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Singam (name)
Singam or Singham is both a surname and a given name that means "lion" in the Tamil language. Notable people with the name include: *Archibald W. Singham Archibald Wickeramaraja Singham, also known as Archie Singham or A. W. Singham (1932-1991) was a Sri Lankan political scientist and historian, professor of political science at Brooklyn College of City University of New York. He was an authority on ... (1932-1991), Sri Lankan political scientist and historian * Constance Singam (born 1936), Singaporean activist and writer * Neville Roy Singham (born 1954), American businessman * Singam Singh (born 1988), Indian footballer References {{Reflist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tamil Language
Tamil (; ' , ) is a Dravidian language natively spoken by the Tamil people of South Asia. Tamil is an official language of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, the sovereign nations of Sri Lanka and Singapore, and the Indian territory of Puducherry. Tamil is also spoken by significant minorities in the four other South Indian states of Kerala, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, and the Union Territory of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. It is also spoken by the Tamil diaspora found in many countries, including Malaysia, Myanmar, South Africa, United Kingdom, United States, Canada, Australia and Mauritius. Tamil is also natively spoken by Sri Lankan Moors. One of 22 scheduled languages in the Constitution of India, Tamil was the first to be classified as a classical language of India. Tamil is one of the longest-surviving classical languages of India.. "Tamil is one of the two longest-surviving classical languages in India" (p. 7). A. K. Ramanujan described it as "the on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Archibald W
Archibald is a masculine given name, composed of the Germanic elements '' erchan'' (with an original meaning of "genuine" or "precious") and '' bald'' meaning "bold". Medieval forms include Old High German and Anglo-Saxon . Erkanbald, bishop of Strasbourg (d. 991) was also rendered in Old French. There is also a secondary association of its first element with the Greek prefix '' archi-'' meaning "chief, master", to Norman England in the high medieval period. The form ''Archibald'' became particularly popular among Scottish nobility in the later medieval to early modern periods, whence usage as a surname is derived by the 18th century, found especially in Scotland and later Nova Scotia. Given name English diminutives or hypocorisms include ''Arch, Archy, Archie, and Baldie (nickname)''. Variants include French ''Archambault, Archaimbaud, Archenbaud, Archimbaud'', Italian ''Archimboldo, Arcimbaldo, Arcimboldo'', Portuguese '' Arquibaldo, Arquimbaldo'' and Spanish ''Archibal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Constance Singam
Constance Singam (born D'Cruz in 1936) is a Singaporean activist and writer. Singam's career as an activist started later in life, when she was widowed. She earned a degree and became active in women's rights group, AWARE, which she was president of for 3 separate terms. Singam was also involved in other groups in Singapore and later, wrote about her many experiences. Singam was inducted into the Singapore Women's Hall of Fame in 2015. Biography Singam was born in Singapore as Constance D'Cruz on 1936. At age five, she and her family went to visit family in Kerala but stayed until 1948 because of the Japanese occupation of Singapore. Singam married journalist, N.T.R. Singam, at age 24 and was widowed by 42. She became more independent after her husband died, getting a driver's license and earn an honours degree in literature. She went to Melbourne to study literature and returned to Singapore in 1984. Singam joined AWARE in 1986. Singam served as president of AWARE for three d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neville Roy Singham
Neville Roy Singham (born May 13, 1954) is an American businessman and social activist. He is the founder and former chairman of ThoughtWorks, an IT consulting company that provides custom software, software tools, and consulting services. Early life Singham's father was Archie Singham. In his youth, Singham was a member of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers, a Black nationalist–Maoist group, taking a job at a Chrysler plant in Detroit in 1972 as an activist in the group. He attended Howard University before starting a consulting firm for equipment-leasing companies from his Chicago home. Career Singham founded ThoughtWorks, a Chicago-based IT consulting company that provides custom software, software tools, and consulting services, in the late 1980s; it was incorporated in 1993. From 2001 to 2008, Singham was a strategic technical consultant for Huawei. By 2008, ThoughtWorks employed 1,000 people and was growing at the rate of 20–30% p.a., with bases around the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
