 Sigrid Goral in 1968 | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Born | 15 January 1952 Brandenburg an der Havel, Germany |
| Height | 1.62 m (5 ft 4 in) |
| Weight | 55 kg (121 lb) |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Swimming |
| Club | SC Empor Rostock |
Sigrid Goral (born 15 January 1952) is a retired East German swimmer. In 1968 she won the national championships in the 800 m freestyle and set a European record at 9'43.5. [1] However, later at the 1968 Summer Olympics she swam a mere 10'09.3 and failed to reach the final. [2]
Sigrid Undset was a Danish-born Norwegian novelist. She was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1928.
Lesley Sue Goldstein, better known with her maternal surname as Lesley Gore, was an American singer and songwriter. At the age of 16, she recorded her first hit song "It's My Party", a US number one in 1963. She followed it up with ten further US Billboard top 40 hits including "Judy's Turn to Cry" and "You Don't Own Me". Gore said she considered "You Don't Own Me" her signature song.
Granta is a literary magazine and publisher in the United Kingdom whose mission centres on its "belief in the power and urgency of the story, both in fiction and non-fiction, and the story's supreme ability to describe, illuminate and make real." In 2007, stated: "In its blend of memoirs and photojournalism, and in its championing of contemporary realist fiction, Granta has its face pressed firmly against the window, determined to witness the world."
Sigrid the Haughty, also known as Sigrid Storråda (Swedish), is a Scandinavian queen appearing in Norse sagas. Sigrid is named in several late and sometimes contradictory Icelandic sagas composed generations after the events the stories describe, but there is no reliable, historical evidence attesting to the veracity of her depiction in those tales. She is reported by Heimskringla to have been the wife of Eric the Victorious of Sweden, as being sought after by Olaf Tryggvasson, and then married to Sweyn Forkbeard of Denmark. In other writings, however, author Snorri Sturluson says that Sweyn the Dane was married not to Sigrid but some other woman.
Sigrid Madeline Thornton is an Australian film and television actress. Her television work includes Prisoner (1979–80), All the Rivers Run (1983), SeaChange (1998–2019) and Wentworth (2016–2018). She also starred in the American Western series Paradise (1988–91). Her film appearances include Snapshot (1979), The Man from Snowy River (1982), Street Hero (1984) and Face to Face (2011). She won the AACTA Award for Best Guest or Supporting Actress in a Television Drama for the 2015 miniseries Peter Allen: Not the Boy Next Door.
Sigrid Nansen is a superhero in American comic books published by DC Comics, first appearing in Super Friends #9. Originally the first character to use the name Icemaiden, they replaced the hero known as Ice for a time. They are among the few ice-theme superheroes in the DC Universe. The character is eventually re-introduced during "Infinite Frontier" where she adopts the new identity of Glacier and identifies as non-binary.
Sigrid Nunez is an American writer, best known for her novels. Her seventh novel, The Friend, won the 2018 National Book Award for Fiction.
Sigrid Schultz was a notable American reporter and war correspondent in an era when women were a rarity in both print and radio journalism. Working for the Chicago Tribune in the 1920s, she was the first female foreign bureau chief of a major U.S. newspaper.
Kristin is a female given name. It is a variant of Christina and Christine. It was the seventh most popular first name for girls born in Iceland between 2000 and 2004.
Sigrid Combüchen is a Swedish novelist, essayist, literary critic and journalist.
Street Hero is a 1984 Australian drama film directed by Michael Pattinson and starring Vince Colosimo, Sigrid Thornton, Sandy Gore, Bill Hunter and Ray Marshall. The film won an AFI award.
Sigrid Milfrid Sundby was a Norwegian speed skater who competed internationally in the 1960s and 1970s.
Sigrid Agren is a French model from Martinique, who rose to prominence during the Elite Model Look in 2006.
Gidske Anderson was a Norwegian journalist, editor and author.
The 2000 United States presidential election in Michigan took place on November 7, 2000, and was part of the 2000 United States presidential election. Voters chose 18 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.
Sigrid Kressmann-Zschach (1929–1990) was a German architect, businesswoman, and entrepreneur. Her best known works are the Ku'Damm Karrée and Steglitzer Kreisel buildings in Berlin.
Sigrid Margareta Ekström was a Swedish poet, novelist, translator, children's writer, literary critic and film critic.
Sigrid Agnes Maria Kaag is a Dutch politician, humanitarian and diplomat who is the UN Senior Humanitarian and Reconstruction Coordinator for Gaza since 2024. Kaag most recently served in the fourth Rutte cabinet as First Deputy Prime Minister of the Netherlands and Minister of Finance from 2022 to 2024 and has previously served as Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation and Minister of Foreign Affairs. She was Leader of the Democrats 66 (D66) from 2020 to 2023.
Sigrid Deger-Jalkotzy, née Sigrid Deger, also Sigrid Jalkotzy and Sigrid Jalkotzy-Deger, is an Austrian archaeologist who served as president of the Division of Humanities and the Social Sciences at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna. She is known for her study of Mycenaean Greece.
Sigrid Solbakk Raabe, known mononymously as Sigrid, is a Norwegian singer-songwriter. She has released two studio albums, Sucker Punch (2019) and How to Let Go (2022), both of which reached the top of the charts in Norway and the United Kingdom. She has also released three EPs.
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