Famous People with Name Dame

Dame Joan Hammond            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Dame Joan Hammond: was a New Zealand-born Australian soprano, singing coach and golfer.Accomplished in many fields, it was singing that was Joan Hammond's passion. An encounter with Lady Gowrie, the wife of the then Governor of New South Wales, Lord Gowrie, made the young Joan Hood's dreams of studying in Europe possible. Joan often referred to Lady Gowrie as her "guardian angel". Hammond's fellow golfers in New South Wales raised enough money for her to leave Australia in 1936 to study in Vienna. In addition to studying in Vienna, she studied with Dino Borgioli in London. She toured widely, and became noted particularly for her Puccini roles. She later became a renowned singing teacher.

Dame Nellie Melba            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Dame Nellie Melba: legendary Australian opera soprano and one of the most famous sopranos, was the first Australian to achieve international recognition in the form. She and Dame May Whitty both became the first entertainers to become a Dame of the Order of the British Empire in 1918.In 1886, she travelled to Europe with her family in an attempt to begin a musical career. With no success in London (although promised parts by Sir Arthur Sullivan), she continued to Paris where a prominent music teacher, Madame Mathilde Marchesi, agreed to tutor her. Melba's first starring role (as Gilda) was at the Théâtre de la Monnaie, Brussels and she returned to London to Lady de Grey's patronage, ensuring her success with the aristocratic audience at Covent Garden.

Dame Lois Joan Muir            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Dame Lois Joan Muir: is a New Zealand netball coach and administrator, and a former representative netball and basketball player. Muir represented New Zealand in two sports, playing with the Tall Ferns from 1952–1962 and the Silver Ferns from 1960–1963. She later became head

Dame Margaret Georgina Constance Guilfoyle            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Dame Margaret Georgina Constance Guilfoyle: was a British-born Australian Senator for the state of Victoria from 1971 to 1987. She was the second woman to receive a federal ministerial portfolio, after Dame Enid Lyons. Following her retirement she has continued to serve the Australian public throug

Anne Seymour Damer            Origin/Culture/Country: English

Anne Seymour Damer: was an English sculptor.Anne Conway was born into an aristocratic Whig family, the only daughter of Field-Marshal Henry Seymour Conway (1721–1795) and his wife Caroline Bruce, born Campbell, Lady Ailesbury (1721–1803), and was brought up at the family hom

Madeleine Zoe Damerment            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Madeleine Zoe Damerment: was a World War II spy.Madeleine Damerment was born in Lille, the daughter of the Headpostmaster of Lille; following the occupation of France by the Germans in World War II, her family became actively involved with the French Resistance. The unassuming twenty-two-year-old Madeleine worked as an assistant to Michael Trotobas on the escape line set up by Albert Guérisse. She helped downed British airmen and others to escape France until 1942, when it is believed that one of her fellow resistance workers, Harold Cole, betrayed the group and she had to flee to England.

Tadley Ewing Peake "Tadd" Dameron            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Tadley Ewing Peake "Tadd" Dameron: was an American jazz pianist, arranger, and composer. Dexter Gordon called Dameron the "romanticist" of the bop movement while reviewer Scott Yanow writes that Dameron was the "definitive arranger/composer of the bop era".

Heinrich Philipp August Damerow            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Heinrich Philipp August Damerow: was a German psychiatrist who was born in Stettin, Province of Pomerania, Prussia (today Szczecin, Poland). In 1822 he earned his doctorate in Berlin, where he was a student of Hegel, Schleiermacher and psychiatrist Anton Ludwig Ernst Horn. He continued his education in Paris, where he studied under Jean-Étienne Dominique Esquirol, and at the Siegburg asylum north of Bonn, where he met with Carl Wigand Maximilian Jacobi. In 1830 he became an associate professor, and in 1836 was appointed director of a mental institution near Halle.