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Liz Bourke
Liz is a female name of Hebrew origin, meaning "God's Promise". It is also a short form of Elizabeth, Elisabeth, Lisbeth, Lizanne, Liszbeth, Lizbeth, Lizabeth, Lyzbeth, Lisa, Lizette, Alyssa, and Eliza. People * Liz Allan (cricketer) (born 1948), New Zealand Test cricketer * Liz Allen (born 1969), Irish journalist and novelist * Liz Balmaseda (born 1959), Cuban-American writer and journalist * Liz Barker (born 1975), British television presenter * Liz Berry (born 1980), British poet * Liz Berry (politician) (born 1983), American politician from Washington * Liz Bonnin (born 1976), Irish television presenter * Liz Brown (politician), American politician first elected to the Indiana Senate in 2014 * Liz Brown, backing vocalist for Wheatus * Liz Cambage (born 1991), Australian basketball player in the Israeli Female Basketball Premier League * Liz Claiborne (1929–2007), American fashion designer * Elizabeth "Liz" Cottrell (born 1975), American geologist * Liz Fraser, stage na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth (given Name)
Elizabeth is a feminine given name, a variation of the Hebrew language, Hebrew name (), meaning "My God is an oath" or "My God is abundance", as rendered in the Septuagint. Occurrence in the Bible "Elizabeth" appears in the Hebrew Bible as the name of Aaron's wife ("Elisheba, Elisheva" in the Hebrew Bible), and in the New Testament as the name of the Elizabeth (biblical figure), wife of the priest Zechariah (New Testament figure), Zechariah and mother of John the Baptist. It has also been the name of several saints and queens. Statistics The name has many variants in use across the world and has been in consistent use worldwide. ''Elizabeth'' was the tenth most popular name given to baby girls in the United States in 2007 and has been among the 25 most popular names given to girls in the United States for the past 100 years. It is the only name that remained in the top ten US girls' names list from 1925 to 1972. In the early 21st century, ''Elizabeth'' has been among the to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liz Fraser
Elizabeth Joan Winch (14 August 1930 – 6 September 2018), known professionally as Liz Fraser, was a British film actress, best known for being cast in provocative comedy roles. Early life Fraser was born in Southwark, London. Her year of birth was usually cited as 1933, which she gave when auditioning for her role in '' I'm All Right Jack'', because the Boulting Brothers wanted someone younger for the part. In fact she was three years older, as she confirmed in her 2012 autobiography ''Liz Fraser ... and Other Characters'',. Her father was a travelling salesman for a brewery and her mother owned a corner shop just off the New Kent Road. Their family life was disrupted by the Second World War, when she was evacuated, initially to Westerham in Kent and then, when that was deemed still too vulnerable to bombing, to Chudleigh, a town in Devon. Her father died in May 1942, aged 40, when she was 11. She went to St Saviour's and St Olave's Grammar School for Girls between th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liz Sandals
Liz Sandals (née MacNaughton; born ) is a politician in Ontario, Canada. She was a Liberal member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 2003 to 2018 who represented the ridings of Guelph—Wellington and Guelph. She served in cabinet as the President of the Treasury Board until January 17, 2018 and previously served for three years as Minister of Education in the government of Kathleen Wynne. Background Sandals was born and raised in the Guelph, Ontario area as Liz MacNaughton. Her father, Earl MacNaughton was the founding dean of the College of Physics at the University of Guelph. She graduated from Guelph Collegiate Vocational Institute in 1966, and received a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Guelph in 1969 as well as a Master of Mathematics degree from the University of Waterloo in 1971. She taught computer science at the University of Guelph. Sandals lives in Guelph with her husband David where they raised two children. Politics School board ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liz Phair
