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Georgie
Georgie is a unisex given name, often a hypocorism of Georgina or Georgiana. Bearers of the name include: People Given name or nickname Women * Georgina Born (born 1955), British musician and academic * Georgie Badiel (born 1985), Burkinabé model and activist, Miss Burkina Faso in 2003 and Miss Africa 2004 * Georgie Boynton Child (1873–1945), American efficiency expert, writer and business manager * Georgina Georgie Clarke (born 1984), Australian middle-distance runner * Eileen Georgina Georgie Collins (1925–2017), Canadian actress * Georgina Georgie Crozier (born 1963), Australian politician * Georgie Dagger (born 1997), English rugby league player * Georgiana Drew (1856–1893), American stage actress and comedienne, member of the Barrymore acting family * Georgina Friedrichs (born 1995), Australian rugby sevens player * Georgie Starbuck Galbraith (1909–1980), American poet and writer * Georgie Gardner (born 1970), Australian television and news presenter and jo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Georgie is a unisex given name, often a hypocorism of Georgina or Georgiana. Bearers of the name include: People Given name or nickname Women * Georgina Born (born 1955), British musician and academic * Georgie Badiel (born 1985), Burkinabé model and activist, Miss Burkina Faso in 2003 and Miss Africa 2004 * Georgie Boynton Child (1873–1945), American efficiency expert, writer and business manager * Georgina Georgie Clarke (born 1984), Australian middle-distance runner * Eileen Georgina Georgie Collins (1925–2017), Canadian actress * Georgina Georgie Crozier (born 1963), Australian politician * Georgie Dagger (born 1997), English rugby league player * Georgiana Drew (1856–1893), American stage actress and comedienne, member of the Barrymore acting family * Georgina Friedrichs (born 1995), Australian rugby sevens player * Georgie Starbuck Galbraith (1909–1980), American poet and writer * Georgie Gardner (born 1970), Australian television and news presenter and jour ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georgie Stone
Georgie Robertson Stone (born 2000) is an Australian actress, writer and transgender rights advocate. At the age of 10, Stone was the youngest person to receive hormone blockers in Australia, which set a precedent that eventually changed the law that compelled transgender children and their families to apply to the Family Court of Australia to access stage one treatment. She continues to advocate for transgender children, and is one of the most visible transgender people in Australia. She is also known for her role as Mackenzie Hargreaves in ''Neighbours''. Early life Georgie Stone was born to parents Greg Stone and Rebekah Robertson. Stone attended Elwood College 2013-2018 and was co-school captain in 2018. Stone began studying a Bachelor of Arts at The University of Melbourne in 2019. Career Activism In 2013, Her family and lawyers appealed to the full bench of the Family Court of Australia to change the law so no one have to court for permission to access stage 1 and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georgie Parker (field Hockey)
Georgina "Georgie" Parker (born 26 April 1989) is an Australian rules footballer and former field hockey player for the Hockeyroos. Parker was a member of the Australia women's national field hockey team that were defeated by the Netherlands women's national field hockey team in the final of the 2014 Women's Hockey World Cup, a gold medal winner at the 2014 Commonwealth Games and member of the team that went to the 2016 Summer Olympics. Field hockey Club hockey Parker played club hockey in the Riverland as a junior and later in Adelaide for the Adelaide Hockey Club. She also played a season for the Royal Antwerp Hockey Club in Belgium in 2016/17. State hockey In 2011, Parker was a member of the Australian Hockey League team the SA Suns (formerly Southern Suns) that won the national championship in Darwin. She was the only goalscorer in the grand final winning 1–0 against the NSW Arrows. International hockey Parker has played over 100 international games for the Hockeyroo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georgie Boynton Child
