- Esther Dyson
Esther Dyson is a self-described authority on emerging digital technology, and considered a founding member of the digerati. Esther Dyson is the daughter of Freeman Dyson, a physicist, and Verana Huber-Dyson, a mathematician, and the sister of the digital technology historian George Dyson. After graduating from Harvard in economics, she joined Forbes as a fact-checker and quickly rose to reporter. - Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand (March 6 1982), born Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum, was a Russian-born American novelist and philosopher, best known for creating a philosophy she named "Objectivism" and for writing the novels "We the Living," "The Fountainhead," "Atlas Shrugged" and the novella "Anthem." Her influential and controversial ideas have attracted both enthusiastic admiration and scathing denunciation. <br - Maxim Afinogenov
Maxim Sergeyevich Afinogenov ("Maksim Sergejevič Afinogenov", ; born September 4, 1979 in Moscow, USSR; now Russia) is a professional ice hockey player. - Alexei Kovalev
Alexei "Alex" Kovalev (Russian:Алексей Ковалёв, "Aleksei Kovaliov"; born February 24, 1973, in Togliatti, U.S.S.R. [now Russia]) is a Russian professional ice hockey player in the NHL currently playing with the Montreal Canadiens as a right winger. He has also been a licensed aircraft pilot for several years. - Elena Baranova
Elena Baranova (born on January 28, 1972 in Frunze, Kyrgyz SSR, Soviet Union (present-day Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan)) is a Russian professional basketball player. Currently, she is a Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) player who plays for the New York Liberty. - Darius Kasparaitis
Darius Kasparaitis is an ethnic Lithuanian-Russian professional ice hockey defenceman, also known by the nickname "Kaspar". He has Russian citizenship and plays for the Russian national hockey team. - Alexei Zhitnik
Alexei Zhitnik (pronounced ZHIHT-nihk) (born October 10, 1972 in Kiev, U.S.S.R. (now Ukraine)), is a Ukrainian-born ice hockey defenceman who currently plays for the Atlanta Thrashers of the National Hockey League. - Valeri Kamensky
Valeri Viktorovich Kamensky (born April 18, 1966 in Voskresensk, Soviet Union, now Russia) is a Russian hockey player. He started his career in 1982 in Khimik Voskresensk, USSR. After Khimik Voskresensk (1982-85), Kamensky played for CSKA Moscow (1985-91). In 1991 he made a debut in NHL, where he played for Quebec Nordiques (1991-95, spending the '94 lock-out break in HC Ambri-Piotta, Switzerland), Colorado Avalanche (1995-99), New York Rangers (1999-2001), … - Alexei Gusarov
Alexei Vasilievich Gusarov (born July 8 1964 in Leningrad, USSR now Russia) is a Russian ice hockey player (defence). He played for the Quebec Nordiques, Colorado Avalanche, New York Rangers and St. Louis Blues. Gusarov won the Stanley Cup with the Colorado Avalanche in 1996. He is a member of the Triple Gold Club, having won the 1989 IIHF World Championship, the 1996 Stanley Cup, and the Olympic gold medal in 1988. Standing 6'2" and weighing in at 183 lb (83 kg), … - Mordecai Manuel Noah
Mordecai Manuel Noah (July 14, 1785, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,- May 22, 1851, New York) was an American playwright, diplomat, journalist, and utopian. Born in a family of Portuguese Sephardic ancestry; he was the first Jew born in the United States to reach national prominence. Noah engaged in trade and law, but when removing to Charleston, South Carolina, dedicated himself to politics. In 1811, he was appointed by President James Madison as consul at Riga, … - Meyer London
Meyer London (1871 - 1926) was one of two Socialist Party members elected to the United States Congress. London was born in Kalvarija, Lithuania (then part of the Russian Empire) in 1871. In 1891, he emigrated to the United States, taking up residence in New York's largely Jewish Lower East Side. London became a labor lawyer representing labor unions. He ran for Congress three times as a Socialist and was defeated by Tammany Hall-supported Democrats, but in 1914, … - Peretz Hirshbein
Peretz Hirshbein (born 7 November 1880 in Melnik, Grodno - died 16 August 1948 in Los Angeles) was a Yiddish-language playwright, instrumental in the revival of Yiddish theater in Russia shortly after the 1904 lifting of the 1883 ban on theatrical performances in that language. Prior to his involvement in Yiddish theater, he wrote several plays in Hebrew; these were published in the periodical "Hazman", … - Oleg Kvasha
