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Rosemary Brown (other)
Rosemary Brown may refer to: *Rosemary Brown (Canadian politician) (1940–2003), first black woman to be elected to a provincial legislature in Canada *Rosemary Brown (spiritualist) (1916–2001), English composer, reportedly a transcriber of the musical works of deceased composers *Rosemary Brown (born 1951), birth name of the singer and Irish presidential candidate Dana Rosemary Scallon *Rose Browne (1897–1986), African-American engineer, educator and author *Rosemary Brown (swimmer) Rosemary Brown (born 11 April 1961) is an Australian swimmer. She competed in six events at the 1980 Summer Olympics The 1980 Summer Olympics (russian: Летние Олимпийские игры 1980, Letniye Olimpiyskiye igry 1980), of ... (born 1961), Australian swimmer * Rosemary Brown (American politician) (born 1970), Republican member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives * Rosemary Fowler (née Brown), British physicist {{DEFAULTSORT:Brown, Rosemary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosemary Brown (Canadian Politician)
Rosemary Brown (née Wedderburn; June 17, 1930 – April 26, 2003) was a Canadian politician.Lorraine Snyder"Rosemary Brown" ''The Canadian Encyclopedia'', January 27, 2010. She was the first black woman elected to the provincial government of British Columbia. Early years Rosemary Brown was born in Kingston, Jamaica, in 1930. She came to Canada in the year 1951 to attend university. She proceeded to earn a Master of Social Work at the University of British Columbia. As a student at McGill, and later the University of British Columbia, she faced pervasive discrimination. It was through adversity that she found her purpose as a leader against racism and sexism. She helped to found the British Columbia Association for the Advancement of Coloured People (BCAACP) in 1956 to help advocate for housing, employment and human rights legislation. Political history Brown served as a Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) in the British Columbia legislature as a part of the New Dem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosemary Brown (spiritualist)
Rosemary Isabel Brown (nee Dickeson, 27 July 191616 November 2001) was an English composer, pianist and spirit medium who claimed that dead composers dictated new musical works to her. She created a small media sensation in the 1970s by presenting works purportedly dictated to her by Claude Debussy, Edvard Grieg, Franz Liszt, Franz Schubert, Frédéric Chopin, Igor Stravinsky, Johann Sebastian Bach, Johannes Brahms, Ludwig van Beethoven, Robert Schumann and Sergei Rachmaninoff. Life Rosemary Isabel Dickeson was born in London in 1916. She claimed to have been only seven years old when she was first introduced to the world of dead musicians. She reported that a Apparitional experience, spirit with long white hair and a flowing black cassock appeared and told her he was a composer and would make her a famous musician one day. She did not know who he was until, about ten years later, she saw a picture of Franz Liszt. Many other members of Brown's family were allegedly psychic, in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dana Rosemary Scallon
Dana Rosemary Scallon (born Rosemary Brown; 30 August 1951), known professionally as Dana, is an Irish singer and former politician who served as Member of the European Parliament from 1999 to 2004. While still a schoolgirl she won the 1970 Eurovision Song Contest with " All Kinds of Everything". It became a worldwide million-seller and launched her music career. She entered politics in 1997, as Dana Rosemary Scallon, running unsuccessfully in the Irish presidential election, but later being elected as an MEP for Connacht–Ulster in 1999. Scallon was again an independent candidate in the Irish 2011 presidential election, but was eliminated on the first count. In 2019, Dana announced she was back in the studio and was recording a brand new album, her first in many years. ''My Time'' was released 1 November 2019. Background Scallon was born Rosemary Brown in Islington, London, one of seven children. Her father Robert Brown worked as a porter at nearby King's Cross station, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rose Browne
Rose Butler Browne (1897–1986) was an American educator, engineer and author of ''Love My Children''. In 1939 she became the first black woman to gain a PhD in education from Harvard University.Tenzing TseringProfile: Rose Butler Browne in A. Rutherford (ed.), Psychology's Feminist Voices. Accessed 5 July 2020. Life Rose Butler Browne was born in Boston, Massachusetts on March 19, 1897, the daughter of John R. Butler, a brickmason and Hannah F. McClenney, who worked at a laundry. Her maternal great-grandmother, Charlotte Ann Elizabeth Lindsey, was a daughter of a native American chief who married a southern slave, worked six years to buy his freedom and later migrated to a Boston ghetto to improve the life of their children. In her autobiography ''Love My Children'', Browne attributed most of her success to the influence of her great-grandmother, called the "High Priestess" by her family. She moved with her family to Newport, Rhode Island where she grew up. While working as a li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosemary Brown (swimmer)
Rosemary Brown (born 11 April 1961) is an Australian swimmer. She competed in six events at the 1980 Summer Olympics The 1980 Summer Olympics (russian: Летние Олимпийские игры 1980, Letniye Olimpiyskiye igry 1980), officially known as the Games of the XXII Olympiad (russian: Игры XXII Олимпиады, Igry XXII Olimpiady) and commo .... References External links * 1961 births Living people Australian female freestyle swimmers Olympic swimmers for Australia Swimmers at the 1980 Summer Olympics Place of birth missing (living people) Commonwealth Games medallists in swimming Commonwealth Games silver medallists for Australia Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for Australia Swimmers at the 1978 Commonwealth Games 20th-century Australian women 21st-century Australian women Medallists at the 1978 Commonwealth Games {{Australia-swimming-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosemary Brown (American Politician)
Rosemary Brown is an American politician. A Republican, she is member of the Pennsylvania State Senate representing the 40th district since 2023. She previously served as a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives representing the 189th district from 2011-2022. Education and career Brown graduated from East Stroudsburg High School and holds a bachelor's degree in communications from the University of Scranton. Brown resides in Middle Smithfield Township with her husband, Joe, and their three children. Prior to becoming a legislator, Brown worked as an assistant buyer for Macy's and as an executive sales manager for Macy’s, Saks Fifth Avenue, and The Bon-Ton stores. Brown then began working in pharmaceutical sales for Hoffmann-La Roche and Vistakon, which is a branch of Johnson & Johnson Johnson & Johnson (J&J) is an American multinational corporation founded in 1886 that develops medical devices, pharmaceuticals, and consumer packaged goods. Its co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
