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Kathy Scruggs
Kathy is a feminine given name. It is a pet form of Katherine, Kathleen and their related forms. Kathy may refer to: People In sports *Kathy Bald (Born 1963), Canadian freestyle swimmer *Kathy May (Born 1956), American tennis player *Kathy Radzuweit (Born 1980), German volleyball player *Kathy Smallwood-Cook (Born 1960), British Olympic athlete *Kathy Sheehy (Born 1970), American water polo player * Kathy Tough (Born 1969), Canadian volleyball player *Kathy Watt (Born 1964), Australian female cycle racer *Kathy Weston (Born 1958), American middle distance runner *Kathy Foster (basketball) (Born 1960), Australian basketball player In television and film *Kathy Bates (Born 1948), American actress and director *Kathy Burke (Born 1964), British actress *Kathy Chow (1966–2023), Hong Kong actress and singer *Kathy Garver, American television, stage, screen, and voice actress *Kathy Greenwood (Born 1962), Canadian comedian and actress *Kathy Griffin (Born 1960), American stand-u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katherine
Katherine (), also spelled Catherine and Catherina, other variations, is a feminine given name. The name and its variants are popular in countries where large Christian populations exist, because of its associations with one of the earliest Christian saints, Catherine of Alexandria. In the early Christian era it came to be associated with the Greek adjective (), meaning 'pure'. This influenced the name's English spelling, giving rise to variants ''Katharine'' and ''Catharine''. The spelling with a middle 'a' was more common in the past. ''Katherine'', with a middle 'e', was first recorded in England in 1196 after being brought back from the Crusades. Popularity and variations Anglophone use In Britain and America, ''Catherine'' and its variants have been among the 100 most popular names since 1880. Amongst the most common variants are ''Katherine'' and ''Kathryn''. The spelling ''Catherine'' is common in both English and French language, French. Less-common variants in E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kathy (TV Series)
Kathy is a feminine given name. It is a pet form of Katherine, Kathleen and their related forms. Kathy may refer to: People In sports * Kathy Bald (Born 1963), Canadian freestyle swimmer * Kathy May (Born 1956), American tennis player * Kathy Radzuweit (Born 1980), German volleyball player * Kathy Smallwood-Cook (Born 1960), British Olympic athlete * Kathy Sheehy (Born 1970), American water polo player * Kathy Tough (Born 1969), Canadian volleyball player * Kathy Watt (Born 1964), Australian female cycle racer * Kathy Weston (Born 1958), American middle distance runner *Kathy Foster (basketball) (Born 1960), Australian basketball player In television and film *Kathy Bates (Born 1948), American actress and director * Kathy Burke (Born 1964), British actress * Kathy Chow (1966–2023), Hong Kong actress and singer * Kathy Garver, American television, stage, screen, and voice actress * Kathy Greenwood (Born 1962), Canadian comedian and actress * Kathy Griffin (Born 1960), Amer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kathy Cox (American Politician)
Kathy Cox (born August 10, 1964) is a former superintendent of public schools for the U.S. state of Georgia, and is a Republican. A high school teacher by occupation, Cox also served two terms, from 1998 to 2002, in the Georgia House of Representatives, representing Peachtree City, Georgia, prior to her election as superintendent in 2002. Cox sought re-election in 2006, defeating Democratic challenger Denise Majette (a former U.S. representative), earning almost 60 percent of the vote. Cox is not related to Cathy Cox, a Democrat who was Georgia's elected secretary of state from 1999 until 2007. The similarity in names became the subject of mostly humorous news stories in 2002, when Kathy Cox's defeated opponent, Barbara Christmas, complained that she had lost because of voter confusion between the two Coxes. On September 5, 2008, Cox made history for an American television game show '' Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?'' to win the $1,000,000 top prize (and the first to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kathy Young
