Jan Zaprudnik

Jan Zaprudnik

male
Leuven alumni before 1968, Belarusian language, mir, Belarusian American, American, International PEN…Mir, Belarus
Jan Zaprudnik (Belarusian: "Янка Запруднік", real name Siarhiej Vilčycki, born 1926, Mir) is an American historian and publicist of Belarusian des...
Samuel Belkin

Samuel Belkin

male
Rabbi Samuel Belkin, university president, Slonim, halakha, Mir yeshiva, Hellenistic civilization…mir
Rabbi Samuel Belkin (1911-1976) is best known as the second University President of Yeshiva University. He was born in Swislocz, Poland and studied...
Alexander Alexandrovich Volkov

Alexander Alexandrovich Volkov

male, 61 years old
Gold Star medal, International Space Station, Order of Lenin, mir, Hero of the Soviet Union, cosmonaut
Alexander Alexandrovich Volkov (born May 27, 1948) is a Russian cosmonaut. At the age of 13, Volkov witnessed Yuri Gagarin become the first man in...
Claire Shulman

Claire Shulman

female
Whitestone, Queen, space station, mir, space shuttle, cancer survivor, From Queen
Claire Shulman was the borough president of Queens (New York City) from 1986 until 2002. Brooklyn-born and reared, Claire K. Shulman took office in...
Yehezkel Abramsky

Yehezkel Abramsky

male, deceased (1976)
London Beth Din, dayan, Brisk yeshivas, mir, yeshiva, Orthodox rabbi…Mir yeshiva
Dayan Yehezkel Abramsky, known affectionately as Reb Chatzkel Abramsky, was one of the most eminent Orthodox rabbis of the 20th century who headed...
Matvei Platov

Matvei Platov

male, deceased (1818)
ataman, Crimean Tatar, Izmail, danube, ottoman empire, friedland…mir, Mir Castle
Count Matvei Ivanovich Platov (August 6, 1757 - January 3 1818) was a Russian general who commanded the Don Cossacks in the Napoleonic wars. Platov...

Leib Gurwicz

male, deceased (1982)
Rosh yeshivas, Haredi rabbi in Europe, Orthodox Judaism, talmud, Orthodox rabbi, the holocaust…mir, Mir yeshiva
Rabbi Aryeh Ze'ev (Leib) Gurwicz (1906-1982) was an influential Orthodox Rabbi and Talmudic scholar. He was the son-in-law of Rabbi Elyah Lopian...

Naftoli Shapiro

male, deceased (1981)
mir, talmud, yeshiva, Orthodox rabbi, University of Glasgow, orthodox…Mir yeshiva, Mir, Belarus
Rabbi Naftoli Shapiro (1906-1981) was an Orthodox Talmudic scholar and Rosh yeshiva in Glasgow for 40 years. Born in 1906 in the town of Mir,...
Peter Rodney Llewellyn

Peter Rodney Llewellyn

male, 62 years old
Business Person, mir, Russian Space Agency, ConMan, restitution, Fraud
Peter Rodney Llewellyn (born November 1, 1947 in Walthamstow, England, and not Wales as he leads people to believe), is an international...
Edie Mirman

Edie Mirman (Edie Mir)

female, 52 years old
from Los Angeles, Digimon voice actor, Penny Sweet, Lupin III voice actor, lupin iii, Streamline voice actor
Edith S. Mirman (born July 26, 1957 in Los Angeles, CA) is an American voice actress best known for the voice of Fujiko Mine from Tales of the...