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Priscilla McLean Photo
Priscilla is an English female given name adopted from Latin '' Prisca'', derived from ''priscus''. There is a theory that this biblical character was the author of the Letter to the Hebrews. The name first appears in the New Testament either as Priscilla or Prisca, a female leader in early Christianity. The name also appears along with Maximilla, referring to two female leaders of the Montanist movement of the 2nd century AD. The name appears in English literature in Edmund Spenser's ''The Faerie Queene ''(1596), and was adopted as an English name by the Puritans in the 17th century. It increased in usage in the United States in the 1930s due to the influence of actress Priscilla Lane and again in the late 1970s and early 1980s due to the influence of actress Priscilla Presley. Notable people and characters with the name include: People * Priscilla, an early Christian of the New Testament and companion to Paul the Apostle * Priscilla and Maximilla, charismatic prophet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Priscilla Alden
Priscilla Alden (, – ) was a noted member of Massachusetts's Plymouth Colony of Pilgrims and the wife of fellow colonist John Alden ( – 1687). They married in 1621 in Plymouth. Biography Priscilla was most likely born in Dorking in Surrey, the daughter of William and step-daughter of Alice Mullins. She was only seventeen when she boarded the ''Mayflower.'' She lost her father, step-mother and her brother Joseph during the first winter in Plymouth. She was then the only one of her family in the New World, although she had another brother and a sister who remained in England. John Alden and Priscilla Mullins were probably the third couple to be married in Plymouth Colony. William Bradford's marriage to Alice Carpenter on August 14, 1623 is known to be the fourth. The first was that of Edward Winslow and Susannah White in 1621. Francis Eaton's marriage to his second wife Dorothy, maidservant to the Carvers, was possibly the second. Priscilla is last found in the records ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Priscilla (singer, Born 1990)
Priscilla Florencio (born April 9, 1990) known professionally as Priscilla is a Brazilian singer, songwriter known for her eclectic mix of pop, funk, and electronic music. Active in both the U.S. and Brazilian music scenes, she has collaborated with prominent producers such as Papatinho and Niack and gained recognition for singles including "Molhadinha", "Aceita", and "Reais". She gained initial recognition in the United States with her early music videos, showcasing her unique blend of pop and funk carioca influences. The video was choreographed by Dionne “Loca De Jamaica” Renee, a dancer and choreographer whose credits include working with artists Shakira, Usher, and Nicki Minaj. In March 2014, Priscilla released her second single "California." In May of the same year during the 2014 FIFA World Cup, Priscilla released her third single "Vai(Go!)". In 2016, Priscilla was discovered by Brazilian music producer Dj Batutinha who then introduced Priscilla to music manager Kamil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Priscilla Chan
Priscilla Chan (born February 24, 1985) is an American pediatrician and philanthropist. She and her husband, Mark Zuckerberg, a co-founder and CEO of Meta Platforms, established the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative in December 2015 with a pledge to transfer 99 percent of their Facebook shares, then valued at $45 billion. She attended Harvard University and received her medical degree from the University of California, San Francisco. Early life and education Chan was born in Braintree, Massachusetts, and grew up in Quincy, Massachusetts. Her parents were Chinese refugees who fled Vietnam in boats. Chan grew up speaking Cantonese and interpreted for her grandparents who raised her and her two younger sisters, Michelle and Elaine, while her parents worked. Chan's father owned a restaurant in Massachusetts, which he later sold to run a wholesale fish company in 2006. Chan graduated valedictorian of her class from Quincy High School, where she was involved with the FIRST Robotics ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Priscilla Carrasco
Priscilla Carrasco (born 1933) is an American photographer. Her work is included in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Portland Art Museum and the Center for Creative Photography The Center for Creative Photography (CCP), established in 1975 and located on the University of Arizona's Tucson campus, is a research facility and archival repository containing the full archives of over sixty of the most famous American ph ... Carrasco's book ''Praise Old Believers'' weaves together text and photographs of Old Believers in Oregon and Alaska from 1966 to 1987. References 20th-century American women artists 21st-century American women artists 20th-century American photographers Artists from Oregon 1933 births Living people {{US-photographer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Priscilla Braislin
Priscilla Harris Braislin Merrick (July 1838 – December 15, 1888) was the first mathematics professor at Vassar College. Early life Braislin was originally from Burlington, New Jersey, the eldest of six children. Her father was Catholic and her mother Quaker, but with five of her siblings she became a Baptist; one of her brothers, Edward Braislin (1846–1915), became a Baptist minister. Vassar She was hired around 1865 to teach mathematics at Vassar, within the Department of Mathematics, Natural Philosophy and Chemistry. When the head of the department, Charles Farrar, stepped down in 1874, Braislin became the chair of the newly formed Department of Mathematics, and appointed as an instructor of mathematics. In 1875 she was elected as professor of mathematics. She was the first professor in the department and the first female professor at Vassar, in addition to being (after Susan Jane Cunningham at Swarthmore College in 1871) one of the first female professors of mathematics ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Priscilla Block
Priscilla Ann Block (born August 11, 1995) is an American country music singer–songwriter. After graduating high school, she moved to Nashville to pursue a career in the country industry. In 2020, her song " Just About Over You" went viral on TikTok, reaching Nashville music executives who signed her to Mercury Nashville. Released as a single, "Just About Over You" was on the American country chart in 2021. Early life Block is a native of Raleigh, North Carolina and is one of five children. According to Block, she grew up "super close" to her family. In an interview with ''Sounds Like Nashville'', she recounted spending a lot of time outdoors with her family during childhood. From an early age she had aspirations of becoming a country artist. "I was gonna move to Nashville and chase this dream, and everybody looked at me like I was crazy," she told ''Songwriter Universe''. She also learned to play the guitar at an early age. Block began performing in North Carolina, including ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Priscilla Betti
