Georgina (name)
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Georgina is a given name and the feminine form of George
, along with Georgia
. It may refer to:
George (given name)
George, from the Greek word γεωργός , "farmer" or "earth-worker", which became a name in Greek: Γεώργιος , and Latin: Georgius. The word γεωργός is a compound word, formed by the words ge , "earth", "soil" and ergon , "work"...
, along with Georgia
Georgia (name)
Georgia is the latinate feminine form of George, after Georgiana or Georgina. The Italian cognate is Giorgia, and the Lithuanian is Jurgita or Jurga.-People:* Georgia of Clermont , French saint and nun* Georgia Apostolou , Greek actress...
. It may refer to:
- Georgina AndrewsGeorgina AndrewsGeorgina Andrews is an Australian actress best known for her recurring role as Heather Pryor in the television soap opera Neighbours. She plays a leading role in the feature film The Sculptor .-External links:*...
, an Australian actress - Georgina BardachGeorgina BardachGeorgina Bardach Martin is a swimmer from Argentina. At the 2002 FINA Short Course World Championships in Moscow, she finished third in the 400 m Individual Medley race...
, an Argentinian swimmer - Georgina BeyerGeorgina BeyerGeorgina Beyer was the world's first openly transsexual mayor, as well as the world's first openly transsexual Member of Parliament, and from 27 November 1999 until 14 February 2007 was an MP for the Labour Party in New Zealand.-Early life:Georgina Bertrand was born and assigned male at birth, and...
, the world's first openly transsexual Member of Parliament - Georgina BloombergGeorgina BloombergGeorgina Bloomberg , is the younger daughter of New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Susan Brown. Georgina was featured in the HBO documentary Born Rich, where she discussed what life is like as a billionaire heiress. Forbes magazine ranked her as one of the 20 "Most Intriguing Billionaire...
, daughter of Michael BloombergMichael BloombergMichael Rubens Bloomberg is the current Mayor of New York City. With a net worth of $19.5 billion in 2011, he is also the 12th-richest person in the United States... - Georgina Booth, a British actress and former Humanitarian Youth Ambassador in The Netherlands
- Georgina BouzovaGeorgina BouzovaGeorgina Bouzová is an English television actress best known for her former role as Ellen Zitek in the BBC One medical drama Casualty...
, an English television actress - Georgina CatesGeorgina CatesGeorgina Cates is an English actress of film and television.-Biography:Born Clare Woodgate in Colchester, Essex, she attended Colchester County High School for Girls and broke into television acting when she was only sixteen years old, playing the role of the original Jenny Porter on the BBC's...
, a British film and television actress - Georgina ChangGeorgina ChangGeorgina Chang is a Singaporean radio and television broadcaster. Until 2009, she was a tennis presenter and reporter on Star Sports, hosting ACE, a weekly tennis show. She interviewed top players in the sport including Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, Maria Sharapova and Justine Henin...
, a Singoporean television sportscaster - Georgina ChapmanGeorgina ChapmanGeorgina Chapman is an English fashion designer and actress. Chapman, alongside Keren Craig, an actress and a former model, are the co-founders of fashion label Marchesa.-Biography:...
, a British fashion designer and actress - Georgina DownsGeorgina DownsGeorgina Downs is the founder of the UK Pesticides Campaign. After many years of ill-health, following exposure to pesticide use on agricultural land near to where she lived, she started the campaign in order to change the UK Government's regulations governing use of agricultural pesticides.In...
, founder of the UK Pesticides Campaign - Georgina Evers-SwindellGeorgina Evers-SwindellGeorgina Earl, formerly known as Georgina Evers-Swindell is a former New Zealand rower. She competed in the double sculls with her identical twin sister Caroline Meyer, and is a double Olympic gold medalist, having won at Athens in 2004 and Beijing in 2008...
, a New Zealand rower - Georgina HagenGeorgina HagenGeorgina "Georgie" Kimberley Hagen is an English actress and singer, most famous for her appearance as Lauren in ITV's Britannia High...
