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Yvette Siegert
Yvette (, ) is a feminine given name, the French feminine form of Yves, which means yew or archer in some cases. Variations * Catalan: Ivet * Czech: Yveta * Dutch: Yvette, Yvet * English: Yvette, Yvet, Yvett * French: Yvet, Yvette * German: Yvet, Yvett, Ivet * Greek: Yvet * Hungarian: Ivett * Italian: Ivette * Polish: Iweta * Portuguese: Ivete * Russian: Иветта (Ivetta) * Spanish: Ivette, Iveth * Swedish: Yvet, Ivet * Ukrainian: Іветта (Ivetta) Name days *Czech Republic: ''7 June'' *Hungary: ''13 January'', ''6 May'' and ''29 June'' *Poland: ''13 January'' *Slovakia: ''27 May'' *Bulgaria: ''24 June'' ("Eniovden") *Latvia: 12 December Notable people *Yvette Alexander (born 1961), U.S. politician *Yvette Andréyor (1891–1962), French silent film actress * Yvette Baker (born 1968), British orienteer *Yvette Barbaza (1914–2009), French geographer *Yvette Biro, Hungarian essayist, screenwriter, and professor emerita *Yvetta Blanarovičová, Slovak actre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yves (given Name)
Yves (; in English as ) is a common French male given name of uncertain origin, either from Celtic as in the Gaulish name ''Ivo'' (''Iuo'') and compound names ''Ivorix'' (''Iuo-rigi'' or ''Iue-ricci'') and ''Ivomagus'' (''Iuo-magi''), all derived from the Gaulish term for yew, ''iuos'' or ''īuos'', or from Germanic, derived from Proto-Germanic ''*īwaz'', ''*īhwaz'' (compare Icelandic ''ýr''), masculine variant of ''*īwō'' (compare Dutch ''ijf'', German ''Eibe''), from Proto-Indo-European ''*h₁eyHweh₂'', meaning yew. Related names include Erwan[n] (though another etymology has been suggested), Evette, Ives, Ivet, Iveta, Ivette, Ivo, Iwo, Yve, Yvette (the feminine form of Yves), Yvo, Yvon, Yvonne, and many other diminutives (mainly from Brittany). The etymology of the French common name ''if'' "yew tree" is disputed the same way as the first name Yves, whether it is Gaulish or Germanic. People with the given name Actors * Yves Afonso (1944–2018), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ukrainian Language
Ukrainian (, ) is an East Slavic languages, East Slavic language, spoken primarily in Ukraine. It is the first language, first (native) language of a large majority of Ukrainians. Written Ukrainian uses the Ukrainian alphabet, a variant of the Cyrillic script. The standard language is studied by the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and Potebnia Institute of Linguistics. Comparisons are often made between Ukrainian and Russian language, Russian, another East Slavic language, yet there is more mutual intelligibility with Belarusian language, Belarusian,Alexander M. Schenker. 1993. "Proto-Slavonic", ''The Slavonic Languages''. (Routledge). pp. 60–121. p. 60: "[The] distinction between dialect and language being blurred, there can be no unanimity on this issue in all instances..."C.F. Voegelin and F.M. Voegelin. 1977. ''Classification and Index of the World's Languages'' (Elsevier). p. 311, "In terms of immediate mutual intelligibility, the East Slavic zone is a sin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yvette Coppersmith
Yvette Coppersmith (born 1980) is an Australian painter; she specialises in portraiture and still life. In 2018 she won the Archibald Prize with a self-portrait, in the style of George Lambert. Coppersmith studied at the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne, Australia. In 2003 she was the inaugural winner of the Metro 5 Art Prize and she has been a finalist a further four times (in 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2021). She has been a finalist four times (in 2003, 2007, 2008 and 2016) in the Portia Geach Memorial Award. She has been a finalist in the Doug Moran National Portrait Prize four times (in 2002, 2006, 2007 and 2016). She was a finalist in the Archibald Prize four times (in 2008, 2009, 2016 and 2017) before winning in 2018 . In 2018 Coppersmith approached New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern to sit for a portrait with her, however Ardern was unavailable. Coppersmith instead painted a self-portrait inspired by Ardern, which won the competition. Her other portraits ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yvette Cooper
