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Jenny (given Name)
Jenny is a female given name. The name was originally the diminutive form of Jane, but it is now associated with Jennifer. It may also be spelt Jennie, which was the most common spelling before the 20th century. People with the given name * Jenny Agutter (born 1952), English actress * Jenny-Wanda Barkmann (1922–1946), German concentration camp guard * Jenny Beavan (born 1950), English costume designer * Jenny Berggren (born 1972), Swedish singer * Jenny Berrigan (born 1983), American snowboarder * Jenny Berthelius (1923–2019), Swedish crime novelist and children's writer * Jennie Bimson (born 1976), English field hockey player * Jennie M. Bingham (1859–1933), American author and littérateur * Jenny Blanco (born 1985), Dominican model * Jenny Body, British aerospace engineer * Jennie Bond (born 1950), English journalist * Jenny Boucek (born 1973), American basketball coach and player * Jenny Bruso, American hiker, influencer, and activist * Jenny Buckley (bor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Jenni
Jenni is a feminine given name, sometimes a modern diminutive or short form of Jennifer. The etymology is actually that of a diminutive of Jane, however. A separate name, with the same spelling, serves as a Finnish language diminutive of Johanna. People with the given name Jenni * Jenni Baird (born 1976), Australian actress * Jenni Barber, American actress and singer * Jenni Burke, Australian swimmer * Jenni Calder (21st century), Scottish literary historian * Jenni Dahlman (born 1981), Finnish model * Jenni Dant (21st century), American basketball player * Jenni Falconer (born 1976), Scottish television presenter * Jenni Farley (born 1986), American television personality * Jenni Haukio (born 1977), Finnish poet, and the wife of the current (since 2012) President of Finland * Jenni Hucul (born 1988), Canadian bobsledder * Jenni Irani (1923–1982), Indian cricketer * Jenni Keenan Green (born 1970), Scottish actress * Jenni Meno (21st century), American pair skater ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Jennie Bond
Jennifer Bond (born 19 August 1950) is an English journalist and television presenter. Bond worked for fourteen years as the BBC's royal correspondent. She has also hosted '' Cash in the Attic'' and narrated the programme ''Great British Menu''. Early career Born in Hitchin, Hertfordshire, Bond has two elder sisters, and from the age of five lived in Letchworth Garden City, where she was educated at St. Francis' College (a girls' independent school) and at the University of Warwick, from which she graduated with a degree in French and European Literature. Her career began in print, working for various local newspapers in London in journalism and sub-editing roles. Her first job in journalism was as a reporter for the ''Richmond Herald'' and then the ''Uxbridge Evening Mail''. In 1977, aged 27, Bond moved to BBC radio, producing and editing. She was also a producer on ''Woman's Hour'', ''Tuesday Call'', ''International Assignment'' and for various television documentaries. Roy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Jenny Danielsson
Jenny-Julia Danielsson (born 30 August 1994) is a Finnish football midfielder who plays for Dallas Trinity FC in the USL Super League and the Finland national team. Career FC Honka Danielsson made her league debut against HJK on 13 August 2011. She scored her first league goal against ONS Oulu on 25 August 2012, scoring in the 90th+6th minute. In 2014, Danielsson won the 2014 Finnish Cup with FC Honka, although she didn't play in the final. Kristianstads DFF Danielsson made her league debut against Rosengård on 16 April 2016. She scored her first league goal against Göteborg FC on 14 May 2016, scoring in the 26th minute. Sporting Huelva In 2016, Danielsson was announced at Sporting Huelva. Åland United On 16 April 2017, Danielsson was announced at Åland United. She made her league debut against Pallokissat on 29 April 2017. Danielsson scored her first league goal against TPS on 6 May 2017, scoring in the 5th minute. Kungsbacka Danielsson made her league debut ag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Jenny Crain
