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Andrej Trnavac
Andrej is the form of the given name Andrew used in Slovak, Croatian and Slovene. Notable individuals with the given name Andrej *Andrej Babiš (born 1954), Czech politician *Andrej Bajuk (1943–2011), Slovene politician and economist *Andrej Čadež (born 1942), Slovene physicist and astrophysicist *Andrej Karpathy (born 1986), Slovak-Canadian computer scientist *Andrej Kiska (born 1963), Slovak politician and businessman *Andrej Kramarić (born 1991), Croatian football player *Andrej Meszároš (born 1985), Slovak ice hockey player *Andrej Plenković (born 1970), Croatian politician *Andrej Pohar (born 1974), Slovenian badminton player *Andrej Sekera Andrej Sekera (born 8 June 1986) is a Slovak former professional ice hockey defenceman. He played for the Buffalo Sabres, Carolina Hurricanes, Los Angeles Kings, Edmonton Oilers and Dallas Stars of the National Hockey League (NHL). Born and rai ... (born 1986), Slovak hockey player * Andrej Stančík (born 1995), Slovak poli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew
Andrew is the English form of the given name, common in many countries. The word is derived from the , ''Andreas'', itself related to ''aner/andros'', "man" (as opposed to "woman"), thus meaning "manly" and, as consequence, "brave", "strong", "courageous", and "warrior". In the King James Bible, the Greek "Ἀνδρέας" is translated as Andrew. Popularity In the 1990s, it was among the top ten most popular names given to boys in List of countries where English is an official language, English-speaking countries. Australia In 2000, the name Andrew was the second most popular name in Australia after James. In 1999, it was the 19th most common name, while in 1940, it was the 31st most common name. Andrew was the first most popular name given to boys in the Northern Territory in 2003 to 2015 and continuing. In Victoria, Andrew was the first most popular name for a boy in the 1970s. Canada Andrew was the 20th most popular name chosen for male infants in 2005. Andrew was the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andres (name)
Andres or Andrés is a male given name. It can also be a surname. It is derived from the name Andreas Andreas () is a name derived from the Greek noun ἀνήρ ''anēr'', with genitive ἀνδρός ''andros'', which means "man". See the article on Andrew for more information. The Scandinavian name is earliest attested as antreos in a runeston .... Given name Andres * Andrés Aguilar Mawdsley (1924–1995), Venezuelan lawyer and diplomat * Andres Allan (1965–1988), Estonian poet * Andres Alver (born 1953), Estonian architect * Andres Ammas (1962–2018), Estonian politician * Andres Anvelt (born 1969), Estonian politician * Andres Borregales (born 2002), Venezuelan-American football player * Andres Ehin (1940–2011), Estonian writer, editor, poet and translator * Andres Gerber (born 1973), Swiss football player * Andres Heinapuu (born 1954), Estonian bibliographer and politician * Andres Herkel (born 1962), Estonian politician * Andres Ilves, Estonian-American journa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrej Pohar
Andrej Pohar (born 18 July 1974) is a Slovenian former badminton player from Olimpija club. He was the coach on the 2000 Olympics expedition in Sydney, Australia. His sister Maja Pohar was also a professional badminton player, and the duo played in the mixed doubles event. Pohar won his first National championship in 1992 after five junior titles in Slovenia. He is the multiple National champion, having won National Championships for 33 times in 3 disciplines. Internationally, he was successful in Slovakia and Hungary, among others. He took part in the World Championships between 1995 and 2006 in various disciplines. He reached top 20 in IBF rankings in mixed doubles. At present, he is the member of Board of Directors in Badminton Europe Badminton Europe (BEC) is the Sport governing body, governing body of badminton in Europe. It is one of the five continental bodies under the flag of the Badminton World Federation (BWF). It has 53 member associations and 1 associate member. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrej Plenković
Andrej Plenković ( ; born 8 April 1970) is a Croatian politician serving as the Prime Minister of Croatia, prime minister of Croatia since October 2016. He was previously one of eleven List of members of the European Parliament for Croatia, 2014–19, Croatian members of the European Parliament, serving from Croatia's 2013 enlargement of the European Union, accession to the European Union in 2013 until his resignation as MEP when he took office as prime minister. Plenković has also been serving as the List of chairpersons of the Croatian Democratic Union, president of the Croatian Democratic Union since 2016. Following his graduation from the Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Law at the University of Zagreb in 1993, Plenković held various bureaucratic positions in the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs (Croatia), Croatian Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs. After completing a postgraduate degree in 2002 (research master in international law), he serv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrej Meszároš
Andrej Meszároš (; born 13 October 1985) is a Slovak professional ice hockey player. He is currently a free agent. He previously played in the NHL with the Buffalo Sabres, Boston Bruins, Philadelphia Flyers, Tampa Bay Lightning and Ottawa Senators, the latter of which drafted him in the first round of the 2004 NHL Entry Draft, 23rd overall. Playing career As a youth, Meszároš played in the 1999 Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournament with a team from Bratislava. He later played for Dukla Trenčín in the Slovak Extraliga as a 17-year-old in the 2002–03 season. After two seasons with Trenčín, he was drafted 23rd overall in the 2004 NHL Entry Draft by the Ottawa Senators. The following season, he went overseas to North America to play junior ice hockey in the Western Hockey League (WHL) with the Vancouver Giants. Meszároš recorded 41 points in 59 games with Vancouver — fifth in WHL rookie scoring — and was named to the Western Conference's Second Al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrej Kramarić
