Belfrage is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
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Haddad is an ancient Middle Eastern family name originating in Aramaic.
Cedric Henning Belfrage was an English film critic, journalist, writer, and political activist. He is best remembered as a co-founder of the radical US-weekly newspaper the National Guardian. Later Belfrage was referenced as a Soviet agent in the US intelligence Venona project, although it appears that he had been working for British Security Co-ordination as a double-agent.
The National Guardian, later known as The Guardian, was a radical leftist independent weekly newspaper established in 1948 in New York City. The paper was founded by James Aronson, Cedric Belfrage and John T. McManus in connection with the 1948 Presidential campaign of Henry A. Wallace under the Progressive Party banner. Although independent of any political party, the National Guardian was initially close to the ideological orbit of the pro-Moscow Communist Party USA.
Lina or Līna is a feminine given name. It is Croatian, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, German, Italian, Norwegian, Russian, Swedish feminine given name and surname given name that is a short form of a variety of names ending in -lina including Adelina, Angelina, Apollina, Avelina, Carmelina, Carolina, Emelina, Evangelina, Evelina, Guendalina, Karolina, Kjellina, Kolina, Marcelina, Marcellina, Melina, Messalina, Nikolina, Pålina, Paolina, Paulina, Rosalina, and Žaklina. Lina is a Finnish, Italian, and Slovene feminine given name that is a feminine form of Lino, Lin, and Linus. Līna is a Latvian feminine given name. Lina is a common female given name in Arab countries, Iran, Afghanistan, Central Asia, Sweden, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, especially among those born after 1980. It has roots in old Persian, Greek, German, and Arabic.
Sally Belfrage was a United States-born British-based 20th century non-fiction writer and international journalist. Her writing covered turmoils in Northern Ireland, the American Civil Rights Movement and her own memoirs about her life. According to her obituary in The New York Times, she was 'an intelligent and humorous journalist and critic who ardently searched for the truth'.
Bergman is a surname of German, Swedish, Dutch, and Yiddish origin meaning 'mountain man' or sometimes 'miner'.
Bruce Belfrage was an English actor and BBC radio newsreader. He was casting director at the BBC between 1936 and 1939, and founded the BBC Repertory Company in 1939.
Acker comes from German or Old English, meaning "ploughed field"; it is related to or an alternate spelling of the word acre. Therefore, Ackermann means "ploughman". Ackerman is also a common Ashkenazi Jewish surname of Yiddish origin with the same meaning. The Ashkenazi surname Ackerman sometimes refers to the town of Akkerman in Bessarbia, south-west of Odessa. "Egger" is a German variation of Acker.
Hannah (Arabic: هناء), also spelt Hanna, Hana or Chana, is a Hebrew given name. It is derived from the root ḥ-n-n, meaning "favour" or "grace"; A Dictionary of First Names attributes the name to a word meaning 'He (God) has favoured me with a child'.
Thomson is a Scottish patronymic surname meaning "son of Thom, Thomp, Thompkin, or other diminutive of Thomas", itself derived from the Aramaic תום or Tôm, meaning "twin". The Welsh surname is documented in Cheshire records before and after the 1066 Norman Conquest. Variations include Thomason, Thomasson, Thomerson, Thomoson, and others. The French surname Thomson is first documented in Burgundy and is the shortened form for Thom[as]son, Thom[es]son. Variations include Thomassin, Thomason, Thomsson, Thomesson, Thomeson, and others. Thomson is uncommon as a given name.
Jacobson is an English language patronymic surname meaning "son of Jacob". The prefix is an Ashkenazic variation of the Latin Jacobus, itself derived from the Hebrew language given name Yaakov. The suffix, -son denotes "son/descendant of". There are several variants. The earliest record of the surname is found in Cambridgeshire in 1273.
Norman is both a surname and a given name. The surname has multiple origins including English, Irish, Scottish, German, Norwegian, Ashkenazi Jewish and Jewish American. The given name Norman is mostly of English origin, though in some cases it can be an Anglicised form of a Scottish Gaelic personal name.
Rothstein is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Lang is a surname of Germanic origin, closely related to Lange, Laing and Long, all of which mean "tall".
Nicolas Belfrage MW is a British Master of Wine, a wine writer and considered one of the foremost experts on Italian wine.
Fredrik Belfrage is a Swedish TV and radio presenter and sports reporter. He is the son of the dentist Åke Belfrage (1915–1985) and Vera Maria, born Vange (1914–1984). He is descended from a noble family of Scottish origin, and wears a tie in his clan tartan.
Nina, Nína and Niná are feminine given names with various origins. Nina is a Belarusian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, English, Faroese, Finnish, French, German, Greenlandic, Italian, Macedonian, Norwegian, Polish, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene, and Swedish name used in Mexico, Canada, United States, Guyana, French Guiana, Papua New Guinea, Australia, New Zealand, Philippines, Vietnam, Peninsular Malaysia, India, Pakistan, South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Malawi, Tanzania, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda, Kenya, Sudan, South Sudan, Ethiopia, Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Equatorial Guinea, Chad, Nigeria, Niger, Algeria, Benin, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Tunisia, Morocco, Western Sahara, Mauritania, Senegal, Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Madagascar, Israel, Moldova, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Poland, Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Russia, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Finland, Sweden, Norway, Greenland, Scotland, Wales, England, Northern Ireland, Republic of Ireland, France, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Slovenia, Germany, Belgium, Denmark, Croatia, Serbia, and North Macedonia, while Nína is an Icelandic name used in Iceland, and Niná is a Sami name used in Northern Norway, northern Sweden, northern Finland and the Murmansk Oblast. These names serve as a short form of names ending in “-nina / -nine”, including Marina, Katharina, Antonina, Giannina, and Constantina. Nina its international variants also serve as a short form of Anna, especially the Russian name Anninka. Nina also has a relation to the Spanish word “Niña”, which translates as "little girl or great-granddaughter". Nina has meaning in several other languages: ; ; ; ; ; ;.
The zander is a species of fish. Zander can also be a given name, a diminutive of the male given name Alexander, or a surname. It may refer to:
Ling is a surname which can be of either Chinese, English, or Nordic origin.
Sydney Henning Belfrage M.D., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. was a British physician and writer.