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Sylvana Beltrones Sánchez
Silvana or Sylvana, meaning "one who lives in the forest" in Latin, is a female given name. Her name day is celebrated on November 4th. Notable people with the name include: * Silvana Arbia (born 1952), Italian judge and prosecutor * Silvana Arias (born 1982), Peruvian actress * Silvana Armenulić (1938–1976), Yugoslav singer and songwriter * Silvana De Mari (born 1953), Italian writer, psychotherapist, and doctor * Silvana Franco (born 1968), British chef * Silvana Gallardo (1953–2012), American actress * Silvana Ibarra (born 1959), Ecuadorian singer, actress, and politician * Silvana Imam (born 1986), Swedish rapper of Lithuanian origin * Silvana Jachino (1916–2004), Italian actress * Silvana Koch-Mehrin (born 1970), German politician * Silvana Mangano (1930–1989), Italian actress * Silvana Pampanini (1925–2016), Italian actress * Silvana Paternostro, Colombian journalist * Silvana Santaella (born 1983), Venezuelan beauty pageant * Silvana Sciarra (bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silvana Arbia
Silvana Arbia (born 19 November 1952 in Senise, Italy) is an Italian judge. She was previously the Registrar (law), Registrar of the International Criminal Court. After gaining experience as a judge and prosecutor in Italy, Arbia made her international début as a Senior Trial Attorney at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. Biography Education and training Arbia obtained her master's degree in law at the University of Padua in Italy in 1976 and, while working, continued her training in order to specialise in European law (at the Academy of European Law in Florence) and international law (at Hague Academy of International Law, The Hague Academy of International Law). She undertook additional training at the René Cassin International Institute of Human Rights in 1989 and at the Canadian Human Rights Foundation in 1995. Activities in Italy While practising law in Venice, Arbia passed a public competitive examination to become a judge and prosecutor in Italy, positions ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silvana Santaella
Silvana Santaella Arellano (born September 29, 1983 in Caracas) is a Venezuelan model and beauty queen. On October 16, 2003, she competed in the national beauty pageant Miss Venezuela 2003, held in Caracas, where she placed 1st runner-up. She then won Miss Italia nel Mondo 2004. She was crowned Sambil Model / Miss Earth Venezuela 2007 on June 7, 2007, in Caracas, by Marianne Puglia, Miss Earth-Fire 2006, and Alexandra Braun, Miss Earth 2005, and represented Venezuela at Miss Earth 2007 Miss Earth 2007, the seventh edition of the Miss Earth pageant, was held on November 12, 2007 at the University of the Philippines Theater, on campus of the University of the Philippines Diliman in Quezon City, Philippines. 88 delegates compet ..., in which she was crowned Miss Earth-Water (2nd runner-up). The pageant was won by Canadian Jessica Trisko. References External links Sambil Models official websiteMiss Earth official websiteMiss Italia nel Mondo official website ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silvina
Silvina is a given name. It is a variant of Silvana, meaning "one who lives in the forest". People with the name * Silvina Bosco, Argentine actress * Silvina Bullrich (1915–1990), Argentine writer * Silvina Chediek (born 1962), Argentine journalist and presenter * Silvina Corvalán (born 1973), Argentine field hockey player * Silvina D'Elía (born 1986), Argentine field hockey player * Silvina Fabars (1944–2025), Cuban folk dancer and ballerina * Silvina Luna Silvina Noelia Luna (21 June 1980 – 31 August 2023) was an Argentine model, actress and vedette. Career After finishing school at the age of 17, she moved to Buenos Aires and worked as a secretary and a model. She later lived in Miami for a ... (born 1980), Argentina model, actress, and vedette * Silvina Milstein (born 1956), Argentine composer and scholar * Silvina Montrul, American linguist * Silvina Moreno (born 1987), Argentine singer * Silvina Moschini (born 1972), Argentine entrepreneur * Silvina Oca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sylvana Simons
Silvana Hildegard "Sylvana" Simons (Dutch pronunciation: Help:IPA/Dutch, [sɪlˈvaːnaː ˈsimɔns]; born 31 January 1971) is a Suriname (Kingdom of the Netherlands), Surinamese-born Dutch politician and former television presenter. She served as a member of the House of Representatives (Netherlands), House of Representatives between 2021 and 2023 on behalf of BIJ1, an egalitarian anti-racist party founded by Simons in 2016. She was born in Suriname (Kingdom of the Netherlands), Suriname and moved to the Netherlands while an infant. She was a dancer in the Amsterdam nightlife scene before becoming a VJ (media personality), VJ for the new music channel TMF Nederland, TMF in 1995. Simons left four years later to join Talpa TV, SBS Broadcasting, where she presented reality television series (2000). She subsequently spent almost a decade at RTL Nederland, hosting the first few seasons of (2001–05) about home buying and the Saturday evening show ''Dancing with the Stars'' (2005– ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sylvana Gómez
Sylvana Anali Rivera Gómez is a beach volleyball player from Guatemala, who played with María Orellana in the 2003 Pan American Games in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic The Dominican Republic is a country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles of the Caribbean Sea in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean. It shares a Maritime boundary, maritime border with Puerto Rico to the east and .... They finished in the 5th position. References * * Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Guatemalan women's beach volleyball players Beach volleyball players at the 2003 Pan American Games Pan American Games competitors for Guatemala {{Guatemala-volleyball-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sylvana Foa
