Janet Lua

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Possible Relatives: Armando J Lua, Arturo L Lua, Edelmira L Lua

Janet Lacey

Janet Lacey was an English charity director and philanthropist who led the British Council Inter-Church Aid and Refugee Department from 1952 to 1968. She began working for the Young Women's Christian read more...Association (YWCA) in Kendal and later Dagenham from 1925 to 1945. After the Second World War, Lacey was YMCA education secretary for demobilising British Army of the Rhine soldiers in Germany and was later appointed field young secretary for the British Council of Churches in 1947. At Christian Aid, she helped the organisation refocus on global poverty and funded development projects in 40 countries. She oversaw the establishment of Christian Aid Week in 1957 and was a founder member of the Voluntary Service Overseas organisation in 1958. Lacey became the first woman to preach at St Paul's Cathedral in 1967 and later at Liverpool Cathedral and St George's Cathedral. She was director of the national Family Welfare Association charity from 1969 to 1973 and wrote the 1970 autobiographical book A Cup of Water.read less...

Janet Luhmann

Janet G. Luhmann is an American physicist and senior fellow of the Space Sciences Laboratory of the University of California, Berkeley. She has made major contributions to a wide range of topics in plread more...anetary, solar, magnetospheric, and heliospheric physics. She is the principal investigator of the IMPACT instrument suite on the twin-spacecraft STEREO mission. IMPACT stands for In-situ Measurements of Particles and Coronal mass ejection (CME) Transients. It consists of a, "suite of seven instruments that samples the 3-D distribution of solar wind plasma electrons, the characteristics of the solar energetic particle (SEP) ions and electrons, and the local vector magnetic field."read less...

Janet Lawson

Janet Lawson was a jazz singer and educator. Her primary influences as a singer were saxophonists such as Charlie Parker, Lester Young and Sonny Rollins. Her voice was described by jazz critic John S.read more... Wilson in a 1977 New York Times article entitled Janet Lawson: The Dream Jazz Voice writing that she "has the kind of voice that most jazz singers probably wish they had. It is a full, well‐developed, remarkably pliant voice with a lower range whose dark sonorities compare favorably with the deep power of Sarah Vaughan, and a high register in which she does not have to strain to project very fast, often complex, lines."read less...

Janet Lane-Claypon

Janet Elizabeth Lane-Claypon, Lady Forber was an English physician. She was one of the founders of the science of epidemiology, pioneering the use of cohort studies and case-control studies.

Janet Leach (appropriate adult)

Janet Leach is an English social worker, known for the role she played as an “appropriate adult" in the questioning of Fred West, one of the two perpetrators of the Gloucester serial murders. For thread more...ese murders, he and his wife Rosemary West became notorious.read less...

Janet Liang

Janet Liang was a prominent health advocate and activist who advocated for ethnic minorities in the United States to join the national marrow registry, the National Marrow Donor Program. In 2011, she read more...was selected as one of Asian Pacific Americans for Progress's Unsung Heroes. In 2012, Liang won the City of Pleasanton's 2012 Juanita Haugen Community of Character Awards.read less...