- Noah Samara
Noah A. Samara is an Ethiopian-born lawyer better known for being the founder and Chief Executive Officer of WorldSpace,the world's first to launch satellite radio. He also played a pivotal role in the foundation of XM Satellite Radio. He claimed in many instances that the driving motive for the foundation of WorldSpace is to give millions of people in Asia and Africa access to information, so as to facilitate the curbing of the spread of disease in those regions, …
- Mikhail Fradkov
Mikhail Yefimovich Fradkov (born September 1, 1950) is a Russian politician, and the current Prime Minister of Russia. Fradkov was born near the city now known as Samara in a Jewish family. He studied at both the Moscow Machine Tool Design (станкоинструментальный) Institute (graduated 1972) and the Foreign Trade Academy (graduated 1981). In 1973, he was posted to the economic section of the Soviet Union's embassy in India, …
- Aleksandr Anyukov
Aleksandr Anyukov (born 28 September 1982 in Samara) is a Russian international football defender. He plays for FC Zenit Saint Petersburg. Aleksandr Anyukov attended football school in Samara since the age of six. In 2000 he started playing for the reserve team of Krylya Sovetov Samara in the Second Division. He was noticed by Aleksandr Tarkhanov and invited to the first team.
- Olga Arteshina
Olga Arteshina (born November 27, 1982 in Samara) is a Russian basketball player, who competed for her native country at the 2004 Summer Olympics, winning the bronze medal.
- Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova
Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (born 3 July, 1991 in Samara, Russia) is a Russian tennis player. At just fifteen years of age, she is currently the No. 1 ranked singles and doubles junior player on the girl's ITF tour. As of January 27th 2007, Pavlyuchenkova won three Junior Grand Slam titles, twice at the Australian Open and once at the US Open and during 2006 won three of the Junior Grand Slam titles in doubles (Australian Open, French Open, …
- Alexander Yegorov
Alexander Ilyich Yegorov, Soviet military commander, was a prominent victim of Stalin's Great Purge of the late 1930s. Yegorov (sometimes spelled Egorov) was born into a peasant family near Samara in central Russia. He joined the army of the Russian Empire in 1901 and qualified as an officer in 1905. During World War I he rose to the rank of Lt-Colonel and was wounded five times. In 1904 he had joined the Socialist Revolutionary Party, …
- Grigory Isayev
Grigory Isayev is a Russian politician. He is the leader of the Samara Stachkom (Strike Committee) and the Party of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat. Isayev was arrested and sentenced to a prison camp in 1981 for his role in organizing workers' strike and an underground communist organization in the Soviet Union under Brezhnev rule.
- Valerian Kuybyshev
Valerian Vladimirovich Kuybyshev ; Born: Omsk, 6 June, (O.S. 25 May) 1888; Died: Moscow, 25 January, 1935) was a Russian revolutionist, a Red Army military commander during the Russian Civil War, and then a prominent Soviet politician. During 1928-1930 he was Chairman of the Supreme Council of the National Economy, in 1930-1934 he was the head of Gosplan. The city of Samara (the administrative centre of the Samara Oblast, Russia) and the town Bolgar (Tatarstan, …
- Sergey Platonov
Sergey Fyodorovich Platonov (1860–1933) was a Russian historian who led the official St Petersburg school of imperial historiography before and after the Russian Revolution. Platonov's scholarly career was centered on the University of St Petersburg, where he was held in highest repute for his detailed studies of the Time of Troubles and Oprichnina. Platonov's history textbooks, impeccably written and easily readable, …
- Justas Vincas Paleckis
Justas Vincas Paleckis (born 1 January 1942 in Kuybyshev, current Samara) is a Lithuanian politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Social Democratic Party of Lithuania; part of the Party of European Socialists. He was born in Samara, Russia where his family resided during the Second World War. His father was politician and journalist Justas Paleckis.
