Famous People with Name Victoria

Victoria Fromkin            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Victoria Fromkin: a famous American linguist who taught at UCLA. Dr. Fromkin studied slips of the tongue, mishearing, and other speech errors and applied this to study how language is organized in the mind.Dr. Fromkin decided to head back to school to study linguistics while in her late 30’s. She enrolled at UCLA as a master’s student. She received her master’s in 1963 and then went on to earn her Ph.D in 1965.That same year, Dr. Fromkin joined the faculty of the linguistics department at UCLA. Dr. Fromkin earned many achievements in her lifetime. Her line of research mainly dealt with speech errors and slips of the tongue. She collected more than 12,000 examples of slips of the tongue.

Victoria Williams            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Victoria Williams: is an American singer/songwriter and musician, originally from Shreveport, Louisiana, although she has resided in Southern California throughout her musical career. She is noted for her descriptive songwriting talent, which she has used to immerse the lis

Victoria Acosta            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Victoria Acosta: is an American pop singer from San Antonio, Texas best known for her 2005 hit single "The World's Gone Crazy" from her album Once Upon A Time.Acosta enrolled in mariachi music school at age six and at age eight won the title of Best Mariachi Music Vocalis

Victoria Clark            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Victoria Clark: is an American musical theatre singer and actress. Clark has performed in many Broadway musicals and in other theatre, film and television work, and her soprano voice can be heard on numerous cast albums and several animated films. In 2008 she released he

Victoria Galvan            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Victoria Galvan: is a Mexican American singer and musician from Corpus Christi, Texas. She performs in the Tejano style as part of the ensemble Victoria y Sus Chikos (Victoria and Her Boys). She records on the Hacienda Records label.

Vesta Victoria            Origin/Culture/Country: English

Vesta Victoria: was an English music hall singer and comedian. Although born in Leeds, Yorkshire, Vesta adopted a Cockney persona on stage. She began her career as a small child appearing with her father.Her solo career took off in 1892 when Daddy Wouldn't Buy Me a Bow Wow became a hit. Vesta's comic laments delivered in deadpan style were as popular in the United States as in her homeland and she toured and recorded in America in 1907, where she was one of the most highly paid vaudeville stars. Between appearances, she lived on a houseboat, moored near Hampton Court.

Heidi Victoria            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Heidi Victoria: is a member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly representing Bayswater for the Liberal Party of Australia.Within the Liberal Party, Heidi has served as Branch President, Vice-President and Secretary; State and Federal electorate council delegate; fundra

Jorge Torres Victoria            Origin/Culture/Country: South America

Jorge Torres Victoria: is a Colombian guerrilla leader, member of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and part of the secretariat of the FARC and their higher command known as the Estado Mayor Central which is made up some 30 to 60 members. In March, 2008 Torres-Victoria was appointed member of the secretariat of the FARC. Catatumbo took command of several FARC-EP fronts in Chocó and Valle del Cauca in the 1990s, after which they grew in size and became strong enough to fight the paramilitary group AUC in the region.

Ângelo Monteiro Dos Santos Victoriano            Origin/Culture/Country: African

Ângelo Monteiro Dos Santos Victoriano: is an Angolan basketball player. He stands 6’5” and weighs 246 pounds.Victoriano has appeared on four Angolan Olympic basketball teams (in 1992, 1996, 2000, and 2004), serving as captain in his most recent appearance. His brother Edmar Victoriano has also played with Angola’s national team.