Famous People with Name Flora

Flora Redoumi            Origin/Culture/Country: Greek

Flora Redoumi: She finished fifth at the 2002 European Indoor Championships, seventh at the 2004 IAAF World Indoor Championships and seventh at the 2006 IAAF World Cup.

Flora Cross            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Flora Cross: She played the lead role of Eliza in the 2005 film Bee Season, opposite Richard Gere, Juliette Binoche and Max Minghella. She auditioned for the part shortly before moving to Argentina, where she was living when offered the role. "My manager sent the tape in, and then I was called in for an audition that was very long and very tiring," recalls the actor. "It went on for five hours. Two weeks later I was told I got the part".[1] Despite the fact that she portrays a spelling bee champion, she claims to be a terrible speller.[1] Cross next played Ingrid in the film Margot at the Wedding, released in 2007.

Flora Chan Wai-Shan            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Flora Chan Wai-Shan: a Hong Kong television and film actress.Chan was born in Hong Kong and emigrated to Boston, Massachusetts at a young age. As a child, she had hoped to become a dancer, but because of an injury when she was a teenager, she was forced to abandon her dreams as a professional dancer.[citation needed] She attended Boston College and earned a degree in journalism before returning to Hong Kong in the early 1990s with her then-husband, Chung Wai Ming. She and her husband divorced in 2000. Chan married her manager Mike Chung Ka-Hung (???).

Flora Brovina            Origin/Culture/Country: Italian

Flora Brovina: is a Kosovar Albanian poet, pediatrician and women’s rights activist. She was born in the town of Srbica in the Drenica Valley of Kosovo, ( the Serbian province of Kosovo is under UN administration since the 1999 Kosovo War.

Flora Le Breton            Origin/Culture/Country: English

Flora Le Breton: was an English silent film actress from Croydon, Surrey, England. She was blond with dark blue eyes. In her own country she was called the English Mary Pickford.Le Breton's motion picture career began in 1920 with a role as Alesia in La Poupee. In 1922 she co-starred with George K. Arthur and Simeon Stuart in Love's Influence, originally titled Love's April. The French heavyweight boxer, Georges Carpentier, made a cameo appearance in the UK silent film. Le Breton won many of the London film favourite contests along with actress Betty Balfour. She appeared in the first coloured motion picture made in Great Britain. The Glorious Adventure (1922) starred Lady Diana Cooper and Victor McLaglen. Produced by J. Stuart Blackton, founder of Vitagraph Studios, the motion picture was filmed in Prizma colour.

Jim Flora            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Jim Flora: best known for his distinctive and idiosyncratic album cover art for RCA Victor and Columbia Records during the 1940s and 1950s, was also a prolific commercial illustrator from the 1940s to the 1970s and the author/illustrator of 17 popular children's boo

Ian Ocampo Flora            Origin/Culture/Country: Philippines

Ian Ocampo Flora: is a Pampanga based journalist, professor at the Holy Angel University, and photojournalist. Flora has been actively writing for many local newspapers but he is most popular as a provincial journalist of Sun.Star Pampanga.

Evangelos Florakis            Origin/Culture/Country: Greek

Evangelos Florakis: was a Greek Army officer who rose to the rank of Lieutenant General. After retiring from the Hellenic Army, from 2000 until his death in a helicopter accident in 2002 he commanded the Cypriot National Guard. In 1994 he was promoted to the rank of Brigadier and served as Deputy Commander of the 15th Infantry Division and subsequently as CO of the 50th Mechanized Infantry Brigade. In 1996 he was promoted to Major General and given command of the 16th Mechanized Infantry Division. He subsequently served as Director of the Supreme War Academy in Thessaloniki. In 1999, as a Lieutenant General, he assumed command of the II Army Corps, which he led until his retirement in May 2000. He was immediately recalled to service as Chief of the Cypriot National Guard (the senior command positions of the CNG are customarily filled by active or retired Greek officers), replacing Lt. General Dimitrios Dimou. Florakis was married to a Cypriot, Athina Savvidou from Paphos, and quickly became a popular and well-liked officer in Cyprus. He was killed in an accident on 10 July 2002 near Paphos, when his Bell 206 helicopter crashed. Aside from Florakis, the Air Force Commander Brigadier Stylianos Demenagas and three other officers were killed.