Matthew Vassar

Matthew Vassar

male, deceased (1868)
Business person in the brewing industry, town, Educator, English American, board of trustees, vassar college…emigrated
Matthew Vassar (April 29, 1792-June 23, 1868) was a U.S. (English-born) brewer and merchant. He was the founder and eponym of Vassar College in...
James Ferrier

James Ferrier

male, deceased (1888)
Scottish migrant to Quebec, From Fife, Canadian senator, Chancellor of McGill University, canadian confederation, fife…emigrated
James Ferrier (22 October, 1800 - 30 May, 1888) was a Scottish-Canadian politician. Born in Fife, Scotland, he emigrated to Canada in 1821 and...
Fred Herzog

Fred Herzog

male, 79 years old
photographer, emigrated, Vancouver Art Gallery, Working Class, From Stuttgart, slide film
Fred Herzog (b. September 21, 1930, Stuttgart, Germany) is a photographer known primarily for his photos of life in Vancouver, Canada. He worked...
Wladimir Kaminer

Wladimir Kaminer

male, 42 years old
Jewish, German-Russian pidgin, language contact, Ich bin kein Berliner, Mayor of Berlin, Jewish person…emigrated
Wladimir Kaminer (born 19 July 1967) is a Russian-born German short story writer, columnist, and disc jockey of Jewish origin. Kaminer was born in...
Noe Ramishvili

Noe Ramishvili

male, deceased (1930)
Assassinated Georgian, noms de guerre, Democratic Republic of Georgia, azerbaijan, Menshevik, assassinated…emigrated
Noe Ramishvili (his name is also transliterated as "Noah" or "Noi") (1881 - December 7, 1930) was a Georgian politician and one of the leaders of...
Vladimir Antonov-Ovseenko

Vladimir Antonov-Ovseenko

male, deceased (1939)
Old Bolshevik, Mensheviks, World War I, kharkov, bolshevik, soviet…emigrated
Vladimir Alexandrovich Antonov-Ovseenko (actual surname Ovseenko was a prominent Soviet Bolshevik leader and diplomat. Ethnically he was a...
Lucian Bernhard

Lucian Bernhard

male, deceased (1972)
German, graphic designer, immigration, graphic design, interior design, bernhard…emigrated
Lucian Bernhard was a German graphic designer, type designer, professor, interior designer, and artist during the first half of the twentieth...
James Porteous

James Porteous

male, deceased (1922)
immigrant to the United States, carriage, inventor, Scottish, Blacksmith, American…emigrated
James Porteous (1848-1922) was the Scottish-American inventor of the Fresno Scraper. James Porteous was born in Haddington, East Lothian, Scotland....

Dubravka Ugrešić

female, 60 years old
Zagreb University, writer, emigrated, Yugoslavian, Yugoslav wars, Yugoslavs
Dubravka Ugrešić is a noted Yugoslavian/Croatian writer who lives in the Netherlands. Dubravka Ugrešić was born in 1949 in former Yugoslavia, now...
Amanda Muggleton

Amanda Muggleton

female, 62 years old
Eureka!, Master Class, The Book Club, A Winter's Tale, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, The Seagull…emigrated
Amanda Muggleton is a British-born actor who emigrated to Australia in 1974. She trained at London's Guildhall School of Music and Drama and the...