Elizabeth Clark Phair (born April 17, 1967) is an American rock singer-songwriter and musician. Born in New Haven, Connecticut, Phair was raised primarily in the Chicago area. After graduating from Oberlin College in 1990, she attempted to start a musical career in San Francisco; however, she returned to her home in Chicago, where she began self-releasing audio cassettes under the name Girly-Sound. The tapes led to a recording contract with the independent record label Matador Records. Phair's 1993 debut studio album, '' Exile in Guyville'', was released to acclaim; it has been ranked by ''Rolling Stone'' as one of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. Phair followed this with her second album, '' Whip-Smart'' (1994), which earned her a Grammy Award nomination for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance, and '' Whitechocolatespaceegg'' (1998). Ten years after the release of her debut, Phair's fourth album, '' Liz Phair'' (2003), released on Capitol Records, moved towards pop rock, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liz Mills
Liz Mills is an Australian basketball coach who, since 2011, has coached elite level men's club and national basketball teams in Africa. Mills is the former head coach of Bangui Sporting Club for the 2023 Road to BAL (Basketball Africa League). Mills is the first female basketball head coach to lead a men's national team at a FIBA continental championship, as well as the first-ever female head coach in the Basketball Africa League (BAL) after debuting in 2022. She is also the first female head coach of a men's club team in Morocco, and subsequently in North Africa and the Middle East. Mills began her coaching career in Sydney, in 2002 working with junior boys and girls teams, as well as senior women's teams. Since 2011, Mills has been a head coach and assistant coach in Africa of senior men's club teams, national men's university teams and national men's teams. In 2021, Mills was the head coach of the Kenyan men's national team, becoming the only woman in the world at that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liz McClarnon
Elizabeth Margaret McClarnon-Cho (born 10 April 1981) is an English singer, songwriter and actress, who is the longest serving member of the girl group Atomic Kitten, with whom she has scored three number-one singles and two number-one albums. McClarnon co-wrote several Atomic Kitten songs, including the UK top 10 hits " See Ya", " I Want Your Love" and " Someone Like Me". Career 1997–2004: Atomic Kitten In 1997, while McClarnon was still in secondary school, her music teacher arranged for her to take part in an audition with OMD frontman Andy McCluskey, who was aiming to create a new girl group. The group became Atomic Kitten, which was made up of McClarnon, Kerry Katona and Natasha Hamilton, and they released their first record in 1999. Katona left the group in 2001 and was replaced by Jenny Frost. Atomic Kitten have had three UK number one singles, " Whole Again", " Eternal Flame", and " The Tide Is High (Get the Feeling)". They also had two UK number one albums, '' Rig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liz María Márquez
Liz María Márquez Socorro is a Venezuelan politician, currently an alternate deputy of the National Assembly for the Zulia state. Career Márquez was elected as alternate deputy for the National Assembly for the Zulia state Zulia State (, ; Wayuu language, Wayuu: ''Mma’ipakat Suuria'') is one of the States of Venezuela, 23 states of Venezuela. The state capital is Maracaibo. As of the 2011 census, it has a population of 3,704,404, the largest population among Vene ... for the 2016–2021 term in the 2015 parliamentary elections, representing the Democratic Unity Roundtable (MUD) opposition coalition. She has been the alternate deputy for Omar Barboza, for whom she has also been alternate for the 2011–2016 legislative period. In the 2021 municipal elections, she was nominated as candidate for mayor of the Machiques de Perijá municipality in the state. See also * III National Assembly of Venezuela * IV National Assembly of Venezuela References External links ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Megan And Liz
Megan and Liz (commonly stylized as Megan & Liz) are an American pop duo composed of fraternal twin sisters Megan and Liz Mace from Edwardsburg, Michigan. They are both songwriters, and Megan is their guitarist. As of November 2020, they have 990K subscribers and over 249 million video views on their YouTube channel. Early life Megan McKinley Mace and Elizabeth Morgan Mace were born on November 21, 1992, in South Bend, Indiana to Randall Mace and Mary Miars. They grew up in Edwardsburg, Michigan. Megan is the elder sister by one minute. Their parents divorced when the twins were three and they lived with their mother. Music career 2007–2011: YouTube beginnings Their first video on YouTube, entitled "This Note", is a song which they wrote at the age of 15. Their first cover was of " Ain't No Mountain High Enough", originally written by Nickolas Ashford & Valerie Simpson and performed by Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell, but better known from Diana Ross's cover in 1970. They h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liz Lochhead