, an English actress and singer - Georgina HaleGeorgina HaleGeorgina Hale is an award-winning English actress notable for many stage, film and television appearances; often in the works of director Ken Russell and writer Simon Gray...
, a British film and television actress - Georgina HarlandGeorgina HarlandGeorgina Harland is a modern pentathlete from Great Britain, who won the bronze medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece.Her score of 5344 is broken down as follows:* Shooting—808* Fencing—832...
, a modern pentathlete from Great Britain - Georgina HogarthGeorgina HogarthGeorgina Hogarth was the sister-in-law, housekeeper and adviser of English novelist Charles Dickens and the editor of two volumes of his collected letters after his death.-Biography:...
, the sister-in-law, housekeeper and adviser of Charles Dickens - Georgina LázaroGeorgina LázaroGeorgina Lázaro-Leon is a Puerto Rican poet whose work is focused on children. Her children poems have been recorded by many artists, among them Tony Croatto.-Early years:...
, one of Puerto Rico's best known children's poets - Georgina LeonidasGeorgina LeonidasGeorgina Leonidas is a British actress known for playing Miss Molly in The Basil Brush Show and Katie Bell in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. She returned as Katie Bell in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2.-Life and career:In her earlier years, Georgina attended Preston Park...
, a British actress - Georgina LewisGeorgina LewisGeorgina Lewis is an Australian journalist and news presenter.Lewis is currently a presenter of Brisbane's Ten News at Five with Bill McDonald....
, co-anchor of Ten News in Brisbane, Australia - Georgina MaceGeorgina MaceProfessor Georgina Mace, CBE, FRS is Professor of Conservation Science and Director of the Natural Environment Research Council Centre for Population Biology, Imperial College London.She was the winner of the 2007 International Cosmos Prize...
, a professor of Conservation Science at Imperial College, London - Georgina McGuinnessGeorgina McGuinnessGeorgina McGuinness was the anchor of Nine News Adelaides weekend 6pm news bulletin from 1989 to 2011.An Adelaide native, born 29th August, 1966, Georgina studied at Seymour College and at the Magill campus of the South Australian College of Advanced Education...
, anchor of Adelaide's Nine News weekend news bulletin - Georgina MellorGeorgina MellorGeorgina Mellor is a British actress best known for playing Anika Beevor in the ITV2 drama Footballers' Wives: Extra Time. She trained at Arden School of Theatre.-External links:...
, a British actress - Georgina MoffatGeorgina MoffatGeorgina Moffat is an Australian / English singer-songwriter, actress and model. Georgina currently uses an alias for her music career. She is the great granddaughter of poet, actress and muse Iris Tree, the granddaughter of Ivan Moffat, and the great great granddaughter of RADA founder Sir...
, an English actress - Georgina MolloGeorgina MolloGeorgina Mollo is an Argentinian actress. Mollo is the best known of her portrayals on hit television series of Cris Morena, Chiquititas, Rebelde Way and Rincón de Luz.- Personal life :...
, an Argentine actress - Georgina PapavasiliouGeorgina PapavasiliouGeorgina Papavasiliou is a Scottish figure skater who competed internationally for Great Britain and Greece. For Britain, she placed 21st at the 1998 World Junior Figure Skating Championships. She switched to competing for Greece starting in 2000. For Greece, she was the four time national champion...
, a Scottish figure skater - Georgina PopeGeorgina PopeGeorgina Pope was a Canadian nurse who served with distinction in the Second Boer War and First World War.- Boer War and Canadian Army Nursing Service :...
, a Canadian nurse commemorated at the Valiants Memorial in Ottawa - Georgina Póta, a Hungarian table tennis player
- Georgina RedheadGeorgina RedheadGeorgina Redhead is a British stage and television actress.Having played supporting cast parts in Sky One's Dream Team in 1997, and ITV1's The Bill in 2002...
, a British stage and television actress - Georgina RizkGeorgina RizkGeorgina Rizk was Lebanon's first and so far only Miss Universe.Rizk was born in Beirut to a Christian household. She was crowned in the Miss Universe pageant in 1971 in Miami Beach, Florida, USA. She was the first woman from the Middle East and the fourth woman from Asia to win the title...
