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Diane (given Name)
''Alternative spellings include Daiane, Dianne (other), Dianne, Dianna, Dian (other), Dian, Diahann, Dyan, Dyanne and Dyane. See also Di (other), Di and Diana (other), Diana'' Notable people * Diane, Duchess of Württemberg (born 1940), French-German painter, sculptor, writer, and philanthropist * Diane Abbott (born 1953), British politician * Diane Ablonczy (born 1949), Canadian politician * Diane Ackerman (born 1948), American poet, essayist, and naturalist * Diane Adams, Canadian curler * Diane Adehm (born 1970), Luxembourgish politician * Diane Airey (born 1943), Australian politician * Diane Allahgreen (born 1975), British hurdler * Diane Allen (born 1948), American politician * Diane Marie Amann, American law professor * Diane Andersen (born 1934), Belgian pianist * Diane Anderson (born 1960), American politician * Diane Anderson-Minshall (born 1968), American journalist * Diane Arbus (1923-1971), American photographer * Diane Archie, Canadia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daiane
Daiane is a common Portuguese feminine given name (in English ''Diane''). People * Daiane Conterato (1990), Brazilian fashion model * Daiane Limeira (1997), Brazilian footballer * Daiane Rodrigues (footballer, born 1983), Brazilian footballer sometimes known by the demonym Bagé * Daiane Rodrigues (footballer, born 1986), Brazilian footballer * Daiane dos Santos (1983), Brazilian artistic gymnast See also *Diane (given name) ''Alternative spellings include Daiane, Dianne (other), Dianne, Dianna, Dian (other), Dian, Diahann, Dyan, Dyanne and Dyane. See also Di (other), Di and Diana (other), Diana'' Notable people * Diane, Duchess of W ... {{given name Portuguese feminine given names Feminine given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diane Anderson
Diane Anderson (born July 28, 1960) is a Minnesota politician and former member of the Minnesota House of Representatives who represented District 38A, which included portions of the city of Eagan in Dakota County, which is in the southeastern Twin Cities metropolitan area. A Republican, she is also a small business owner. Anderson was first elected to the House in 2010. She served on the Commerce and Regulatory Reform, the Health and Human Services Finance, and the Judiciary Policy and Finance committees. Anderson graduated from the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, earning her B.S. in housing. She is a former member of the Minnesota Department of Human Services Child Support Guidelines Task Force and the Minnesota Supreme Court The Minnesota Supreme Court is the highest court in the U.S. state of Minnesota. The court hears cases in the Supreme Court chamber in the Minnesota State Capitol or in the nearby Minnesota Judicial Center. History The court was first as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diane Barbeau
Diane Barbeau (March 23, 1961 – November 6, 2021) was a Quebec politician. She represented Vanier in the National Assembly of Quebec from 1994 to 2003, as a member of the Parti Québécois (PQ). Barbeau worked as an aide to François Beaulne, the PQ member for Bertrand. She ran for the Parti Québécois in the open seat of Vanier in the 1994, she easily won the seat by almost double the votes than her opponent and was re-elected in the 1998 election. Barbeau served in the government of Lucien Bouchard as a Deputy Whip and as a Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Social Solidarity from January 27, 1999 to March 8, 2001 when Bernard Landry Bernard Landry (; March 9, 1937 – November 6, 2018) was a Canadian politician who served as the 28th premier of Quebec from 2001 to 2003. A member of the Parti Québécois (PQ), he led the party from 2001 to 2005, also serving as the leader ... took over as Premier. She served in his government as Parliamentary Secretar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diane Baker
