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Sigrid
Sigrid is a Scandinavian given name for women from Old Norse ''Sigríðr'', composed of the elements ''sigr'' "victory" and ''fríðr'' "beautiful". Common short forms include Siri, Sigga, Sig, and Sigi. An Estonian and Finnish variant is Siiri. The Latvian version of the name is Zigrīda. People * Sigrid (singer), Norwegian singer * Princess Sigrid of Sweden, Swedish princess * Sigrid Alegría, Chilean actress * Sigrid Alexandersen (born 1995), Norwegian orienteer * Sigrid Agren, French fashion model * Sigrid Banér, Swedish letter writer * Sigrid Björkegren (1845 – 1936), Swedish entrepreneur * Sigrid Borge (born 1995), Norwegian javelin thrower * Sigrid Brahe, Swedish countess * Sigrid Brattabø Handegard (born 1963), Norwegian politician * Sigrid D. Peyerimhoff, a German chemist * Sigrid Elmblad (1860 – 1926), a Swedish journalist and poet * Sigrid Eskilsdotter (Banér), a Swedish noble * Sigrid Fick, a Swedish tennis player * Sigrid af Forselles (18 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sigrid Gurie
Sigrid Gurie (born Sigrid Guri Haukelid; May 18, 1911 – August 14, 1969) was an American actress from the late 1930s to early 1940s. Early life Gurie was born in Brooklyn, New York. Her father was a civil engineer who worked for the New York City Subway from 1902 to 1912. As she and her twin brother, Knut, were born in the United States, the twins held dual Norwegian-American citizenship. In 1914, the family returned to Norway. Sigrid subsequently grew up in Oslo and was educated in Norway, Sweden, and Belgium. In 1935, Gurie married Thomas Stewart of California; she filed for divorce in 1938. Her brother became a noted member of the Norwegian resistance movement during World War II. Knut Haukelid died at age 82 in 1994. Career In 1936, Gurie arrived in Hollywood. Film magnate Sam Goldwyn reportedly took credit for discovering her, promoting his discovery as "the Norwegian Garbo" and billed her as "the siren of the fjords". She starred as Kokashin, daughter of Ku ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sigrid Helliesen Lund
Sigrid Helliesen Lund (23 February 1892 – 8 December 1987) was a Norwegian peace activist, noted for her humanitarian efforts throughout most of the 20th century, and in particular her resistance to the occupation of Norway during World War II. On 14 May 2006, Yad Vashem posthumously named her one of the Righteous Among the Nations for her work during the Holocaust. Biography Sigrid grew up in a home hospitable to artists and intellectuals of her time, and she developed an independent spirit early in her life, refusing among other things to be confirmed in the Church of Norway. She earned her examen artium in 1911 and then took up studies in vocal music in Kristiania, Bayreuth, and Paris. She had her performance debut in 1918 in Oslo. However, she developed a respiratory ailment that made a singing career impossible. She married Diderich Lund in 1923. They had two children; the younger, Erik, had Down syndrome. She started her humanitarian efforts in 1927 while she lived w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sigrid Agren
Sigrid Agren is a French model from Martinique, who rose to prominence during the Elite Model Look in 2006. Early life Agren was born and raised in Martinique, to a Swedish father and a French mother. She entered the Elite Model Look in France as a teenager, and went on to the finals in Paris. She was the winner and therefore among the contestants chosen to move on to the finals in Shanghai. She lost to one of the other French finalists, Charlotte Di Calypso. Career After the Elite Model Look ended, Agren signed with Elite Model Management in Paris. She performed small jobs before deciding to put off modeling in order to finish her education in 2007. Agren returned to the modeling world in 2008, signing with New York Model Management. She also re-signed with Elite Models in all the major fashion capitals. She debuted on the runway by closing the Prada Resort show. For her first New York Fashion Week, she walked for Calvin Klein, Ralph Lauren, Donna Karan and Rodarte. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Siiri
