- Nicholas Metropolis
Nicholas Constantine Metropolis (June 11, 1915 - October 17, 1999) was an American mathematician, physicist, and computer scientist. Metropolis received his B.Sc. (1937) and Ph.D. (1941) degrees in experimental physics at the University of Chicago. Shortly afterwards, Robert Oppenheimer recruited him from Chicago, where he was at the time collaborating with Enrico Fermi and Edward Teller on the first nuclear reactors, to the Los Alamos National Laboratory. - Fritz Lang
Friedrich Christian Anton Lang was an Austrian-German-American film director, screenwriter and occasional film producer, one of the best known "émigrés" from Germany's school of expressionism. His most famous films are the groundbreaking "Metropolis" (the world's most expensive silent film at the time of its release) and "M", made before he moved to the United States. - Thea von Harbou
Thea Gabriele von Harbou was a German actress and author of Prussian aristocratic origin. In 1905, she published her first novel in the "Deutsche Roman-Zeitung". However, she then started to work as an actress, beginning in 1906 in Düsseldorf, then moving to Weimar (1908), Chemnitz (1911) and Aachen (1913). In Aachen she met her first husband, the actor and director Rudolf Klein-Rogge, whom she married in 1914. - Brigitte Helm
Brigitte Eva Gisela Schittenhelm was a German actress, most famous for her role as Maria in Fritz Lang's 1927 silent film, "Metropolis". After "Metropolis", which was her second film, Helm made over 30 other films, including talking pictures, before retiring in 1936. Her other appearances include "The Love of Jeanne Ney" (1927), "Alraune" (1928), "Gloria" (1931), "The Blue Danube" (1932) and "Gold" (1934). - Rudolf Klein-Rogge
Rudolf Klein-Rogge was a German stage and film actor of the 1920s and 30s. He is best known for his roles as the mad scientist Rotwang in Fritz Lang's film "Metropolis", and as the title character in Lang's Dr. Mabuse series. - Gustav Fröhlich
Gustav Fröhlich was a German actor. He landed secondary roles in a number of films and plays before landing his breakthrough role of Freder Fredersen in Fritz Lang's 1927 film "Metropolis". - Heinrich George
Heinrich George was a German actor. He acted in films such as "Berlin Alexanderplatz" and others and had one of first roles in the Fritz Lang directed film "Metropolis". Although active in the Communist Party of Germany before the Nazi takeover, he acted in a number of propaganda films before and during WWII, including "Hitlerjunge Quex", "Jud Süß", and "Kolberg". He died in 1946 in a Russian concentration camp, just north of Berlin, … - Karl Freund
Karl W. Freund was a German cinematographer and film director. Born in Königinhof, Bohemia, his career began in 1905 when, at age 15, he got a job as an assistant projectionist for a film company in Berlin. He worked as a cinematographer on over 100 films, including "The Last Laugh" (1924), "Metropolis" (1927), "Dracula" (1931), and "Key Largo" (1948). He won an Academy Award for Best Cinematography for "The Good Earth" (1937). - Carlos Fuentes
Carlos Fuentes is one of Latin America's most prominent men of letters. He is an essayist and literary historian of the highest caliber, as well as the author of numerous screenplays, dramas, and short stories; however, Fuentes is best known for his novels, which use complex and innovative narrative techniques to probe Mexican history. Born in 1928 in Panama City, the son of a Mexican diplomat, Fuentes was raised in Washington, D.C. Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Santiago, Chile. - Edgar G. Ulmer
Edgar G. Ulmer (September 17, 1904 - September 30, 1972) was an Austrian-American film director. He is best remembered for the movies "The Black Cat" (1934) and "Detour" (1945). These stylish and eccentric works have achieved cult status, but Ulmer's other films remain relatively unknown. Ulmer was born in Olomouc, in today's Czech Republic. As a young man he lived in Vienna, … - Ben Katchor
Ben Katchor (born 1951 in Brooklyn, NY) is an American cartoonist. His comic strip "Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer" paints an evocative picture of a slightly surreal, historical New York City with a decidedly Jewish sensibility. "Julius Knipl" has been published in several book collections including "Cheap Novelties: The Pleasure of Urban Decay" and "The Beauty Supply District". - Erich Pommer
Erich Pommer was one of the most influential producers of the silent film era, having been one of the most influential creators behind the German Expressionism movement as the head of production at Ufa from 1924 to 1926. Under his guidance, many of what critics consider the greatest movies ever made were directed, such as "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" (1920), "Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler" (1922), "Die Nibelungen" (1924), "Mikaël" (1924), … - Destiny
