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Roberta Lee
Roberta is a feminine version of the given names Robert and Roberto. It is a Germanic name derived from the stems *hrod meaning "famous", "glorious", "godlike" and *berht meaning "bright", "shining", "light". People with the name * Roberta Achtenberg (born 1950), American attorney * Roberta Alaimo (born 1979), Italian politician * Roberta Alenius (born 1978), Swedish politician *Roberta Alexander (born 1949), American operatic soprano * Roberta Allen (born 1945), American conceptual artist * Roberta Amadeo (born 1970), Italian para-cyclist * Roberta Anastase (born 1976), Romanian politician * Roberta Joan Anderson (born 1943), birth name of Canadian–American singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell * Roberta Angelilli (born 1965), Italian politician * Roberta Annan (born 1982), Ghanaian investor and philanthropist * Roberta Arnold (1896–1966), American stage and silent film actress * Roberta A. Ballard, American pediatrician * Roberta Baskin, American journalist and non-profit director ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert
The name Robert is an ancient Germanic given name, from Proto-Germanic "fame" and "bright" (''Hrōþiberhtaz''). Compare Old Dutch ''Robrecht'' and Old High German ''Hrodebert'' (a compound of ''Hrōþ, Hruod'' () "fame, glory, honour, praise, renown, godlike" and ''berht'' "bright, light, shining"). It is the second most frequently used given name of ancient Germanic origin.Reaney & Wilson, 1997. ''Dictionary of English Surnames''. Oxford University Press. It is also in use Robert (surname), as a surname. Another commonly used form of the name is Rupert (name), Rupert. After becoming widely used in Continental Europe, the name entered England in its Old French form ''Robert'', where an Old English cognate form (''Hrēodbēorht'', ''Hrodberht'', ''Hrēodbēorð'', ''Hrœdbœrð'', ''Hrœdberð'', ''Hrōðberχtŕ'') had existed before the Norman Conquest. The feminine version is Roberta (given name), Roberta. The Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish form is Roberto (given name), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roberta Bitgood
Roberta Bitgood (Wiersma) (15 January 1908 – 15 April 2007) was an American organist, choir director, and composer. She was a pioneer of 20th-century American church music, and the first woman to serve as national president of the American Guild of Organists. Early life and education Roberta Bitgood was born in New London, Connecticut, to Grace Robinson Prentis and Robert A.T. Bitgood. She showed an early talent for music, and started violin lessons at the age five. From 1920-1924, she studied at the Williams Memorial Institute. While at Williams, she served as concert master and assistant conductor for her school orchestra. At age fifteen she began taking organ lessons over the summers, and subsequently started performing at local churches. Bitgood attended Connecticut College for Women, studying music with a major focused in violin and organ performance. She graduated with honors in 1928, and continued her studies in New York City at the Guilmant Organ School. Bitgood wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roberta Crenshaw
Roberta P. Crenshaw (April 17, 1914 - February 8, 2005) was an American civic leader and philanthropist. Crenshaw campaigned for over 60 years to preserve park land in Austin, Texas and supported Austin-area cultural institutions. Early life and education Roberta Purvis was born in Little Rock, Arkansas on April 17, 1914. She came to Austin, Texas in 1932 to attend the University of Texas. She graduated with a liberal arts degree and served the Zeta Tau Alpha sorority as president. She married cotton exporter and oilman Malcolm Hiram Reed, with whom she had two daughters. After his unexpected death in 1945, she married attorney Fagan Dickson, who she divorced in 1974. In 1975, she married lawyer Charles Edward Crenshaw, becoming stepmother to golfer Ben Crenshaw. Career Crenshaw was appointed by Austin City Council to the Parks Board in 1952, which was at that time under the Public Works Department. Crenshaw helped push for the parks department to be joined with the recreatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roberta Cowing
Roberta Cowing Throckmorton (October 1860 - July 31, 1924) was an American artist, employed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). Early life Roberta Cowing was born to William Jackson Cowing (1832–1893) and Matilda Helen Crupper Cowing (1837–1896) in October of 1860, in Rushville, Rush County, Indiana, USA. She had one older brother, Frank Myrtle Cowing (1857–1894). Career Cowing was employed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to paint watercolors of fruit and nut varieties, as part of the USDA's Pomological Watercolor Collection. The collection includes paintings of Prunus salicina (Japanese plum), Pyrus communis (pears), and Rubus (brambles). She made illustrations of plants collected in an 1891 botanical survey of Death Valley; the work was published in an educational journal. ''Collections from the U.S. National Herbarium'' published twenty-one drawings of plants collected in Death Valley in their Nove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roberta Cordano
Roberta "Bobbi" Cordano (born November 29, 1963) is the 11th president of Gallaudet University. Cordano is the first deaf woman and the first openly LGBT person to become president of Gallaudet University; she is openly lesbian. Life Cordano obtained her Juris Doctor degree at the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1990. She was assistant attorney general for Minnesota. She was assistant dean at the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota. Cordano was awarded the Hubert Humphrey award by the University of Wisconsin A university () is an institution of tertiary education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. ''University'' is derived from the Latin phrase , which roughly means "community of teachers and scholars". Uni .... She is among the first ten deaf women in the United States to have earned a Juris Doctor (JD) degree and is among the first 50 deaf women to have earned a doctoral degree, ove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roberta F
Roberta is a feminine version of the given names Robert and Roberto. It is a Germanic name derived from the stems *hrod meaning "famous", "glorious", "godlike" and *berht meaning "bright", "shining", "light". People with the name *Roberta Achtenberg (born 1950), American attorney *Roberta Alaimo (born 1979), Italian politician *Roberta Alenius (born 1978), Swedish politician *Roberta Alexander (born 1949), American operatic soprano *Roberta Allen (born 1945), American conceptual artist *Roberta Amadeo (born 1970), Italian para-cyclist *Roberta Anastase (born 1976), Romanian politician *Roberta Joan Anderson (born 1943), birth name of Canadian–American singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell *Roberta Angelilli (born 1965), Italian politician *Roberta Annan (born 1982), Ghanaian investor and philanthropist *Roberta Arnold (1896–1966), American stage and silent film actress *Roberta A. Ballard, American pediatrician *Roberta Baskin, American journalist and non-profit director *Roberta Bayl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roberta Collins
