When was Doris Hursley born?
Frank and Doris Hursley
Frank M. Hursley (November 21, 1902 – February 3, 1989) and Doris Hursley (September 29, 1898 – May 5, 1984) were a husband-and-wife team who wrote American serials.
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Doris P. Buck
Doris Pitkin Buck (January 3, 1898 – December 4, 1980) was an American science fiction author.
Doris Grau
Doris Grau (October 12, 1924 – December 30, 1995) was an American script supervisor, actress, and voice artist from Brooklyn. Shortly after moving to Hollywood in 1940, she began her career with supervising film and television scripts. She continued to do this until the 1990s and worked on films such as "Point Blank" and "King Kong" and television shows such as "Cheers" and "The Tracey Ullman Show". In addition, Grau did some acting in her later years, playing both live-action and animated roles. On the sitcom "The Simpsons", she both worked as a script supervisor and provided the voice of Lunchlady Doris and other minor characters. Grau died from respiratory failure.
Zora Neale Hurston
Zora Neale Hurston (January 7, 1891 – January 28, 1960) was an influential author of African-American literature and anthropologist, who portrayed racial struggles in the early 20th century American South, and published research on Haitian voodoo. Of Hurston's four novels and more than 50 published short stories, plays, and essays, her most popular is the 1937 novel "Their Eyes Were Watching God".
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Doris Sands Johnson
Doris Louise Sands was born on 19 June 1921 in St. Agnes, New Providence, The Bahamas, to Sarah Elizabeth (née Fyne) and John Albert Sands. After completing her secondary education, Sands began teaching at the age of 15. On 3 January 1943 at Zion Baptist Church in Nassau, Sands married Ratal Allen Johnson. They subsequently had one son and Johnson worked for 17 years to earn the money to further her education. Around 1953, she was able to enroll at Virginia Union University in Richmond, Virginia, graduating with a bachelor's degree in education. She returned to the Bahamas in 1956 and joined the Progressive Liberal Party (PLP). Granted a four-year government scholarship to further her education in Canada, Johnson enrolled in a master's degree program in educational administration. Beginning her studies at MacDonald College of Education of McGill University, she earned her master's degree and began work on her doctorate at the Ontario College of Education at the University of Toronto. In the midst of her studies, the government terminated the scholarship during her third year of studying abroad, under the guise that her master's degree had been completed. Johnson believed that the scholarship was terminated because she had been active in organizing. She helped found the Women’s Suffrage Movement in the Bahamas, and in 1958 both the Bahamian Federation of Labour and the National Council of Women, traveling home intermittently during her studies to work towards enfranchisement. She returned home, but was advised that the only available positions for teaching administrators were in outlying islands.
Doris Burn
Doris "Doe" Burn (born Doris Wernstedt; April 24, 1923 – March 9, 2011) was an American children's book author and illustrator. She lived most of her life on Waldron Island in the San Juan Islands archipelago of Washington.
Doris Day
She was usually one of the top ten singers between 1951 and 1966. As an actress, she became the biggest female film star in the early 1960s, and ranked sixth among the box office performers by 2012. In 2011, she released her 29th studio album, "My Heart", which became a UK Top 10 album featuring new material. Among her awards, Day has received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and a Legend Award from the Society of Singers. In 1960, she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress, and in 1989 was given the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement in motion pictures. In 2004, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President George W. Bush followed in 2011 by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association's Career Achievement Award.
Dorris Henderson
Born in Lakeland, Florida but raised in Los Angeles, she was the daughter of an African American clergyman and the granddaughter of a Blackfoot Native American. The blues musician, Guitar Nubbit, was her uncle. She initially worked as a civil servant but became interested in music after seeing a performance by Odetta at the famed LA folk venue the Ash Grove. She soon became a regular at Sunset Boulevard's jazz clubs and soon began to perform autoharp version of tunes from Alan Lomax's "The Folk Songs of North America". Henderson got her break when she met Lord Buckley and joined him for a series of stage shows in Hollywood, including an appearance singing 'Rock of Ages' on one of Buckley's live albums.
Doris Caesar
Doris Porter Caesar (November 8, 1892 – 1971) was an American sculptor best known for her portrayals of the nude female body.
Doris Lester
Verona Doris Lester (28 July 1886 – 14 February 1965) was born in Leytonstone, Essex, England. 
She was the sister of Muriel Lester.
Doris W. Jones
Doris W. Jones was born on June 3, 1913 in Malden, Massachusetts. She wanted to become a ballet dancer, even though she had never met a black ballet dancer and many studios refused to teach her. However, some let her watch the classes, and from then on she taught herself through observation and books. Soon, she began to teach others. She founded the Jones-Haywood School of Ballet in 1941 with Claire Haywood in Washington, D.C., in order to allow black students to train in ballet. Jones died on March 21, 2006, in Washington, D.C.
