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Vickie Otis
Vicky, Vicko, Vick, Vickie or Vicki is a feminine given name, often a hypocorism of Victoria. The feminine name Vicky in Greece comes from the name Vasiliki. Women * Family nickname of Victoria, Princess Royal (1840–1901), wife of German Emperor Frederick III, mother of Emperor Wilhelm II and daughter of Queen Victoria of Great Britain * Vicki Adams (born 1989), Scottish curler * Vicki Adams (born 1951) Rodeo performer * Victoria Vicki Barr (athlete) (born 1982), British sprinter * Victoria Vicky Beeching (born 1979), British musician and religious commentator * Vicki Berner (1945–2017), Canadian tennis player * Victoria Vicky Binns (born 1981), English actress * Vicky Botwright (born 1977), English squash coach and former player * Vicki Brown (1940–1991), English singer born Victoria Haseman * Victoria Vicky Bullett (born 1967), American college head basketball coach and retired Women's National Basketball Association player * Vicki Butler-Henderson (born 1972 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hypocorism
A hypocorism ( or ; from Ancient Greek: (), from (), 'to call by pet names', sometimes also ''hypocoristic'') or pet name is a name used to show affection for a person. It may be a diminutive form of a person's name, such as ''Izzy'' for Isabel or ''Bob (given name), Bob'' for Robert, or it may be unrelated. In linguistics, the term can be used more specifically to refer to the morphological process by which the standard form of the word is transformed into a form denoting affection, or to words resulting from this process. In English, a word is often Clipping (morphology), clipped down to a closed monosyllable and then suffixed with ''-y/-ie'' (phonologically /i/). Sometimes the suffix ''-o'' is included as well as other forms or templates. Hypocoristics are often affective in meaning and are particularly common in Australian English, but can be used for various purposes in different semantic fields, including personal names, place names and nouns. Hypocorisms are usually ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vicky Entwistle
Victoria Entwistle (born 15 September 1968) is an English actress. She is known for portraying the role of Janice Battersby in the ITV soap opera ''Coronation Street''. Early life Entwistle grew up in Accrington; her father owned a newsagent's in Clayton-le-Moors.Vicky Entwistle biography Corrie.net (6 January 1997). Retrieved on 26 August 2011. She attended in Oswaldtwistle, and at the age of sixteen, she commuted to to study drama, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vicky Jenson
Victoria "Vicky" Jenson (born March 4, 1960) is an American film director of both live-action and animated films. Retrieved April 9, 2014. She has directed projects for DreamWorks Animation, including ''Shrek'', the first film to win an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature,Yoram Allon, Del Cullen, Hannah Patterson, ''Contemporary North American film directors: a Wallflower critical guide'' (2002), p. 2.ACME filmworks page on Vicky Jenson giving rise to one of Hollywood's largest film franchises.Michael Mallory, Firsts Among Equals , ''Animation Magazine'' (March 6, 2014). Career Biography and early ...
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Vicki Jensen
Vicki Jensen (born 1965) is a Minnesota politician and former member of the Minnesota Senate. A member of the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party, she represented District 24 in southeastern Minnesota. Education and early career Jensen attended South Central Technical College. She served on the Owatonna School Board. She and her husband own an independent insurance agency in Owatonna. Minnesota Senate Jensen was first elected to the Minnesota Senate in 2012. She lost re-election to Republican John Jasinski in 2016. Jensen sought the Democratic nomination for the U.S. House seat for Minnesota's 1st congressional district in the 2018 election, but later dropped out of the race. Personal life Jensen is married to Trevor. They have three children and reside in Owatonna, Minnesota Owatonna () is a city in Steele County, Minnesota, Steele County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 25,599 at the 2010 United States Census, 2010 census. It is the county seat of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vicky Hurst
Vicky Hurst (born June 19, 1990) is an American professional golfer currently playing on the LPGA Tour. She turned professional as a 17-year-old in 2008, while still in high school. Playing on the Futures Tour that year, she won five times and set a Tour record for single season earnings with $93,107. Childhood and family life Hurst was born to a golfing family. While pregnant with Vicky, her mother Koko, a native Korean, was completing a round of golf at Andrews AFB near Washington, D.C. when her water broke on the 16th hole. Although winning the round, Koko left to give birth to Vicky at the base's medical center. Her father, Joe, who met Koko while he was stationed in Korea in the 1980s, was a retired Air Force colonel. He died suddenly of a massive stroke in April 2006 while Vicky, age 15, was practicing for the LPGA Ginn Open to which she had received a sponsor exemption. Hurst withdrew from the tournament and said she would dedicate the rest of her career to her f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vicky Holland
Vicky Holland (born 12 January 1986) is a British triathlete who is part of the Great Britain and Northern Ireland Olympic team, a 2-time World Mixed Team Champion and the 2018 ITU WTS champion. She was born in Gloucester. She is the first female triathlete to win an Olympic medal for Great Britain, a bronze in 2016. In 2021, she competed in the women's event at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. Holland also competes in Super League Triathlon. Career , Holland is tall and weighs . She is coached by Darren Smith. While at school Holland was a nationally ranked swimmer before moving to athletics and taking up the 1,500 metres. She didn't begin competing in triathlon until her second year at Loughborough University when she was approached by British Triathlon. In the 2010 ITU Triathlon World Cup series Holland placed eighth overall, qualifying her for National Lottery funding as part of the World Class Performance scheme. At the 2011 ITU Triathlon World Cup event in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vicky Hadjivassiliou
