Famous People with Name Wenche

Wenche Synnøve Myhre            Origin/Culture/Country: Norwegian

Wenche Synnøve Myhre: a Norwegian singer and actress who has had a great number of hit songs since the 1960s in the Norwegian, German as well as the Swedish markets and languages.She got her first recording contract with composer and producer Arne Bendiksen at an age of 13, when she won a talent contest in Oslo in 1960.Myhre made her first appearance in the Norwegian heats for Eurovision in 1964 with the song "God gammel firkantet vals" which the juries placed second. She also participated in 1966, this time with two songs, "Lørdagstripp" which was placed fourth and "Vims" which came fifth.

Wenche Lægried            Origin/Culture/Country: Norwegian

Wenche Lægried: is a Norwegian sprint canoer who competed in the mid 1980s. At the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, she finished sixth in the K-4 500 m event.

Wenche Lyngholm            Origin/Culture/Country: Norwegian

Wenche Lyngholm: is a Norwegian politician for the Socialist Left Party.She was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from Østfold in 1989, but was not re-elected in 1993.

Lü Wencheng            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Lü Wencheng: was a Chinese composer and musician. He is considered to have been a master of Cantonese music (Guangdong yinyue) and Guangdong folk music.The gaohu was developed, or co-developed[1], by him in the 1920s from the erhu by raising its pitch and using steel strings instead of silk, and changing its playing position from on the thigh to between the knees. He composed Autumn Moon (on a) Waveless Lake (????) in the 1930s and it remains one of the best known works of Cantonese music.