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Juanita (given Name)
Juanita is a feminine given name. Juanita is the Spanish diminutive for the name Juana, but it is sometimes given as a name in its own right, across linguistic contexts. English speakers sometimes use a phonetic spelling of the name, such as Waneta or Wanita. Notable holders of the name include: * Juanita Abernathy (1931–2019), American civil rights activist * Juanita Bartlett (1927–2014), American screenwriter * Juanita Broaddrick (born 1942), American nursing home administrator * Juanita Brooks (1898–1989), American historian * Juanita Bynum (born 1959), American gospel singer * Juanita Casey (1925–2012), British writer and animal trainer * Juanita Castro (1933–2023), Cuban dissident, sister of Fidel Castro * Juanita Coco (1975–1993), Australian singer * Juanita Craft (1902–1985), American civil rights activist * Juanita du Plessis (born 1972), Namibian-Afrikaans singer * Juanita Frances (1901–1992), Australian-born British feminist * Juanita García (1943–2014), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juana
Juana is a Spanish language, Spanish female name. It is the feminine form of ''Juan'' (English ''John (given name), John''), and thus corresponds to the English names Jane (given name), Jane, Jean (female given name), Jean, Joan (given name), Joan, and Joanna. The feminine diminutive form (male equivalent to ''Johnny'') is Juanita (given name), Juanita (equivalent to ''Janet (given name), Janet'', ''Janey'', ''Joanie'', etc). It is very common in Spain, the other Spanish-speaking countries around the world, and in the Philippines. The name ''Juana'' may refer to: People *Juana I (1479–1555), Queen of Castile and Aragon *Juana Rosa Aguirre (1877–1963), Chilean first lady *Juana Azurduy de Padilla (1780–1862), South American military leader *Juana Barraza (born 1957), Mexican serial killer *Juana Belén Gutiérrez de Mendoza (1875–1942), Mexican writer *Juana Bormann (1893–1945), German war criminal *Juana Briones de Miranda (1802–1889), American landowner *Juana Castr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juanita Helms
Juanita Lou Helms (; August 3, 1941 - November 7, 2009) was an American politician who served as a member of the Fairbanks North Star Borough Assembly for five years, and then as the first female borough mayor of Fairbanks from 1985 to 1991. During Helms's first term as mayor, she and her administration were criticized for violating borough finance laws with an investment, but was re-elected. Helms worked to establish Fairbanks' ties with the international community through sister city agreements both during and after her tenure as mayor. She was inducted into the Alaska Women's Hall of Fame, and the Juanita Helms Administrative Center in Fairbanks is named after her. Personal life Helms was born Juanita Lou Lauesen in Chicago to Ella Boudry Lauesen and Elstun Lauesen, an engineer. She grew up in Michigan, and her family moved to Alaska in 1951 when her father joined United States Army Corps of Engineers. They moved to Fairbanks he received further employment at the Eielson Air ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juanita Terry Williams
Juanita Terry Williams (January 3, 1925 – August 23, 2000) was an American politician and businesswoman. Williams received her bachelor's degree in elementary education from Savannah State University in 1957 and her master's degree from Clark Atlanta University in 1967. Williams was an African-American and business consultant. Williams served in the Georgia House of Representatives from 1985 to 1991 and was a Democrat. Her husband was Hosea Williams who also served in the Georgia General Assembly. They lived in Atlanta, Georgia. Williams died from thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP) is a blood disorder that results in thrombi, blood clots forming in small blood vessels throughout the body. This results in a thrombocytopenia, low platelet count, hemolytic anemia, low red blood cells d ...; a form of anemia in Atlanta, Georgia. Notes 1925 births 2000 deaths Businesspeople from Atlanta Politicians from Atlanta Clark Atlanta U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juanita Ollie Diffay Tate