Siiri is an Estonian and Finnish feminine given name derived from the Old Norse name Sigríðr. It is a cognate of the modern Scandinavian name Sigrid. People named Siiri include: *Siiri Angerkoski (1902–1971), Finnish actress *Siiri Oviir (born 1947), Estonian politician *Siiri Nordin (born 1980), Finnish singer *Siiri Rantanen (born 1924), Finnish cross-country skier *Siiri Sisask (born 1968), Estonian singer, actress and politician *Siiri Välimaa (born 1990), Finnish footballer *Siiri Vallner Siiri Vallner (born April 9, 1972) is an industrious Estonian architect. She works mostly in community projects, as well as in many competitions. She is a member of the Union of Estonian Architects. Biography Born in Tallinn, Estonia, she spen ... (born 1972), Estonian architect References {{Given name Estonian feminine given names Finnish feminine given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sigrid Brattabø Handegard
Sigrid Brattabø Handegard (born 27 December 1963) is a Norwegian politician for the Centre Party. Early life Handegard was educated at Rogne Upper Secondary School, specialising in nursing auxiliary skills. She worked as a nursing auxiliary in Jondal and Vikevollen between 1981 and 2007. Elected office Handegard was deputy mayor of Jondal 1995-2007, then Mayor 2007-2009. From 2000-2002 she was Vice-chair of the Hordaland branch of the Centre Party then Chair 2002-2008. Handegard served as a deputy representative to the Norwegian Parliament from Hordaland 2005 - 2009. Later career Since 2009, Handegard has been a political advisor to the Minister of Transport and Communications, Magnhild Meltveit Kleppa Magnhild Meltveit Kleppa (born 12 November 1948 in Fister, Norway) is a Norwegian politician for the Centre Party. Kleppa is educated as a teacher at Kristiansand Teacher Training College in 1970. She worked as a teacher from 1967 to 1992. Sh .... Handegard is marrie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sigrid Hjørnegård
Sigrid Hjørnegård (born 8 October 1965) is a Norwegian politician for the Centre Party. She finished her secondary education in Ås in 1984, and graduated from Mære Agricultural School in 1986 and the Norwegian College of Agriculture in 1990. She worked part-time as a research assistant from 1990 to 1992. She was a board member of Norges Bygdeungdomslag from 1986 to 1988, and leader from 1990 to 1992. From 1988 to 1990 she was a board member of the Norwegian Children and Youth Council. She worked for the Norwegian Agrarian Association locally in Akershus from 1992 to 1996, and nationally as information director from 1996 to 2005. In the Agrarian Association she was a supervisory council member from 1987 to 1988 and board member from 1990 to 1992. From 1992 to 1993 she was a deputy board member of Nei til EU, and chaired the Akershus branch of the organization. Since 1997 she has been a deputy board member of the Norwegian College of Agriculture/Norwegian University of Life S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sigrid Hjertén
Sigrid Hjertén (27 October 1885 – 24 March 1948) was a Swedish modernist painter. Hjertén is considered a major figure in Swedish modernism. Periodically she was highly productive and participated in 106 exhibitions. She worked as an artist for 30 years before dying of complications from a lobotomy for schizophrenia. Biography Sigrid Hjertén was born in Sundsvall in 1885. She studied at the University College of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm and graduated as a drawing teacher. At a studio party in 1909, Hjertén met her future husband, twenty-year-old Isaac Grünewald, who had already studied one year with Henri Matisse in Paris. Grünewald convinced her that she would do herself more justice as a painter. Later that year she went to Matisse's art school as well. She was "said to have been Matisse's favorite pupil because of her fine sense of color." 1910s As Hjertén studied under Henri Matisse in Paris, she was impressed by the way he and Paul Cézanne dealt with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sigrid The Haughty
Sigrid the Haughty (Old Norse:''Sigríðr (hin) stórráða''), also known as ''Sigrid Storråda'' (Swedish), is a Scandinavian queen appearing in Norse sagas. Sigrid is named in several late and sometimes contradictory Icelandic sagas composed generations after the events they describe, but there is no reliable historical evidence correlating to her story as they describe her. She is reported by ''Heimskringla'' to have been wife of Eric the Victorious of Sweden, sought as wife by Olaf Tryggvasson, then married to Sweyn Forkbeard of Denmark, but elsewhere author Snorri Sturluson says that Sweyn was married to a different woman. It is unclear if the figure of Sigrid was a real person. Some recent scholars identify her with a documented Polish wife of Eric and perhaps Sweyn mentioned by medieval chroniclers and referred to as 'Świętosława' by some modern historians, but the potential husbands attributed to Sigrid lived over a wide date range and other modern scholars believe Sigr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sigrid Augusta Green
