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Simona (given Name)
Simone is a given name that may be used as a masculine or feminine name, depending on the language. Originating from the Greek translation of the Hebrew name ''Shimon'', it became popular due to the Christianization of Europe and Biblical figures such as Simeon (son of Jacob) and Simeon (Gospel of Luke). In Italian, Simone is a masculine name or patronymic surname, pronounced with three syllables, ''see-MO-ne'', whilst the feminine form ''Simona'' is widespread throughout Europe. In French and English Simone is a feminine name, pronounced with two syllables, either as ''SEE-MAWN'' or ''sə-MON'', whilst its masculine form in both languages is Simon/Simeon. Additionally, Simone, as a feminine name, may be spelled Simonne outside of France. People Simona *Simona Amânar (born 1979), Romanian gymnast * Simona Andrejić (born 1994), Serbian model * Simona de Silvestro (born 1988), Swiss race car driver *Simona Halep (born 1991), Romanian tennis player * Simona Koch (born 1968), Ger ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Given Name
A given name (also known as a forename or first name) is the part of a personal name quoted in that identifies a person, potentially with a middle name as well, and differentiates that person from the other members of a group (typically a family or clan) who have a common surname. The term ''given name'' refers to a name usually bestowed at or close to the time of birth, usually by the parents of the newborn. A ''Christian name'' is the first name which is given at baptism, in Christian custom. In informal situations, given names are often used in a familiar and friendly manner. In more formal situations, a person's surname is more commonly used. The idioms 'on a first-name basis' and 'being on first-name terms' refer to the familiarity inherent in addressing someone by their given name. By contrast, a surname (also known as a family name, last name, or ''gentile name, gentile'' name) is normally inherited and shared with other members of one's immediate family. Regnal names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simona Krupeckaitė
Simona Krupeckaitė (born 13 December 1982) is a Lithuanian former professional track cyclist. She is the 2009 500 m Time Trial World Champion and World Record holder at 33.296s, and the 2010 Keirin World Champion. She also won the 2009, 2010 and 2016 Lithuanian Sportsperson of the Year award. In 2010 Krupeckaitė reached one more world record. This time she achieved 10.793 s record at Flying 200 m time trial event. She retired from competition after the conclusion of the 2021 UCI Track Champions League in December of that year. Career results ;2003 :2nd 500 m TT, European Track Championships, U23 :2nd Sprint, European Track Championships, U23 ;2004 :3rd 500 m TT, UCI Track Cycling World Championships :2004 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics ::1st Keirin, Round 2, Aguascalientes ::3rd Sprint, Round 2, Aguascalientes ;2005 : 2005–2006 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics ::2nd 500 m TT, Round 1, Moscow ;2006 : 2006–2007 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics ::2nd 500 m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simone Ambrogio
Simone Ambrogio (born 11 February 2000) is an Italian football player who plays for U.S. Pianese in Serie D. He was born as a central defender, but if necessary he can also be used as a full-back on both sides. He prefers the right foot, but does not disdain the use of the opposite foot and is a good header. Club career Torino At the age of 8 he is selected at the Academy of Torino FC. In the grenade team, he carries out the entire youth sector, from the Pulcini to the Primavera. With the latter he played two seasons, in which he won the 2018 Italian Cup in the category. Pianese On 14 July 2019 he joined Serie C club Pianese on loan. He made his professional Serie C debut for Pianese on 25 August 2019 in a game against Pro Vercelli. He started the game and played the whole match. On 2 January in training he suffered a compound fracture of the fifth metatarsal of his right foot. He was subsequently operated on 15 January at the Maria Vittoria Hospital in Turin. He was expected ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simone Alessio
