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Painting of Stéphanie Anne Donnell de Beauharnais by François Pascal Simon, Baron Gérard (1806)

Stephanie or Stefanie is a female name that comes from the Greek name Στέφανος (Stephanos) meaning "crown".^[1] The male form is Stephen. Forms of Stephanie in other languages include the Italian, Czech, German, Polish, and Russian "Stefania" ^[2], the Portuguese Estefânia, and the Spanish Estefanía. The form Stéphanie is from the French language, but Stephanie is now widely used both in English- and Spanish-speaking cultures. Stephanie - (Greek) "Crowned one" Also, Stephania, Etienette, Stefa, Stefania, Stefanie, Stefanina, Steffie, Stepania, Stepanie, Stephana, Stevena, Teena, and Tiennette.^[3]

Given names[link]

Royalty[link]

• Stéphanie de Beauharnais (1789–1860), French consort of Karl Ludwig Friedrich, Grand Duke of Baden
• Princess Stéphanie of Belgium (Stéphanie Clotilde Louise Herminie Marie Charlotte of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha) (1864–1945), wife of Crown Prince Rudolf, heir to the Austrian imperial throne, daughter of King Léopold II of Belgium
• Princess Stephanie of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (1837-1859), Consort queen of Portugal, married to King Pedro V
• Stephanie of Milly (died 1197), lady of Oultrejordain and an influential figure in the Kingdom of Jerusalem
• Princess Stephanie of Windisch-Graetz (1909-2005), Austrian artist, daughter of Archduchess Elisabeth of Austria, daughter of Crown Prince Rudolf
• Princess Stéphanie of Monaco (born 1965), youngest child of Grace Kelly and Prince Rainier of Monaco
• Princess Stephanie, the daughter of a chief in the Yasawa Group archipelago in Fiji

Others[link]

• Stephanie (born 1987), Japanese singer-songwriter
• Saint Stephanie, virgin and martyr in Amalfi, Italy, honored on September 18
• Stephanie Abrams, on-camera meteorologist on The Weather Channel
• Stephanie Arnold, American athlete
• Stephanie Beacham (born 1947), British actress
• Stephanie Beard, a.k.a. Sugar and Suga BayBee (born 1980), Canadian actress, voice actress and television and radio personality
• Stephanie Bellars, a.k.a. Gorgeous George and George Frankenstein (born 1976), American professional wrestling valet
• Stephanie Berto (born 1953), Canadian track and field athlete
• Stephanie Bendixsen (born 31 March, 1985), Australian television presenter and video game reviewer
• Stephanie Birkitt, assistant to David Letterman on The Late Show with David Letterman
• Stephanie J. Block, American actress and singer
• Stephanie Cheng (born 1984), singer and starlet in Hong Kong
• Stephanie Cole (born 1941), British actress
• Stephanie Dosen, American singer
• Stephanie Fearon (born 1989), British singer and actress
• Stéphanie Félicité Ducrest de St-Albin, comtesse de Genlis (1746–1830), French writer and educator
• Stephanie Finochio, a.k.a. Trinity (born 1971), American stuntwoman and professional wrestling valet
• Stephanie Forrester, British triathlete at the 2000 Summer Olympics
• Stefani Germanotta, a.k.a. Lady Gaga, American recording artist
• Stefanie Maria “Steffi” Graf (born 1969), German tennis player, former World No. 1 woman tennis player
• Stephanie Graf, former Austrian middle distance athlete, competed in the 2000 Olympics
• Stephanie Herseth Sandlin (born 1970), American lawyer and politician, U.S. representative from South Dakota
• Stephanie Horner (born 1989), Canadian swimmer
• Stephanie Hwang, a.k.a. Tiffany (born 1989), Korean-American singer, a member of Korean pop group Girls' Generation
• Stephanie Jaramillo (born 1982), American professional boxer (retired)
• Stephanie Tubbs Jones (1949-2008), American politician, representative from Ohio
• Stephanie Kim (born 1987), Korean singer, a member of The Grace
• Stephanie Kwolek (born 1923), Polish-American chemist and the inventor of Kevlar
• Stéphanie Lapointe (born 1984), Quebec singer and actress
• Stephanie Laurens, romance author
• Stefanie Lawton (née Stefanie Miller), Canadian curler from Saskatchewan
• Stephanie Luzie, German gothic metal singer
• Stephanie March (born 1974), American actress
• Stephanie Pace Marshall, American educator and founder of the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy
• Stephenie Meyer, American author of the Twilight series
• Stephanie McIntosh (born 1985), Australian actress
• Stephanie McMahon (born 1976), daughter of World Wrestling Entertainment Chairman Vince McMahon, former in-ring performer
• Stephanie McMichael (born 1989), Big Brother 2008 contestant
• Stephanie Miller (born 1961), American actress and radio talk show host
• Stephanie Mills (born 1957), American R&B and soul singer and former Broadway star
• Stefani Morgan
• Stephanie Moulton Sarkis, American psychotherapist and author
• Stephanie Nicks, also known as Stevie Nicks (born 1948), American singer and songwriter member of Fleetwood Mac
• Stephanie Pakrul, a.k.a. StephTheGeek (born 1982), American blogger
• Stephanie Pohl (born 1978), German beach volleyball player
• Stefanie Powers (born 1942), American actress
• Stefanie Paula Newman Rabinowitz (1967-1997), American attorney, whose high-profile uxoricide is the subject of the Scorned: Love Kills episode on Investigation Discovery, titled "The Salesman and the Stripper" (January 27, 2012)
• Stephanie Rice (born 1988), Australian swimmeran
• Stefanie Ridel, American singer with the band Wild Orchid
• Stephanie Romanov (born 1969), model and actress
• Stefanie Scott (born 1996), American actress
• Stephanie Seymour, supermodel
• Stephanie Sheh, (born 1977 Stephanie Ru-Phan Sheh) American voice actor
• Stephanie Storp (born 1968), German shot putter
• Stefanie Sun (born 1978), Singaporean popular singer
• Stephanie Wilson, (born 1966), American astronaut
• Stephanie Zimbalist (born 1956), American actress, daughter of Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.

Fictional persons[link]

• Stephanie (LazyTown), a fictional character in the children's TV show LazyTown
• Stephanie Brown, a.k.a. Spoiler (comics character), costumed hero in DC Comics, part of the Batman Family
• Stephanie Crawford from To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
• Stephanie Douglas Forrester, character on the CBS soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful
• Stephanie "Steffy" Forrester, character on the CBS soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful
• Stephanie Johnson, from the American soap opera Days of our Lives
• Stephanie 'Stevie' Lake from Australian-Canadian children's show The Saddle Club
• Stephanie Plum, bounty hunter and title character from the Janet Evanovich series
• Stephanie Powell of the U.S. TV series No Ordinary Family
• Stephanie Scully from Australian TV drama Neighbours
• Stephanie Speck from the movie Short Circuit
• Stephanie Tanner, character on the U.S. TV series Full House
• Stephanie Vandergosh of Better Luck Tomorrow
• Stephanie Vanderkellen from the U.S. TV series Newhart
• Stephanie Zinone (played by Michelle Pfeiffer), the leading female character in the American movie, Grease 2

See also[link]

• Stefania

References[link]

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Look up chu in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Chu or CHU may refer to:

States

• Chu (state) (楚), a major state during the Zhou Dynasty of ancient China
• Western Chu (西楚), proclaimed by Xiang Yu during the Chu-Han Contention after the fall of the Qin Dynasty
• Huan Chu (桓楚), officially Chu (楚) but now called Huan Chu to distinguish it from the original Chu, short-lived Chinese regime of Huan Xuan from 403 to 404, an interruption of the Jin dynasty
• Chu (Ten Kingdoms) (楚), often called Ma Chu, a kingdom during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period of China

Surname

• Chu (Chinese surname), alternative spelling of the common Chinese surname Zhu (朱), but it can also refer to any Chinese surname whose pinyin is "Chu", including 楚, 储, and 褚.
• Chu (Vietnamese surname), a Vietnamese surname
• A Korean Surname

Places

• Chu River, in modern Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan
• Chü Province, in Kyrgyzstan
• Chu, Kazakhstan (more commonly spelled "Shu"), a city in Kazakhstan
• Nam Sam River, also known as Chu River, in Vietnam
• Chũ, a town and district capital in Bac Giang Province, Vietnam
• Chũ River, river of Lang Son Province, Vietnam
• Hubei and Hunan provinces of China, often referred to as Chu (after the ancient state)

Other

• Old Church Slavonic (ISO 639 alpha-3, chu)
• Chu (instrument), an ancient Chinese instrument made of wood like a box that is struck by a stick to mark section beginnings
• Chu (One Piece), a fictional character in Eiichirō Oda's manga One Piece

CHU may refer to:

• Chung Hua University, a university in Hsinchu, Republic of China (Taiwan)
• Houston County Airport (Minnesota), in Houston County, Minnesota, United States
• CHU (radio station), a shortwave radio station in Ottawa, Canada
• Christelijk-Historische Unie (Christian-Historical Union), an influential Protestant political party in the Netherlands
• Churchill College, Cambridge, used in University of Cambridge internal publications
• China Unicom, NYSE stock symbol CHU, Chinese telecommunication company
• Containerized housing unit, a shipping container converted to living space

This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same title. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.

Shu Uemura Store at Rockwell Center, Makati City, Philippines

Shu Uemura (植村 秀, Uemura Shū^?, June 19, 1928 – December 29, 2007) was a Japanese make-up artist and founder of the Shu Uemura international cosmetics line which bears his name.^[1][2]

Career[link]

A native of Tokyo, Shu Uemura reportedly first became interested in hairstyling and make up as a teenager while recovering from a severe illness which left him bedridden. He enrolled at the Tokyo Beauty Academy, becoming the only male student in a class of 130 pupils.^[2][3]

His first experience in film make-up occurred during the filming of 1957's Joe Butterfly, which was partially shot in Japan.^[3] Uemura left Japan in the late 1950s to try to break into the film and television make-up business.

Uemura's big break came on the set of the 1962 film, My Geisha.^[1] The film's regular make up artist fell ill and Uemura, who was working as a Hollywood beautician at the time, was called in to fill in for the sick artist.^[1] Uemura gained critical acclaim for transforming actress Shirley MacLaine, a Caucasian, into a Japanese woman.^[1] He received praise from both My Geisha's filmmakers and its cast, including MacLaine.^[3] He soon became one of Hollywood's favorite artists. He began working with well known Hollywood personalities, usually as a make-up artist apprentice, including Edward G. Robinson, Frank Sinatra, and Lucille Ball.^[3] Among his notable early work was on Frank Sinatra's 1965 film, None But the Brave.^[3]

Uemura developed and launched his first cosmetics product in 1960.^[1] His product was a cleansing oil, which left the skin cleaner than soap and also acted as a moisturizer.^[4] His cleansing oil remains popular in Japan today.^[1] Uemura developed a make-up philosophy that the health of his customers' skin should be the most important aspect of cosmetics.^[4] He also believed in enhancing a subject's natural beauty, not artificially creating it using cosmetic products.^[4]

Uemura returned to Japan in 1964 and opened the Shu Uemura makeup school, which taught make-up techniques which he learned in Hollywood.^[4] He founded a cosmetics company called Japan Makeup in 1967 and opened its first boutique store in Tokyo's trendy Omotesando district.^[4] He officially changed the name of his company to Shu Uemura Cosmetics in 1983.^[4] Uemura's company was able to take advantage of Japan's booming economy and taste for Western products during the 1980s.^[4] In the process, Shu Uemura Cosmetics became a major force in the domestic Japanese and international beauty market.

Shu Uemura sold his controlling interest in his company to French cosmetics maker L'Oréal in 2004 for an undisclosed amount of money.^[1] However, he remained the creative force behind Shu Uemura Cosmetics after the sale.^[4] It is estimated that as of early 2008, Shu Uemura Cosmetics now makes approximately $100 million dollars a year in global sales at its stores worldwide.^[4] The company now has stores in Paris, New York City, London and Hong Kong, as well as outlets throughout Japan.^[1] The company's product line has expanded over the years to include hair and lifestyle products, perfume, fake eyelashes and handmade makeup brushes.^[1] In the process, the Uemura's company became a cultural force in some circles. Shu Uemura's eyelash curlers were even mentioned in the 2006 film, The Devil Wears Prada.^[1]

Uemura personally demonstrated his make-up techniques to the public twice a year.^[4] He used these demonstrations to introduce his customers to his last Mode Makeup lines.^[4] These demonstrations usually took place in Tokyo, London or New York City.^[4]

Death[link]

Shu Uemura died of pneumonia in Tokyo on December 29, 2007.^[3][4] Uemura was 79 years old and was survived by his wife and son.^[4] His funeral was held on January 4, 2008.^[4]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Uemura Cosmetics (U.S. Site)
• Shu Uemura at the Internet Movie Database
• Time Magazine: Shu Uemura, Makeup Pioneer, Dies
• Vogue.com: Shu Uemura Remembered
• Shu Uemura at WN
• AFP: Japanese makeup guru Shu Uemura dies: spokeswoman