Doris Beale
She was born in Forest Hill, London to George Beale (13 February 1855 – 9 June 1923) and his wife, Annie Maria (née King) Beale (11 September 1858 – 12 August 1949). 
She was educated at Lewisham Prendergast School and later received as a probationer at London Hospital Training School for Nurses in 1912, where she completed her two years probation, achieving a "very satisfactory" examination result in October 1914.
Doris Self
Doris Self (September 18, 1925 – October 3, 2006) was a video game competitor who gained recognition in the 1980s as "the world's oldest video game champion". In the 2007 "Guinness World Records", Self was recognized as the world's oldest video game competitor. The documentary film "" detailed Self's quest to recover her standing as the "oldest champion" from John Lawton, the 72-year-old co-founder of the Funspot Family Fun Center in Weirs Beach, New Hampshire, who had captured the world title on "Depthcharge".
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Doris Storey
Doris Storey (21 December 1919 – 21 October 2005), later known by her married name Doris Quarmby, was an English breaststroke swimmer from Leeds who competed for Great Britain in the 1936 Summer Olympics and for England at the 1938 British Empire Games.
Doris Day
Doris Day (born Doris Mary Ann Kappelhoff; April 3, 1922) is an American actress, singer, and animal welfare activist. After she began her career as a big band singer in 1939, her popularity increased with her first hit recording "Sentimental Journey" (1945). After leaving Les Brown & His Band of Renown to embark on a solo career, she recorded more than 650 songs from 1947 to 1967, which made her one of the most popular and acclaimed singers of the 20th century.
Doris Duke (soul singer)
Doris Duke (born Doris Curry; 1945) is an American gospel and soul singer, best known for her 1969 album "I'm A Loser".
Doris Hart
Doris Hart (June 20, 1925 – May 29, 2015) was a World No. 1 American tennis player who was active in the 1940s and first half of the 1950s and was ranked No. 1 in 1951. She became the fourth player to win a Career Grand Slam in singles, the second woman to do so, and is one of only three players (all women) to have completed the "Box Set" of Grand Slam titles—every possible title (singles, doubles, and mixed doubles) from all four Grand Slam events, being the first to do so in history and only one of two to achieve this in the amateur era of the sport.
Cane (novel)
In 1973, Alice Walker and fellow Zora Neale Hurston scholar Charlotte D. Hunt discovered a grave they thought was Hurston's in Ft. Pierce, Florida. Walker had it marked with a gray marker stating ZORA NEALE HURSTON / "A GENIUS OF THE SOUTH" / NOVELIST FOLKLORIST / ANTHROPOLOGIST / 1901–1960. The line "a genius of the south" is from Toomer's poem "Georgia Dusk", which appears in the novel. Hurston was actually born in 1891, not 1901.
Doris Coley
Coley was born in Goldsboro, North Carolina. Through marriages, she became "Doris Coley Kenner" and later, "Doris Kenner Jackson".
Doris Collins
Doris Collins (1918-2003) was a British spiritualist and psychic medium.
Doris Self
On July 1, 1984, Doris Self made video game history when, at the age of 58, she gained recognition as the "world's oldest video game champion". As a competitor on "Q*bert" at Twin Galaxies' 1984 Video Game Masters Tournament, Self scored a world record mark of 1,112,300 points on Twin Galaxies' Tournament Settings (TGTS) – the most difficult settings that allow for only five-men in the game.
Doris Molesworth
Doris Molesworth (30 April 1902 – 26 June 1976) was a British swimmer. She competed in the women's 400 metre freestyle event at the 1924 Summer Olympics.
Doris Pearson
Doris Pearson (born Doris May Pearson, 8 June 1966 in Brent, London, England) is an English singer and ex member of the pop group, Five Star.
Doris Heyden
Doris Heyden (née Heydenreich; June 2, 1905 – September 25, 2005) was a prominent scholar of pre-Columbian Mesoamerican cultures, particularly those of central Mexico. She was born in East Orange, New Jersey, United States. She died on September 25, 2005 from the lingering after effects of a stroke suffered in 1999.
Doris Day discography
The following is a complete discography for American singer and actress Doris Day. Day's entertainment career spanned almost 50 years. She started her career as a big band singer in 1939, and gained popularity with her first hit recording, "Sentimental Journey" in 1945. In her solo career she recorded more than 650 recordings on the Columbia Records label from 1947 to 1967. She is one of the most popular and acclaimed singers of the 20th century.
Frances Foster
Frances Helen Foster (née Brown; June 11, 1924 – June 17, 1997) was an American film, television and stage actress. In addition to being an actress, Brown was also an award–winning stage director.
