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Wilma (given Name)
Wilma is a female given name, a feminine form of William William is a masculine given name of Germanic languages, Germanic origin. It became popular in England after the Norman Conquest, Norman conquest in 1066,All Things William"Meaning & Origin of the Name"/ref> and remained so throughout the Middle .... People with the name include: People * Wilma Arizapana (born 1982), Peruvian long-distance runner * Wilma van den Berg (born 1947), Dutch sprinter * Wilma M. Blom, marine scientist * Wilma Burgess (1939–2003), American singer * Wilma Chan (1949–2021), American politician * Wilma Lee Cooper (1921–2011), American singer * Wilma Cosmé (born 1966), Puerto Rican singer known as Sa-Fire * Wilma De Angelis (born 1931), Italian singer and TV presenter * Wilma Dressel (born 1983), German rower * Wilma Driessen (born 1938), Dutch opera singer * Wilma Dykeman (1920–2006), American writer * Wilma Elles (born 1986), German actress * Wilma de Faria, Brazilian politician, governor of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William
William is a masculine given name of Germanic languages, Germanic origin. It became popular in England after the Norman Conquest, Norman conquest in 1066,All Things William"Meaning & Origin of the Name"/ref> and remained so throughout the Middle Ages and into the modern era. It is sometimes abbreviated "Wm." Shortened familiar versions in English include Will (given name), Will or Wil, Wills, Willy, Willie, Bill (given name), Bill, Billie (given name), Billie, and Billy (name), Billy. A common Irish people, Irish form is Liam. Scottish people, Scottish diminutives include Wull, Willie or Wullie (as in Oor Wullie). Female forms include Willa, Willemina, Wilma (given name), Wilma and Wilhelmina (given name), Wilhelmina. Etymology William is related to the German language, German given name ''Wilhelm''. Both ultimately descend from Proto-Germanic ''*Wiljahelmaz'', with a direct cognate also in the Old Norse name ''Vilhjalmr'' and a West Germanic borrowing into Medieval Latin ''Wil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilma Scott Heide
Wilma Louise Scott Heide (February 26, 1921 – May 8, 1985) was an American author, nurse, and social activist. Born in Ferndale, Pennsylvania, Heide trained as a registered nurse in psychiatry at Brooklyn State Hospital. She began her career at a mental hospital in Torrance, Pennsylvania, where she imposed changes to rectify the persistent mistreatment of staff and patients. She received her bachelor's and masters' degrees in sociology from the University of Pittsburgh and was involved in a number of activist groups in the city. She became more heavily involved in the feminist movement in 1967, when she joined the National Organization for Women (NOW) and became a founding member of the Pittsburgh chapter. Heide was involved in ''The Pittsburgh Press'' case that ended the practice of listing separate help wanted ads for men and women, decided in 1973 by the Supreme Court of the United States in '' Pittsburgh Press Co. v. Pittsburgh Commission on Human Relations''. She also l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilma Pastrana
Wilma Pastrana Jiménez (born January 17, 1970) is a certified public accountant and wife of the former governor of Puerto Rico, Alejandro García Padilla. Pastrana became the 13th First Lady of Puerto Rico on January 2, 2013, and took on programs to improve child education, health, and welfare on the island. She was elected as municipal legislator of Guaynabo in the 2024 general elections. Biography Wilma Pastrana Jiménez was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico. She grew up in Río Piedras and graduated with honors from the Colegio Nuestra Señora del Pilar. She earned a Bachelor of Business Administration from Boston University before returning to Puerto Rico and obtaining a CPA license. Pastrana married Alejandro García Padilla on April 7, 2001. They have three children: Ana, Juan Pablo, and Diego. Pastrana worked with businesses and organizations such as Deloitte & Touche, GlaxoSmithKline, Panell Kerr and Foster, as well as the Puerto Rico Convention Center and the Tourism ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilma Newhoudt-Druchen
Wilma Newhoudt-Druchen is a South African politician who is the country's first Deaf female Member of Parliament. She attended Gallaudet University and was elected the vice-president of the World Federation of the Deaf in 2011. A member of the African National Congress, Newhoudt-Druchen has championed efforts to make South African Sign Language South African Sign Language (SASL, ) is the primary sign language used by deaf people in South Africa. The South African government added a National Language Unit for South African Sign Language in 2001. SASL is not the only manual language use ... an official language of the country. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Newhoudt-Druchen, Wilma Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Members of the National Assembly of South Africa 2014–2019 Members of the National Assembly of South Africa 2019–2024 Gallaudet University alumni Deaf politicians South African deaf people Women members of the National Assembly of South Af ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilma Neruda
Wilhelmine Maria Franziska Neruda, also known as Wilma Norman-Neruda and Wilma, Lady Hallé, was a Czech virtuoso violinist, chamber musician, and teacher. Life and career Born in Brno (Brünn), Moravia, then part of the Austrian Empire, Neruda came from a musical family. Her great-great-grandfather was the noted Bohemian composer Johann Baptist Georg Neruda (1708–1780), and her father, Josef Neruda (1807–1875), was the organist of the cathedral of Brno. Her father taught her piano, yet she desired to play the violin. At the time, the violin was considered better suited for men, and therefore it was uncommon for women to study the violin. Josef caught his daughter playing on her older brother's violin in secret, and was so surprised at her natural ability that he allowed her to study violin instead. Neruda, like many other influential musicians of the 19th century, was a child prodigy. Several of her siblings, including Maria Neruda and Franz Xaver Neruda, were also c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilma Murto
