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Mairi (given Name)
Mairi or Màiri may refer to: People *Mairi Campbell, Scottish singer and musician *Mairi Cameron, Australian director of music videos and films, winner of Australian Video of the Year in the 2010 J Awards *Mairi Chisholm (1896–1981), Scottish nurse and ambulance driver in the First World War *Mairi Gougeon (born 1985), Scottish politician * Mairi Hedderwick (born 1939), Scottish illustrator and author * Màiri Anna Nic Leòid (English: Mary Anne Macleod), mother of Donald Trump * Màiri McAllan (born 1993), Scottish politician Places * Mairi, Bahia, municipality in Brazil See also *Máire, feminine given name * Mhairi, variant of the given name *Mairu Mairu (plural: mairuak), also called Maideak, Mairiak, Saindi Maidi (in Lower Navarre), Intxisu in the Bidasoa valley are creatures of Basque mythology. They were giants who built dolmens or harrespil. Like the dolmens, they are only found in moun ..., creatures of Basque mythology {{disambiguation, given name Scottish Gaelic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mairi Campbell
Mairi Campbell (born 1965) is a Scottish Folk music, folk singer and musician. Campbell's songs and music range from the everyday to the universal, both in sound and subject matter. Campbell's awards include Scots Singer of the Year, Female Musician of the Year, Neil Gow Composition of the Year, and Tutor of the Year. Campbell and co-creator Kath Burlinson have created three solo multi-disciplinary theatre shows, ''Living Stone'' (premieres in August 2024), ''Auld Lang Syne'' (2018) and ''Pulse'' (2015), as part of a trilogy. Campbell's theatre work is a response to personal stories and cultural concerns. Campbell is one half of the duo ''The Cast'', whose version of the Robert Burns poem "Auld Lang Syne" featured in the movie ''Sex and the City (film), Sex and the City''. Campbell is also a member of the ceilidh band The Occasionals, and is a guest musician with the baroque ensemble Concerto Caledonia. Early life and music Campbell was born and raised in Morningside, Edinbur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
J Awards Of 2010
The J Award of 2010 is the sixth annual J Awards, established by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's youth-focused radio station Triple J. The announcement comes at the culmination of Ausmusic Month (November). For the third year, three awards were presented; ''Australian Album of the Year'', ''Australian Music Video of the Year'' and ''Unearthed Artist of the Year''. The announcement occurred on 30 November 2010. Who's eligible? Any Australian album released independently or through a record company, or sent to Triple J in consideration for airplay, is eligible for the J Award. The 2010 nominations for ''Australian Album of the Year'' and ''Australian Music Video of the Year'' were selected from releases received by Triple J between November 2009 and October 2010. For ''Unearthed Artist of the Year'' it was open to any artist from the Unearthed (talent contest) Triple J is an Australian government-funded national radio station founded in 1975 as a division of the Aus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mairi Chisholm
Mairi Lambert Gooden Chisholm, of Chisholm, MM, OStJ (26 February 1896 – 22 August 1981) was a Scottish nurse and ambulance driver in the First World War. She, together with her friend Elsie Knocker, won numerous medals for bravery and for saving the lives of thousands of soldiers on the Western Front in Belgium. Dubbed "The Madonnas of Pervyse" by the press the two were among the most photographed women of the war. Early life Chisholm was born on 26 February 1896 in Buckinghamshire to Captain Roderick Gooden-Chisholm, Chief of Clan Chisholm, and Margaret Fraser. Her family was independently wealthy and owned a plantation in Trinidad. As a teen, she witnessed her older brother, Uailean, who owned a Royal Enfield 425cc motorcycle, competing at rallies and at the Bournemouth speed trials. Around this time, and against his wife's wishes, her father bought her a Douglas motorbike. Chisholm spent hours in the family stables stripping down the bikes and repairing them. She was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mairi Gougeon
Mairi Angela Gougeon (''née'' Evans; born 23 April 1985) is a Scottish politician who has served as Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs, Land Reform and Islands since 2021. A member of the Scottish National Party (SNP), she has been the Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for Angus North and Mearns since 2016. A graduate of the University of Aberdeen, Gougeon was elected to the Angus Council in the 2007 Scottish local elections. She represented the Brechin and Edzell ward and was the council's spokesperson on economic development. She stood down in the 2017 election, following her election to the Scottish Parliament the previous year. In 2018, she was appointed Minister for Rural Affairs and the Natural Environment, before being appointed Minister for Public Health and Sport in 2020. Gougeon was re-elected in 2021 and was promoted by First Minister Nicola Sturgeon to the Scottish Cabinet as Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs and Islands; she was re-appointed b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mairi Hedderwick
