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Lizzie Tolman
Lizzie or Lizzy is a nickname for Elizabeth or Elisabet, often given as an independent name in the United States, especially in the late 19th century. Lizzie can also be the shortened version of Lizeth, Lissette or Lizette. People * Elizabeth Sewall Alcott (1835–1858), real-life model for the character Beth March in the novel ''Little Women'' * Marie Elisabeth Lizzy Ansingh (1875–1959), Dutch painter * Lizzie Arlington, alias of Elizabeth Stroud, regarded by many historians as the first female to play organized baseball in the 19th century * Lizzie Arnot (born 1996), Scottish footballer * Elizabeth Mary Lizzie Deignan (née Armitstead) (born 1988), world champion British track and road racing cyclist * Lizzy Bardsley (born 1973), English media and television personality * Elizabeth Bolden (1890–2006), world's oldest person at the time of her death * Lizzie Borden (1860–1927), tried and acquitted for the notorious murder of her parents * Elizabeth Anne Lizzy Caplan ... [...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] |
Park Soo-ah
Park Soo-young (; born July 31, 1992), is a South Korean singer and actress. She debuted under the stage name Lizzy () as a member of the South Korean girl group After School (band), After School in March 2010 and later formed part of the group's sub-units, Orange Caramel and After School Blue. She made her solo debut in January 2015 with the digital single "Not an Easy Girl". Outside of her music career, Park has starred in various television dramas, including ''All My Love (TV series), All My Love'' (2011) and ''Angry Mom'' (2015). In May 2018, Park graduated from After School following the expiration of her contract, but remains a member of Orange Caramel. Following her departure, she shifted her work to acting and changed her stage name to Park Soo-ah (). In November 2020, she changed her professional name, for a second time, to Park Soo-young, her birth name. Early life and education Park was born on July 31, 1992, in Busan, South Korea. She attended Kyung Hee University, m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lizzy Lovette
Elizabeth Lovette is an Australian radio presenter and TV presenter. Career Radio Lovette commenced her career in 2004 at 2Day FM Sydney as a presenter and 'Black Thunder' pilot. She moved to Nova 969 Sydney from 2004 to 2006, where in her first year she co-hosted the ''Nova 9's'' at night with David Campbell. In 2006, Lovette moved to host the morning shift. She returned to 2Day FM from January 2007, co-hosting the ''Hot30 Countdown'' with Sam Mac. Lovette has also appeared on various shows such as ''The Kyle and Jackie O Show'' and ''Superfresh'', and filled in on 2Day FM and Triple M Sydney. In December 2009, Lovette filled in on the Today Network program ''Top 6 @ 6'' with Daniel 'Danno' Cassin. Between 7 December and 18 December, Lovette co-hosted the Summer Breakfast show with Brian McFadden and Dave 'Higgo' Higgins right around the Today Network for breakfast from 6 am. She has also filled in on Take40 Australia for Jackie O and was the show's main fill-in co-host ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lizzy Lind Af Hageby
Emilie Augusta Louise "Lizzy" Lind af Hageby (20 September 1878 – 26 December 1963) was a Swedish-British feminist and animal rights advocate who became a prominent anti-vivisection activist in England in the early 20th century. Born to a distinguished Swedish family, Lind af Hageby and Leisa Katherine Schartau (another Swedish activist) enrolled at the London School of Medicine for Women in 1902 to advance their anti-vivisectionist education. The women attended vivisections at University College London, and in 1903 published their diary, ''The Shambles of Science: Extracts from the Diary of Two Students of Physiology'', which accused researchers of having vivisected a dog without adequate anaesthesia. The ensuing scandal, known as the Brown Dog affair, included a libel trial, damages for one of the researchers, and rioting in London by medical students. Coral Lansbury, ''The Old Brown Dog: Women, Workers, and Vivisection in Edwardian England'', University of Wisconsin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lizzie Kiama
Lizzie Kiama is a Kenyan disability rights activist. She is the founder and managing trustee of This Ability Trust, a Kenyan disability rights organization. Early life and education Kiama is from Mombasa and was the first born of four children. She has a bachelor's degree in Business administration, Business Administration from the United States International University Africa, United States International University. At the age of 18, Kiama was injured in a car crash, which resulted in a physical disability. Complications while giving birth a few years later resulted in her disability becoming permanent. Career Kiama founded This Ability Trust, in 2012, to support companies with inclusion of people with disabilities and to empower women and girls with disabilities, and to promote rights enshrined in the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. In 2016 Kiama coordinated national advocacy efforts towards advancing sexual reproductive health rights of women and g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lizzy Igasan
Elizabeth Jane Igasan (now Horlock; born 16 September 1982) is a New Zealand field hockey player who was captain of the national team and a participant in the 2004 Summer Olympics and 2008 Summer Olympics. Early life Igasan was born in Whangārei and attended Whangārei Girls' High School and Rangitoto College. She grew up with her mother, two sisters, Connie and Mary-Anne, and a brother, James. Her parents separated when she was four years' old. Field hockey Igasan is a penalty corner specialist and defender, and plays for North Harbour in the New Zealand Hockey League. She played her first game in the New Zealand women's national field hockey team in 2001, and, after playing in the 2004 Summer Olympics and the 2006 Commonwealth Games, but being unavailable for the World Cup qualifying tournament, was chosen as captain of the team for the 2008 Summer Olympics. She won the New Zealand women's Player of the Year award in 2004, 2005 and 2008. Other activities Igasan was a part ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lizzie Halliday
