Edward Fitzgerald

Edward Fitzgerald

male, deceased (1883)
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, RubaiyatofOmarKhayyam, Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge, English, From suffolk, The Times…Life of Edward FitzGerald
Edward Marlborough FitzGerald was an English writer, best known as the poet of the first and most famous English translation of The Rubáiyát of Om...

Omar Khayyám

male, deceased (1123)
rubaiyaa, Omar al-Khayyami, Arabic mathematics, Treatise on Demonstration of Problems of Algebra, Islamic mathematics, heliocentric…RubaiyatofOmarKhayyam
Ghiyās al-Dīn Abu al-Fath Omār ibn Ibrāhīm Khayyām Nishābūrī or Omar Khayyam (b. May 18, 1048 Nishapur, (Persia) - d. December 4, 1131), was a Per...
Elihu Vedder

Elihu Vedder

male, deceased (1923)
painter, american civil war, artist, symbolist, Symbolist painter, American…American Academy of Arts and Letters, RubaiyatofOmarKhayyam, The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Elihu Vedder was an American symbolist painter, book illustrator, and poet, born in New York City. He is best known for his fifty-five...

Omar Ali-Shah

male
Mystic, mohammed, Spirituality, Sufism, Esotericism, RubaiyatofOmarKhayyam
Omar Ali-Shah was a prominent exponent of modern Naqshbandi sufism. He wrote a number of books on the subject, and was head of a large number of...
Granville Bantock

Granville Bantock

male, deceased (1946)
Romantic composer, English, classical music, Knights Bachelor, composer, British…University of Birmingham, Trinity College of Music, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Alumni of the University of Birmingham, The Pierrot of the Minute
Sir Granville Bantock (August 7, 1868 - October 16, 1946), was a British composer of classical music. Bantock was born in London. A close friend of...

James R. Osgood

male
american civil war, The Lady of the Aroostook, Houghton, Mifflin & Company, The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Stories, Leaves of Grass, RubaiyatofOmarKhayyam
James R. Osgood (1836-1892) was an American publisher probably best known for his partnership with Mark Twain. A reputed child prodigy, James R....
Edward Byles Cowell

Edward Byles Cowell

male, deceased (1903)
German Oriental Society, Royal Asiatic Society, bengali, Persian literature, British, bodleian library…University of Cambridge, RubaiyatofOmarKhayyam
Professor Edward Byles Cowell (January 231826 - February 9 1903) was a noted translator of Persian poetry and the first professor of Sanskrit at...
Saki

Saki

male, deceased (1916)
writer, When William Came, World War I, The Rise of the Russian Empire, Old Bedfordian, gay…Parliament of the United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Wilhelm II of Germany, RubaiyatofOmarKhayyam, primate of the same name
Saki (December 18, 1870 – November 14, 1916) was the pen name of British author Hector Hugh Munro, whose witty and sometimes macabre stories sa...
Alton Kelly

Alton Kelly

male
poster artist, psychedelic art, Psychedelic artist, artist, Grateful Dead, American…RubaiyatofOmarKhayyam
Alton Kelley is an American artist best known for his psychedelic art, in particular his designs for 1960s rock concerts and albums. Along with...
Haljand Udam

Haljand Udam

male, deceased (2005)
University of Tartu alumni, Alumni and faculty of Moscow State University, Estonian language, saad, quran, Orientalist…omar khayyam, RubaiyatofOmarKhayyam, Rubaiyat
Haljand Udam, Persian (Rudaki, Saad, Ali Safi) Urdu, Tadjik etc into Estonian, including Omar Khayyam's Rubaiyat. Some of his articles on...