Zübeyde Hanım

female, deceased (1923)
Zübeyde Hanım was the mother of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of the Republic of Turkey. Her name is Zübeyde but "Hanım" is a respectful way o...
Maurice Sarrail

Maurice Sarrail

male, deceased (1929)
Maurice-Paul-Emmanuel Sarrail (1856-1929) was a French general of the First World War. Sarrail endeared himself to the political elite of the Third...
Yehuda Poliker

Yehuda Poliker

male, 59 years old
Yehuda Poliker is an Israeli musician of Greek ancestry. His music combines rock with Greek and other Mediterranean musical styles. He plays the...
Fatih Akyel

Fatih Akyel

male, 32 years old
Fatih Akyel is a Turkish football player. He currently plays defender for Gençlerbirliği in the Turkcell Super League. He came up through the yo...
Vassilis Vassilikos

Vassilis Vassilikos

male, 75 years old
Vassilis Vassilikos is a prolific Greek writer and diplomat. A native of the northern Greek island of Thassos, Vassilikos grew up in Salonika,...
Jacob Querido

Jacob Querido

male, deceased (1690)
Jacob Querido (d. 1690 in Alexandria, Egypt) was the successor of the self-proclaimed Jewish Messiah Sabbatai Zevi. Born in Salonika, he was the...
Nikola Zhekov

Nikola Zhekov

male, deceased (1949)
Nikola Zhekov (1864 - 1949) was a Minister of War of Bulgaria in 1915 and served as Commander-in-Chief from 1916-1918 during World War I. Zhekov...

Avraam Benaroya

male, deceased (1973)
Avraam Benaroya was a leader of the workers' movement in Greece. Benaroya was born in Salonika, the then commercial and political center of the...
Louis Franchet D'Espérey

Louis Franchet D'Espérey

male, deceased (1942)
Louis Félix Marie François Franchet d'Espérey was a French general during the First World War.

Warren Benson

male, deceased (2005)
Warren Benson was an American composer. His compositions consist mostly of music for wind instruments and percussion. His most notable piece is...