- Emma Goldman
Emma Goldman aka 'Red Emma', was a Lithuanian-born anarchist known for her writings and speeches. She was lionized as an iconic "rebel woman" feminist by admirers, and derided as an advocate of politically motivated murder and violent revolution by her critics. Goldman played a pivotal role in the development of anarchist political philosophy in the United States and Europe in the first half of the twentieth century. - John A. MacDonald
Sir John Alexander Macdonald, GCB, KCMG, PC, QC, DCL, LL.D (January 11, 1815 - June 6, 1891) was the first Prime Minister of Canada. Macdonald's tenure in office spanned 19 years, making him the second longest serving Prime Minister of Canada. He is the only Canadian Prime Minister to win six majority governments and won praise for having helped forge a nation of sprawling geographic size, with two diverse European colonial origins, … - Elizabeth Blackwell
Elizabeth Blackwell (February 3, 1821 - May 31, 1910) was an abolitionist, women's rights activist, and the first female doctor in the United States. Blackwell was born in Bristol, England, the third of nine children born to a sugar refiner, named Samuel Blackwell, who could afford to give his numerous sons, and also daughters, an education. Samuel Blackwell believed that his daughters should get the same education as boys so he had his daughters tutored. - Lev Leviev
Lev Leviev President Federation of Jewish Communities of the CIS Israeli entrepreneur and philanthropist, Lev Leviev was born in the then Soviet city of Tashkent, Uzbekistan in 1956. His father, Rabbi Avner and his mother Chana Leviev were prominent members of the Bukharian Jewish community. At the age of fifteen in 1971 his family emigrated to Israel. - Samantha Power
Samantha Power 's 'A Problem from Hell' is a broad attempt to document the major acts of genocide/human rights violations of the 20th century paired with the international community's subsequent negligence in each case. She reports on the Holocaust, the Armenian genocide, and especially her major areas of research- Rwanda and Serbia. - Herman Wouk
Herman Wouk (born May 27, 1915) is a bestselling American author with a number of notable novels to his credit, including "The Caine Mutiny", "The Winds of War", and "War and Remembrance". Herman Wouk was born in New York City into a Jewish family that had emigrated from Russia. After a childhood and adolescence in the Bronx and a high school diploma from Townsend Harris High School, he earned an B.A. from Columbia University in 1934, … - Daisy Fuentes
Daisy Fuentes (born November 17, 1966 in Havana, Cuba) is a Cuban model and actress. Daisy Fuentes was born in Cuba, but moved to Madrid, Spain when she was three years old. Four years later, she emigrated to Harrison, New Jersey. Fuentes studied communications and journalism at Bergen Community College, finally being selected as the weather-girl for WNJU Channel 47, a Telemundo station. - Ivan Galamian
Ivan Alexander Galamian (January 23, 1903-April 14, 1981) was one of the most influential violin teachers of the Twentieth Century. He was born in Tabriz, Persia, to Armenians from Russia, but his family soon emigrated to Moscow, Russia. Galamian studied violin at the School of the Philharmonic Society there with Konstantin Mostras (a student of Leopold Auer) until his graduation in 1919. - Louis Adamic
Louis Alojzi Adamic was a Slovenian-American author and translator. Adamic was born at the Praproče castle in Blato (literally, "Mud") near Grosuplje, in what is now Slovenia. He came from a peasant family. His meager childhood education was obtained from the local schools and in Ljubljana where he was expelled at age 15 for taking part in student demonstrations against the ruling Austrians. - Jack Doyle
John Joseph Doyle (October 25 1869 - December 31 1958) was an Irish-American first baseman in Major League Baseball whose career spanned 17 seasons, mainly in the National League. He was born in Killorglin, Ireland, and emigrated to the U.S. when he was a child, his family settling in Holyoke, Massachusetts. - Yechiel Of Paris
