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Ivan Samylovsky

Maria Samylovskaya made a teaching career (had the title of the Renown Teacher of the USSR).


Ancestors: 900 Years in the Life of a Chinese Family

Qin Yao (1544–1604) was the son of Qin He, who had achieved renown for leading the defense of the town of Wukang from pirates in the 1550s.

Brandon Francis

Francis began his acting career with Great Britain's National Youth Theatre, known for its alumni of renown actors including Daniel Day-Lewis, Daniel Craig, Ben Kingsley, and Orlando Bloom.

Ciron

The moisture it brings, and morning mists it causes, are favorable to the development of Botrytis cinerea on grapes, a fungus that contributes to the high quality and renown of Sauternes wines.

D. Harold McNamara

Following his Ph.D. he spent five years teaching and researching with the renown Professor Otto Struve.

Enrique Gaviola

Born and died in Mendoza, Argentina was an Argentine astrophysicist of worldwide renown.

Ethelbert Nevin

Other members of the Nevin family showed musical inclinations as well; Nevin's younger brother, Arthur, also achieved some renown as a composer, as did his cousins George and Gordon Balch Nevin.

Eugen von Boeck

Due to the renown the school achieved and the fame of the illustrious educator that surpassed the frontiers of Peru, he received the petition of being the founding Director of the first private school in the city of Cochabamba, Bolivia in 1868: the “2 de Mayo” elementary school.

Eugeniusz Dębski

He is known primarily as the author of numerous novels (mostly S-f and fantasy), and several hundred short stories, published in some of the most renown Polish journals, among them Fantastyka, Nowa Fantastyka, Science-Fiction, Fenix and Portal.

Eva Simatou

She has played several lead female parts in many plays including: “Titus Andronicus” by William Shakespeare (Tamora), “Broken Heart” by John Ford (Penthea), “Attempts on her Life” by Martin Crimp (Anne), the “Gravedigger’s Complaint” by Emmanuel Roides (Daughter), at renown Athenian theatres such as: Michael Cacoyannis Foundation, Athens Art Theatre (Theatro Technis Karolos Koun), City of Athens Festival, Odos Kefallinias Theatre etc.

Guy of Lusignan

Guy has also appeared in a number of historical novels, including Zofia Kossak-Szczucka's Król trędowaty (The Leper King), Graham Shelby's The Knights of Dark Renown, and Cecelia Holland's Jerusalem, generally as a good-looking but weak and foolish young man.

Harold Fowler McCormick

Orson Welles claimed that McCormick's lavish promotion of his second wife's opera career—despite her renown as a terrible singer—was a direct influence on the screenplay for Citizen Kane, wherein the titular character does much the same for his second wife.

Henry Saxby

Saxby was born in London and his father, Stephen Martin Saxby, was of some renown himself, as a naval architect, inventor and weather forecaster.

Hugh Edgar

Edgar achieved renown as one of the participants in the television series The Edwardian Country House, in which he portrayed the butler.

Ingwersen

Will Ingwersen (1905–1990), nurseryman and alpine specialist of renown

Jeremy Curl

Curl worked briefly at the British Museum, London, in the Ancient Egyptology department alongside renown Egyptologist Vivien Davies where he learnt to read Egyptian hieroglyphs and awakened his love for ancient and enigmatic cultures.

Joe Morley

Joe Morley (born December 3, 1867 Kinver, South Staffordshire, Great Britain - died September 16, 1937 London) was a British classical banjoist who achieved great fame and renown in his homeland and abroad.

Johann Baptist von Spix

Among Spix most renown discoveries is the species Spix's Macaw, named after the explorer.

John Francis Campbell

John Francis Campbell (Scottish Gaelic: Iain Frangan Caimbeul; Islay, 29 December 1821 – Cannes, 17 February 1885), also known as Young John of Islay (Scottish Gaelic: Iain Òg Ìle) was a renown Scottish author and scholar who specialised in Celtic studies.

Karen Marie Moning

In the form of a comic book illustrated by the world-renown artist Al Rio, Fever Moon is a stand-alone story that (based on the plot details) conceivably takes place during the events of Shadowfever.

Kunsthalle Bern

The Kunsthalle gained international renown with expositions by artists such as Paul Klee, Christo, Alberto Giacometti, Henry Moore, Jasper Johns, Sol LeWitt, Gregor Schneider, Bruce Nauman and Daniel Buren, and with thematic expositions such as Harald Szeemann's When Attitudes Become Form (1969).

Le Cid

His victories on the battlefield win him the renown of the people, the title of "the Cid", and the gratitude of the King.

Lily May Ledford

After gaining regional radio fame in the 1940s and 1950s as head of the Coon Creek Girls— one of the first all-female string bands to appear on radio— Ledford went on to gain national renown as a solo artist during the American folk music revival of the 1960s.

Maksim Tsyhalka

Maksim and, to a lesser extent, his brother Yuri both achieved a small amount of fame and worldwide renown after they were featured in the Championship Manager / Football Manager computer game series by Sports Interactive, especially in CM 01/02.

