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Bella
Bella is a feminine given name. It is a diminutive form of names ending in -bella. ''Bella'' is related to the Italian, Spanish, Greek, Portuguese and Latin words for beautiful, and to the name Belle, meaning ''beautiful'' in French. It increased in usage following the publication of the ''Twilight'' books by Stephenie Meyer. It is also known for being a nickname to Isabella, Annabella or Arabella. Given name People * Bella Abzug (1920–1998), American politician and prominent figure in the women’s movement * Bella Agossou (born 1981), Beninese actress * Bella Akhmadulina (1937–2010), Soviet/Russian poet, writer, and translator * Bella Alarie (born 1998), American basketball player * Bella Alten (1877–1962), Polish operatic soprano * Bella Alubo (born 1993), Nigerian musician, singer, and songwriter * Bella Andre (fl. 2010), American author * Bella Angara (born 1939), Filipina politician and former governor of Aurora province * Bella Bayliss (born 1977), Scottish t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bella Ferraro
Bella Ferraro (born 20 Aug 1994) is an Australian singer most notable for and was the tenth contestant eliminated on the fourth season of '' The X Factor Australia'' in 2012. Early life Ferraro was born and raised in Sydney, Australia. She began singing as a child. At age five, she became a member of the Australian Girls Choir, which performed at the annual Carols in the Domain and during Oprah Winfrey's Australian tour. Ferraro left school in Year 12 to pursue a music career. Career 2012: ''The X Factor Australia'' Ferraro successfully auditioned for the fourth season of ''The X Factor'' in 2012, singing "Skinny Love", with a treatment based on the version by Birdy. She was inspired to audition for the show after seeing the success of One Direction on the UK version. During the super boot camp stage, Ferraro forgot the lyrics to the two songs she performed: Gotye's "Somebody That I Used to Know" and Crowded House's "Don't Dream It's Over". For the first live performance ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bella Andre
Bella Andre (born in New York) is an American author of more than 40 contemporary romance novels. As of 2019, Andre is the ''New York Times'', ''USA Today'', and ''Wall Street Journal'' bestselling author of ''The Sullivans™'' series and her books have sold over 8 million copies. She also writes as Lucy Kevin for the ''Four Weddings and a Fiasco'' series and the ''Married in Malibu'' series. Biography Bella Andre was born in Rochester, New York. When she was four years old, her family moved to Northern California. Her mother was an avid reader and her father an author of non-fiction books in the field of economics. She studied economics from Stanford University. After graduating from Stanford, Andre read ''The Artist's Way'' by Julia Cameron. While practicing the "morning pages ritual" described in the book, which encourages authors to begin their day by writing three pages, Andre began "having two characters speak to one another in my head." The dialogue, according to Andre, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bella Bixby
Annabella Madeleine Bixby (; born November 20, 1995) is an American professional Association football, soccer player who plays as a Goalkeeper (association football), goalkeeper for Portland Thorns FC of the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL). Early life and college career Bixby attended Rex Putnam High School in Milwaukie, Oregon. Bixby signed a letter of intent to play at Oregon State University on February 5, 2014. Bixby played youth soccer for Olympic Development Program teams in Oregon, and her club teams won Oregon Premier League State Cup championships in 2009, 2011, and 2012. These clubs included Lake Oswego Soccer Club for two years, three years with OSSA, and one year with Crossfire Oregon. Bixby also played for Putnam High School's varsity gridiron football team as a placekicker, completing 89 of 96 extra point attempts and two of three field goals, including a 40-yard game-tying field goal in the final seconds of a 2013 game. Her performances in 2013 and 2014 led ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bella Feldman