Yechiel ben Joseph of Paris (Jehiel of Paris) was a major Talmudic scholar and Tosafist from northern France, father-in-law of Isaac ben Joseph of Corbeil. He was a disciple of Rabbi Judah Messer Leon, and succeeded him in 1225 as head of the Yeshiva of Paris, which then boasted some 300 students; his best known student was Meir of Rothenburg. He is the author of many Tosafot. - Menachem Mendel Of Vitebsk
Rabbi Menachem Mendel of Vitebsk (1730 - 1788) was an early leader of Hasidic Judaism. Part of the third generation of Hasidic leaders, he was the primary disciple of Dovber of Mezeritch. From his base in Minsk Menachem Mendel was instrumental in spreading Hasidism throughout White Russia. In the winter of 1772 he, along with Shneur Zalman of Liadi went to the Vilna Gaon, trying to get him to rescind his ban on Hasidism, but the Vilna Gaon would not receive them. - Eric Jansson
Eric or Erik Jansson or Janson (21 December 1808 —13 May 1850) was the leader of a Swedish pietist sect that emigrated to the United States in 1846. Jansson was born in Biskopskulla in Uppland, near Uppsala, the son of Jan Mattsson, a farmer, and his wife, Sarah Eriksdotter. After believing that he was miraculously cured of rheumatism, he became devoutly religious, and developed beliefs that were contrary to the Lutheran Church of Sweden. - Ken Armstrong
Kenneth Armstrong (3 June 1924 - 13 June 1984) was an English footballer. Born in Bradford, and serving in the RAF during the Second World War, Armstrong was a versatile, tough-tackling and energetic midfielder who played mainly for Chelsea. He was signed for the club from Bradford Rovers in 1946 for a fee of 100 guineas. Armstrong was a key member of Ted Drake's 1954-55 Championship-winning Chelsea side, making 39 appearances that season. - Jack Yellen
Jack Selig Yellen ]] (July 6, 1892 - April 17, 1991) was an American lyricist. Yellen's family emigrated to the United States when he was five. He attended the University of Michigan and on graduating became a reporter on the Buffalo Courier in Buffalo, New York. He is best remembered for his collaboration with composer Milton Ager. He and Ager entered the music publishing business as part owners of the Ager-Yellen-Bernstein Music Company. - Peter Arshinov
Peter Andreyevich Arshinov was a metal worker from Ukraine who, in 1904, joined the Bolshevik Party and became an anarchist after the 1905-06 revolution. He was later imprisoned, and escaped to France. In 1909 he returned to Russia and was caught smuggling arms from Austria. He was imprisoned in Moscow, where he met Nestor Makhno. - Joseph Nicollet
Joseph Nicolas Nicollet (July 24, 1786-September 11, 1843), also known as Jean-Nicolas Nicollet, was a French geographer and mathematician known for mapping the Upper Mississippi River basin during the 1830s. Nicollet was born in Cluses, Savoy, France. He was very bright, showing an interest in mathematics and astronomy, and becoming a math teacher at the age of 19. Starting in 1817, … - Yakov Kreizberg
Yakov Kreizberg is a Russian conductor. Born October 24, 1959 in St. Petersburg (then Leningrad), Russia (then USSR). In 1976 he emigrated to New York (with his mother, his father, a scientist, was not allowed to join them) he currently lives in Colorado. He is the brother of conductor Semyon Bychkov. He is Chief Conductor of the Netherlands Philharmonic and Netherlands Chamber Orchestras, and Guest Conductor of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra. - Paddy Finucane
"Note: Do not confuse with Pat Finucane or Patrick Finucane" Brendan Eamonn Fergus Finucane, DSO, DFC & two Bars (1920 - 1942), known as Paddy Finucane, was an Irish RAF fighter pilot. He was a high scoring Second World War flying ace – claiming 32 victories – and was the RAF's youngest Wing Commander in its history. Paddy Finucane was the first child of Thomas and Florence Finucane; born on 16 October 1920 in Rathmines, Dublin, … - Jerome Isaac Friedman
Jerome Isaac Friedman (born March 28, 1930) is an American physicist. He was born in Chicago, Illinois to parents who emigrated to the US from Russia, and excelled particularly in art while growing up. He became interested in physics after reading a book on relativity by Albert Einstein, and as a result he turned down a scholarship to the Art Institute of Chicago to study physics at the University of Chicago. - Matthew Vassar
