Famous People with Name Dina

Dina ("Nida") Willemina Jacoba Senff            Origin/Culture/Country: Netherlands

Dina ("Nida") Willemina Jacoba Senff: was a swimmer from The Netherlands, who won the 100 metres backstroke at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin. She did so after missing a turning point, went back to push the wall and still managed to win the race, at the expense of her teammate Rie Mastenbroek.

Dina Carroll            Origin/Culture/Country: English

Dina Carroll: an English singer of Scottish and African American descent.Carroll started singing at age of five, primarily at home with her sister. Despite the lack of formal vocal coaching, in 1981, at the age of thirteen, she won a local Cambridgeshire talent competition, with her rendition of Barbra Streisand's "Woman in Love". After leaving school, she worked in various jobs, including a one-day stint as a chambermaid in a Cambridge hotel in 1985.At the age of sixteen, she was signed to the dance music record label Streetwave, located in London. Carroll moved to West London and recorded two singles, "Set It Off" and "One Nation", in the mid 1980s, credited to a non-existent group, Masquerade. After six unproductive months, she left Streetwave.

Dina Hayek            Origin/Culture/Country: Lebanese

Dina Hayek: a popular Lebanese singer. She gained popularity by the release of her second album, Katabtillak. Her father is lebanese and her mother is Syrian.Hayek started her career year 1999 as a solo artist, after being discovered by composer George Mardorzian. Sh

Dina Mangabeira            Origin/Culture/Country: South America

Dina Mangabeira: was a Brazilian poet and literary critic.Moving to Montes Claros when she was 2 years old, was a teacher since 1945 to 1948, when she married and gave her free time to the poetry. Dina was a member of the Minas Gerais Academy of Women’s Writers

Adigo Dinalo            Origin/Culture/Country: African

Adigo Dinalo: is a Beninese football player who, as of 2004 was playing for FC Schönberg 95.He was part of the Beninese 2004 African Nations Cup team, who finished bottom of their group in the first round of competition, thus failing to secure qualification for the qua

Jason "J.Son" Dinant            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Jason "J.Son" Dinant: is an American comedian, actor and Reality TV personality best known for his appearances on FEAR on MTV and Inked on A&E as well as his online series "Naked Boy News".

Thomas P. DiNapoli            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Thomas P. DiNapoli: is the 54th Comptroller of the state of New York. He is a former state assemblyman in New York, who was appointed as New York State Comptroller on February 7, 2007. He was formerly the Chairman of the Assembly Environmental Conservation Committee. DiNapol

Souad Dinar            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Souad Dinar: is a French weightlifter. She competed in the Women's 58 kg at the 2005 World Championships in Doha, Qatar and reached the 8th spot with 198 kg in total. At the 2006 World Championships she ranked 13th in the 58 kg category, with a total of 192 kg.[

Abu ?anifah A?mad Ibn Dawud Dinawari            Origin/Culture/Country: Kurdish

Abu ?anifah A?mad Ibn Dawud Dinawari: was a Kurdish polymath excelling as much in astronomy, agriculture, botany and metallurgy and as he did in geography, mathematics and history.[1] He was born in Dinawar, (halfway between Hamadan and Kermanshah in present-day western Iran). He studied astronomy, mathematics and mechanics in Isfahan and philology and poetry in Kufa and Basra. He died on July 24, 896 at Dinawar. His most renowned contribution is Book of Plants, for which he is considered the founder of Arabic botany.[2] He is also considered among the very first writers to discuss the ancestry of the Kurds. He wrote a book about this subject called Ansâb al-Akrâd (Ancestry of the Kurds).