Bella Tabak Feldman (née Bella R. Tabak; 1930 – May 6, 2024) was an American sculptor. Her work addressed the themes of sexuality, war, and the persistent anxiety of the industrial age. Feldman was known for pioneering the use of glass with steel. Her work has affinities with Surrealism, Post-Minimalism, and the Feminist art movement, although she has no formal affiliation with these. She was a Professor Emeritus at the California College of the Arts. Feldman lived and worked in Oakland, California and in London, England. Early life and career Bella R. Tabak was born in 1930 in New York City, to a family of working-class Jewish immigrants from Poland. She grew up in the Bronx tenements. She attended The High School of Music & Art in Manhattan during World War II. Students were required to visit museums and galleries as part of the curriculum. When Feldman was thirteen, she visited her first art museum, the Museum of Modern Art. There, she saw Meret Oppenheim's ''Object' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bella Emberg
Bella Emberg (born Sybil Dyke; 16 September 1937 – 12 January 2018) was an English actress whose television career spanned 60 years. Early life and career Emberg was born on 16 September 1937 in Brighton, Sussex, and grew up wanting to be an entertainer. Her professional debut was in weekly Repertory theatre, repertory in Ryde, Isle of Wight, in the summer season of 1962, aged 25. She appeared in television series such as ''The Benny Hill Show'', ''Robin's Nest'', ''Softly, Softly (TV series), Softly, Softly'', ''Z Cars'', ''Dawson Watch'', ''Bear Behaving Badly'' and ''Grange Hill''. Her best-known role was in ''The Russ Abbot Show'', in which she played superheroine Blunderwoman alongside Abbot's Cooperman character. The show ran from 1980 to 1996, and at its peak attracted 18 million viewers. Emberg also starred in Mel Brooks' film ''History of the World, Part I'' (1981). She made a guest appearance in the first episode of the revived version of ''The Basil Brush Show'' i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bella Duffy
Bella Duffy (1849–1926), was an Irish translator and writer who spent most of her life in Italy. Biography Arabella Jane Duffy was born in Ireland in 1849. Duffy was known as Bella. She spent most of her life living in Florence, Italy. She met Vernon Lee Vernon Lee was the pseudonym of the French-born British writer Violet Paget (14 October 1856 – 13 February 1935). She is remembered today primarily for her supernatural fiction and her work on aesthetics. An early follower of Walter Pater, ... in 1878 and they became life long friends. Lee dedicated one of her books to her as did Eugene Lee-Hamilton. Although she wrote a fiction novel, Duffy was best known for her non fiction and translation work. She fought for the protection of Ancient buildings during her time in Italy. She died in London in 1926. Bibliography * ''Winifred Power'', (1883) * ''Madame de Staël'', (1887) * ''The Tuscan Republics'', (1892) * ''Mnemic psychology'', (1923) Translation References an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bella Dorita
María Yáñez García (stage name, Bella Dorita; Cuevas de Almanzora, Province of Almería, February 23, 1901 – Barcelona, June 27, 2001), was a Spanish cabaret singer, dancer, and vedette. Biography In 1913, she emigrated to Barcelona with her family (mother, grandfather, uncle and six siblings) due to the economic hardship caused by the closure of the lead and silver mines in her locale. In Barcelona, she worked in a toy factory and embroidery shop. At the age of sixteen, she eloped with her first husband. After a working as a hostess, she appeared in 1917 at a beauty pageant which started her on a career in show business, debuting in 1923. As one of the four most notable cupletistas of her era, she appeared in halls and theaters, such as Pompeya, Rigat, Novelty, Bataclán, Cómico, Español, Arnau, Victoria, Nuevo, and Apolo where she began to establish his career. In those years, she took singing lessons and voice as well as learning how to perform on the Catalan stage. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bella Dodd
