Famous People with Name Halle

Halle Maria Berry            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Halle Maria Berry: is an American actress, former fashion model, and beauty queen. Berry has received Emmy and Golden Globe awards for Introducing Dorothy Dandridge[2] and an Academy Award for Best Actress in 2002 for her performance in Monster's Ball, becoming the first an

Halle Jørn Hanssen            Origin/Culture/Country: Norwegian

Halle Jørn Hanssen: is a Norwegian television correspondent, development aid administrator and politician. He graduated with the cand.mag. degree in 1964, and worked as a researcher at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs from 1965 up to and including 1968. Having been the chairman of the Young Liberals of Norway from 1964 to 1966, in early 1969 he was hired as secretary for the Liberal Party. Immediately after the 1969 election he was hired in the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation. In 1978 he became the first correspondent for Africa in the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation, which was the only television station in Norway at that time. As a correspondent he was stationed in Nairobi. Hanssen left the Liberal Party in 1972, as the party split over disagreements of Norway's proposed entry to the European Economic Community. He joined the Labour Party instead, and served three terms as a local politician in Bærum municipal council.

Hallee Leah Hirsh            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Hallee Leah Hirsh: an American actress best known for her role as Daley in the children's series Flight 29 Down.

Hallett Sydney Ward            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Hallett Sydney Ward: was a Democratic U.S. Congressman from North Carolina between 1921 and 1925. Ward was first elected to the North Carolina Senate in 1899 and was sent back for a second term in 1901. He served as mayor of the town of Plymouth, North Carolina from 1902 to 1

Sir Charles Hallé            Origin/Culture/Country: Anglo

Sir Charles Hallé: was an Anglo-German pianist and conductor, and founder of The Hallé orchestra in 1858.Hallé was born in Hagen, Westphalia, Germany who after settling in England changed his name from Karl Halle. His first lessons were from his father, an organist, studying in Darmstadt and later Paris.In 1848, Hallé moved to England, settling in Manchester where he started a series of classical music concerts. He conducted elsewhere in the country also, as well as performing as a pianist. He was the first pianist to play the complete series of Beethoven piano sonatas in England.

Adam De La Halle            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Adam De La Halle: was a French-born trouvère, poet and musician, whose literary and musical works include chansons and jeux-partis (poetic debates)in the style of the trouveres, polyphonic rondel and motets in the style of early liturgical polyphony, and a musical play, "The Play of Robin and Marion", which is considered the earliest surviving secular French play with music. He was a member of the Confrérie des jongleurs et bourgeois d'Arras.

Jean Noël Hallé            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Jean Noël Hallé: was a French physician born in Paris. He was the son of painter Noël Hallé (1711–1781). He was a professor of physical medicine and health at the École de Santé, and afterwards a professor at the Collège de France. He was a member of the Académie Nationale de médecine, and in 1795 was elected to the Académie des sciences, becoming its president in 1813. He was also "first-physician" to Napoleon Bonaparte.

Maurice Hallé            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Maurice Hallé: was a Liberal party member of the Canadian House of Commons. He was an executive secretary and farmer by career.He was first elected to Parliament at the Brome—Missisquoi riding in the 1940 general election and re-elected in 1945 federal election. Hallé did not seek re-election in 1949 and left federal politics, but was an unsuccessful candidate at Brome—Missisquoi in the 1958 election.