"Eva (name) Eva is a female given name, the Latinate counterpart of English Eve, derived from a Hebrew name meaning ""life"" or ""living one."" It can also mean full of Life or mother of life. It is the standard biblical form of Eve in many European languages. Evita is a diminutive form of the Spanish name ""Eva"", most often referring to María Eva Duarte de Perón. During the 1990 United States Census, approximately 0.159 percent of females counted had the first name Eva. The popularity of the name Eva has been consistently in the top 300s, according to the Social"
"Eva Perón María Eva Duarte de Perón (7 May 1919 – 26 July 1952) was the wife of Argentine President Juan Perón (1895–1974) and First Lady of Argentina from 1946 until her death in 1952. She is usually referred to as Eva Perón or Evita. She was born in poverty in the rural village of Los Toldos, in the Pampas, as the youngest of five children. At 15 in 1934, she moved to the nation's capital of Buenos Aires to pursue a career as a stage, radio, and film actress. She met Colonel Juan Perón there on 22 January 1944"
"Elaine Paige Elaine Paige (born Elaine Jill Bickerstaff, 5 March 1948) is an English singer and actress best known for her work in musical theatre. Raised in Barnet, Hertfordshire, Paige attended the Aida Foster Theatre School, making her first professional appearance on stage in 1964, at the age of 16. Her appearance in the 1968 production of ""Hair"" marked her West End debut. Following a number of roles over the next decade, Paige was selected to play Eva Perón in the first production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's ""Evita"" in 1978, which brought her to the attention of the broader public."
"and shape remain unknown. This minor planet was named for Eva Perón and its name is a feminized form of ""descamisado"" (shirtless one) – a term used to denote the working class citizens which formed the support base of Peronism. Eva Perón, also known as ""Evita"", was the wife of Argentine President Juan Perón, First Lady of Argentina and idolized by millions. The asteroids 1569 Evita, 1581 Abanderada, 1582 Martir and 1589 Fanatica were also discovered by Itzigsohn, and were also given names in tribute to Perón. Naming citation was published before November 1977 (). 1588 Descamisada 1588 Descamisada, provisional"
"one ""María Eva Duarte"" was born on May 7, 1922. Her baptismal certificate, however, lists the date of birth as 7 May 1919 under the name ""Eva María Ibarguren"". It is thought that in 1945 the adult Eva Perón created a forgery of her birth certificate for her marriage. Eva Perón spent her childhood in Junín, Buenos Aires province. Her father, Juan Duarte, was descended from French Basque immigrants. Her mother Juana Ibarguren, was descended from Spanish Basque immigrants. Juan Duarte, a wealthy rancher from nearby Chivilcoy, already had a wife and family there. At that time in rural Argentina,"
"during a charity event at the Luna Park Stadium to benefit the victims of an earthquake in San Juan, Argentina. The two were married the following year. Juan Perón was elected President of Argentina in 1946; during the next six years, Eva Perón became powerful within the pro-Peronist trade unions, primarily for speaking on behalf of labor rights. She also ran the Ministries of Labor and Health, founded and ran the charitable Eva Perón Foundation, championed women's suffrage in Argentina, and founded and ran the nation's first large-scale female political party, the Female Peronist Party. In 1951, Eva Perón announced"
"to appear in public on the campaign trail with her husband. Eva's appearance alongside her husband often offended the establishment of the wealthy, the military, and those in political life. However, she was very popular with the general public who knew her from her radio and motion picture appearances. It was during this phase of her life that she first encouraged the Argentine population to refer to her not as ""Eva Perón"" but simply as ""Evita"", which is a Spanish diminutive or affectionate nickname roughly equivalent to ""Little Eva"" or ""Evie."" In 1947, Eva embarked on a much-publicized ""Rainbow Tour"""
"vote. In the first elections (in 1951) in which women could run for office, 24 were elected to the Argentine Chamber of Deputies, all Peronists, and seven female senators were elected, making Argentina the country with the most women representing the government. Following the death of Eva Perón, Delia Parodi, one of those deputies, led the party until the military coup of 1955 Born in Buenos Aires on June 26, 1819, Juana Manso was a writer, translator, journalist, teacher and precursor of feminism in South America. In fact, she is considered by many as the first feminist of Argentina. She"
"Alberto also played in Dubai, Luxemburg and Italy as part of the tour. On 2 June 2018, Alberto played her final performance as Eva Peron and was replaced by Irish singer and actress Lucy O'Byrne who is known as being the runner-up of ""The Voice UK"" in 2015, and for starring in ""Les Misérables"" as Fantine and ""The Sound of Music"" as Maria. Madalena Alberto Madalena Alberto (born in Lisbon, Portugal) is an actress, singer and composer who has developed her career in the West End. Alberto received rave reviews for her role as Eva Perón in Evita (musical) in"
"La razón de mi vida La Razón de mi vida (literal translation: ""The Reason for My Life"") is the autobiography of Eva Perón, First Lady of Argentina from 1946 until her death in 1952. Published in 1951 shortly before Eva Perón's death, it became one of the fastest selling books in Argentine history. Written in a conversational tone, it is largely a compilation of her speeches. Eva Perón shares her perspectives on feminism and the role of women in political life, labor rights, poverty, and, of course, Peronism, the political movement founded by her husband Juan Perón. In 1952, the"
"days after Juan Perón's second inauguration, Evita was given the official title of ""Spiritual Leader of the Nation."" Despite the hysterectomy Eva's cervical cancer had metastasized and returned rapidly. She was the first Argentine to undergo chemotherapya novel treatment at that time. She became emaciated, weighing only by June 1952. Eva died at 8:25 p.m. on Saturday, 26 July 1952. Radio broadcasts throughout the country were interrupted with the announcement that ""the Press Secretary's Office of the Presidency of the Nation fulfills its very sad duty to inform the people of the Republic that at 20:25 hours, Mrs. Eva Perón,"
"Eva Peron"", while others said ""Roger is an outstanding actress"" and had ""plenty of the star quality Evita sings about."" Elena Roger Elena Silvia Roger (born October 27, 1974, Buenos Aires, Argentina ) is an Argentine actress who won the 2009 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical for her portrayal of Édith Piaf in ""Piaf"". She has also appeared in the West End in ""Evita"", ""Boeing-Boeing"", and ""Passion"". Prior to being cast as Eva Perón in the West End revival of ""Evita,"" Roger was already an accomplished performer in her native Buenos Aires. In 1997, she was"
"Eva Canel Agar Eva Infanzón Canel (January 30, 1857; Coaña, Asturias, Spain - May 2, 1932; Havana, Cuba), best known by her pseudonym Eva Canel, was a writer and journalist, originally from Spain who settled in Cuba. Daughter of Doctor Pedro Infanzón and Epifanía Canel y Uría, Eva Agar was born on January 30, 1857 in Coaña, Asturias, Spain. When she was three years old her father died in a shipwreck caused by pirates and she moved to Madrid with her mother. When she was fifteen, she began to work as an actress in the theater, where she met Eloy"
"her candidacy for the Peronist nomination for the office of Vice President of Argentina, receiving great support from the Peronist political base, low-income and working-class Argentines who were referred to as ""descamisados"" or ""shirtless ones"". However, opposition from the nation's military and bourgeoisie, coupled with her declining health, ultimately forced her to withdraw her candidacy. In 1952, shortly before her death from cancer at 33, Eva Perón was given the title of ""Spiritual Leader of the Nation"" by the Argentine Congress. She was given a state funeral upon her death, a prerogative generally reserved for heads of state. Eva Perón"
"Madalena Alberto Madalena Alberto (born in Lisbon, Portugal) is an actress, singer and composer who has developed her career in the West End. Alberto received rave reviews for her role as Eva Perón in Evita (musical) in the West End (16 September - 1 November 2014), where the show arrived after a successful UK Tour. Alberto played the role of Fantine in the acclaimed 25th Anniversary production of Les Miserables with rave reviews. Her professional debut was in ""Aladdin"" at the Old Vic, London, with Sir Ian McKellen (2005). She has developed her career mainly in Musical Theatre performing the"
"obtained from photometric observations. The asteroid's rotation period and axis, as well as its shape remain unknown. This minor planet was named in after the First Lady of Argentina, Eva Perón (1919–1952), who was commonly known by the affectionate Spanish diminutive form of her name, Evita. She was the wife of President Juan Perón (1895–1974) of Argentina. The discoverer also named the asteroids 1581 Abanderada, 1582 Martir, 1588 Descamisada and 1589 Fanatica in tribute to Eva Perón. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center before November 1979 (). 1569 Evita 1569 Evita, provisional designation , is"
"a 1996 interview, Tomás Eloy Martínez referred to Eva Perón as ""the Cinderella of the tango and the Sleeping Beauty of Latin America."" Martínez suggested she has remained an important cultural icon for the same reasons as fellow Argentine Che Guevara: Although not a government holiday, the anniversary of Eva Perón's death is marked by many Argentines each year. Additionally, Eva Perón has been featured on Argentine coins, and a form of Argentine currency called ""Evitas"" was named in her honor. Ciudad Evita (Evita City), which was established by the Eva Perón Foundation in 1947, is located just outside Buenos"
"""La Razon de mi Vida"", was ordered to be used as a textbook in all schools, and members of Congress constantly held tributes for their ailing leader. On May 7, 1952, she was elected Spiritual Leader/Chief of the Nation by the Peronista majority. On June 4 Juan Perón was re-inaugurated for a second term as President. That day, had it not been for the illness that had reduced her to a mere and forced her to wear a plaster and wire frame to be able to stand, Eva would likely have been inaugurated as Latin America's first woman Vice President."
"the results obtained by the Infrared Astronomical Satellite, that is, an albedo of 0.0523 and a diameter of 39.28 kilometers based on an absolute magnitude of 10.85. This minor planet was named in after Eva Perón (1919–1952), wife of President Juan Perón (1895–1974) of Argentina. The name ""Abanderada"" may be translated from Spanish as ""woman with a banner""—an appellation frequently used in reference to her as a crusader for social and political change. The discoverer also named the asteroids 1569 Evita, 1582 Martir, 1588 Descamisada and 1589 Fanatica in tribute to Eva Perón. The official naming citation was published by"
"30. The discrepancy was meant to dovetail with Evita's earlier tampering with her birth certificate. After becoming the first lady in 1946, Evita had her birth records altered to read that she had been born to married parents, and placed her birth date three years later, making herself younger. Shortly after Evita's death Pedro Ara, who was well known for his embalming skill, was approached to embalm the body. Fraser and Navarro write that it is doubtful that Evita ever expressed a wish to be embalmed, and suggest that it was most likely Juan Perón's decision. Ara replaced the subject's"
"most women prefer to maintain their birth name given that ""de"" can be interpreted as meaning they belong to their husbands. When Eva Duarte married Juan Domingo Perón, she could be addressed as Eva Duarte de Perón, but the preferred style was Eva Perón, or the familiar and affectionate ""Evita"" (little Eva). Combined names come from old traditional families and are considered one last name, but are rare. Although Argentina is a Spanish-speaking country, it is also composed of other varied European influences, such as Italian, French, Russian, German, etc. Children typically use their fathers' last names only. Some state"
"and she began to have nervous breakdowns and memory loss. Finally, on May 2, 1932, she died and was buried in her hometown. Eva Canel's work has a variety of influences and uses a range of techniques, from Romanticism to Naturalism. Occasionally, she denied authorship of her work, attributing it instead to her husband, Eloy Perillán Buxó. Eva Canel Agar Eva Infanzón Canel (January 30, 1857; Coaña, Asturias, Spain - May 2, 1932; Havana, Cuba), best known by her pseudonym Eva Canel, was a writer and journalist, originally from Spain who settled in Cuba. Daughter of Doctor Pedro Infanzón and"
"Little Eva Eva Narcissus Boyd (June 29, 1943 – April 10, 2003), known by the stage name of Little Eva, was an American pop singer. Although some sources claim that her stage name was inspired by a character from the novel ""Uncle Tom's Cabin"", she stated in an interview that she was named after her aunt, which prompted her family to call her ""Little Eva."" Born in Belhaven, North Carolina, she moved to the Brighton Beach section of Brooklyn, New York, at a young age. As a teenager, she worked as a maid and earned extra money as a babysitter"
"After his release from prison, Juan Perón decided to campaign for the presidency of the nation, which he won in a landslide. Eva campaigned heavily for her husband during his 1946 presidential bid. Using her weekly radio show, she delivered powerful speeches with heavy populist rhetoric urging the poor to align themselves with Perón's movement. Though she had become wealthy from her radio and modeling success, she highlighted her own humble upbringing as a way of showing solidarity with the impoverished classes. Along with her husband, Eva visited every corner of the country, becoming the first woman in Argentina's history"
"(née Banovetz) and Robert Patrick Gunton, Sr., a labor union executive. He attended Mater Dei High School in Santa Ana, California, the Paulist Seminary St Peter's College, in Baltimore, Maryland, and the University of California, Irvine. A lifelong devout Roman Catholic, Gunton had initially planned to become a priest. Gunton served in the United States Army (1969–71), earning a Bronze Star for valor and the Vietnam Service Medal. Gunton played the role of Juan Peron in the original 1980 Broadway production of ""Evita"", earning a nomination for Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical for his performance. He"
"also understudied Jessica Hecht as Golde and Alix Korey as Yente. She performed through the show's closing on December 31, 2016. In 2017, Dee joined Paulo Szot at the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival's highly anticipated production of ""Evita"" which opened with record-breaking sales at the Labuda Center for the Performing Arts at DeSales University in Center Valley, PA. All 22 performances, from the previews June 14 &15, opening night June 16, thru July 2, were sold out. Dee played Eva Peron alongside Paulo Szot (who played her husband, Argentinian military leader Colonel Juan Domingo Peron), and Dan Domenech who played Che,"
