Famous People with Name Alma

Alma Cogan            Origin/Culture/Country: British

Alma Cogan: was an English singer of traditional pop music in the 1950s and early 1960s. Dubbed "The Girl With A Giggle In Her Voice", she was the highest paid British female entertainer of her era.

Alma Woodsey Thomas            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Alma Woodsey Thomas: was an African American color field painter and art educator.Thomas moved to Washington, D.C., with her family in 1907. In 1924, she became the first graduate of the Howard University art department. She was the first African American ever to receive a bachelor's degree in the fine arts and, in 1934, became the first African American woman to gain a master's degree in art from Columbia University. She was also the first African American woman to have a solo show at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Her early art was realistic, but delved into abstraction influenced by the work of her professors Lois Mailou Jones and James V. Herring.

Alma Ruth Lavenson            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Alma Ruth Lavenson: was a leading American photographer of the first half of the 20th century. She worked and was close friends with Ansel Adams, Imogen Cunningham, Edward Weston and other photographic masters of the period.Lavenson apparently decided to become a photographer on her own after enrolling at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1915. She learned to develop and print her negatives by watching a technician at an Oakland drugstore in the early 1920s.[1] In her early work she concentrated the geometric forms of structures and their placement in the landscape.

Alma Socorro Martínez Toores            Origin/Culture/Country: Mexican

Alma Socorro Martínez Toores: is a female footballer from Mexico. She competed for her native country at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, where she finished in 8th place with the Women's National Team.

Alma Bella            Origin/Culture/Country: Philippines

Alma Bella: is a Filipino silent film actress. Bella was one of screen's silent sirens in her era.Sometimes another silent star Angelita Rey is her arch enemy in box-office because of their aura.