Diane Carol Baker (born February 25, 1938) is an American actress, producer and educator whose career spanned over 50 years. Early life Baker was born February 25, 1938 at Hollywood Presbyterian Hospital in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California and raised in the Los Angeles neighborhoods of North Hollywood and Studio City. She is the daughter of Dorothy Helen Harrington, who had appeared in several early Marx Brothers movies, and automobile salesman Clyde Lucius Baker. Baker has two younger sisters, Patricia and Cheryl. At age 18, after graduating from Van Nuys High School in 1956, Baker moved to New York to study acting with Charles Conrad and ballet with Nina Fonaroff. Career After securing a seven-year contract with 20th Century Fox in 1958, Baker made her film debut when she was chosen by director George Stevens to play Margot Frank in the 1959 motion picture '' The Diary of Anne Frank''. In the same year, she starred in ''Journey to the Center of the Earth'' with Ja ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diane Bailey
Diane Jane Bailey ( Robb, also Frearson, born 31 August 1943) was an English amateur golfer. She had considerable success as a junior winning the 1961 Girls Amateur Championship and the British girls stroke-play title in 1959 and 1961. She played in the 1962 Curtis Cup team before retiring from competitive golf. She made a return in the late 1960s and played in the 1972 Curtis Cup. Later she captained the team, in 1984, 1986 and 1988. Golf career In 1957, at the age of 14, Bailey played for England in the annual England–Scotland girls match at North Berwick and reached the quarter-finals of the following Girls Amateur Championship before losing to Ruth Porter. In 1959 she won the British Girls' Stroke-play Championship at Whitecraigs, an under-21 event, by a stroke from Jean Letham. Bailey had an exceptional season in 1961. In April she reached the final of the French junior championship losing to Brigitte Varangot, three years her senior, in the final. She reached the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diane Ayala Goldner
Diane Ayala Goldner (born January 9, 1956) is an actress. She is best known for her roles in her husband, John Gulager's film series ''Feast''. Filmography * ''Honeymoon'' (1998) as Laura * ''The Poet Writes His Wife'' (2002) as Caitlan Thomas * ''Adam's Apocalypse'' (2003) as Boss * ''Feast'' (2005) as Harley Mom * ''Vic'' (2006) as Cashier * '' Satanic'' (2006) as Jackie * '' Feast II: Sloppy Seconds'' (2008) as Biker Queen * '' Pulse 2: Afterlife'' (2008) as Mrs. Sorenstram * '' Pulse 3'' (2008) as Sarah Wilkie * '' Feast III: The Happy Finish'' (2009) as Biker Queen * ''The Collector'' (2009) as Gena Morton * '' Halloween II'' (2009) as Jane Salvador * ''Ashes'' (2010) as Homeless Woman * ''This Never Happened'' (2011) as Priscilla * ''The Key to Annabel Lee'' (2011) as The Partner * ''The Night Plays Tricks'' (2011) as D. * ''Stay at Home Dad'' (2012) as Dr. Kravitz * ''Moments'' (2012) as Unknown Role * '' Hatchet III'' (2013) as Elbert * ''Whispers'' (2013) as Dr. Chandle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diane Awerbuck
Diane Awerbuck (born 1 April 1974) is a South African novelist. Her most notable novel, ''Gardening at Night'', won the 2004 Commonwealth Writers' Prize, Best First Book (Africa and the Caribbean), and was shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award. In 2011, her collection of short stories, ''Cabin Fever'', was published by Random House Struik. Her novel, ''Home Remedies'', was published by Random House Struik in August 2012. She was shortlisted for the Caine Prize in 2014, and won the Short Story Day Africa competition the same year. She taught at Rustenburg Girls' High School until 2002. Before this, she worked as a teacher of History at Cedar House; and of Narrative and Aesthetics at AFDA, the film school, both in Cape Town. Her non-fiction has appeared in the ''Mail & Guardian''. She reviews fiction for the South African ''Sunday Times ''The Sunday Times'' is a British Sunday newspaper whose circulation makes it the largest in Britain's quality press ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diane Austin-Broos
Diane Joyce Austin-Broos (born 1946) is an anthropologist from Australia. She is a Professor Emeritus at the University of Sydney; her major research areas are Jamaica and Central Australia. Early life and education Austin-Broos was born in Melbourne in 1946, and attended Hartwell State School and the Methodist Ladies' College in Kew. She won a scholarship to the Australian National University, where she studied philosophy and oriental studies. She also complete a master's degree in philosophy, followed by a short time in a research position for Professor Henry Mayer at the University of Sydney. In 1969 she won a scholarship to the University of Chicago and completed a doctorate in anthropology there in 1974. Austin-Broos returned to Australia the same year. Career Austin-Broos lectured in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at Monash University in Melbourne for over five years; in 1980 moved to a position in anthropology at the University of Sydney. She became a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diane Atkinson
