- Rudy Vanderlans
Rudy VanderLans, founder of Emigre , said in an interview with Speak Up, “Perusing the visuals is a kind of ‘reading’ also. It requires a certain visual literacy to appreciate looking at reproductions of graphic design.” As professionals endowed with creating visuals, our aversion to assimilating, understanding and willingness to learn from visuals seems surprising at best, hypocritical at worst. - Christian Schwartz
Christian Schwartz (born December 30, 1977 in Concord, New Hampshire) is an American type designer A graduate of the Communication Design program at Carnegie Mellon University, Schwartz first worked at MetaDesign Berlin, developing typefaces for Volkswagen and logos for various corporations. He then returned to the US and joined the design staff at Font Bureau. - Ed Fella
Ed Fella(born 1938) is an artist, educator and graphic designer whose work has had an important influence on contemporary typography. He practiced professionally as a commercial artist in Detroit for 30 years before receiving an MFA in Design from the Cranbrook Academy of Art in 1987. He has since devoted his time to teaching at the California Institute of the Arts and his own unique self-published work which has appeared in many design publications and anthologies. - Gao Xingjian
Gao Xingjian, born January 4, 1940 in Ganzhou (Jiangxi province) in eastern China, is today a French citizen. Writer of prose, translator, dramatist, director, critic and artist. Gao Xingjian grew up during the aftermath of the Japanese invasion, his father was a bank official and his mother an amateur actress who stimulated the young Gao's interest in the theatre and writing. - Charles Nodier
Charles Nodier, was a French author who introduced a younger generation of Romanticists to the "conte fantastique", gothic literature, vampire tales, and the importance of dreams as part of literary creation, and whose career as a librarian is often underestimated by literary historians. He was born at Besançon. His father, on the outbreak of the French Revolution, … - Vladimir Pozner
Vladimir Aleksandrovich Pozner was a Russian-Jewish emigré to the United States. During World War II he spied for Soviet intelligence while being employed by the United States Government. The Pozner family fled Soviet Russia after the Bolshevik Revolution, and Vladimir Pozner became a Communist sympathizer while living in Europe. He was chief engineer of the European branch of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) in Paris in 1938. - Akaki Chkhenkeli
Akaki Chkhenkeli (1874-1959) was a Georgian Marxist politician and publicist who acted as one of the leaders of the Menshevik movement in Russia and Georgia. He was born in the town of Khoni, Georgia, then part of Imperial Russia, to a noble family. A graduate from the universities in Kiev, Berlin, and London, he was a lawyer and a literature expert. He joined the Social Democratic movement in 1898 and sided with the Menshevik faction in 1903. - Edvard Radzinsky
Edvard Radzinsky (b. September 29, 1936, Moscow) is a Russian writer, historian and TV personality, author of numerous plays and film scenarios. Radzinsky is also a Rurikid prince as the scion of one of the oldest houses of Russian nobility. Since 1990s Radzinsky has been writing books in the series "Mysteries of History" ("Загадки истории"). - Ivan Ilyin
Ivan Alexandrovich Ilyin was a Russian religious and political philosopher, and émigré anti-communist publicist associated with the White movement. - Kali Nikitas
Kali Nikitas (b.1964) received an MFA from CalArts in graphic design a BFA in graphic design from the University of Illinois at Chicago. She and her husband, Rich Shelton, are the partners of Graphic Design for Love (+$). Clients have included: The School of Architecture at Northeastern, The Walker Art Center, Southern California Institute of Architecture, The Weisman Museum, and SOO Visual Art Center. - Marie Victor de Fay marquis de Latour-Maubourg