Marcel Diallo

His curatorial exhibits have featured some of the Bay Area's renown artists such as former Black Panther Emory Douglas, West Oakland sculptor Bruce Beasley, Eesuu Orundide, Keba Konte, Githinji Wa Mbire, Kevin Slagle, Don Fortescue and others.

Martin Jean

He first gained worldwide renown after winning the major organ competitions of Chartres and NYACOP.

Mausolus

The architects Satyrus and Pythis, and the sculptors Scopas of Paros, Leochares, Bryaxis and Timotheus, finished the work after the death of Artemisia, some of them working, it was said, purely for renown.

Michał Elwiro Andriolli

His work for various Warsaw-based newspapers made him one of the most renown illustration makers of the time and Andriolli was hired to illustrate some of the classic works of the Polish literature, notably the works by Adam Mickiewicz, Juliusz Słowacki and Józef Ignacy Kraszewski.

Mieko Hirota

Hirota's commercial career has included endorsements for Nescafé, Nippon Oil, Daikin Industries, Fujiya, Renown, and Sapporo Beer.

Milisav Popović

Popović's essay brought renown to Montenegro for the fact that the cover page of the magazine is in fact a motif of (Sveti Stefan).

Moye Kolodin

Kolodin participates regularly in the Master Classes of many world-renown professors, whose names include Vitaly Margulis, Hans Leygraf, Jacques Rouvier, Dmitri Bashkirov, Joaquín Soriano and Vera Gornostayeva.

Nathaniel G. S. Hart

His four sisters married men of some renown – Ann married US Senator James Brown of Louisiana, Eliza married the surgeon Dr. Richard Pindell, Susanna married the lawyer Samuel Price and Lucretia married Henry Clay.

Nettlecombe Court

In the 19th century, Lady Trevelyan made use of the family estates Wallington and Nettlecombe with its great house and 20,000 acres of land, to host a sophisticated intellectual and artistic salon of the day, renown for the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.

Olivier de Funès

Olivier de Funès (born 11 August 1949 in Paris), is a French former film actor and Air France pilot, son of renown actor Louis de Funès.

Oswald Short

He had not sought personal renown from the establishment or the public, but was recognised in the aerospace industry; he was made an honorary fellow of the RAeS (Royal Aeronautical Society), president of the Guild of Aviation Artists, a fellow of the Zoological Society of London and of the Royal Astronomical Society.

Pascual Racuyal

Unlike Harold Stassen, the former Minnesota governor whose repeated runs for the American presidency earned him renown of a similar nature, Racuyal, a mechanic by profession, was never a credible political figure at any point in his life.

Philipp Jeningen

He served at the shrine of Our Lady of Schönenberg, near Ellwangen in Swabia, which had been made famous by the Jesuits, and to which Jeningen, through the renown of his holiness, drew pilgrims from near and far.

Ponce High School

In that sense, these are the most representative examples of school building ideas being developed at the time in the United States by architects of renown, such as Haussander and Perkins of Chicago, Snyder of New York, Cooper of Boston and, especially, William B. Ittner of St. Louis.

Renown Sports Club

Renown Sports Club is a Sri Lankan football club located in Kotahena, Colombo.

Roberto Noble

Born to privilege in the city of La Plata, Roberto Noble developed a socialist ideology as an adolescent, having already earned some renown by 1918 agitating for the movement to reform Argentina's university system, whose curriculum had hitherto been largely dictated by conservative Catholics.

Sidhbari

Since 2000, Sidhbari has gained renown as the temporary residence of the Karmapa (Ogyen Trinley Dorje).

Smadar Rosensweig

She is the daughter of Rabbi Dr. David Eliach and Dr. Yaffa Eliach, renown Holocaust Scholar and professor emeritus at Brooklyn College.

Sobhuza II

During this period Andy Warhol boosted her renown, and that of Swaziland, by including her portrait along with those of Elizabeth II of the Commonwealth Realms, Beatrix of the Netherlands and Margrethe II of Denmark in his Reigning Queens series.

Strahov Monastery

Moreover, he gained renown for himself through his participation in the making of the river Vltava navigable in the sector called St. John's Rapids (Svatojánské proudy).

Ted Radcliffe

His brother Alex Radcliffe also achieved renown as a ballplayer playing third base.

The Adventures of Jack Ransom

Created by writer Billy Hughes and coloured by artist of little renown Dave Osenni, The Adventures of Jack Ransom was 12 issue comic book series based around the titular adventures of fictional character Jack Ransom.

Tsukihime

Its fame and renown is often attributed to its comprehensive and expansive storyline and its writer Kinoko Nasu's unique style of storytelling.

University Hospital of Zürich

Scientists and physicians of international renown who have practiced at the hospital include Ferdinand Sauerbruch, Adriano Aguzzi and Rolf M. Zinkernagel; the latter received a Nobel Prize for research done at the hospital.

University of North Carolina School of the Arts

The production was directed by Dean of Drama Gerald Freedman, the assistant director of the original production, and conducted by UNCSA Chancellor and world renown conductor John Mauceri.

William Howard Russell

Initially sent by editor John Delane to Malta to cover British support for Russia in 1854, Russell despised the term "war correspondent"—though his coverage of the conflict brought him international renown, and Florence Nightingale later credited her entry into wartime nursing to his reports.


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