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Máirín Ní Gadhra
Maureen is a female name, the female form of the male name Maurice. In Gaelic, it is Máirín, a pet form of ''Máire'' (the Irish cognate of Mary), which is derived from the Hebrew Miriam. Some notable bearers of the name are: People * Maureen Anderman (born 1946), American actress * Maureen Arthur (1934–2022), American actress * Maureen Beattie (born 1953), Scottish actress * Dame Maureen Brennan (born 1954), British educator * Maureen Child (born 1951), American writer * Maureen Connolly (1934–1969), American tennis player * Maureen Cummins (born 1963), American artist * Maureen Dowd (born 1952), American journalist * Maureen Drake (born 1971), Canadian tennis player * Maureen Duffy (born 1933), British writer * Maureen Fitzgerald Terry, American politician * Maureen Forrester (1930–2010), Canadian opera singer * Maureen Guy (1932–2015), Welsh mezzo-soprano singer * Maureen Hemphill (born 1937), Canadian politician * Maureen Herman (born 1966), American rock musi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maurice (given Name)
Maurice is a traditionally masculine given name, also used as a surname. It originates as a French name derived from the Latin Mauritius or Mauricius and was subsequently used in other languages. Its popularity is due to Mauritius, a saint of the Theban Legion (died 287). ''Mauritius'' is otherwise attested as a given name of the Roman Empire period, in origin meaning "one from Mauretania", i.e. "the Moor". Forms in other languages include: Latvian Māris, Spanish Mauricio, Portuguese Maurício, Italian Maurizio, Dutch Maurits, Greek Μαυρίκιος (Mavrikios), Russian Маврикий (Mavrikiy), German Moritz, Czech Mořic, English Morris. In the form Morris, it is also used as a secularized version of the Jewish name Moishe. Given name Late Antiquity to Middle Ages * Saint Maurice also Moritz, Morris, or Mauritius (died 287), Roman legionnaire and Christian martyr *Maurice (emperor) or Flavius Mauricius Tiberius Augustus (539–602), Byzantine emperor *Maurice ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maureen Hemphill
Maureen Lucille Hemphill ( Miller; January 26, 1937) is a retired Canadian politician from the province of Manitoba. She served in the cabinet of New Democratic Party of Manitoba, NDP Premier of Manitoba, Premier Howard Pawley, and was an unsuccessful candidate for the party's leadership in 1988. She is the daughter of James Leroy Miller and Elaine Agnes McParlor, born in Grand Forks, British Columbia, Grand Forks, British Columbia, and was educated at Bralorne. She served on the Assiniboine South School Board in 1969, 1970 and 1973. She married H. David Hemphill but they had divorced by the 1980s. Hemphill first ran for the provincial legislature in 1977, in the southwest Winnipeg riding of Charleswood (electoral district), Charleswood. She came a distant second behind Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba, Progressive Conservative leader Sterling Lyon, whose party defeated Edward Schreyer's New Democratic Party of Manitoba, New Democratic Party to win the election. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maureen Molloy
Maureen Philomena Molloy (née Clifton; 25 August 1925 – 21 May 2011) was an Australian pioneer of clinical neuropsychology, cognitive rehabilitation therapy and forensic neuropsychology. Early life Maureen Molloy was born on in Ashfield, New South Wales in 1925 to John and Aileen Clifton. She was educated at Loreto Convent in Kirribilli, where she became head prefect and sports captain. She was awarded a bursary to study at University of Sydney and graduated with a Bachelor of Science, majoring in physics. She was the only female graduate in that year and was quickly appointed as a lecturer in physics at the university. After meeting John Molloy at the university and falling in love, they married in 1950 and moved to New Caledonia for four years to support his career with Mobil Oil. She had seven children between 1951 and 1963. The last child had a severe intellectual disability, which prompted her to study psychology at the University of Melbourne. Career and studi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maureen Medved