Foster was born Frances Helen Brown in Yonkers, New York, the daughter of George H., a postal worker, and Helen E. Brown. She studied acting at American Theater Wing in Manhattan from 1949 to 1952. In 1955, she made her stage debut as Dolly May in "The Wisteria Trees" at the City Center Theater in more than 25 of its productions. Foster won an Obie Award in 1985 for sustained excellence of performance. She was also a recipient of two AUDELCO Awards, one as an actress and the other as a director for work at the New Federal Theatre in Manhattan. In 1978, she received the best actress award for "Do Lord Remember Me", and the best director award in 1983 for "Hospice". She also appeared in several films, including "Malcolm X", "Crooklyn", and "Clockers", as well as the recurring role of Vera on the soap opera "Guiding Light" from 1985-94. She's also known from one of the most infamous episodes of "Good Times", as Gertie Vinson, a neighbor of the Evans family who was forced to eat dog food in the episode "The Dinner Party".
List of National Museum of Dance Hall of Fame inductees
Doris Humphrey (1895–1958)
Doris Meissner
Doris Marie Meissner (born November 3, 1941) is a former Commissioner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), the agency previously responsible for immigration enforcement in the United States. She headed the INS from October 18, 1993 (nominated June 1993) to November 18, 2000, under United States President Bill Clinton and United States Attorney General Janet Reno. She is currently Senior Fellow and Director of the U.S. Immigration Policy Program at the Migration Policy Institute and has previously worked at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Doris Pilkington Garimara
Pilkington was born at Balfour Downs Station, near the north Western Australian settlement of Jigalong. Her mother, Molly, named her Nugi Garimara, but she was called Doris after Molly's employer at the station, Mary Dunnet, who thought Nugi was "a stupid name". As her birth was unregistered, her birth date was recorded as 1 July 1937 by the Department of Native Affairs. She was taken from her mother to be raised at the Moore River mission when she was three and a half years old. Her sister, Annabelle, was also taken when she was three years old, but has not acknowledged Craig or Pilkington since she was abducted.
Doris Lilly
Doris Lilly (c.1922/26 December 1926 – 9 October 1991) was an American newspaper columnist and writer. Lilly wrote newspaper columns on high society for the "New York Post" between 1968 and 1978, and the "New York Daily Mirror".
Doris Troy
Doris Troy (born Doris Elaine Higginsen; January 6, 1937 – February 16, 2004) was an American R&B singer and songwriter, known to her many fans as "Mama Soul". Her biggest hit was "Just One Look", a top 10 hit in 1963. She was also one of the four female back up singers on Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd.
Doris Lee
Doris Emrick Lee (February 1, 1905 – June 16, 1983) was an American painter known for her figurative painting and printmaking. She won the Logan Medal of the Arts from the Chicago Art Institute in 1935. She is known as one of the most successful female artists of the Depression era in the United States.
Doris Blackburn
Doris Amelia Blackburn (née Hordern; 18 September 1889 – 12 December 1970) was an Australian social reformer and politician. She served in the House of Representatives from 1946 to 1949, the second woman after Enid Lyons to do so. Blackburn was a prominent socialist and originally a member of the Labor Party. She was married to Maurice Blackburn, a Labor MP, but he was expelled from the party in 1937 and she resigned from the party in solidarity. Her husband died in 1944, and she was elected to his former seat at the 1946 federal election – the first woman elected to parliament as an independent. However, Blackburn served only a single term before being defeated. She later served as president of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.
Doris Duke
She was presented to society as a debutante in 1930, aged 18, at a ball at Rough Point, the family residence in Newport, Rhode Island. She received large bequests from her father's will when she turned 21, 25, and 30; she was sometimes referred to as the "world's richest girl." Her mother died in 1962, leaving her jewelry and a coat.
Doris Beale
Dame Doris Winifred Beale, & Bar (9 August 1889 – 14 January 1971) was an English nurse, and Matron-in-Chief of Queen Alexandra's Royal Naval Nursing Service (QARNNS) for three years during the Second World War. In the King's birthday honours list 1944 she was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE), a first in the Royal Naval Nursing Service.
Doris Lessing
Doris May Lessing , (; 22 October 1919 – 17 November 2013) was a British-Zimbabwean (Rhodesian) novelist. She was born to British parents in Iran, where she lived until 1925. Her family then moved to Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), where she remained until moving in 1949 to London, England. Her novels include "The Grass Is Singing" (1950), the sequence of five novels collectively called "Children of Violence" (1952–1969), "The Golden Notebook" (1962), "The Good Terrorist" (1985), and five novels collectively known as "Canopus in Argos: Archives" (1979–1983).
Doris Gibson
Doris Gibson Parra del Riego (28 April 1910 – 23 August 2008) was a Peruvian magazine writer and publisher. She is most noted as the founder and editor of the Peruvian weekly news magazine "Caretas".
Alice Walker
In 1973, before becoming editor of "Ms." "Magazine", Walker and fellow Zora Neale Hurston scholar Charlotte D. Hunt discovered an unmarked grave they thought was Hurston's in Ft. Pierce, Florida. Walker had it marked with a gray marker stating ZORA NEALE HURSTON / "A GENIUS OF THE SOUTH" / NOVELIST FOLKLORIST / ANTHROPOLOGIST / 1901–1960. The line "a genius of the south" is from Jean Toomer's poem "Georgia Dusk," which appears in his book "Cane". Hurston was actually born in 1891, not 1901.
Doris Calloway
Born Doris Howes in Canton, Ohio, to Earl Howes and Lillian Roberts, both private investigators, she went to high school in East Canton and graduated as valedictorian. Though she wanted to study medicine, her family could not afford it and she studied dietetics at Ohio State University, graduating in 1943 with a bachelor's degree. She attended the University of Chicago for her doctoral studies and earned her Ph.D. in nutrition in 1947.
Doris May
Doris May (October 15, 1902–May 12, 1984), born Helen Garrett, was an American film actress of the silent era. She appeared in 29 films between 1917 and 1927, generally as a leading lady. Most of her roles were in westerns and comedies, although she also starred in some melodramas.
Doris Hare
Hare won a Variety Club of Great Britain Special Award for her contributions to show business in 1982. She died at Denville Hall the actors retirement home in Northwood, London in 2000, aged 95.
Doris McRae
Doris Mary McRae (25 January 1893 – 9 November 1988) was an Australian schoolteacher, headmistress and women's activist.
Doris Harcourt
Doris Mary Thérèse Baring, Baroness Ashburton ("née" Harcourt; 30 March 1900 – 9 May 1981) was an English socialite, part of the "Bright Young Things" of the early 20th century.
Doris Miller
Miller was born in Waco, Texas, on October 12, 1919, to Connery and Henrietta Miller. He was named Doris, as the 
midwife who assisted his mother was convinced the baby would be female. He was the third of four sons and helped around the house, cooking meals and doing laundry, as well as working on the family farm. Miller was a good student and was a fullback on the football team at Waco's A.J. Moore High School. On January 25, 1937, at age 17, he began attending the eighth grade again. Forced to repeat the grade the following year, Miller decided to drop out of school. He filled his time squirrel hunting with a .22 rifle and completed a correspondence course in taxidermy. Miller applied to join the Civilian Conservation Corps, but was not accepted. At that time he was tall and weighed more than .
Doris Castle
Doris Castle was born on May 25, 1942 in Oakland, Tennessee. Both branches of her ancestors were farmers; one were landowners and the others were sharecroppers. Castle recalled her grandmother saying things such as "Don't ever bow to anybody when you feel you're right or you know you're right". Her family moved to New Orleans, Louisiana in 1947. Her father, John Castle, was a longshoreman while her mother, Virgie Castle was a barmaid for Leah and Dooky Chase restaurants. Her parents taught her and her sister to be “fiercely independent”. Doris and her sister Oretha grew up with working parents who believed you had to fight for what you wanted in life. They attended public schools in the Ninth Ward neighborhood of New Orleans, where the two girls grew up.
Doris Malkin Curtis
Doris Malkin Curtis (January 12, 1914 - May 26, 1991) was an American paleontologist, stratigrapher, and geologist. She became the first woman president of the Geological Society of America (1991) and made meaningful contributions towards Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
Doris Parkes
Doris Parkes (born July 22, 1905 in Seattle, Washington) was an athlete that competed in British Columbia in the 1920s and 1930s.
Doris Hill
Doris Hill (March 21, 1905 – March 3, 1976) was an American film actress of the 1920s and 1930s, mostly in B movies.
Doris Collins
Collins was born on 10 February 1918 in Essex, England and was the youngest of a family of nine children. From a young age Collins claimed to be able to see spirits a psychic ability she said to have throughout her life. She attended a Spiritualist church and in 1958 became the president of Woodford National Spiritualist Church in Essex. She became a resident at the Spiritualist Association of Great Britain and made trips to the United States, Australia and toured Great Britain offering her mediumship services to people for money.
Doris Huestis Speirs
Doris Louise Huestis Speirs (née, Huestis; also known as Doris Huestis Mills; 7 October 1894 – 24 October 1989) was a Canadian ornithologist, artist and poet. The "Doris Huestis Speirs Award" is an annual prize bestowed by the Society of Canadian Ornithologists to "an individual who has made outstanding lifetime contributions in Canadian ornithology". A member of the Art Students’ League of Toronto and an art patron, she was the first Canadian to buy a Georgia O'Keeffe painting.