Yvette Cooper (born 20 March 1969) is a British politician who has served as Home Secretary since July 2024. A member of the Labour Party (UK), Labour Party, Cooper has been Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), member of parliament (MP) for Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley, previously Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford, since 1997 United Kingdom general election, 1997. First elected to Parliament at the 1997 United Kingdom general election, 1997 general election, Cooper was a Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State in three departments under Prime Minister Tony Blair from 1999 to 2005. She was promoted to Minister of State for Housing and Planning in 2005, and was retained in the role when Gordon Brown was appointed prime minister in 2007. In 2008, she joined Brown's Cabinet of the United Kingdom, Cabinet as Chief Secretary to the Treasury, before being promoted to Secretary of State for Work and Pensions in 2009. Following Labour's defeat at the 2010 United Kingdom gene ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yvette Clarke
Yvette Diane Clarke (born November 21, 1964) is an American politician serving as the United States House of Representatives, U.S. representative for New York's 9th congressional district since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party, she first entered Congress in 2007, representing New York's 11th congressional district until redistricting. Clarke represented the New York City's 40th City Council district, 40th district in Brooklyn on the New York City Council from 2002 to 2006. Early life and education Clarke was born in Flatbush, Brooklyn, on November 21, 1964, to Lesley Clarke and former city councilwoman Una S. T. Clarke, Una Clarke, both immigrants from Jamaica. She graduated from Edward R. Murrow High School and earned a scholarship to enroll at Oberlin College in Ohio, which she attended from 1982 to 1986.Celeste Katz, New York Daily NewsDaily Politics: Yvette's Education, August 23, 2006 While studying at Oberlin, she spent a summer interni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yvette Chauviré
Yvette Chauviré (; 22 April 1917 – 19 October 2016) was a French prima ballerina assoluta and actress. She is often described as France's greatest ballerina, and was the mentor of another pair of well-known prima ballerinas named, Sylvie Guillem and Marie-Claude Pietragalla. She was awarded the Legion of Honour, Légion d'Honneur in 1964. Early life Yvonne Chauviré was born in Paris on 22 April 1917. At the age of 10, in 1927, she enrolled in the Paris Opera Ballet school. Two years after, she was noticed for her excellent performance in the children's ballet L'éventail de Jeanne, ''L'Eventail de Jeanne'' ("Jeanne's Fan"). The following year, when she was 13, she received an invitation to join the ballet company of the Paris Opera. Career Chauviré rose through the ranks of dancers at the Paris Opera Ballet, becoming a principal dancer in 1937 and étoile, the highest rank, in 1941. She was the star of a number of experimental works choreographed by the company's director ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yvette Cason
Yvette Cason is an American television, theatre, and film actress, and a former Miss Black America from Washington, D.C. Career Cason was an understudy for the character of Effie White in the original 1981 Broadway musical ''Dreamgirls'', 1985 international tour, and 1987 Broadway revival. In 2006, she played May, the mother of Deena Jones, portrayed by Beyoncé Knowles in the feature film version of ''Dreamgirls''. She also appeared in an episode of the sitcom ''The King of Queens'' as Mrs. Blanchard in the episode "Road Rayge". Her early musical training (while growing up in Washington, DC) was at The Sewell Music Conservatory. Cason played Dahlia, the wicked stepmother ''Wicked Stepmother'' is a 1989 American black comedy fantasy film written, produced, and directed by Larry Cohen and starring Bette Davis and Barbara Carrera. It is best known for being the last film of Bette Davis, who withdrew from the proj ..., in the original 1996 run of '' Sisterella''. It was sai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yvette Brind'Amour
Yvette Brind'Amour, (November 30, 1918 – April 4, 1991) was a Canadian actress. In 1949, she co-founded, with Mercedes Palomino, the Théâtre du Rideau Vert, Quebec's oldest French theatre, in Montreal where she was born. She was artistic director until her death. In 1967 she was made an Officer of the Order of Canada and was promoted to Companion in 1982. In 1985 she was made an Officer of the National Order of Quebec. In 1987 she was awarded the Molson Prize. In 1969 she was awarded an honorary D.B.-A from University of Ottawa. She was married for much of her adult life to writer and filmmaker Paul Gury, until his death in 1974.Jean Marmier, "La carrière franco-canadienne de Loïc Le Gouriadec, homme de théâtre" in ''Annales de Bretagne et des pays de l'Ouest'', Vol. 85, No. 4 (1978). pp. 631-640. After her death in 1991, she was entombed at the Notre Dame des Neiges Cemetery Notre Dame des Neiges Cemetery (, ) is a rural cemetery located in the borough of Côt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yvette Borup Andrews
Yvette Borup Andrews (February 28, 1891 – April 12, 1959) was an American photographer associated with the American Museum of Natural History. With the museum's director, Roy Chapman Andrews, she traveled to Central Asia twice during 1916–18 for the museum's First and Second Asiatic Zoological Expeditions. Early life Yvette Huen Borup was born in Paris to American parents, Henry Dana Borup (1854–1916) and Mary Watson Brandreth Borup (1854–1897). Her father was an American military attaché in Paris and Berlin before World War I. Her maternal grandfather, George A. Brandreth, and her great-grandfather, Congressman Aaron Ward, were both New York politicians. Her great-great-grandfather, Elkanah Watson, was a notable New York businessman. Her older brother, George Brandreth Borup (1885–1912), was assistant to Robert Peary on the North Pole Expedition, and wrote a book about his experiences in the Arctic. Yvette Borup was educated in France, Germany, Italy, and New York.L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yvetta Blanarovičová
Yvetta Blanarovičová (born 24 September 1963) is a Slovak actress and singer. At the 1994 Thalia Awards she won the category of Best Actress in an Opera, Opereta or Musical, for her performance in the musical ''My Fair Lady''. Selected filmography *''The Night of the Emerald Moon ''The Night of the Emerald Moon'' () is a 1985 Czech drama film directed by Václav Matějka. It was entered into the 35th Berlin International Film Festival. Cast *Radoslav Brzobohatý as Janek Kysucan * Jerzy Trela as Cyril Kysucan * Pavol Vi ...'' (1985) *'' Princess Jasnenka and the Flying Shoemaker'' (1987) *'' Vrať se do hrobu!'' (1990) *'' Golet v údolí'' (1995) References External links * 1963 births Living people 21st-century Slovak women singers Slovak film actresses Slovak stage actresses Slovak television actresses People from Bojnice Czechoslovak actresses 20th-century Slovak actresses 21st-century Slovak actresses 20th-century Slovak women singers Czechoslova ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yvette Biro
Yvette Biro (April 3, 1930, Budapest) is a Hungarian-American essayist, screenwriter and Professor Emeritus at New York University Graduate Film School (NYU). Her early books on the aesthetics of film were first published in her native Hungary, which became handbooks for film-schools in the country. Meanwhile, she worked on a dozen of prizewinning films with noted directors (Miklós Jancsó, Zoltán Fábri, Károly Makk). She was both the founder and the Editor-in-Chief of ''Filmkultura'', the magazine of the Hungarian Film Institute and Film Archive. In the mid-1970s, she was "offered" the chance to emigrate by the Hungarian authorities. After teaching at the Sorbonne in Paris, she moved to the US to teach at the Universities of Berkeley and Stanford, California. In 1982 she was hired as a professor then became Full Professor on the faculty of thTisch School of the Arts(Film and TV Graduate Division) at NYU where she worked until her retirement in 2007. She has written book ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yvette Barbaza
Yvette Barbaza (29 March 1914 – 26 August 2009), was a French geographer, professor of geography and researcher at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). Yvette Barbaza devoted the later years of her career to the study of the Spanish Mediterranean coast called Costa Brava. Biography Yvette Lucienne Marie Azéma was born on 29 March 1914 in Cazouls-lès-Béziers. She studied at the Béziers boarding school, at the École Normale, to become a teacher. She completed her higher education at the faculty of Montpellier (1934–1938) where she began to take an interest in geography. During the German occupation, Professor Jules Sion suggested that she study the Costa Brava. From then on, she explored her new passion: studying the beauty of the landscapes of the Catalan coasts of Empordà and Selva, Spain and the threats posed by the increase in tourists to the region. In Montpellier, she met her future husband (René Henri Barbaza) who had degrees in literature ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
