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Benni
Benni is a given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include: Surname * Antonio Stefano Benni (1880–1945), Italian fascist politician * Arthur Benni (1839–1867), Polish-born English journalist and activist * Ignatius Behnam II Benni (1831–1897), Patriarch of the Syriac Catholic Church * Stefano Benni (born 1947), Italian writer Given name * Benni Bødker (born 1975), Danish writer * Benni Efrat (born 1936), Israeli artist * Benni Ljungbeck (born 1958), Swedish wrestler * Benni McCarthy (Benedict McCarthy, born 1977), South African footballer * Ra'Jah O'Hara, Benni Miller (Bennie Miller, born 1984), American drag queen known as Ra'Jah O'Hara * Benni Korzen (born 1938), Danish film producer See also * ''Trapania benni'', a species of sea slug * Beni (other) * Bennie (surname) * Bennis, a surname * Benny (other) ** Benny (surname) {{given name, type=both ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Benni
Arthur William Benni (27 November 1839, Tomaszów Mazowiecki, Tomaszów-Rawski, Congress Poland – 27 December 1867, Rome, Italy) was a Polish-born English citizen, known in Russia (where his name was spelled Арту′р Ива′нович Бе′нни) as a journalist, Hertzen associate, Socialist activist and women liberation commune-founder. He served a three months prison sentence as part of the "32 Process", was deported from the country and died in 1867 in Rome hospital, after having been injured, as a member of the Giuseppe Garibaldi's squad. Arthur Benni's activities and persona caused controversy in Russia where rumours of him being a spy and a Third Section of His Imperial Majesty's Own Chancellery, 3rd Department agent were being spread, much to his outrage and distress. Ivan Turgenev and Nikolai Leskov did much to clear Benni's name. The latter (who chose Benni as a prototype for Rainer, the ''No Way Out'' novel's revolutionary character) wrote a posthumous essay o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benni McCarthy
Benedict Saul McCarthy (born 12 November 1977) is a South African football coach who is currently the manager of the Kenya national football team. He previously worked as head coach of South African Premier Division team AmaZulu, and as assistant coach at Manchester United. A former forward, McCarthy is the South Africa national team's all-time top scorer with 31 goals. He is also the only South African to have won the UEFA Champions League, doing so with Porto in 2003–04. Early life McCarthy was born in Cape Town and grew up in Hanover Park in the Cape Flats, an area notorious for its high unemployment rate and gang violence. He is the son of Dudley and Dora McCarthy and has two brothers and a sister. His older brother is Jerome McCarthy, a former professional footballer who played for Kaizer Chiefs and Manning Rangers, among other clubs, while his younger brother Mark played football at Franklin Pierce University in the United States. McCarthy began playing at a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benni Efrat
Benni Efrat (; born 1936) is an Israeli painter, sculptor, printmaker and filmmaker who was born in Beirut, Lebanon. Biography Benni Efrat immigrated to Palestine in 1947. From 1959 to 1961, he studied at the Avni Institute of Art and Design in Tel Aviv under Yehezkel Streichman (1906–1993). From 1966 to 1976, he lived in London, where he studied at Saint Martin's School of Art in London. Art career Benni Efrat was one of the pioneers of Israeli Conceptual artists and influenced others in this direction (e.g., Joshua Neustein, Michael Gitlin, Buky Schwartz). His works were systems of components which spoke for themselves and sought to represent no more than the sum of their parts. In the mid-1970s his displays were accompanied by films, on the back of which the artist had painted. After settling in New York City in 1976, became involved with conceptual art, producing drawings, prints and photographs that explore energy, space and the perception in sculpture. Efrat current ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bennis
