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Kirsty MacColl Songs
Kirsty or Kirstie is a feminine given name and nickname. It is a Scotland, Scottish diminutive of Christine (name), Christine in English-speaking countries and is also linked to Kirsten (given name), Kirsten — the Scandinavian version of Christine. People * Kirstie Alley (1951–2022), American actress * Kirstie Allsopp (born 1971), British TV presenter * Kirsty Bentley (1983–1998), New Zealand murder victim * Kirsty Bertarelli (born Kirsty Roper in 1971), songwriter, former Miss UK * Kirsty Blackman (born 1986), Scottish politician, Scottish National Party, SNP Member of Parliament for Aberdeen North (UK Parliament constituency), Aberdeen North (2015-present) * Kirsty Capes (born 1993), English novelist * Kirstie Clements (born 1962), Australian author, editor, journalist and speaker, former Editor-in-Chief of ''Vogue Australia'' * Kirsty Coventry (born 1983), Zimbabwean swimmer, world record holder, and IOC President-elect (2025) * Kirsty Dillon (born 1976), English actres ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kirsten (given Name)
Kirsten is the Scandinavian form of the name Christina (given name), Christina. Behind the Name, retrieved 15 December 2009. Music * Kirsten Flagstad (1895–1962), Norwegian opera singer * Kirsten Rosenberg, American rock/metal singerSports * Kirsten Barnes (born 1968), Canadian rower and Olympic champion * Kirsten Venetta Brown (1963–2006), American slalom canoeist * Kirsten Bruhn (born 1969), German female Paralympic swimmer * Kirsten Flipkens, Belgian tennis player; 2003 International Tennis Federation Junior World Champion * Kirsten Hedegaard Jensen (born 1935), Danish Olympic swimmer * Kirsten Plum Jensen (born 1961), Danish Olympic rower * Kirsten Olson (born 1991), American figure skater * Kirsten Melkevik Otterbu (born 1970), Norwegian long-distance runner * Kirsten Sim ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kirsty Duncan
Kirsty Ellen Duncan (born October 31, 1966) is a Canadians, Canadian politician and Health geography, medical geographer from Ontario, Canada. Duncan was the Member of Parliament (Canada), Member of Parliament (MP) for the Toronto riding of Etobicoke North (federal electoral district), Etobicoke North from 2008 until 2025, and she served as deputy leader of the government in the House of Commons from 2019 to 2021. Duncan has previously served as Minister for Science (Canada), minister of science and Minister of Sport and Persons with Disabilities, minister of sport and persons with disabilities. She has published a book about her 1998 expedition to uncover the cause of the 1918 Spanish flu epidemic. Early life and education After graduating from Kipling Collegiate Institute in 1985 as an Ontario scholar, Duncan studied geography and anthropology at the University of Toronto. She then entered graduate school at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, and completed a Doctor of P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kirsty-Leigh Porter
Kirsty-Leigh Porter (born 30 December 1988) is an English actress, known for her roles in British soap operas, including portraying Zoe Willson on ''Coronation Street'', Roz Fielding on ''Emmerdale'' and Leela Lomax on ''Hollyoaks''. Career Porter attended Oldham Theatre Workshop and trained extensively in dance including ballet, jazz, contemporary and modern dance. She has played a number of small roles on British television, including ''Doctors'', ''The Royal Today'', '' Shameless'' and '' Ashes to Ashes''. Porter went on to have larger roles in the children's television programme '' My Spy Family'', as Marcy, and '' The Street'' as Ellie. It was announced in July 2009 that Porter had been cast in the long-running ITV soap opera ''Coronation Street'' as the girlfriend of long established character David Platt ( Jack P. Shepherd). After her role in ''Coronation Street'', Porter was cast in another ITV soap, ''Emmerdale'', as the best friend of Holly Barton (Sophie Powle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kirsty Stark