Kathy Young (born October 21, 1945) is an American musician; she was a teen pop singer during the early 1960s, whose rendition of " A Thousand Stars", at age 15, rose to No. 3 on ''Billboard'' Hot 100. Biography A native of Southern California, Young was born in the Orange County seat, Santa Ana. She rose to stardom in 1960, when producer Jim Lee of Indigo Records chose a Sun Valley-based band, The Innocents, to sing back-up vocals for her on a cover version of The Rivileers' 1954 recording of "A Thousand Stars". Two years earlier Lee had organized The Innocents for an appearance on Wink Martindale's pop music TV show. In December 1960, two months after her 15th birthday, Kathy Young and The Innocents peaked at No. 6 on the R&B Singles chart, and at No. 3 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100. Billboard Singles Allmusic.com Young's follow-up, "Happy Birthday Blues", peaked at No. 30 on the Hot 100 in 1961. Subsequent singles, such as "Magic Is the Night" an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kathy Valentine
Kathryn Valentine (born January 7, 1959) is an American musician who is the bassist for the rock band the Go-Go's. She has maintained a career in music through songwriting, recording, performing and touring as well as additional academic and creative pursuits. Valentine was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in October 2021 as a member of The Go-Go's. Early life Valentine was born on January 7, 1959, in Austin, Texas, an only child who was raised by her single mother, an English expatriate. In 9th grade she began playing guitar after she moved from public school to an alternative school called Greenbriar. In 1973, while visiting England with her mother, she happened to see Suzi Quatro on ''Top Of The Pops'', and said it "blew her mind". It had never occurred to her that a woman could be a rock star. She returned to Austin, got an electric guitar and amp, and began looking for bandmates. She credits the Austin music scene for her diverse musical roots, in particular Ji ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kathy Mattea
Kathleen Alice Mattea (born June 21, 1959) is an American country music and bluegrass singer. Active since 1984 as a recording artist, she has charted more than 30 singles on the ''Billboard'' Hot Country Songs charts, including four that reached No. 1: " Goin' Gone", " Eighteen Wheels and a Dozen Roses", " Come from the Heart", and " Burnin' Old Memories", plus 12 more that charted within the top ten. She has released 14 studio albums, two Christmas albums, and one greatest hits album. Most of her material was recorded for Universal Music Group Nashville's Mercury Records Nashville 8division between 1984 and 2000, with later albums being issued on Narada Productions, her own Captain Potato label, and Sugar Hill Records. Among her albums, she has received five gold certifications and one platinum certification from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). She has collaborated with Dolly Parton, Michael McDonald, Tim O'Brien, and her husband, Jon Vezner. M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kathy Linden
Kathy Linden (born 1938) (died 2024) is an American pop singer from Moorestown Township, New Jersey. She grew up in Burlington, New Jersey. Biography Linden scored two big hits on the U.S. ''Billboard'' Hot 100 late in the 1950s. The first was " Billy", a song originally written in 1911; it hit number seven in 1958.Joel Whitburn, ''The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits''. 7th edn, 2000 The second was " Goodbye Jimmy, Goodbye", a song written by a radio program director named Jack Vaughn; it rose to number eleven in 1959. Both singles were released on Felsted Records and featured Joe Leahy's backing orchestra. Linden was known for having a breathy, childlike voice, even as a married woman in her 20s. Linden's talents appeared early. Her first public appearance was as a tap and ballet dancer when she was five years old. Since then, she acted in school plays and musicals, appeared in public pageants, played piano and violin in several local symphony orchestras, and with an all-gir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kathy Leander
