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Sally (name)
Sally is an English language feminine given name. The name originated as a pet name for the Hebrew name Sarah (given name), Sarah, but has since become used independently. It is also a nickname for Salome (given name), Salome and Salimeh, which are especially popular in the Eurasian country Georgia (country), Georgia.Teresa Norman, ''A World of Baby Names'' (2003), page 309. The name peaked in popularity in the U.S. in 1939, when it was ranked 52nd in popularity. People *Sally Amaki, American singer based in Japan *Sally Armstrong (journalist) (born 1943), Canadian journalist, documentary filmmaker and human rights activist *Sally Barrington, British oncologist and medical researcher *Sally Anne Bowman (1987–2005), British murder victim *Sally Boyden (cyclist) (born 1967), British track and road racing cyclist *Sally Boyden (singer) (born 1966), Australian singer and actor *Sally Bretton, British actress *Sally Carr (born 1945), Scottish singer, lead singer of the 1970s pop gro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English Language
English is a West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family, with its earliest forms spoken by the inhabitants of early medieval England. It is named after the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the island of Great Britain. Existing on a dialect continuum with Scots, and then closest related to the Low Saxon and Frisian languages, English is genealogically West Germanic. However, its vocabulary is also distinctively influenced by dialects of France (about 29% of Modern English words) and Latin (also about 29%), plus some grammar and a small amount of core vocabulary influenced by Old Norse (a North Germanic language). Speakers of English are called Anglophones. The earliest forms of English, collectively known as Old English, evolved from a group of West Germanic (Ingvaeonic) dialects brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers in the 5th century and further mutated by Norse-speaking Viking settlers starting in the 8th and 9th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Middle Of The Road (band)
Middle of the Road are a Scottish pop group who have enjoyed success across Europe and Latin America since the 1970s. Before ABBA established themselves in the mid 70s, Middle of the Road were the sound of early europop with their distinctive harmonies and lead vocals from Sally Carr. Four of their singles sold over one million copies each, and received a gold disc: "Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep". "Sacramento", " Tweedle Dee, Tweedle Dum" and "Soley Soley". By early 1972 the group had sold over five million records. History Original lead singer Sally Carr, drummer Ken Andrew, guitarist Ian McCredie and his bassist brother Eric McCredie, founded the band on 1 April 1970 in Glasgow, Scotland. They had already played together under the name Part Four since 1967 and later in Latin American style under the name ''Las Caracas''. Under the name ''Las Caracas'' they won the UK TV talent show Opportunity Knocks. They moved to Italy in 1970 because they had not found success in the United K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sally Ann Howes
Sally Ann Howes (20 July 1930 – 19 December 2021) was an English actress and singer. Her career on screen, stage and television spanned six decades. She is best known for the role of Truly Scrumptious in the 1968 musical film ''Chitty Chitty Bang Bang''. In 1963, she was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Lead Actress in a Musical for her performance in ''Brigadoon''. Childhood and early film career Family Howes was born on 20 July 1930 in St John's Wood, London, the daughter of British comedian/actor/singer/variety star Bobby Howes (1895–1972) and actress/singer Patricia Malone (1899–1971). She was the granddaughter of Capt. J.A.E. Malone (died 1928), London theatrical director of musicals, and she had an older brother, Peter Howes, a professional musician and music professor. Her great-grandfather, Captain Joseph Malone, was awarded the Victoria Cross in 1854 at the Charge of the Light Brigade. Her uncle, Pat Malone, was an actor on stage, films, and television. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sally Hemings
