Rudolf Vrba

Rudolf Vrba

male, deceased (2006)
Rudolf 'Rudi' Vrba, born Walter Rosenberg, was a professor of pharmacology at the University of British Columbia. In April 1944, Vrba and his...
Frank Morris

Frank Morris

male, 83 years old
Frank Lee Morris was an American criminal who escaped from Alcatraz and was never seen again.
Charles Taylor

Charles Taylor

male, 61 years old
Charles Ghankay Taylor served as President of Liberia from 1997 to 2003. He was a prominent warlord in the Liberian Civil War in the early 1990s,...
Clarence Anglin

Clarence Anglin

male, 78 years old
Clarence "Larry" Anglin was convicted of a number of bank robberies along with his brother John Anglin who escaped from Alcatraz prison in 1962...
James Wilson

James Wilson

male, deceased (1921)
James Wilson was a Fenian who was transported as a convict to Western Australia. Born James McNally in Newry, County Down, Ireland on February 6...
John Anglin

John Anglin

male, 79 years old
John William Anglin was an American criminal who escaped from Alcatraz along with his brother Clarence and Frank Morris on June 11 1962 and then...

Henri Young

male, 91 years old
Henry Young (born 1918) was a prisoner at Alcatraz who tried to escape with two other inmates, Arthur Barker and Rufus McCain and is best known for...

Alfréd Wetzler

male, deceased (1988)
Alfréd Wetzler (May 10, 1918 -1988), who later wrote under the alias Jozef Lánik, was a Slovak Jew, and one of a very small number of Jews known to...

Clarence Carnes

male, deceased (1988)
Clarence Carnes (January 14, 1927 - October 3, 1988) attempted to escape Alcatraz with Sam Shockley and Miran Edgar Thompson. At age 19 in early...
Giacomo Casanova

Giacomo Casanova

male, deceased (1798)
Giacomo Casanova (April 2, 1725 in Venice – June 4, 1798, in Dux, Bohemia, now Duchcov, Czech Republic) was a famous Venetian adventurer, wr...