Georgie Smith Boynton Child (August 8, 1873 – December 10, 1945) was an American efficiency expert, writer, and business manager. Early life Georgie Smith Boynton was born in Woodbridge, New Jersey, the daughter of Casimir Whitman Boynton and Eunice Adelia Harriman Boynton. She earned a bachelor's degree from Vassar College in 1895. Her older sister Louise Boynton was the partner and personal secretary of actress Maude Adams, for almost fifty years. Career From 1897 to 1903, Child was co-owner (with her sister Louise) and business manager at the ''Perth Amboy Daily Republican'', a daily newspaper. In 1911, she and her family moved into the Housekeeping Experiment Station in Stamford, Connecticut. Her book, ''The Efficient Kitchen: Definite Directions for the Planning, Arranging, and Equipping of the Modern Labor Saving Kitchen; A Practical Book for the Homemaker'' (1914), was based on the Stamford project. Her advice included tips such as "Keep nothing in the kitchen tha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georgie Gaskin
Georgina Evelyn Cave Gaskin (née France) (8 December 1866 – 29 October 1934), known as Georgie Gaskin, was an English jewellery and metalwork designer, as well as an illustrator. With her husband Arthur Gaskin, Georgie was one of the original members of the Birmingham Group of Artist-Craftsmen which formed around Joseph Southall in the 1890s, and reflected the influence of the Arts and Crafts movement at the Birmingham School of Art under the headmastership of Edward R. Taylor. Georgie France was born in Shrewsbury, the elder daughter of William Hanmer France and Frances Emily Cave-Brown-Cave. She studied at the Birmingham School of Art, while there she met Arthur Gaskin, who also studied, as well as taught, there. They married on 21 March 1894. and had two daughters, Joscelyne (b. 1903) and Margaret (b. 1907). Arthur and Georgie Gaskin began their married life living in Acocks Green, Birmingham, before moving to Olton, Solihull. Another move, in 1924, took them to th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georgie Starbuck Galbraith
Georgie Starbuck Galbraith (1909–1980) was a prolific writer of light verse, and briefly a writer of song lyrics, who lived in Bakersfield, California. Life Georgie Starbuck Galbraith was born on 15 December 1909 in Brownington, Missouri. Her parents were Harry and Eathel (née Munson) Starbuck."Ethel Jacobson"; in ''Gale Literature: Contemporary Authors'' (Farmington Hills, Michigan: Gale, 2003). ''Gale in Context: Biography'' (accessed January 30, 2023). The family moved to California when Georgie was three months old, and in 1916 moved within California from Goshen to Bakersfield, where she remained."Georgie Galbraith is poet of stature", ''The Bakersfield Californian'', 21 May 1966, pp. 12A, 3B. Via Newspaper Archive. She attended Washington Grammar School, Kern County High School, and, for two years, Bakersfield College. The teenage Starbuck acted in a number of plays. A newspaper review of a performance for 2,000 of ''The Biblical Story of Esther'', said that Geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georgie Gardner
Georgie Gardner (born 1 June 1970) is an Australian television and news presenter and journalist. Gardner is currently presenter on ''Nine News#Sydney (New South Wales), Nine News Sydney.'' She has previously been a co-host and news presenter on the Nine Network's breakfast program ''Today (1982 TV program), Today''. Early life Gardner was born in Perth, Western Australia, the daughter of Preston and Ruth. Preston was a stockbroker. He died at the age of 52 from complications during oesophageal cancer surgery. Her maternal grandfather, was an accountant by trade in Perth who became a stock, station and shipping agent in the Kimberley from 1938 to 1970.'We’ve still got some way to go': Georgie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georgie Auld
Georgie Auld (May 19, 1919 – January 8, 1990) was a jazz tenor saxophonist, clarinetist, and bandleader. Early years Auld was born John Altwerger in Toronto, Canada, and moved to Brooklyn, New York, in 1929. Before the family left Canada, Auld's parents bought him an alto saxophone, which he taught himself to play. He later switched to the tenor saxophone after hearing a Coleman Hawkins recording. Career Auld worked with Bunny Berigan, Artie Shaw, Benny Goodman, Erroll Garner, Dizzy Gillespie, Al Porcino, Billy Eckstine, Tiny Kahn, and Frank Rosolino. Primarily a swing saxophonist, he was a member of big bands and led big bands, including Georgie Auld and His Orchestra and Georgie Auld and His Hollywood All Stars. He played rock and roll while working for Alan Freed in 1959. In 1949, Auld played Carl in ''The Rat Race'' in the Ethel Barrymore Theater on Broadway. In 1952, he had a small part in the film '' The Marrying Kind''. In 1977 he played a bandleader in the motio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georgie Aldous