Bennis is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Ahmed Bennis (1914–2009), Moroccan chess master * Edward Bennis, the head football coach for the Villanova University Wildcats football team in 1916 * Elizabeth Bennis (1725–1802), an Irish Methodist activist and diarist * George Geary Bennis (1790–1866), writer and librarian * Mohammed Bennis, Moroccan poet and one of the most important poets of Modern Arabic Poetry * Phil Bennis (born 1942), retired Irish hurling manager and former player * Phyllis Bennis (born 1951), American writer and activist * Richie Bennis (born 1945), retired Irish hurling manager and former player * Susan Bennis, shoe designer and co-founder of the Susan Dennis/Warren Edwards brand * Warren Bennis (born 1925), American scholar, organizational consultant and author, and pioneer of Leadership studies See also *Benni Benni is a given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include: Surname * Antonio Stefano Benni (1880–1945), It ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonio Stefano Benni
Antonio Stefano Benni (18 April 1880 – 27 December 1945) was an Italian entrepreneur and politician who served as President of the General Confederation of Italian Industry from 1923 until 1934. Biography His father, a financial intendant, died before his birth. He spent his childhood first in Cuneo Cuneo (; ; ; ) is a city and in Piedmont, Italy, the capital of the province of Cuneo, the fourth largest of Italy’s provinces by area. It is located at 550 metres (1,804 ft) in the south-west of Piedmont, at the confluence of the ri ... and then, until 1883, in Milan. In 1894, forced by family to interrupt his studies, due to financial hardship, he stopped his studies and went to work as an apprentice for Ercole Marelli. Marelli produced small electrical and mechanical equipment, and from 1896 embarked on the path of production specialization with the manufacture of electric fans. This choice decreed the success of the company and its rapid dimensional growth: Mare ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ignatius Behnam II Benni
Mor Ignatius Behnam II Benni (1831–1897) was Patriarch of the Syriac Catholic Church from 1893 to 1897. Life Behnam Benni was born on 14 August 1831 (Julian Calendar) near Mosul. In 1847 he was admitted in the College of the Propaganda in Rome where he remained till 1856 when he received the Doctorate in Theology. He was ordained deacon on 8 March 1856 and priest on 16 March 1856. Behnam Benni served as priest for some years until his appointment as bishop of Mosul by Patriarch Ignatius Antony I Samheri who consecrated him bishop on 9 March 1862. His first years at Mosul were saddened by the fight with Syriac Orthodox for the ownership of the churches in the town. In 1870 Benni was in Rome to participate to the First Vatican Council where he, in opposition to the Melkite patriarch Gregory II Youssef, spoke to make uniform the ecclesiastical discipline in the East and in the West and in favor of the papal infallibility. He was one of the main redactors of the text approve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stefano Benni
Stefano Benni (born 12 August 1947) is an Italian satirical writer, poet and journalist. His books have been translated into around 20 foreign languages and scored notable commercial success. 2.5 million copies of his books have been sold in Italy. Biography Benni has written many successful novels and anthologies, among which are ''Bar Sport, Elianto, Terra!, La compagnia dei celestini, Baol, Comici spaventati guerrieri, Saltatempo, Margherita Dolcevita'' and ''Il bar sotto il mare''. He has also worked with the weekly magazines ''L'espresso'' and ''Panorama'', and with the satirical '' Cuore'' and ''Tango'', the monthly magazines '' Linus'' and '' Il Mago'' (where he began and published in installments part of ''Bar Sport''), and the newspapers ''La Repubblica'' and ''il manifesto''. He also wrote television sketches for Beppe Grillo at the beginning of Grillo's career, and one of these sketches – called "Pietro Longo=P2" – caused the Psdi to ask the RAI commission to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bennie (surname)