Destiny is one of the Endless, fictional characters from Neil Gaiman's comic book series, "The Sandman". He was originally created by Marv Wolfman and Berni Wrightson in "Weird Mystery Tales" #1 (1972), and was regular host of that series as well as "Secrets of Haunted House". In the Sandman Special #1, he was also referred to as Potmos. Like Lucien, Cain and Abel and some other "Sandman" characters, … - Enno Patalas
Enno Patalas is a German film historian, collector, and restorer famous for setting the basis for the authorised restoration of silent films like "Metropolis", " M – Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder" and "Die Nibelungen", all directed by Fritz Lang. Patalas has a reputation of being one of the worlds most famous film historians. He, along with Ulrich Gregor, wrote one of the most influential books on Film History, … - Michael Daugherty
Michael Daugherty (born April 28, 1954 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa) is an American composer. He comes from a musical family; his father was a dance-band drummer and his four younger brothers are professional musicians. Daugherty's music is characterized by an interest in American popular culture. He has composed works based on Superman ("Metropolis Symphony", 1988-1993, and "Bizarro", 1993), Elvis Presley ("Elvis Everywhere" and "Dead Elvis"), … - Elizabeth Gaffney
Elizabeth Gaffney (born in New York, NY, December 22, 1966) is an American novelist. She graduated from Vassar College and holds an MFA in fiction from Brooklyn College. She is also the editor at large of the quarterly magazine A Public Space and was a staff editor of The Paris Review for sixteen years, under George Plimpton. She has translated three books from German. Her first novel, "Metropolis" was published in 2005. - John Hockenberry
John Hockenberry (b. June 4, 1956) is an American journalist. He has won four Emmy awards and three Peabody Awards. Hockenberry accepted a position in Early 2007 as a Distinguished Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab and is also a regular commentator on the Infinite Mind. He is a contributing editor for "Wired" magazine, … - Verus
Verus (d. 219) was a Roman usurper. Verus was a centurion, who had successfully raised himself to the rank of Roman Senator. He was the commander of the Legio III "Gallica", a legion located in Syria, which supported Elagabalus bid for power (218). Soon, however, the soldiers disenchanted with the reign of Elagabalus, and in the winter 218-219 Verus took the opportunity, proclaiming himself Roman Emperor, and leading the rebellion of the Third legion. - Louise Lombard
Louise Lombard (born 13 September, 1970) is a British actress. Her real name is Louise Maria Perkins. She was born near Redbridge in Essex, England, one of seven siblings to a family of Irish extraction. Lombard was educated in a local Roman Catholic school, from which she achieved nine O' Levels. She is best known for her role as Evangeline in the 1990s television show "The House of Eliott", in which she played the younger of the two Eliott sisters. - Junpei Takiguchi
(April 17, 1931 -) is a male seiyū and narrator from Chiba Prefecture. His real name is - Jonathan Hale
Jonathan Hale (March 21, 1891 - February 28, 1966) was a Canadian-born film and television actor. He committed suicide in 1966. He was well known as Dagwood Bumstead's boss, Julius Caesar Dithers, in the "Blondie" film series in the 1940s. Fans of the TV series "Adventures of Superman" remember Hale for key roles in two different episodes: *"The Evil Three", in which a he played a murderous "Southern Colonel"-type character *"Panic in the Sky", … - Slatan Dudow
Slatan Theodor Dudow (Zlatan Dudov) (January 30, 1903 - July 12, 1963) was a Bulgarian born film director and screenwriter who made a number of films in the Weimar Republic and East Germany. Dudow was born in Zaribrod, Bulgaria, but emigrated to Berlin in 1922 with the intention of becoming an architect. He gave up this plan and began studying theatre in 1923, first under Emmanuel Reicher, and then, from 1925 to 1926, … - Paola Lenti
Paola Antonelli is one of the world's foremost design experts and was recently rated as one of the top one hundred most powerful people in the world of art by "Art Review." She is a curator in the Department of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art. The recipient of a Master's degree in Architecture from the Polytechnic of Milan in 1990, Paola Antonelli has curated several architecture and design exhibitions in Italy, France, and Japan. - Svetlana Broz
Svetlana Broz is an author and physician who specializes in cardiology. She is the granddaughter of former Yugoslav leader Josip Broz Tito. Born in 1955, Broz is the youngest child of Žarko Broz, Tito's eldest son, and Zlata Jelinek-Broz. She worked as a free-lance journalist from 1970 to 1975; many of her articles and interviews were published in newspapers and magazines. - Olga Chekhova
Olga Konstantinovna Chekhova or Tchechowa ((14 April 1897, Aleksandropol (now Gyumri, Armenia) – 9 March 1980, Berlin) was a Russian actress who made a stunning career in the cinema of the Third Reich. Born Olga Knipper, she was the daughter of Konstantin Knipper, an imperial minister and the niece and namesake of Olga Knipper (Anton Chekhov's wife), both of whom were Lutherans of ethnic German descent. - Suzanne Doucet
