Fiona
Fiona is a feminine given name of Gaelic origins. It means white or fair, while the Irish name ''Fíona'' means 'of wine', being the genitive of 'wine'. It was coined by Scottish writer James Macpherson. Initially, the name was confined to Scotland but later it gained popularity in other countries, such as Liechtenstein, Switzerland, Australia, Germany and Canada. Etymology Fiona originates from the Gaelic word ,. meaning white or fair, being a Romantic Era Latinised form; or an Anglicisation of the Irish name ''Fíona'' (Scotland ''Fìona'') meaning 'of wine', being the genitive of (Scotland ) 'wine', from which is also derived the terms (Irish) , (Irish, Scottish) ( 'tree'), and (Scottish) ( 'tree, bush') 'grape-vine'. An alternative suggested by Hanks (2006) is that ''Fíona'' means ''vine''; this meaning appears in no Irish or Gaelic dictionary, except in the compounds and In ninth-century Welsh and Breton language ''Fion'' (today: ''ffion'') referred to the fox ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Fiona Apple
Fiona Apple McAfee-Maggart (born September 13, 1977) is an American singer-songwriter. She released five albums from 1996 to 2020, all of which reached the top 20 on the U.S. Billboard 200, ''Billboard'' 200 chart. As of 2021, she has sold over 15 million records worldwide. Apple has received numerous List of awards and nominations received by Fiona Apple, accolades, including three Grammy Awards, two MTV Video Music Awards, and a Billboard (magazine), ''Billboard'' Music Video Award. The youngest daughter of the actor Brandon Maggart, Apple was born in New York City and was raised alternating between her mother's home in New York and her father's in Los Angeles. She studied piano as a child and began writing songs when she was eight years old. Her debut album, ''Tidal (album), Tidal'' (1996), comprises songs written during her teens, and won Grammy Award for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance, Best Female Rock Performance at the 39th Annual Grammy Awards for its single "Crimina ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Fiona Bruce
Fiona Elizabeth Bruce (born 25 April 1964) is a British journalist, newsreader and television presenter. She joined the BBC as a researcher for their current affairs programme ''Panorama'' in 1989, and became the first female newsreader on '' BBC News at Ten'', as well as presenting many other flagship programmes for the corporation, including ''BBC News at Six'', ''Crimewatch'', '' Real Story'', ''Antiques Roadshow'' and ''Fake or Fortune?'' Since 10 January 2019, she has been the presenter of the BBC One television programme '' Question Time''. Early life and education Fiona Elizabeth Bruce was born on 25 April 1964 in what was then the State of Singapore, Malaysia. She had an English mother and a Scottish father, who had a long career at Unilever, becoming a regional managing director. Before that, the Bruce family had lived for several generations in the fishing village of Hopeman in Moray in the north-east of Scotland. Bruce has two elder brothers. She lived on the W ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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William Sharp (writer)
William Sharp (12 September 1855 – 12 December 1905) was a Scottish writer, of poetry and literary biography in particular, who from 1893 wrote also as Fiona Macleod, a pseudonym kept almost secret during his lifetime. He was also an editor of the poetry of Ossian, Walter Scott, Matthew Arnold, Algernon Charles Swinburne and Eugene Lee-Hamilton. Early life Sharp was born in Paisley and educated at Glasgow Academy and the University of Glasgow, which he attended 1871–1872 without completing a degree. In 1872 he contracted typhoid. During 1874–5 he worked in a Glasgow law office. His health broke down in 1876 and he was sent on a voyage to Australia. In 1878 he took a position in a bank in London. Career He was introduced to Dante Gabriel Rossetti by Sir Noel Paton, and joined the Rossetti literary group; which included Hall Caine, Philip Bourke Marston and Swinburne. He married his cousin Elizabeth Sharp in 1884, and devoted himself to writing full-time from 1891, t ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Fiona Baan
Fiona Valerie Fulton Baan (December 21, 1938 – June 19, 1994) was a Scottish-born American equestrian sports administrator. She was the dressage and driving trainer, manager, and director of the United States Equestrian Team (USET) from 1976 to 1994. Early life and education Fiona Fulton was born in Scotland, the daughter of James F. Fulton and Edith Agnes Chandler. She became an accomplished horsewoman in the Cotswolds. Career Baan worked in the hotel industry as a young woman, and traveled internationally in that work. In 1966 became secretary with the United States Equestrian Team, based in New Jersey. She competed in local horse shows in the 1960s and 1970s. Baan managed and directed the dressage and driving programs of the United States Equestrian Team from 1976 into 1994.Hall of Fame Inductees: Fiona Ba ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Fiona Alpass
Fiona Margaret Alpass is a New Zealand academic at Massey University. Academic career Alpass completed a master's degree at Massey University in 1992, looking at how anger management and social contact can modulate the effects of alcohol and tobacco use. After a 1994 PhD A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD, DPhil; or ) is a terminal degree that usually denotes the highest level of academic achievement in a given discipline and is awarded following a course of graduate study and original research. The name of the deg ... titled ''The Effects of Organisational Change in the Military: A Comparison of Work Related Perceptions and Experiences in Military and Non-military Environments'' at Massey University, Alpass started working at Massey and rose to full professor in 2013. Alpass has had a number of externally funded research projects, and a longitudinal ageing studying run jointly with Christine Stephens, also at Massey. In the 2024 King’s Birthday Honours, Alpass was appo ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Fiona Bloom
Fiona Bloom is a music industry publicist who runs the New York City agency The Bloom Effect. Early life Bloom grew up in St John's Wood, London. She took piano lessons as a child and trained to be a concert pianist. She moved to the U.S. after her father moved to Atlanta, Georgia for business reasons. She started training as a disk jockey and worked at college radio in Georgia State University. Career After receiving a degree in Speech Communications, Bloom began her professional career in 1991 at WSTR FM as the station's assistant music director, and she also served as an on-air personality. In 1994, EMI Records head Daniel Glass appointed her to the position of Director of New Artist Marketing. After working at EMI, Bloom served as the Director of Media Relations at Zero Hour Records. She started her own subsidiary record label, called 3-2-1, in 1996. Bloom started her agency The Bloom Effect in 2007. That year, she was named Top Consultant/Strategist of the Year by th ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Fiona Allen
Fiona Allen (born 13 March 1965) is an English comedian and actress, most known for her work on Channel 4's '' Smack the Pony'' between 1999 and 2003. Career Allen has appeared in many sketch shows, including ''We Know Where You Live'' (Channel 5), '' Smack the Pony'' (Channel 4), '' Goodness Gracious Me'' and '' The All Star Comedy Show''. She has also appeared in many television dramas including '' Dalziel and Pascoe'' and ''Coronation Street'', as well as the sitcom ''Happiness'' alongside Paul Whitehouse. Subsequently, she appeared as Sandra, in the film version of the '' Viz'' comic strip '' The Fat Slags'', and as a panelist on one episode of '' Mock the Week''. She played the comedian Carlotta Adams in the 2000 TV Poirot adaptation of 'Lord Edgware Dies'. Allen appeared in the first episode of the second series of the E4 teenage drama '' Skins'', playing Maxxie's mum Jackie Oliver. She also appeared in BBC drama '' Waterloo Road'' as Georgia Stevenson, playing the form ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Fiona Adams
Fiona Rose Pattinson Adams (née Clarke; 26 September 1935 – 26 June 2020) was a British photographer. She is most well known for her photograph of the Beatles jumping in the air which featured on the '' Twist and Shout'' EP cover. In the 1960s, she photographed musicians of the day including Jimi Hendrix, Billy Fury, Cilla Black, Adam Faith, Bob Dylan and Sandie Shaw. Early life Adams was born on 26 September 1935 in London, daughter of Freda (née Pattinson) and Philip Clarke, both professional musicians. The family ran a guest house in Vazon in the Channel Island of Guernsey. Due to World War Two in 1941, the family left Guernsey and returned in 1946. Adams attended The Ladies College in St Peter Port. She studied photography at the Ealing School of Art, graduating in 1955. Career Adams worked for photographer Douglas Glass for 7 months after graduating. This was followed by a role as photographer assistant in London County Council's architectural department for fo ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Fiona Balfour
