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Liz
Liz is a female name of Hebrew origin, meaning "God's Promise". It is also a short form of Elizabeth, Elisabeth, Lisbeth, Lizanne, Liszbeth, Lizbeth, Lizabeth, Lyzbeth, Lisa, Lizette, Alyssa, and Eliza. People * Liz Allan (cricketer) (born 1948), New Zealand Test cricketer * Liz Allen (born 1969), Irish journalist and novelist * Liz Balmaseda (born 1959), Cuban-American writer and journalist * Liz Barker (born 1975), British television presenter * Liz Berry (born 1980), British poet * Liz Berry (politician) (born 1983), American politician from Washington * Liz Bonnin (born 1976), Irish television presenter * Liz Brown (politician), American politician first elected to the Indiana Senate in 2014 * Liz Brown, backing vocalist for Wheatus * Liz Cambage (born 1991), Australian basketball player in the Israeli Female Basketball Premier League * Liz Claiborne (1929–2007), American fashion designer * Elizabeth "Liz" Cottrell (born 1975), American geologist * Liz Fraser, stage na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liz Claiborne
Anne Elisabeth Jane Claiborne (March 31, 1929 – June 26, 2007) was an American fashion designer and businesswoman. Her success was built upon stylish yet affordable apparel for career women featuring colorfully tailored separates that could be mixed and matched. Claiborne co-founded Liz Claiborne Inc., which in 1986 became the first company founded by a woman to make the Fortune 500 list. Claiborne was the first woman to become chair and CEO of a Fortune 500 company. Early life and education Claiborne was born in Brussels to American parents. She came from a prominent Louisiana family with an ancestor, William C. C. Claiborne, who served as Louisiana's first governor after statehood, during the War of 1812. In 1939, at the start of World War II, the family returned to New Orleans. Claiborne attended St. Timothy's School for Girls, a small boarding school in Maryland. She and her sisters moved to Mountain Lakes, New Jersey, where she attended, but did not graduate fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liz Saville Roberts
Elizabeth Saville Roberts (; born 16 December 1964) is a Welsh Plaid Cymru politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Dwyfor Meirionnydd since 2015. She has served as the group leader of Plaid Cymru in the House of Commons since 2017. Early life and career Elizabeth Saville was born on 16 December 1964 in Eltham, before moving to Aberystwyth to study languages at Aberystwyth University. She worked in Welsh-medium further education. In 2004, she became a member of Gwynedd Council for Morfa Nefyn. In 2008, she became the authority's cabinet member for education. Parliamentary career At the 2015 United Kingdom general election, Saville Roberts was elected to Parliament as MP for Dwyfor Meirionnydd with 40.9% of the vote and a majority of 5,261. She stood down as a councillor following the result, becoming Plaid's spokesperson for Home Affairs, Education, Health, Environment, Energy, Equalities and Local Government. In her maiden speech to Parliament, she em ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liz Lochhead
Liz Lochhead Hon FRSE (born 26 December 1947) is a Scottish poet, playwright, translator and broadcaster. Between 2011 and 2016 she was the Makar, or National Poet of Scotland, and served as Poet Laureate for Glasgow between 2005 and 2011. Early life Elizabeth Anne Lochhead was born in Craigneuk, a "little ex-mining village just outside Motherwell", Lanarkshire. Her mother and father had both served in the army during the Second World War, and later, her father was a local government clerk. In 1952, the family moved into a new council house in the mining village of Newarthill, where her sister was born in 1957. Though she was encouraged by her teachers to study English, Lochhead was determined to go to Glasgow School of Art where she studied between 1965 and 1970. After graduation Lochhead taught art at high schools in Glasgow and Bristol, a career at which she says she was "terrible" Career Having written poetry as a child and whilst studying at Art School, Lochhead won ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liz Kershaw
