Famous People with Name Noreen

Noreen Evans            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Noreen Evans: is an American politician in the California State Senate. She is a Democrat representing the 2nd district, encompassing Humboldt, Mendocino, Lake, and Napa counties, as well as parts of Sonoma and Solano counties. Before serving in the assembly, she serve

Noreena Hertz            Origin/Culture/Country: English

Noreena Hertz: an English economist, author and campaigner. She is a leading expert on economic globalisation.Hertz attended Westminster School, University College London (for bachelor's degree), UK and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania (for MBA), U.S. before attaining her PhD in Economics from the University of Cambridge (King's).At the invitation of a professor at Wharton, she then went to Russia to work for the World Bank and play a part in setting up the Russian stock exchange and in advising the Russian government on its privatisation programmes.Her disenchanted and highly critical Cambridge doctoral thesis, "Russian Business Relationships in the Wake of Reform", dispelling the myth of Russia's successful transition to a market economy and questioning the bank's requirements, was published in 1996.

Adolf Gotthard Noreen            Origin/Culture/Country: Swedish

Adolf Gotthard Noreen: was a Swedish linguist who served as a member of the Swedish Academy from 1919 until his death.Noreen was born at Värmland. He became a student at Uppsala University in 1871 and went on to complete his doctorate there in 1877; he became a lecturer at the university in the same year. Noreen spent most of 1879 at the University of Leipzig, the home of the Neogrammarian school of linguistics - a school to which Noreen belonged for his entire literary life. Whilst in Leipzig, Noreen was taught Lithuanian by August Leskien, a pioneer of research into sound laws.