Maureen Medved is a Canadian writer and playwright. She is also an assistant professor at the University of British Columbia. She has been published in literary journals and magazines and has had her plays produced in Vancouver, British Columbia, Waterloo, Ontario and Toronto, Ontario. She wrote a screenplay based on her first novel '' The Tracey Fragments'', which was made into a film of the same name directed by Bruce McDonald and starring Elliot Page Elliot Page (formerly Ellen Page; born February 21, 1987) is a Canadian actor, producer, and activist. He is known for his leading roles across Canadian and American film and television, and for his outspoken work as an activist for LGBTQ righ .... Her 2018 novel ''Black Star'' was shortlisted for the 2019 ReLit Award for fiction and won the CAA Fred Kerner Book Award in 2019. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maureen McQuillan
Maureen McQuillan is a New York-based contemporary artist, who, though primarily a painter, has worked in a range of mediums that include drawing, painting, camera-less photography, and sculptural installation. Across disciplines, she uses color and flowing line to create her complexly patterned abstractions. Process and themes ''Recent work'' McQuillan creates kaleidoscopic abstractions with overlapping layers of translucent color and rippling lines. She takes a systematic approach, applying the ink according to a rigid set of her own rules akin to the structure of a line of music or computer code. In these works, she investigates the subjectivity of color, and how technology mediates and defines our modern perception of it now that the natural phenomenon is so often translated through printer ink or pixels. While the pieces are handmade, her process results in something that can feel digitally produced. The finished pieces are reminiscent of cellular structure under a microsc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maureen McGovern
Maureen Therese McGovern (born July 27, 1949) is an American singer and Broadway actress, well known for her renditions of the songs " The Morning After" from the 1972 film '' The Poseidon Adventure''; " We May Never Love Like This Again" from '' The Towering Inferno'' in 1974; and her No. 1 ''Billboard'' adult contemporary hit " Different Worlds", the theme song from the television series '' Angie''. She performed on Broadway in ''The Pirates of Penzance'', ''Nine'', ''The Threepenny Opera'', and '' Little Women''. Biography Early life McGovern was born in Youngstown, Ohio, United States, the daughter of James Terrence McGovern and Mary Rita (née Welsh). She has Irish ancestry. As a child, McGovern would listen to her father's singing quartet rehearse in their home. She was told by her elders that she began singing at the age of three, and would sometimes sing herself to sleep with things she heard on the radio. She decided at age eight that she wanted to be a professional sin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maureen McCormick
Maureen Denise McCormick (born August 5, 1956) is an American actress, best known for her role as Characters of The Brady Bunch#Marcia Brady, Marcia Brady on the American Broadcasting Company, ABC television sitcom ''The Brady Bunch'' (1969–1974). She reprised the role in several of its various spin-off (media), spin-offs and films, including ''The Brady Kids'', ''The Brady Bunch Hour'', ''The Brady Brides'', and ''A Very Brady Christmas'' (1988). In the 1980s and 1990s, McCormick ventured into film and stage acting, with supporting roles in the films ''The Idolmaker'' (1980), ''Texas Lightning (film), Texas Lightning'' (1981), and ''Return to Horror High'' (1987). On stage, she starred as Wendy Darling in a 1983 production of ''Peter Pan (1954 musical), Peter Pan'' and as Betty Rizzo in a 1994 production of ''Grease (musical), Grease''. In the 2000s, McCormick was the first actress to portray Passions, Rebecca Crane on the television soap opera ''Passions'', as well as appea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maureen Maher
Maureen Maher (born 1967) is an American television news reporter and correspondent. She is primarily known as one of the hosts of the CBS program 48 Hours. Early life Maher was born in the state of Michigan, just outside Detroit. Her birth parents were high school seniors unable to provide for Maureen and subsequently gave her up for adoption. In 1991, she graduated from Loyola University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in communications. Career Maureen Maher started her broadcasting career with Chicago-based radio station WLUW (FM) as morning-drive news anchor in 1991. Maher then moved to Detroit in 1992, where she worked as a reporter for Detroit-based TV station WJBK-TV and CBS-owned radio station WWJ (AM) until 1995. In 1995–97, Maher worked as a news anchor for WJRT-TV in Flint, Michigan, covering breaking news, including the Oklahoma City bombing and the Decker farm raid. From 1997 to 2002, she was a Chicago-based CBS Newspath correspondent and covered notable storie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maureen Louys
