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Signe
Signe or Signy is a feminine given name used in the Nordic and Baltic countries, derived from Old Norse ''sigr'' (victory) and ''nýr'' (new), which may refer to: *Signe (Finnish princess), a legendary Finnish princess *Signy, two heroines in Norse mythology and two lesser-known characters in Norse sagas *Signy Aarna (born 1990), Estonian footballer *Signe Amundsen (1899–1987), Norwegian operatic soprano *Signe Asmussen (born 1970), Danish singer *Signe Baumane (born 1964), Latvian animator, fine artist, illustrator and writer *Signe Bergman (1869–1960), Swedish suffragette * Signe Brander (1869–1942), Finnish photographer *Signe Bro (born 1999), Danish swimmer *Signe Brunnström (1898–1988), Swedish-American physiotherapist, scientist and educator *Signe Bruun (born 1998), Danish footballer *Signy Coleman (born 1960), American actress * Signy Stefansson Eaton (1913–1992), Canadian socialite, art collector and philanthropist * Signy Fardal (born 1961), Norwegian editor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Signe Bruun
Signe Kallesøe Bruun (born 6 April 1998) is a Danish professional footballer who plays as a striker for French Division 1 Féminine club Lyon and the Denmark national team. Club career Bruun joined Fortuna Hjørring from IK Skovbakken in 2014. She made her Fortuna debut on 16 August 2014 and scored twice in a 5–1 Elitedivisionen win over Vejle. On 8 November 2014, Bruun made her UEFA Women's Champions League debut as a 74th minute substitute for Nadia Nadim in a 2–1 round of 16 defeat to Swedish team FC Rosengård. In 2016, Bruun won the 2015–16 Elitedivisionen and Danish Women's Cup double with Fortuna. On 31 August 2018, Fortuna confirmed the transfer of Bruun to French D1 Féminine club Paris Saint-Germain. In her debut season, Bruun made 17 appearances in all competitions, scoring four goals. In June 2019, Bruun suffered an ACL injury that kept her out for a year. She made her competitive comeback in the delayed Coupe de France semi-final on 2 August 2020, scoring ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Signe Baumane
Signe Baumane (born 7 August 1964) is a Latvian animator, fine artist, illustrator and writer, currently living and working in New York City. She is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, she was a 2005 Fellow in Film of the New York Foundation for the Arts. She is also a teacher, having taught animation at the Pratt Institute from 2000 to 2002. Early life and education Signe Baumane was born in Auce, Latvia, and grew up in Tukums, Latvia and Sakhalin Island. She was married to Yuriy Gavrilenko, an artist and impresario, and Lasse Persson, a Swedish animator. She began writing for publication at the age of 14. She attended Moscow University and graduated in 1989 with a BA in Philosophy. Career She began working as an animator in 1989, taking a position as animator at Dauka Animation Studio. Over the next several years, local television aired several animated commercials that Baumane had designed and directed. In 1991 she produced her first animated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Signe Hasso
Signe Eleonora Cecilia Hasso (''née'' Larsson; 15 August 1915 – 7 June 2002) was a Swedish actress, writer, and composer. Biography Hasso was born in the Kungsholmen parish of Stockholm, Sweden in 1915. Her father and grandfather died when she was four, and her mother, grandmother, two siblings, and she shared a single room. Her mother, a former aspiring actress herself, worked as a waffle cook. Her acting career began by accident. When a young actress fell ill, her mother was asked if she knew of any little girl who could act. Signe Hasso later recalled, "I was 12 then and didn't want to go and neither did my sister, so my mother flipped a coin. I lost." Her audition for a Molière play was successful, and she started earning money as an actress. She performed in Royal Dramatic Theatre productions, beginning in 1927 at the age of 12, and enrolled as the youngest acting student in its history at the age of 16. She performed on stage and in film in Sweden. In 1933, Signe Larr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Signe Asmussen
