Famous People with Name Ada

Ada Jemima Crossley            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Ada Jemima Crossley: was an Australian singer.Crossley was a daughter of E. Wallis Crossley, a farmer, was born at Tarraville, Gippsland, Victoria. Crossley's singing in the country met with so much appreciation that she was sent to Melbourne to be trained, where Sir Frederic Cowen, who had come from London to conduct the orchestra at the Melbourne International Exhibition of 1888-9, heard her sing and gave her advice. She studied under Madame Fanny Simonsen for singing, and under Alberto Zelman the elder for piano and harmony.

Ada Sara Adler            Origin/Culture/Country: Danish

Ada Sara Adler: was a Danish classical scholar and librarian.She is best known for her critical, standard edition of the Suda, which she published in 5 volumes (Leipzig, 1928-1938). She also contributed several articles to Pauly-Wissowa's Realencyclopädie.

Ada Reeve            Origin/Culture/Country: English

Ada Reeve: was an English actress of both stage and film.she made her first appearance on the stage at the age of four in the pantomime Red Riding Hood on Boxing Day 1878 at the Pavilion Theatre in London's Whitechapel. A series of pantomime and dramatic roles followed, many at the Pavilion, before she began working as a music hall performer as a teenager. "She Was a Clergyman’s Daughter" (sheet music shown at right) was a seemingly innocent, but actually risqué music hall song about a clergyman's daughter who was not as naive or charitable as she would have you imagine. Reeve performed the song in a demure costume of a flounced dress and bonnet, letting the audience in on the racy innuendos of the song through knowing winks and gestures.

Ada Jones            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Ada Jones: was a popular singer who recorded from 1905 to the early 1920s. Born in Lancashire, England (United Kingdom), her family moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1879. She started performing on stage, including juvenile roles in the 1880s

Ada Cambridge            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Ada Cambridge: was an English writer.Overall she wrote more than twenty-five works of fiction, three volumes of poetry and two autobiographical works.[1] Many of her novels were serialised in Australian newspapers, and were never published in book form.While she was known to friends and family by her married name, Ada Cross, she was known to her newspaper readers as A.C.. Later in her career she reverted to her maiden name, Ada Cambridge, and it is thus by this name that she is known.[2]