Bella Dodd (née Visono; 1904 – 29 April 1969 ) was a teacher, lawyer, and labor union activist, member of the Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA) and New York City Teachers Union (TU) in the 1930s and 1940s ("one of Communism's most strident voices"). She became a vocal Anti-communism, anti-communist after she underwent a major conversion upon meeting Fulton J. Sheen, Roman Catholic Diocese of Rochester, Bishop of Rochester, New York. Background Bella Dodd was born Maria Assunta Isabella Visono in 1904 in Picerno, Basilicata region, Province of Potenza, Kingdom of Italy (1861–1946), Kingdom of Italy, the youngest of ten children. When her family came to the United States, they were very poor, and stopped going to Church. She attended public schools in the New York City area including Evander Childs High School. In 1921, after winning a state scholarship, she attended Hunter College, a public university. She worked summers and received an Bachelor of Arts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bella Disu
Belinda "Bella" Olubunmi Disu (née Adenuga, born May 29, 1986) is a Nigerian business executive. Early life and education Bella Disu was born to Emelia Adefolake Marquis and Mike Adenuga Jr., a business magnate who founded Globacom. Through her father, she is a granddaughter of the Nigerian aristocrat Princess Juliana Oyindamola Adenuga of Ijebu. She attended Corona School in Victoria Island and later enrolled at Queen's College. In 1998, she transferred to Vivian Fowler Memorial College for Girls. Disu holds a Bachelor of Arts in International Relations from the University of Massachusetts The University of Massachusetts is the Public university, public university system of the Massachusetts, Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The university system includes six campuses (Amherst, Boston, Dartmouth, University of Massachusetts Lowell ..., Boston, and a Master of Science in Leadership from Northeastern University, Boston. Career In 2004, Disu joined Globacom and is execu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bella Dayne
Bella Dayne (born Isabelle Knispel, 8 January 1988), is a German actress. Her credits include the television series ''Plebs'', ''Humans'' and the BBC/Netflix miniseries '' Troy: Fall of a City'', in which she portrayed Helen of Troy. In 2020 she was cast in the role of Red Spear in the Netflix original show '' Cursed''. Early life and career Dayne was born and raised in Berlin. In 2004, at the age of 16, she took part in the Miss East Germany contest.''Miss Ostdeutschland 2004: Die schönste Frau Ostdeutschlands kommt aus Berlin'' Mitteldeutsche Zeitung, 25 January 2004 In 2006, while still in school, she won the Miss ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bella Davidovich
Bella Mikhaylovna Davidovich (Бэлла Миха́йловна Давидо́вич; born July 16, 1928) is a Soviet and American pianist. Biography Davidovich was born in Baku, Azerbaijan SSR, into a Jewish family of musicians and began studying piano when she was six. Three years later, she was the soloist for a performance of Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 1. In 1939, she moved to Moscow to continue her musical education. At the age of 18 she entered the Moscow Conservatory where she studied with Konstantin Igumnov and Yakov Flier. In 1949, she shared the first prize with Halina Czerny-Stefańska at the IV International Chopin Piano Competition. This launched her on a career in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, in which she appeared with every major Russian conductor and performed as a soloistJean-Pierre Thiollet, ''88 notes pour piano solo'', "Solo nec plus ultra", Neva Editions, 2015, p.52. . with the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra for 28 consecutive seasons. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bella Darvi
Bella Darvi (born Bajla Węgier; 23 October 1928 – 11 September 1971) was a Polish film actress and stage performer who was active in France and the United States. Biography Early life Darvi was born Bajla Węgier to Jewish parents Chajm Węgier, a baker, and his wife, Chaja (née Zygelbaum) in Sosnowiec, Poland. She had three brothers, Robert, Jacques, and Jean-Isidore, and a sister, Sura. Darvi's family settled in France when she was one year old. When the Germans invaded France during World War II, Darvi's mother fled to southern France with her sister and two brothers. Darvi decided to stay in Paris for her education along with her brother Robert. Both were eventually jailed by the Vichy government due to their Polish background. She was fifteen years old. Robert died in a concentration camp. "I had the usual experiences of hunger and humiliation, and I try not to think of them and discuss them but I can never forget them," she later said. Darvi's mother secured her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
