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Greenspan
Greenspan is a typically Ashkenazi Jewish surname. It is the anglicized form of the German/Yiddish surname Grünspan ("green swarf", "green patina", "verdigris", " copper(II) acetate"). Cognate are the surnames Grynszpan, Grinszpan and Grinshpan (Poland, Romania, Hungary). Notable people with the surname include: * Alan Greenspan (born 1926), American economist, former Federal Reserve Chairman * Alison Greenspan (1972–2021), American film and television producer * Bennett Greenspan (born 1952), American entrepreneur, founder of Family Tree DNA * Brad Greenspan (born 20th century), American entrepreneur (MySpace) * Brian Greenspan (born 1947), Canadian lawyer * Bud Greenspan (1926–2010), American film director * David Greenspan (born 1956), American actor and playwright * Dorie Greenspan (born 20th century), American author of cookbooks * Edward Greenspon (born 1957), Canadian newspaper editor * Harvey P. Greenspan (born 1933), American mathematician * Herschel Grynszpan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Greenspan
Alan Greenspan (born March 6, 1926) is an American economist who served as the 13th chairman of the Federal Reserve from 1987 to 2006. He works as a private adviser and provides consulting for firms through his company, Greenspan Associates LLC. First nominated to the Federal Reserve by President Ronald Reagan in August 1987, he was reappointed at successive four-year intervals until retiring on January 31, 2006, after the second-longest tenure in the position, behind only William McChesney Martin. President George W. Bush appointed Ben Bernanke as his successor. Greenspan came to the Federal Reserve Board from a consulting career. Although he was subdued in his public appearances, favorable media coverage raised his profile to a point that several observers likened him to a "rock star". Democratic leaders of Congress criticized him for politicizing his office because of his support for Social Security privatization and tax cuts. Many have argued that the "easy-money" poli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bennett Greenspan
Bennett C. Greenspan (born 1952) is an American businessman. His business ventures have covered industries from real estate to the .com boom. Though he has mainly worked in the fields of photography and genetic testing, he is best known for his pioneering work in genetic genealogy. Greenspan founded Family Tree DNA which was the first American company to offer genealogical DNA testing directly to the general public. He is currently the president and chief executive officer (CEO) and also the managing partner of Family Tree DNA's parent company Gene by Gene. Greenspan is also the project administrator of several surname DNA projects, and regularly lectures on the use of genetics in genealogy and on genomics. Personal life A Jewish American, Greenspan was born in Omaha, Nebraska to Maurice and Rosalie Greenspan. He and his brother were raised there. As a young child, Greenspan had a love of family history and would interview the oldest members of his family during gatherings. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bud Greenspan
Jonah J. "Bud" Greenspan (September 18, 1926December 25, 2010) was an American film director, writer, and producer known for his sports documentaries. His distinctive appearance in later years included wearing his large, dark-framed glasses atop his shaved head. Career Greenspan was born in New York City. He overcame a lisp in adolescence and went into sports broadcasting after graduating from New York University.Kupper, Mike (December 26, 2010)Bud Greenspan, Olympic documentarian, dies at 84.''Los Angeles Times'' In 1947 Greenspan became sports director at New York City's WMGM, at that time the largest sports radio station in the US, when he was 21 years old. When he left WMGM, Greenspan began contributing articles to magazines while also producing television commercials. He dabbled in documentary filmmaking in 1952, with ''The Strongest Man in the World'', a 15-minute feature on weightlifter John Davis, but he began his filmmaking career in earnest in 1964, accompanying Jess ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brad Greenspan
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Brian Greenspan
Brian H. Greenspan, (born March 14, 1947 in Niagara Falls, Ontario) is a Canadian lawyer. He is one of the most prominent and respected defence lawyers in Canada. Career Greenspan received his B.A. from the University of Toronto in 1968 and his LL.B. from Osgoode Hall Law School in 1971. He received his LL.M. from the London School of Economics in 1972. He was called to the Bar in 1974. He taught the Administration of Criminal Justice at Osgoode Hall Law School from 1977 to 1984 and was a special lecturer in Criminal Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto Law School from 1984 to 1998. Greenspan is a senior partner in the Toronto firm Greenspan, Humphrey, Weinstein. He is the brother of the late Edward Greenspan, also a well-known Canadian lawyer, and Rosann Greenspan, Executive Director of the Center for Law and Society (ret.) at the University of California, Berkeley . Greenspan is married to Marla Berger, and is the father of Jared and Jenna Greenspan and the grandfa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Greenspan
David Greenspan (born 1956) is an American actor and playwright. He is the recipient of six Obies, including an award in 2010 for Sustained Achievement. Life Greenspan was born in 1956 in Los Angeles, California. He holds a B.A. in Drama from the University of California at Irvine. He lives in New York City with his long-time partner, painter William Kennon. Career "A classicist in experimental clothing, David Greenspan is a playwright who is also passionately involved in the theatre as an actor and director. From his early more autobiographical plays (one of which, Principia, took inspiration from the shifting modalities of Joyce’s Ulysses) to more recent works inspired by (and at times adapted from the work of) Hawthorne, Stein, Molnar, and Thorton Wilder, Greenspan’s theatre is a place where anything can happen. Deliciously complicated, incredibly funny, the work, whether tragic, tender, mysterious or cruel, betrays a profoundly empathic imagination. Both wildly conjure ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Family Tree DNA