Sarah "Sally" Hemings ( 1773 – 1835) was an enslaved woman with one-quarter African ancestry owned by president of the United States Thomas Jefferson, one of many he inherited from his father-in-law, John Wayles. Hemings's mother Elizabeth (Betty) was bi-racial, the child of Susannah, an African woman and Captain John Hemings. Sally's father was John Wayles who was the father of Jefferson's wife Martha. Therefore, she was half-sister to Jefferson's wife and approximately three quarters white. Martha Wayles Jefferson died in 1782 when Sally was about 9 years old. Hemings reportedly (according to Abigail Adams letters) had a strong resemblance to Martha Jefferson and a certain naivete or childishness evidenced when she visited the Adamses in London before going on to France to bring Jefferson's daughter to him. At the time Hemings would have been approximately fourteen years old, although Adams believed she was 15 or 16. During the 26 months Sally Hemings lived with Jeffers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sally Hawkins
Sally Cecilia Hawkins (born 27 April 1976) is an English actress who began her career on stage and then moved into film. She has received several awards including a Golden Globe Award and the Berlin International Film Festival's Silver Bear for Best Actress, with nominations for a Critics' Choice Movie Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, two Academy Awards, and two British Academy Film Awards. After graduating from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, she started her career as a stage actress in productions such as ''Romeo and Juliet'' (playing Juliet), ''Much Ado About Nothing'', and ''A Midsummer Night's Dream''. Her first major role was in Mike Leigh's '' All or Nothing'' in 2002. She continued working with Leigh, appearing in a supporting role in ''Vera Drake'' (2004) and taking the lead in '' Happy-Go-Lucky'' (2008), for which she won several awards, including the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy and the Silver Bear for Best Act ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sally Gunnell
Sally Jane Janet Gunnell (born 29 July 1966) is a British former track and field athlete, active between 1984 and 1997, who won the 1992 Olympic gold medal in the 400 metres hurdles. During a golden 24-month period between 1992 and 1994, Gunnell won every international event open to her, claiming Olympic Games, World Championship, European Championship, Commonwealth Games, Goodwill Games, IAAF World Cup and European Cup golds in the event, and breaking the British, European and World records in it. She is the only female British athlete to have won all four 'majors'; Olympic, World, European and Commonwealth titles, and was the first female 400 metres hurdler in history to win the Olympic and World titles and break the world record. Her former world record time of 52.74 secs in 1993, still ranks in the world all-time top ten (as of 2022) and is the current British record. She was named World and European Female Athlete of the Year in 1993, and was made an MBE in 1993 and an O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sally Field
Sally Margaret Field (born November 6, 1946) is an American actress. She has received many awards and nominations, including two Academy Awards, three Primetime Emmy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress, and nominations for a Tony Award and for two British Academy Film Awards. Field began her career on television, starring in the comedies ''Gidget'' (1965–1966), ''The Flying Nun'' (1967–1970), and ''The Girl with Something Extra'' (1973–1974). In 1967, she was also in the western ''The Way West''. In 1976, she attracted critical acclaim for her performance in the television film '' Sybil'', for which she received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie. Her film debut was as an extra in ''Moon Pilot'' (1962). Her film career escalated during the 1970s with starring roles in films including ''Stay Hungry'' (1976), ''Smokey and the Bandit'' (1977), ''Heroes'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sally Dynevor
Sally Jane Dynevor (née Whittaker; born 30 May 1963) is a British actress, she is best known for her role as Sally Metcalfe Sally Metcalfe (also Seddon and Webster) is a fictional character from the British ITV soap opera ''Coronation Street'', portrayed by Sally Dynevor. The character first appeared on-screen during the episode airing on 27 January 1986, when Kevi ... in the ITV (TV channel), ITV soap opera ''Coronation Street'', which she has played since 1986. In 2022, Dynevor competed in the Dancing on Ice (series 14), fourteenth series of ''Dancing on Ice''. Early life Dynevor was born in Middleton, Greater Manchester, Middleton, Greater Manchester, to Robert and Jennifer Whittaker. Career Dynevor trained at Oldham Repertory Theatre and then the Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts. In 1985 she appeared in an episode of the television series ''Juliet Bravo'', playing Wendy Cunningham, a troubled schoolgirl who becomes a heroin addict. She has made a career out of play ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sally Ward Lawrence Hunt Armstrong Downs