Jenny Crain (born February 12, 1968, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is an American retired runner. She competed in the USA Outdoor Track and Field Championship in distances from 3000 meters to the marathon and in the U.S. Olympic Trials at 5,000m, 10,000m and marathon distances. On August 21, 2007, while on a training run for her fourth Olympic Marathon Trials, an automobile driver hit Crain. She suffered a myriad of injuries including extensive brain damage, ending her competitive running career and starting a lifetime of rehabilitation. Running career Jenny Crain followed her brother, Peter, into competitive running in at Franklin High School in Franklin, Wisconsin. She continued her running at Ohio University where she earned All- MAC honors. After college, Crain put running on hold while pursuing a different professional career until deciding to train for and compete in the 1996 Olympic Trials. Traffic collision and rehab On August 21, 2007, while on a training run for h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Jenny Craig (entrepreneur)
Genevieve Marie Craig (née Guidroz; born August 7, 1932) is an American businesswoman who co-founded the weight loss, weight management, and nutrition company Jenny Craig, Inc. Craig was born in Berwick, Louisiana, was raised in New Orleans, and married Sidney Craig in 1979. In 1983, she and her husband created their weight management company in Australia. They began offering similar programs in the United States in 1985. The company was purchased by Nestlé Nutrition in 2006 for $600 million. Philanthropy In 1992, Craig and her husband committed $10 million to Fresno State University for its School of Business and Administrative Services, later renamed the Sid Craig School of Business. In 1996, the couple committed another $10 million to the University of San Diego, $7 million of which was used to build the Jenny Craig Pavilion, a recreation and sports pavilion that was dedicated in October 2000. In 2022, Craig pledged $5 million to the National WWII Museum in New Orleans. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Jennie Maria Drinkwater Conklin
Jennie Maria Conklin ( Drinkwater; pen name, Mrs. Nathaniel Conklin; April 14, 1841 – April 28, 1900) was a 19th-century American author and social activist. While still in her teens, she became known for her stories for children. She wrote books for girls as well as for the religious press. Conklin was the originator of the organization known as the Shut-in Society, which was a bureau of correspondence for disabled women and girls. Early life and education Jennie Maria Drinkwater was born in Portland, Maine, April 14, 1841. Her father was Levi Drinkwater, a retired sea captain. She was educated in the public schools there and at the Institution for Young Ladies on Brooklyn Heights, also known as the Greenleaf Female Institute. Career Drinkwater began writing as a child, and was a constant contributor to leading papers. Always fond of reading, at the age of 12, she became inspired with the thought of writing a book herself. At odd moments, she made her first attempt at story ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Jennie Collins
Jane "Jennie" Collins (1828–1887) was an American labor reformer, Humanitarianism, humanitarian, and Women's suffrage in the United States, suffragist. Orphaned as a child, she supported herself at 14 by working in the cotton mills, and later as a domestic and a seamstress. She was active in the Abolitionism in the United States, abolitionist and Labor history of the United States, labor movements, volunteered in military hospitals during the American Civil War, Civil War, and founded a charity for poor working women in Boston. In 1870, at the invitation of Susan B. Anthony, she addressed the National Woman Suffrage Association convention in Washington. The following year, she became one of the first working-class women in the United States to publish a volume of her own writings: '' Nature's Aristocracy; Or, Battles and Wounds in Time of Peace. A Plea for the Oppressed''. Biography Early life Jennie Collins was born into poverty in Amoskeag, New Hampshire (now part of Manc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Jennie Thornley Clarke
Jennie Thornley Clarke (September 20, 1860 – December 27, 1924) was an American educator, writer, and anthologist. She was the author of ''Songs of the South. Choice Selections from Southern Poets from Colonial Times to the Present Day''. Joel Chandler Harris, who furnished an introduction to the book, said that, as far as he knew, this volume was the first of American anthologies devoted wholly to verse produced by southern writers. Early life and education Jennie Thornley Clarke was born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, September 20, 1860. She said she was a native Georgia although she was born among the first families of Vermont. Her father, John Archer Clarke, was a poet; he died in early manhood. Brought up in a library and carefully taught by her mother, Mary Ellis (West) Clarke, Jennie was twice graduated with the highest honors; first, by a female college in Georgia and afterwards (in 1889), by the University of Nashville. Career Immediately elected to the chair of Lat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Jennie Churchill