Evridiki (Vicky) Hadjivassiliou ( el, Βίκυ Χατζηβασιλείου, born: 9 February 1964), also spelling as Hadjivasiliou or Hadjivasileiou, is a Greek author, television presenter and local politician who stood for PASOK in Thessaloniki, Greece. She was born on 10 February 1971 in Thessaloniki and was raised there with her brother, Phoebus by their father Vassilis and their mother Chryssoula. Hadjivassiliou wrote various books about healthy diet and tips for long-living as well as many articles for magazines of Athens and Thessaloniki. She currently presents the television show "Pame paketo" (The Package) on Alpha TV.(7 October 201Το πρώτο «Πακέτο» από τη Γιούτα και το «Βράδυ» Σάκης ''Ethnos (newspaper) Ethnos ( el, Έθνος, lit="The Nation") is the name of a Greek weekly newspaper first published in 1913. History The newspaper was first published in 1913 with a Venizelist political thesis. Always in the progressive poli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vicky Hartzler
Vicky Jo Hartzler (née Zellmer; born October 13, 1960) is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for since 2011. A member of the Republican Party, she served as the Missouri state representative for the 124th district from 1995 to 2000. Hartzler's district comprises a large swath of western-central Missouri, anchored in Columbia and stretching to the eastern and southern Kansas City suburbs, including a sliver of Kansas City. The district also includes Sedalia, Warrensburg, Moberly, and Lebanon. Hartzler was a candidate in the 2022 United States Senate election in Missouri, but lost the Republican primary to Eric S. Schmitt. Early life and education Hartzler was raised on a farm near Archie, a rural community south of Kansas City. She graduated from Archie High School and later attended the University of Missouri, where she graduated ''summa cum laude'' with a B.S. in education, and the University of Central Missouri, where she graduated with an M.S. i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vickie Guerrero
Vickie Lynn Benson (formerly Guerrero, née Lara;Guerrero, Eddie. ''Cheating Death, Stealing Life: The Eddie Guerrero Story'', p. 53. born April 16, 1968) is an American professional wrestling personality and manager. She is best known for her time in WWE, under the ring name Vickie Guerrero. She is currently signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW) as the manager of Nyla Rose. In wrestling, she has appeared as an on-screen authority figure, storyline lover to several WWE wrestlers, occasional professional wrestler in the WWE Divas division, and as a manager for numerous wrestlers. She was best known in her role as General Manager of SmackDown from 2007 to 2011, and of Raw from 2011 to 2013. Since leaving WWE in 2014, she has made sporadic appearances in the company. She is known for her villainous persona and igniting negative reactions from audiences with her catchphrase, "Excuse me!". She is the widow of professional wrestler Eddie Guerrero, which has been occasionally inc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vickie Gates (actress)
Vickie Gates is a British actress who made her television acting debut in '' Brookside'' at the age of 16. After her initial storylines from 1990–1993, she joined an all-girl pop band called Dream Reality and then appeared in the TV series '' Springhill'' before returning to ''Brookside'' in 1997 for four additional years. Her television career continued with roles in ''City Central'', '' Liverpool 1'' and ''The Bill''. She has supplemented her television work with appearances in the film ''The Last Straw'' and appearing in the '' Vagina Monologues''. Other TV appearances have included ''Abbamania 2'' and as the winner of Celebrity Stars in Their Eyes for ITV. In 2013, she played Pat in the BBC comedy-drama ''Being Eileen ''Being Eileen'' is a BBC comedy-drama which began as a new six-part series on 4 February, and ended on 11 March 2013. It began as a one-off Christmas special titled ''Lapland'', broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC One on 24 December 2011. A ...''. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ondrea Gates
Ondrea "Vickie" Victoria Gates (previously Ondrea Victoria Gates-Lewis born September 25, 1962) is a professional female bodybuilder from the United States. Early life and education Ondrea Victoria Gates was born on September 9, 1962 in San Antonio, Texas, and raised in Lawton, Oklahoma, one of six children (four sisters, one brother). She was the middle child. In 1980, she graduated from Eisenhower High School. From 1982-1984, she attended Oklahoma State University. Bodybuilding career Amateur Vickie competed in athletics and started lifting weights in college. In 1983, she competed in her first competition in Tulsa, Oklahoma, which she won. She worked her way up through the amateur ranks, eventually earning her pro card in 1993 by winning the middleweight class at the NPC Nationals. Professional Vickie's long string of high placings as a professional includes three consecutive Ms. International titles from 1999 to 2001. Those same years, she would also finish second at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vicky Galindo
Victoria Noel Galindo-Piatt (born December 22, 1983), commonly known as Vicky Galindo, is an American, former collegiate All-American, medal-winning Olympian, three-time professional All-Star, softball player and current head coach at West Valley College. An infielder at second and third, Galindo played college softball at West Valley and later for California in the Pac-12 Conference, helping them to back-to-back national runner-up finishes at the 2003 and 2004 Women's College World Series. She went undrafted but later played for the Chicago Bandits of National Pro Fastpitch (NPF) winning two championships. She also played for the United States women's national softball team, winning a silver medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics. Career Galindo played for the University of California, Berkeley Golden Bears from 2003–2005 and was an undergrad assistant in 2006. Galindo was on the US national team from 2005-2007. She was also the assistant coach for the San Jose State in 2007. B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