Sylvana Foa (born January 31, 1945, in Buffalo, New York) is a former American journalist and public affairs specialist. She was the first woman to serve as the foreign editor of a major international news organisation, the first woman to serve as a news director of an American television network and the first woman to serve as spokesperson for the Secretary-General of the United Nations. Early life Foa was born in Buffalo, New York. Her family moved to Troy, New York when she was seven. She graduated from Columbia University in 1967, having studied Political Science at Barnard College and Chinese at the East Asia Institute. She graduated from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1969, where she was also a special Carnegie Fellow. Her father, Joseph V. Foa, had been forced to leave Italy when dictator Benito Mussolini enacted the Italian racial laws. Career Journalism career Foa began her journalism career in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, in the early 1970s. There she ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sylvana Tomaselli
Sylvana Palma Windsor, Countess of St Andrews (''née'' Tomaselli, previously Jones; born 28 May 1957) is a Canadian-born academic and historian. By virtue of marriage she is a member of the House of Windsor and is related to the British royal family as the wife of George Windsor, Earl of St Andrews, eldest son of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, second cousin of King Charles III. She is a devout Roman Catholic. A noted historian and lecturer at the University of Cambridge, she is also known professionally as Dr. Sylvana Tomaselli. Early life and ancestry Tomaselli was born on 28 May 1957 at Placentia, Newfoundland, daughter of Maximilian Karl Tomaselli (formerly of Salzburg) by his wife Josiane ''née'' Preschez. By birth, Sylvana belongs to the Austrian branch of the Tomaselli family, an ancient Italian noble family of condottiero and feudal lords, whose origins are in Piacenza. Members of her family later rose to prominent positions in both Italy and Austria. Tomase ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silvana Tirinzoni
Silvana Petra Tirinzoni (born 25 June 1979) is a Swiss curler from Zurich. She is a four-time women's world champion skip (, , , ) and five-time Grand Slam champion. She is a former world junior champion and reigning European champion. Tirinzoni also represented Switzerland at the 2022 Winter Olympics and 2018 Winter Olympics, after winning the 2017 Swiss Olympic Curling Trials. Career In 1997, Tirinzoni was the Swiss alternate for Bianca Röthlisberger at the World Junior Curling Championships. The team finished seventh. The following year, Tirinzoni was the Swiss skip at the World Juniors, and she and her team of Michèle Knobel, Brigitte Schori and Martina von Arx finished sixth. In 1999, the same team returned to the Juniors and won the whole tournament for Switzerland. After finishing the round robin in second place with a 7–2 record, Tirinzoni led Switzerland to a semi-final win over Sweden's Matilda Mattsson and a final win against Japan (skipped by Akiko Kat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silvana Tenreyro
María Silvana Tenreyro (born 6 September 1973) is a British-Argentine economist who is professor of economics at the London School of Economics and was an external member of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee from July 2017 to July 2023. She was president of the European Economic Association for 2021. She graduated with a BA (summa cum laude) from the National University of Tucumán, Argentina, in 1997, followed by an MA and a PhD in economics at Harvard University, where she was supervised by Robert Barro, Alberto Alesina and Kenneth Rogoff. She was appointed to a three-year term on the Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee from July 2017, and was reappointed for a second term from July 2020. She has been a professor of economics at the London School of Economics. She worked at the US Federal Reserve Bank of Boston from 2002 to 2004 and at the Bank of Mauritius from 2012 to 2014. Tenreyro was elected fellow of the British Academy (FBA) in July 2018. In 2021 she ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silvana Suárez
Silvana Rosa Suárez Clarence (; 29 September 1958 – 21 October 2022) was an Argentine model and beauty queen who won the Miss World 1978 contest, representing Argentina. The pageant was held in London, United Kingdom. Suárez became the second Argentine to win the title of World Beauty Queen. Biography From the middle class, Suárez's parents were both artists and divorced when she was a teen. She lived then with her mother, a teacher of Fine Arts, and after finishing High School, studied Architecture. ''"Was my mom who insisted that I attend a beauty pageant. I won the Miss Sierras de Córdoba and later the Miss World"'', she said in 2019. Suárez died from colon cancer on 21 October 2022, at the age of 64. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silvana Sciarra
Silvana Sciarra (born 24 July 1948) is an Italian jurist and academic. She served as a judge of the Constitutional Court of Italy from November 2014 to November 2023 and served as its president from 20 September 2022 to 11 November 2023. Career Sciarra was born in Trani. She taught European Labour and Social Law at the European University Institute between 1994 and 2003. She was a professor of labour law at the University of Florence and the University of Siena before being appointed to the Constitutional Court by the Italian Parliament on 6 November 2014. In the parliamentary election she obtained 630 out of a necessary 570 votes. She was sworn in on 11 November 2014. She is the first woman elected by the Italian Parliament as a judge of the Constitutional Court A constitutional court is a high court that deals primarily with constitutional law. Its main authority is to rule on whether laws that are challenged are in fact unconstitutional, i.e. whether they conflict with c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silvana Paternostro
Silvana Paternostro (born c. 1962 in Barranquilla, Colombia) is a journalist who has written extensively on Cuba and Central and South America. She specializes in women’s issues, and has also written comprehensively about AIDS, revolutionary movements, underground economies and the intersection of literature, music and other cultural forms with politics and economics. She is the author of ''In the Land of God and Man: Confronting Our Sexual Culture'', which explores gender roles and the effect of government and religion on women’s lives in Latin America, which was nominated for the PEN/Martha Abrams Award for First Nonfiction. Her exposé of re-virginization centers in the US appeared in the book ''Se Habla Español: Voces Latinas en USA'', the first anthology of new Latino voices in the United States published in Spanish. She is a Contributing Editor of Bomb magazine, New York’s leading cultural magazine focusing on interviews between artists, writers, actors, directors, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
