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Cecelia Clegg
Cecelia is a variation of the given name Cecilia. People with the name include: * Cecelia Adkins (1923–2007, African-American publisher * Cecelia Ager (1902–1981), American film critic and reporter * Cecelia Ahern (born 1981), Irish novelist * Cecelia Akagu (), Nigerian Army brigadier general * Cecelia Antoinette (1949–2020), American actress, comedian, and writer * Cecelia Ayanori Bukari-Yakubu (), Ghanaian politician * Cecelia Svinth Carpenter (1924–2010), first historian to write in detail about the Nisqually people * Cecelia Condit (born 1947), American video artist * Cecelia Cortes (born 1989), American professional squash player * Cecelia Frey (born 1936), Canadian poet, novelist, and short story writer * Cecelia Kizer (born 1997), American soccer player * Cecelia Lee Fung-Sing (born 1933), Chinese actress and Cantonese opera singer from Hong Kong * Cecelia Goetz (1917–2004), American lawyer and bankruptcy judge * Cecelia González (), American politician serving i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cecilia
Cecilia is a personal name originating in the name of Saint Cecilia, the patron saint of music. History The name has been popularly used in Europe (particularly the United Kingdom and Italy, where in 2018 it was the 43rd most popular name for girls born that year), and the United States, where it has ranked among the top 500 names for girls for more than 100 years. It also ranked among the top 100 names for girls born in Sweden in the early years of the 21st century, and was formerly popular in France. The name "Cecilia" applied generally to Roman women who belonged to the plebs, plebeian gens, clan of the Caecilia gens, Caecilii. Legends and hagiographies, mistaking it for a personal name, suggest fanciful etymologies. Among those cited by Geoffrey Chaucer, Chaucer in "The Second Nun's Tale" are: lily of heaven, the way for the blind, contemplation of heaven and the active life, as if lacking in blindness, and a heaven for people to gaze upon. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cecelia Hall (sound Editor)
Cecelia Hall (Cece Hall) is an Oscar-winning sound designer and sound editor. She became the first woman to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Sound Effects Editing in 1986 for ''Top Gun'' and went on to win the Oscar for ''The Hunt for Red October'', a 1990 film for which she also received a nomination for the BAFTA Award for Best Sound at the 44th British Academy Film Awards. Career In 1984, Hall was elected the first woman president of the Motion Picture Sound Editors and served on the executive committee of the Sound Branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences from 1988 to 1995. In 1995, Hall was invited to teach at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Graduate School of Theatre, Film and Television/Media; she remains the only professor teaching sound design. Hall has also taken residencies at Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) and California State University, Monterey Bay, taught master classes in sound in London, and participated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CeCe (other)
Cece or CeCe may refer to: People *Cece Bell (born 1970), American author and illustrator *Cece Carlucci (1917–2008), American baseball umpire *Cece Kizer (born 1997), American association football, football player *CeCe McDonald (born 1989), American transgender LGBTQ activist *CeCe Moore (born 1969), American genetic genealogist *CeCe Peniston (born 1969), American gospel and dance music singer *Cécé Pepe (born 1996), French association football, football player *Cece Peters (born 1962), Australian actor *CeCe Rogers, American singer, songwriter and record producer *Cece Sagini, Kenyan singer-songwriter *CeCé Telfer, American transgender athlete *CeCe Winans (born 1964), American gospel music singer Characters * CeCe Drake, a character from the TV show ''Pretty Little Liars'' * Cece King, a character from New Zealand soap opera ''Shortland Street'' * Cece (New Girl), a character from the TV sitcom ''New Girl'' * Cecelia "CeCe" Halpert, a List of The Office (American TV serie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cecelia Wolstenholme
Cecelia Wolstenholme (18 May 1915 – 25 October 1968), later known by her married name Cecelia Thornton, was an English competitive swimmer who represented Great Britain in the Olympic Games and European championships, and England in the British Empire Games. She won the 200 yd breaststroke at the 1930 British Empire Games and the 200 m breaststroke at the 1931 European Championships, beating Jenny Kastein. She competed in the latter event at the 1932 Summer Olympics The 1932 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the X Olympiad and also known as Los Angeles 1932) were an international multi-sport event held from July 30 to August 14, 1932, in Los Angeles, California, United States. The Games were held du ..., but failed to reach the final. Her younger sister Beatrice was also an international swimmer. References External links * 1915 births 1968 deaths English female breaststroke swimmers British female breaststroke swimmers Olympic swimmers for Gr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cecelia Watson
Cecelia Watson is an American author, and a historian and philosopher of science. Career Watson attended St. John's College (Annapolis/Santa Fe), earning a B.A. in Liberal Arts. She then did graduate work at the University of Chicago under the supervision of Robert J. Richards and Lorraine Daston. She earned an M.A. in Philosophy and a Ph.D. in Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science. From 2011 to 2013, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science and a scientific advisor to Haus der Kulturen der Welt, working on a joint project on the Anthropocene hypothesis. She then was awarded an American Council of Learned Societies New Faculty Fellowship, which she undertook at Yale University from 2013 to 2015 with a joint appointment in the Department of Philosophy and the Program in the Humanities. She is currently Scholar in Residence at Bard College, with no departmental affiliation listed. She has stated that she considers her academic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cecelia Tichi
Cecelia Tichi (born April 10, 1942) is an American academic and author of mystery novels. She is the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of English and American Studies at Vanderbilt University. She is a former president of the American Studies Association, and the winner of the Jay B. Hubbell Medal for lifetime achievement in American literature. Tichi has published twelve books that span American popular culture and social history, from television to country music to the gear-and-girder technology that transformed the environment nationwide in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Tichi was the Editor of Special Issue of ''South Atlantic Quarterly'' in 1995. Education Tichi studied English Literature and received her bachelor's degree in 1964 from Pennsylvania State University and her master's degree in 1965 from Johns Hopkins University. In 1968, she completed her Doctoral studies in English-American Literature from University of California, Davis The University of California ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cecelia Cabaniss Saunders
Cecelia Cabaniss Saunders (1879 – February 23, 1966) sometimes written as Cecilia Cabaniss Saunders, was an African-American civil rights leader, and executive director of the Harlem, New York YWCA. She is best known for working against racial discrimination in wartime employment during World War II, for broader work training and opportunities for African-American women, and against police violence in Harlem. Early life and education Cecelia Hayne Holloway was born in Charleston, South Carolina in 1879 (though some sources give 1883, she was listed in the 1880 census as an infant), daughter of James Harrison Holloway, a harness maker and school principal, and his wife Harriet Huger Holloway. She attended Avery Normal Institute, then Fisk University as an undergraduate, graduating in 1903, and pursued some graduate studies at Columbia University and the New School for Social Research. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cecelia Peters
Cecelia Peters, known professionally as Cece Peters, is an Australian television and theatre actress. Her career began with playing Tiger Johnson on the Nine Network children's series '' Snake Tales''. She later joined the cast of the Network Ten drama series '' Playing for Keeps'', playing Paige Dunkeley. Career Peters secured a role on the Nine Network series '' Snake Tales'', playing Tiger Johnson. The show follows a group of children whose parents run a snake sanctuary. She was then known professionally as Cecelia Peters. She then appeared in an episode of ''City Homicide'' as Jade Worthington. In 2013, Peters graduated from the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts. Her affiliation with the WAAPA gave Peters the opportunity to be involved in various professional theatre productions, including Hamlet. In 2015, Peters had a role in the mini-series ''Catching Milat''. In 2016, the actress secured the role of junior television producer Alice Felton-Smith in the Network ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cecelia Pedescleaux
Cecelia Tapplette Pedescleaux, also known as Cely, (born August 6, 1945) is an African-American quilter of traditional and art quilts, inspired by historians, other African-American quilters, and quilt designs used during the Underground Railroad to communicate messages to slaves seeking freedom. Her quilts have been shown in China, France, Washington, D.C., New Orleans, and in other locations in the United States. A solo show of 75 of her quilts were shown at the Le Musée de Free People of Color in New Orleans (2013–2014). Career Pedescleaux's interest in textile arts began as a child when she began to crochet and knit. In the late 1960s, she began creating quilts based upon traditional designs. As she read design and other books about American slaves, her designs became Afro-centric. She has created quilts based upon African art, like the bright, beaded quilt with the Ashanti Adinkra symbol Gye Nyame, meaning "accept God", from Ghana that was shown at the Inspiration Exhib ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (born Cecilia Helena Payne; – ) was a British-born American astronomer and astrophysicist. Her work on the cosmic makeup of the universe and the nature of variable stars was foundational to modern astrophysics. She determined that stars were composed primarily of hydrogen and helium in her 1925 doctoral thesis. Her groundbreaking conclusion was initially rejected by leading astrophysicists, including Henry Norris Russell, because it contradicted the science of the time, which held that no significant elemental differences distinguished the Sun and Earth. Independent observations eventually proved that she was correct. Despite completing her studies, because she was a woman Payne was not eligible to receive a degree from the University of Cambridge. Similarly in America, she was not eligible to receive a doctoral degree (PhD) for her studies at Harvard University, as they did not grant doctoral degrees to women at the time, instead, she received he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cecelia Kenyon
Cecelia M. Kenyon (1923 – January 1990) was an American political scientist. She was a professor at Smith College from 1948 until 1984, where from 1969 onwards she was the Charles N. Clark Professor of Government. Her theses on the American Revolution and the early American federalists emphasized the role of ideology in the creation of the American state and influenced historiography on the early United States. Life and career Kenyon was born in 1923 in Gainesville, Georgia. She attended Oberlin College. She then studied at Radcliffe College, where she obtained a master's and a PhD. In 1948 Kenyon became a professor of government at Smith College. In 1969, she was named the Charles N. Clark Professor of Government. Kenyon was a scholar of the American Revolution and the roles of conservatism, radicalism, and federalism in early American history. In her 1955 essay "Men of little faith: the Anti-Federalists on the nature of representative government" in ''The William and Mary Quar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cecelia Joyce
Cecelia Nora Isobel Mary Joyce (born 25 July 1983) is an Irish cricketer. A right-handed batter and leg break bowler, she played 57 One-Day Internationals and 43 Twenty20 Internationals for Ireland between 2001 and 2018. She played in her final match for Ireland in November 2018, during the 2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20 tournament. In 2021, Joyce returned to competitive cricket to play for Typhoons in the Women's Super Series after injuries to players in the original squad. Playing career Joyce made her ODI debut for Ireland against Australia on 14 July 2001, in the second match of a series. She also played in the third match of the series, and against Scotland in the European Championship. She next played in 2003 IWCC Trophy, held in the Netherlands in July 2003. The following year, she played three ODIs against New Zealand in Dublin and in 2005, played in the World Cup in South Africa. She also played against Australia and in the European Championship in 2005. She play ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
