Teresa as First Name

Teresa Murak            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish
Teresa Murak: (born July 5, 1949) is a Polish sculptor. She was born in the Lublin region. She is currently working in Warsaw.

Teresa Barbara Cieply            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish
Teresa Barbara Cieply: born October 19, 1937 – died March 8, 2006) was a Polish sprinter and hurdler.

Teresa Teng            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese
Teresa Teng: sometimes spelled as Teresa Tang or Teresa Deng, was an influential C-pop singer from Yunlin County, Taiwan. She enjoyed immense popularity amongst all Chinese-speaking communities and in East Asia, particularly in Japan, for around 30 years. Teng was known for her folk songs and romantic ballads.

Teresa Wright            Origin/Culture/Country: American
Teresa Wright: was an Academy Award-winning American actress.In the fall of 1939, she appeared in the stage play Life with Father, playing the role of Mary Skinner for two years. It was there that she was discovered by a talent scout hired by Samuel Goldwyn to find a young actress for the role of Bette Davis' daughter in the 1941 adaptation of Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes. She was immediately signed to a five-year Hollywood contract but asserted her seriousness as an actress. Her contract was unique by Hollywood standards because it contained the following clause:

Teresa Brewer            Origin/Culture/Country: American
Teresa Brewer: was an American pop and jazz singer who was one of the most popular female singers of the 1950s. Born Theresa Breuer in Toledo, Ohio, Brewer died of a neuromuscular disease at her home in New Rochelle, N.Y. at the age of 76.[1]

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Teresa as Last Name

Mother Teresa            Origin/Culture/Country: Indian
Mother Teresa: Albanian Roman Catholic nun who founded the Missionaries of Charity in Kolkata (Calcutta), India in 1950. For over forty years she ministered to the poor, sick, orphaned, and dying, while guiding the Missionaries of Charity's expansion, first throughout India and then in other countries.

Lorne William Bell Carr            Origin/Culture/Country: Canadian
Lorne William Bell Carr: was a professional ice hockey player in the National Hockey League.Carr began his career in 1930 with the Vancouver Lions of the Pacific Coast Hockey League. He next played for the Buffalo Bisons of the International Hockey League. In 1934 Carr signed with the New York Rangers. After one season with the Rangers, Carr signed with the rival New York Americans, with whom he played for the following seven seasons.