Diana Dors
Diana Dors (born Diana Mary Fluck; 23 October 1931 – 4 May 1984) was an English film actress and singer. She first came to public notice as a blonde bombshell in the style of American Marilyn Monroe, as promoted by her first husband, Dennis Hamilton, mostly via sex film-comedies and risqué modelling. After it turned out that Hamilton had been defrauding her, she continued to play up to her established image, and she made tabloid headlines with the parties reportedly held at her house. Later, she showed a genuine talent for TV, recordings, and cabaret, and gained new popularity as a regular chat-show guest.
Frank Hursley
After Doris's divorce in 1935 from her first husband, Colin Welles, she married Frank in 1936. The couple began writing for radio during World War II and moved from their home in Thiensville, Wisconsin to California in 1946.
The Horsley Drive
Horsley Park was originally part of Colonel George Johnston's property "Kings Gift". After his death it passed to his daughter Blanche who in 1829 married Major George Nicholas Weston. He built an Indian colonial style homestead on the property and named it "Horsley" after his birthplace in Surrey, England. In 1959, The Horsley Drive (so named because it leads to Horsley Park) opened up as a continuous route from Lansvale. Fairfield Hospital was constructed on The Horsley Drive in Fairfield on September 1956, but was then relocated in 1988.
Doris Humphrey
Doris Batcheller Humphrey (October 17, 1895 – December 29, 1958) was a dancer and choreographer of the early twentieth century. Along with her contemporaries Martha Graham and Katherine Dunham, Humphrey was one of the second generation modern dance pioneers who followed their forerunners – including Isadora Duncan, Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn – in exploring the use of breath and developing techniques still taught today. As many of her works were annotated, Humphrey continues to be taught, studied and performed.
Denis M. Hurley
Hurley was the son of Michael Hurley and Catherine Cusick, and immigrated to the United States in 1850. He had a brother named Patrick, and two sisters named Mary (the elder of whom apparently died in infancy. According to the book of eulogies delivered on the floor of the United States House of Representatives in 1899 (because Congressman Hurley died at the very end of his final term of elected office, so was commemorated publicly by his peers), he was a self-made man who rose from being a poor orphan boy to being a Congressman. Some of this persona presented to the public was a bit of political spin—Congressman Hurley was not an orphaned boy—his mother died the same year as his wife in 1889—only his father had died young, in the early 1860s. The Congressman was an early proponent of the metric system (from his days doing weights and measures on the New York City docks) and voted in favor of the America's entry into the Spanish–American War.
Doris Fleeson
Doris Fleeson (May 20, 1901 – August 1, 1970) was an American journalist and columnist and was the first woman in the United States to have a nationally syndicated political column.
Doris Buffett
Doris Buffett (b. February 12, 1928) is an American philanthropist also known as the 'retail' philanthropist and the founder of "The Sunshine Lady Foundation", "The Learning By Giving Foundation", and "The Letters Foundation" who she co-founded alongside her younger brother, billionaire Warren Buffett. She is also the daughter of U.S. politician and stockbroker Howard Homan Buffett. Doris Buffett intends to give all of her money away before she dies.
Doris Malloy
Born in Gloversville, New York, in 1901 to Henry Malloy (noted as a "prominent gambler" in a few publicity items) and Kate Huckans, Doris worked as an ambulance woman in Europe during World War I, before becoming a studio stenographer at Universal for screenwriter Raymond L. Schrock and then a script reader in Hollywood.
Harold Arlin
Dorothy Hershey was born Dorothy Arlin on April 7, 1926 in Mansfield. Like her brothers, Hershey graduated from Mansfield Senior High School. She later attended and graduated from Miami University. She was employed by Norwalk City Schools as a substitute teacher in the late 1950s and was head of the drapery department at Hills Interiors in Norwalk from 1960 to 1980. Hershey was a member of the Girl Scouts of the United States of America (GSUSA) for 80 years, serving as the Norwalk Girl Scout neighborhood chairman from 1956 to 1968. She was also a member of the Norwalk First United Methodist Church. Hershey was married for 55 years to Howard A. Hershey, the athletic director at Norwalk High School, who preceded her in death. The Hersheys had two children together; Lura Magi and David Hershey. Hershey died on October 13, 2013, at Stein Hospice Care Center in Sandusky, Ohio.
Doris Houck
Doris Houck (September 28, 1921December 14, 1965) was an American film actress. She appeared in 25 films from 1932 to 1955.
Doris Seale
Doris Seale (born Doris Marion Seale, July 10, 1936 - February 17, 2017) was a Santee Dakota, Abenaki and Cree poet, writer, and educator who worked as a librarian for 45 years. She has written about Native Americans sending positive messages to children. Her work has helped to educate teachers about the truth about Native American people and cultures. She was a co-founder of Oyate an advocacy and education organization which reviews children’s literature to ensure it treats Native Americans with "historical accuracy, cultural appropriateness and without anti-Indian bias and stereotypes".