Georgie James Aldous (born 5 July 1998) is a British social activist, model, entrepreneur, YouTuber and influencer. In 2017 he became the first male beauty model for Superdrug, New Look and Primark, after launching a petition in 2016 to get more men on British make-up campaigns. Early life and education Aldous was born in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England and attended Ormiston Venture Academy. Career Aldous began posting vlogs on YouTube in 2013, using it as a way to overcome bullying and anxiety. He received verbal abuse in his hometown of Great Yarmouth for wearing make-up in public. He also stated he had received online abuse, including comments that him wearing make-up was against religion. By the age of 18 he was one of the top male beauty vloggers in the UK and the first British male beauty influencer to feature on Instagram's beauty report. Aldous began experimenting with make-up after being bullied at school as a teenager. In 2016, he began campaigning for more men to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georgie White
Georgie White Clark (1911–1992) was a river-running guide in the Grand Canyon. She was the first woman to run the Grand Canyon as a commercial enterprise, and she introduced several innovations and adjustments to the way that guides ran the Colorado River. In particular, she used large army-surplus rafts, often lashing together multiple rafts, to maintain stability in the large rapids. In 2001, the United States Board on Geographic Names renamed Mile 24 Rapid in her honor.Grand Canyon River Guides''"Georgie Rapid" Official at Federal Level'' Retrieved December 30, 2006.Grand Canyon Treks November 30, 2001. Retrieved December 22, 2006. Early years Born Bessie DeRoss in Oklahoma, she was raised in Denver, Colorado, from the age of nine. She married Harold Clark while still in high school and had a daughter, Sommona Rose, at the age of 17.Jeffrey D. Nichol August 1995. Retrieved December 22, 2006. She moved to Chicago for several years, then to New York City with her husband, find ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georgie Purcell
Georgie Purcell (born 13 July 1992) is an Australian politician. She is a member of the Victorian Legislative Council representing Northern Victoria since November 2022. Purcell is a member of the Animal Justice Party. Early life and education Purcell is a former lawyer and holds a double degree in law and communications/politics. She worked part-time as a stripper, a pole dancer, and a topless waitress while studying at university, but sought to keep it secret from her peers. She resigned these jobs after it was made public without her permission, leading to the development of post-traumatic stress disorder. Early career Following completion of her studies, she worked as a digital campaigner at United Voice (now United Workers Union), a communications adviser at Industry Super Australia, and as Chief of Staff to Andy Meddick prior to being elected to the Victorian Parliament. Parliament Purcell was elected fourth of five members for Northern Victoria in the 2022 Vic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georgie Tunny
Georgina “Georgie” Tunny (born 24 January 1991) is an Australian journalist and television presenter. She is best known for her work as a co-host of Network 10's '' The Project'' and was a presenter on ABC's ''News Breakfast''. Early life and education Tunny was born and raised in Brisbane, Queensland. She attended Brigidine College, Indooroopilly and the University of Queensland, graduating with a double Bachelor degree in Arts and Journalism in 2013. She began her career with an internship at ''The Courier-Mail''. Career News Breakfast In 2012, Tunny joined the ABC becoming a sports presenter on ''News Breakfast'' in 2015. In 2017, Tunny attempted to interview Melbourne Victory football player Mitch Austin. However, after Tunny asking her first question, Austin suffered an apparent panic attack and walked off the set. The incident attracted considerable media attention. Asked about the incident in 2022 during the ''I've Got News For You'' podcast, Tunny described ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
