Famous People with Name Gisela

Gisela Kahn Gresser            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Gisela Kahn Gresser: was one of the first two female chess players in the United States to gain the title of master in 1950 when FIDE created official titles. She was also the first woman to be inducted into the U.S. Chess Hall of Fame. She won the U.S. Women's Chess Championship in 1944, 1948 (with Mona May Karff), 1954, 1955 (with Nancy Roos), 1957 (with Sonja Graf), 1962, 1965, 1966 (with Lisa Lane), 1967, and 1969 (at age 63).

Gisela            Origin/Culture/Country: Spanish

Gisela: a Spanish pop singer. She was born in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, and became famous after coming 8th in the first edition of Operación Triunfo. Before the start of Operacion Triunfo, she was a student at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, studying Journalism.Her first album was Parte De Mí. It came out in Spain in 2002, selling 200,000 copies in a few weeks. Este Amor Es Tuyo, won the Viña del Mar International Song Festival contest in 2003 and also she won the award for best voice in the same edition. That year she also sung at the Eurovision Song Contest 2002 in Tallinn with her friend Rosa López.

Gisela Grothaus            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Gisela Grothaus: is a West German slalom canoer who competed in the early 1970s.

Gisela May            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Gisela May: is a distinguished German character actress of theatre and a singer, critically acclaimed for performing the songs written by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weil. She also appeared as a film and TV actress in a number of movies between 1951 and 1991. Gisela May studied at the drama school in Leipzig. She was employed for nine years at various theatres, including the State Theatre of Schwerin and the State Theatre in Halle. From 1951 she was engaged at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin, Max Reinhardt's former workplace. She played a variety of roles from the classics to modern.

Gisela Arendt            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Gisela Arendt: was a German swimmer who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics.

Elisabeth Maria Henriette Stephanie Gisela            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Elisabeth Maria Henriette Stephanie Gisela: was an Archduchess of Austria and the only child of Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria. She was known to the family as "Erzsi", a diminutive of her name in Hungarian. Later nicknamed "The Red Archduchess", she was famous for becoming a socialist and a member