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 1861. He was born in East Dereham, Tuddenham Parish, Norfolk, England. In 1796 Vassar's family emigrated to the U.S. state of New York and settled on a farm near Poughkeepsie, N. Y. When Vassar was 14 years old, his parents had him apprenticed to a tanner. One day before he was to begin his apprenticeship, … - James Ferrier
James Ferrier (22 October, 1800 - 30 May, 1888) was a Scottish-Canadian politician. Born in Fife, Scotland, he emigrated to Canada in 1821 and established himself in Montreal, Quebec as a successful Scots-Quebecer merchant. He served as the fourth mayor of Montreal from 1845-1846. He was appointed to the Canadian Senate by Royal Proclamation on 23 October, 1867 following the Canadian Confederation of 1867. - Fred Herzog
Fred Herzog (b. September 21, 1930, Stuttgart, Germany) is a photographer known primarily for his photos of life in Vancouver, Canada. He worked professionally as a medical photographer. He was the associate director of the UBC Department of Biomedical Communication, and also taught at Simon Fraser University. He grew up in Stuttgart, but was evacuated from the city during the aerial bombardment of the Second World War. - Wladimir Kaminer
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 Moscow, and after initially training as an audio engineer for theatre and radio, then studied dramaturgy at the Moscow Institute of Theater. Following the collapse of the Berlin Wall, Kaminer emigrated to Prenzlauer Berg, a district of Berlin, with his wife and children in 1990. - Noe Ramishvili
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 the Menshevik wing of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party. He was also known by his party noms de guerre: "Pyotr", and "Semyonov N". He joined the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party in 1902 and soon became a prominent spokesman of the Mensheviks. - Vladimir Antonov-Ovseenko
Vladimir Alexandrovich Antonov-Ovseenko (actual surname Ovseenko was a prominent Soviet Bolshevik leader and diplomat. Ethnically he was a Ukrainian, born in Chernihiv into an officer's family. In 1903, Antonov-Ovseenko joined the Menshevik party. During the Russian Revolution of 1905, he led an uprising in Novo-Alexandria in Poland and Sevastopol in the Crimea. He was subsequently arrested and sentenced to twenty years' exile in Siberia. - Lucian Bernhard
Lucian Bernhard was a German graphic designer, type designer, professor, interior designer, and artist during the first half of the twentieth century. He was born March 15, 1883, as Emil Kahn, but changed in 1900 to his more commonly known pseudonym. The family of typefaces he developed is called Bernhard. He was a professor in Berlin at the "Unterrichtsanstalt des Kunstgewerbemuseums" 1923, when he emigrated to the United States, … - James Porteous
James Porteous (1848-1922) was the Scottish-American inventor of the Fresno Scraper. James Porteous was born in Haddington, East Lothian, Scotland. His father, William Porteous, had been a wheelwright and blacksmith who built and repaired carriages, wagons and farm equipment. After learning his basic skills, James Porteous emigrated to the United States in 1873, at the age of 25, and settled in Santa Barbara, California. - Dubravka Ugrešić
Dubravka Ugrešić is a noted Yugoslavian/Croatian writer who lives in the Netherlands. Dubravka Ugrešić was born in 1949 in former Yugoslavia, now Croatia. She studied Comparative Literature and Russian Language and Literature at the University of Zagreb. She worked at the Institute for Theory of Literature at Zagreb University, pursuing parallel careers as a writer and a literary scholar. - Amanda Muggleton
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 Royal Academy of Dance. Amanda is one of Australia's best-loved, most versatile and colourful leading ladies. She has appeared with all the State and commercial theatre companies. On stage, her performances with State theatre companies include "Privates on Parade", "The Matchmaker", "The Seagull", … - Gaby Rado
Gaby Rado (17 January 1955, Budapest-30 March 2003, Sulaymaniyah) was a British television journalist who died in Iraq during the 2003 invasion. Rado was born in Budapest, Hungary but emigrated with his family to Britain at the age of eight. He studied at King's College School, Wimbledon, London and Christ's College, Cambridge and began work in journalism at a local newspaper. He then joined BBC News as a radio reporter, … - Pierre Adolphe Rost
