Leo G

Leo G

male
Leo G is a production alias of Lev Gorodinski, first used for his single Supersonic on DeepBlue Records. Lev Gorodinski was born in Daugavpils,...
Morris Halle

Morris Halle

male, 86 years old
Morris Halle, né Pinkowitz, is an American linguist. He was born in Liepaja, Latvia, in 1923, and moved with his family to Riga in 1929. They a...

Jānis Sprukts

male, 27 years old
Jānis Sprukts is a Latvian professional ice hockey forward, who currently is playing for NHL team Florida Panthers. He was drafted by Panthers as t...
Joseph Hirshhorn

Joseph Hirshhorn

male, deceased (1981)
Joseph Herman Hirshhorn (1899 - 1981) was an entrepreneur, financier and art collector. Born in Latvia, the twelfth of thirteen children, Hirshhorn...
Max Weinreich

Max Weinreich

male, deceased (1969)
Max Weinreich (1893/94 Goldingen, Courland (Kuldiga, Latvia) - 1969 New York City, USA) was a linguist, specializing in Yiddish, and the father of...
Edmar Mednis

Edmar Mednis

male, deceased (2002)
Edmar John Mednis (1937-February 13, 2002) was an American chess International Grandmaster (awarded in 1980), born in Riga, Latvia.
Daina Taimina

Daina Taimina

female
Daina Taimina is a Latvian-American mathematician at Cornell University who crochets objects to illustrate hyperbolic space. She came up with the...
Peter Woit

Peter Woit

male
Peter Woit is a mathematical physicist at Columbia University. He obtained his PhD in particle theory from Princeton University in 1985, followed...

Kaspars Daugaviņš

male, 21 years old
Kaspars Daugaviņš is an ice hockey player. Daugaviņš was selected 91st overall in the third round of the 2006 NHL Entry Draft by the Ottawa Sena...