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Margot Shepherd-Spurgeon
Margot ( , ) is a feminine given name, a French diminutive of Marguerite that has long been used as an independent name. Variant spellings in use include Margo and Margaux. It is also occasionally a surname. Usage An increase in usage of the name in England and Wales was attributed to the popularity of the Australian actress Margot Robbie and the 2023 American film Barbie. The name was among the top 50 names given to British girls born in 2023. It has also increased in use elsewhere in the Anglosphere, including New Zealand and the United States. It has been in regular use in French-speaking countries including Belgium, France, and in Quebec, Canada.https://www.behindthename.com/name/margot/top/england-wales?type=percent Persons named Margot include the following: People with the given name Margot * Marguerite de Valois (1553–1615), known as ''La Reine Margot'', queen of France and of Navarre * Margot Abad, Argentine film actress * Margot Adler (1946–2014), American journal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cohn Margot Hauptstrasse 20 Stockach
Cohn is a Jewish surname (related to the last name Cohen (surname), Cohen). Notable people and characters with the surname include: * Al Cohn (1925–1988), American jazz saxophonist, arranger and composer * Alan D. Cohn, American government official * Alfred A. Cohn (1880–1951), American screenwriter * Alice Cohn (1914–2000), German graphic artist * Art Cohn (1909–1958), American sportswriter, screenwriter and author * Arthur Cohn (b. 1927), Swiss film producer * Arthur Cohn (1894–1940), mathematician known for Cohn's irreducibility criterion * Avern Cohn (1924–2022), United States District Court judge * Bernard Cohn (anthropologist) (1928–2003), anthropologist and scholar of British colonialism in India * Bernard Cohn (politician) (1835–1889), American businessman and politician in Los Angeles * Craig Cohn (b. 1983), birth name of American professional wrestler Craig Classic * Daniel Cohn-Bendit (b. 1945), French-German politician * Dan Cohn-Sherbock (b. 1945), Jewish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margot Austin
Margot Austin (September 18, 1907 – June 25, 1990) was an American children's book illustrator. She was born in Portland, Oregon and attended the National Academy of Design in New York. She illustrated many children's books and contributed to magazines including '' Jack and Jill Magazine''. Among her many books was a series about small animals in the church of Parson Pease-Porridge, beginning with E. P. Dutton's 1941 publication of '' Peter Churchmouse''. Her book '' Gabriel Churchkitten'' was made into an animated film Animation is a filmmaking technique whereby still images are manipulated to create moving images. In traditional animation, images are drawn or painted by hand on transparent celluloid sheets to be photographed and exhibited on film. Animati ... short in 1944. Ms. Austin died in 1990 at the age of 81 in her home in New Fairfield, Connecticut. List of her works both as author and illustrator: *'' A Friend for Growl Bear'' Illustrator *'' Archie Angel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margot Blanche
Margot Blanche Moussempes (born August 29, 1983) is a French/Filipino singer and songwriter Early life Blanche was born in Hong Kong on August 29, 1983, to Nicolas Moussempes and Patricia Muassab. Blanche's father was born in Paris, France, while her mother is of Filipino and Syrian Descent. She began singing at the age of 3 and was inspired at a very young age by both popular and classical music. Blanche held heroes like Maria Callas, Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston alongside jazz influences like Ray Charles, Billie Holiday and Nina Simone, but also received rigorous training at the age of 9 with a noted local opera soprano. Her talent was first discovered by her elementary school music teacher who urged Blanche's parents to enroll their daughter in professional voice lessons. Blanche eventually began training with a classical vocal coach, tenor Jimmy Chan and at age 11 she won her first competition at the prestigiouHong Kong Schools Music Festival She went on to win other com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margot Blakely
Margot Blakely later Margot Hawley (born 1950) is an alpine skier from New Zealand. She competed for New Zealand at the 1968 Winter Olympics at Grenoble, but was disqualified in the slalom. She is a sister of 1976 and 1980 Events January * January 4 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter proclaims a United States grain embargo against the Soviet Union, grain embargo against the USSR with the support of the European Commission. * January 6 – Global Positioning Sys ... Olympic alpine skier Stuart Blakely. References * ''Black Gold'' by Ron Palenski (2008, 2004 New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame, Dunedin) p. 103,110 External links * * Living people 1950 births New Zealand female alpine skiers Olympic alpine skiers for New Zealand Alpine skiers at the 1968 Winter Olympics 20th-century New Zealand sportswomen {{NewZealand-alpine-skiing-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margot Bingham
Margot Bingham is an American actress and singer-songwriter. She is best known for her role as jazz singer Daughter Maitland in the HBO period drama series, '' Boardwalk Empire''. In 2015, Bingham began starring as one of lead characters in the ABC drama series, '' The Family''. In 2021, she starred in the eleventh and final season of '' The Walking Dead''. Life and career Bingham was born in August 1988 and raised in the Green Tree suburb of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Craig Bingham, a former Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker, and Lynne Bingham. She graduated in 2006 from the Pittsburgh High School for the Creative and Performing Arts, and attended Point Park University for two years before relocating to New York City. She began appearing on stage there in 2010, and had a role in the 2011 revival of '' Rent''. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margot Béziat
