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Katerina
Katerina (Greek: Κατερίνα, ''Katerína''; Russian, Bulgarian and Macedonian: Катерина, ''Katerina'') is a feminine given name. It is a Greek variant of '' Ekaterini'' and a Russian and Bulgarian short form of ''Ekaterina'' or ''Yekaterina''. The name ''Katerina'' is often associated with the Greek word ''katharos'', meaning "pure" (see: Katherine#Origin and meaning). Notable people Notable people named Katerina include: * Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke (1939-2020) Greek poet, translator and lecturer * Katerina Bassi (born 1977), Greek taekwondo athlete * Katerina Batzeli (born 1958), Greek politician * Aikaterini Bliamou (born 1982), Greek swimmer * Katerina Dalaka (born 1992), Greek hurdler * Katerina Deli (born 1975), Greek former basketball player * Katerina Didaskalou (born 1960), Greek actress * Katerina Georgiadou (born 1982), Greek fashion model * Katerina Giota (born 1990), Greek volleyball player * Katerina Gogou (1940-1993) Greek poet, author and a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katerina Graham
Katerina Alexandre Hartford Graham (born September 5, 1989) is an American actress, singer and dancer (now distributing music under the stage name Toro Gato). She is widely known for her role as Bonnie Bennett on The CW supernatural drama series ''The Vampire Diaries'' (2009–2017). Her film credits include '' The Parent Trap'' (1998), '' 17 Again'' (2009), ''The Roommate'' (2011), ''Honey 2'' (2011), '' Addicted'' (2014), and ''All Eyez on Me'' (2017). In music, Graham was previously signed to A&M/Octone and Interscope Records, and has released two extended plays and two studio albums. Early life Graham was born in Geneva, Switzerland, but raised in Los Angeles, California, U.S. Her father, Joseph, is of Americo-Liberian descent, and her mother, Natasha, is Jewish (from a family from Poland and Russia). Graham's father was a music executive and the godfather of two of producer Quincy Jones' children. Her paternal grandfather was a UN Ambassador, serving for 40 years in fou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katerina Harvati
Katerina Harvati ( el, Κατερίνα Χαρβάτη; born 1970 in Athens) is a Greek paleoanthropologist and expert in early human evolution. She specializes in the broad application of 3-D geometric morphometric and virtual anthropology methods to paleoanthropology. Since 2009, she has been full professor and director of Paleoanthropology at the University of Tübingen, Germany. Life Harvati is a graduate of Columbia University, New York, where she earned a B.A. in Anthropology 1994 (summa cum laude). Four years later, she received her master’s degree in Anthropology at Hunter College, City University of New York. After having been awarded with her Ph.D. at CUNY in 2001 she worked as an assistant professor at New York University. From 2004 to 2009, she was senior researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany. In 2005, she became also adjunct associate professor at the City University of New York Graduate School and in 2009 she ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katerina Giota
Katerina Giota ( gr, Κατερίνα Γιώτα; born July 3, 1990 in St. Petersburg, Russia) is a female professional volleyball player from Greece, who is a member of the Greece women's national volleyball team. At club level, she plays in Hellenic Volley League for Greek powerhouse Olympiacos Piraeus since July 2013. Career Katerina Giota in 2002 moved with her mother from Russia to Greece at an age of 12 years old and they were established in the Greek city Grevena, where she obtained the Hellenic citizenship. From her younger age, she was engaged in swimming, so she continued in Greece, but some day she was spotted by coach Memtsas and was persuaded to try volleyball. In this way she started her rich career in volleyball, which was to lead her into one of the best ever central blockers in the history of the certain sport in Greece. Thus in 2004 she joined G.S. Grevena, a club of her hometown, where she remained up to 2006 when she removed to 1st division A.S. Aris The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katerina Moutsatsou