Wilma Anna Helena Murto (born 11 June 1998) is a Finnish pole vaulter. She won the gold medal at the 2022 European Athletics Championships in Munich with a jump of , equalling the championships record and setting a new Finnish record. Murto also claimed victory at the 2023 European Athletics Indoor Championships, 2023 European Indoor Championships, making her the first Finnish woman in history to win gold at these championships. She was the 2016 IAAF World U20 Championships, 2016 World Under-20 Championships and 2017 European Athletics U20 Championships, 2017 European U20 Championships bronze medallist. Murto currently holds List of Finnish records in athletics, Finnish national records out and indoors and List of world under-20 records in athletics, world U20 indoor record of . Career Wilma Murto made her international debut at the 2014 World Junior Championships in Athletics held in Eugene, Oregon at the age of sixteen. On 27 December 2015, she cleared a new best of , which rep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilma Montesi
Wilma Montesi (3 February 1932 – 9 April 1953) was an Italian woman whose body was discovered near Rome. The finding of her lifeless body on a public beach near Torvajanica, on Rome's littoral, led to prolonged investigations involving sensational allegations of drug and sex orgies in Roman society. The alleged involvement of Ugo Montagna and Piero Piccioni (son of deputy prime minister, Attilio Piccioni and lover of actress Alida Valli) caused a scandal. Subsequently, they were absolved of all charges. The case remains unsolved, including the cause of death. Discovery of the body and murder investigation The discovery Saturday, 11 April 1953, the day before Easter, the body of 21-year-old Wilma Montesi was discovered on the beach of Torvajanica, near Rome. She had been missing since 9 April. Wilma Montesi was born in 1932 in Rome, where she lived in via Tagliamento 76. At the time of her disappearance, she was engaged to a policeman from Potenza whom she was about t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Sutcliffe
Peter William Sutcliffe (2 June 1946 – 13 November 2020), also known as Peter Coonan, was an English serial killer who was convicted of murdering thirteen women and attempting to murder seven others between 1975 and 1980. He was dubbed in press reports as the Yorkshire Ripper, an allusion to the Victorian serial killer Jack the Ripper. Sutcliffe was sentenced to twenty concurrent sentences of life imprisonment, which were converted to a whole life order in 2010. Two of his murders took place in Manchester; all the others took place in West Yorkshire. Criminal psychologist David Holmes characterised Sutcliffe as being an "extremely callous, sexually sadistic serial killer". Sutcliffe initially attacked women and girls in residential areas, but appears to have shifted his focus to red-light districts because he was attracted by the vulnerability of prostitutes and the perceived ambivalent attitude of police to prostitutes' safety. After his arrest in Sheffield by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilma Mansveld
Wilma Jacqueline Mansveld (born 11 September 1962) is a Dutch politician of the Labour Party (PvdA). She served as Undersecretary for Infrastructure and Environment, dealing with water policy, environment and aviation in the Second Rutte cabinet from 5 November 2012 until 28 October 2015. Before that she was a member of the States of Groningen from 2007 to 2011 and afterwards a member of the Provincial-Executive of the same province from 2011 to 2012. DutchNews, 28 October 2015 Mansveld worked as an for |
Wilma Mankiller
Wilma Pearl Mankiller (; November 18, 1945April 6, 2010) was a Native American activist, social worker, community developer and the first woman elected to serve as Tribal chief, Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation. Born in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, she lived on her family's Dawes Act, allotment in Adair County, Oklahoma, until the age of 11, when her family relocated to San Francisco as part of a Indian Relocation Act of 1956, federal government program to urbanize Native Americans in the United States, Indigenous Americans. After high school, she married a well-to-do Ecuadorian and raised two daughters. Inspired by the 1960s#Social and political movements, social and political movements of the 1960s, Mankiller became involved in the Occupation of Alcatraz and later participated in the land and compensation struggles with the Pit River Tribe. For five years in the early 1970s, she was employed as a social worker, focusing mainly on children's issues. When Mankiller returned to Ok ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilma Lipp
Wilma Lipp (; 26 April 1925 – 26 January 2019) was an Austrian operatic soprano and academic voice teacher. A long-time member of the Vienna State Opera, she was particularly associated with the role of the Queen of the Night in Mozart's ''Die Zauberflöte'', a role she performed internationally more than 400 times. She was awarded the title Kammersängerin at age 28, and was an honorary member of the Vienna State Opera, among other honours. Career Lipp studied in Vienna with Friedel Sindel, Paola Novikova, Anna Bahr-Mildenburg and Alfred Jerger, and also with Toti Dal Monte in Milan. She made her stage debut in Vienna as Rosina in Rossini's ''The Barber of Seville'' in 1943 in an open-air performance, and joined the Vienna State Opera in 1945. She won international attention as the Queen of the Night in Mozart's ''Die Zauberflöte'' in a 1948 performance conducted by Josef Krips. She sang the role then also at La Scala in Milan, at the Paris Opéra, in Hamburg and in Brusse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilma B
Wilma may refer to: __NOTOC__ People * Wilma (given name), a list of people and fictional characters with the given name or nickname * Eva Wilma (1933–2021), Brazilian actress and dancer Places * Wilma Township, Pine County, Minnesota, United States * Wilma Glacier, Antarctica Other uses * List of storms named Wilma :* Hurricane Wilma, a category 5 Atlantic hurricane in 2005. * Wilma (software), a combined service stub and transparent proxy tool * Wilma Theatre (Missoula, Montana) * Wilma Theater (Philadelphia), Pennsylvania * ''Wilma'', or ''The Story of Wilma Rudolph'', a 1977 documentary about athlete Wilma Rudolph Wilma Glodean Rudolph (June 23, 1940 – November 12, 1994) was an American sprinter who overcame polio as a child and went on to become a world-record-holding Olympic champion and international sports icon in track and field following her succes ... * Wilma, a transportation boarding method * Wilbur and Wilma, the official mascots at the University of Ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
