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Elo (name)
Elo is a surname and a unisex given name. Notable people with the name are as follows: Surname * Arpad Elo (1903–1992), Hungarian-American creator of the Elo rating system * Colmán Elo (555–611), Irish saint * Dor Elo (born 1993), Israeli football player * Eero Elo (born 1990), Finnish ice hockey player * Jaakko Elo (1925–2017), Finnish physician * Jere Elo (born 1992), Finnish ice hockey player * Jorma Elo (born 1961), Finnish choreographer * Michael Elo (born 1949), Danish musician * Olavi Elo (1913–1979), Finnish sports shooter * Pentti Elo (1929–1991), Finnish hockey player * Simon Elo (born 1986), Finnish politician * Tiina Elo (born 1971), Finnish politician * Unto Elo (born 1944), Finnish sprint canoer Given name *Elo Edeferioka (born 1993), Nigerian basketball player *Elo Hansen (born 1945), Danish badminton player *Elo Romančík (1922–2012), Slovak actor *Elo Sambo (1885–1933), Cameroonian-German soldier *Elo Tostenæs (born 1935), Danish rower *El ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arpad Elo
Arpad Emmerich Elo ( August 25, 1903 – November 5, 1992) was a Hungarian-American physics professor who created the Elo rating system for two-player games such as chess. Born in Egyházaskesző, Kingdom of Hungary, he moved to the United States with his parents in 1913. He obtained his BSc and MSc degrees in 1925 and 1928, respectively, both from the University of Chicago, where he also played chess in the Chicago Chess League. Starting from 1926 until his retirement in 1969, he was a physics instructor at Marquette University in Milwaukee. By the 1930s he was the strongest chess player in Milwaukee, at the time one of the nation's leading chess cities. He won the Wisconsin State Championship eight times, and was the 11th person inducted into the World Chess Hall of Fame. He also served as the president of American Chess Federation (predecessor of United States Chess Federation) for terms 1935 and 1936. Elo died of a heart attack at his home in Brookfield, Wisconsin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Unto Elo
Unto Elo (born November 29, 1944, in Helsinki) is a Finnish sprint canoer who competed in the mid-1970s. He was eliminated in the repechages of the K-4 1000 m event at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Quebec Montreal is the List of towns in Quebec, largest city in the Provinces and territories of Canada, province of Quebec, the List of the largest municipalities in Canada by population, second-largest in Canada, and the List of North American cit ..., Canada. ReferencesSports-Reference.com profile External links * 1944 births Living people Canoeists from Helsinki Canoeists at the 1976 Summer Olympics Finnish male canoeists Olympic canoeists for Finland 20th-century Finnish sportsmen {{Finland-canoe-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Estonian Feminine Given Names
Estonian may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to Estonia, a country in the Baltic region in northern Europe * Estonians, people from Estonia, or of Estonian descent * Estonian language * Estonian cuisine * Estonian culture See also * * Estonia (other) * Languages of Estonia The official language of Estonia is Estonian language, Estonian, a Uralic languages, Uralic language of the Finnic languages, Finnic branch, which is related to Finnish language, Finnish. It is unrelated to the bordering Russian language, Russian ... * List of Estonians {{Disambiguation Language and nationality disambiguation pages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Danish Masculine Given Names
Danish may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to the country of Denmark People * A Danish person, also called a "Dane", can be a national or citizen of Denmark (see Demographics of Denmark) * Culture of Denmark * Danish people or Danes, people with a Danish ancestral or ethnic identity * A member of the Danes, a Germanic tribe * Danish (name), a male given name and surname Language * Danish language, a North Germanic language used mostly in Denmark and Northern Germany * Danish tongue or Old Norse, the parent language of all North Germanic languages Food * Danish cuisine * Danish pastry, often simply called a "Danish" See also * Dane (other) * * Gdańsk Gdańsk is a city on the Baltic Sea, Baltic coast of northern Poland, and the capital of the Pomeranian Voivodeship. With a population of 486,492, Data for territorial unit 2261000. it is Poland's sixth-largest city and principal seaport. Gdań ... * List of Danes * Languages of Denmark {{disambi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Finnish-language Surnames
Finnish (endonym: or ) is a Finnic languages, Finnic language of the Uralic languages, Uralic language family, spoken by the majority of the population in Finland and by ethnic Finns outside of Finland. Finnish is one of the two official languages of Finland, alongside Swedish language, Swedish. In Sweden, both Finnish and Meänkieli (which has significant mutual intelligibility with Finnish) are official minority languages. Kven language, Kven, which like Meänkieli is mutually intelligible with Finnish, is spoken in the Norway, Norwegian counties of Troms and Finnmark by a minority of Finnish descent. Finnish is morphological typology, typologically agglutinative language, agglutinative and uses almost exclusively Suffix, suffixal affixation. Nouns, adjectives, pronouns, Numeral (linguistics), numerals and verbs are inflection, inflected depending on their role in the Sentence (linguistics), sentence. Sentences are normally formed with subject–verb–object word order, alth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elo Viiding
