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Selma (given Name)
Selma is a feminine name of ambiguous origin. It could be a form of '' Selima'', which in turn is a name first recorded in a poem by Thomas Gray (died 1771). One possibility is that ''Selima'' was influenced by the Arabic name ''Selim'' meaning "peaceful". Hanks; Hardcastle; Hodges (2006) p. 243. In Turkey, the name is a variation of the Arabic female name Salma. The name may also have Celtic origins, in which case it means "beautiful view". The use of ''Selma'' in Germany and Scandinavia stems from the Ossianic poetry of James Macpherson (died 1796), where it appears as a place name. Fellows-Jensen (2006) pp. 134–136. Vigsø (2001). Its specific popularity in Sweden is likely due to the Selma poems of Frans Michael Franzén (died 1847). It was later introduced into Denmark by Swedish immigrants, after which it likely became more common due to the works of the author Selma Lagerlöf (died 1940). The given name lost popularity in Sweden during most of the 20th century, but ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zelma (given Name)
Zelma is a primarily feminine given name, a variant of the name Selma. Usage Zelma was among the 1,000 most popular names in use for girls in the United States between 1880 and 1955. It peaked in 1902, when it was the 216th most popular name for American girls. It was among the top 100 names for girls born in Latvia between 1920 and 1935, and among the top 1,000 names for girls in Brazil between 1950 and 1960. Women * Unita Zelma Blackwell (1933–2019), American civil rights activist * Zelma Blakely (1921–1978), British painter, printer, engraver, and illustrator * Zelma Bogue (1880–1975), American politician * Zelma Cēsniece-Freidenfelde (1892–1929), Latvian physician and politician *Zelma Davis, Liberian-born singer who rose to fame in the early 1990s * Zelma "Zee" Edgell (1940–2020), Belizean-born American writer and academic * Zelma Hedin (1827–1874), Swedish actress *Kathryn Grayson, born Zelma Kathryn Elisabeth Hedrick (1922–2010), American actress and colorat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Selma Bajrami
Selma Bajrami (born 4 July 1980) is a Bosnian singer-songwriter and media personality. Her professional music career began when she was a teenager joining the pop group "IF". With the release of her first studio album '' Kad suza ne bude...'' in 1998, Bajrami started her solo career. So far, she has released 9 studio albums. Deemed as the most popular and best selling female pop star in Bosnia, she is also one of the most popular Balkan singers of the 21st century. Early life Bajrami was born in Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina, at the time part of SFR Yugoslavia to a Bosniak mother and Albanian father. She grew up in the nearby village of Mramor where she spent the entirety of the Bosnian War (1992–1995), during which she started singing in kafanas. In 1996 she moved back to Tuzla where she finished a hairdressing school. Bajrami started singing professionally at the age of 15, performing at local festivals and venues. Career Her first studio album, Kad suza ne bude..., was r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Selma Freud
Selma Freud (b., 21 August 1877, Vienna, d. after 1933, probably in Israel) was an Austrian physicist and the founder of the first official Salvation Army corps in Vienna. She received her doctorate in physics from the University of Vienna in 1906 and was widely thought to be the first Austrian woman to do so, although she was in fact the second. There is no record of Freud pursuing physics research beyond her dissertation. Instead, having been raised Protestantism, Protestant in a largely Catholic Church, Catholic country, Freud trained with the Salvation Army The Salvation Army (TSA) is a Protestantism, Protestant Christian church and an international charitable organisation headquartered in London, England. It is aligned with the Wesleyan-Holiness movement. The organisation reports a worldwide m ... in London in the early 1920s and in 1926 founded the first Austrian chapter of the ''Heilsarmee'' (the Army's German name) in Vienna in the face of local opposition there. Li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Selma Engel-Wijnberg
Selma Engel-Wijnberg (born Saartje "Selme" Wijnberg; 15 May 1922 – 4 December 2018) was one of only two Dutch Jewish Holocaust survivors of the Sobibor extermination camp. She escaped during the 1943 uprising, hid in Poland, and survived the war. Engel-Wijnberg emigrated to the United States from Israel with her family in 1957, settling in Branford, Connecticut. She returned to Europe again only to testify against the war criminals of Sobibor. In 2010 she was in the Netherlands to receive the governmental honour of Knight in the Order of Oranje-Nassau. Early life Wijnberg was born into a Jewish family in Groningen, Netherlands. She was raised in Zwolle, where her parents owned and managed the ''Hotel Wijnberg''. There she attended local schools. Five days before Wijnberg turned 18, the Germans invaded the Netherlands on 10 May 1940. They soon began persecution of Jews. In September 1942 Wijnberg first hid in Utrecht, and later in De Bilt. Holocaust years While hiding she use ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Selma Ek
Selma Ek (3 September 1856 – 3 May 1941) was a Swedish operatic soprano who had an active international career from the 1870s through the 1890s. Like Lilli Lehmann and Lillian Nordica, she was one of those universally talented singers of the late 19th century who was able to master roles from the coloratura, lyric, and dramatic soprano repertoires. The leading Swedish soprano of her day, she was particularly admired for her portrayals of Mozart, Wagner, and Verdi heroines.Ek Biography at operissimo.com (in German) Biography Born in , Ek studied with |
Selma Ergeç
Selma Sabina Ergeç (; born 1 November 1978) is a Turkish-German actress, beauty pageant titleholder, Model (person), model, designer, philologist, psychologist and physician, doctor. She is known for her performance in :tr:Kırımlı (film), Kırımlı, Asi (TV series), ''Asi'', ''Vatanım Sensin, Immortals (2018 TV series), Yaşamayanlar'', :tr:Yarım Elma, Yarım Elma, :tr:Gönül İşleri, Gönül İşleri and ''Muhteşem Yüzyıl'' as the sister of Suleiman the Magnificent, Sultan Süleyman; Hatice Sultan (daughter of Selim I), Hatice Sultan. Early life and career Ergeç was born in Hamm, North Rhine-Westphalia, Hamm, Germany. Her mother is German and her father is Turkish. She stated in an interview that her paternal family descends from Mahmud II, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire. She studied medicine at University of Münster, Westfalia Wilhems University in Münster for 3 years and psychology and philosophy at the FernUniversität Hagen. She started modelling in 2000. Her b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Selma D'Silva