Préscillia Cynthia Samantha Betti (born 2 August 1989 in Nice), known professionally as Priscilla or Priscilla Betti, is a French singer and actress. She released her first single at the age of 12, and has released six albums. She played the main role of Tina Ravel in the French teen musical TV series ' from 2008 to 2011. Biography Priscilla Betti was born on 2 August 1989 into a family living in Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur. Her mother, Annie takes care of her career and her father, Jean-Pierre, is a painter in letters. Priscilla has two sisters: Sandra who is also a singer and Séverine who is a pharmacy assistant. When Priscilla was eleven years old, she took part in the television children's talent show ''Drôles de petits champions'', on 23 February 2001, on TF1, and was noticed by a producer from the American company Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Patrick Debort. On 25 September, she released her first single " Quand je serai jeune" under the record company S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Priscilla Bertie, 21st Baroness Willoughby De Eresby
Priscilla Barbara Elizabeth Bertie, 21st Baroness Willoughby de Eresby (16 February 1761 – 29 December 1828), known before 1780 as Lady Priscilla Bertie, was a daughter of the Peregrine Bertie, 3rd Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, and Mary Panton. Through her grandmother Mary Wynn, Priscilla Bertie was a descendant of the Welsh princely House of Aberffraw. On 23 February 1779, she married Sir Peter Burrell (later 1st Baron Gwydyr) and they later had four children. Barony of Willoughby de Eresby On 8 July 1779, her brother, Robert Bertie, 4th Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, died of scarlet fever at the age of 22 and his dukedom passed to his uncle, but his barony of Willoughby de Eresby, as well as the office of Lord Great Chamberlain, went into abeyance between Priscilla and her sister, Lady Georgiana (later Marchioness of Cholmondeley). On 17 March 1780, however, the abeyance of the barony was terminated in Priscilla's favour, as the elder sister. The office of Lord Grea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Priscilla Barnes
Priscilla Barnes (born ) is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Terri Alden in the ABC sitcom'' Three's Company'' between 1981 and 1984. Barnes also has appeared in films, including '' A Vacation in Hell'' (1979), ''Licence to Kill'' (1989), '' Stepfather III'' (1992), '' The Crossing Guard'' (1995), '' Mallrats'' (1995), '' The Devil's Rejects'' (2005) and '' The Visitation'' (2006). From 2014 to 2019, Barnes played Magda Andel in the CW comedy-drama series '' Jane the Virgin''. Early life Barnes was born in Fort Dix, New Jersey, the third of four children of a father who was a major in the United States Air Force and a mother who was a homemaker. Her childhood was marked by a series of moves across military bases throughout the country before her family settled in Lancaster, California. After graduating from Antelope Valley High School at age 17, Barnes relocated to San Diego, working as a waitress and a dancer. Career Early career Barnes' first break came ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Priscilla Atkins
Priscilla "Cilla" Atkins, (formerly ''Collins'') is a prominent Aboriginal leader, advocate and television producer. Atkins was the Chief Executive Officer of the North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency (NAAJA), the largest law firm in the Northern Territory of Australia. Early life Priscilla Atkins, formerly Priscilla Collins and known as "Cilla", is an Eastern Arrernte woman of Arabana descent in South Australia and grew up in Alice Springs in Central Australia, the eldest of five children and is a descendant of Topsy Smith () the daughter of Mary Kemp (Arabana) and George White, a Policeman. Topsy Smith was the mother to daughter Ada Mary Wade. Career Atkins is an outspoken advocate on issues affecting Aboriginal people across the Northern Territory, including the overrepresentation of Aboriginal people in prison, overcrowding and homelessness and problems in the Northern Territory Government’s mismanagement of remote public housing. Atkins was the Chief Executive O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fannie Mae
The Federal National Mortgage Association (FNMA), commonly known as Fannie Mae, is a United States government-sponsored enterprise (GSE) and, since 1968, a publicly traded company. Founded in 1938 during the Great Depression as part of the New Deal, the corporation's purpose is to expand the secondary mortgage market by securitization, securitizing mortgage loans in the form of mortgage-backed security, mortgage-backed securities (MBS), allowing lenders to reinvest their assets into more lending and in effect increasing the number of lenders in the mortgage market by reducing the reliance on locally based savings and loan associations (or "thrifts"). Its brother organization is the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (FHLMC), better known as Freddie Mac. In 2024, with over $4.3 trillion in assets, Fannie Mae is the largest company in the United States and the fifth largest company in the world, by assets. Fannie Mae was ranked number 27 on the Fortune 500, ''Fortune'' 50 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Priscilla Almodovar
Priscilla Almodovar is the president and chief executive officer of Fannie Mae. Career Almodovar graduated from Columbia Law School. She started her career at the law firm White & Case. She served as deputy policy director for Eliot Spitzer's 2005 New York gubernatorial campaign and took leadership of New York State Housing Finance Agency in January 2007. During her tenure, she spearheaded the negotiation of maintaining affordability at Starrett City in Brooklyn, NY, one of the largest and most economically- and racially-mixed housing complexes in the country. Before joining Enterprise, Almodovar was a managing director at JPMorgan Chase, overseeing two of the company’s national real estate businesses. Named one of the most influential women in the real estate industry by Affordable Housing Finance Magazine in 2016, she is “credited with being instrumental in the firm’s commitment to Detroit’s economic recovery.” Almodovar served as co-chair of the New York State He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
