Celeste
Encyclopedia
People
- Celeste HolmCeleste HolmCeleste Holm is an American stage, film, and television actress, known for her Academy Award-winning performance in Gentleman's Agreement , as well as for her Oscar-nominated performances in Come to the Stable and All About Eve...
(born 1917), US actress - Madame CélesteMadame CélesteMadame Céleste or Madame Céline Céleste was a French dancer and actress. As a little girl she was a pupil in the ballet class at the Opéra. When fifteen, she had an offer from the United States, and made her debut at the Bowery theatre, New York...
(1815-1882), French dancer and actress - Celeste (pornographic actress) (born 1972), American former pornographic actress
- Dick CelesteDick CelesteRichard Frank "Dick" Celeste is an American politician from Ohio, and a member of the Democratic Party. He served as the 64th Governor of Ohio from 1983-1991.-Early life and career:...
(born 1937), governor of Ohio from 1983 to 1991 - Ted CelesteTed CelesteTheodore S. "Ted" Celeste is an American politician and a member of the Democratic party in Ohio. Celeste, the brother of former Ohio governor and U.S. ambassador Richard F. Celeste, ran for the U.S. Senate in 2000 and lost to the Republican incumbent, U.S. Sen. R. Michael DeWine...
(born 1945), Ohio state representative - Celeste BoninCeleste BoninCeleste Beryl Bonin is an American model and professional wrestler, better known by her ring name Kaitlyn. She is working for WWE, where she is assigned to the SmackDown brand and also competes in their developmental territory, Florida Championship Wrestling...
(born 1986), professional wrestler currently working with the ring name "Kaitlyn"
Places
- Celeste Lake, Bolivia
- Mount CelesteMount CelesteMount Celeste is the unofficial name for a mountain located on Vancouver Island, British Columbia. It shares the name Celeste with two peaks in the Cariboo region of the BC Interior. Within the boundaries of Strathcona Provincial Park, this peak lies at the north end of Rees Ridge...
, unofficial name of a mountain on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada - Celeste RiverCeleste RiverCeleste River is a river in Tenorio Volcano National Park of Costa Rica. It is notable for its distinctive turquoise coloration, a phenomenon caused by a chemical reaction between sulfur and calcium carbonate. -External links:* *...
, Costa Rica - Celeste, TexasCeleste, TexasCeleste is a city in Hunt County, Texas, United States. The population was 817 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Celeste is located at .According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all of it land....
, a rural city in North Texas
Products
- Mitsubishi Celeste, a Japanese car
- Celeste (frozen pizza)Celeste (frozen pizza)Celeste is a brand of frozen pizza owned by Pinnacle Foods. It is widely referred to by its former name Mama Celeste. The brand's slogan is "Abbondanza", which means "Abundance" in Italian.-Background:...
- Celeste (soft drink)Celeste (soft drink)Celeste is a brand used by the company The Pantry, Inc. to market their line of soft drinks.-Celeste Flavors:*Cola *Mountain Citrus *Dr. Celeste *Orange...
Music
- CelestaCelestaThe celesta or celeste is a struck idiophone operated by a keyboard. Its appearance is similar to that of an upright piano or of a large wooden music box . The keys are connected to hammers which strike a graduated set of metal plates suspended over wooden resonators...
, a musical instrument, also known as "Celeste" - Celeste, a song by Ralph TownerRalph TownerRalph Towner is an American multi-instrumentalist, composer, arranger and bandleader. He plays the twelve-string guitar, classical guitar, piano, synthesizer, percussion and trumpet.-Biography:...
from the album Old friends, new friends - Voix célesteVoix célesteThe Voix celeste, [Fr.] is an organ stop consisting of either one or two ranks of pipes slightly out of tune. The term celeste refers to a rank of pipes detuned slightly so as to produce a beating effect when combined with a normally tuned rank...
, a pipe organ stop - Celeste pedal, a type of pedal on some early pianos
Film and fiction
- Céleste (film)Celeste (film)Céleste is a German film by Percy Adlon about the life of the French writer Marcel Proust as he lay in his bed from 1912 to 1922; the story is told through the eyes of his real life maid, Céleste Albaret...
, a 1982 German film about the life of Marcel Proust - Celeste (Gemini series)Celeste (Gemini series)Celeste is a novel by V. C. Andrews. It is the first book in the Gemini series. It is followed by Black Cat and Child of Darkness. It is the story of a young girl forced by her mother to assume the identity of her twin brother after his death....
, a 2004 novel by V. C. Andrews - Celeste Cuckoo, a member of the Stepford CuckoosStepford CuckoosThe Stepford Cuckoos are a set of fictional mutant psychically linked quintuplets . They are students at the Xavier Institute for Higher Learning and appear in comic books published by Marvel Comics...
, Marvel Comics fictional mutant quintuplets - Celeste, a minor character from the "Six Feet Under" TV series played by Michelle Trachtenberg
- Celeste, a former runner from the game Mirror's EdgeMirror's EdgeMirror's Edge is a single-player first person action-adventure video game developed by EA Digital Illusions CE and published by Electronic Arts. The game was announced on July 10, 2007, and was released for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in November 2008. A Microsoft Windows version was released...
- Celeste, the wife and cousin of Babar the ElephantBabar the ElephantBabar the Elephant is a French children's fictional character who first appeared in Histoire de Babar by Jean de Brunhoff in 1931 and enjoyed immediate success. An English language version, entitled The Story of Babar, appeared in 1933 in Britain and also in the United States. The book is based on...
Other uses
- Tropical Storm Celeste (disambiguation)
- La Celeste, nickname of the Uruguay national football teamUruguay national football teamThe Uruguayan national football team represents Uruguay in international association football and is controlled by the Uruguayan Football Association, the governing body for football in Uruguay. The current head coach is Óscar Tabárez...
- Celeste CenterCeleste CenterCeleste Center is a 10,200-seat multipurpose arena, part of the Ohio Expo Center and State Fairgrounds in Columbus, Ohio. The building, named for former Ohio Governor and United States Ambassador to India Richard F. Celeste, is used for concerts, trade shows, banquets, and sporting events.The...
, a multipurpose arena in Columbus, Ohio - Celeste (colour)Celeste (colour)Celeste is the colloquial name for the turquoise blue colour associated with the Italian Bianchi Bicycle Company and sometimes known as Bianchi Green...
a shade of turquoise created by Bianchi Bicycles