, Lebanese widow of Palestinian militant Ali Hassan Salameh, and 1971 "Miss Universe" champion - Georgina RylanceGeorgina RylanceGeorgina Elizabeth Rylance , English actress, best known for Dinotopia.-Early life:Rylance is the daughter of Judge John Rylance QC, a circuit judge....
, an English actress - Georgina SherringtonGeorgina SherringtonGeorgina Sherrington is an actress best known for her portrayal of the character of Mildred Hubble in the children's series The Worst Witch , as well as the spin-off series Weirdsister College- The further Adventures of The Worst Witch , a British/Canadian co-production between ITV and TV Ontario,...
, an English actress - Georgina StarrGeorgina StarrGeorgina Starr is an English artist and one of the Young British Artists notable for her "pop style installations and films." Her major works have been described as "large-scale installations combining video and sculpture" to create emotional stories about lost or fragile phenomena.-Life and...
, an English artist and one of the Young British Artists - Georgina StirlingGeorgina StirlingGeorgina Ann Stirling was a Newfoundland opera singer, known by her stage name Marie Toulinquet. Born in Twillingate, Newfoundland, she became a world-renowned Prima donna soprano who played in opera houses throughout Europe and United States...
, a Canadian opera singer from Newfoundland - Georgina SowerbyGeorgina SowerbyGeorgina K. Sowerby is an artist, performer, radio presenter, company director and a producer with Fit2Fill Limited in London, England. She is currently working on a conceptual art project called "Cat Not Here." She was producer of the long-running fringe show...
, a British actress, director and event producer - Georgina SweetGeorgina SweetGeorgina Sweet was an Australian zoologist and women's rights activist. She was the first woman to graduate with a Doctor of Science from the University of Melbourne, and was the first female acting professor in an Australian university.-Early life and education:Sweet was born into a Methodist...
, an Australian zoologist and women's rights activist - Georgina Te HeuheuGeorgina Te HeuheuGeorgina Manunui te Heuheu QSO is a Māori descent of Tūhoe, Tūwharetoa, Te Arawa and Ngāti Awa. MP in the New Zealand National Party and a Cabinet Minister in the New Zealand Government.-Early life:...
, a Māori MP in the New Zealand National Party - Georgina WheatcroftGeorgina WheatcroftGeorgina Wheatcroft is a Canadian curler.Wheatcroft made her Scott Tournament of Hearts debut in 1987 as a third for Pat Sanders. Wheatcroft's prior experience had been as a skip at the Canadian Junior Curling Championships in 1985 for British Columbia...
, a Canadian curler - Georgina Theodora WoodGeorgina Theodora WoodGeorgina Theodora Wood is a judge and also a former police prosecution officer. She is the Chief Justice of Ghana and the first woman to occupy that position.-Early life and education:...
, the first woman to serve as Chief Justice of Ghana - Georgina VerbaanGeorgina VerbaanGeorgina Carolina Verbaan is a Dutch actress and singer. Verbaan is best known for her recurring role in soap opera Goede Tijden, Slechte Tijden. She has also appeared in various Dutch films, including Costa!, Volle maan and Oogverblindend.-Early life:Verbaan was born in The Hague, Netherlands...
, a Dutch actress and singer - Georgina WalkerGeorgina Walker-Biography:Georgina Walker was studying for four A-Levels, however later decided to drop out and pursue ambitions of stardom. She was taken on as a model by top London agency Nevs, and one of her first jobs was as a giant cereal box handing out packets of cereal at the Ideal Home Exhibition.After...
, an English actress - Georgina WillisGeorgina WillisGeorgina Willis is an award winning film director who was born in Australia and now lives in London. Georgina's first feature, Watermark , made its debut in the Cannes Film Festival. It was the first independent film to be included in Cannes. Her production company, Potoroo Films, is now based in...