Kirsty Stark is an Australian film producer based in Adelaide, South Australia. In 2010 she established a production company called Epic Films, and in 2023, an online platform called CrewHQ, which provides an online jobs market for freelancers in the Australian film industry. She is known for her work on the 2018 ABC iview series ''Unboxed'' and 2020 TV drama series '' First Day''. She is development producer in the South Australian office of Matchbox Pictures. Early life and education Kirsty Stark grew up in Adelaide. As a child and teenager, she read voraciously and "just always had an interest in storytelling". She lived overseas for several years before starting her degree at Flinders University, where she studied film. She later undertook Seth Godin's "altMBA", a month-long "online leadership workout". Career Stark spent five years working in cinematography as a camera assistant. She founded a film and television production company, Epic Films, based in Adelaide, in 201 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kirsty Penkman
Kirsty Elizabeth Helena Penkman is a British analytical chemist and geochemist known for her research in biomolecular archaeology, the use of ancient DNA, amino acid dating, and other biomolecules in order to date fossils and learn about the world as it was in prehistoric times. She is a professor of chemistry at the University of York. Penkman's research has dated early archaeology found in East Anglia to 700,000 years ago, the oldest artifacts known in Northern Europe. She has argued that climate change and human landscape modification are likely to destroy the ancient biological materials that go into her studies. In 2008, the Quaternary Research Association gave Penkman their Lewis Penny Medal for her contributions to the study of Quaternary strata. In 2012 she was a winner of the Philip Leverhulme Prize in Earth, ocean, and atmospheric sciences. Penkman is the 2016 winner of the Joseph Black Award of the Royal Society of Chemistry "for rigorous and ground-breaking work in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kirsty MacColl
Kirsty Anna MacColl (, ; 10 October 1959 – 18 December 2000) was a British singer and songwriter. The daughter of folk singer Ewan MacColl, she recorded several pop hits in the 1980s and 1990s, including "There's a Guy Works Down the Chip Shop Swears He's Elvis" and cover versions of Billy Bragg's "A New England#Kirsty MacColl version, A New England" and the Kinks' "Days (The Kinks song)#Kirsty MacColl version, Days". She also sang on a number of recordings produced by her husband Steve Lillywhite, most notably "Fairytale of New York" by the Pogues. Her first single, "They Don't Know (Kirsty MacColl song), They Don't Know", would have chart success a few years later when covered by Tracey Ullman. Her death in 2000 led to the "Justice for Kirsty" campaign. Early life and career Kirsty Anna MacColl was born in Croydon, Surrey (now in South London), the daughter of folk music, folk singer Ewan MacColl (1915–1989) and dancer Jean Newlove (1923–2017). Her father was born in Engla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kirstie Levell
Kirstie Levell (born 7 January 1997) is a football goalkeeper for Burnley wearing the number 28 for her brother. She has represented England at under-17, under-19 and under-23 levels. Club career Everton Having been brought up through the Everton youth ranks, Levell made her debut for the first team during the 2015 FA WSL season at the age of 18. She made 16 appearances during her first season and become a regular starter for the Blues. Levell was the starting keeper during the 2017 Spring Series, playing all games as Everton won the WSL 2 title. Following promotion, Everton signed Lizzie Durack to add competition to the goalkeeper group. Levell played every league game during the 2018–19 season. In the 2019–20 season, Everton signed Finnish international Tinja-Riikka Korpela and England youth international Sandy MacIver, limiting Levell to three League Cup appearances. On 28 May 2020, it was confirmed Levell had left Everton following the expiration of her contract. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kirsty Lang
Kirsty Lang (born July 1962) is a British journalist and broadcaster who works for BBC Radio and Television. Earlier in her career, she was on the staff of ''The Sunday Times'' and ''Channel 4 News'', working as a presenter and reporter. Lang was a visiting professor at Columbia University in New York for several months at the beginning of 2012. She chairs the Board of the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead and since 2014 has been on the board of the British Council. Career Lang was raised in various parts of the world; her family were evacuated from Nigeria at the time of the Biafran war in 1967. Lang was educated at private schools including Nishimachi International School in Tokyo, Lauriston Girls' School in Melbourne, Dartington Hall School in Devon, England and the International School of Geneva. She first joined the BBC as a graduate trainee in 1986, having gained an MA in Journalism from City University, London following a degree in International Relation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kirsty Jones