Lizzie Halliday (born Eliza Margaret McNally; – June 28, 1918) was an Irish-American serial killer responsible for the deaths of four people in upstate New York during the 1890s. In 1894, she became the first woman to be sentenced to death by the electric chair. Halliday's sentence was commuted and she spent the rest of her life in a mental institution. She killed a nurse while institutionalized and is speculated to have killed her first two husbands. Biography Halliday, originally Eliza Margaret McNally, was born around 1859Harold Schechter, Psycho USA: Famous American Killers You Never Heard Of, Random House Publishing Group – 2012, page 58 (born 1859) in County Antrim, Ireland. Her family moved to the US when she was young (given as aged three or eight). In 1879, Halliday married a Greenwich, New York, man known by the alias Charles Hopkins; his real name was Ketspool Brown. They are said to have had one son who ended up institutionalized. In 1881, after Hopkins' de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lizzie Hopley
Lizzie Hopley is a British actress and writer born in Liverpool who trained at Manchester University and RADA. Acting work Hopley's notable film and TV work include the forthcoming feature film ''Fackham Hall'', co-written by Jimmy Carr and Dawson Bros; '' Black Doves'' with Keira Knightley and Ben Whishaw; Steve McQueen's '' Blitz''; '' The Reckoning (BBC/ITV)'', ''The Crown'' (Netflix), ''Time'' (BBC), ''The Devil's Hour'' (Amazon Studios), '' Brassic'', '' Soulmates'' (Amazon AMC), '' The Long Song'' (BBC/Heyday Films), '' Little Boy Blue'' (ITV), '' Luther'' (BBC), Cary Fukunaga's ''Jane Eyre'', '' Pierrepoint'' with Timothy Spall, '' The Thirteenth Tale'' with Vanessa Redgrave, '' The Suspicions of Mr Whicher'' (ITV), '' Any Human Heart'' (C4), '' The Day of the Triffids'' (BBC) with Eddie Izzard and '' Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)''. She recently appeared in the Globe Theatre's 2024 summer season in ''The Taming of the Shrew'' and Anne Odeke's historic debut plaPrinc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lizzie Holmes
Lizzie Holmes (, Hunt; after first marriage, Swank; after second marriage, Holmes; pen name, May Huntley; December 21, 1850 – August 8, 1926) was an American anarchist, writer, and organizer of Chicago's working women during the late 19th century in the United States. She was a key figure in Chicago's labor movement in the years just preceding the Haymarket affair, during which she worked with and played a leading role in a range of unions including the Knights of Labor and the International Working People's Association. Prior to becoming a labor organizer, she worked as a school teacher and music instructor in Ohio. In addition to her work as a labor organizer, Holmes served as a writer and editor in various radical and anarchist newspapers. She worked as the assistant editor of ''The Alarm'', and she published articles in ''Lucifer, the Light-Bearer'', ''Freedom'', and '' Free Society''. In contrast to some of her anarchist contemporaries, she was also willing to publish in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lizzie Grubman
Elizabeth Grubman (born January 30, 1971) is an American publicist, manager and socialite. In 2002, Grubman served 38 days in jail for an incident where she intentionally backed a Mercedes SUV into a crowd, injuring 16 people. Early life She is the daughter of entertainment lawyer Allen Grubman and his first wife, the late Yvette Grubman.WEDDINGS; Eric Gatoff and Lizzie Grubman ''''. Accessed September 10, 2007. Her parents divorced in 1988. Her mother had multiple sclerosis and died of ovarian cancer at 58 in 2001. Career Grubman is we ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lizzie Grey
Stephen M. Perry (August 13, 1958 – August 5, 2019), who used the stage name Lizzie Grey, was an American musician. He is perhaps best known for his membership as a guitarist in the heavy metal band London and for co-writing the Mötley Crüe song "Public Enemy #1". From 1990 until his death in 2019, he performed with the glam rock band Spiders & Snakes. Career Perry was the guitarist for the band Sister with Blackie Lawless and Nikki Sixx in the mid-to-late 1970s. Thereafter he formed the band London with Nikki Sixx, drummer Dane Rage, keyboardist John St. John and lead vocalist Michael White. Followed shortly thereafter by lead vocalist Henri Valentine, who was later replaced by Nigel Benjamin, formerly of Mott. The band garnered a following of glam rock fans from the late 1970s, spearheaded by Rodney Bingenheimer and Kim Fowley. Differences arose between Nikki Sixx and Nigel Benjamin, and the band finally broke up. Grey and fellow London member Dane Rage went on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lizzie Greenwood-Hughes
Elizabeth Greenwood-Hughes (née Greenwood) (born January 1973) is an English television presenter working for the BBC. She is currently a regular presenter of sports news on the BBC News Channel and the ''BBC Weekend News''. Education She studied film and photography at Salisbury College of Art, which became Wiltshire College. Presenting career After working on ''BBC South Today'' she presented ''Newsround'', the children's current affairs show on BBC One between 2001 and 2008. She co-presented the show's 30th Anniversary edition with original presenter John Craven. She then went on to present ''Sportsround'' on BBC Two from 2005, with co-host Jake Humphrey. Moving to sports presenting, she was part of the BBC's presenting line-up at the 2006 Melbourne Commonwealth Games, the 2008 Beijing Olympics and Paralympics and the 2006 Turin and 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics. She then worked on ''The Football League Show'', a highlights show covering all the lower English leagues o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