Suzanne Doucet is an award winning composer and producer from Germany. She was born in Tuebingen (Germany) in 1944. She went to school in Meersburg/Bodensee, Frankfurt, Heidelberg, Hamburg and Munich (college). Her mother and her grandmother both named Helen von Muenchhofen were actresses. Her grandmother played in the history making silent movie Metropolis. - Enda Markey
Enda Markey (b. 3 June 1976, Dublin, Ireland), is a stage and television actor. He made his professional stage debut aged eleven in Dylan Thomas's "A Child's Christmas In Wales" at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin. At sixteen, he was awarded a scholarship to train at Laine Theatre Arts in London on the Musical Theatre Course. Immediately following his training, Enda played Rick in the London production of "A Slice of Saturday Night". - Kyrillos II
Kyrillos Papadopoulos nicknamed Kyrillatsos (big Kyrillos) was bishop of Larnaca and between 1909-1916 Archbishop of Cyprus. He was born under the Ottoman Empire, at Prodromos village in Limassol District in 1845 and died under British sovereignty, in 1916. He studied in Jerusalem at the Theological School of the Holy Cross (Θεολογική Σχολή του Τιμίου Σταυρού) between 1866-72. He was a teacher of the Greek School of Nicosia. - Ambapali
Ambapali, also called Amrapali, was a royal courtesan (or nagarvadhu) of the republic state of Vaishali, ancient India. She finds mention in the old Pali texts and Buddhist traditions. Etymologically, Ambapali or Amrapali is derived from two Sanskrit words, "“amra”" meaning mango and "“pali”", which means leaves – thus, the literally meaning of her name is “"(a child) of the mango grove"”. - Colin Liddell
Colin Liddell (born 1970; Kilwinning,Scotland) was the executive editor of Tokyo Journal, Japan's oldest English language magazine. He lives in Tokyo and writes for a wide selection of other publications. After working at the London-based rock magazine "Riff Raff", he moved to Japan, where he started writing and doing editing work on Tokyo Journal in 1999. The next year, he started to contribute articles mainly on art, but sometimes on music, to the Japan Times, … - Martin Stern Jr.
Martin Stern, Jr. (April 9, 1917-July 28, 2001) was an American architect who was most widely known for his large scale designs and structures in Las Vegas, Nevada. Martin Stern is credited with originating the concept of the structurally integrated casino resort complex in Las Vegas. The International Hotel and the first MGM Grand Hotel and Casino, two pivotal Martin Stern, Jr. projects with entrepreneur Kirk Kerkorian in 1969 and 1973, … - Jamshed Nusserwanjee Mehta
Jamshed Nusserwanjee Mehta was born in Karachi on 7th January 1886. In 1918, he was elected a councilor of the Karachi Municipal Corporation. He was soon elected the President of the Corporation. He served in that capacity for 12 years and become the first Mayor of the city. In the thirteen years during his President-ship and Mayoralty of Karachi, he transformed the city into a great and important Metropolis. As a member of the Sindh Legislative Assembly, … - Unger, Bishop Of Poland
Unger (died 9 June 1012) — bishop of Poland with seat in Poznań, after year 1000 bishop of Poznań independent from archbishop of Gniezno. He became bishop in 982, probably as a missionary of unknown for us territory. Probably after failuire of his mission, became abbot of monatry in Memleben (Unger kept this title till end of his life). Most probably in 991 or 992 Unger arrived to Poland as a successor of Jordan who died in 984. - Lormong Lo
Lormong Lo is the first Hmong American to be appointed to a city council in the U.S, in 1994, to manage the largest metropolitan city (Omaha--480,000 people) of a state like Nebraska. He was re-elected in June 1997 to a second full-term from 1997 until June 2001. In June 1997, Lo is the first Hmong ever to become president of a city council in the U.S., Omaha City Council, who presided over the official meetings of the council. - Scott Pannick
Scott Pannick Founder and President In 1998 Scott Pannick founded Metropolis with the goal to build communities that were Different by Design. He created exciting spaces that were truly urban loft living, with dramatic ceiling heights, platform living spaces, and exciting European design features, bringing a new level of style to the DC marketplace. Since the company�s founding, Scott has overseen the development of five hip new urban residential projects. - Max Goldblatt
Graduated from Wesleyan University in 2005. Briefly worked in a renaissance faire as a blacksmith. - Bryce Eckhaus
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- Kevin Metropolis
well my name is Kevin Metropolis, i made this myspace deal to converse with some cool people i know. i like sweaters. i like sweatpants. i like to wear sweaters and sweat pants.
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