Pierre Adolphe Rost was born in France in 1797. He received his education at the École Polytechnique in Paris, France where men were recruited into the civil service or military. As an artilleryman, he was credited for brave conduct in the defense of Paris on March 30, 1814. Rost applied for a commission in Napoleon's army after the Emperor's escape from Elba, Italy, but was too late for the Battle of Waterloo. Escaping from what he thought to be an oppressive régime, … - Alfred Frenzel
Alfred Frenzel (1899-1968) was a Czechoslovak spy who was given the code name Anna by the StB. He was the most important StB spy during the entire Cold War. During World War II, after the invasion of his homeland by Nazi Germany, Frenzel worked as an agent for the government in exile in the United Kingdom. After the end of the war, Czechoslovakia became a communist state, and Frenzel emigrated to West Germany. - Antonio Pierro
Antonio "Tony" Pierro (February 22 1896 [according to his birth certificate] or February 15 1896 [according to himself] – February 8 2007) was, at 110, recognized as the oldest living man in the U.S. (since January 9 2007) and the world's oldest living WWI veteran (since January 24 2007). He was one of the last surviving veterans of World War I. He was also a combat veteran, making him an even greater rarity. Pierro was born in the Italian town of Forenza, … - Henry Burk
Henry Burk was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. Henry Burk was born in Knittlingen, Württemberg, Germany, son of David and Charlotte Reinman Burk; Henry was the fourth child of eight. David, a shoemaker, made the decision to leave Germany because of unacceptable political views. The family emigrated to the United States in 1854 and settled in Philadelphia, PA. Henry attended school only a few years, … - Charles Malo François Lameth
Charles Malo François Lameth, was a French politician and soldier. Born in Paris, he was in the retinue of the comte d'Artois (future King Charles X), and became an officer in a cuirassier regiment. He served in the American War of Independence, was deputy to the Estates-General of 1789, which subsequently became the National Assembly and National Constituent Assembly. As the Assembly began to divide into factions, Lameth, a constitutional monarchist, … - Vatche Arslanian
Vatche Arslanian (1955 - April 8, 2003) was a member of the Canadian Red Cross and head of logistics for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Iraq. He was one of the six ICRC delegates who chose to stay in the country during the 2003 Iraq war and continue helping local relief workers. He was killed by gunfire in Baghdad while travelling with two local Red Cross workers, who were able to escape. Five other civilian vehicles were caught in crossfire, … - Edward Troye
Edward Troye, French painter of American blood horses (b. 1808 near Geneva, Switzerland - died July 25, 1874 in Georgetown, Kentucky), was born to Jean Baptiste de Troy, noted artist of the painting "The Plague of Marseilles" hung in the Louvre, Paris, France. At age 20 he emigrated to the West Indies of the New World and later on to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania where he was an employed artist of "Sartain's Magazine". - Fred Rosenstock
Fred Asher Rosenstock (1895-1986) born Selig Usher Rosenstock in 1895 in Biala Potok in Galicia then a province of Austria in the foothills of the Carpathian Mountains was a prominent bookseller, book and art collector and publisher in Denver, Colorado from the 1920s through the 1970s. His family emigrated to America in 1904. The family lived in Rochester, New York. During World War I Fred moved to Washington, … - Hermann Jaeger
Hermann Jaeger (b. March 23, 1844), who was a native of Switzerland, was a celebrated oenologist and recipient of the French Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor for his part in saving the French wine industry from the deadly phylloxera louse. Jaeger came from a well-known and highly-educated family, and was the grandson of Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, founder of the Swiss public school system.
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