Liz Lochhead Hon FRSE (born 26 December 1947) is a Scottish poet, playwright, translator and broadcaster. Between 2011 and 2016 she was the Makar, or National Poet of Scotland, and served as Poet Laureate for Glasgow between 2005 and 2011. Early life Elizabeth Anne Lochhead was born in Craigneuk, a "little ex-mining village just outside Motherwell", Lanarkshire. Her mother and father had both served in the army during the Second World War, and later, her father was a local government clerk. In 1952, the family moved into a new council house in the mining village of Newarthill, where her sister was born in 1957. Though she was encouraged by her teachers to study English, Lochhead was determined to go to Glasgow School of Art where she studied between 1965 and 1970. After graduation Lochhead taught art at high schools in Glasgow and Bristol, a career at which she says she was "terrible" Career Having written poetry as a child and whilst studying at Art School, Lochhead won ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liz Krueger
Elizabeth Krueger (born November 20, 1957) is an American politician. A Democrat, she represents District 28, consisting of the East Side of Manhattan, in the New York State Senate. She was first elected in a special election in 2002. Background Krueger was born in Ridgewood, New Jersey to Harvey M. Krueger and Constance Krueger. She has two sisters, Abigail and Cathleen. Her brother, Peter, died of AIDS in 1988. Her father was the CEO of the investment bank Kuhn, Loeb & Co., and served as vice chairman of Lehman Brothers following the merger with Kuhn, Loeb & Co. in 1977. She graduated from Ridgewood High School in 1975, earned a B.A. from Northwestern University in Social Policy and Human Development in 1979, and a master's degree from the University of Chicago's Harris School of Public Policy in 1981. Prior to elected office, Krueger served for 15 years as associate director of the Community Food Resource Center (CFRC), and she is the founding director of the New York ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liz Kendall
Elizabeth Louise Kendall (born 11 June 1971) is a British politician who has served as Secretary of State for Work and Pensions since July 2024. A member of the Labour Party, she has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Leicester West since 2010. Kendall was born in Abbots Langley, Hertfordshire, and studied at the University of Cambridge. From 2011 to 2015, she served as Shadow Minister for Care and Older People on the Official Opposition frontbench of Ed Miliband, who invited her to attend meetings of his Shadow Cabinet, although she was not technically a Shadow Cabinet member in this position. Kendall stood in the Labour Party leadership election in September 2015 following the resignation of Ed Miliband, finishing in last place. In April 2020, Keir Starmer appointed Kendall Shadow Minister for Social Care on the Official Opposition frontbench. Early life and career Elizabeth Kendall was born on 11 June 1971 in Abbots Langley, Hertfordshire. She attended Watfor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liz Kershaw
Elizabeth Marguerita Mary Kershaw (born 30 July 1958) is an English radio broadcaster. She is one of the longest serving female national radio DJs in the UK, celebrating 30 years on national BBC Radio in 2017. Career After graduating from the University of Leeds, Liz Kershaw began her media career in Leeds with a music column in the '' Yorkshire Post''. Her brother is fellow broadcaster Andy Kershaw. Her first radio show was in 1981 on Radio Aire where her brother worked for a time. In 1985 she moved to BBC Radio Leeds to present a weekly rock show showcasing local bands. In 1986 Kershaw's day job with British Telecom saw her move to London to set up "Livewire", a dial-in pop service which superseded ''Dial-a-Disc''. In running this she produced Radio 1 DJs Mike Smith, Janice Long and Dave Pearce before devising her own show for Radio 1 in 1987, ''Backchat'', which won several awards. This was followed by Kershaw presenting the Radio 1 ''Evening Show'' and then, with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