Juanita Ollie Diffay Tate (November 23, 1904 – March 21, 1988) was an American economist and college professor. She was chair of the economics department at North Carolina A&T State University. Her students included Jesse Jackson, who named Tate as his most influential teacher in 1977. Early life and education Diffay was born in Birmingham, Alabama, the daughter of James Oliver Diffay and Rosaline (Soselle) Bradford Diffay. Her father owned a large barber shop and was cashier of the Alabama Penny Savings Bank. She attended Talladega College, and graduated from Howard University in 1926. She earned a master's degree from Howard University in 1950, with a thesis titled "An Early Economic Journal ''Ephemerides du Citoyen our Bibliotheque Raisonee des Sciences Morales et Politiques''". She earned a Ph.D. in economics at New York University in 1962, with a dissertation titled "Philip Murray as a Labor Leader". In 1928, Diffay also earned a diploma from the Madame C. J. Walker Agen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juanita Tate
Juanita Tate (1938 – July 5, 2004) was an American community developer who organized and developed real estate to address environmental justice, affordable housing, and economic access for all South Central Los Angeles residents. She is responsible for building housing and a shopping center to eliminate food disparities in South Central Los Angeles after the 1992 Los Angeles riots. She incorporated Concerned Citizens of South Central Los Angeles as a non-profit entity. Concerned Citizens of South Central LA. She was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and relocated to the city of Los Angeles in the early 1980s to help the telephone company prepare for the 1984 Olympics, and be close to her paternal family that migrated from Augusta, Georgia to South Central Los Angeles in 1905. Tate was a member of the City of Los Angeles's Environmental Action Commission from 2002 until her death from complications of a stroke. Juanita Tate Elementary School is built on land seized by the Los ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juanita Spinelli
Evelita Juanita Spinelli (October 17, 1889 – November 21, 1941) nicknamed The Duchess, was the first woman to be executed by the state of California. She was a gangster and ex-wrestler. Criminal history FBI profiler Candice DeLong described Spinelli as a "stone cold psychopath who had no use for anybody, other than what she could get out of them."(''Deadly Women'', season 4, episode 2). Spinelli, who fled Detroit and the so-called Purple Gang she ran with—earning her the nickname "The Duchess"—settled in San Francisco, where she regularly took in young, delinquent, homeless men. She would cook and clean for them and train them to be professional criminals. The men received a ten-dollar weekly allowance, with Spinelli receiving the lion's share of their ill-gotten gains. Her daughter Lorraine, known as "Gypsy", regularly used a honey trap to snare drunken men, who were consequently mugged. On April 8th 1940, two of Spinelli's protégés, Albert Ives and Raymond Sherrod, k ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juanita Sánchez
Juanita Sánchez (died 1992) was an American social worker and social activist in Providence, Rhode Island. The Juanita Sánchez Multi-Services Center and Juanita Sánchez Educational Complex in Providence were named after her. Career Sánchez was a health care outreach worker at the Allen Berry Health Center in Providence. In her role, she improved Latino immigrants' access to healthcare and education in Rhode Island. Sánchez founded ''The Rainbow Center'' out of Hope High School to offer teenage parents support and assist them with staying in school. Impact Sánchez was a "strong driving force in the informal organization of the Latino community during the 1970s and 80s", according to Nuestras Raices Latino Oral History Project of Rhode Island. In 2016, Marta V. Martinez was quoted in ''The Providence Journal'' stating, “More than 20 years after her death, Juanita Sánchez still evokes powerful memories, smiles, tears, advocacy and the act of giving to Latino issues i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juanita Quigley
Juanita Quigley (24 June 1931 – 29 October 2017) was an American child actress in motion pictures of the 1930s and 1940s. She had a sister, Rita Quigley, who was also a child actress. Career Juanita Quigley was billed as "Baby Jane" in several early roles. Her screen debut was as Claudette Colbert's three-year-old daughter in '' Imitation of Life'' (1934). She went on to play featured parts in several films, including ''The Man Who Reclaimed His Head'' (1934) and was Jean Harlow's niece in '' Riffraff'' (1936). Quigley became a familiar face to moviegoers of the era, but major roles for children so young were few and she often played bits as well as featured roles. She was one of the most popular child stars of her day, and was Universal Pictures' youngest star in 1934. Quigley was briefly involved in the ''Our Gang'' film series. In 1940, she was the guest-starring lead in '' The New Pupil'' when cast as Sally, who briefly takes "Alfalfa" (played by Carl Switzer) away from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juanita Parra
Juana (Juanita) Parra (born 19 November 1970) is a Chilean musician, known as the drummer and percussionist of the Chilean progressive rock–folk band Los Jaivas. Joining the band three years after her fathers death, she is the only woman to play in the band over its fifty-year history. Her style of drumming was distinctive and known for successfully mixing Latin and Progressive Rock. She is the daughter of Gabriel Parra, and Eugenia Correa. Gabriel was the original drummer of Los Jaivas. He died in a crash in Peru Peru, officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South America. It is bordered in the north by Ecuador and Colombia, in the east by Brazil, in the southeast by Bolivia, in the south by Chile, and in the south and west by the Pac ... in 1988. Juanita joined the band as the drummer after her father's death. Her first CD with the band was '' Hijos de la tierra'' in 1995. References 1970 births Living people Chilean musicians Women drumme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juanita Nielsen
Juanita Joan Nielsen (; 22 April 1937 – disappeared 4 July 1975) was an Australian newspaper publisher, urban conservationist, and heiress. She disappeared after attending a meeting at the Carousel nightclub (also called Les Girls) in Kings Cross in Sydney on 4 July 1975. Her body has never been found. Nielsen opposed urban development on Victoria Street, Kings Cross, Sydney, initiated by property developer Frank Theeman. She also opposed his development of the nearby suburb of Woolloomooloo. It is generally believed that she was killed because of her conservationism, and there have been strong suspicions of involvement of organised crime and corrupt police. In the early 1980s, two men associated with Kings Cross crime boss Abe Saffron were jailed for conspiracy to kidnap Nielsen based on incidents leading up to her disappearance. A coronial inquest in November 1983 determined that Nielsen had been killed but did not identify how she died or who killed her. In 1994, a Fed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juanita Nathan
Juanita Nathan is a Canadian politician from the Liberal Party of Canada. She was elected Member of Parliament for Pickering—Brooklin in the 2025 Canadian federal election. She was a city councillor for Markham City Council from November 15, 2022 to May 14, 2025. She is of Tamil Canadian Tamil Canadians, or Canadian Tamils, are Canadians of Tamil ethno-linguistic origin. Much of Canada's Tamil diaspora from India and Sri Lanka then majority consist of Sri Lankan Tamil refugees who sought to flee the ethnic tensions during the Sr ... heritage. Electoral record References Living people Liberal Party of Canada MPs 21st-century Canadian women politicians Place of birth missing (living people) Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century members of the House of Commons of Canada Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Ontario Women members of the House of Commons of Canada Canadian people of Tamil descent Ontario municipal councillors 21st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juanita Moore
Juanita Moore (October 19, 1914 – January 1, 2014) was an American film, television, and stage actress. She was the fifth black actor to be nominated for an Academy Awards, Academy Award in any category, and the third in the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, Supporting Actress category at a time when only one black actor, Hattie McDaniel in ''Gone with the Wind (film), Gone with the Wind'' (1939), had won an Oscar. Her most famous role was as Annie Johnson in the film ''Imitation of Life (1959 film), Imitation of Life'' (1959). Early life and career Juanita Moore was born in Greenwood, Mississippi, the daughter of Ella (née Dunn) and Harrison Moore. She had seven siblings (six sisters and one brother). Her family moved in the Great Migration (African American), Great Migration to Los Angeles, where she was raised. Moore first performed as a dancer, part of a chorus line at the Cotton Club before becoming a film Extra (acting), extra while working in theater. Moore ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