- Inga Abitova
Inga Abitova (born March 6, 1982 in Samara) is a Russian long-distance runner. She won the title of European Champion over the 10,000 m at the 2006 European Championships in Athletics in Gothenburg, Sweden in a time of 30:31.42 minutes, which meant a new personal best for her and the seventh-best time ever run by a European woman. She also won the Belgrade Marathon in 2005 (2:38:20 hours).
- Enrico Rastelli
Enrico Rastelli (born 19 December 1896, in Samara, Russia - died 13 December 1931, Bergamo, Italy) was an Italian juggler, acrobat and performer.
- Dmitri Shoukov
Dmitri Shoukov (Samara, USSR, 26 September 1975) is a Russian footballer. His position on the field is right wing-forward. Shoukov began his career in 1993 at CSKA Moscow. In 1995 he made change to go play in the Netherlands for Vitesse. After one season he went to play for NAC Breda then he moved to Willem II in 1999. On 20 January 2007 2004 he came to play for FC Twente. He was one of their best players.
- Viktor Chernov
Viktor Mikhailovich Chernov (1873 - 1952) was a Russian revolutionary and a founder of the Russian Socialist-Revolutionary Party in 1901/1902. Under Alexander Kerensky's provisional government in 1917, Chernov was the Minister for Agriculture. He was also the president of the Petrograd constituent assembly. Following the Bolsheviks' rise to power, he became a member of an anti-Bolshevik government in Samara, before fleeing to Europe and then the United States.
- Alexander Efimkin
Alexander Efimkin, born December 2 1981 in Samara) is a Russian professional road bicycle racer for UCI Professional Continental team Barloworld.
- Emma Lehmer
Emma Markovna Lehmer (née Trotskaia) was a mathematician known for her work on reciprocity laws in algebraic number theory. She preferred to deal with complex number fields and integers, rather than the more abstract aspects of the theory. Born in Samara, Russian Empire, her father's job as a representative with a Russian sugar company moved the family to Harbin, Manchuria in 1910. Emma was tutored at home until the age of 14, when a school was opened locally.
- Vasily Blyukher
Vasily Konstantinovich Blyukher (also spelled Blücher, Blukher, Bliukher etc, Russian: Василий Константинович Блюхер) (November 9, 1938), Soviet military commander, was among the prominent victims of Stalin's Great Purge of the late 1930s. Blyukher was born into a peasant family in village Barschinka, now in Yaroslavl Oblast.
- Gregory Ratoff
Gregory Ratoff (20 April 1897 - 14 December 1960) was a Russian-born American film director, actor and producer. His most famous role as an actor was as producer Max Fabian who feuds with star Margo Channing (Bette Davis) in "All About Eve" (1950). Ratoff was born in Samara, Russia. The Russian Jewish actor first came to the United States in 1922 and returned, …
- Maria Strelnikova
Maria Strelnikova was allegedly born on March 15, 1890 in the Ukrainian village Samara region of Russia, and she lives in the town of Vyborg. In March 2005, Maria was reported to celebrate her 115th birthday, receiving congratulations from the President of Russia, Vladimir Putin. It is unknown whether she is still alive as of 2007, but if she is she might be the world's oldest living person.
- Madame Popova
Madame Alexe Popova native of Samara, Russia, was a "murderer for hire" during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. For a fee, she would "liberate" wives married to supposedly cruel husbands using inexpensive, lethal remedy. Her murders began in 1879 and lasted until 1909, when the police were tipped off by a remorseful liberated woman and Popova was captured. During that time, she had killed over three hundred victims by poison.
- Dmitriy Ustinov
Dmitriy Fyodorovich Ustinov (October 17, 1908-December 20, 1984) was Defense Minister of the Soviet Union from 1976 until his death. Dimitry Fyodorovich Ustinov was born in Samara to a working-class family. In the civil war, when hunger became intolerable, the entire family headed by Fyodor, his sick father went to Samarkand, which served as his elder brothers. Short time after that, in 1922, his father died.