Oleg Kvasha (born July 26, 1978 in Moscow, Soviet Union now Russia) is a Russian hockey forward who plays for Vityaz Chekhov of the Russian Super League. - Eliakum Zunser
Eliakum Zunser (Eliakim Badchen) (1836 - 1913) was a Lithuanian Jewish Yiddish-language poet, songwriter, and "badchen" who lived out the last part of his life in U.S.. A 1905 article in the "New York Times" lauded him as "the father of Yiddish poetry". About a quarter of his roughly 600 songs survive. He influenced and was influenced by Brody singer Velvel Zbarzher, although it is not believed that they ever met. - Andrew Dickson White
Andrew Dickson White (November 7 1832 - November 4 1918) was a U.S. diplomat, author, and educator, best known as the co-founder of Cornell University. White was born in Homer, New York. After spending one year at Hobart College (then known as Geneva College), he transferred to Yale University. At Yale, he was a classmate of Daniel Coit Gilman, who would later serve as first president of Johns Hopkins University. The two were members of the Skull and Bones secret society, … - Ashleigh Princess Of Russia
- Simon Sebag Montefiore
Simon Sebag Montefiore (born 1965) is a British journalist and historian of Jewish origin specializing in Russian History. He wrote "Potemkin", a biography of Catherine the Great's lover and political partner. More recently, in 2004, he published a lengthy biography of one of the twentieth century's most powerful leaders, "Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar". - Paul Klebnikov
Paul Klebnikov (June 31963 - July 92004) was an American journalist of Russian descent. His murder in Moscow was seen as a blow against investigative journalism in Russia. - Tommy Ramone
Tommy Ramone is a Hungarian-American record producer and drummer. He is the last surviving original member of the pioneering punk rock band The Ramones. He is a drummer in many different bands. Erdélyi grew up in Queens, one of the boroughs of New York City. Tommy and guitarist Johnny Cummings (later to be dubbed "Johnny Ramone") performed together in a mid-60's four-piece garage band called the Tangerine Puppets while in high school. - Stephen F. Cohen
Stephen Frand Cohen is a scholar of Russian studies in the USA. His academic work concentrates on developments in Russia since the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917 and the country's relationship with the United States. In 1983, he declared that the Soviet system was remarkably stable, not foreseeing the breakup of the USSR less than a decade later, in 1991. - Vasily Strelnikov
Vasily Strelnikov is a well-known Russian-American New York-born VJ, most commonly know to the Boomerang Generation as the voice behind MTV Russia, which he was during the 1998/2002 timeframe. Vasily arguably had the peak popularity with his morning show called Weekend's Whim ("Викендный Каприз"). Vasily began his career as a radio presenter in the 1980s working for Radio Moscow World Service. - Robert Winthrop Chanler
Robert Winthrop Chanler was born in New York City to John Winthrop Chanler and Margaret Astor Ward, in a sea of wealthy and interconnected Hudson River families that included the Astors, Delanos, Winthrops and Stuyvesants. A designer and muralist, Chanler received much of his art training in France at the École des Beaux-Arts, and there his most famous work titled "Giraffes," was completed in 1905 and later purchased by the French Government. - William III of the Netherlands
William III (February 19, 1817 - November 23, 1890) was King of the Netherlands and Grand Duke of Luxembourg (1849-1890). =Early life= William was born in Brussels as son of William II of the Netherlands and Queen Anna, daughter of Tsar Paul I of Russia and Empress Maria Fyodorovna (Sophie Dorothea of Württemberg). In his early years, he served in the military. - Francis Vinton Greene
Francis Vinton Greene was a United States Army officer who fought in the Spanish-American War. He came from the Greene family of Rhode Island, noted for its long line of participants in American military history. Greene was born in Providence, Rhode Island on June 27, 1850. He attended the United States Military Academy at West Point and graduated in 1870. He first served in the U.S. artillery but then transferred to the Corps of Engineers. - Mark Ames