Selma Juliet Christina D'Silva (born 24 July 1960) is a former player for the Indian Women's Hockey Team. She represented India at the 1980 Summer Olympics and the 1982 Asian Games along with many other international tournaments. She has also been the captain for Indian Women's Hockey Team during the 1983 Woman’s World Cup Kuala Lumpur. Early life and education D'Silva was born in Mumbai, and attended Guru Nanak Khalsa College, Matunga. As of 2013, she was living in Mumbai, India. Career in hockey D'Silva played for the Western Railway Woman’s Hockey Team, 1979 - 1996. She represented, Bombay, Western Railway and Indian Railways at various tournaments held all over India during these years. In 1979 she represented India in the Woman’s World Cup Vancouver - CANADA. In 1980 represented India at the Olympic Games in Moscow. She was on the winning team representing India at the 1981 Asian Women’s Hockey Championship Japan, the 1981 Quadrangular Tournament Singapore, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Selma Dritz
Selma Kaderman Dritz (June 29, 1917 – September 3, 2008) was an American physician and epidemiologist who worked in San Francisco, California, where she began tracking the first known cases of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) in the early 1980s. Early life and education Selma Dritz was born in Chicago, Illinois, on June 29, 1917. Dritz loved music and began her career as a concert pianist before deciding that she ultimately wanted to help others through her role in the medical field. Dritz studied medicine at the University of Illinois College of Medicine and earned a Doctor of Medicine (MD) in 1941. Following medical school, she completed an internship and a pediatrics residency at Cook County Hospital. After completing her residency, she worked as a pediatrician in private practice for several years. Subsequently, she served as a pediatric consultant with the Illinois State Health Department until 1947. In 1947, she took a temporary hiatus from medicine to raise ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Selma Diamond
Selma Diamond (August 5, 1920 – May 13, 1985) was a Canadian-born American comedian, actress, and radio and television writer, known for her high-range, raspy voice and her portrayal of Selma Hacker on the first two seasons of the NBC television comedy series '' Night Court''. Diamond was also the main inspiration for the character of Sally Rogers on the series '' The Dick Van Dyke Show''. Early life Diamond was born on August 5, 1920, in London, Ontario, Canada, to a tailor and his wife. Diamond's grandmother was a suffragette. * * Cue (September 5, 1953). * Newark Evening News, August 28, 1963. * Sunday News, January 19, 1964. When Diamond was a young girl, they moved to Brooklyn, New York. Diamond attended high school in Brooklyn and graduated from New York University. Career Diamond published cartoons and humor essays in ''The New Yorker''. Later, she moved to the West Coast and hired an agent. She worked in radio and, eventually, television. Her first radio writing c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Selma Cronan
Selma Kantor Cronan (May 6, 1913 – August 5, 2002) was an American aviator. She was part of the Women's Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) during World War II, and after the war, she continued to fly. She was especially known for competing in air races such as the Powder Puff Derby. Biography Cronan was born in Asbury Park, New Jersey and was Jewish. Her mother had taken her on an airplane ride in the 1920s in Asbury Park, New Jersey, and it inspired her as a young girl to want to be a pilot. Cronan earned her commercial pilot's license in 1941. She was personally invited by Jacqueline Cochran to join the Women's Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) in 1943. Cronan continued to fly after World War II, competing in air races. She joined the pilots' organization, the Ninety-Nines, in 1944. In 1948 she was unable to participate in an air race because she could not find anyone to watch her twin sons. She eventually taught her husband, Walter Cronan, to fly, but when he had an accident in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Selma Chalabi
Selma Chalabi is a British radio producer and journalist for BBC Wales. She was born in the United Kingdom to an Iraqi father and English mother, and was raised in Winchester Winchester (, ) is a City status in the United Kingdom, cathedral city in Hampshire, England. The city lies at the heart of the wider City of Winchester, a local government Districts of England, district, at the western end of the South Downs N .... Career She has produced short films about her father's homeland, in a bid to not only discover more of her Arabic roots but to also address media stereotypes towards Iraqis. She worked with and received support from Valley and Vale Community Arts when directing and producing ''Land Of My Father''. Stories collected by Chalabi when interviewing her family for ''Land Of My Father'' inspired her to create ''Blue Eyes'', a short film about her Iraqi grandmother. Filmography * ''Land Of My Father'' * ''Blue Eyes'' * ''The Note'' References External ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Selma Botman
Selma Botman (born 1950) is an American academic. Her post at the University of Maine System (UMS) Chancellor's Office focused on expanding the systems international education programs, recruiting foreign students, and coordinating overseas faculty exchanges. Botman was the President of the University of Southern Maine from July 1, 2008 to July 9, 2012. From Fall 2004 to June 2008, she served as the Executive Vice-Chancellor and University Provost of the City University of New York. Recently, Yeshiva University named Dr. Botman the University's next Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost. Early life and education Selma Botman grew up in Chelsea, Massachusetts, which she describes as a "very poor city". Her father worked in a shoe factory and his education ended at grade eight. Her mother graduated from high school but never moved on to college. Both of them encouraged their children, Selma and her two brothers, to get degrees. In the end, all of the siblings reached the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
