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Leena
Leena is a feminine given name. It is a variant spelling of Lina and Lena (name), Lena. It is a direct Quranic Arabic name, meaning "young palm tree", or figuratively "tender, young, delicate". In Persian, it means "light", "a ray of sunlight" or "beautiful girl". In Kurdish, it means cascade falls (تئاڤگەی بچوک). Notable people with the name include: * Leena (model) (born 1990), Japanese fashion model * Leena Alam, Afghan film actress * Leena Khamis (born 1986), Australian football player of Assyrian-Iraqi descent * Leena Chandavarkar (born 1950), Indian Bollywood actress * Leena Dhingra, British Asian actress * Leena Gade (born c. 1975), British race engineer * Leena Günther (born 1991), German sprint athlete * Leena Harkimo (born 1963), Finnish politician and business executive * Leena Häkinen (1928–1990), Finnish stage, film and television actress * Leena Jumani, Indian actress and model * Leena Kapoor (born 1994), Indian model and actress * Leena Krohn (born 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leena Nair
Leena Nair (née Menon; born 1969) is a British-Indian business executive who is the chief executive officer (CEO) of Chanel. Nair was previously Unilever's chief human resource officer and a Unilever leadership executive member. Nair was responsible for the human capital of Unilever, which operates across multiple regulatory and labor environments spread over 190 countries. Nair is an advocate for human-centered workplaces and compassionate leadership. In 2025, Nair honored with Order of the British Empire by William, Prince of Wales, Prince William. Early life and education Nair was born to a Hindu Malayali family in Kolhapur, Maharashtra, on June 11, 1969. She was a part of the first female cohort to graduate from Holy Cross Convent High School Kolhapur. Nair then became the first woman in her family to pursue higher education. After completing her bachelor's degree in electronics and telecommunication (E&TC) Engineering at Walchand College of Engineering, Sangli (Maharashtra) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leena Manimekalai
Leena Manimekalai is an Indian filmmaker, poet and an actor. Her works include five published poetry anthologies and several films in genres, documentary, fiction and experimental poem films. She has been recognised with participation, mentions and best film awards in many international and national film festivals. Films and activism After a brief period as an assistant director with mainstream filmmakers and an intensive experience as a Television Producer and Anchor, she debuted in 2002 with the short documentary film ''Mathamma''. The 20-minute-long docu-fiction is about devoting girl children to the deity, a practice prevalent among the Arundhatiyar community in Mangattucheri village near Arakkonam, Chennai. Her other films too deal with the issues of the marginalised. ''Parai'' is a film on violence against Dalit women. She went on the road with her films across hundreds of villages serving her videos a tool for participatory dialogue with the masses on compelling issues ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leena La Bianca
Leena or Leena La Bianca (born January 5, 1963) is a former pornographic actress. Early life She grew up in Denver, Colorado. She began in the amateur side of the pornography industry before moving to California to become a full-time pornographic actress, with her professional pornographic debut in a movie also entitled ''Leena'' (1992). self-titled professional debut film, reviewed by Thomas McMahon, '' Adult Video News'', December 1992. Career She has appeared in the Showtime cable series ''Sherman Oaks'' (1995) and softcore B-movies, such as ''Other Men's Wives'' (1996) and ''Femalien'' (1996). She has also acted in theater in the 1996 play ''Sweet Hostage'' and in 1998, she was in The Actors' Gang play, ''Steeltown''. Awards * 1994 AVN Award - Best Actress, Video (''Blinded by Love'') * 1994 XRCO Award - Best Actress, Single Performance (''Blinded by Love'') * 1995 AVN Award - Best Group Sex Scene, Video (''Pussyman 5'') * 1995 XRCO Award - Female Performer of the Year ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leena Gade