Elo Viiding (pen name, Elo Vee; born 20 March 1974) is an Estonians, Estonian poet and prose writer. Family Viiding is the third poet in her family. Her father, Juhan Viiding was a famous and influential poet in the 1970s. He was also an actor. Her paternal grandfather, Paul Viiding, was a poet, author and literary critic and member of Arbujad in the 1930s, and her paternal grandmother was translator :et:Linda Viiding, Linda Viiding. Her maternal grandfather, Kaljo Kiisk, was an actor, film director and politician. Viiding's mother Riina was a music teacher. Education Viiding, inspired by her father's career as an actor and her mother's love for music, graduated from school in 1999 as an actress. She studied violin. Literary career Viiding debuted under a pseudonym ("Elo Vee") in 1991. She published four anthologies under her pseudonym. After her father's death in 1995, she began to publish her works under her real name. Themes and style Viiding writes mainly about the oppre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elo Tostenæs
Elo Tostenæs (born 9 September 1935) is a Danish rower. He competed at the 1956 Summer Olympics and the 1960 Summer Olympics The 1960 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XVII Olympiad () and commonly known as Rome 1960 (), were an international multi-sport event held from 25 August to 11 September 1960 in Rome, Italy. Rome had previously been awar .... References 1935 births Living people Danish male rowers Olympic rowers for Denmark Rowers at the 1956 Summer Olympics Rowers at the 1960 Summer Olympics Rowers from Copenhagen 20th-century Danish sportsmen {{Denmark-rowing-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elo Sambo
Elo Sambo (1885–1933) was a Cameroonian who served in the Imperial German Army in World War I, notable for being one of very few Africans to do so. He served as the kettle drummer in the Life Guard Hussars of Potsdam (1907–18) and later the 4th Cavalry Regiment of the Reichswehr, also at Potsdam. During his service he was a favorite drummer of German Kaiser Wilhelm II, German Emperor. He was awarded the Iron Cross, first and second class. While serving on the Eastern Front he became wounded and after recuperating joined the German effort with its ally, the Ottoman Empire. It was here he became a POW, returning to Germany in 1919. Post war The former German Kaiser Wilhelm II, German Emperor, who abdicated in 1918, was able to use his contacts to get Sambo a job Den Linden in a baby blue uniform as a "taxicab man" at the prestigious Berlin hotel, Hotel Adlon. The paper noted Sambo "is a great linguist and speaks fluent German, even rolling his R's in German fashion. See also *Ge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elo Romančík
Emanuel "Elo" Romančík (17 December 1922 in Ružomberok – 9 October 2012 in Bratislava) was a Slovak actor. He starred in the 1970 film ''Witchhammer'' under director Otakar Vávra. Selected filmography * 1951 '' Boj se skončí zítra'' (Jakub) * 1953 ''Pole neorané'' (Pavel Húščava) * 1953 ''Rodná zem'' (Jurek) * 1956 ''Prověrka lásky'' (Juraj Horálik) * 1957 ''Dovidenia Lucienne'' * 1959 ''Dům na rozcestí'' (MUDr. Juraj Belan) * 1959 ''Kapitán Dabač'' (Pavol Garaj) * 1960 ''Na pochodu se vždy nezpívá'' (Martin Gonda) * 1960 ''Tři tuny prachu'' (Spára) * 1961 ''Králíci ve vysoké trávě'' (otec) * 1961 ''Pokořené řeky'' (Ján Kolesár) * 1962 ''Půlnoční mše'' (dr. Harman) * 1967 ''Volání démonov'' (ředitel Černek) * 1970 ''Witchhammer ''Witchhammer'' () is a 1970 Czechoslovak drama film directed by Otakar Vávra and starring Elo Romančík. Based on the novel '' Kladivo na čarodějnice'' by Václav Kaplický, ''Witchhammer'' relates t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elo Hansen
Elo Hansen is a retired male badminton player from Denmark who won international titles in all three events (singles, doubles, and mixed doubles) from the late 1960s through the mid-1970s. Career Hansen won the gold medal at the 1970 European Badminton Championships in men's doubles with Per Walsøe and the silver medal in singles in the same tournament. He was a singles silver medalist again at the European Championships in 1976. A highly impressive shotmaker, Hansen played in four consecutive Thomas Cup (men's international team) campaigns for Denmark, ( '66–'67, '69–'70, '72–'73, '75–'76), but never overtook his contemporary, Svend Pri, as Denmark's leading player of that era. Hansen's international singles titles included the French Open (1969), the Dutch Open (1970), the Sw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elo Edeferioka
Elo Edema Edeferioka (born 10 April 1993) is a Nigerian basketball player for Celta de Vigo Baloncesto and the Nigerian national team. She participated at the 2018 FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup The 2018 FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup, the 18th edition of FIBA's premier international tournament for women's national basketball teams, was held in Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain from 22 to 30 September 2018. This was the first edition to .... Hofstra statistics Source References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Edeferioka, Elo 1993 births Living people Centers (basketball) Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets women's basketball players Life Center Academy alumni Nigerian expatriate basketball people in the United States Nigerian expatriate basketball people in Spain Nigerian women's basketball players 21st-century Nigerian sportswomen Sportspeople from Warri Nigeria women's national basketball team players ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tiina Elo
Tiina Susanna Elo (born 21 January 1971 in Helsinki) is a Finnish politician currently serving in the Parliament of Finland for the Green League at the Uusimaa Uusimaa (; , ; both lit. 'new land') is a region of Finland. It borders the regions of Southwest Finland, Tavastia Proper (Kanta-Häme), Päijänne Tavastia (Päijät-Häme), and Kymenlaakso. Finland's capital and largest city, Helsinki, alo ... constituency. Background, education and career Elo was born in Helsinki, but the family moved to Espoo when Elo was three years old. Elo has a Master's degree in Agriculture and Forestry from the University of Helsinki, majoring in Environmental Protection. Elo has spent most of his career working for the Greens. He has worked as the Executive Director of the Espoo Greens and the Uusimaa Greens, as well as the Greens' Head of Office and Head of Municipal Affairs. Before joining the Greens, Elo worked on projects in environmental education and environmental consultancy fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