Fiona Elizabeth Balfour (born 14 August 1958) is an Australian business executive in the field of information technology. She has been named Chief Information Officer of the Year in Australia four times: 2003, 2004, 2005, and 2006. In 2006 she was awarded the Pearcey Award for distinguished lifetime achievement and contribution to the development and growth of Australian IT professions, research and industry. In 2017 she was appointed to the board of the Western Sydney Airport Corporation by Urban Infrastructure Minister Paul Fletcher. In May 2021 she was appointed to the board of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation by communications minister Paul Fletcher against the recommendations of an independent panel. Life Balfour was born in Melbourne, Australia, and completed a bachelor of arts degree in English and history at Monash University in 1979. She initially worked in the public sector, in the Victorian State Public Service followed by the Commonwealth Government, in roles ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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James Macpherson
James Macpherson ( Gaelic: ''Seumas MacMhuirich'' or ''Seumas Mac a' Phearsain''; 27 October 1736 – 17 February 1796) was a Scottish writer, poet, literary collector, and politician. He is known for the Ossian cycle of epic poems, which he claimed to have discovered and translated from Gaelic. Early life and education Macpherson was born at Ruthven in the parish of Kingussie in Badenoch, Inverness-shire. This was a Scottish Gaelic-speaking area but near the Ruthven Barracks of the British Army, established in 1719 to enforce Whig rule from London after the Jacobite uprising of 1715. Macpherson's uncle, Ewen Macpherson joined the Jacobite army in the 1745 march south, when Macpherson was nine years old and after the Battle of Culloden, had had to remain in hiding for nine years. In the 1752-3 session, Macpherson was sent to King's College, Aberdeen, moving two years later to Marischal College (the two institutions later became the University of Aberdeen), reading Ca ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Scottish Gaelic
Scottish Gaelic (, ; Endonym and exonym, endonym: ), also known as Scots Gaelic or simply Gaelic, is a Celtic language native to the Gaels of Scotland. As a member of the Goidelic language, Goidelic branch of Celtic, Scottish Gaelic, alongside both Irish language, Irish and Manx language, Manx, developed out of Old Irish. It became a distinct spoken language sometime in the 13th century in the Middle Irish period, although a Classical Gaelic, common literary language was shared by the Gaels of both Ireland and Scotland until well into the 17th century. Most of modern Scotland was once Gaelic-speaking, as evidenced especially by Gaelic-language place names. In the 2011 United Kingdom census#2011 Census for Scotland, 2011 census of Scotland, 57,375 people (1.1% of the Scottish population, three years and older) reported being able to speak Gaelic, 1,275 fewer than in 2001. The highest percentages of Gaelic speakers were in the Outer Hebrides. Nevertheless, there is a language ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Ossian
Ossian (; Irish Gaelic/Scottish Gaelic: ''Oisean'') is the narrator and purported author of a cycle of epic poems published by the Scottish poet James Macpherson, originally as ''Fingal'' (1761) and ''Temora (poem), Temora'' (1763), and later combined under the title ''The Poems of Ossian''. Macpherson claimed to have collected word-of-mouth material in Scottish Gaelic language, Scottish Gaelic, said to be from ancient sources, and that the work was his translation of that material. Ossian is based on Oisín, son of Fionn mac Cumhaill (anglicised to Finn McCool), a legendary bard in Irish mythology. Contemporary critics were divided in their view of the work's authenticity, but the current consensus is that Macpherson largely composed the poems himself, drawing in part on traditional Gaelic poetry he had collected. The work was internationally popular, translated into all the literary languages of Europe, and was highly influential both in the development of the Romanticism, Rom ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |