- Beatrice Of Nazareth
Beatrice of Nazareth (Flemish and Dutch: Beatrijs van Nazareth (born 1200 Tienen, died 1268) was a Flemish Cistercian nun. She was the very first prose writer using the Dutch language, a mystic, and the author of the notable Dutch prose dissertation known as the "Seven Ways of Holy Love". She was also the first prioress of the convent named Nazareth near Lier in Brabant. - Saint Joseph
Joseph "of the House of David" (heb."יוֹסֵף" also Saint Joseph, Joseph the Betrothed, Joseph of Nazareth, and Joseph the Worker) was, according to Christian Gospel accounts and tradition, the husband of Mary and the legal father of Jesus of Nazareth, although Christian faith tradition holds that Joseph did not physically beget Jesus, … - Bronze Nazareth
Bronze Nazareth (born Justin Cross in Michigan) is a hip-hop producer and rapper associated with the Wu-Tang Clan. He is, along with Cilvaringz, part of the new generation of producers to carry on the Wu-Tang sound. He has a solo career as a rapper and is also a part of the rap group Wisemen. - Peter Nazareth
Peter Nazareth (b. April 27,1940), is a critic and writer of fiction and drama. He was born in Uganda of Goan and Malaysian ancestry, and was educated at Makerere University (Uganda) and at the universities of London and Leeds (United Kingdom). He served as senior finance officer in Idi Amin's finance ministry until 1973 when he accepted a fellowship at Yale University (United States). - Christopher Nazareth
Christopher Nazareth, (b. Janurary 21, 1972), born in Hampton, Va, USA is an author, motivational speaker, talk radio host and social critic. Nazareth's first book, Wanted: The African American Woman's Guide to Understanding Black Men, was released under Free Mind Publishing. In 2007, he made a series of promotional appearances on daytime talk shows. He is also host of an internet radio show, Wanted: The Black Relationship Show. - Ernesto Nazareth
Ernesto Júlio Nazareth was a Brazilian composer and pianist, especially noted for his creative tango and Choro compositions. Ernesto Nazareth was one of 38 children of his parents. He published his first composition at age 14. Nazareth was noted for creatively combining diverse influences into his music, not only of Brazilian music but also from the music of Europe, Africa and ragtime. Many of his compositions remain part of the repertory today. - Jonathan Cook
Jonathan Cook (born in 1965 in Buckinghamshire, England) is a British freelance journalist based in Nazareth, Israel, who has published in "The Guardian", "The Observer", "ZNet", "Electronic Intifada", "CounterPunch", Al Jazeera and Information Clearing House. He authored the book "Blood and Religion: The Unmasking of the Jewish and Democratic State". - John Locke
John Locke (September 25, 1943 - August 4, 2006) was a keyboardist and a member of the rock group Spirit. Locke was also a member of the band Nazareth. - Dan McCafferty
Dan McCafferty (born William McCafferty, 14th October 1946, in Edinburgh, Scotland) is the lead singer for the Scottish hard rock band, Nazareth. - Azmi Bishara
Azmi Bishara is a Palestinian Christian who was a Member of the Israeli Knesset and leader of the Balad party from 1996 until resigning in April 2007. His resignation took place amidst news of a series of "serious" but "unspecified" criminal charges being laid against him by Israeli security services, which were later revealed to be treason and espionage. By resigning, Bishara lost his parliamentary immunity and has chosen to remain abroad, … - Manny Charlton
Manny Charlton (born Manuel Charlton, 25 July 1941, in La Linea, Spain) is famous for being the guitarist and founding member of the Scottish hard rock band, Nazareth from 1968 to 1990. - Pete Agnew
Peter 'Pete' Agnew (born 14 September 1946 in Dunfermline, Scotland) is the bassist for the Scottish rock band, Nazareth. Agnew has been with the band since its founding in 1968. - Christian Martyrs
A Christian martyr is one who, without seeking his own death or any harm to others, is murdered or put to death for his religious faith or convictions. Many Christian martyrs suffered cruel and torturous deaths like stoning, crucifixion, and burning at the stake. The word 'martyr' comes from the Greek word translated "witness." Martyrdom is a form of religious persecution. The first Christian martyr was Saint Stephen as recorded in the who was stoned to death for his faith. - Darrell Sweet
Darrell Antony Sweet (born May 16 1947, Bournemouth, Dorset, England - 30 April 1999) was a drummer for the Scottish hard rock band, Nazareth. He was a co-founder of Nazareth, which was formed in 1968. Sweet died of a heart attack in 1999, as the band prepared to set out on the second leg of its U.S. tour in support of its latest album, "Boogaloo". The band had arrived at Indiana's New Albany Amphitheater when the 51-year-old Sweet began to feel ill. - Elia Suleiman
Suleiman, Elia was born in Nazareth in 1960. He has lived in New York, the Netherlands and France, as well as in Palestine. In addition to Divine Intervention (2002), his film credits include: Cyber-Palestine (1999), War and Peace in Vesoul (1997), Chronicle of a Disappearance (1996) and several others. Suleiman won the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 2002. - Judas Of Galilee