Elizabeth Marguerita Mary Kershaw (born 30 July 1958) is an English radio broadcaster. She is one of the longest serving female national radio DJs in the UK, celebrating 30 years on national BBC Radio in 2017. Career After graduating from the University of Leeds, Liz Kershaw began her media career in Leeds with a music column in the '' Yorkshire Post''. Her brother is fellow broadcaster Andy Kershaw. Her first radio show was in 1981 on Radio Aire where her brother worked for a time. In 1985 she moved to BBC Radio Leeds to present a weekly rock show showcasing local bands. In 1986 Kershaw's day job with British Telecom saw her move to London to set up "Livewire", a dial-in pop service which superseded ''Dial-a-Disc''. In running this she produced Radio 1 DJs Mike Smith, Janice Long and Dave Pearce before devising her own show for Radio 1 in 1987, ''Backchat'', which won several awards. This was followed by Kershaw presenting the Radio 1 ''Evening Show'' and then, with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liz Brown (politician)
Elizabeth Brown is an American politician from the state of Indiana. A member of the Republican Party, she serves in the Indiana State Senate, representing Senate District 15. Brown is a 1980 graduate of the University of Notre Dame, where she was a varsity athlete on the fencing team. She served on the City Council of Fort Wayne, Indiana for the at-large district from 2008 to 2012, She ran when incumbent City Councilman, Sam Talarico, retired. Brown was succeeded by John Crawford. She ran for Mayor of Fort Wayne in 2011, but lost the primary. Brown was first elected to the Indiana Senate in 2014. She ran for the United States House of Representatives The United States House of Representatives is a chamber of the Bicameralism, bicameral United States Congress; it is the lower house, with the U.S. Senate being the upper house. Together, the House and Senate have the authority under Artic ... for in the 2016 elections. She lost the primary to Jim Banks. Politic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liz Berry (politician)
Elizabeth Jean Berry (born 1983) is an American politician who is a member of the Washington House of Representatives for the 36th district. Elected in 2020, Berry assumed office on January 11, 2021. Early life and education Berry is a native of Phoenix, Arizona. Her father was a trial lawyer, and her mother was a teacher. Berry earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from American University, where she studied communications, law, and government. Career From 2007 to 2010, Berry worked as the legislative director for Congresswoman Gabby Giffords in Washington, D.C. In 2011, she moved to Seattle, where she continued to work in politics. In 2016, she became the executive director of the Washington State Association for Justice. In the 2020 election for district 36 in the Washington House of Representatives, Berry placed first in the Democratic primary and defeated Sarah Reyneveld in the November general election. She assumed office on January 11, 2021. Personal life Berry and he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liz Friedman
Liz Friedman is an American television producer and television writer known especially for her work on '' Xena: Warrior Princess'', '' Young Hercules'', ''House'', and ''Jessica Jones''. In 2014, she was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series for co-writing the pilot episode of Netflix original series ''Orange Is the New Black''. Career She wrote and produced episodes of '' Xena: Warrior Princess'', early in her writing career. Friedman was co-creator, writer, and executive producer of '' Young Hercules''. Soon after, she along with fellow ''House'' writers, Lawrence Kaplow, Leonard Dick, and Thomas L. Moran wrote episodes for ''Hack''. She wrote for ''The O.C.'' and ''Numbers'' before joining the writing staff of ''House'' in Season 2. Friedman graduated from the Winsor School in Boston, followed by Wesleyan University with a degree in sociology. Her thesis was entitled "A Feminist and Class-based Analysis of Slasher Films". She also co-wrote the pi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liz Fraser
Elizabeth Joan Winch (14 August 1930 – 6 September 2018), known professionally as Liz Fraser, was a British film actress, best known for being cast in provocative comedy roles. Early life Fraser was born in Southwark, London. Her year of birth was usually cited as 1933, which she gave when auditioning for her role in '' I'm All Right Jack'', because the Boulting Brothers wanted someone younger for the part. In fact she was three years older, as she confirmed in her 2012 autobiography ''Liz Fraser ... and Other Characters'',. Her father was a travelling salesman for a brewery and her mother owned a corner shop just off the New Kent Road. Their family life was disrupted by the Second World War, when she was evacuated, initially to Westerham in Kent and then, when that was deemed still too vulnerable to bombing, to Chudleigh, a town in Devon. Her father died in May 1942, aged 40, when she was 11. She went to St Saviour's and St Olave's Grammar School for Girls between th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liz Mills
