Zina (given Name)
Zina is a given name. Notable people with the name include: * Zina Andrianarivelo-Razafy (born 1951), Madagascan diplomat *Zina Bethune (1945–2012), American actress, dancer and choreographer * Zina D. H. Young (1821–1901), American social activist and religious leader *Zina Garrison (born 1963), American tennis player *Zina Goldrich (born 1964), musical theater composer * Zina Kocher (born 1982), Canadian biathlete *Zina Pitcher (1797–1872), American physician, politician and academic administrator * Zina Saunders (born 1953), Manhattan-based artist-writer See also *Zena (given name) Zena is a feminine given name. Notable people with the name include: *Zena Cardman (born 1987) American marine biologist and a NASA astronaut candidate * Zena Dare (1887–1975), English singer and actress *Zena Edwards (born 1960s), British perf ...

Zina Andrianarivelo-Razafy
The Malagasy ambassador in Washington, D. C. is the official representative of the Government in Antananarivo to the Government of the United States. List of representatives '' Chief of Protocol''/ref> See also * Embassy of Madagascar in Washington, D.C. References {{reflist United States Madagascar Madagascar (; mg, Madagasikara, ), officially the Republic of Madagascar ( mg, Repoblikan'i Madagasikara, links=no, ; french: République de Madagascar), is an island country in the Indian Ocean, approximately off the coast of East Africa ...

Zina Bethune
Zina Bianca Bethune (February 17, 1945 – February 12, 2012) was an American actress, dancer, and choreographer. Early years Bethune was born on Staten Island, the daughter of Ivy ( Vigder), a Russian-born (Sevastopol, present-day Ukraine) actress who started in the '' Superman'' radio series, and later became known for playing "Miss Tuttle" on ''Father Murphy'' and "Abigail" on '' General Hospital''. Zina's father, William Charles Bethune, was a sculptor and painter who died in 1950 when Zina was five years old. Career Theater and dance Bethune began her formal ballet training aged six at George Balanchine's School of American Ballet. By age 14 she was dancing with the New York City Ballet as Clara in the original 1954 Balanchine production of ''The Nutcracker''. Bethune's first professional acting role was at age six, with a small part in the off-Broadway play ''Monday's Heroes'', produced by Stella Holt at the Greenwich Mews Theater. Television As a child performer ...
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Zina D
''Zināʾ'' () or ''zinā'' ( or ) is an Islamic legal term referring to unlawful sexual intercourse. According to traditional jurisprudence, ''zina'' can include adultery, fornication, prostitution, rape, sodomy, incest, and bestiality. ''Zina'' must be proved by testimony of four Muslim eyewitnesses to the actual act of penetration, or a confession repeated four times and not retracted later. The offenders must have acted of their own free will. Rapists could be prosecuted under different legal categories which used normal evidentiary rules.A. Quraishi (1999), Her honour: an Islamic critique of the rape provisions in Pakistan's ordinance on ''zina'', ''Islamic studies'', Vol. 38, No. 3, pp. 403–431 Making an accusation of ''zina'' without presenting the required eyewitnesses is called ''qadhf'' (), which is itself a ''hudud'' offense. There are very few recorded examples of the stoning penalty for ''zinā'' being implemented legally. Prior to legal reforms introduced ...
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Zina Garrison
Zina Lynna Garrison (born November 16, 1963) is an American former professional tennis player. Garrison was the runner-up in singles at the 1990 Wimbledon Championships, a three-time major mixed doubles champion, and an Olympic gold and bronze medalist from the women's doubles and singles events, respectively, at the 1988 Seoul Olympics. Garrison reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 4 on 20 November 1989. Career The youngest of seven children, Garrison started playing tennis at the age of 10 and entered her first tournament at the age of 12. At 14, she won the national girls' 18s title. In 1981, she won both the Wimbledon and US Open junior titles and was ranked the world No. 1 junior player. Garrison graduated from Sterling High School in Houston, Texas in 1982.ESPN Cla ...
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Zina Goldrich
Zina Goldrich (born 1964) is an American composer known for her work in musical theatre in collaboration with the lyricist Marcy Heisler. Her best-known works as composer include " Ever After The Musical", " Taylor The Latte Boy" and "Alto's Lament". Background Zina Goldrich was born in New York in 1964, at the age of 13 she moved to Los Angeles with her family. Her father was a trumpet player and he used to play with The Mel Lewis/Thad Jones Jazz Orchestra, one of the most important jazz Big Bands in New York and probably in the world, in the Seventies. Education Zina Goldrich studied privately for most of her life. She started studying music at the age of three and piano at five. In fifth grade (age 10/11) she started writing songs for her school band. She studied at the Beverly Hills High School, which had a very good Drama department. After high school, she studied at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). She then studied musical theatre in New York at the "B ...
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Zina Kocher
Zina Kocher (born December 5, 1982, in Red Deer, Alberta) is a Canadian cross-country skier and former biathlete. She competed for Team Canada in biathlon at the 2006, 2010, 2014 Winter Olympics and in 12 editions of the Biathlon World Championships. Career Kocher started out competing as a cross-country skier, and was introduced to the sport of biathlon at the 1998 Alberta Winter Games. After graduating from high school in 2000, she moved to Canmore to train full-time. She subsequently was selected to compete for Canada at the 2001 Junior World Championships, before embarking on her first full-time Biathlon World Cup campaign in the 2003-04 season, during which she took five top 30 finishes. In the opening race of the 2006-07 season, a 15 km individual competition in Östersund, Sweden, Kocher finished third, becoming the first Canadian biathlete to make the podium in a top-level international event since Myriam Bédard ten years earlier. After a two-year period where s ...
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Zina Pitcher
Zina Pitcher (April 12, 1797, in Sandy Hill, New York – April 5, 1872, in Detroit) was an American physician, politician, educator, and academic administrator. He was a president of the American Medical Association, a two-time mayor of Detroit and a member of the Board of Regents of the University of Michigan. Biography Early life Pitcher was born in Sandy Hill, New York, on April 12, 1797. He was the son of Nathaniel Pitcher Sr., who died in Sandy Hill in 1802, and Margaret Stevenson, who died in Kingsbury, in 1819. He was the younger half-brother of Nathaniel Pitcher, a future Governor of New York. (In his 1836 will, Nathaniel mentioned an Osage orange walking stick given to him by Zina.) Another of Zina's brothers was James Pitcher, who became the first mayor of the city of Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1835. Zina attended Middlebury College in Vermont and graduated in medicine in 1822. Career Pitcher joined the Army in 1822 as an assistant surgeon, and was promoted to the r ...
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Zina Saunders
Zina Saunders (born August 30, 1953) is a Manhattan-based artist, writer, animator and educator. Her book ''Overlooked New York'', a collection of interviews, profiles and portraits, was published in 2009. Life and work A native New Yorker, Zina Saunders is the daughter of illustrator Norman Saunders.Kasey Burke (February 14, 2014"Illustrator Zina Saunders to talk at WCSU" ''News Times'' (Danbury, CT). Retrieved 2014-03-30. She attended High School of Music and Art and Cooper Union (dropping out a short way into the course) but also learned much about painting and commercial art from her father. She has illustrated for a variety of publishers (Simon & Schuster, Random House, Scholastic Books, Oxford University Press), while contributing to magazines, including ''The Wall Street Journal'', '' The New York Times Sunday Book Review'', ''Time Out New York'' and ''Outré''. Her book ''Overlooked New York'' (2009) is a collection of interviews, profiles and portraits of diverse New York ...
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