Katerina Moutsatsou or Moutsatsos ( el, Κατερίνα Μουτσάτσου), is a Los Angeles-based Greek actress, producer, writer, and activist. She is the author and producer of experimental films, videos, and animation series, which focus mainly on subjects related to her country of origin, Greece. She is vocal on the area of politics, and cultural identity. Her political animation series ''Sara and Mara'' el, Η Σάρα και η Μάρα, italic=yes was published by the Greek newspaper ''Eleftherotypia''. Early life The daughter of a Greek naval officer, Moutsatsou was born in Monterey, California while her father was on foreign duty in California at the Naval Postgraduate School, yet grew up in Athens, Greece. Her parents come from the island of Aegina. She has an older brother Konstantinos, an electronic engineer. Education Moutsatsou attended the French section of Lycée Franco-Hellénique d'Athènes throughout elementary and secondary education obtaining a Baccalau ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katerina Maleeva
Katerina Georgieva Maleeva ( bg, Катерина Георгиева Малеева; born 7 May 1969) is a former top 10 Bulgarian tennis player. She won eleven singles and two doubles WTA Tour titles. Her best position in the WTA rankings was No. 6 in 1990. Biography Born in Sofia, Maleeva is the second oldest of the three children of Georgi Maleev and Yuliya Berberyan. Her mother came from an Armenian family, which found refuge in Bulgaria after the 1896 Armenian massacres in the Ottoman Empire, and was the best Bulgarian tennis player in the 1960s. After she retired from professional tennis in the 1970s, Berberyan started a coaching career. She was the coach of her three daughters, Katerina, Manuela and Magdalena, each of whom eventually became WTA top 10 players. Throughout her professional career, Maleeva has won a total of 11 WTA singles titles and two titles in doubles. In July 1990, she achieved her career-high ranking of sixth. She has a record of 369 singles wins ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katerina Lehou
Katerina Lehou or Katerina Lechou (Greek: Κατερίνα Λέχου) is a Greek actress who has been in many theatrical plays, films, and Greek television series. Biography Lehou was born on September 5, 1967, in Athens, Greece. During her childhood, she participated in the arts, like playing the piano and reading literature. She studied and graduated from the Theater of Arts Karolos Koun. In 1990, Lehou started acting professionally in a film named ''The scars of the night'' (Τα σημάδια της νύχτας). In 2010, she began starring on a television series called ''The island'', based on the novel by Victoria Hislop. Viewers were really surprised by Lehou's dramatic performance, since they were used to her starring in comedy serials that she had previously been in. Lehou participated in the Olympic torch lighting ceremony in Greece for the 2018 Winter Olympics The 2018 Winter Olympics ( ko, 2018년 동계 올림픽, Icheon sip-pal nyeon Donggye Ollimpik), of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katerina Dalaka
Katerina Dalaka ( el, Κατερίνα Δαλάκα, born August 20, 1992, in Munich, Germany) is a Greek hurdler. With origins from Katerini Katerini ( el, Κατερίνη, ''Kateríni'', ) is a city and municipality in northern Greece, the capital city of Pieria regional unit in Central Macedonia, Greece. It lies on the Pierian plain, between Mt. Olympus and the Thermaikos Gulf, ..., currently representing A.E.K., Dalaka has won gold medals at the Panhellenic Games and the Balkan Games in 400 m hurdles as well as in 100 m, 200 m, the 100 m relay and the 400 m relay. International competitions Greek Championships 2014 Panhellenic Games 400 m hurdles: 59.61 s - 1st 2015 Panhellenic Games 400 m hurdles: 59.34 s - 2nd 2016 Panhellenic Games 200 m indoor: 24.83 s - 3rd 100 m: 11.70 s - 1st 400 m hurdles: 58.43 s - 1st 2017 Panhellenic Games 60 m indoor: 7.50 s - 5th 200 m indoor: 24.57 s - 2nd 100 m: 11.57 s - 3rd 400 m hurdles: 59.47 s - 1st 2019 Panhe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katerina Georgiadou
Katerina Georgiadou ( el, Κατερίνα Γεωργιάδου) (born 1982 in Thessaloniki, Greece) is a former Miss Greece and fashion model who has appeared in fashion magazines and international events. Background Georgiadou lives in Argyroupoli (Greek:Αργυρούπολη). She studied classical ballet and gymnastics for eight years at the University of Gymnastics in Athens. Upon he engagement to Stathis Tavlaridis in 2007, it was announced that she would give up modeling, and the couple was married in 2009. They have a daughter named Anastasia. The couple divorced in 2014. Career Georgiadou won the 2002 title of Miss Hellas ( el, Miss Ελλάς) at the Miss Star Hellas pageant and went on to represent her country as Miss Greece in the Miss World pageant held in London. The pageant originally was going to be held in Abuja, Nigeria but was moved to London when violence broke out and more than 100 people died in riots provoked by the contest when existing religious tens ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katerina Gogou
Katerina Gogou ( el, Κατερίνα Γώγου; 1940–1993) was a Greek poet, author and actress. Early life From the age of 5 years she started playing in children's plays. However she did not spend pleasant childhood years due to the Second World War and the Axis Occupation of Greece. Career Acting Katerina Gogou debuted in theater with Dinos Iliopoulos' theater company in the play ''Ο Κύριος πέντε τοις εκατό'' (''Mr. five percent'') in 1961. Most of the films she participated in were Finos Film productions. She became more widely known for roles of cheerful and carefree women like in the movies ''Το ξύλο βγήκε από τον παράδεισο'' (''The wood came out of paradise'' - note that "ξύλο", literally translating to "wood", in Greek is an idiom meaning "the act of hitting someone") and ''Μια τρελή τρελή οικογένεια'' (''A crazy crazy family''). She has received the award for best actress in a lead role ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katerina Didaskalou
Katerina Didaskalou (Greek: Κατερίνα Διδασκάλου) (born 29 December 1960 in Athens, Greece) is a Greek theatre, stage, television and film actress. She studied dramatic arts and philosophy in Athens and went on to study cinema and theater at Columbia University, on an Onassis Foundation scholarship. In 2005, she starred in Eric Rohmer's '' Triple Agent'', as "Arsinoe", the Greek wife of a retired general of the Tsarist army. She was in the 1st and 4th seasons of the Greek soap opera A soap opera, or ''soap'' for short, is a typically long-running radio or television serial, frequently characterized by melodrama, ensemble casts, and sentimentality. The term "soap opera" originated from radio dramas originally being sponsored ... '' Erotas'' ("Love") and in the US-produced film '' Captain Corelli's Mandolin''. References External links * 1960 births Living people Actresses from Athens Greek television actresses Greek film actresses Greek stage actr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke
Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke ( el, Κατερίνα Αγγελάκη-Ρουκ; 22 February 1939 – 21 January 2020) was a Greek poet A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator ( thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems ( oral or wri ..., translator and lecturer. Life Anghelaki-Rooke was born in Athens, the daughter of Eleni (née Stamati) from Patras and Yannis Anghelakis from Asia Minor. Her godfather was the Cretan writer Nikos Kazantzakis, a close friend of her parents. She married Rodney Rooke in 1963. While a very young child she contracted a bacterial infection that ate affected her bones and left her with a severe limp and a stunted arm. She attended primary and secondary school in Athens. She followed courses at the Universities of Athens and Nice, completing her studies with a degree in translation and interpretation at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katerina Kechris
Katerina Joanna Kechris is an American statistician, a professor of biostatistics and informatics in the Colorado School of Public Health, and a regional president of the International Biometric Society. Her research focuses on the use of omics data to study relations between genetics and disease. Education Kechris graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1997, and completed a Ph.D. in statistics at the University of California, Berkeley in 2003. Her dissertation, supervised by Peter J. Bickel, was ''Statistical Methods for Discovering Features in Molecular Sequences''. Before joining the Colorado School of Public Health, she did postdoctoral research with Hao Li at the University of California, San Francisco. Recognition Kechris was elected regional president for the Western North American Region of the International Biometric Society in 2018. She was selected to become a Fellow of the American Statistical Association Like many other academic professional ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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