Andrej Kramarić (; born 19 June 1991) is a Croatian professional association football, footballer, who plays as a Forward (association football), forward or attacking midfielder for Bundesliga club TSG 1899 Hoffenheim, TSG Hoffenheim and the Croatia national football team, Croatia national team. Kramarić started his football career in his hometown club GNK Dinamo Zagreb, Dinamo Zagreb and holds the record as the top youth goalscorer in the club's history. Hailed as one of the club's biggest talents, he made his first official appearance for Dinamo at the age of 17. In 2013, after he had a dispute with the Dinamo board of directors, Kramarić was transferred to HNK Rijeka, where he scored 37 times in 42 league games prior to his move to Leicester City F.C., Leicester City for a record £9 million. He played a year-and-a-half there, spending time on loan at TSG 1899 Hoffenheim, TSG Hoffenheim before moving there permanently. On 29 March 2019, he became the club's all-time top goa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrej Kiska
Andrej Kiska (; born 2 February 1963) is a Slovak politician, entrepreneur, writer and philanthropist who served as the fourth president of Slovakia from 2014 to 2019. He ran as an Independent politician, independent candidate in the 2014 Slovak presidential election, 2014 presidential election in which he was elected to the presidency in the second round of voting over Prime Minister Robert Fico. Kiska declined to run for a second term in 2019 Slovak presidential election, 2019. He has written two books about happiness, success, and his life. Early life Kiska was born in Poprad. He studied electrical engineering. His father was an active member of the ruling Communist Party of Slovakia (1939), Communist Party of Slovakia (KSS). He also applied for Communist party membership, but was rejected. Kiska is an ethnic Gorals, Goral. Career Kiska moved to the United States in 1990, one year after the Velvet Revolution. He later founded ''Triangel'' and ''Quatro'', two Slovakia-based h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrej Karpathy
Andrej Karpathy (born 23 October 1986) is a Slovak-Canadian computer scientist who served as the director of artificial intelligence and Autopilot Vision at Tesla. He co-founded and formerly worked at OpenAI, where he specialized in deep learning and computer vision. Education and early life Karpathy was born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia) and moved with his family to Toronto when he was 15. He completed his Computer Science and Physics bachelor's degrees at University of Toronto in 2009 and his master's degree at University of British Columbia in 2011, where he worked on physically-simulated figures (for example, a simulated runner or a simulated person in a crowd) with his adviser Michiel van de Panne. Karpathy received a PhD from Stanford University in 2015 under the supervision of Fei-Fei Li, focusing on the intersection of natural language processing and computer vision, and deep learning models suited for this task. Career and research He authored and w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrej Čadež
Andrej Čadež (born September 12, 1942 in Ljubljana) is a Slovene physicist A physicist is a scientist who specializes in the field of physics, which encompasses the interactions of matter and energy at all length and time scales in the physical universe. Physicists generally are interested in the root or ultimate cau ... and astrophysicist. He is the author of ''Fizika zvezd'' published in Ljubljana in 1986. External links Bibliography Slovenian physicists Slovenian astronomers Scientists from Ljubljana 1942 births Living people Astrophysicists 20th-century Slovenian scientists {{physicist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrej Bajuk
Andrej Bajuk, also known in Spanish as Andrés Bajuk (18 October 1943 – 16 August 2011) was a Slovene politician and economist. He served briefly as Prime Minister of Slovenia in the year 2000, and was Minister of Finance in the centre-right government of Janez Janša between 2004 and 2008. He was the founder and first president of the Christian Democratic party called New Slovenia. Life in exile Bajuk was born in a Slovene intellectual family in Nazi-occupied Ljubljana. His father Bozidar Bajuk was a classical philologist, and his grandfather Marko Bajuk was the principal of the Bežigrad Grammar School, one of the most prestigious secondary schools in Ljubljana. The Bajuks were acquainted with the famous poet Edvard Kocbek who lived in the same building. The family left Slovenia in early May 1945, when the Communists took power in Yugoslavia. They spent nearly three years in refugee camps in Lower and Upper Austria before leaving to Argentina with the help of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrej Babiš
Andrej Babiš (; born 2 September 1954) is a Czech businessman and politician who served as the Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, prime minister of the Czech Republic from 2017 to 2021. He previously served as the Finance Minister of the Czech Republic, Minister of Finance and deputy prime minister from 2014 to 2017. Babiš is the founding leader of the political party ANO (political party), ANO, a position he has held since 2012. Born in Bratislava, Babiš moved to the Czech Republic in the early 1990s. During a lengthy business career, he became one of the List of Czechs by net worth, richest people in the Czech Republic, with an estimated net worth of about $4.04 billion according to Bloomberg L.P., Bloomberg in November 2020. In February 2024, his net worth was estimated at $3.5 billion according to Forbes. He is the founder and owner of the Agrofert holding company, one of the country's largest firms. Babiš was appointed prime minister on 6 December 2017, after ANO eme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Given Name
A given name (also known as a forename or first name) is the part of a personal name quoted in that identifies a person, potentially with a middle name as well, and differentiates that person from the other members of a group (typically a family or clan) who have a common surname. The term ''given name'' refers to a name usually bestowed at or close to the time of birth, usually by the parents of the newborn. A ''Christian name'' is the first name which is given at baptism, in Christian custom. In informal situations, given names are often used in a familiar and friendly manner. In more formal situations, a person's surname is more commonly used. In Western culture, the idioms "" and "being on first-name terms" refer to the familiarity inherent in addressing someone by their given name. By contrast, a surname (also known as a family name, last name, or Gentile name, ''gentile'' name) is normally inherited and shared with other members of one's immediate family. Regnal names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