Marie Victor Nicolas de Fay, marquis de Latour-Maubourg followed a military career under the Ancien Régime of France, during the First French Empire and a diplomatic one after the Bourbon Restoration. In 1789, at the outbreak of the French Revolution, he was the colonel of the Soissonois at Uzès, who was called to Paris, where he was an under-lieutenant in the Royal Guard, in 1792, … - Vladimir Dmitrievich Nabokov
Vladimir Dmitrievich Nabokov (15 July 1870 - 28 March 1922) was a Russian criminologist, journalist, and liberal politician. - Ryszard Kaczorowski
Ryszard Kaczorowski was the last emigre President of the Republic of Poland. Born on November 26, 1919, in Białystok where he completed a school of commerce. Just like his predecessor, he was a Scout. In 1940 he was arrested by the NKWD and sentenced to death. After the amnesty in 1941, he enlisted in the General Władysław Anders' Army and, after its evacuation, joined the 3rd Division of Carpathian Gunners, where he completed division secondary school. - Jan Čulík
Jan Čulík is an independent Czech journalist and academic. He is the founder and editor of the independent Czech internet daily Britské Listy, which has been in existence since 1996. Čulík is a graduate of Czech and English studies at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague (1977, PhDr 1978.) In the 1980s, he worked as a television producer in the United Kingdom, making films for Channel 4 Television. - Jean Charlot
Louis Henri Jean Charlot was a French painter and illustrator, active in Mexico and the United States. Charlot was born in Paris. His father, Henri, owned an import-export business and was a Russian-born émigré, albeit one who supported the Bolshevik cause. His mother Anna was herself an artist. His mother's family originated from Mexico City, his grandfather a French-Indian "mestizo". Charlot spent an extensive period of his life living and working in Mexico. - Pierre-Joseph Cambon
Pierre-Joseph Cambon (June 10 1756-February 15 1820) was a French statesman. Born in Montpellier, Cambon was the son of a wealthy cotton merchant. In 1785, his father retired, leaving Pierre and his two brothers to run the business, but in 1788 Pierre entered politics, and was sent by his fellow-citizens as deputy suppliant to the Estates-General, where he was mostly a spectator. In January 1790 he returned to Montpellier, was elected a member of the municipality, … - Louis-Antoine-Henri de Bourbon-Condé duc d'Enghien
Louis-Antoine-Henri de Bourbon-Condé, duc d'Enghien was a relative of the Bourbon monarchs of France. More famous for his death than for his life, he was executed on trumped-up charges during the French Consulate. The Duke was the only son of Louis Henry II, Prince of Condé, and of Louise Marie Thérèse Bathilde, sister of the duke of Orléans (Philippe Egalité), and was born at Chantilly. He was educated privately by the abbé Millot, … - John Polidori
John William Polidori was an Italian English physician and writer, known for his associations with the Romantic movement and credited by some as the creator of the vampire genre of fantasy fiction. Polidori was the oldest son of Gaetano Polidori, an Italian political émigré scholar, and Anna Maria Pierce, a governess. He had three brothers and four sisters. He was one of the earliest pupils at recently established Ampleforth College from 1804, … - Boris Ephrussi
Boris Ephrussi was a French geneticist of Russian origin. He was one of the many famous Jewish life scientists. He had published two papers in November 1966 which represented a key step in a decade of research in his laboratory. This research helped transform mammalian, and especially human, genetics. Boris started his scientific training as a Russian émigré in 1920. - Alexandre de Laborde
Comte Louis-Joseph-Alexandre de Laborde (Paris 17 September 1773 — Paris 20 October 1842) was a French antiquary, liberal politician and writer, a member of the Académie des Sciences morales et politiques (1832), under the rubric political economy. Laborde was the fourth son of the famous banker of Spanish extraction, Jean-Joseph de Laborde (1724-1794), who was guillotined during the Reign of Terror. - Kazys Bradūnas
