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Caitriona Perry
Catriona is a feminine given name in the English language. It is an Anglicisation of the Irish Caitríona or Scottish Gaelic Catrìona, which are forms of the English Katherine. Bearers of the name Caitríona * Caitríona Balfe (born 1979), Irish actress and former model * Catríona Cannon (born 1968), librarian and academic * Caitríona O'Leary (born 1969), Irish singer * Caitríona O'Reilly (born 1973), Irish poet and critic * Caitríona Ruane (born 1962), Irish politician Caitriona * Caitriona Beggs (born 1977), Irish cricketer * Caitriona Jennings (born 1980), Irish athlete * Caitriona Reed (born 1949), American Buddhist teacher Catriona * Catriona Carey, Irish field hockey and camogie player * Catriona Cuddihy (born 1986), Irish athlete * Catriona Fallon, American rower * Catriona Forrest (born 1984), Scottish field hockey player * Catriona Grant, Scottish politician * Catriona Gray (born 1994), Filipino-Australian beauty pageant titleholder who won Miss Univer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English Language
English is a West Germanic language that developed in early medieval England and has since become a English as a lingua franca, global lingua franca. The namesake of the language is the Angles (tribe), Angles, one of the Germanic peoples that Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain, migrated to Britain after its End of Roman rule in Britain, Roman occupiers left. English is the list of languages by total number of speakers, most spoken language in the world, primarily due to the global influences of the former British Empire (succeeded by the Commonwealth of Nations) and the United States. English is the list of languages by number of native speakers, third-most spoken native language, after Mandarin Chinese and Spanish language, Spanish; it is also the most widely learned second language in the world, with more second-language speakers than native speakers. English is either the official language or one of the official languages in list of countries and territories where English ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catriona Forrest
Catriona Forrest (born 27 February 1984, in Glasgow) is a female field hockey defender from Scotland. She plays club hockey for Glasgow Western Ladies, and made her debut for the Women's National Team in 2005. Her older brother James represented Scotland at cricket up to U19 level. She is a physiotherapist for the British National Health Service. See also * Catriona Catriona is a feminine given name in the English language. It is an Anglicisation of the Irish Caitríona or Scottish Gaelic Catrìona, which are forms of the English Katherine Katherine (), also spelled Catherine and Catherina, other var ... References sportscotland 1984 births Living people Scottish female field hockey players Field hockey players at the 2006 Commonwealth Games Field hockey players from Glasgow Commonwealth Games field hockey players for Scotland 21st-century Scottish sportswomen {{Scotland-fieldhockey-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catriona Rowntree
Catriona Rowntree (born 19 July 1971) is an Australian television and radio presenter. Rowntree is a long-standing presenter on the Nine Network's '' Getaway'' program. Career Rowntree studied journalism at Macleay College in Sydney, after working as a researcher with Business Review Weekly, 2GB and Prime Television. In 1991, she moved to FM radio as a newsreader and music and lifestyle program host, first in community radio and then with the ABC youth station Triple J, for which she presented until 1996. In 1992, Rowntree was hired as a researcher for the Nine Network children's series ''Wonder World!'', graduating to the position of reporter the following year, and host in 1994. In that same year, whilst still working at Triple J, she also became the host of a Nine Network children's show called ''What's Up Doc?''. Rowntree went on to become the show's writer/producer. In 1996, Rowntree became a reporter on '' Getaway'', a popular Nine Network travel series. While ret ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catriona Power
Catriona Bower is a Occupational Therapist and a camogie Camogie ( ; ) is an Irish stick-and-ball team sport played by women. Camogie is played by 100,000 women in Ireland and worldwide, largely among Irish communities. A variant of the game "hurling" (which is played by men only), it is organised ... player who won some club championship medals with the club during the later stages of her career. She went on to captain St Anne's Dunhill to a winner of an All Ireland Junior Club championship Medal title, the first senior title in any code for the club since in the early part of the 1980's. She was Club Player of the Year at least once. References External links Official Camogie WebsiteWaterford Camogie website* ttps://web.archive.org/web/20091228032101/http://www.rte.ie/sport/gaa/championship/gaa_fixtures_camogie_oduffycup.html Fixtures and resultsfor the 2009 O'Duffy Cup All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship: Roll of Honour* Video highlights of 2009 championshi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catriona Oliver
Catriona Sens (née Oliver) (born 2 April 1980 in Sale, Victoria) is an Australian former representative rower. She was a national champion, an underage 2002 world champion, a dual Olympian and won a silver medal at the 2006 World Rowing Championships. She rowed in the Australian women's eight at the 2004 Athens Olympics and in the double scull at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Club, state and national rowing career Sens-Oliver's club rowing was from the Melbourne University Boat Club. At the 2000 Australian Rowing Championships she rowed in MUBC colours in the U23 division in a single and a double scull. In 2002 she raced in the open division in the double and quad scull placing 2nd in both and the following year still in MUBC colours she raced the single and the double scull and again placed second in both. At the 2003 Henley Royal Regatta Sens-Oliver representing the Australian Institute of Sport won the Princess Royal Challenge Cup for single sculls beating out her Au ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catriona Morrison
Catriona ("Cat") Morrison MBE (born 11 January 1977, in Glasgow) is a British triathlete and duathlete of Scottish origin. Career In 2005, she won the silver medal at the ITU Duathlon World Championships. In 2006, she followed this up with gold and took another silver medal at the Long Distance Duathlon World Championships. In 2007, she took the bronze medal at the Long Distance Triathlon World Championships in Lorient. She won the World Powerman Duathlon Long Distance Championships in 2007 and 2008. In 2010 in Edinburgh she took gold for a second time at the Duathlon World Championships in a time of 2:02:48. Catriona's triathlon career wins include numerous Ironman 70.3 events including St Croix (4 times), UK, Galveston and Ironman titles including Ironman Texas and Ironman Lanzarote where she famously battled back from a 45min mechanical to win the event. Catriona retired from professional triathlon and duathlon in January 2015. Since then she has completed the prestigiou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catriona Morison
Catriona Morison (born 1986 in Edinburgh) is a Scottish mezzo-soprano. Early life and education The daughter of a musician mother (Fiona) and a teacher of German (Alan), Morison grew up in Barnton, Edinburgh. Both she and her sister played violin and sang in choirs such as the Waverley Singers as youths. Morison also played the viola in her youth. She formally studied music at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama (now the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland CS, and spent a year in Berlin on the Erasmus programme. In Berlin, at the Universität der Künste, her teachers included Julie Kaufmann. Career Morison began her professional singing career in Germany, initially with an opera studio in Weimar Weimar is a city in the state (Germany), German state of Thuringia, in Central Germany (cultural area), Central Germany between Erfurt to the west and Jena to the east, southwest of Leipzig, north of Nuremberg and west of Dresden. Together w .... She subsequently joined ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catriona Millar
Catriona Millar (born 1956) is one of Scotland's foremost Figurative art, figurative painters. Born in Milngavie, Glasgow, she studied at Harrogate School of Art and Grays School of Art, Aberdeen, where her tutors included Joyce W. Cairns, Joyce Cairns RSA and Keith Grant. Since the success of her sell-out 2005 degree show she has achieved an international reputation and exhibited across the UK and Europe including the Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh. Her works are in both private and public collections. In October 2006 she came to the attention of Charles Saatchi with her first solo exhibition at the Dundas Street Gallery, Edinburgh. In April 2007 ''The Herald (Glasgow), The Herald'' ranked her in the top five most collectable artists in Scotland. In 2012 Catriona Millar was listed in 'Who's Who in Scotland'. Her paintings can be seen on book jackets and CD covers while many schools and colleges around the world study her work. Catriona Millar works with several charities inclu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catriona Matthew
Catriona Isobel Matthew (née Lambert; born 25 August 1969) is a Scottish professional golfer who plays mainly on the US-based LPGA Tour and is also a member of the Ladies European Tour. Amateur career Catriona Lambert was born in Edinburgh, and grew up in North Berwick. She learned to play golf on the Children's Course and North Berwick West Links in the town. She had a successful junior and amateur career, becoming Scottish Girls champion in 1986 and Scottish Under-21 Stroke Play champion in 1988 and 1989. She captured the Scottish Amateur title in 1991, 1993 and 1994, and the British Amateur title in 1993. She is also a two-time winner of the St Rule Trophy played at St Andrews. She was a member of the 1990, 1992 and 1994 Great Britain & Ireland Curtis Cup teams. She graduated from the University of Stirling in 1992 having studied accountancy, this being one of a few British universities offering golf scholarships. Professional career Matthew qualified for the LPGA ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catriona MacInnes
Catriona MacInnes is a Scottish film-maker. A graduate of MFA (Advanced Film Practice), Screen Academy Scotland, her graduation film ("I'm In Away From Here") was nominated for the Golden Lion Award in Corto Cortissimo at the 65th Venice International Film Festival in 2008. Since then it has won a "Golden Opportunity Award" at Nashville Film Festival and Special Mention for Performance at Arcipelago Film Festival as well as appearing at many other festivals and being nominated in the fiction category of the BAFTA Scotland BAFTA in Scotland is the Scottish branch of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. Formed in 1986, the branch holds two annual awards ceremonies recognising the achievement by performers and production staff in Scottish film, televis ... New Talent Awards during 2009. In 2011 her second short A Cuillin Rising (developed and commissioned by Digicult and funded by Creative Scotland and the UK Film Council) premiered at the BFI London Film festival, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catriona MacDonald
Catriona Macdonald (born 1969 or 1970) is a fiddler, composer, researcher, and lecturer from Shetland, located some 320 km (200 miles) north of the Scottish mainland. She is considered to be among the world's leading traditional fiddle players, and one of the top exponents of the Shetland fiddle, a branch of traditional music with clear connections to the music of Scotland, but which features differs slightly in its overall feeling. The music of Shetland has been shaped for centuries by visitors and various musicians from abroad, including Scandinavians, and has been influenced by styles such as the music of Orkney, Norway and Ireland. Background Macdonald began studying traditional fiddle with Dr. Tom Anderson MBE in 1981, then aged 11 (she considers herself to be a "late" starter); she became a founding member of Shetland's Young Heritage Fiddlers, being awarded as Shetland Young Fiddler of the Year in 1983, just two years after starting. In 1992, she won the BBC Radio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catriona MacColl
Catriona MacColl (born 3 October 1954) is an English actress who has worked extensively in both film and television across Europe. She is best known for her work in Italian horror films, as she has appeared in Lucio Fulci's ''Gates of Hell'' trilogy; '' City of the Living Dead'' (1980), '' The Beyond'' (1981) and '' The House by the Cemetery'' (1981). Early life MacColl was born in London on 3 October 1954. In her youth, she trained professionally as a ballerina from the age of five, attending the Royal Ballet School. As a young adult, MacColl suffered a foot injury that prevented her from continuing her career path in dancing. Career MacColl is recognised for her work on European television and film, mainly in Italy. She has gained somewhat of a cult status, by horror fans, because of her career as an Italian horror actress. MacColl began her career in the late 1970s, making her debut in the French romantic drama ''Le dernier amant romantique'', in which she received a small ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
