Famous People with Name Fani

Fani Halkia            Origin/Culture/Country: Greek

Fani Halkia: is a Greek hurdler.

Fani Madida            Origin/Culture/Country: African

Fani Madida: is a retired South African association football player who played in South Africa for Kaizer Chiefs and Hellenic and in Turkey for Besiktas, Antalyaspor and Bursaspor.

Fani Palli-Petralia            Origin/Culture/Country: Greek

Fani Palli-Petralia: is a Greek lawyer, New Democracy politician and a former Minister for Employment and Social Protection. She is also a former Minister of Tourism, the first woman to hold this position. She was elected to the ND Central Committee in 1990 and the Executive Committee in 1997. In 1999, she became president of the European Women’s Union. In 2002, she was elected president of the International Democratic Union of Women.

Fanizani Akuda            Origin/Culture/Country: Zimbabwe

Fanizani Akuda: was a member of the sculptural movement usually called "Shona sculpture" (see Shona art and Art of Zimbabwe), although he and some others of its recognised members were not ethnically Shona. He worked initially at the Tengenenge Sculpture Community, 150 km north of Harare near Guruve, which he joined in 1966. He received no formal schooling and in 1949 he moved to Southern Rhodesia in search of work. This led to employment as a cotton picker, bricklayer, and basket weaver: by 1966 he was working as a farm manager. However, in terms of his later success as a sculptor in stone, the most significant move came in that year when he was offered work by Tom Blomefield, a white South-African-born farmer of tobacco whose farm at Tengenenge near Guruve had extensive deposits of serpentine stone suitable for carving. Fanizani was initially a quarryman but after a period living in the artists’ community he took up sculpting: finding this provided a worthwhile financial return, he became a full-time sculptor alongside other well-known figures such as Henry Munyaradzi.

Claudia Faniello            Origin/Culture/Country: Italian

Claudia Faniello: a Maltese singer.Claudia was born and raised in Malta, along with her siblings Fabrizio and Miriana. At the age of 12, Claudia began to participate in a variety of television shows and participating also in many festivals and placing in top positions. In

Michela Fanini            Origin/Culture/Country: Italian

Michela Fanini: was a female racing cyclist from Italy. Born in Lucca her biggest achievements were winning the 1994 Giro d'Italia Femminile and the national title at the Italian National Road Race Championships (1992). Fanini died aged 21 during a training session in Ca