Margot Béziat (born 30 July 2001) is a French female canoeist who won four medals at senior level at the Wildwater Canoeing World Championships. Medals at the World Championships ;Senior References External links * 2001 births Living people French female canoeists Place of birth missing (living people) 21st-century French sportswomen {{France-canoe-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margot Bettauer Dembo
Margot Bettauer Dembo (10 January 1928 – 10 July 2019) was a German-born American translator of fiction and non-fiction. She translated writing from German to English, and is known for her translations of works by Judith Hermann, Robert Gernhardt, Joachim Fest, Ödön von Horvath, Feridun Zaimoglu, and Hermann Kant. Her work won the Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize and the Goethe-Institut/Berlin Translator's Prize. She translated multiple non-fiction memoirs and historical accounts of World War II, as well as several works of fiction. Career Dembo worked as a freelance editor and translator of works from German to English. Her editorial work included editing publications for W.W. Norton and the American Museum of Natural History. As a translator, Dembo initially focused on works written in and about World War II, in German, especially non-fiction works and memoirs of the Holocaust. These included Jost Hermand's ''A Hitler Youth in Poland'' (1998), Ruth Elias' me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margot Von Beroldingen
Margot Marie Norris ( Stone, ''formerly'' Countess von Beroldingen) (14 October 1878 – 1968) was an American heiress who married an Austrian aristocrat. Early life Margot Marie Stone was born in Paris, France on 14 October 1878. She was the youngest of three daughters of Joseph Foulke Stone (1840–1886) and Mary Groesbeck Burnet (1846). Her father was educated at the University of Geneva and became a stock broker and member of the New York Stock Exchange before his retirement in , shortly before Margot's birth. The family had a home on Fifth Avenue in New York City and summered in Newport, Rhode Island before his death in 1886. Her elder sister, Edith Stone, married Edward Winsloe (later Baron von Winsloe), a major in the German Army during the Franco-Prussian War who served as chamberlain to Princess Viktoria of Schaumburg-Lippe. Her paternal grandparents were Henry Asaph Stone and Mary ( Foulke) Stone (a daughter of the wealthy banker and merchant Joseph Foulke, who had a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margot Bennett (other)
Margot Bennett may refer to: * Margot Bennett (writer) (1912–1980), Scottish writer of crime, thriller and science fiction novels * Margot Bennett (actress) (born 1935), American publicist and former actress {{hndis, Bennett, Margot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margot Bengtsson
Margot Bengtsson (born 1943) is a Swedish psychologist and Reader in Psychology at Lund University. She is known for her research in developmental, social, feminist Feminism is a range of socio-political movements and ideology, ideologies that aim to define and establish the political, economic, personal, and social gender equality, equality of the sexes. Feminism holds the position that modern soci ... and critical psychology, especially her research on gender, power, identity and social class. Bengtsson earned her PhD in psychology at Lund University in 1983 and was appointed as a Reader in Applied Psychology at Lund University in 1986. Her early work "focused on how society's needs for women to enter the workforce co-varied with trends in psychological research about sex differences." Her later work has "pursued the interactions between larger political changes and changes in gendered identities of Swedish young people." Selected publications *''Feminism och psyk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margot Benacerraf
Margot Benacerraf (14 August 1926 – 29 May 2024) was a Venezuelan film director. She studied at the Institut des hautes études cinématographiques (Institute for Advanced Cinematographic Studies, IDHEC) in Paris and is best known for her 1959 award-winning film '' Araya''. Life and career Margot Benacerraf was born on 14 August 1926 to Jewish immigrants in Caracas. After her graduation in literature and philosophy from the Central University of Venezuela in 1947, she won a scholarship to further her studies at Columbia University School of the Arts in New York City for three months. She then moved to France for specialized studies in cinema at the Institut des hautes études cinématographiques in Paris. Benacerraf's two best known films, the 1950s documentaries '' Reverón'' and '' Araya'', are considered "landmarks of Latin America narrative non-fiction". ''Reverón'' illustrates the life of the well-known Venezuelan painter Armando Reverón Armando Reverón (May 10, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margot Becke-Goehring
Margot Becke-Goehring (born 10 June 1914 in Allenstein; died 14 November 2009 in Heidelberg) was a Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Heidelberg and she was the first female rector of a university in West Germany - the Heidelberg University. She was also the director of the Gmelin Institute of Inorganic Chemistry of the Max Planck Society that edited the '' Gmelins Handbuch der anorganischen Chemie''. She studied Chemistry in Halle (Saale) and Munich, and she finished her doctorate and habilitation at the University of Halle. For her research on the chemistry of main-group elements, she was awarded Alfred Stock Memorial Prize. One of her most notable contributions to inorganic chemistry was her work on the synthesis and structure of poly(sulfur nitride), which was later discovered to be the first non-metallic superconductor. For her success in editing the '' Gmelins Handbuch der anorganischen Chemie'', she received the Gmelin-Beilstein memorial coin. Life B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |