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Zuzanna (given Name)
Zuzana is a common female given name in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. It is often translated to other languages as Zuzanna ( Polish), Zsuzsanna (Hungarian), Suzanne, Susan, or Susannah – all commonly derived from the Hebrew language name Shoshana, meaning "lily". The nameday for people with this name is 11 August. Both Czech and Slovak have initial stress and mark vowel length with acute accents, so the correct pronunciation of the name in the two languages is with the stress on the first syllable and with short vowels /'zuzana/. There are several variations of the name. For example, the name is often shortened to Zuzka. For a child with the name Zuzana, one can also use the diminutive form Zuzanka. A modern nickname would be Zuzi. People named Zuzana or Zuzanna include: * Zuzana Brzobohatá (born 1962), Czech politician * Zuzana Čaputová (born 1973), first woman president of Slovakia, lawyer, activist, politician * Zuzana Chalupová (1925–2001), Serbian naïve pain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Given Name
A given name (also known as a forename or first name) is the part of a personal name quoted in that identifies a person, potentially with a middle name as well, and differentiates that person from the other members of a group (typically a family or clan) who have a common surname. The term ''given name'' refers to a name usually bestowed at or close to the time of birth, usually by the parents of the newborn. A ''Christian name'' is the first name which is given at baptism, in Christian custom. In informal situations, given names are often used in a familiar and friendly manner. In more formal situations, a person's surname is more commonly used. In Western culture, the idioms "" and "being on first-name terms" refer to the familiarity inherent in addressing someone by their given name. By contrast, a surname (also known as a family name, last name, or Gentile name, ''gentile'' name) is normally inherited and shared with other members of one's immediate family. Regnal names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zuzana Dolinková
Zuzana Dolinková (born 20 January 1983) is a Slovak lawyer and politician. She has served as the Minister of Health of Slovakia from October 2023 to October 2024. Early life Dolinková was born on 20 January 1983 in Topoľčany. She graduated in law from the Comenius University in 2007, after which she practiced law in the private sector. From 2015 to 2021, Dolinková led the Association of Outpatient Providers (Zväz ambulantných poskytovateľov), a union of private providers of healthcare. Career In the 2020 Slovak parliamentary election, Dolinková failed to run for the parliament on the list of the Good Choice party, which failed to pass the representation threshold. As the healthcare expert of the party, she supported continuing the construction of the new hospital at Rázsochy. Following the merger of Good Choice with Voice – Social Democracy, Dolinková ran on the Voice list in the 2023 Slovak parliamentary election, joining the government as Minister of Healt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zuzanna Radecka
Zuzanna Anna Radecka-Pakaszewska (born 2 April 1975 in Ruda Śląska) is a retired Polish sprinter. She represented her country at two Summer Olympics, in 2000 and 2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and Its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 60 ..., as well as three outdoor and two indoor World Championships. Most of her success came in the relay, her biggest individual achievement being a silver medal at the 1999 Summer Universiade. Achievements Personal bests Outdoor * 100 metres – 11.29 (2000) * 200 metres – 22.96 (1999 & 2000) * 400 metres – 51.58 (2005) * 100 metres hurdles – 13.83 (1998) Indoor * 60 metres – 7.28 (2000) * 200 metres – 23.36 (1999) * 400 metres – 52.54 (2007) External links * 1975 births Living people Polish female sprinters Sportspeople from Ruda Śląska ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zuzana Plháková
Zuzana Kondrlíková-Plháková (born 14 April 1976) is a Slovak lawyer and politician. She served as a Member of the National Council of Slovakia from 2002 to 2006. Early life Plháková was born on 14 April 1976 in Šurany. She studied law at the Comenius University, graduating in 2001. Political career In the 2002 Slovak parliamentary election, Plháková was elected MP on the list of the Slovak Democratic and Christian Union (SDKÚ) at the age of 26. She left the party the following years together with a group of fellow MPs, who later started the Free Forum party, but did not join and returned to SDKÚ. Plháková left the party again shortly after failing to retain her seat in the 2006 Slovak parliamentary election. Plháková competed the reality show Celebrity Camp in 2007 before returning to politics as a member of HZDS formed by former prime minister Vladimír Mečiar. In summer 2024, she was arrested together with her husband in Budapest Budapest is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zuzana Paňková
Zuzana Paňková (born 25 November 2004) is a Slovak slalom canoeist who has competed at the international level since 2019. She won four medals (2 golds, 1 silver and 1 bronze) at the European Championships. She won the first of those medals at the age of 16. She won her first world cup medal in 2022 in Pau at the age of 17. Paňková has won medals across all three disciplines (canoe, kayak and kayak cross) in the junior and under 23 level. She contributed to 4 out of 5 medals won by Slovakia at the 2023 European Junior and U23 Canoe Slalom Championships in Bratislava, winning silver medals in C1, C1 team, K1 team and Kayak cross. Paňková qualified for the 2024 Summer Olympics in C1 after reaching the final round at 2023 World Cup race in Vaires-sur-Marne. Her Olympic debut saw her reach the finals and finish at the fourth place. Paňková finished 15th in the overall standings of the 2022 Canoe Slalom World Cup in C1 and 5th in 2023. Paňková won the only indivi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zuzanna Orłowska
Zuzanna Orłowska (died after 1583) was the mistress of Sigismund II Augustus. Their relationship lasted for seven years. References * Wdowiszewski Z., Genealogia Jagiellonów i Domu Wazów w Polsce, Wydawnictwo Avalon, Kraków 2005, , s. 297, przyp. 907. Mistresses of Sigismund II Augustus 16th-century Polish women Year of birth unknown 16th-century Polish people {{Poland-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zuzana Navarová
Zuzana Navarová de Tejada (18 June 1959 – 7 December 2004) was a Czech singer and songwriter. She began her career in the early 1980s as a member of '' Nerez'', and gradually become one of the most significant personalities of the Czech folk and world music scene. Her style was partially inspired by Latin American music. Biography Navarová studied Spanish and Czech language at the Faculty of Arts and Philosophy of the Charles University in Prague. A part of her studies Navarová spent in Havana, Cuba where she took music inspiration for her later career. Following her studies she began to work as a teacher. At the end of the 1980s, together with fellow musicians from Nerez, she studied also at the Prague Conservatory. Although she began her music career as a student, with the band ''Výlety'', her breakthrough only came in early 1980s, when she joined Nerez. She met co-founding members of Nerez, Zdeněk Vřešťál and Vít Sázavský, during her studies in Prague. The perf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zuzana Mesterová
Zuzana Mesterová (born 5 October 1989) is a Slovak politician. She has served as a Member of the National Council of Slovakia for the Progressive Slovakia party since 2023. Biography Zuzana Mesterová was born on 5 October 1989 in Stakčín. She studied law at the Pavol Jozef Šafárik University. After graduation, she worked as a lawyer for public housing enterprise in Košice Košice is the largest city in eastern Slovakia. It is situated on the river Hornád at the eastern reaches of the Slovak Ore Mountains, near the border with Hungary. With a population of approximately 230,000, Košice is the second-largest cit .... She left after a conflict with the management of the company. In the 2023 Slovak parliamentary election she successfully ran on the election list of the Progressive Slovakia party. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Mesterova, Zuzana 1989 births Living people Progressive Slovakia politicians People from Snina District Women members of the National ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zuzanna Mazurek
Zuzanna Mazurek (born May 15, 1991, in Świdnik) is a Polish swimmer, who specialized in backstroke events. She represented her nation Poland, as a 17-year-old, at the 2008 Summer Olympics, and has claimed multiple Polish records in both 100 and 200 m backstroke, which were eventually broken by Alicja Tchorz in the succeeding decade. Mazurek also swam as a member of UKP Fala Kraśnik, under the tutelage of her coach Sławomir Pliszká. Mazurek made her swimming history at the 2007 European Junior Championships in Antwerp, Belgium, claiming the bronze medal in the 200 m backstroke over her teammate Iwona Lefanowicz by 0.29 of a second with a time of 2:16.36. By the following year, she won a gold medal in the same discipline at the 2008 FINA Youth World Swimming Championships in Monterrey, Mexico, smashing a meet record in 2:12.56. At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing Beijing, Chinese postal romanization, previously romanized as Peking, is the capital city of China. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zuzanna Maciejewska
Zuzanna Maciejewska (born 19 January 1995) is a Polish former tennis Tennis is a List of racket sports, racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent (singles (tennis), singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles (tennis), doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket st ... player. Maciejewska has a singles career-high ranking of 574 by the WTA, achieved on 26 August 2013. She also has a WTA doubles career-high ranking of 746, achieved on 13 October 2014. Maciejewska made her WTA Tour debut at the 2014 Katowice Open, in the doubles event partnering Magdalena Fręch, losing in the first round to the fourth seeds Shuko Aoyama and Renata Voráčová, 1–6, 3–6. ITF finals Doubles (2–0) External links * * 1995 births Living people Barry Buccaneers women's tennis players Polish expatriate tennis players in the United States Polish female tennis players Sportspeople from Toruń 21st-century Polish sportswomen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zuzana Licko
Zuzana Licko (born Zuzana Ličko, 1961) is a Slovak-born American Type design, type designer and visual artist known for co-founding Emigre (type foundry), Emigre Fonts, a digital type foundry in Berkeley, California, Berkeley, CA. She has designed and produced numerous digital Typeface, typefaces including the popular Mrs Eaves, Modula, Filosofia, and Matrix. As a corresponding interest she also creates ceramic sculptures and jacquard weavings. Early life Licko was born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia and came to the United States with her family as a child. She studied architecture, photography, and computer programming before earning a degree in graphic communications at the University of California, Berkeley, University of California at Berkeley. Licko was introduced to Computer, computers by her father, a Mathematical and theoretical biology, biomathematician at the University of California, San Francisco. She would help him with data processing during her summer breaks.Vander ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zuzana Kečkéšová
Zuzana Kečkéšová (born 1980) is a Slovak-American molecular biologist at the Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences. She investigates the reasons that certain organs are protected from cancer. Early life and education Kečkéšová is from Galanta. She became interested in science as a child and considered becoming an astrophysicist. She studied molecular biology at the Charles University in Prague and graduated in 2003. During her undergraduate degree, she attended the London International Youth Science Forum where she was selected by the British consulate to represent Slovakia. Her research career began in Prague, where she studied the lifecycle of the murine polyomavirus. She became interested in attending Western universities and began her preparation, but did not have the funding to cover her fees. After learning that University College London offered full scholarships to students from Central European countries, Kečké ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