Maureen Louys (born 3 November 1978 in Liège) is a Belgian television presenter. Career In 2005 she co-presented the 2005 Junior Eurovision Song Contest with Marcel Vanthilt. Louys still remained associated with the regular Eurovision Song Contest as giving out the Belgian televotes during the voting in 2007, 2009 and 2011. Following the death of Jean-Pierre Hautier in October 2012, Louys is currently the RTBF Eurovision Commentator, together with colleague Jean-Louis Lahaye. In 2009 Louys presented RTBF's '' Best of humor''. In 2012 to 2024, she's the host of '' The Voice Belgique'' on La Une La Une () is a Belgian national television channel, owned and operated by the French-language public-service broadcasting organization RTBF. La Une is the equivalent of Flemish station VRT 1, of the Flemish broadcaster VRT. History INR .... References External links * Living people 1978 births People from Liège Belgian television presenters Belgian radi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maureen Lipman
Dame Maureen Diane Lipman (born 10 May 1946) is an English actress, columnist and comedian. She trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art and her stage work has included appearances with the National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company. She was made a dame in the 2020 Queen's Birthday Honours for services to charity, entertainment and the arts. Lipman has been nominated for seven Olivier Awards across categories commending acting in plays, musicals and comedy, winning in 1984 for ''See How They Run''. On film, Lipman was BAFTA nominated for ''Educating Rita'' (1983) and has also appeared in ''The Wildcats of St Trinian's'' (1980), ''Carry On Columbus'' (1992), ''Solomon & Gaenor'' (1999) and ''The Pianist'' (2002). On television, Lipman had prominent roles in ''Agony'' (1979–1981), ''Smiley's People'' (1982), ''Eskimo Day'' (1996) and ''Ladies of Letters'' (2009–2010). Since 2018, she has starred in ''Coronation Street'' as Evelyn Plummer. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maureen Johnson
Maureen Johnson (born February 16, 1973) is an American author of young adult fiction. Her published novels include series leading titles such as ''13 Little Blue Envelopes'', ''The Name of the Star'', '' Truly Devious,'' and ''Suite Scarlett''. Among Johnson's works are collaborative efforts such as '' Let It Snow,'' a holiday romance novel of interwoven stories co-written with John Green and Lauren Myracle, and a series of novellas found in ''New York Times'' bestselling anthologies ''The Bane Chronicles'', ''Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy'', and ''Ghosts of the Shadow Market.'' Early life and education Johnson was born in Philadelphia and attended an all-girl Catholic preparatory high school. She graduated from the University of Delaware in 1995 with a degree in English. Johnson later worked variously as literary manager of a Philadelphia theater company, a waitress in a theme restaurant, a secretary, a bartender in Piccadilly, and an occasional performer in New York Cit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maureen Irwin
Maureen Estella Ruth Irwin (October 7, 1934 – July 30, 2002) was a lesbian activist in Edmonton, Alberta who advocated for Edmonton's 2SLGBTQ+ community. Irwin was actively involved with many organizations throughout her life including the Girl Guides of Canada, the Gay and Lesbian Alliance (GALA), Womonspace, Common Woman Books, the Canadian Diabetes Association, the Edmonton Board of Health, and the Edmonton chapter of the Multiple Sclerosis Society. Life and career Maureen Irwin was born on October 7, 1934, in Windsor, Ontario, to Estella and William Irwin. She joined the Royal Canadian Air Force in 1953 and was stationed near Montreal. Irwin met James Ronald Warren in 1955, marrying soon after in 1956. The pair welcomed two daughters and two sons before moving to CFB Cold Lake, Alberta in 1965. Irwin was active in the community there, including holding various leadership positions in the local Girl Guides chapter. In 1974, the family moved to Edmonton where Maureen was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