Switzerland has been represented at the Eurovision Song Contest 65 times since its debut at the first contest in , missing only four contests because of being relegated due to poor results the previous year: , , , and . Switzerland hosted the inaugural contest in 1956 in Lugano, where it also won. The country claimed its second victory in , 32 years after the first, and its third in , 36 years after the second win. The Swiss participating broadcaster in the contest is the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation (SRG SSR). "" performed by Lys Assia won the inaugural contest in 1956 for Switzerland; she returned to place second in with "Giorgio". The country achieved second place with "" by Esther Ofarim () and "" by Daniela Simmons (), and third place with "" by Franca di Rienzo () and "" by Arlette Zola (). It won for the second time in 1988 with "" performed by Céline Dion. "" by Annie Cotton secured Switzerland's 15th top-five finish by placing third in . Since the introduction ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kathy Kirby
Kathy Kirby (born Catherine Ethel O'Rourke; 20 October 1938 – 20 May 2011) was an English singer. She is best known for her cover version of Doris Day's " Secret Love" and for representing the United Kingdom in the 1965 Eurovision Song Contest where she finished in second place. Her popularity peaked in the 1960s, when she was one of the best-known and most-recognised personalities in British show business. Early life Kirby was born in Ilford, Essex, (later part of Greater London), the eldest of three children of Irish parents. Her mother Eileen brought them up alone after their father left early in their childhood. Kirby grew up on Tomswood Hill, Barkingside, in Ilford, and attended the Ursuline Convent School where she sang in the choir. Career Kirby's vocal talent became apparent early in life, and she took singing lessons with a view to becoming an opera singer. She became a professional singer after meeting bandleader Bert Ambrose at the Ilford Palais in 1956. She ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kathy Foster (musician)
Kathleen Michelle "Kathy" Foster is an American musician best known as the bassist for the indie rock band The Thermals and drummer for the All Girl Summer Fun Band. Foster was raised Catholic in Sunnyvale, California and moved to Portland, Oregon in 1998. With Thermals bandmate Hutch Harris, she was in Haelah, Hutch and Kathy, and Urban Legends. With Foster on bass guitar, the Thermals became a mainstay of the Portland indie rock scene beginning in 2003. She continued to record and tour with the band until their 2018 dissolution. Foster also recorded drums on two of the band's seven albums, '' The Body, the Blood, the Machine'' (2006) and '' Now We Can See'' (2009). She also performs under the name Butterfly Transformation Service. She is the owner of the T-shirt company Daydream Factory. References External links *Kathy Fosterat Discogs Discogs ( ; short for " discographies") is a database of information about audio recordings, including commercial releases, prom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kathy Yuen
Kathy Yuen, better known as Tong Yee is an actress from Hong Kong. She is signed under the Emperor Entertainment Group label. She was cast as a helper girl in '' Beautiful Cooking'' in 2006 prior to becoming an actress. In 2021, Kathy announced her pregnancy and wedding with Shing Mak. Jaynestars.com. 2021-01-26 Filmography Film Television series References External links *Kathy Yuenon Sina WeiboKathy Yuenon Instagram Instagram is an American photo sharing, photo and Short-form content, short-form video sharing social networking service owned by Meta Platforms. It allows users to upload media that can be edited with Social media camera filter, filters, be ...Kathy's Xanga {{DEFAULTSORT:Yuen, Kathy 1988 births Living people 21st-century Hong Kong actresses Hong Kong film actresses ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kathy Staff
Kathy Staff (born Minnie Higginbottom; 12 July 1928 – 13 December 2008) was an English actress known for her work on British television. She is best known for her portrayal of Nora Batty in ''Last of the Summer Wine'', the longest running sitcom in the world. Career Early career She began her acting career with touring repertory companies in 1946, changing her name to Katherine Brant. After she married John Staff in 1951, she adopted the surname as her stage name, hence Kathy Staff. She retired from the stage at this point to raise her family, but started working as an extra for Granada Television in Manchester in the 1960s. In her autobiography, Staff revealed herself to be a Conservative, and noted that she had once stood as an election candidate for the party. This appears to have been in 1971, when a Ms. M. Staff contested the Central ward in the Municipal Borough of Dukinfield. The seat was comfortably held by Labour, with the Liberals beating all three Conservative c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
