Ornella ongaro wikipedia
Ornella
Ornella is an Italian feminine given name, probably derived from ornello, "flowering ash tree" (Fraxinus ornus). It was coined by Gabriele D'Annunzio in his 1904 play The Daughter of Iorio and popularized by the fame of singer Ornella Vanoni and, later, of actress Ornella Muti. It is most widespread in central and northern Italy, as well as in Abruzzo, while it is rarer in the South of the country.
Closely related but very rare names include Ornelia, and the masculine versions Ornello and Ornelio.
People
- Ornella Bankole (born 1997), French basketball player
- Ornella Barra (born 1953), Italian-born Monegasque businesswoman
- Ornella Bertorotta (born 1967), Italian politician
- Ornella Domini (born 1988), Swiss boxer
- Ornella Ferrara (born 1968), Italian long-distance runner
- Ornella Ferrari (1909–1983), Italian song lyricist
- Ornella Havyarimana (born 1994), Burundian boxer
- Ornella Livingston (born 1991), Jamaican sprinter
- Ornella Micheli, Italian film editor
- Ornella Muti (born 1955 as Francesca Romana Rivelli), Italian actress
- Ornella Oettl Reyes (born 1991), Peruvian-German Alpine skier
- Ornella Ongaro (born 1990), French motorcycle racer
- Ornella Palla (born 1990), Uruguayan handball player
- Ornella Santana (born 1990), Argentine basketball player
- Ornella Sathoud (born 1987), Ghanaian boxer
- Ornella Vanoni (born 1934), Italian pop singer
- Ornella Volta (1927–2020), Italian-born French musicologist and translator
- Ornella Wahner (born 1993), German boxer
- Last name
References
List of female racing drivers
This is a list of notable, professional, and female racing drivers or riders in any form of motorsport, sorted by country alphabetically.
Albania
Andorra
Argentina
- María Abbate [es] born (1979-10-11) 11 October 1979 (age 45)
- Julia Ballario [es] born (1992-01-20) 20 January 1992 (age 33)
- Nadia Cutro [es] born (1986-02-14) 14 February 1986 (age 39)
- Alicia Reina [es] born (1973-10-15) 15 October 1973 (age 51)
- Josefina Vigo [es] born (1994-06-24) 24 June 1994 (age 30)
- Sandra Villarruel [es] born (1964-02-19) 19 February 1964 (age 61)
- Ianina Zanazzi born (1982-01-07) 7 January 1982 (age 43)
Australia
Austria
Belgium
Brazil
Bulgaria
Canada
Chile
Colombia
Czechia
Denmark
Estonia
Finland
France
Germany
- Gina-Maria Adenauer born (1985-08-16) 16 August 1985 (age 39)
- Theresa Bauml born (1997-10-27) 27 October 1997 (age 27)
- Martha Beindorff [de] born 21 February 1903, died 9 November 2007 (aged 104)
- Lisa Christin Brunner [de] born (1992-09-27) 27 September 1992 (age 32)
- Janina Depping [de] born 25 September 1978, died 14 August 2013 (aged 34)
- Kati Droste [de] born (1984-12-26) 26 December 1984 (age 40)
- Catharina Felser born (1982-10-02) 2 October 1982 (age 42)
- Sophia Flörsch born (2000-12-01) 1 December 2000 (age 24)
- Margot von Gans [de] born 11 July 1899, died 1986 (aged 86-87)
- Michelle Halder [de] born (1999-07-25) 25 July 1999 (age 25)
- Stephanie Halm [de] born (1984-06-09) 9 June 1984 (age 40)
- Heidi Hetzer born 20 June 1937, died 21 April 2019 (aged 81)
- Isolde Holderied [de] born (1966-11-07) 7 November 1966 (age 58)
- Claudia Hürtgen born (1971-09-10) 10 September 1971 (age 53)
- Ines
Ornella Ongaro
Ongaro was born into a poor family in La Bocca, a suburb of Cannes, France. Her elder sister was a racing driver, so she followed in her footsteps.
Aged 6, she was given her first 50cc motorcycle by her grandmother, as a birthday present.
She had an accident riding in the woods, which took her over a year before she wanted to get back on a bike. When she did, she started to win at various tracks in the over-6 category (the youngest age allowed legally in France to start competing), against boys of the same age and older.
Even though to outsiders she often seems a loner, she impresses them with her talent for winning.
Her parents' protectiveness made it difficult for her at the start of her career: other competitors' parents found it difficult to accept that a girl was better than their little boys. They used underhand tactics to stop her winning (blocking the brakes, the engine, or the fuel tank on her machine).
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