Sally Ward Lawrence Hunt Armstrong Downs, also known as Sallie Ward, (September 29, 1827July 8, 1896) was a "Southern belle." Born into the Southern aristocracy of Kentucky in the Antebellum South, she married four times. After a failed marriage into the Boston Brahmin elite, she married three more times and became a socialite in New Orleans and Louisville, Kentucky. She was one of the first women in the United States to wear cosmetics, and she wore daring outfits. She embodied "an old Kentucky way of life." Early life Sally Ward was born on September 29, 1827 in Scott County, Kentucky. Her father, Col. Robert Johnson Ward, was a planter and lawyer who served as the Speaker of the Assembly of Kentucky. Her mother, Emily Flournoy, was a native of Georgetown, Kentucky. Her paternal grandfather, William Ward, married Sally Johnson, a sister of Vice President Richard Mentor Johnson. Her paternal uncle, Junius Richard Ward, resided at Ward Hall in Georgetown, Kentucky, as well as the Ju ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sally Douglas
Sally Douglas (30 November 1941 – 1 September 2001) was a British supporting actress of the 1960s and 1970s. She died in September 2001 at the age of 59 from cancer. She appeared in many notable films and television series. Comedy film credits include six of the ''Carry On'' series and Tony Hancock's satire '' The Rebel''. She appeared, too, in Michael Reeves' ''Witchfinder General'', voted in 2005 the fifteenth greatest horror film of all time. TV credits include ''Danger Man'', ''Dad's Army'' (1969), ''On the Buses'' (1969–1970) and as Marlene, an erotic dancer in the third episode of the second series of ''Doctor in the House'': ''Take Your Clothes Off and Hide.'' In 1969, Douglas was cast in ''On the Buses'' as the bus clippie Susie. Douglas was the cousin of the television personality Stephanie Turner. Selected filmography * ''Doctor in Love'' (1960) — Dancer in Strip Show (uncredited) * ''Sands of the Desert'' (1960) — Harem Girl (uncredited) * ''The Pure Hell o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sally Deweese
Sally may refer to: People *Sally (name), a list of notable people with the name Military *Sally (military), an attack by the defenders of a town or fortress under siege against a besieging force; see sally port *Sally, the Allied reporting name for the Imperial Japanese Army's World War II Mitsubishi Ki-21 bomber Writings *''Sally'', a detective novel by E.V. Cunningham (aka Howard Fast) * "Sally" (short story), by Isaac Asimov *"Sally", a poem by Patti Smith from her book '' Seventh Heaven'' Music * Sally (band), an indie-rock band from Chicago, Illinois * "Sally" (Gogol Bordello song), 2005 * "Sally" (Gracie Fields song), first performed in the film ''Sally in Our Alley'', 1931 * "Sally" (Hardwell song), 2015 * "Sally" (Kerbdog song), 1996 * "Sally", a song by Anthony Phillips from ''Invisible Men'', 1983 * "Sally", a song by Carmel, 1986 * "Sally", a song by Foxboro Hot Tubs from ''Stop Drop and Roll!!!'', 2008 * "Sally", a song by Grand Funk Railroad from ''Born to Di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sally Davies (doctor)
Dame Sally Claire Davies (born 24 November 1949) is a British physician and academic administrator who was the Chief Medical Officer (United Kingdom) from 2010 to 2019 and Chief Scientific Adviser at the Department of Health from 2004 to 2016 and worked as a clinician specialising in the treatment of diseases of the blood and bone marrow. She was appointed Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, on 8 February 2019, effective from 8 October 2019. She is one of the founders of the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR). Early life and education Davies was born on 24 November 1949 in Birmingham, England. Her father John Gordon Davies was an Anglican priest and theologian, and her mother Emily Mary Tordoff was a scientist: they both became academics at the University of Birmingham. She failed her eleven-plus exam but was nevertheless able to study at the private Edgbaston High School for Girls in Birmingham, where she excelled on the viola. Davies studied medicine a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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