Leena Gade is a British race engineer who has served as a lead race engineer in the FIA World Endurance Championship and IndyCar race series. In 2011, she became the first female race engineer to win the 24 Hours of Le Mans. In 2012, she won the FIA World Endurance Championship's 'Man of the Year' award and the C&R Racing Woman in Technology Award. She is also an Ambassador of the FIA Commission for Women in Motorsport. Early life and education Leena Gade was born in Perivale, United Kingdom, the daughter of Indian immigrants. She is one of three sisters. She grew up in England with the exception of the three years between the ages of 9 and 12, which her family spent in India. During that time she and her younger sister Teena became interested in engineering. When they returned to England both girls started watching Formula One racing. Gade has said that they became "obsessive" fans, attracted not by the sport's glamour but by their fascination with "what the machines could do" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leena Yadav
Leena Yadav (born 6 January 1971) is an Indian film director, producer, screenwriter and editor. She started her career in the television industry and gradually moved on to making feature films. Her first international feature film, ''Parched'', premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2015. Early life and education Born to an Indian Army general in Madhya Pradesh, she graduated with Economics honours from Lady Shri Ram College for Women, Delhi. She did Mass Communications from Sophia College, Mumbai. Personal life She is married to Aseem Bajaj (son of Ram Gopal Bajaj and maternal grandson of Khemchand Prakash), who is an Indian cinematographer and film producer well known for his poetic imagery on films like Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi, Shabd, Teen Patti, U Me Aur Hum and Chameli to name a few. She met Aseem while directing her first TV show ''This Week That Year''. Filmography Having captivated by the job of ''Film editing'', while she was working with a dip ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leena Peltonen-Palotie
Leena Peltonen-Palotie (16 June 1952 – 11 March 2010) was a Finnish geneticist who contributed to the identification of 15 genes for Finnish heritage diseases, including arterial hypertension, schizophrenia, lactose intolerance, arthrosis and multiple sclerosis. She was considered one of the world's leading molecular geneticists. Biography Peltonen-Palotie was born in Helsinki, but her family moved to Oulu when she was five years old. She completed her secondary education at the Finnish Co-educational Lycée of Oulu, graduating in 1971. Peltonen-Palotie went on to study medicine, receiving her Licentiate of Medicine degree in 1976, and completed her doctoral thesis at the University of Oulu in 1978. Peltonen-Palotie worked at the National Public Health Institute of Finland from 1987 to 1998. From 1998 to 2002 she helped found the UCLA Department of Human Genetics. She had a professorial position in the Academy of Finland since 2003. In April 2005 Peltonen-Palotie was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leena Chandavarkar
Leena Chandavarkar (born 29 August 1950) is an Indian actress who appeared in Hindi films as a leading actress and now appears in reality shows. She was active during the late 1960s and early 1970s. She played the leading heroine opposite almost all the veteran actors of that era and was frequently paired with Rajesh Khanna, Dharmendra, Jeetendra, Sanjeev Kumar, Vinod Khanna, Shammi Kapoor, Dilip Kumar, Sunil Dutt, and Raaj Kumar. Biography Leena Chandavarkar was born to an army officer Sreenath Chandavarkar at Dharwad in Karnataka in 1950. She was supposed to debut with the film Maseeha (1967) opposite Sunil Dutt costarring Raaj Kumar and Mumtaz too under the direction of Sunil Dutt himself. The film got shelved and she made her debut under the direction of Sunil Dutt with the movie Man ka Meet in 1968. The movie was a hit and she became an overnight star. She was one of the topmost heroines in early 70s alongside Hema Malini and Mumtaz. She had an elder brother Anil Chan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leena Jumani
Leena Jumani is an Indian actress and model, best known as Tanushree Mehta in ''Kumkum Bhagya''. She played Khemi, a poor village girl, in the television series '' Bandini''. This was followed with the role of Suhasi in the show '' Koi Aane Ko Hai''. She appeared in a special episode of '' Tujh Sang Preet Lagai Sajna'' and in ''Aahat'', and had a cameo in '' Tere Liye''. Next, she played the lead role of Pakhi in ''Ganga Kii Dheej''. More recently, she played the female lead role of Ira in '' Chhoti Si Zindagi''. Her other roles include Paridhi in '' Punar Vivah'', Piya in '' Piya Ka Ghar Pyaara Lage'' and Antara in ''Amita Ka Amit''. She played the role of main antagonist Tanushree in ''Kumkum Bhagya''. She left the show in 2019 however returned in 2021 but permanently left the series in 2022. She also played the lead role in Vikram Bhatt's ''Maaya 2'' opposite Priyal Gor. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leena Harkimo