"Evita, vida y obra de Eva Perón Evita, vida y obra de Eva Perón () is an Argentine historical comic book by Héctor Germán Oesterheld and Alberto Breccia, which narrates the biography of Eva Perón. It was censored at the time of creation and was published after Oesterheld's death. The Argentine comic book authors Héctor Germán Oesterheld and Alberto Breccia started in 1968 a number of comic books devoted to the biographies of important people of Latin American history. The first issue was ""Vida del Che"" (), and it was about Che Guevara. When it was finished and published, they"
"Eva Perón Foundation The Eva Perón Foundation was a charitable foundation begun by Eva Perón, a prominent Argentine political leader, when she was the First Lady and Spiritual Leader of the Nation of Argentina. It operated from 1948 to 1955. Social welfare in Argentina was highly underdeveloped before Juan Perón was elected president in 1945 and his wife, who had been born into the working classes, was aware of this. Most charity work was undertaken by the Sociedad de Beneficencia, which was controlled by eighty-seven elderly women of the upper-classes. The orphans whose care the Sociedad controlled had to wear"
"name with an apostrophe in it. She took her nom de plume from a character in Italy's ""Diabolik"" comics, Eva Kant, and writer Harold Robbins. While on holiday in Sardinia she saw the name ""Robbins"" spelled as ""Robin's"" and decided to take on that particular spelling. Eva Robin's Eva Robins, is a transgender Italian actress, model, and activist from Bologna, Italy. Eva was born male, but developed naturally feminine features. From the age of about thirteen she says she felt she wanted to be a female. When she was sixteen, she met a neighbor who was transgender and introduced her"
"the new collective Argentine identity. He was the first to frame Argentine citizenship in terms of political rights, rather than community membership. Peron, with the influence of his wife Eva Peron (Evita), officially enfranchised women and involved the lower classes, particularly workers, in national politics for the first time. Through their social welfare programs, Peron and Evita became father and mother figures for the Argentine masses, building a collective national identity instead of a country of sovereign individuals. Peron built his new Argentine identity around its Hispanic and creole roots and the concept of the ""Madre Patria"" (motherland) to which"
"Aires. Cristina Kirchner, the first elected female president in Argentine history, is a Peronist who has occasionally been referred to as ""The New Evita."" Kirchner says she does not want to compare herself to Evita, claiming she was a unique phenomenon in Argentine history. Kirchner also says that women of her generation, who came of age in the 1970s during the military dictatorships in Argentina, owe a debt to Evita for offering an example of passion and combativeness. On 26 July 2002, the 50th anniversary of Eva Perón's death, a museum opened in her honor called ""Museo Evita."" The museum,"
"English poet of French descent, and Julie Nørregaard, a Danish journalist. They married in 1897 and separated in 1903, later divorcing. After Eva's parents separated when she was four years old, she and her mother moved to Paris, where she spent her childhood shuttling back and forth between there and Britain. While in Paris, she was taken backstage to meet Sarah Bernhardt, which, she said ""made an enormous impression on me"". She made her stage debut at the age of 15 with a walk-on role in a 1914 production of Maurice Maeterlinck's ""Monna Vanna"", then spent several months in a"
"many unofficial titles in addition to """"La Presidenta"""", such as the ""Lady of Hope"", ""First Samaritan"", ""Lady of the Descamisados"", the ""Rainbow of Argentina"", and Santa (Saint) Evita. As the wife of the President, Eva, of course, held the title of First Lady. In 1951 the Peronist Party nominated Evita to run for the office of Vice President and Senate President of the Argentine Nation, but many issues such as opposition from the Argentine military, Perón's personal fear of political opposition to his wife, and especially her illness contributed to Eva withdrawing her candidacy. Without her uterine cancer, it seems"