Jennie Jerome Churchill (born Jeanette Jerome; later Mrs. Cornwallis-West; 9 January 1854 – 29 June 1921), known as Lady Randolph Spencer-Churchill, was an American-born British socialite, the wife of Lord Randolph Churchill, and the mother of British prime minister Winston Churchill. Early life Jeanette Jerome was born in the Cobble Hill section of Brooklyn in 1854, the second of four daughters (one died in childhood) of financier, sportsman, and speculator Leonard Jerome and his wife Clarissa "Clara", daughter of Ambrose Hall, a landowner. Jerome's father was of Huguenot extraction, his forebears having emigrated to America from the Isle of Wight in 1710. Hall family lore insists that Jennie had Iroquois ancestry through her maternal grandmother; however, there is no research or evidence to corroborate this. She was raised in Brooklyn, Paris, and New York City. She had two surviving sisters, Clarita (1851–1935) and Leonie (1859–1943). Another sister, Camille (1855–1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Jennie Casseday
Jennie Casseday (June 9, 1840 – February 8, 1893) was a 19th-century American philanthropist, social reformer, school founder, and letter writer. Born in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1840, her girlhood passed amid the surroundings of a wealthy Christian home. In 1861, she was thrown from a carriage; she survived the resulting spinal injury but was physically disabled, and in pain for the rest of her life. It was her own love of flowers in the sick-room which first suggested the Flower Mission. In 1885, she served as superintendent, Flower-mission Department, of the Shut-in Society. When Frances E. Willard came to Louisville in 1881, Cassedy gained Willard's consent to become superintendent of this work for the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU). From that time until her death, she directed from her sick-bed world-wide plans for this philanthropy, personally conducting an immense correspondence in its interests. Besides her work in the Flower Mission, Casseday was the founder ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Jennie Carignan
General (Canada), General Marie Annabelle Jennie Carignan (born 1968) is a Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) officer who has served as Chief of the Defence Staff (Canada), Chief of the Defence Staff (CDS) since July 2024. Born in Quebec, Carignan graduated as a military engineer from the Royal Military College Saint-Jean. She served as an officer in combat engineering regiments in various Canadian military actions in the 1990s and 2000s including: the Golan Heights; Bosnia; and Afghanistan. As a full colonel, Carignan became Commandant of the Royal Military College Saint-Jean in 2013. When Carignan was promoted to brigadier-general, in June 2016, she became the first Canadian female general from a combat command. She was promoted again in 2019, to major-general, and commanded NATO forces in Iraq. In 2021, she was promoted to lieutenant-general, and became CAF’s first chief for Professional Conduct and Culture. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced she would become the first woman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Jenny Campbell (artist)
Jenny D. A. Campbell (1895–1970) was a Scottish artist. Works by Campbell are held at the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki and the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. Her prints are featured in Margaret Dobson's book ''Block-Cutting and Print-Making by Hand'' (1928). Born in Ayr, Scotland, Campbell moved to New Zealand in 1922 with fellow artist Roland Hipkins. Campbell married Hipkins in 1923 and they settled in Napier and then Wellington. Education Campbell trained at the Edinburgh College of Art and was awarded a Diploma. After receiving a travel scholarship, she also studied in Belgium, Holland, and France. Career Campbell worked mainly in oils, specifically portraiture and landscapes. She also worked with colour-block printing, including linocuts. Works by Campbell include: ''Two Boys with Kites'' (1924) and ''Lake Taupo''. Exhibitions Campbell exhibited with the: * Auckland Society of Arts * Canterbury Society of Arts * New Zealand Academy of Fine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