Mark Ames is a Moscow-based expatriate American journalist and editor. He is the founding editor of the satirical biweekly "the eXile" in Moscow, to which he regularly contributes. Ames has also written for the "New York Press", "The Nation", "Playboy", "The San Jose Mercury News", "Alternet", "Птюч Connection", GQ (Russian edition), and other periodicals, and is the author of three books. - Charles Emory Smith
Charles Emory Smith (February 18, 1842 - January 19, 1908) was an American journalist and political leader. He was born in Mansfield, Connecticut. In 1849 his family removed to Albany, New York, where he attended the public schools and The Albany Academy. He graduated from Union College in 1861, was a recruiting officer on the staff of General John F. Rathbone (1819-1901) in 1861-1862, taught in the Albany Academy in 1862-1865, … - Israel Epstein
Israel Epstein was a naturalized Chinese journalist and author. He was one of the few foreign-born non-Chinese to become a member of the Communist Party of China. - Maxim Kondratiev
Maxim Kondratiev (born January 20, 1983 in Togliatti, USSR) is a professional ice hockey defenceman who signed to play for the Russian Hockey Super League team HC Lada Togliatti for the 2006-2007 season. Kondratiev skated for the Portland Pirates, the AHL affiliate team of the Anaheim Mighty Ducks of the NHL during the second part of the 2005-2006 season. Anaheim acquired Kondratiev in a trade on January 8, 2006, from the New York Rangers. - Sweeney Schriner
David "Sweeney" Schriner (November 30, 1911 - July 4, 1990) was a Canadian professional hockey forward who played 11 seasons in the National Hockey League for the New York Americans and Toronto Maple Leafs. - Joel Barr
Joel Barr, also Iozef Veniaminovich Berg and Joseph Berg (January 1, 1916-August 1, 1998), was part of the Soviet Atomic Spy Ring Born Joyel Barr in New York City to immigrant parents of Ukrainian-Jewish origin, he attended City College of New York with Julius Rosenberg, and later worked with Rosenberg and Alfred Sarant at the United States Army Signal Corps laboratories at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey during World War II. - Simeon Strunsky
Simeon Strunsky, A.B. (July 23, 1879-February 5, 1948) was an American essayist, born in Vitebsk, Russian Empire (present day Belarus). He graduated from Columbia University in 1900. He was a department editor of the New International Encyclopedia from 1900 to 1906, editorial writer on the New York "Evening Post" from 1906 to 1913, and subsequently was literary editor of that paper until 1920. His columns also appeared in "Atlantic Monthly", "Bookman", … - Jules Olitski
Jules Olitski (March 27 1922 - February 4 2007) was an American abstract painter and sculptor. - Theodore Draper
Theodore H. Draper was an American historian and political writer. He was a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He received the Herbert Feis Award for Nonacademically Affiliated Historians in 1990 from the American Historical Association. Draper was a long-time contributor first to "Commentary Magazine" and later to the "New York Review of Books". His works include "A Very Thin Line", a history of the Iran-Contra Affair, … - Russia
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Artist Name: Specter. Style: Florida Breaks, E-Hop. Format: CD, DJ Software. Profession: Producer, Remixer, DJ. Bio: electronic music composer since 2000, DJ since 2002. - Russia
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im buff and 19 years old. - Eugene Mirman
Eugene Boris Mirman is a Russian-born American comedian, writer, and film maker, who is based in New York City. Mirman attended Lexington High School in Lexington, MA, and later Hampshire College in Western Massachusetts. Mirman has appeared on several TV shows, including Late Night With Conan O'Brien, Comedy Central's Premium Blend and Jump Cuts, VH1, Third Watch, Cartoon Network's Home Movies, Cheap Seats, HBO's Flight of the Conchords and more. - Yuri
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Yuliana Dmitrievna Glinka (1844- 1918) was a Russian occultist born to a prominent family in Orel, Russia. Her grandfather, Colonel Feodor Nikolaevich Glinka was investigated as a leader of "a secret society of mystics" during Prince Alexander Nikolaevich Galitzine investigation of masonic lodges following the decembrist uprising of 1825. Fyodor Tolstoy testified that although he was a mystic he was "a loyal officer of the Empire".
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