Famous People with Name Lidia

Lidia Kopania            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Lidia Kopania: a singer that will represent her nation at the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 in Moscow, Russia.[1

Lidia Andreyevna Ruslanova            Origin/Culture/Country: Russian

Lidia Andreyevna Ruslanova: was one of the greatest and best-loved performers of Russian folk songs.[1]Ruslanova gave her first concert at the age of 16, to a military audience, where she sang everything she knew.[5] She first started singing for Russian soldiers during the Russian Civil War, and debuted as a professional singer in Rostov-on-Don in 1923.[4] She was noted for her peculiar singing voice and timbre, which was a revival of old traditions in which female soloists would perform on festive occasions.[1] Until 1929, she lived with a Cheka official, then she married again, this time to Vladimir Kryuchkov.[7]

Lidia Elsa Satragno            Origin/Culture/Country: South America

Lidia Elsa Satragno: an entertainer and politician in Argentina, where she's popularly known as "Pinky."Lidia Elsa Satragno was born in the western Buenos Aires suburb of San Justo in 1935. She debuted on Argentine television in a 1956 vinegar advertisement and, by 1957, appeared on as many as 22 television ads on any given day. This success led to her own talk show on Argentine Public Television, Buenos Días Pinky, during which she was invited as a guest of honor by German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. The show also earned renown for its screenwriter, María Elena Walsh, and helped pave the way for women in Argentine television, generally. Cast by noted period piece Director Leopoldo Torre Nilsson in La caída (The Fall) in 1959,

Lidia Zamkow            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Lidia Zamkow: was a Polish theatre actress and director.Lidia Zamkow was born on June 19 or July 15 (sources vary), 1918 in Rostov-on-Don. Until 1939 she was studying at the National Institute of Theatre Arts in Warsaw, and after World War II at the State Academy of Drama in Lódz (now Aleksander Zelwerowicz State Theatre Academy).In 1944 she made her own actress' debut in the role of Isia in the Stanislaw Wyspianski's Wedding on Polish Army Theatre in Lublin. In 1948 in Lódz she directed her first spectacle, Boleslaw Prus' Omylka. In the years of 1950–1952, 1957–1958 and the 1964–1972 she was an actress and director of Juliusz Slowacki Theatre in Kraków. During the years of 1953–1954 Zamkow was an artistic director of Teatr Wybrzeze in Gdansk. Then she was an actor and director of the Polish Army Theatre (now Teatr Dramatyczny) in Warsaw (1954–1957) and the Old Theatre in Kraków where she directed under pseudonym Slomczynska (1958–1964). During the years of 1972–1974 she was a director of Teatr Studio in Warsaw. In later years Zamkow collaborated with many theatres in Poland and directed spectacles for Teatr TV. In the years of 1950–1953 she was a lecturer of the State Academy of Drama in Lódz.

Lidia Teresa Chmielnicka            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Lidia Teresa Chmielnicka: was a Polish volleyball player who competed in the 1968 Summer Olympics.In 1968 she was part of the Polish team which won the bronze medal in the Olympic tournament. She played five matches.