Doris Piserchia
Doris Piserchia (born Doris Summers, October 11, 1928 in Fairmont, West Virginia) is an American science fiction writer who was born and raised in West Virginia. She served in the United States Navy from 1950 to 1954 and after that received her Master's in educational psychology. She did not begin publishing until 1966. Her stories have an interest in aliens and have been termed "darkly comic" by admirers. Despite her military experience, age, and preference for older SF, she is often associated with the New Wave. Related to that she has a story in "The Last Dangerous Visions". She has also been of interest to those in Feminist science fiction.
George and Doris Hauman
Doris Holt was born in West Somerville, Massachusetts, on August 29, 1898. George and Doris were married in 1924, when he lived in a studio apartment directly below hers. He died in 1961 and she died in 1984.
Doris Dowling
Dowling was born in Detroit, Michigan, but grew up in New York City with siblings Robert, Richard, and Constance (who also became an actress). After graduating from Hunter College High School, she spent a short time with a Folies Bergère group in San Francisco before her mother brought her back to New York to attend Hunter College.
Doris Kirchner
Doris Kirchner (born 3 May 1930) is an Austrian stage, film and television actress.
Doris (singer)
Doris Svensson (born July 1, 1947 in Gothenburg), billed as Doris, is a former Swedish pop singer. Doris is best known for her lone solo album, eclectic pop, rock and funk "Did You Give the World Some Love Today Baby" recorded in 1970. The record was re-issued in 1996 to critical acclaim and caused interest among the Anglo-American and European alternative audiences as an odd Swedish funk rarity.
Doris (singer)
Doris Svensson was born on July 1, 1947 in Gothenburg. Her singing career began in 1960 by recording an album with the Swedish band The Strangers. She went on recording with Plums, including the tracks "You Made a Fool of Me Last Night" and "Wouldn't That Be Groovy", and The Dandys, including "Go Back to Daddy".
Free Southern Theater
Born in either 1939 or 1940 in the Bronx, New York, Doris Derby’s long career has spread across a wide array of disciplines, ranging from theater to education. From an early age, Derby expressed strong interest in community activism and civil rights and joined a National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) youth group in the Bronx. As a student at Hunter College in New York, Derby was a member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). The department of African American studies at Mississippi State University observes that the SNCC “organized voter registration drives, self help economic and educational initiatives and carried out protests at such places as segregated local, statewide and national governmental facilities, public movie theaters, parks, medical facilities and churches”. Derby’s work within the SNCC was centered, primarily, in New York, Georgia, and Mississippi. In Mississippi Derby taught adult literacy through the SNCC and helped found "The Free Southern Theater". In 1990, Derby joined the faculty of Georgia State University and served as the founding Director of the Office of African American Student Services and Programs, as well as, Adjunct Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology. A noted photographer, as well, Derby’s work has been exhibited at the Smithsonian Institution and the Bronx Museum of Art. Her documentary photographs are known to “depict the life of struggling Americans who defied the post-emancipation status quo brought about by political, economic, social and cultural domination and exploitation”. In 2012, Derby retired from Georgia State University following a successful 22 years of service.
Doris Cook
Doris Cook [״Little Cookie״] (born June 23, 1931) is a former pitcher and outfielder who played from through in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Listed at , 130 lb., she batted right-handed and threw left-handed.
Doris Holmes Blake
Doris Holmes Blake, "née" Doris Mildred Holmes (January 11, 1892 – December 3, 1978), was an American entomologist and scientific illustrator.
Doris Harcourt
Doris Mary Thérèse Harcourt was born on 30 March 1900, the daughter of Lewis Harcourt, 1st Viscount Harcourt, and Mary Ethel Burns. Mary Burns was the daughter of Walter Hayes Burns and Mary Lyman Morgan, sister of J. P. Morgan. At 18 months, they found that Doris Harcourt had a weak leg and she was subjected to electric shock treatment and steel supports were put in her boots.
Doris Stokes
Doris May Fisher Stokes (6 January 1920 – 8 May 1987), born Doris Sutton, was a British spiritualist and professional medium. Her public performances, television appearances and memoirs made her a household name in Britain.
Doris Anderson
Doris Hilda Anderson, (November 10, 1921 – March 2, 2007) was a Canadian author, journalist and women's rights activist. She is best known as the editor of the magazine "Chatelaine" who mixed traditional content (recipes, décor) with thorny social issues of the day (violence against women, pay equality, abortion, race, poverty), putting the magazine on the front lines of the feminist movement in Canada. Her activism beyond the magazine helped drive social and political change in the country, enshrining women's equality and making her one of the most well-known names in the women's movement in Canada.
Doris Graber
Doris Appel was born in St. Louis, Missouri, on 11 November 1923, to Ernst and Marta Appel. She had a sister, Ruth. Doris Appel earned bachelor's and master's degrees in political science from the Washington University in St. Louis, and completed a doctorate at Columbia University. She taught at Northwestern University, the University of Chicago and North Park College, prior to accepting a position as lecturer at University of Illinois at Chicago in 1963. Graber was founding editor of the journal "Political Communication". She won the academic Goldsmith Book Prize in 2003, for "Learning From Television in the Internet Age", published in 2001. She retired from teaching at UIC in 2012. The Political Communication Section of the American Political Science Association has awarded the Doris Graber (Book) Award since 2000, in her honor.
Doris Dörrie
Doris Dörrie (; born 26 May 1955) is a German film director, producer and author.
Doris Burn
Doris Wernstedt was born in Portland, Oregon to Lage Wernstedt, an explorer, mountaineer and United States Forest Service worker, and his wife, Adele. The family resided on Guemes Island near Anacortes. After being interviewed by writer June Burn for the "Bellingham Herald", the Wernstedt and Burn families became friends; the two families had nearby summer cabins on Waldron, a small island without ferry service.
Doris Johnson
Doris J. Johnson (born June 23, 1923) is an American former politician in the state of Washington. Johnson served in the Washington House of Representatives as a Democrat from the 16th District, as well as the 8th District. A school counselor, Johnson attended Western Washington State College and earned a master's degree in education. She was raised in Bellingham, Washington. She married Harold Johnson and had a daughter, Adra Ann, and lives in Kennewick.
Doris Hedberg
Doris Linnea Birgitta Hedberg (later "Asplund", born 18 February 1936) is a retired Swedish gymnast. She won a silver medal in the team portable apparatus event at the 1956 Summer Olympics.
Denise Lor
Denise Lor (May 3, 1929 – September 27, 2015) was an American popular singer and actress. She was a featured artist on "The Garry Moore Show". In 1951, she appeared in the short-lived variety show "Seven at Eleven".
Of French parentage and born Denise Jeanne Briault, in Los Angeles, Lor moved with her mother to Jackson Heights, Queens, New York at the age of 5, following her father's death. She graduated Newtown High School and took art courses at night at Cooper Union, intent on becoming a commercial artist, while waitressing during the day at a Schrafft's restaurant. She also had a love for singing, saving up money to do it professionally. She believed her chance to sing in Sonja Henie's New York ice show at the Center Theatre to be her big break. She also decided to use her mother's maiden name, Lor, as her stage name.
Doris Day
Day hated the idea of performing on television, but felt obliged to it. The first episode of "The Doris Day Show" aired on September 24, 1968, and, from 1968 to 1973, employed "Que Sera, Sera" as its theme song. Day persevered (she needed the work to help pay off her debts), but only after CBS ceded creative control to her and her son. The successful show enjoyed a five-year run, and functioned as a curtain raiser for the popular "Carol Burnett Show". It is remembered today for its abrupt season-to-season changes in casting and premise.
Doris Ruby
Doris Ruby (1927 – December 16, 1951) was a 24-year-old dancer from Sunnyside, Queens who died in the 1951 Miami Airlines C-46 crash. She was a popular nightclub entertainer.
Doris Hugosson
Doris Hugosson (born 7 May 1963 in Vilhelmina) was a Swedish cross country skier who competed in the early 1980s. She finished fifth in the 4 x 5 km relay at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo.
Doris Calloway
Doris Calloway, née Howes (February 14, 1923 – August 31, 2001) was an American nutritionist noted for her studies of human metabolism, role in public health, and food preservation and safety.
Doris Kenyon
Doris Margaret Kenyon (September 5, 1897 – September 1, 1979) was an American actress of motion pictures and television.
Doris Wells
Doris Wells (born Doris María Buonafina; born Caripito, 28 October 1941 – died Caracas, 20 September 1988) was a Venezuelan actress, writer and producer.
Doris E. Day
Doris Elinor Day ( Philips; 3 August 1872 – 1966) was a British archer. She competed at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London. She was born in Abbeycwmhir, Powys, Great Britain and died in East London, South Africa. Day competed at the 1908 Games in the only archery event open to women, the double National round. She took 16th place in the event with 483 points.
Doris Doscher
Doris Doscher (January 24, 1882 – March 9, 1970) was an American actress and model who appeared in the movie "The Birth of a Race" (1915), playing the role of "Eve." She posed as Liberty for the Standing Liberty quarter (1916–1930) by Hermon Atkins MacNeil. She was also the model for the Pulitzer Fountain of Abundance by Karl Bitter (completed by Isidore Konti and Karl Gruppe in 1915) in front of the Plaza Hotel in New York City.
Doris Cohen
Doris Cohen was a twentieth-century American mathematician and aerodynamicist. She worked at the Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA, a precursor to NASA). In 1941, a research report she published made her NACA's first female author.
