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Dionne (name)
Dionne is both a modern feminine given name and a French Canadian surname. Antoine Dionne (1641-1721)Dictionnaire Tanguay of Quebec is the earliest known Dionne in North America, and currently all people with the surname Dionne are believed to be descendants of his. People with the name include: Given name * Dionne Brand (born 1953), Canadian writer * Dionne Bromfield (born 1996), British singer * Dionne Brown, English actress * Dionne Bunsha, Indian journalist * Dionne Farris (born 1968), American musician * Dionne Price, American statistician * Dionne Quan (born 1978), American voice actress * Dionne Warwick (born 1940), American singer Surname * Dionne quintuplets, Canadian quintuplets born in 1934 * Amable Dionne (1781–1852), Canadian politician * Benjamin Dionne (1798–1883), Canadian politician * Charles-Eugène Dionne (1908–1984), Canadian politician * Charles-Eusèbe Dionne (1846–1925), French Canadian naturalist * Deidra Dionne (born 1982), Canadian skier * E. J. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Feminine
Femininity (also called womanliness) is a set of attributes, behaviors, and Gender roles, roles generally associated with women and girls. Femininity can be understood as Social construction of gender, socially constructed, and there is also some evidence that some behaviors considered feminine are influenced by both cultural factors and biological factors. To what extent femininity is biologically or socially influenced is subject to debate. It is Sex and gender distinction, conceptually distinct from both the Female, female biological sex and from womanhood, as all humans can exhibit feminine and masculine traits, regardless of sex and gender. Traits traditionally cited as feminine include gracefulness, gentleness, empathy, humility, and Sensitivity (human), sensitivity, though traits associated with femininity vary across societies and individuals, and are influenced by a variety of social and cultural factors. Overview and history Despite the terms ''femininity'' and '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deidra Dionne
Deidra Dionne (born February 5, 1982) is a Canadian freestyle skier. She was born in North Battleford, Saskatchewan. She won bronze in the 2002 Winter Olympics in freestyle aerial ski"National Sport School Opens" , ''Ski and Snowboard Canada'', October 16, 2003. She also won the bronze medal at the 2001 and 2003 FIS World Freestyle Ski Championships. Her health and career appeared in jeopardy on September 1, 2005; when she had a training accident that injured her neck. She came close to being paralyzed. She had to have surgery where two vertebrae in her neck were fused with a titanium plate. A bone graft needed to be taken from her right hip. Eve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Surnames
In many societies, a surname, family name, or last name is the mostly hereditary portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family. It is typically combined with a given name to form the full name of a person, although several given names and surnames are possible in the full name. In modern times most surnames are hereditary, although in most countries a person has a right to change their name. Depending on culture, the surname may be placed either at the start of a person's name, or at the end. The number of surnames given to an individual also varies: in most cases it is just one, but in Portuguese-speaking countries and many Spanish-speaking countries, two surnames (one inherited from the mother and another from the father) are used for legal purposes. Depending on culture, not all members of a family unit are required to have identical surnames. In some countries, surnames are modified depending on gender and family membership status of a person. Compound sur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valérie Dionne
Valérie Dionne (born July 29, 1980) is a Canadian water polo player. She is a member of the national women's water polo team and has competed in five juvenile, 15 provincial, and 11 national championships. In 1999, the FINA Cup team on which she played qualified for the 2000 Summer Olympics, where the team placed fifth in the final results. She was also part of the bronze medal-winning women's water polo team at the 2001 world championships in Fukuoka, Japan Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asia, Asian mainland, it is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan and extends from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea .... See also * Canada women's Olympic water polo team records and statistics * List of World Aquatics Championships medalists in water polo External links * 1980 births Water polo players at the 2000 Summer Olympics Water polo players at the 2004 Summer Olympics ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rita Dionne-Marsolais
Rita Dionne-Marsolais (born April 20, 1947) is a former Quebec politician and economist. She was the Member of National Assembly of Quebec for the riding of Rosemont in the Montreal region and represented the Parti Québécois from 1994 to 2008. Dionne-Marsolais went at the Université de Montréal and obtained a bachelor's degree in economics and a master's degree in econometrics. She later became an economist at Hydro-Québec and was an assistant to the company's president. She was also the vice-president in the development sector for the Société générale de financement. After being the Quebec delegate in New York, she was an economist for Price Waterhouse. In addition, she was an administration member of the Ordre des architectes du Québec, the Quebec Bar, the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, the Saint-Luc Hospital in Montreal and the Board of Trade of Metropolitan Montreal as well as the free trade committee. She would be later involved in politics as the treasurer of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mónica Dionne
Mónica Xóchitl Dionne Lazo (born February 7, 1967) is an American actress born in Waterbury, Connecticut. She is of Mexican descent. Dionne is best known for her roles in telenovelas produced by TV Azteca. She also acted in movies such as ''Sexo, pudor y lágrimas'' where she played the role of "María". In 2007 she played the role of Flavia Portillo de Cisneros in the telenovela A telenovela is a type of a television serial drama or soap opera produced primarily in Latin America. The word combines ''tele'' (for "television") and ''novela'' (meaning "novel"). Similar Drama (film and television), drama genres around the w ... '' Madre Luna''. References External links * 1967 births American actresses of Mexican descent American film actresses American television actresses Actresses from Connecticut Living people 21st-century American women {{US-tv-actor-1960s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maurice Dionne
Maurice Dionne (August 26, 1936 – November 17, 2003) was an educator and politician in the Miramichi River Valley of New Brunswick, Canada. Early life Born in Bath, New Brunswick, Dionne attended teacher's college and taught in a variety of locations, including Baie-Comeau, Quebec, where he met his future wife, Precille. Dionne moved to the Miramichi to become principal of Millerton High School. Political career Dionne was long active in Liberal Party of Canada circles, and was elected to the House of Commons of Canada, serving from 1974 to 1984 and again from 1988 to 1993. He lost his seat in 1984, when Brian Mulroney's Progressive Conservative Party of Canada won the largest landslide in terms of total seats in Canadian history. During these years out of office, he worked in the forestry industry in a consulting capacity. As a Member of Parliament, Dionne's major accomplishments were securing government assistance to aid expansion to the major pulp mill in the valley, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marcel Dionne (politician)
Marcel Dionne (21 November 1931 – 3 March 1998) was a Liberal party member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was born in Saint-Victor-de-Tring, Quebec and became a businessman by career. He won the Chicoutimi electoral district in the 1979 federal election and was re-elected there in 1980. Dionne was defeated in the 1984 election by André Harvey of the Progressive Conservative party. He served in the 31st and 32nd Canadian Parliaments. Dionne died on 3 March 1998 following a heart attack A myocardial infarction (MI), commonly known as a heart attack, occurs when Ischemia, blood flow decreases or stops in one of the coronary arteries of the heart, causing infarction (tissue death) to the heart muscle. The most common symptom .... References External links * 1931 births 1998 deaths Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Quebec Liberal Party of Canada MPs Politicians from Chaudière-Appalaches Politicians from Saguenay, Quebec 20th-c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marcel Dionne
Marcel Elphège Dionne (born August 3, 1951) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey centre (ice hockey), centre. He played 18 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Detroit Red Wings, Los Angeles Kings and New York Rangers between 1971 and 1989. A prolific scorer, he won the Art Ross Trophy as the NHL's leading scorer in 1979–80 NHL season, 1979–80, and recorded List of NHL players with 50-goal seasons, 50 goals or more in a season six times, and List of NHL players with 100-point seasons, 100 points or more in a season 8 times during his career. Internationally Dionne played for the Canada men's national ice hockey team, Canadian national team at two Canada Cups and three Ice Hockey World Championships, World Championships. Dionne was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1992. In 2017 Dionne was named one of the '100 Greatest NHL Players' in history. Early life Dionne was born on August 3, 1951, in Drummondville, Quebec, Canada to Gilbert Sr. and Laur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mahammed Dionne
Mahammed Boun Abdallah Dionne (22 September 1959 – 5 April 2024) was a Senegalese politician who served as the Prime Minister of Senegal from 2014 to 2019. He was the third prime minister appointed by President Macky Sall. Dionne served at the Central Bank of West African States, the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (ONUDI), and as the advisor of the president, before his appointment as prime minister. He was a computer engineer by training. Early life Dionne was born in Gossas on 22 September 1959. When his mother gave birth to him, she took refuge in a locality where her grandmother lived. His father worked as a police commissioner. Political career Dionne worked as a computer engineer specializing in applied economics, and worked in a West African bank and as head of the Economic Office at the Senegalese Embassy in France. He was Director of the Cabinet of Prime Minister Macky Sall from 2005 to 2007, and when Sall moved to the post of President of the N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ludger Dionne
Ludger Dionne (March 1, 1888 – June 4, 1962) was a Canadian businessman and a politician, who represented the electoral district of Beauce in the House of Commons of Canada from 1945 to 1949. As a businessman, he operated a shoe factory, a heel factory and a rayon mill in Saint-Georges. He was first elected to the House of Commons in the 1945 election. When faced with a worker's strike in his rayon mill in 1947, Dionne went to Poland and "hired" 100 Polish Catholic women and emigrated them to Canada to work as either nuns or to work in his rayon mill. During his visit to Poland, he was interviewed by Will Lang Jr. of ''Life Life, also known as biota, refers to matter that has biological processes, such as Cell signaling, signaling and self-sustaining processes. It is defined descriptively by the capacity for homeostasis, Structure#Biological, organisation, met ...'' and discussed with Lang his intentions. When Dionne returned to Canada, the striking workers p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kim Yi Dionne
Kim Yi Dionne (born 1977) is an American political scientist specializing in politics and public opinion in African countries. She is an associate professor at the University of California, Riverside. Her book ''Doomed Interventions'' examines why HIV/AIDS interventions on the African continent have failed to lower transmission rates despite being among the most richly funded human welfare efforts in history. Dionne was also a senior editor at The Monkey Cage, a political science and current events blog at ''The Washington Post'', and serves on the advisory board of Women Also Know Stuff, which promotes the expertise of women in political science. Early life and education Dionne was born in 1977 on the Castle Air Force Base. Her mother, Chong Hui Kim Shimakawa, was from a rural village in Korea. She earned a B.A. in political science and international relations (1999), M.A. (2007) and Ph.D. (2010) in political science from the University of California, Los Angeles, where she w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