Bennie is a surname which may refer to: * Andrew Bennie (born 1956), New Zealand horseman * Bob Bennie (1900–1972), Scottish footballer * Charlie Bennie (1887–1963), Australian rules footballer * John Bennie (footballer) (1896–?), Scottish footballer * John Bennie (missionary) (1796–1869), Presbyterian missionary and Xhosa linguist * Peter Bennie Peter Bennie (10 June 1899 – 3 January 1981) was a Scottish professional footballer who played as an outside right. Born in Slamannan but raised in Larkhall, Bennie began his Scottish Football League career in 1920 with Albion Rovers, wher ... (1898–?), Scottish footballer See also * Benny (surname) {{surname, Bennie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benni Korzen
Benni Korzen (born April 1, 1938) is a Danish film producer, best known for producing ''Babette's Feast'' (1987). Born in Copenhagen, Denmark, Korzen won the Best Foreign Film Oscar for ''Babette's Feast'' in 1988. The producer also won the BAFTA Best Foreign Film award for ''Babette's Feast'', the same year. Since moving to The United States from his native Denmark, Benni has produced, line-produced or executive produced over 20 feature films on budgets ranging from under $1 million to over $15 million solely or in partnership with Just Betzer or New York City producers Rankin and Bass. In addition, Benni is the co-owner of Panorama Film International, New York City and has served as the General Partner in two limited partnerships that produced 6 feature films distributed by New Line Cinema. Currently, Benni is developing two Off-Broadway hits into films, ''Forever Plaid'', the musical written by Stuart Ross, and ''Beau Jest'', the stage play written by James A. Sherman. He is mar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ra'Jah O'Hara
Benni Miller (born Bennie Roy Miller; December 31, 1984), better known by the stage name Ra'Jah O'Hara, is an American drag queen best known for winning the first season of '' Canada's Drag Race: Canada vs. the World.'' She previously competed on the eleventh season of ''RuPaul's Drag Race'' in 2019 and the sixth season of ''RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars'' in 2021. Career Ra'Jah O'Hara was announced to be one of fifteen contestants competing on the eleventh season of ''RuPaul's Drag Race'' on January 24, 2019. In the third episode, she was involved in the show's first ever six-way lip sync with Honey Davenport, A'keria C. Davenport, Plastique Tiara, Scarlet Envy, and Shuga Cain, which she survived. She later lip-synced again against Mercedes Iman Diamond and Scarlet Envy, sending them both home respectively to James Brown's " Living in America" and Donna Summer's " Last Dance". The following episode, she lip synced again with A'keria C. Davenport to Sheena Easton's "Stru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benni Bødker
Benni Bødker (born 1975) is a Danish writer. He holds a Master's Degree in Danish Literature and Philosophy Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, Value (ethics and social sciences), value, mind, and language. It is a rational an ... and works as a publishing editor and teaches creative writing. He has published the novels ''Helvedesmaskinen'' (2004, The Infernal Machine) and ''Besættelse'' (2005, Occupation) for young adults and the children's vampire series ''Nattens Børn'' (2006, Children of the Night) along with several easy reading titles. His books in English include ''Halloween'' (2004) and ''The Ghost Rider'' (2005). External links Benni Bødker website 1975 births Living people Danish male writers Date of birth missing (living people) Place of birth missing (living people) {{Denmark-writer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benni Ljungbeck
Benni Ljungbeck (born 20 July 1958) is a Swedish wrestler. He was born in Skåne. He won an Olympic bronze medal in Greco-Roman wrestling Greco-Roman (American English), Graeco-Roman (British English), or classic wrestling (Euro-English) is a style of wrestling that is practiced worldwide. Greco-Roman wrestling was included in the first modern Olympic Games in 1896 and has been i ... in 1980. He also competed at the 1984 and 1988 Olympics. References External links * 1958 births Living people Olympic wrestlers for Sweden Wrestlers at the 1980 Summer Olympics Wrestlers at the 1984 Summer Olympics Wrestlers at the 1988 Summer Olympics Swedish male sport wrestlers Olympic bronze medalists for Sweden Olympic medalists in wrestling Medalists at the 1980 Summer Olympics 20th-century Swedish sportsmen Sport wrestlers from Skåne County {{Sweden-wrestling-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