- Yakov Kazyansky
Yakov Kazyansky was born in Kuybyshev (now Samara), Russia on August 30, 1948. In 1949, his family moved to Yaroslavl, where he graduated from the Yaroslavl Regional Music College. In 1972, Yakov received his Master’s Degree in Music Theory from The Gnessin State Musical College. In 1972-1985, he taught music theory courses at the Yaroslavl Regional Music College. Mr. Kazyansky has been working as a Musical Director at the Yaroslavl Young People’s Theatre since 1985.
- Sophia Lvovna Perovskaya
Sophia Lvovna Perovskaya (September 1 (13), 1853 - April 3 (15), 1881), Russian revolutionary, member of Narodnaya Volya. Daughter of a former military governor of St.Petersburg, Perovskaya entered the Alarchinsky University for Women in 1869. In 1871—1872, together with other three women friends, she joined the Circle of Tchaikovsky. In 1872—1873 and 1874—1877, she worked in the provinces of Samara, Tver, and Simbirsk.
- Victor Palmov
Victor Palmov (1888-1929) was a Ukrainian painter, avant-garde artist (Futurist and Neo-primitivist).
- Aleksandr Panyushkin
Aleksandr Semyonovich Panyushkin (14 August 1905, Samara - 12 November 1974, Moscow) was Soviet ambassador to the United States (and simultaneously resident) from 1947, transferring in July 1952 to ambassador to China. He headed the First Chief Directorate (foreign intelligence) of the KGB from July 1953 to June 1955.
- Ivan Maysky
Ivan Mikhaylovich Maysky (1884-1975) was a Soviet diplomat, historian, and politician, notable as that country's ambassador to London during much of World War II. He is represented on one of the iconic portraits of the 20th century (illustrated, to the right). Ivan Maysky was born "Jan Lachowiecki" to a Russified Polish family living in Imperial Russia. Shortly after graduating from the historical faculty of the Moscow university, …
- Alexander Zelenko
Alexander Ustinovich Zelenko, 1871-1953, was a Russian and Soviet architect and educator, a pioneer in settlement movement and vocational education. Originally a practicioner of "provincial" Art Nouveau in Samara and Moscow, he later joined the camp of rationalists and focused on perfecting school and museum designs.
- Shulamit Doniach
Shulamit Doniach (January 25 1905 Samara, Russia - June 20 1996 London, England) was a concert pianist, author, and composer.
- Sorious Samura
Sorious Samura (born 1964) is an award-winning Sierra Leonean journalist. He is best known for two CNN documentary films: "Cry Freetown" (2000) and "Exodus from Africa" (2001). The self-funded "Cry Freetown" depicts the most brutal period of the civil war in Sierra Leone with RUF rebels capturing the capital city (January 1999). The film won, among other awards, an Emmy Award and a Peabody.
- Vladimir, Metropolitan Of Moscow
Vladimir was the Metropolitan of Moscow from 1898 to 1912. Born to a family of a clergyman in Tambov, Vasili Bogoyavlensky graduated from a seminary in Tambov and Kiev Theological Academy. He then returned to Tambov to teach at his alma mater. In 1882, Vasili was ordained as a priest in a town of Kozlov in Tambov guberniya. On the death of his wife and child in 1886, …
- Helena Samara
- Victoria Samara
- Sergio Samara
- Elvira Samara
- Hrysa Samara
- Popi Samara
- Samara Barend
Samara "Sam" Barend was the 2004 Democratic Party nominee for the U.S. House of Representatives for the 29th Congressional district of New York State. She lost with 41 percent of the vote against Conservative Mark Assini and the winner, Republican Randy Kuhl, in the race to succeed the retiring Amo Houghton. At 26 years old, Barend would have been the youngest woman ever elected to Congress. Barend, who had never run for public office before, …
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by John Romero GOLDEN -- A 17 year old girl is now charged with vehicular homicide after police say she lied about being behind the wheel in a crash that killed another teen. The head-on collision happened March 13 on Alameda Pkwy. near Florda. 17 year old Samara Stricklen was killed in the accident. 20 year old Seth Mutschler was badly injured and is still recovering.
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