Signe Asmussen Manuitt (born 1970) is a Danish mezzosoprano singer who has performed widely, not only in classical concerts, chamber music and opera but also in Latin jazz and as a member of The Tolkien Ensemble. Since 2001, she has made a mark as one of Denmark's most impressive female singers. In addition to appearances in Denmark, she has given recitals in London's Wigmore Hall and Amsterdam's Concertgebouw. Asmussen recently starred as Hanna Glawari in Operette Kompagniet's production of ''The Merry Widow''. She is married to the Cuban Salsa singer Ernesto Manuitt. Biography Born in 1970 in Copenhagen, Signe Asmussen was brought up in a musical family, learning to sing and play the violin from an early age. She studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Music under Bodil Øland and Keld Thaarup, graduating as a soloist in 2001. From the start, she received encouraging support from the critics as she branched out into virtually all genres. She became particularly fond of singing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Signe Johansson-Engdahl
Signe Dagmar Charlotta Johansson-Engdahl (27 May 1905 – 9 May 2010) was a Swedish diver. She competed at the 1924 Summer Olympics in the 3 m springboard and placed fifth. From the death of Erna Sondheim on 9 January 2008 until her own death, she was believed to be the oldest living person to have competed in the Olympic games. She was married to the Olympic runner Nils Engdahl, and her sister-in-law Märta Johansson Märta Ester Lovisa Johansson (later ''Engdahl'', 24 January 1907 – 6 January 1998) was a Swedish Swedish or ' may refer to: Anything from or related to Sweden, a country in Northern Europe. Or, specifically: * Swedish language, a North Germ ... was also an Olympic diver. References 1905 births 2010 deaths Olympic divers of Sweden Swedish centenarians Swedish female divers Divers at the 1924 Summer Olympics Divers from Stockholm Stockholms KK divers Women centenarians 20th-century Swedish women 21st-century Swedish women {{Sweden-acrobat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Signe Førre
Signe Elisabeth Lygre Førre (born 3 May 1994 in Voss, Norway) is a Norwegian singer, upright bassist, and composer. Førre studies jazz at Voss Jazzskule. Her debut concert as band leader was at Vossajazz 2014 with Signe Førre Band. The lineup in addition to Førre, was saxophonist Elisabeth Lid Trøen, pianist Eivind Austad, and drummer Håkon Mjåset Johansen. In 2015 she played with the band Peace, Love and Swing, at Vossajazz, showing herself as composer. At the 2018 Vossajazz Førre appeared with her own trio playing a mixture of standards, her own compositions, and old folk tunes. The trio comprised additional pianist Erlend Slettevoll and drummer Håkon Mjåset Johansen. Honors * 2014: Awarded the UNGjaJAZZja by Vossajazz Vossajazz or Vossa Jazz (established 19 December 1973) is an international jazz festival in Voss, Norway, which takes place annually during the week before Easter, and which also includes concerts throughout the year. The festival has been led by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Signe Bergman
''Signe'' Wilhelmina Ulrika Bergman (10 April 1869 – 1960) was a Swedish feminist. She was the chairperson of the National Association for Women's Suffrage (LKPR) which was then called The Swedish Society for Woman Suffrage in English (see photo to the right here) from 1914 to 1917 and the Swedish delegate to International Woman Suffrage Alliance from 1909 to 1920. She was the organiser of the congress of the Sixth Conference of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance in 1911 and the editor of the paper of the LKPR, '' Rösträtt för kvinnor'' (Women's suffrage). Biography Signe Bergman was born a member of a family of officials in Stockholm and was given a high but informal education. She spent some years in Great Britain, where she worked in the institute of her cousin Martina Bergman-Österberg, as well as an assistant to a researcher at the British Museum before she returned to Sweden, where she worked as a clerk at the Sveriges allmänna hypoteksbank. Bergman lived al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Signe Hammarsten-Jansson
Signe "Ham" Hammarsten-Jansson (née Hammarsten, 1 June 1882 Hannäs, – 6 July 1970) was a Swedish-Finnish graphic artist who designed, among other things, around 220 Postage stamps and postal history of Finland, Finnish postage stamps during the course of three decades.''Suomen postimerkkitaiteilijat''. Vaarnas, Kalle. Mitä-Missä-Milloin vuosikirja 1974. 1974. She was the mother of Tove Jansson, creator of the ''Moomin'' characters. Biography Signe Hammarsten came from a respectable Swedish clerical family and was the child of a pastor's daughter and a court chaplain. Hammarsten's parents were opposed to her becoming an artist, and as a girl she had considered a career as a surgeon. Hammarsten went through 8 years of primary school, and then studied at Stockholm University between 1901 and 1905. She began to work as a drawing teacher at a Stockholm girls' school. It was during a study trip to Paris in 1910 that Hammarsten met and fell in love with the 24-year-old Finnish scul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Signe Hornborg