Roberta Collins (born Roberta Lee Hefley, November 17, 1944 – August 16, 2008) was a film and television actress who was known for her attractive physique, blonde, curly hair, and Marilyn Monroe appearance. She starred in many exploitation films, including the prostitute Clara in Tobe Hooper's '' Eaten Alive'' and Matilda the Hun in the science-fiction film '' Death Race 2000''. Jack Hill, who directed her in '' The Big Doll House'', said of her, "I think she could have had a great career, but she couldn't get her personal life together ... she would be fantastic one day, do everything right, and then she would be out until 4 am partying and the next day she would be useless." Career Collins was signed to a contract with a studio almost immediately after graduation from high school. Her option was not picked up, though, something that was repeated with another studio, "so that made me want to study and become a good actress," she later said. In 1969, she was appointed queen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roberta Colindrez
Roberta Colindrez (born May 28, 1986) is a Mexican-American actor and writer. She is best known for originating the role of Joan in the musical '' Fun Home''. Additionally, Colindrez is known for roles in the TV shows ''I Love Dick,'' '' Vida,'' and '' A League of Their Own'', as well as the films '' Ms. White Light'' (2019) and '' Cassandro'' (2023). Early life Colindrez was born on May 28, 1986 in Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico. She has Argentinian and Honduran heritage. Colindrez migrated from Mexico to Houston when she was 5 years old. She lived in Houston for six years then moved to Austin, Texas when she was 10 years old. She first realized she wanted to become an actor at age 12, when she and her brother took a theater class together. She went to Westwood High School, and went on to the Texas State University where she graduated with bachelor's degree in acting. She later moved to New York City. While trying to find work as an actor, she also worked in restaurants and as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roberta Close
Roberta Gambine Moreira (born 7 December 1964) is a Brazilian fashion model, actress and television personality. She is constantly mentioned in the media as one of the greatest Brazilian icons and one of the main sex symbols in the country between the 1980s and 1990s, in addition to being a pioneer of transfeminism in her native country. Biography After debuting as a star at Carnaval in 1980, Close gained notoriety as the main character of the clip for the song ''Dá Um Close Nela,'' by Erasmo Carlos, in 1984. In the video, which achieved great commercial success after the release on '' Fantástico'', she plays a transvestite who attracts male gazes as she walks through the streets of Rio de Janeiro. The same year, she became the first transgender model to appear in Playboy magazine, in a record-selling issue upon launch. Later, Roberta Close has appeared on the catwalk for numerous fashion houses, including Thierry Mugler, Guy Laroche, Jean Paul Gaultier. She also been featu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roberta Capua
Roberta Capua (born 5 December 1968 in Naples) is an Italian television host, actress, model and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Italia 1986 and placed 1st Runner-up at Miss Universe 1987 in Singapore. Biography She became known in the Italian entertainment world with her election as Miss Italia in 1986. Her mother Marisa Jossa had been awarded the same title in 1959. The year after she placed 1st Runner-up at Miss Universe. In 1986, she had her first television role in the music contest ''Vota la voce'', hosted by Claudio Cecchetto. She came back on TV in 1992 to lead the Retequattro's program ''I bellissimi di Retequattro''; three years later she replaced for some week Paola Barale as soubrette of the Italian version of '' Wheel of Fortune'', named '' La Ruota Della Fortuna''. From 1996 to 1998, she presented with Luciano Rispoli the Telemontecarlo's daily program ''Tappeto volante'' and, from 1995 to 1997, hosted ''Aspettando Beautiful'', a short show ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roberta Byrd Barr
Roberta Byrd Barr (January 4, 1919 – June 23, 1993) was an American civil rights activist, television personality, educator, and librarian. From the mid 1960s to the early 1970s, she hosted a weekly Seattle television show, ''Face to Face'', which featured guest speakers discussing issues such as race, education, and welfare. In 1973 she became the first woman principal of a high school in Seattle. Early life and education Roberta Spencer was born in Tacoma, Washington on January 4, 1919. She attended Lincoln High School and Wilberforce University. She also attended the New School of Social Research. She later earned a bachelor's degree in sociology and elementary education as well as a master's degree in librarianship from the University of Washington. Career as educator and librarian Barr worked as a teacher and librarian in a number of schools within Seattle. During the Seattle school boycott of 1966, she headed one of the Freedom Schools that were set up in protest of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roberta Bruni
Roberta Bruni (born 8 March 1994) is an Italian pole vaulter. She competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics and 2024 Summer Olympics, in pole vault. Her personal best of 4.73 m is the Italian records in athletics, Italian record for the event. Career Her personal best indoor (4.60 m) is the second best junior (athletics), junior performance of all-time after the List of world junior records in athletics, world record of the Swedish Angelica Bengtsson, established at the 2013 Italian Athletics Indoor Championships. Her height of 4.35 m established on 16 June 2012 in Misano Adriatico was the third best by a Junior (athletics), junior athlete that year. She is a friend of fellow Italian pole vaulter Giorgia Benecchi. In 2021, she participated in the Tokyo Olympics, but failed to make it past the qualifying stages stopping at 4.25m. In 2022, she participated in the World Championships in Eugene and the European Championships in Munich. In Eugene, she failed to qualify for the final aft ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