, an Australian film director - Georgina de AlbuquerqueGeorgina de AlbuquerqueGeorgina Moura Andrade de Albuquerque was an Impressionist painter in Brazil.She was known for her interest in female subjects. Her husband Lucílio was a noted painter in his own right and the two are strongly associated with each other.-References:...
, a Brazilian impressionist painter - Georgina Fitzalan-Howard, Duchess of NorfolkGeorgina Fitzalan-Howard, Duchess of NorfolkGeorgina Susan Fitzalan-Howard, Duchess of Norfolk , was born Georgina Susan Gore, the daughter of John Temple Gore and Serena Margaret Mounsey. Her parents divorced in 1969, and on 15 October 1969 her father married Antonia McMullen. He holds some ancestral connection to Earl Temple of Stowe...
- Georgina Gascoyne-Cecil, Marchioness of SalisburyGeorgina Gascoyne-Cecil, Marchioness of SalisburyGeorgina Charlotte Gascoyne-Cecil, Marchioness of Salisbury, VA, CI was the wife of British statesman, Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury....
- Georgina Elizabeth Petty-Fitzmaurice
- Georgina Ward, Countess of DudleyGeorgina Ward, Countess of DudleyGeorgina Elisabeth Ward, Countess of Dudley, RRC DStJ née Moncreiffe, was the daughter of Sir Thomas Moncreiffe, 7th Baronet and Lady Louisa Hay-Drummond and a noted beauty of the Victorian era....
- Jiřina BohdalováJirina BohdalováJiřina Bohdalová is a Czech actress. She began acting in theatre and film at an early age. She was accepted to The Theatre Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague at her third attempt. She received an offer from Jan Werich to join the actor's troupe at “Divadlo ABC” theatre which she...
, Czech actress - Jiřina ŠejbalováJiřina ŠejbalováJiřina Šejbalová was a Czech actress of the stage, television, and film. For many years she taught theatre classes at the Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts.Born in Prague, Šejbalová came from a family of clerks...
, Czech actress - Jiřina HaukováJirina HaukováJiřina Hauková was a Czech poet and translator. She was a member of the Group 42 , together with her husband Jindřich Chalupecký.- Biography :...
, Czech poet
Fiction
- Georgina JonesGeorgina JonesMiss Georgina Jones was a fictional modish young woman living in the Soho area of London in the mid 1960s. Played by Juliet Harmer , she was the main supporting character in the BBC television adventure series, Adam Adamant Lives! which starred Gerald Harper as Adam Adamant.-Genesis of the...
, the main supporting character in Adam Adamant Lives! - Georgina KirrinGeorgina KirrinGeorgina "George" Kirrin is a fictional character from the Famous Five series of children's adventure novels by Enid Blyton. Kirrin is a tomboy, demanding that people call her George, and she cuts her hair very short and dresses like a boy. She is headstrong and courageous by nature and, like her...
, George in Enid Blyton's Famous Five series - Georgina SparksGeorgina SparksGeorgina Sparks is a fictional character in the Gossip Girl novel series and a recurring character on the television series Gossip Girl. She is portrayed by actress Michelle Trachtenberg on the show...
, a character from the Gossip Girl book and television series - Georgina Orwell, a character from Lemony Snicket'sLemony SnicketLemony Snicket is the pen name of American novelist Daniel Handler . Snicket is the author of several children's books, serving as the narrator of A Series of Unfortunate Events and appearing as a character within the series. Because of this, the name Lemony Snicket may refer to both a fictional...
A Series of Unfortunate EventsA Series of Unfortunate EventsA Series of Unfortunate Events is a series of children's novels by Lemony Snicket which follows the turbulent lives of Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire after their parents' death in an arsonous house fire...
book series - Georgina Stewart, a Scottish dancer from the village of Brora who runs Rankin Dance & Theatre Club.
See also
- Georgina (disambiguation)Georgina (disambiguation)Georgina may refer to:* Georgina , a feminine given name* Georgina, Ontario, a town in south-central Ontario, Canada* Georgina Basin, a large sedimentary basin in Australia...