Signe Ida Katarina Hornborg (8 November 1862, Turku – 6 December 1916, Helsinki) was a Finnish architect. Upon her reception of her architectural diploma in 1890, she became the first official female architect in the world. Biography A bishop's daughter, she attended the Helsinki Polytechnic Institute from the spring of 1888. Hornborg graduated as an architect in 1890 by special permission, as female students were not admitted to the school. After first embarking on active collaboration with Elia Heikel, she joined the agency of Lars Sonck Lars Eliel Sonck (10 August 1870 – 14 March 1956) was a Finnish architect. He graduated from Helsinki Polytechnic Institute in 1894 and immediately won a major design competition for a church in Turku, St Michael's Church, ahead of many esta .... One of her most notable works is the ''Signelinna'' (also known as ''Nerwanderin talo'' or Nerwander House) in Pori (1892). She also designed the outside of the Sepänkatu Apartment Buil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nordic Countries
The Nordic countries (also known as the Nordics or ''Norden''; literal translation, lit. 'the North') are a geographical and cultural region in Northern Europe and the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic. It includes the sovereign states of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden; the autonomous administrative division, autonomous territories of the Faroe Islands and Greenland; and the autonomous region of Åland. The Nordic countries have much in common in their way of life, History of Scandinavia, history, religion and Nordic model, social structure. They have a long history of political unions and other close relations but do not form a singular entity today. The Scandinavism, Scandinavist movement sought to unite Denmark, Norway and Sweden into one country in the 19th century. With the dissolution of the union between Norway and Sweden (Norwegian independence), the independence of Finland in the early 20th century and the 1944 Icelandic constitutional referendum, this move ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Signy Aarna
Signy Aarna (born 4 October 1990) is an Estonian footballer who plays as a forward for Finnish club Åland United and for the Estonia national team. She previously played for Finnish club Pallokissat and FC Lootos of the Estonian Naiste Meistriliiga. Club career From Ahja, Põlva County, Aarna started training with the youth team of FC Lootos as a goalkeeper in 2003. In 2005, 2007 and 2008 she won Estonian youth titles with the club's different age groups. FC Lootos In 2008, she started in FC Lootos' senior squad in the Esiliiga, the second level of women's football in Estonia. FC Lootos won the league and Aarna was the top scorer with 48 goals. From 2009 she played for FC Lootos in the top level Naiste Meistriliiga. She remains the club's most capped player with 121 games in all competitions and 166 goals in Estonian league and cup games. Pallokissat Despite offers from other Meistriliiga clubs, Aarna opted to stay with her hometown club until leaving the country. After ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Signe Häggman
Signe Amalia Häggman (29 April 1863, Jyväskylä -26 June 1911, Helsinki), was a Finnish pedagogue. She is regarded as a pioneer within the physical education of disabled people in Finland.kansallisbiografia Suomen kansallisbiografia (National Biography of Finland) Life Häggman was educated at Jyväskylä seminary and worked as a teacher in Uleåborg and Lapua Lapua (; sv, Lappo) is a town and municipality of Finland. It is located next to the Lapua River in the region of South Ostrobothnia. The town has a population of () and covers an area of of which is water. The population density is . The mun .... In 1889, she was given a scholarship from the state to study the physical education of disabled people in Copenhagen. On her return to Finland, she was appointed as the first manager and educator of the newly founded professional school for disabled people in Helsinki, and served in the position from 1890 until 1911. During the period, she was in effect responsible for the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