FamilyTreeDNA is a division of Gene by Gene, a commercial genetic testing company based in Houston, Texas. FamilyTreeDNA offers analysis of autosomal DNA, Y-DNA, and mitochondrial DNA to individuals for genealogical purpose. With a database of more than two million records, it is the most popular company worldwide for Y-DNA and mitochondrial DNA, and the fourth most popular for autosomal DNA. In Europe, it is the most common also for autosomal DNA. FamilyTreeDNA as a division of Gene by Gene were acquired by MYDNA, Inc., an Australian company in January 2021. History Concept and founding (2000–2002) FamilyTreeDNA was founded based on an idea conceived by Bennett Greenspan, a lifelong entrepreneur and genealogy enthusiast. In 1999, Greenspan had entered semi-retirement and was working on his family history. He began work on his mother's Nitz lineage. When faced with a roadblock in his work, he remembered two cases of genetics being used to prove ancestry that had recently b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanley Greenspan
Stanley Greenspan (June 1, 1941 – April 27, 2010) was a clinical professor of Psychiatry, Behavioral Science, and Pediatrics at George Washington University Medical School and a practicing child psychiatrist. He was best known for developing the influential floortime approach for treating children with autistic spectrum disorders and developmental disabilities.David Corcoran"Stanley I. Greenspan, Developer of ‘Floor Time’ Teaching, Dies at 68" Obituary, ''The New York Times'', 2010 May 04. He was Chairman of the Interdisciplinary Council on Developmental and Learning Disorders and also a Supervising Child Psychoanalyst at the Washington Psychoanalytic Institute. A graduate of Harvard College and Yale Medical School, Dr. Greenspan was the founding president of Zero to Three: National Center for Infants, Toddlers, and Families and former director of the National Institute of Mental Health's Clinical Infant Developmental Program and Mental Health Study Center. General The de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nachman Shlomo Greenspan
Rabbi Nachman Shlomo Greenspan ( he, נחמן שלמה גרינשפן; 1878 – August 1961) was a Talmudic scholar, rosh yeshiva of Etz Chaim in London, and an author of a number of works about the Torah.__NOTOC__ Early years Greenspan was born in the village of Lyakhovichi in the Minsk Governorate of the Russian Empire (present-day Belarus), where his father Yaakov Moshe was engaged in commerce. There he gained a reputation for his vast Talmudic knowledge and expertise while still in early youth. Greenspan studied under the greatest rabbis of his generation, including such legendary figures as the Sfas Emes, Rabbi Meir Simcha of Dvinsk and the Ridvaz, as well as learning under and with the Avnei Nezer; Rabbi Chaim Soloveitchik; the Rogatchover Gaon; the Chofetz Chaim; and Rabbi Aharon Kotler, all world-renowned rabbinic luminaries. Rabbi Greenspan obtained semicha at the young age of eighteen, indicative of his acceptance into the highest circles of rabbinic scholarsh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dorie Greenspan
Dorie Greenspan (born October 24, 1947) is an American author of cookbooks. ''The New York Times'' called her a "culinary guru" in 2004. Culinary career Greenspan has won the James Beard Foundation Award five times, as well as the International Association of Culinary Professionals Cookbook of the Year Awards for ''Desserts by Pierre Hermé'' and ''Around My French Table'', and ''Dorie's Cookies''. She has also been listed on the James Beard Foundation's Who's Who of Food and Beverage in America. She is among the first culinary professionals to produce cooking apps for mobile phones and tablet computers. Personal life Greenspan lives in Manhattan, Paris and Westbrook, Connecticut. Published works * ''Sweet Times: Simple Desserts for Every Occasion'' (1991) * ''Baking with Julia: Savor the Joys of Baking with America's Best Bakers'' (1996) (based on the PBS series with Julia Child) * ''Pancakes: From Morning to Midnight'' (1997) * ''Waffles from Morning to Midnight'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alison Greenspan
Alison Sheryl Greenspan (December 2, 1972 – June 27, 2021) was an American film and television producer. Alison Greenspan spent her childhood in Virginia and Boca Raton, Florida with her mother Ann, father Stephen and sister Melissa. Later she studied American History and Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania and graduated summa cum laude in 1994. In earlier years, Greenspan was a member of at Denise Di Novi's production company and later on president of Di Novi Pictures. Greenspan had been a partner at Doug Robinson Productions for the past several years. In 2004, her father, Stephen Greenspan, former vice president of data carrier manufacturer Seagate Technology, became ill with ALS. In 2009, he died of this disease, as did her aunt Marylin in 2011. That is why she had the idea for a film about ALS, which was later realized under the title ''You're Not You''. The film is dedicated to her father. Death Greenspan died on June 27, 2021, following a lengthy battl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ryan Greenspan
Ryan Greenspan (born February 25, 1982, Sebastopol, California, United States) is an American Professional Paintball player. Greenspan is a founding member of the professional paintball team San Diego Dynasty, and with that team has won more professional tournaments than any other team in the history of the sport. Greenspan resides in San Diego, California, which is the team’s current headquarters. Currently Dynasty is wears blue uniforms with a Japanese styled, blue dragon. In 2010 Greenspan was awarded “Ambassador to the Sport” at the Australian Masters in Sydney, Australia. Early career Greenspan, in his amateur days played on three teams, Outta Control, KAPP Factory, and his most notable team, the Ironkids with teammates Oliver Lang, Alex Fraige, and Yosh Rau. In 2000, at age 18, Greenspan and teammates Alex Fraige, Yosh Rau, Brian Cole, and Kenny Chaimberlan won the largest prize in paintball history at the time, five Ford Mustang The Ford Mustang is a seri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