Sigrid Augusta Green (3 December 1920 – 12 October 2012) gathered intelligence in preparation for the sabotage of the Telemark plant during the Second World War. She worked for the Norwegian Resistance and then as a code breaker at Bletchley Park. Life and work Sigrid Augusta Green, known as Gusta, was born in Darwen, Lancashire, to a Norwegian mother and a British father. Her mother had moved to the UK to work as an au pair and married. Green joined the Women's Auxiliary Air Force at the age of 22, on 10 December 1942. Her bilingual ability from her Norwegian mother (Edith Stafford Green) was quickly recognised and she was transferred to the Norwegian Resistance. She was sent secretly to Nazi-occupied Norway to research the heavy water factory at Telemark owned by Sigrid’s uncle, which was being used to produce heavy water to further the Nazis’ nuclear ambitions. Green had visited the plant before the war started, and she remembered how to find it. Because she refused ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sigrid Fry-Revere
Sigrid Fry-Revere is a medical ethicist and lawyer who has worked on many issues in patient care ethics, but most recently has been working on the rights of living organ donors. Background Fry-Revere worked as an attorney, practicing bioethics, health, and U.S. Food and Drug Administration law with the law firm of Arent Fox Kintner Plotkin & Kahn. She worked as an adjunct professor of ethics and healthcare law at George Mason University College of Nursing and Health Science and as an associate professor at the University of Virginia Center for Biomedical Ethics. She has also consulted for hospitals, hospices, and home health agencies. She formerly served as Director of Bioethics Studies at the Cato Institute. Community involvement Fry-Revere has served as a medical ethicist on the Washington Regional Transplant Community Organ and Tissue Advisory Committee (2008-2018). WRTC is the Organ Procurement Organization (from deceased donors) for Washington, DC and neighboring reg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sigrid Fronius
Sigrid Fronius (born 23 January 1942) is a German author, journalist and feminist. She was 1968 the first female chairwoman of the Allgemeinen Studierendenausschuss (AStA) at Free University of Berlin and was involved in South America during the political upheavals of the 1970s. Life Childhood and youth Sigrid Fronius was born in 1942 in Brașov (''Kronstadt''), Romania, the youngest of four sisters. Her father was the owner of a factory. After World War II, Romania got a Communist regime and, as a result of nationalization, the former owner became the salaried director of the same factory. Her mother was a housewife. In 1955 – despite the Iron Curtain – the family was allowed to leave Romania legally. They moved in with relatives in Austria. From 1957, Fronius lived near Stuttgart and graduated from high school in the spring of 1962. Studies and student movement From fall 1962, Fronius studied history and French at the Free University of Berlin. From 1963, she to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sigrid Af Forselles
Sigrid af Forselles (1860—1935) was a Finnish sculptor, notable for being one of the first professional female sculptors of the country. Early life and education Sigrid af Forselles was born to an upper-class family of minor nobility; her father was the engineer, inventor, retired Colonel, and Director-General of ''Metsähallitus'', Alexander af Forselles, and her mother Emilie Sofie Jacquette Waenerberg. Her younger brother was Arthur af Forselles, who later became a physician and politician. She was first educated at a private German-language girls' school in Finland, followed by a year at a finishing school in Vevey in Switzerland, although she did not particularly excel at either. Af Forselles began her art studies at the Drawing School of the Finnish Art Society (''Suomen Taideyhdistyksen piirustuskoulu''), now part of the Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki, from 1876 to 1880. Her main interest already then was sculpture, but it was not formally taught in Finland at the t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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