Judas of Galilee or Judas of Gamala led a violent resistance to a census imposed for Roman tax purposes by Quirinius (sometimes spelled "Cyrenius" in Josephus) in Iudaea Province around AD 6. The revolt was crushed brutally by the Romans. These events are discussed by Josephus in "Jewish Wars" (also known as "The Wars of the Jews"), (Book 2, Chapter 8, Section 1 and Chapter 17, Section 8), … - Hany Abu-Assad
Hany Abu-Assad (born 11 October 1961) is a Dutch-Palestinian film director. His film "Paradise Now", about two Palestinian men preparing for a suicide attack in Israel, was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 2006. Abu-Assad was born in Nazareth in 1961 and emigrated to the Netherlands in 1980. After having studied technical engineering in Haarlem he worked as an airplane engineer in the Netherlands for several years. - Zal Cleminson
Alasdair 'Zal' Cleminson (4 May 1949 in Glasgow) is a Scottish guitarist, best known for his prominent role in the Sensational Alex Harvey Band during the 1970s. - Fatali
Fatali is Eitan Carmi, a psychedelic trance artist from Israel. Born in Nazareth in 1984, he began producing professionally at the age of 16. Since 2004, he has played a variety of venues in Europe (Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Holland, and the United Kingdom) as well as Brazil, Mexico, and Australia. He credits acts like Cosma and Son Kite as influences. - Rim Banna
Rim Banna (born December 8, 1966) is a Palestinian singer, composer and arranger, well-known for her modern interpretations of traditional folk songs. Banna was born in Nazareth, where she graduated from Nazareth Baptist School in 1984. She currently lives in Nazareth with her husband, the artist Leonid Alexeienko, and their three children. - Samir Joubran
Samir Joubran (1973-) was born in Nazareth, Israel, to a renowned oud maker and to a singer mother. He started learning to play the oud as early as the age of 5, and when he was 9 years old began studying at the Music Institute in Nazareth. He eventually attended and graduated from the Mohamed Abdul Wahab Conservatory in Cairo, Egypt. - Joseph Raya
Archbishop Joseph Raya, born in Zahlé, Lebanon, was a prominent Melkite Greek Catholic archbishop, theologian and author. He served as metropolitan of Akko, Haifa, Nazareth and All Galilee from 1968 until 1974 and was particularly known for his commitment to seeking reconciliation between Christians, Jews and Muslims. He was also a leading advocate of celebrating the Divine Liturgy in vernacular languages. - Ben Dunkelman
Benjamin (Ben) Dunkelman (1913 - June 11 1997) was a Canadian Jew who served in the Canadian Army during the Second World War. Educated at Upper Canada College in Toronto, Dunkleman enlisted with The Queen's Own Rifles of Canada and saw action at Caen, Falaise, and the Battle of the Scheldt. His father was David Dunkelman, the founder of the Canadian men's retailers, Tip Top Tailors. After the war, Dunkelman returned to Canada, but again decided to travel to war, … - Max Middleton
David Maxwell "Max" Middleton (born 4 August 1946, in Amersham, Buckinghamshire) is an English composer and keyboardist, known for his work on the Fender Rhodes electric piano, the Minimoog, and his percussive playing style of the Hohner Clavinet. - Peter Verhelst
Peter Verhelst (b. Bruges, Belgium, 28 January 1962) is a Belgian Flemish novelist, poet, and dramatist. He is the writer of such novels as "De Kleurenvanger"; "Memoires van een luipaard"; "Zwellend fruit"; "Tongkat". His latest novel is the so-called political thriller, "Zwerm". He is known for the very characteristic poetic writing style as well as his original off set protocols. Verhelst made his debut in 1987 with the poem "Obsidiaan". - May Ziade
May Ziade (neé Marie, with Ziade also written Ziadé or Ziadeh was an born in Nazareth in Ottoman Palestine to a Jewish Lebanese father (from the Chahtoul family) and an Arab Palestinian mother on February 11 in 1886. Ziade was a prolific writer for Arab newspapers and periodicals. She also authored a number of poems and books, … - Mike Fasano
Mike "The Sack" Fasano is a drummer who has toured and recorded for several bands, including Warrant, former Eagles guitarist Don Felder, Tiger Army, Gilby Clarke, Dad's Porno Mag, Bomb Child, Shamesless, and Roxie 77. Guitarist Ryan Roxie has played in both Dad's Porno Mag and Roxie 77 with Mike Fasano. Fasano also guested on the Guns'N'Roses album "The Spaghetti Incident?", on the cover of Nazareth's "Hair Of The Dog". - Tawfiq Ziad
Tawfiq Ziad, also transliterated as Tawfik Zayyad, 7 May 1929 – 5 July 1994) was a Palestinian Arab citizen of Israel, well-known for his "poetry of protest". Born in the Galilee, Zayyad studied literature in Russia. After returning home, he was elected mayor of Nazareth on 9 December 1973, as head of Rakah, a Communist party, a victory that is said to have "surprised and alarmed" Israelis. - Ernest Dewitt Burton
