Parliament in the modern era. They lived at Cockglode House in the Sherwood Forest. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Selina Hastings (writer)
Lady Selina Shirley Hastings (born 5 March 1945) is a British journalist, author and biographer. Biography The elder daughter of Francis, 16th Earl of Huntingdon, by his second marriage to Margaret Lane, Hastings was educated at St Hugh's College, Oxford, where she took an MA degree. Hastings's books include ''Sir Gawain and the Loathly Lady'' (1985), ''Nancy Mitford'' (1986), ''The Singing Ringing Tree'', ''The Man Who Wanted to Live Forever'' (both 1988), ''The Firebird'', ''Evelyn Waugh'' (both 1995), ''Beibl Lliw Y Plant'' (1998), ''Rosamond Lehmann'' (2002) and ''The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham'' (2010). She is a past recipient of the Marsh Biography Award. Reviewing ''Nancy Mitford'' for ''The New York Times'', William McBrien questioned Hastings' sparse documentation of some of the facts in the book. He praised the book for its depiction of that historical period. ''Evelyn Waugh'' was reviewed by ''The New York Times'', ''The Guardian'' and ''The Spectator''. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Selina Cooper
Selina Jane Cooper (née Coombe; 4 December 1864 – 11 November 1946) was an English suffragist and the first woman to represent the Independent Labour Party (ILP) in 1901 when she was elected as a Poor Law Guardian. Early life Selina Cooper was born Selina Coombe in Callington, Cornwall, in 1864, the sixth of seven surviving children of Charles Coombe, railway labourer (and later railway subcontractor) and Jane Coombe (née Uren), dressmaker. She moved to Barnoldswick when she was a child, after her father died of typhoid in 1876. In the same year, aged 12, she began working in the local textile mills at Barnoldswick. She left school at the age of thirteen and started work full-time in the mills. Trade union and political activities Cooper became active in trade union activities and took practical courses in laundry, hygiene and first aid and became a member of the Barnoldswick St John's Ambulance Committee in 1895. She was an early member of the Nelson Social Democratic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
