Famous People with Name Amalia

Amalia Mendoza García            Origin/Culture/Country: Mexican

Amalia Mendoza García: was one of Mexico's most famous ranchera singers whose career lasted over 40 years. She was nicknamed La Tariácuri after her brothers' group the Trio Tariácuri.After limited success as part of a duo with her sister Perla she struck out as a solo singer in 1954. Through the majority of her career she was accompanied by El Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlán, and recorded numerous rancheras and boleros by José Alfredo Jiménez, Cuco Sánchez, José Ángel Espinosa, Gabriel Ruíz and Tomás Méndez.

Amalia Lindegren,            Origin/Culture/Country: Swedish

Amalia Lindegren,: was a Swedish artist and painter, from 1856 a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts.Her drawings made the artist and art teacher Carl Gustaf Qvarnström include her as one of the four women accepted as students at the academy in 1849, and in 1850, she became the first woman given an art scholarship form the academy to study art in Paris, which she did at the studies of Coignet and Tissier; she also studied in Düsseldorf and Münich before she returned to Sweden in 1856, were she was elected to the academy.

Amalia Kahana-Carmon            Origin/Culture/Country: Jewish

Amalia Kahana-Carmon: is an Israeli author, educator, and recipient of the Israel Prize for literature (2000).Amalia was born at Kibbutz Ein Harod. Her father, Haim Kahana, was one of the founders of the kibbutz. She moved to Tel Aviv, where she studied at the Herzliya secondary school. During the Israeli War of Independence she served in the Negev Brigade of Palmach as a signals operator and wrote the famous telegram for the capture of Eilat.

Amália Sterbinszky            Origin/Culture/Country: Hungaian

Amália Sterbinszky: is a former Hungarian handball player who competed in the 1976 Summer Olympics and in the 1980 Summer Olympics.

Amalia Catharina            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Amalia Catharina: was a German poet and composer. She was born in Arolsen to Count Philipp Theodor von Waldeck and the Countess of Nassau. In 1664 she married Count Georg Ludwig von Erbach. She published a number of Pietist poems and songs in Hildburghausen in 1692. They were meant for private household devotion. There were 67 poems, some of which had simple melodies and a figured bass.[1]

Catharina-Amalia            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Catharina-Amalia: is the first child of Willem-Alexander, Prince of Orange,[1] the heir apparent to the throne of the Netherlands, and Princess Máxima of the Netherlands, his spouse.

Princess Frederica Amalia Of Denmark            Origin/Culture/Country: Danish

Princess Frederica Amalia Of Denmark: was the second daughter of King Frederick III of Denmark and Sophie Amalie of Brunswick-Lüneburg, and Duchess of Holstein-Gottorp from 1667 to 1695 as the consort of Duke Christian Albert. Frederica Amalie Oldenburg, Princess of Denmark, was a daughter of King Frederick III of Denmark and his queen, Sophie Amalie of Brunswick-Lüneburg. Her father had been crowned king on 23 November 1648, about five months before she was born. She was married at Glücksburg Castle on 24 October 1667 to Duke Christian Albrecht of Holstein-Gottorp as part of a peace treaty between Denmark and Holstein-Gottorp, but the hostile parties continued to fight. The marriage was unhappy, with Frederica Amalia often tormented by the frequent disagreements between her brother, Christian V of Denmark, and her spouse. She was reportedly well known to be badly treated by Christian Albrecht, while the Danish royal family gave her all sorts of personal privileges and proofs of affection.