Ernest DeWitt Burton (1856-1925) was an American biblical scholar, born in Granville, Ohio. He graduated from Denison University in 1876 and from Rochester Theological Seminary in 1882, and studied in Germany at Leipzig and Berlin, then taught at the seminaries in Rochester and Newton (1882-1892). He became head of the department of New Testament literature and interpretation at the University of Chicago, … - Abdel Rahman Zuabi
Abdel Rahman Zuabi (born 1933/34?; also Romanized as Abd-er-Rahman Zoabi) is an Israeli judge. He served on the Israeli Supreme Court for nine months in 1999, making him the first Israeli Arab on the country's highest court. Zuabi was born in northern Israel, in the village of Sulam near the city of Afula. He was the first Arab to graduate from the Tel Aviv School of Law and Economics (now a part of Tel Aviv University). - Rosemarie Said Zahlan
Rosemarie Said Zahlan (August 20, 1937 - May 10, 2006) was a Palestinian-American historian and writer on the Gulf states. She was a sister of Edward Said. In addition to her books, she also wrote for the Financial Times, the Middle East Journal, the International Journal of Middle East Studies and the Encyclopedia of Islam. Said Zahlan was born in Cairo in 1937, as the eldest of four sisters. - Riah Hanna Abu El-Assal
Riah Hanna Abu El-Assal (b. 1937) is an Anglican from Nazareth.He graduated from Nazareth Baptist school where he also taught.While at Nazareth he was a member of the PLP, the Progressive List for Peace - a joint Jewish-Arab political party which, while existing only for eight years (1984-1992) is considered to have broken many previously sacroscanct taboos and profoundly influenced subsequent Israeli politics. - Jeff Streeter
Jeff Streeter (born November 25 1979 in Vinton, Iowa) is a former NASCAR driver. He was a part-time Busch Series driver in 2001 and 2003. Streeter made his debut in 2001 at Nashville Superspeedway, running a family-owned vehicle. He started 43rd and finished 41st after an early crash. His next race came at California, where he improved with a 36th place finish. After a 37th place finish at Dover, he set his year-long best of 29th at IRP Streeter ran five races in 2003, … - Roger de Moulins
Roger de Moulins was Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller from 1177 to his death in 1187, succeeding Jobert of Syria. The Hospitallers were rivals of the Knights Templar, but Pope Alexander III persuaded Roger to make a truce with them in 1179. In 1184 he toured Europe with Arnold of Toroja, the Grand Master of the Templars, and Heraclius, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, and established the Hospitaller Order in England, France and Germany. - Peter Böhler
Peter Böhler or Peter Boehler was a German-born Moravian missionary and bishop who was influential in the Moravian Church in the Americas and England during the eighteenth century. Böhler was one of the many missionaries sent out to the Americas in the early 18th century by the leader of the Moravian Church, Nicolaus Ludwig Zinzendorf. As a part of the first large scale Protestant missionary movement, … - Najwan Ghrayib
Najwan Ghrayib, (born January 30, 1974) is an Arab Israeli footballer currently playing at boyhood club Maccabi Ahi Nazareth in Nazareth, Israel. - Fu'Ad Nassar
Fu'ad Nassar (b. 1914 in Nazareth) was a Palestinian communist leader. Nassar became associated with the anti-colonial struggle in 1929. Joined the Palestinian Communist Party. In charge of the military activities of the party during the 1936-1936 insurgency. Led the Nazareth branch of the Palestinian Arab Workers Society. Nassar was imprisoned in Iraq. He returned to Palestine in 1943. - Jeff Falk
Jeff Falk, born in Chesapeake, VA is a former NASCAR driver. He ran four races in the Busch Series during 2001. Those four races all came in the #8 Chevy owned by Armando Fitz. He started the #8 Chevy in 40th position at Richmond, but only managed a 31st. He improved at Nazareth with a 29th and then managed 24th at Bristol. That would end up being a career best, although he did manage a 25th in his return at Richmond. It would turn out to be Falk's last career start. - Hana Sweid
Dr Hana Sweid (also spelt Hanna Swaid, born 27 March 1955) is an Israeli Arab politician and member of the Knesset for Hadash. Born in Eilabun, an Israeli Arab village between the Sea of Galilee and Nazareth, Sweid studied Civil Engineering at the Technion, gaining a BSc and an MSc. Further studies led to him receiving a DSc in Civil Engineering and Urban Planning. - Colin Frechter
Colin Frechter has a long tenure in the music business primarily as a musical director, arranger, keyboard player, and vocalist. Colin has worked with The Four Tops, The Bay City Rollers (receiving a gold disc for the single 'Bye, Bye, Baby (Baby, Goodbye)' and L.P. 'Once Upon a Star'), Elaine Paige, Showaddywaddy, Mud, Nazareth, Elton John, Take That (including Robbie Williams), Shakin' Stevens, Brotherhood of Man (including 'Save Your Kisses for Me'), Soloman King, …
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