Liz Mills is an Australian basketball coach who, since 2011, has coached elite level men's club and national basketball teams in Africa. Mills is the former head coach of Bangui Sporting Club for the 2023 Road to BAL (Basketball Africa League). Mills is the first female basketball head coach to lead a men's national team at a FIBA continental championship, as well as the first-ever female head coach in the Basketball Africa League (BAL) after debuting in 2022. She is also the first female head coach of a men's club team in Morocco, and subsequently in North Africa and the Middle East. Mills began her coaching career in Sydney, in 2002 working with junior boys and girls teams, as well as senior women's teams. Since 2011, Mills has been a head coach and assistant coach in Africa of senior men's club teams, national men's university teams and national men's teams. In 2021, Mills was the head coach of the Kenyan men's national team, becoming the only woman in the world at that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Megan And Liz
Megan and Liz (commonly stylized as Megan & Liz) are an American pop duo composed of fraternal twin sisters Megan and Liz Mace from Edwardsburg, Michigan. They are both songwriters, and Megan is their guitarist. As of November 2020, they have 990K subscribers and over 249 million video views on their YouTube channel. Early life Megan McKinley Mace and Elizabeth Morgan Mace were born on November 21, 1992, in South Bend, Indiana to Randall Mace and Mary Miars. They grew up in Edwardsburg, Michigan. Megan is the elder sister by one minute. Their parents divorced when the twins were three and they lived with their mother. Music career 2007–2011: YouTube beginnings Their first video on YouTube, entitled "This Note", is a song which they wrote at the age of 15. Their first cover was of " Ain't No Mountain High Enough", originally written by Nickolas Ashford & Valerie Simpson and performed by Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell, but better known from Diana Ross's cover in 1970. They h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liz María Márquez
Liz María Márquez Socorro is a Venezuelan politician, currently an alternate deputy of the National Assembly for the Zulia state. Career Márquez was elected as alternate deputy for the National Assembly for the Zulia state Zulia State (, ; Wayuu language, Wayuu: ''Mma’ipakat Suuria'') is one of the States of Venezuela, 23 states of Venezuela. The state capital is Maracaibo. As of the 2011 census, it has a population of 3,704,404, the largest population among Vene ... for the 2016–2021 term in the 2015 parliamentary elections, representing the Democratic Unity Roundtable (MUD) opposition coalition. She has been the alternate deputy for Omar Barboza, for whom she has also been alternate for the 2011–2016 legislative period. In the 2021 municipal elections, she was nominated as candidate for mayor of the Machiques de Perijá municipality in the state. See also * III National Assembly of Venezuela * IV National Assembly of Venezuela References External links ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liz McClarnon
Elizabeth Margaret McClarnon-Cho (born 10 April 1981) is an English singer, songwriter and actress, who is the longest serving member of the girl group Atomic Kitten, with whom she has scored three number-one singles and two number-one albums. McClarnon co-wrote several Atomic Kitten songs, including the UK top 10 hits " See Ya", " I Want Your Love" and " Someone Like Me". Career 1997–2004: Atomic Kitten In 1997, while McClarnon was still in secondary school, her music teacher arranged for her to take part in an audition with OMD frontman Andy McCluskey, who was aiming to create a new girl group. The group became Atomic Kitten, which was made up of McClarnon, Kerry Katona and Natasha Hamilton, and they released their first record in 1999. Katona left the group in 2001 and was replaced by Jenny Frost. Atomic Kitten have had three UK number one singles, " Whole Again", " Eternal Flame", and " The Tide Is High (Get the Feeling)". They also had two UK number one albums, '' Rig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |