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Marion (given Name)
Marion is a unisex given name which may refer to: Women *Marion Adams-Acton (1846–1928), Scottish novelist *Marion Adnams (1898–1995), English painter, printmaker, and draughtswoman *Marion Aizpors (born 1961), German swimmer *Marion Allemoz (born 1989), French ice hockey player *Marion Angus (1865–1946), Scottish poet *Marion Arnott, Scottish author *Marion Aunor (born 1992), Filipino singer-songwriter *Marion Aye (1903–1951), American actress *Marion Bailey (born 1951), British actress *Marion Bartoli (born 1984), French tennis player *Marion Bauer (1882–1955), American composer, teacher, writer, and music critic *Disappearance of Marion Barter, Marion Barter (born 1945), Australian missing teacher who has not been seen since 1997 *Marion Babcock Baxter (1850–1910), American lecturer, author, financial agent *Marion Howard Brazier (1850–1935), American journalist, editor, lecturer, clubwoman *Marion Corbett, pen name of the Misses Corbett *Marion Cotillard (born 1975 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Unisex
Unisex is an adjective indicating something is not sex-specific, i.e. is suitable for any type of sex. The term can also mean gender-blindness or gender neutrality. The term 'unisex' was coined as a neologism in the 1960s and was used fairly informally. The combining prefix ''uni-'' is from Latin ''unus'', meaning ''one'' or ''single''. However, 'unisex' seems to have been influenced by words such as ''united'' and ''universal'', in which ''uni-'' takes the related sense ''shared''. Unisex then means ''shared by sexes''. Examples Hair stylists and beauty salons that serve both men and women are often referred to as unisex. This is also typical of other services and products that had traditionally been separated by sexes, such as clothing shops or beauty products. Public toilets are commonly sex segregated but if that is not the case, they are referred to as unisex public toilets. Unisex clothing includes garments like T-shirts; versions of other garments may be tailored for the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marion Cunningham (author)
Marion Cunningham (née Enwright; February 7, 1922 – July 11, 2012) was an American food writer. Cunningham was responsible for the 1979 and 1990 revisions of the '' Fannie Farmer Cookbook'', and was the author of ''The Breakfast Book'', ''The Supper Book'', and ''Cooking with Children'', among several others. She frequently traveled throughout America giving cooking demonstrations (some with James Beard); contributed articles to ''Bon Appetit'', '' Food & Wine'', and ''Gourmet'' magazines; wrote a regular column for the ''San Francisco Chronicle'' and the ''Los Angeles Times''; and hosted a television series, ''Cunningham & Company'', on the Food Network. In 1993, Cunningham received the Grand Dame award from Les Dames d'Escoffier "in recognition and appreciation of her extraordinary achievement and contribution to the culinary arts." In 1994, she was named Scholar-in-Residence by the International Association of Culinary Professionals. Early life She was born February 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marion Stokes
Marion Marguerite Stokes ( Butler; November 25, 1929December 14, 2012) was a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, access television producer, civil rights demonstrator, activist, librarian, and prolific archivist, especially known for her compulsive hoarding and archiving of hundreds of thousands of hours of television news footage spanning 35 years, from 1977 until her death in 2012, at which time she operated nine properties and three storage units. According to ''The Los Angeles Review of Books'''s review of the 2019 documentary film ''Recorder'', Stokes's massive project of recording the 24-hour news cycle "makes a compelling case for the significance of guerrilla archiving." Collections Television news Some of Stokes's tape collection consisted of 24/7 coverage of Fox, MSNBC, CNN, C-SPAN, CNBC, and other networks—recorded on up to eight separate VCRs in her house. She had a husband and children, and family outings were planned around the length of a VHS tape. Every six hour ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marion Simon Misch
Marion Louise Simon Misch (May 13, 1869 – January 18, 1941) was an American activist, teacher, writer, and businesswoman in Providence, Rhode Island. She served as president of the National Council of Jewish Women (1908-1913) and president of the Rhode Island State Federation of Women's Clubs. She founded the Providence Plantation Club and co-founded the Providence section of the National Council of Jewish Women. Early life She was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania (some sources say Newark, New Jersey) in 1869. Her father was Louis Benjamin Simon and her mother was Rachel Pulaski Simon. She had one brother and two sisters. She grew up in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, attending public school there. When she was 14, she organized and taught the first Sabbath School in Pittsfield. She later trained to be a schoolteacher. In 1890 she married Caesar Misch (1857-1908), a native of Berlin. After ten years in Brooklyn, the couple moved to Providence, Rhode Island, where Misch opened hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marion Shilling
Marion Helen Schilling (December 3, 1910 – November 6, 2004) was an American stage and film actress. She was one of the most famous " B" leading ladies of the 1930s. Biography Marion Helen Schilling was born in Denver, Colorado in 1910. Her family moved to St. Louis when she was young. She graduated from Central High School there in 1928. She started her acting career as a stage actress, starring in stage plays such as ''Miss Lulu Betts'' and ''Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch''. While playing in ''Dracula'' on stage with Bela Lugosi, she developed a blood-curdling scream so effective, when she was working in Hollywood, she was asked to dub screams for Constance Bennett and Shilling's idol Pola Negri. In 1929 she received her first screen role in ''Wise Girls''. Shilling had good memories of her director E. Mason Hopper when interviewed in the 90's. "I can still remember some of his early suggestions. 'Keep your head above the tide.' 'Be on your toes.' 'Hold your head high.' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marion Marlowe
Marion Marlowe (born Marion Townsend; March 7, 1929 – March 24, 2012) - accessed March 27, 2012 was an American singer and actress. She is best known for her recordings of "" and "Heartbeat". Marlowe worked with Frank Parker (" Moonlight and Roses") and was married to the television producer Larry Puck. Early years Marlowe was born in , and her father died se ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marion Maréchal
Marion Jeanne Caroline Maréchal (; born Le Pen, 10 December 1989), known as Marion Maréchal-Le Pen from 2010 to 2018, is a French politician, part of the Le Pen family, granddaughter of National Front (renamed National Rally in 2018) founder Jean-Marie Le Pen and niece of its current leader Marine Le Pen. She is a former member of the National Front and served as the member of the National Assembly for the 3rd constituency of Vaucluse from 2012 to 2017. Aged 22 years at the time of her election, she became France's youngest parliamentarian in modern political history. After the 2015 regional election, for which she received the best result for a FN candidate, she became the Leader of the Opposition in the Regional Council of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur. In 2017, she did not seek reelection as a member of the National Assembly and resigned as a regional councillor. She is currently involved in the education sector with her private school, the Institut des sciences social ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marion Mann (singer)
Marion Mann (born Marion Mann Bateson, September 9, 1914 – October 11, 2004) was an American singer with Bob Crosby’s Orchestra and Bob Cats from 1938 to 1941. Mann was born in Columbus, Ohio on September 9, 1914. Before singing professionally, she gained a reputation in Columbus as a star swimmer. Mann was discovered by Emerson Gill in early 1933 and began using the stage name Marion Mann. In December of that year, while traveling with Gill's orchestra to perform at the Zembo Shrine Building, and Mann billed as the main attraction, the car Mann was in skidded into a pole. She was hospitalized with a punctured scalp, a fractured collarbone and pelvis, a dislocated hip, and shock. Mann's work with Gill brought her enough notability to be hired by Bob Crosby and by Jan Garber. After her tenure with Bob Crosby ended, she worked on ''Don McNeill's Breakfast Club'' from 1942 to 1947. She was also on the radio shows Club Matinee and Weekend Cruise. She recorded some Musicraft s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marion Lüttge
Marion Lüttge ( Gräfe; born 25 November 1941) is a former East German javelin thrower. Lüttge won the gold medal at the 1966 European Championships in Budapest. Biography Lüttge was born in Leipzig, Saxony and had worked as a chemist before devoting herself to athletics. In 1963, she married the hammer thrower Friedrich Lüttge, the brother of shot put The shot put is a track and field event involving "putting" (throwing) a heavy spherical ball—the ''shot''—as far as possible. The shot put competition for men has been a part of the modern Olympics since their revival in 1896, and women's ...ter Johanna Lüttge. Lüttge was the East German champion in the javelin in 1962, 1963 and 1966. She also established three national records during her career; she recorded the last of these on 2 September 1966 with a personal best throw of 59.70m during qualification for the final of the 1966 European Championships. References 1941 births Living people East German f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marion Kracht
Marion Kracht (born 5 December 1962 in Munich, Germany) is a German actress. Currently she resides in Berlin. Selected filmography *''Who Laughs Last, Laughs Best'' (1971) *''Passion Flower Hotel'' (1978), as Jane *' (1981), as Gerti *''Ein Heim für Tiere'' (1985–1989, TV series), as Lisa Bayer *''Diese Drombuschs'' (1985–1994, TV series), as Tina Reibold *'' Der Havelkaiser'' (1994–2000, TV series), as Jette Kaiser *''Hallo Robbie!'' (2001–2006, TV series), as Frauke Marten *' (2002), as Christa *''Familie Sonnenfeld'' (2005–2009, TV series), as Tina Sonnenfeld *'' Liebe, Babys und ein großes Herz'' (2006–2012, TV series), as Antonia Maibach *''My Führer – The Really Truest Truth about Adolf Hitler'' (2007), as Make-Up Artist Rosemarie Riefenstahl *''Babylon Berlin ''Babylon Berlin'' is a German neo-noir television series. Created, written, and directed by Tom Tykwer, Achim von Borries, and Hendrik Handloegten. It is loosely based on novels by German autho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marion Jones Farquhar
Marion Jones Farquhar (née Jones; November 2, 1879 – March 14, 1965) was an American tennis player. She won the women's singles titles at the 1899 and 1902 U.S. Championships. She was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 2006. Biography Jones was the daughter of Nevada Senator John Percival Jones, co-founder of the town of Santa Monica, California, and Georgina Frances Sullivan. Marion Jones was the first Californian to reach the finals at the women's U.S. Tennis Championships in 1898 where she had a championship point against Juliette Atkinson but lost in five sets. She won the U.S. women's tennis title in 1899 and 1902, and the U.S. mixed doubles title in 1901. At the 1900 Summer Olympics, she was the first American woman to win an Olympic medal. Her sister, Georgina also competed in the 1900 Olympic tennis events. In 1900, Jones was the first non-British woman to play at Wimbledon where she reached the quarterfinals in which she was eliminated by G. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marion Jones
Marion Lois Jones (born October 12, 1975), also known as Marion Jones-Thompson, is an American former world champion track and field athlete and former professional basketball player. She won three gold medals and two bronze medals at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia, but was later stripped of her medals after admitting to steroid use. Jones was one of the most famous athletes to be linked to the BALCO scandal. The performance enhancing substance usage scandal covered more than 20 top level athletes, including Jones's ex-husband, shot putter C.J. Hunter, and 100 m sprinter Tim Montgomery, the father of Jones's first child. Jones has also played professional basketball in the WNBA, as point guard in the team of Tulsa Shock between 2010 and 2011. Personal life Marion Jones was born to George Jones and his wife, Marion, (originally from Belize) in Los Angeles, California. She holds dual citizenship with the United States and Belize. Her parents split wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