Leena Harkimo ( Alamäki; born 28 March 1963) is a Finnish business executive and ex-politician. Political career In 1999, Harkimo was elected Member of Parliament from the Uusimaa constituency, representing the centre-right National Coalition Party (''Kokoomus''). She was re-elected at the 2003, 2007 and 2011 general elections, serving a total of 16 years, but chose not to contest the 2015 election. Business career Prior to entering politics, Harkimo served from 1991 to 1999 as the CEO of the Finnish professional ice hockey team Jokerit, owned at the time by her then-husband, Hjallis Harkimo. During her leadership, Jokerit won the top-level ''Liiga'' national championship four times. She also sat on the Board of ''Liiga'' for much of that time. After leaving Parliament, Harkimo joined the Finnish Fur Breeders Association, FiFur, in a lobbying role. She also served for many years on the Supervisory Board of WWF Finland, stepping down to take up the FiFur post. Personal l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leena Krohn
Leena Krohn (born 28 February 1947, in Helsinki) is a Finnish author. Her large and varied body of work includes novels, short stories, children's books, and essays. In her books she deals with topics that include humans' relationships with themselves and the world, morality, borders between reality and illusion, and the problem of life, especially through observing different kinds of artificial intelligence. Krohn has received several prizes, including the Finlandia Prize for literature in 1992. Her short novel Tainaron (novel), Tainaron: Mail From Another City was nominated for a World Fantasy Award and International Horror Guild Award in 2005. Her books have been translated into English, German, Bulgarian language, Bulgarian, Estonian language, Estonian, French, Hungarian language, Hungarian, Japanese language, Japanese, Korean language, Korean, Latvian language, Latvian, Lithuanian language, Lithuanian, Polish language, Polish, Russian language, Russian, Norwegian language, Nor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leena Mohanty
Leena Mohanty is a leading exponent of Odissi dance, a disciple of Guru Deba Prasa Das. She is a recipient of the first Ustad Bismillah Khan Youth award, along with receiving the Mahari award, the Sanjukta Panigrahi award and is an empanelled artist of the ICCR. She is a choreographer and has performed internationally. She is the artistic director of Bansi Bilas, Bhubaneshwar, Odisha and heads the Odissi Department of Kalpana Dance Theatre in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, as well as the Trinayan Dance Centre in New York. Early life Leena Mohanty was born and brought up in Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India to Rabinarayana Mohanty ( Gurudas), a businessman and Swarna Mohanty, a poet. Introduced to Odissi dance at the tender age of four, she first learnt under Deba Prasad Das, one of the four first generation gurus of Odissi, but after the demise of her teacher she continued her training under Guru Durga Charan Ranbir. She still continues to perform and teach Odissi dance. In 1984, she played ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leena Alam
Leenā Alam (Persian: ;) is an Afghan film, television, and theater actress. She has appeared in films such as '' Kabuli Kid'', ''Black Kite'', ''Loori'', '' A Letter to the President'' and ''Hassan''. She is widely known to have worked on film and TV that speak of child marriage, gender inequality, women's rights and social conflicts. She has also been known as "Shereen of Afghanistan" () after playing in the taboo-smashing feminist television drama, '' Shereen'' (), the first of its kind to have been made in Afghanistan, directed by Ghafar Azad and produced by Kaboora and Tolo TV. Shereen was nominated for Best Mini-Series Drama alongside '' The Night Manager'', ''Mr. Robot'' and '' Deutschland 83'' and Leena Alam was nominated for Best Actress at the Seoul International Drama Awards 2016. In 1991, Alam and her family moved to the United States of America because of the civil war in her homeland. She began her acting and cinema career in 1998. In 2021 she was named as one o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
