Samuel Goldwyn

Samuel Goldwyn

male, deceased (1974)
Producer, Golden Globe Award, film producer, American film studio executive, Business Person, Warsaw, Poland…born in Poland
Samuel Goldwyn (July 1882 - 31 January 1974) was an Academy Award and Golden Globe Award-winning producer, also a well-known Hollywood motion...
Anne Applebaum

Anne Applebaum

female, 45 years old
Cold War historian, Yale University alumni, Between East and West, Gulag A History, Parliament of the United Kingdom, Sidwell Friends School…Warsaw, Poland
Anne Applebaum (born 25 July 1964) is a journalist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author who has written extensively about communism and the...

Sara Lawrence

female
model, Miss World Caribbean, Miss World Continental Groups, Miss World 2006 delegate, Miss World 2006, pre-medical…Warsaw, Poland
Sara Lawrence was the representative for Jamaica in the Miss World 2006 beauty pageant. In March 2007, she relinquished the "Miss Jamaica World"...
Jimmy Sturr

Jimmy Sturr

male
from New York, Palace of Culture, Grammy Award for Best Polka Album, Warsaw, Poland, Polka musician, polka
Jimmy Sturr is a polka musician and leader of Jimmy Sturr & His Orchestra. His recordings have won 16 out of 22 Grammy Awards given for Best Polka...
Lyda Roberti

Lyda Roberti

female, deceased (1938)
buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park, trapeze, circus, stage actor, Vaudeville performer, forest lawn memorial park…Warsaw, Poland, born in Warsaw, Poland
Lyda Roberti (May 20, 1906 - March 12, 1938) was a stage and film actress. Born in Warsaw, Poland, Roberti was the daughter of a clown and as a...
Jacob Wolfowitz

Jacob Wolfowitz

male, deceased (1981)
Warsaw, Poland, Jewish, World Bank Group, Claude E. Shannon Award, Shannon Award, myocardial infarction…born in Poland on March 19, 1910
Jacob Wolfowitz, Ph.D. (March 19, 1910 - July 16, 1981) was a Polish-born American statistician and Shannon Award-winning information theorist. He...
Virginia Hall

Virginia Hall

female, deceased (1982)
World War II, from Maryland, Member of the Order of the British Empire, French Resistance member, Recipient of US Distinguished Service Cross, vichy…Warsaw, Poland
Virginia Hall MBE DSC (April 6, 1906 - July 14, 1982) was an American spy during World War II. She was also known by many aliases: "Marie Monin,"...
Kinga Philipps

Kinga Philipps

female, 33 years old
Oklahoma State University, The West Wing, Polish-American, from Oklahoma, austin powers in goldmember, Yahoo!…Warsaw, Poland, born in Warsaw, Poland
Kinga Philipps (b. August 16, 1976 in Warsaw, Poland) is an actress and TV host currently hosting Google Current Buzz (along with Conor Knighton)...
Karl Radek

Karl Radek

male, deceased (1939)
Old Bolshevik, Austro-Hungary, Central Committee, polish, bolshevik, German communist…Warsaw, Poland
Karl Berngardovich Radek was a Bolshevik and an international Communist leader. He was born in then Lemberg (now L'viv in Ukraine, then in...
Joseph Jastrow

Joseph Jastrow

male, deceased (1944)
University of Pennsylvania, University of Wisconsin, Johns Hopkins University, Psychologist, writer, Jewish American…Warsaw, Poland
Joseph Jastrow (January 30, 1863- January 8, 1944) was an American psychologist, born in Warsaw, Poland. He was the son of Talmud scholar Marcus...