Simone Prince Alessio (born 14 April 2000) is an Italian taekwondo athlete. Career Alessio won the gold medal at the 2019 World Taekwondo Championships in the men's lightweight competition. He qualified for the 2020 Summer Olympics through the 2021 European Taekwondo Olympic Qualification Tournament The 2021 European Taekwondo Olympic Qualification Tournament for the Tokyo Olympic Games took place in Sofia, Bulgaria Bulgaria (; bg, България, Bǎlgariya), officially the Republic of Bulgaria,, ) is a country in Southeast Euro .... References External links * 2000 births Italian male taekwondo practitioners Living people World Taekwondo Championships medalists Taekwondo practitioners at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic taekwondo practitioners of Italy 21st-century Italian people {{Italy-taekwondo-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simone Aldrovandi
Simone Aldrovandi (born 2 April 1994) is an Italian footballer who plays as a defender for Mantova. Club career Born in Carpi, Aldrovandi began his career on Modena's youth categories, and made his first-team debut on 23 November 2011, coming on as a second-half substitute in a 0–3 loss at Chievo, for the campaign's Coppa Italia. On 9 July 2013 he joined Serie A The Serie A (), also called Serie A TIM for national sponsorship with TIM, is a professional league competition for football clubs located at the top of the Italian football league system and the winner is awarded the Scudetto and the Coppa ... side Chievo. References External links * * 1994 births Living people Italian men's footballers Men's association football defenders Modena FC 2018 players AC ChievoVerona players Serie B players People from Carpi, Emilia-Romagna Footballers from Emilia-Romagna {{Italy-footy-defender-1990s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simone Alberghini
Simone Alberghini (born 16 April 1973) is an Italian operatic baritone, known especially for his interpretations of belcanto operas of Mozart and Rossini. Career Born in Bologna, Italy, Alberghini began singing pop music and jazz at a very young age. He then started studying operatic singing with tenor Oslavio di Credico at first, then with the pianist and conductor Leone Magiera and with the baritone Carlo Meliciani. In 1993 he made his debut as Lorenzo in Bellini's ''I Capuleti e i Montecchi'' at the Teatro Regio of Turin. In 1994 he won first prize at the international Operalia competition, organised by Plácido Domingo in Mexico City. Since then, he has sung in the most important theatres of the world, like La Scala in Milan, the Royal Opera House in London ( Dandini in Rossini's ''La Cenerentola'' and Athanael in Massenet's ''Thaïs'' with Renée Fleming), the Metropolitan Opera House in New York (Dandini), Teatro San Carlo in Naples, La Fenice in Venice, Liceu in Bar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simone Alaimo
Simone Alaimo (born 3 February 1950) is an Italian bass-baritone. He is particularly known for his performances of the ''bel canto'' repertoire. Life A native of Villabate, Alaimo studied at the Palermo Conservatory and then the L'Accademia di La Scala in Milan before making his début in 1977 at the Teatro Fraschini in Pavia as the title hero in Gaetano Donizetti's ''Don Pasquale''. Shortly thereafter he joined the roster of singers at the Teatro Massimo in his home city. In 1980 he made his first appearance at the Piccola Scala in a production of Carlo Evasio Soliva's ''La testa di bronzo'' and performed for the first time at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino as Radamanto in Giulio Caccini's '' Euridice''. That year also marked his debut at the Festival de Ópera de Las Palmas and the Teatro Carlo Felice, two places he has sung with some frequency. In 1982 he performed for the first time at the Teatro di San Carlo, the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, the Liceu, and the Rossini Opera ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simona Ventura
Simona Ventura (born 1 April 1965) is an Italian television presenter. Television career Ventura was born in Bentivoglio. She started in TV on "Domani Sposi" with Giancarlo Magalli on Rai Uno. Her love for sport took her into sports reporting: for the Italian Telemontecarlo she was the correspondent during the 1990 FIFA World Cup, UEFA Euro 1992 and the 1992 Summer Olympics. At RAI, Ventura appeared with Pippo Baudo on the Sunday afternoon programme "Domenica In" (1991) and then, in 1992, the sports programme "Domenica Sportiva". She has also been on "Pavarotti International". Ventura's career continued on Mediaset channels hosting variety shows like "Mai dire gol", "Cuori e Denari, "Boom", "Scherzi a parte" (a programme very similar to Punk'd), "Festivalbar", "Le Iene", "Matricole", Gli indelebili '99, "Cari amici miei", "Zelig - Noi facciamo cabaret", and "Piccole Canaglie". In all, she spent eight years at Mediaset. In 1996 Simona hosted the newcomers' section of the San ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simona Škrabec