Mairi Hedderwick (born 2 May 1939) is a Scottish illustrator and author, known for the ''Katie Morag'' series of children's picture books set on the Isle of Struay, a fictional counterpart of the inner Hebrides, inner Hebridean island of Coll where Hedderwick has lived at various times for much of her life. She has also written several books of travel literature, travel writing for adults, and is the illustrator of a range of Hebridean stationery. Life Mairi Crawford Lindsay was born in Gourock on 2 May 1939,Hedderwick, Mairi 1939– ''Contemporary Authors'', Gale Cengage, January 2004; via highbeam.com the daughter of Douglas Lindsay, an architect who died suddenly when she was thirteen,Kenny Farquharson [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Anne MacLeod Trump
Mary Anne Trump ( MacLeod; ; May 10, 1912 – August 7, 2000) was a Scottish-American socialite and philanthropist, who was the wife of the real-estate developer Fred Trump and the mother of five children, including U.S. president Donald Trump. Born a native Scottish Gaelic-speaker in the Outer Hebrides, MacLeod immigrated to the U.S. in 1930 and became a naturalized citizen in March 1942. She raised five children with her husband and lived in New York City. Early life Mary Anne MacLeod was born in the village of Tong on the Isle of Lewis. Raised in a Gaelic-speaking household, she was the youngest of ten children born to Gaelic Scottish parents, Mary Ann MacLeod (; 1867–1963) and Malcolm MacLeod (1866–1954). Her father was a crofter, fisherman and compulsory officer at Mary's school. English was her second language, which she learned at the school she attended until secondary school. Her paternal grandparents were Alexander MacLeod and Anne MacLeod; her maternal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Màiri McAllan
Màiri Louise McAllan (born 14 February 1993) is a Scottish politician serving as Cabinet Secretary for Housing since 2025. She has previously served as Cabinet Secretary for Net Zero and Energy from 2024 to 2025, Cabinet Secretary for Transport, Net Zero and Just Transition from 2023 to 2024, and Minister for Environment, Biodiversity and Land Reform from 2021 to 2023. A member of the Scottish National Party (SNP), she has been the Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for Clydesdale since 2021. McAllan is a former corporate solicitor, who also served as a special advisor to First Minister Nicola Sturgeon prior to her election to the Scottish Parliament. Early life McAllan grew up and was educated in Biggar, South Lanarkshire, then studied Scots law at the University of Glasgow, also spending time at the University of Ghent in Belgium. Her father Ian is also a politician who has served as a local councillor for South Lanarkshire's Clydesdale East ward (which covers Bigg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mairi, Bahia
Mairi is a municipality in the state of Bahia in the North-East region of Brazil. See also *List of municipalities in Bahia This is a list of the municipalities in the state of Bahia (BA), located in the Northeast Region of Brazil. Bahia is divided into 417 municipalities, which were, until 2017, grouped into 32 microregions, which were grouped into 7 mesoregions. ... References Municipalities in Bahia {{Bahia-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Máire
() is a feminine given name. It is the Irish language form of Maria (given name), Maria, which was in turn a Latin form of the Greek names Μαριαμ (Mariam), and Μαρια (Maria), found in the New Testament. Both New Testament names were forms of the Hebrew name (Miryam). Its meaning has been variously translated with around 70 possibilities, including "sea of ", "star of the sea", "drop of the sea", "rebelliousness", "exalted one", "beloved", and "wished for child". Patrick Woulfe (1923) thought that the meaning related to bitterness, related to grief, sorrow, affliction, possibly associated with childbirth, was most likely. Máire was and still is a popular name in Ireland, and is sometimes spelt in its anglicised forms Maire, (without diacritics) ''Maura (given name), Maura'' and ''Moira (given name), Moira''. The diminutive form Máirín has inspired the Anglicised Maureen. Completely unrelated to this, Maire (pron. MIE-reh) is a feminine given name in Finland, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mhairi
Mhairi or Mhàiri is a Scottish female given name, ultimately derived from the name Mary. Etymologically, it is an erroneous form, based on the Scottish Gaelic vocative form ''a Mhàiri'' (pronounced ), from the nominative ''Màiri'' . In Scottish English it is usually pronounced , though it can be pronounced . Variations of this form also occur, such as Mhari or Mhairie. Notable people with this name * Mhairi-Louise Hickey, singer and songwriter * Mhairi McKay, Scottish golfer * Mhairi Spence, modern pentathlete * Mhairi Black, former MP for Paisley and Renfrewshire South * Mairi Hedderwick, author * Mhairi McFarlane Mhairi McFarlane is a Scottish writer of romantic comedy fiction whose books have been translated into 16 languages to date. Biography Mhairi McFarlane was born in 1976 in Falkirk. She attended school in Nottingham and studied English Language & ..., novelist See also * Mairi (other) External links {{given name Scottish feminine given names Feminin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mairu
Mairu (plural: mairuak), also called Maideak, Mairiak, Saindi Maidi (in Lower Navarre), Intxisu in the Bidasoa valley are creatures of Basque mythology. They were giants who built dolmens or harrespil. Like the dolmens, they are only found in mountains. They are often associated with lamia, though these are known in all the Basque Country. ''Mairu'' could mean " moor" in Basque. in the Online Morris Basque-English dictionary. This term is used with the sense of 'non-Christian' to refer to former civilizations or ic monuments. The origin of the Mairu is thought to be as old as the " mouros encantados" in [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