Kazys Bradūnas is a Lithuanian émigré poet and editor. He graduated from Vilnius University where he studied Lithuanian language and literature. During the post-war period he lived in Displaced Persons camps in Germany. In 1944 Bradūnas emigrated to the USA, and lived in Baltimore and Chicago. In 1995 he returned to Lithuania and since then has lived in the capital, Vilnius. - Marquis de Lally-Tollendal
These titles were, of course, never recognised by the "de jure" government in Great Britain ("see Jacobite peerage"). In about 1755 he was also created Comte de Lally and Baron de Tollendal by King Louis XV of France, although this may have been merely a recognition of his Jacobite title. He was executed in 1766, but formally pardoned posthumously in 1778. His only son Trophime Gérard was an "émigré" during the French Revolution, … - Richard Lalor Sheil
Richard Lalor Sheil, Irish politician, writer and orator, was born at Drumdowney, Slieverue, County Kilkenny, Ireland. The family were temporarily domiciled at Drumdowney while their new mansion at Bellevue, near Waterford was under construction. His father was Edward Sheil, who had acquired considerable wealth in Cadiz in southern Spain and owned an estate in Tipperary. His mother was Catherine McCarthy of Springhouse, near Bansha, County Tipperary, … - Georges-Charles de Heeckeren D'Anthès
Georges-Charles de Heeckeren d'Anthès, baron (February 5 1812- November 2 1895). Despite his later career as a senator under the Second French Empire, d'Anthès's name is most famous because of the duel he fought with Russia's greatest poet, Aleksandr Pushkin. He is possibly the most cursed character in Russian literature. Born in Colmar (France) to a French royalist émigré family, first boy among six children, he was destined for a military career. - Emmanuel de Saint-Priest
Guillaume Emmanuel Guignard, vicomte de Saint-Priest was a French émigré general who fought in the Russian army during the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. He was the eldest son of prominent émigré diplomat François-Emmanuel Guignard, comte de Saint-Priest (1735-1821), one of King Louis XVI of France's last ministers. Guillaume Emmanuel became a major-general in the Russian army under Czar Alexander I of Russia, … - Louis Marie de Lescure
Louis-Marie Joseph, marquis de Lescure was a French soldier and adversary of the French Revolution, the cousin of Henri de la Rochejaquelein. He was born near Bressuire, and educated at the "École Militaire", which he left at the age of sixteen. Lescure was in command of a company of cavalry in the "Regiment de Royal-Picmont", but being opposed to the ideas of the Revolution, he emigrated in 1791, but soon returned, and, … - Volodymyr Sichynskyi
Volodymyr Sichynskyi was a Ukrainian émigré, architect, graphic artist, and art historian. Volodymyr Sichynskyi was born to the family of Ievtym Sitsinskyi in Kamianets-Podilskyi, Podolia guberniya, Russia, which is in present-day Ukraine. He graduated from the Kamianets Technical School in 1912, and then continued his studies at the St. Petersburg Institute of Civil Engineers (1912-1917) and at Charles University in Prague (1924-1927). During the interim between St. - Edmund Trebus
Edmund Zygfryd Trebus was a Polish émigré to Britain and compulsive hoarder, who came to fame when he was featured on a British television documentary called "A Life of Grime". His most famous phrase was, "Stick it up your chuffer!". After moving to England just after the end of the Second World War, Edmund married. He and his wife (who would predecease him) had five children. All still live in Britain but seldom visited him. - Alexis Guignard comte de Saint Priest
Alexis Guignard, comte de Saint Priest, was the son of an "émigré" French nobleman Armand Guignard, comte de Saint Priest (1782-1863) and his Russian wife, Princess Sophie Galitzine. His grandfather, François-Emmanuel Guignard, comte de Saint-Priest, was one of Louis XVI's last ministers. Educated in Russia, where his father was the Governor of Podolia and Odessa, he returned to France with his father in 1822. - Giuseppe Moretti