Diane Atkinson is a British historian and writer about women in history including the suffragettes, most recently for the centenary of women getting the vote in the United Kingdom, covering the detailed experiences of campaigning women in ''Rise Up, Women! The Remarkable Lives of the Suffragettes''. Education and personal life Atkinson is a graduate of the University of East Anglia. She married the artist Patrick Hughes in 1986. Career Atkinson was a curator at the Museum of London and prepared their Suffragette exhibition in 1992. Atkinson's book ''Love and Dirt'' about the marriage of Arthur Munby and Hannah Cullwick received reviews and Atkinson contributed to ''Upstairs Downstairs Love'', a Channel Four drama documentary based upon it that was screened on 16 June 2008. She narrated the stage presentation '' Elsie and Mairi Go To War'' at the 2010 Edinburgh Festival. Atkinson also wrote about ''The Criminal Conversation of Mrs Norton'', for Random House (2012). The legal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diane Asitimbay
Diane M. Asitimbay (pronounced (/ə see´tim bai/)) is an American author, poet, teacher and intercultural trainer. Personal life Asitimbay was born on January 26, 1958, and grew up in metropolitan Detroit. Asitimbay's mother was an elementary school teacher and her father was a government employee. Asitimbay has been writing poetry and stories since elementary school. She published her first poem when she was in high school for Pencil Marks, the school's literary magazine. Throughout college, she continued to publish articles, essays, and poems for literary magazines and newspapers. After graduating in international relations from Michigan State University, she moved to New York City. Before writing her first book, she worked at many jobs, including a copy editor for a legal book publisher, a Spanish court interpreter, a political reporter in Mexico for a daily newspaper, and a history teacher in a New York City public high school. Asitimbay currently lives in San Diego, whe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diane Armstrong
Diane Armstrong (born 1939) is an Australian novelist, biographer and freelance journalist and travel writer. Early life and move to Australia Armstrong was born Danuta Julia Boguslawski in 1939 in Kraków, Poland, the family moving to Lwów soon after the Nazi invasion. She came to Australia on the SS ''Derna'' with her parents in November 1948, clearing customs in Melbourne, before disembarking in Brisbane. Six months later the family moving to Sydney. Her father was a dentist who had to re-qualify before he could practice in Australia. Awards and recognition * National Biography Award, shortlisted for ''Mosaic'' * Victorian Premier's Prize for Nonfiction, shortlisted for ''Mosaic'' * New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-Fiction, shortlisted for ''The Voyage of Their Lives'' * Commonwealth Writers' Prize Commonwealth Foundation has presented a number of prizes since 1987. The main award was called the Commonwealth Writers' Prize ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diane Arkenstone
Diane Arkenstone is a New-age singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. She is a opera singer and plays multiple instruments including guitar, keyboard, wood flutes, dulcimer, synthesizers, percussion, metal drum, and kalimbas. Her discography contains over 55 albums spanning a variety of genres. Throughout her career, she has also collaborated creatively as part of the duo, Enaid & Einalem, and with fellow new-age musician, and ex-husband, David Arkenstone, as well as producer Derek Nakamoto. She's also released numerous projects and collaborations through her self-owned label, Neo Pacifica Recordings, including projects under the names Ah Nee Mah and Enaid, and collaborations like Earth Trybe and Marquis Ensemble. About Diane grew up in California on a working cattle ranch. She wrote her first song at the age of three and started playing guitar at the age of seven. Since childhood, she has endured a lifetime of medical ailments resulting from complete AV block (atrial v ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |