Famous People with Name Edna

Edna Staebler            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Edna Staebler: was a Canadian author, best known for a series of cookbooks, Food That Really Schmecks, based on Mennonite home cooking as practiced in the Waterloo Region.She was born in Berlin, Ontario (later Kitchener) in 1906 and grew up there. Staebler received a BA from the University of Toronto and a teacher's certificate from the Ontario College of Education. Staebler married in 1933 but divorced in 1962. She wrote articles for Maclean's, Chatelaine, Saturday Night, Reader's Digest, Star Weekly and other newspapers and magazines; she has also written non-fiction with Canadian themes. In 1991, she established an award for creative non-fiction, awarded annually by Wilfrid Laurier University

Edna O'Brien            Origin/Culture/Country: Irish

Edna O'Brien: is an Irish novelist and short story writer whose works often revolve around the inner feelings of women, and their problems in relating to men and to society as a whole.

Edna Annie Proulx            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Edna Annie Proulx: is an American journalist and author.Annie Proulx was born in Norwich, Connecticut, to parents of French-Canadian ancestry. She graduated from Deering High School in Portland, Maine, then attended Colby College "for a short period in the 1950s." She later returned to school, studying at the University of Vermont from 1966 to 1969, and graduated cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa with a Bachelor of Arts in History in 1969.

Edna Tildesley Hughes            Origin/Culture/Country: English

Edna Tildesley Hughes: was a British swimmer who competed in the 1932 Summer Olympics and 1936 Summer Olympics.She was also fourth in her first round heat of 100 m freestyle event and did not advance.

Edna Savage            Origin/Culture/Country: English

Edna Savage: was a traditional pop singer in the United Kingdom.She had two sisters, one older, one younger. Her father was a landscape gardener, her mother an amateur singer. She left school at age 15 (common in the UK in those days). At first she trained as a telephone operator, but after a few bands had her sing for them locally, she quit the telephone job to sing professionally.She auditioned twice for the BBC before making her first broadcast, in 1954. She recorded a number of records, only one of which charted, "Arrivederci Darling" in 1956, which made it to #19 in the UK Singles Chart.[1] In 1957 she participated in the UK qualifying heat for the Eurovision Song Contest. She had a short first marriage to fellow singer, Terry Dene, but married three times more.[2]