Doris Haddock
Doris "Granny D" Haddock (January 24, 1910 – March 9, 2010) was an American political activist from New Hampshire. Haddock achieved national fame when, between the ages of 88 and 90, starting on January 1, 1999, and culminating on February 29, 2000, she walked over across the continental United States to advocate for campaign finance reform. In 2004, she ran unsuccessfully as a Democratic challenger to incumbent Republican Judd Gregg for the U.S. Senate.
Doris Gates
Doris Gates was born on November 26, 1901, in Mountain View, California, the oldest daughter of Charles Obed and Bessie Louise (Jones) Gates. Her father was a small-town doctor; her mother had a BA from Milton College in classical studies. When she was seven they moved to Charles' parents' prune ranch outside San Jose. It was there, at the age of eight, that Doris began school. According to Gates, her childhood, "even for those times, was unusually happy." She wrote about it in "The Elderberry Bush". Later the Gates family moved to Los Gatos. After graduating from high school, Gates found work in a library and a grocery store. Her father then moved the family to Fresno, and in 1924 she enrolled in Fresno State Teachers College.
Sarah Dorsey
Sarah Anne Dorsey (née Ellis; February 16, 1829 – July 4, 1879) was an American novelist and historian from the prominent southern Percy family. She published several novels and a highly regarded biography of Henry Watkins Allen, governor of Louisiana during the years of the American Civil War. It is considered an important contribution to the literature of the Lost Cause.
Doris Bohrer
Doris Arlene Bohrer (5 February 1923 – 8 August 2016) was an American intelligence operative who started her career during World War II and was later deputy head of counterintelligence for the Central Intelligence Agency.
Doreen Gorsky
Doreen Marjorie Gorsky née Doreen Stephens (12 October 1912 – 20 March 2001), was a British Liberal Party politician, feminist and television producer and executive who during her career specialised in women's and children's programmes.
She was educated at a private boarding school in Folkestone, before attending finishing schools in Brussels and Wimbledon. In 1933, at the age of 19, she married a stockbroker, Richard Holden, with whom she had two children, though after five years she and Holden divorced. In 1942 she married Jacob A. Gorsky, a London doctor and barrister and also a Liberal politician. During the war she was a commandant in the British Red Cross. In 1944 at London University, she received the Gilchrist gold medal and diploma for social studies.
She joined the Liberal party in 1944. In 1945 she was Liberal candidate for the Hackney North Division at the 1945 General Election. It was an unpromising seat that the Liberals had not won since 1923 and had not stood a candidate since 1929. Although she came third she did manage to retain her deposit;
Doris Duke (soul singer)
In 1969, former Atlantic Records producer Jerry 'Swamp Dogg' Williams Jr. signed Curry as a solo artiste, renaming her Doris Duke and recording the album "I'm A Loser" at the Capricorn studio in Macon, Georgia. The album was eventually issued on Canyon Records, and over the years became regarded, by Dave Godin and others, as one of the finest deep soul records of all time. The first single, "To the Other Woman", reached no. 7 in the "Billboard" R&B chart and no. 50 on the pop chart in early 1970, and the follow-up "Feet Start Walking" also made the R&B chart, but success was cut short when the record company collapsed.
Doris Gordon
Doris Clifton Jolly was born in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia on 10 July 1890 emigrating with her family to New Zealand in 1894. She received little primary school education and completed her secondary education in just over one year after deciding to become a medical missionary. She entered medical school at the University of Otago in 1911, graduating in 1916.
Doris Day
The youngest of three siblings, she had two older brothers: Richard (who died before her birth) and Paul, two to three years older. Due to her father's alleged infidelity, her parents separated. She developed an early interest in dance, and in the mid-1930s formed a dance duo with Jerry Doherty that performed locally in Cincinnati. A car accident on October 13, 1937, injured her right leg and curtailed her prospects as a professional dancer.
Doris Bures
Doris Bures (born 3 August 1962) is an Austrian politician (SPÖ). She is the Second President of the Austrian National Council From September 2014 to November 2017, she was its President. From 2008 to 2014, she was the Austrian Federal Minister for infrastructure.
Doris Stevens
Dora Caroline Stevens was born on October 26, 1888 in Omaha, Nebraska to Caroline D. (née Koopman) and Henry Henderbourck Stevens. Her father was a pastor of the Dutch Reformed Church for forty years and her mother was a first generation immigrant from Holland. One of four children, Stevens grew up in Omaha and graduated in 1905 from Omaha High School. She went on to further her education graduating from Oberlin College in 1911 with a degree in sociology, though she had originally pursued music. While in college, she was known for her romances and for being a spirited suffragette. Her unruly behavior and disdain for feminine propriety were cultivated during her college years. After graduation, Stevens worked as a music teacher and social worker in Ohio, Michigan. and Montana before moving to Washington, D.C., where she became a regional organizer with the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA).