FaltskoG Agneta 5.4.1950 -
Članica glasbene skupina ABBA, prvo skladbo People Need Love so izdali leta 1972, ko so se tudi poimenovali po začetnicah imen članov skupine (Anni-Frid Lyngstad, Bjorn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson, Agneta Faltskog). S skladbo Waterloo so zmagali na evrovizijskem tekmovanju leta 1972 v Bringhtonu. S tem se je začelo njihovo obdobje velikih uspehov. V naslednjih letih so s skladbami Honey, Honey, Mamma Mia, Money, Money, Money, Take A chance On Me, Knowing Me, Dancing Queen in drugimi osvojili poslušalce po celem svetu. Za njihove skladbe so značilni prijetna melodija, preprosta besedila in poudarjen ritem. Skupina sodi med komercialno najuspešnejše v zgodovini zabavne glasbe.  
 
   
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FAWCETT Millicent  11.6.1847 - 5.8.1929

was an English suffragist (as opposed to a suffragette) and an early feminist. She was born in Aldeburgh, Suffolk, England. As a suffragist, she took a moderate line, but was a tireless campaigner, concentrating much of her energy on the struggle to improve women's opportunities for higher education. In 1871, she co-founded Newnham College, Cambridge. She later became president of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (the NUWSS), a position she held from 1897 until 1919.

FaustIna sv. (st.) 25.8.1905 - 5.10.1938
(Helena Kowalska)

Third of ten children, she attended only three years of school.she became a nun in the Congregation of the Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy in Warsaw on 1925.The order is devoted to care and education of troubled young women. She changed her name to Sister Maria Faustina of the Most Blessed Sacrament. During her 13 years in various houses, she was a cook, gardener, and porter. She began to have visions, receive revelations, and experience hidden stigmata. She began recording these mystical experiences in a diary; being nearly illiterate, it was written phonetically, and runs to nearly 700 pages. Vatican proclaimed  the work God's love. In the 1930's, Sister Faustina received a message of mercy from Jesus that she was told to spread throughout the world, a message of God's mercy to each person individually,In 1938 she died of tuberculosis. She became a Saint on the 30th of April 2000 by pope John Paul II.

 
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Fedotova Glikerija Nikolajevna 22.5.1846 - 27.2.1925
ruska gledališka igralka

Russian actress made her debut in 1862 as Verochka in Child. She was the actress of Little Theatre in Moscow for 50 years and playing about 300 roles. She was awarded Distinguished Hero of Work and National Actress of Republic.

  
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FERARI Rahaela 1911 - 1994
srbska igralka

Serbian actress was unique, not even a little bit alike any other actress, she turned her small roles into great ones and she took the audience always in a new way. The secret of her performance was always part of her imagination that used to take the audience by surprise and thrill it, as well as her partners. She transformed herself in every role, and each transformation was enriched by her special talent: a sense for comedy.
On stamp SR-178 is shown from her role Lady Markel in An Ideal Husband, National Theatre, Belgrade, 1961.

SR - 178

Fibiger Mathilde 13.12.1830 - 17.6.1871
danska pisateljica, feministka, učiteljica.

Mathilde Fibiger devoted her life to the cause of women's emancipation and her novel Clara Raphael stirred a storm of controversy concerning the political rights of women. She wrote two other novels none of which reached the critical acclaim of the first. Later she became Denmark's first female civil servant as telegraphist but continued to write on the necessity of improving the condition of women in society. She was Denmark’s first significant public advocate for the emancipation of women.

  
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Finnbogadottir Vigdis 15.4.1930 -
je leta 1980 postala predsednica Islanda. Kot učiteljica in profesorica se zavzema za ohranjevanje in gojitev islandske kulture. Je dejansko nepolitična oseba in predstavlja simbol enotnosti naroda. Ima tudi vlogo narodne kulturne ambasadorke. Zelo jo zanima gledališče, v letih 1972 1980 je bila celo predsednica Islandskega narodnega gledališča.

Vigdis Finnbogadottir became president of Iceland in 1980. A teacher and lecturer deeply involved in the preservation and fostering of Icelandic culture, Finnbogadottir won reelection in 1984, 1988, and 1992 for the virtually non-political, largely ceremonial position that serves as a symbol of the nation's unity. As president she also serves as the nation's cultural ambassador. Always deeply interested in the theater, she served as director of Iceland's national theater from 1972 to 1980, and has been instrumental in both supporting the translation of contemporary plays and encouraging Icelandic playwrights.

Fitzgerald Ella 25.4.1918 - 15.6.1996
Kariero je začela z orkestrom Chicka Webba (1935-39) Prvi večji uspeh je dosegla 1938 z jazzovsko priredbo otroške pesmi A-Tisket, a-Tasket. Prodor pa ji je uspel po 1948, ko je začela peti pod vodstvom znanega jazzovskega organizatorja Normana Granza, ki ji je pripravil primerno spremljavo in prave skladbe. Kmalu je njen poseben slog petja, za katerega so bili značilni jasen glas velikega obsega, izjemen dar za improvizacijo in intonacijska natančnost, zaslovel po celem svetu. Nastopala je s številnimi velikimi jazzisti (Armstrong, Basie, Elington) po celem svetu, posnela je številne albume, med drugim tudi ontološko zbirko skoraj 250 najbolj značilnih jazzovskih skladb ameriških skladateljev. 
 
The singer Ella Fitzgerald is second only to Billie Holiday in the influence she has had over several generations of pop-music singers. Her career began (1934-39) with Chick Webb's band, which she led for a year after his death. After recording (1938) A-tisket, A-tasket, she had countless hits, sang with Duke Ellington, Count Basie, and other major bands, and appeared as a soloist with more than 40 symphony orchestras. A great scat singer and ballad interpreter, she consistently lifted often trivial material to the level of high jazz art.

     
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Flagstad Kirsten 12.7.1895 - 7.12.1962

Kirsten Flagstad a Norwegian singer, had one of the most beautiful voices of this century, a rich, dark soprano used with unfailing accuracy and musicianship. She studied in Oslo and made her debut there in 1913 in Eugen d'Albert's Tiefland. After having specialized in operetta, Flagstad made a successful Bayreuth debut (1934), but it was her sensational appearance (1935) in New York as Sieglinde that established her as one of the greatest Wagnerian sopranos. During World War II she chose to remain with her family in Norway, and was later unjustly accused of collaborating with the Nazis. She returned to the United States in 1947 and toured the country. Retiring in 1955, she continued to sing in Norway and to make recordings, and was named director (1958-60) of the Norwegian Opera. Flagstad was also a gifted interpreter of solo songs.

    
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Fleiser Marieluise 23.11.1901 - 2.2.1974

Ingolstadt, the town in which the writer Marieluise Fleisser was born, played a central role in her life and works. She wrote plays (Fegefeuer in Ingolstadt, 1926, Pioniere in Ingolstadt, 1929), narratives and a novel (Mehlreisende Frieda Geier, 1932). The power of her language is rooted in her Bavarian background. In the last decade of her life she took on the unexpected role of literary foster mother of a young generation of authors of political folk plays written in dialect, gained recognition and was awarded literary prizes.

    
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Fleming Amalia 1909 - 1986

Dr. Amalia Fleming (born Voureka) was Greek physician and politician. In 1938 she graduated in medicine from Athens University. During WW II joined the Greek resistance. After war she went to London, where she worked with Sir Aleksander Fleming, the discoverer of penicillin and in 1953 they married. She returned to Greece in 1967, there worked to aid political activists and their families against military junta. She was aressted by junta. When junta fell she became head of Greek committee of Amnesty Internacional  an d a member of European Human Rights Commission.

 
      GR - 1909

Fletcher Kelly 1965 -

Jersey artist studied at Royal College of Art. She was awared an important Crafts Council award. She is famous of her huge tapestries. One of her apestrie is in the boardroom of Coca Cola Company in London. 

  
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Florence Desmond

Flores Lola 21.1.1923 -17.5.1995

Actress and flamenco dancer was born in Cádiz, Spain. She made her début as a ‘cantaora y bailaora’ at the age of 15 in the Teatro Villamarta, and also performed minor roles in films. In 1944 she formed her own company in association with Manolo Caracol, which was a huge success. Both were the principal characters in the film Embrujo (1946), directed by Carlos Serrano de Osma. Later she extended her field of professional activities independently to South America and became the star of the folkloric Spanish film industry. In 1957 she married the bailaor Antonio González Pescadilla by whom she had three children: the singer Lolita Flores, the actress Rosario Flores, and the singer and occasional actor Antonio Flores, who died tragically a few days after his mother's death.

  
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FLUCK Gabi  25.9.1952 -
slikarka, grafičarka, ilustratorka
 

FOBLETS Marie-Claire 4.11.1959 -
belgijska antropologinja

Marie-Claire Foblets is a Belgian social scientist and professor at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Leuven, Belgium). Her research interests are interculturalism, migration and minorities. In 2004, she was awarded the Francqui Prize on Human Sciences for her research on antropology.

  
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Fonseca Pimentel Eleonora de 13.1.1752 - 1799
je bila rojena v Rimu v portugalski plemiški družini. Že kot otrok je kazala talent. Poučeval jo je učen stric. Pisala je pesmi, učila se je latinščine in grščine, spoznala je  spomenike večnega Rima. Okoli leta 1770 se je aktivno vključila v literarne krožke. Tam je razpravljala o literaturi, politiki in znanosti. Pisala je poezijo, dopisovala se je z intelektualci svojega časa.

She was born in Rome of  Portuguese nobility. As a child in Rome, she had already shown precocious talent, even brilliance. She enjoyed the tutelage of a scholarly uncle and wrote poetry, read Latin and Greek, and was well versed in the monuments of the Eternal City. In the 1770s, Eleonora became an important part of  literary circles of the day. She joined discussions of literature, politics and science. She wrote poetry and carried on the type of correspondence so popular among intellectuals of that period.

  
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Fontain Joan 22.10.1917 -
ameriška filmska igralka

Joan Fontain is an Academy Award winning motion picture and television actress best known for her work in the film period of the early 40's. She has starres in such movies as: Rebecca, Suspicion (she won oscar), and The Constant Nymph. She is the older sister of Gone wit the Wind actress Olivia de Havilland although they have a long history of bitterness between them, and they haven't spoke to one another since 1975.

 
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Fonteyn Margot 18.5.1919 - 21.2.1991
angleška balerina. Debitirala je leta 1934 v baletni skupini Vic-Wells Ballet z glavno vlogo v Hrestaču. Plesala je v Evropi in Avstraliji. Njene slavne klasične vloge: Trnuljčica, Labodje jezero, Gizela in druge. Plesala je tudi moderen balet Ashtona in Helpmana. Njena kariera je bila nenavadno dolga, saj je od 1961 nastopala še z Nurejevom. Kariero je končala 1979. Takrat so ji na njen 60. rojstni dan v Ruskem kraljevem baletu podelili naziv "prima balerina assoluta". Ta naziv so uradno podelili le trem baletnikom. Bila je predsednica Kraljeve akademije za balet v Londonu. Občinstvo je navduševala z izrazno močjo in senzibilnim nastopom.

Margot Fonteyn  was an English ballet dancer whose career as a prima ballerina spanned several decades. She attended the Sadler's Wells Ballet School and made her debut as a snowflake in Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker at Sadler's Wells in 1934. Ninette de Valois picked her out to succeed Alicia Markova as the company's ballerina, and within five years she had danced Giselle, Swan Lake, and The Sleeping Beauty. Moreover, she became the chosen interpreter of the ballets of Frederick Ashton, who joined the Vic-Wells Ballet (later Royal Ballet) in 1935. Fonteyn's partnership with Rudolf Nureyev, beginning with Giselle in 1962, gave her a new lease on her career at an age when most dancers are contemplating retirement. In 1979, on her 60th birthday, she was named prima ballerina assolutta, a title officially given only three times in the history of the Imperial Russian Ballet and its Soviet successors.

 
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Fornalska Malgorzata 10.6.1902 - 26.7.1944

She was member of Central Committee of Polish Workers Party in 1942-44. She was tortured by Nazis and killed.
         
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Foss Wenche 5.12.1917 -
noveška igralka, ki je znana predvsem na Norveškem. Debitirala je leta 1935. S svojim talentom in znanjem je odigrala številne glavne vloge, tako v komedijah kot dramah (Lysistrata, Hedda Gabler, Mary Stewart...). Ukvarjala se je tudi z dobrodelnim delom, skrbela je za invalidne otroke. Na znamki je prizor iz filma Krane's Conditori, kjer je igrala glavno vlogo. Zgodba filma sloni na romanu norveške pisateljice Core Sandel.
Na znamki N-1216 je tudi Monroe Marilyn.

Norwegian actress not so well known abroad.  She  made her debut in 1935. With her talent and knowledge of human nature she has been able to give life to many kind of role figures both in tragedies and comedies. Leading roles in Lysistrata, Hedda Gabler and Mary Stewart are examples of the width of her repertory. She has also won great popularity and respect for her engagement with disabled children. On the stamp is picture from the film Krane's Conditori (1951) where she is playing the leading role. This film is based on a novel written by the female, Norwegian author Cora Sandel.
On stamp N-1216 is also Monroe Marilyn.

  
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Frank Anne 12.6.1929 - 3.1945
Rojena je bila v Frankfurtu. Njena družina se je pred nacisti umaknila na Nizozemsko, ko pa so jo Nemci okupirali, se je družina 1942 zatekla v skrivališče v neko hišo v Amsterdamu. Tam je Anne 12. 6. 1042 začela pisati dnevnik in vanj več kot dve leti zapisovala vtise, strahove, želje in sanje odraščajočega dekleta. 4. avgusta 1944 je gestapo odkril njihovo skrivališče in družino odvedel v koncentracijsko taborišče. Od vse družine je preživel le oče. Po vojni so v skrivališču našli njen dnevnik in ga 1947 objavili. Takoj je postal uspešnica, preveden je številne jezike, priredili so ga za gledališče, po njem so posneli film.

Anne Frank was a young Jewish girl who kept a diary while hiding from Nazi persecution in the Netherlands during World War II. She and her family lived in a secret apartment in Amsterdam for two years before being discovered. Anne died in a German concentration camp. An abridgment of her poignant diary was published in 1947.

        
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Fredriksson Marie-Roxette 30.5.1958 -

She is the songwriter and female lead singer of the Swedish bands Strul, Mamas Barn and Roxette. She was born in Sweden. Together with a friend, singer Per Gessle, she started Roxette in 1986. She also has an extensive solo career. She is married to Mikael Bolyos and has two children.

  
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FRICKER Brenda 17.2.1945 -

Irish actress began her feature film career with a small uncredited part in the 1964 movie Of Human Bondage, based on the 1915 novel by William Somerset Maugham of the same name. Initially better known in the United Kingdom for her role as Megan Roach in the BBC One series Casualty, she won the 1989 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance as Christy Brown's mother in My Left Foot (on stamp IE-968). She then co-starred in the 1990 film The Field.

  
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Freiin von Le Fort Gertrud 11.10.1876 - 1.11.1971
nemška pisateljica

Writer, born in Minden, Germany. From a family of French émigrés, she studied theology, history, and philosophy before spending several years in Italy, where she converted to Catholicism. Her poetry was influenced by Friedrich Nietzche, and combines a deep religious belief with a sense of history. It is expressed in powerful language with keen technical skill, and includes Hymnen an die Kirche (1924) and Der Papst aus dem Ghetto (1930). Her novel Das Schweißtuch der Veronika (1928–46) concerns the role of Catholic women and their readiness to make sacrifices and to turn the other cheek.

  
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Frink Elisabeth 14.11.1930 - 18.4.1993
britanska kiparka in grafičarka. Študirala je na Guildfordski šoli za umetnost. Skupaj z Bernardom Meadowsom pa na Chelsea šoli za umetnost. Povezana je bila sicer z britanskimi kiparji povojnega obdobja (Reg Butler, Bernard Meadows and Eduardo Paolozzi), čeprav so se njena dela razlikovala zaradi obvezne naturalistična oblike. Rada je upodabljala ljudi, ptice, pse, konje in verske motive.
 
British sculptor and printmaker. She studied at the Guildford School of Art and with Bernard Meadows at the Chelsea School of Art. She was linked with the post-war school of British sculptors, including Reg Butler, Bernard Meadows and Eduardo Paolozzi, though her work is distinguished by her commitment to naturalistic forms and themes. Frink’s range of subjects included men, birds, dogs, horses and religious motifs. She concentrated on bronze outdoor sculpture with a scarred surface created by repeatedly coating an armature with wet plaster; each coating is distressed and broken, eliminating detail and generalizing form. In the 1960s Frink’s continuing fascination with flight was evident in a series of falling figures and winged men. While living in France from 1967 to 1970, she began a series of threatening, monumental, goggled male heads. On returning to England, she focused on the male nude, barrel-chested, with mask-like features, attenuated limbs and a pitted surface.

 
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FRO VODDER Anna 1974 -
belgijska slikarka, "Telepatija"

Belgian painter.

Fry Elizabeth 21.5.1780 - 12.10.1845
Elizabeth Fry  je bila angleška reformatorka zaporov in filantropinja. Leta 1798 je postala kvekerka, da bi služila ubogim. Leta 1813 je začela proučevati pogoje v zaporih, obiskovala je ječe, prebirala Biblijo in pridigala jetnikom. Ravnanje z zapornicami je bilo strašno, zato je zahtevala ločitev zapornikov po spolu, več hrane in oblačil za zapornike, boljši nadzor. Organizirala je društvo za versko pomoč jetnikom in za oskrbo jetnikov z obleko in ostalimi potrebščinami.

Elizabeth Fry was an English  prison reformer and philanthropist. She became a Quaker in 1798;  devoted to serving the poor, she was recognized as a minister. In 1813 she started investigating prison conditions and began visiting jails to read the Bible and preach to the inmates. Appalled at the treatment of female prisoners in Newgate prison,  London, she publicized abuses - asking for separation of the sexes, classification of prisoners, more food and clothing, and  better supervision. She organized an association that supported  religious and secular instruction for the inmates and provided  clothing and other necessities for prisoners.

 
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