Giuseppe Moretti was an Italian émigré sculptor who became known in America for his public monuments in bronze and marble. Most notable among his works is "Vulcan" in Birmingham, Alabama, which is the largest cast iron statue in the world. - Miguel Krasnoff
Miguel Krasnoff Marchenko was a Chilean army general. Son of Russian émigré in Chile, nephew of Pyotr Krasnov. His father Semion Krasnov was executed by the Soviets as a result of Operation Keelhaul. Miguel Krasnoff was implicated in human rights violations during Chilean coup of 1973 when he was a Chilean army lieutenant. Later Miguel Krasnoff became a general under Augusto Pinochet decorated with numerous awards. - Henri Hemsch
Henri Hemsch, original name Johann Heinrich Hemsch (21 February 1700 - September 1769), was a French harpsichord maker who was originally from Germany. He was born in Castenholtz, near Cologne, and moved to France in 1728 where he served a six-year apprenticeship in the shop of Antoine Vater (fl. - 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, … - Percy Lubbock
Percy Lubbock, CBE (June 41879-1 August1965) was an English man of letters, known as an essayist, critic and biographer. He was a good friend of Henry James in James's later life, and became a follower in literary terms, and his editor after his death. Later scholars have questioned editorial decisions he made in publishing the James letters (in 1920, when in defence it could be said that many of those concerned were alive). - Louis-Antoine of Angouleme Louis-Antoine Duke of Angoulême
Louis-Antoine d'Artois, Dauphin of France and Duke of Angoulême (Louis XIX, King of France and Navarre for twenty minutes in 1830 and Legitimist Pretender to the throne from 1836 to 1844) (August 6, 1775 - June 3, 1844) was the eldest son of the comte d'Artois (later King Charles X of France) and Marie-Thérèse de Savoie. He was the last Dauphin of France. His maternal grandparents were Victor Amadeus III of Sardinia and Maria Antonietta of Bourbon. - Nayden Gerov
Nayden Gerov, born Nayden Gerov Hadzhidobrevich February 23, 1823, Koprivshtitsa-October 9, 1900, Plovdiv) was a Bulgarian linguist, folklorist, writer and public figure during the Bulgarian National Revival. Gerov was the son of Gero Dobrevich, a teacher. He studied at his father's school, then at a Greek school in Plovdiv from 1834 to 1836, again in his hometown until 1839, and finally in Odessa, in the Russian Empire, … - Jean-Baptiste Raymond de Lacrosse
Jean-Baptiste Raymond de Lacrosse was a French sailor and admiral, hero of the French Revolutionary Wars. Raymond de Lacrosse joined the Navy in 1779 as a Garde marine. He rose to enseign in 1782, to lieutenant in 1786, and to capitaine de vaisseau in 1792. In 1795, he was sent to Martinique and Guadeloupe to crush slave revolts. Back in France, Lacrosse was arrested. Freed, he was attached to the planned invasion of Ireland in late 1796, … - Konstantin Sokolsky
<b>Konstantin Sokolsky</b> (also spelled: <b>Sokolski</b>, Rus. Константин Сокольский, original name Konstantin Kudryavtsev, Константин Кудрявцев) Russian singer (7 December, 1904- May 1991). Sokolsky was born in Saint-Petersburg, Russia, but for most of his life lived in Riga, Latvia (his father came from the Ludzas county, which is where the family moved to after the revolutionary turmoil of 1917 began in Saint-Petersburg). - Yury Nolden
Yury Nolden was a Russian émigré poet. He was the natural son of the Italian sculptor and Russian Prince Paolo Troubetzkoy. - Alexis Bonabes Marquis de Rougé
Alexis Bonabes, Marquis de Rougé, Peer of France, baron de Coëtmen and de Montfaucon was a French military officer and statesman. In 1794, he entered the service of Austria as aide-de-camp to the Prince von Waldeck. The same year he joined the Mortemart regiment (of his uncle the Duke de Mortemart) of the French émigré army. In 1804, he married Celestine de Crussol d'Uzes, daughter of the Duke D'Uzes, first peer of France, and of Amable Emilie, Duchess de Chatillon.
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