Simona Škrabec (Ljubljana, Slovenia, 1968) is a Slovene literary critic, essayist and translator who lives and works in Barcelona. She spent her childhood in the small town of Ribnica in the region of Lower Carniola. She has lived in Barcelona since 1992. Skrabec has translated several books from Slovenian to Catalan and from Catalan to Slovenian. In addition to these two languages, she is fluent in Spanish, Serbo-Croatian, German, English and French. Life and career Simona Škrabec was born in Ljubljana, Slovenia. She has lived in Barcelona since 1992. At the University of Ljubljana, she received a BA in German philology and comparative literature. In 2002, she obtained a PhD in comparative literature at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB). She is a professor at Open University of Catalonia (UOC) in Barcelona. Her main interests are the European literature of 20th century and the relation of literature with the construction of historic memory and identity. In 2014, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simona Stašová
Simona Stašová (born 19 March 1955) is a Czech stage, film and television actress. Since making her theatre debut in 1976, she has acted on stage in theatres and appeared in numerous films and television productions. Stašová has won multiple awards for her acting, both inside her native Czech Republic and internationally. Career Stašová studied at the Faculty of Theatre in Prague. After graduating, she acted at the in České Budějovice in 1976. Between 1977 and 1991, she acted at in Prague. Stašová was nominated for an Elsa television award in 2004, for her role in the Česká televize production ''Místo nahoře''. At the 2007 Thalia Awards she won the category of Best Actress in a Play, for her performance of the role of ''Evy Meara'' in a production of Neil Simon's ''The Gingerbread Lady'' ( cs, Drobečky z perníku) at the Antonín Dvořák Theatre in Příbram. Stašová was named Actress of the Year at the 2014 TýTý Awards. At the 2014 Tiburon Film Festival, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simona Rinieri
Simona Rinieri (born 1 September 1977, in Ravenna) is an Italian volleyball player. She has played for Italy in the 2000 and 2004 Summer Olympics, and with Italy she won the gold medal at the 2002 World Championship, held Germany, and 2006 FIVB World Grand Prix The FIVB World Grand Prix 2006 was the fourteenth edition of the annual women's volleyball tournament, which is the female equivalent of the Men's Volleyball World League. Qualification Asia *The top four Asian teams according to the FIVB World .... Family In 2006, she married Cuban-Italian volleyball player Ángel Dennis. References ProfileLegaVolley profile External links * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Rinieri, Simona 1977 births Living people Sportspeople from Ravenna Italian women's volleyball players Volleyball players at the 2000 Summer Olympics Volleyball players at the 2004 Summer Olympics Olympic volleyball players of Italy Mediterranean Games medalists in volleyball Mediterranean Games gold med ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simona Richter
Simona Marcela Richter (born 27 March 1972 in Reșița, Caraș-Severin) is a retired female judoka from Romania. She claimed a bronze medal in the Women's Light-Heavyweight (78 kg) division at the 2000 Summer Olympics The 2000 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXVII Olympiad and also known as Sydney 2000 (Dharug: ''Gadigal 2000''), the Millennium Olympic Games or the Games of the New Millennium, was an international multi-sport event held from 1 ... in Sydney, Australia, together with Italy's Emanuela Pierantozzi. References External links * * 1972 births Living people Romanian female judoka Judoka at the 1992 Summer Olympics Judoka at the 1996 Summer Olympics Judoka at the 2000 Summer Olympics Olympic judoka for Romania Olympic bronze medalists for Romania Olympic medalists in judo Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics Universiade medalists in judo Universiade silver medalists for Romania Medalists at the 1999 Summer Universiade Sp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
