Corrie

Corrie

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Corrie may refer to:

Geography

  • Cirque, also called a corrie or a cwm, is a terrain feature created by glaciation in high mountains
  • Corrie, Arran, is a village on the Isle of Arran, Scotland

People

Surname
  • Corrie (surname), English-language surname with several etymological origins
    • Corrie family, Scottish family
    • John Corrie (born 1935), Scottish former Conservative MP and MEP
    • Joe Corrie (1894–1968), Scottish miner, poet and playwright
    • Rachel Corrie (1979–2003), American ISM volunteer killed by an Israeli bulldozer in the Gaza Strip
Given name
  • Corrie Clark (born 1982), American breaststroke swimmer
  • Corrie Corfield (born 1961), English newsreader for BBC Radio 4
  • Corrie Lothrop (born 1992), American gymnast
  • Corrie ten Boom (1892–1983), Dutch Holocaust survivor who helped many Jews escape the Nazis during World War II

Media

  • The Corries, a Scottish folk group
  • Corrie, the common nickname for Coronation Street, a long-running British television soap opera
  • Corrie!, a play written to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Coronation Street in 2010

See also

  • MV Rachel Corrie, a ship named after Rachel Corrie
  • Corry (disambiguation)
  • Cory (disambiguation)

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  • Corrie! — Official Show logo Written by Jonathan Harvey Characters 3 male 3 female …   Wikipedia

  • Corrie — Cor rie (k?r r?), n. Same as {Correi}. [Scot.] Geikie. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Corrie — Corrie, Corry englischer Name, Bedeutung angelehnt an einen Familiennamen; niederländische Koseform von → Cornelia (Bedeutung angelehnt an einen römischen Geschlechternamen); auch ein Jungenname …   Deutsch namen

  • corrie — [kôr′ē, kär′ē] n. [< Gael coire, cauldron < IE base * kwer , pot > OE hwer, kettle] Scot. a round hollow in a hillside …   English World dictionary

  • Corrie — Rachel Corrie Rachel Ailene Corrie (* 10. April 1979 in Olympia, Washington; † 16. März 2003 in Rafah, Gazastreifen) war eine Friedensaktivistin und Mitglied des International Solidarity Movement (ISM) …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Corrie — This interesting name is Scottish in origin, and is a locational surname from anyone of the places in Arran, Dumfriess and other areas named Corried . The name derives from the Gaelic word coire , meaning cauldron , and is used here in the… …   Surnames reference

  • Corrie —    1) CORRIE, a village, in the Isle of Arran, parish of Kilbride, county of Bute; containing 222 inhabitants. It is situated on the eastern shore of the island, about three miles and a half north of Brodick bay and castle. There is a small… …   A Topographical dictionary of Scotland

  • corrie — (also known as a cirque or cwm) a great bowl shaped hollow at the head of a glacial valley. Accumulation of snow in a depression over many years forms a niche glacier which then erodes the corrie by plucking and abrasion in a rotational movement …   Geography glossary

  • Corrie ten Boom — Righteous Among the Nations Born Cornelia ten Boom 15 April 1892(1892 04 15) Amsterdam …   Wikipedia

  • Corrie ten Boom — Corrie ten Boom, eigentlich Cornelia Johanna Arnolda ten Boom (* 15. April 1892 in Amsterdam; † 15. April 1983) war eine niederländische Christin, die während der nationalsozialistischen deutschen Besetzung der Niederlande eine… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

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