Kirsty Jones is a Welsh professional kitesurfer and pioneer in the sport of kitesurfing. She is a three-time British Kitesurf Champion, three-time Kitesurf World Wave Champion, and two-time Master of the Ocean Champion, and holds world records in long distance and solo kitesurf crossings. Life Jones was born in Carmarthenshire, she made headlines in 2002 when she was the first kitesurfer to cross the Irish Sea, in a charity solo event raising over £5,000 for the Ty Hafan Children's Hospice near Cardiff. She first became UK Women's champion in 2002, and won the PKRA World Championship at the final 2008 event in Essaouira, Morocco Morocco, officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It has coastlines on the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and has land borders with Algeria to Algeria–Morocc .... She is sponsored by Animal, BWSURF, SUSO and SDF. Trophies Results of Kitesurf 2009 Kitesur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Murder Of Kirsty Jones
The murder of Kirsty Jones, a British national on holiday in Thailand, took place in 2000. Jones was found raped and strangled on 10 August in her hotel room in Chiang Mai. The case, which received widespread national and overseas press coverage, went unsolved and was officially closed on the day of the 20th anniversary of the murder when the statute of limitations expired in 2020. According to Thai law, twenty years is the limit for bringing charges in a murder. Jones' killer has not been identified and no one has been charged with her murder. See also * Cold case * List of unsolved murders References External links * Contemporary ''BBC News'''article''pertaining to the murder of Kirsty Jones * 2020 ''ITV News'' article detailing thclosure of the police investigationinto Jones's murder Kirsty Jones British people murdered abroad Female murder victims Murder of Kirsty Jones Tourist murders in Thailand Kirsty Jones Kirsty Jones is a Welsh professional kitesurfer and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kirsty Hume
Kirsty Hume (born 4 September 1976) is a Scottish model who came to prominence in the 1990s. Modeling Hume modelled for Dior, Givenchy, Chanel, Lanvin, Yves Saint Laurent, Christian Lacroix, Gianfranco Ferré, Claude Montana, Alexander McQueen, Giorgio Armani, Gianni Versace, Roberto Cavalli, Prada, Calvin Klein, Ralph Lauren, Oscar de la Renta, Jaeger (clothing), and Donna Karan. She also frequently appeared on the covers of ''Harper's Bazaar'', photographed by Patrick Demarchelier, as well as ''Vogue'', '' W'' and other publications. In 1996 Hume was the feature model for Chanel ads. She has modelled for Victoria's Secret.''Yipes! Catwalkers Discover The Catskills'', New York Times, 28 February 1999, pg. ST1. For the March 1996 Gucci presentation of fall and winter fashion collections in Milan, Hume wore a dress made of white jersey (clothing) with a plunging neckline. Following a showing of Karl Lagerfeld designs for Chanel in 1997 in Paris, Hume was queried by a Russia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kirsty Howard
Kirsty Ellen Howard (20 September 1995 – 24 October 2015) was an English children's hospice advocate known for her fundraising efforts for Francis House Children's Hospice in Didsbury, Manchester. As a patient of the hospice, Howard was the figurehead of the Kirsty's Club (formerly known as the Kirsty's Appeal), a charity dedicated for fundraising for the facility, which was severely underfunded at the time. Her efforts gained national support and attention. At the time of her death, she had raised over £7.5 million for the hospice. Birth and illness Kirsty Howard was born on 20 September 1995 at the Wythenshawe Hospital, Manchester, to Lynn and Steve Howard of Northern Moor, the youngest of three sisters. Shortly after her birth, Howard was discovered to have a serious congenital heart defect: her heart was back to front, causing the misplacement of her internal organs. The condition, a form of situs ambiguus, is exceptionally rare and has an occurrence of one in 60 m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
