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Hirsch is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Afua Hirsch (born 1981), Norwegian-born British writer, broadcaster, and former barrister * Alex Hirsch (born 1985), American animator, screenwriter and voice actor * August Hirsch (1817–1894), German physician and medical historian * Burkhard Hirsch (1930–2020), German politician and civil liberties advocate * Cal Hirsch, 19th century American retailer * Corey Hirsch (born 1972), Canadian ice hockey player * Daniëlle Hirsch (born 1968), Dutch politician * David Hirsch (other), several people * Ed Hirsh (fl. from 1980), special effects artist * Edward Hirsch (born 1950), American poet and critic * E. D. Hirsch (born 1928), American educator and literary critic * Eike Christian Hirsch (1937–2022), German journalist, author and television presenter * Elroy Hirsch (1923–2004), American football player * Emanuel Hirsch (1888–1972), German Protestant theologian * Emil G. Hirsch (1851–1923), Am ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Afua Hirsch
Afua Hirsch Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, FRSL (born 1981) is a British writer and broadcaster. She has worked as a journalist for ''The Guardian'' newspaper, and was the Social Affairs and Education Editor for Sky News from 2014 until 2017. She is the author of the 2018 book ''Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging'', receiving a Jerwood Award while writing it. Hirsch was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2024. Early life Afua Hirsch was born in Stavanger, Norway, to a British father and a Ghanaian mother, and was raised in Wimbledon, London, Wimbledon, southwest London. Her paternal grandfather, Hans (later John), who was Jewish, fled Berlin in 1938. Her great-uncle is the metallurgist Peter Hirsch (metallurgist), Sir Peter Hirsch. Her maternal grandfather, who graduated from the University of Cambridge, was involved in establishing the post-independence education system in Ghana but later became a political exile. Hirsch was educated at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Felix Hirsch
Felix Eduard Hirsch (Berlin, 7 February 1902 – 12 December 1982 Newtown, Pennsylvania) was a journalist for the '' Berliner Tageblatt'' and latterly, historian, librarian and professor at Bard College in New York. As a journalist in Berlin, Hirsch was involved in the infamous libel case of Kurt Soelling. Biography Early life Hirsch studied history at the University of Heidelberg where he graduated under German historian and political journalist, Hermann Oncken in 1924.Hirsch,1946 After university, Hirsch moved to Berlin to pursue a career in journalism at the ''Berliner Tagelblatt'' and later became the editor at the '' Achtuhr Abendblatt''. Following the rise of Nazism, Hirsch went into exile in America, and completed a librarian degree at Columbia University in 1936. He subsequently moved to Bard College, where he would teach history and expand the library. Kurt Soelling controversy On 18 May 1932, Judge Kurt Soelling (born ''Seligsohn''), the chairman of the Berlin Distri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julio Hirsch
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Julio is the Spanish equivalent of the month July and may refer to: *Julio (given name) *Julio (surname) *Júlio de Castilhos, a municipality of the western part of the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil * ''Julio'' (album), a 1983 compilation album by Julio Iglesias *Julio, a character in ''Romiette and Julio'' by Sharon M. Draper Other *Don Julio, a brand of tequila produced in Mexico * Hurricane Julio, a list of storms named Julio * Jules * ''Julie-O'', musical work for solo cello by Mark Summer *Julio 204 or JULIO 204, one of the first graffiti writers in New York City *Julio-Claudian dynasty, the first five Roman Emperors: Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula (also known as Gaius), Claudius, and Nero * Julius (other) Julius may refer to: People * Julius (name), a masculine given name and surname (includes a list of people with the name) * Julius (nomen), the name of a Roman family (includes a list of Ancient Romans with the name) ** Julius Caesar (100– ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Judd Hirsch
Judd Seymore Hirsch (born March 15, 1935) is an American actor. He is known for playing Alex Rieger on the television comedy series ''Taxi'' (1978–1983), John Lacey on the NBC series '' Dear John'' (1988–1992), and Alan Eppes on the CBS series ''Numb3rs'' (2005–2010). He is also well known for his career in theatre and for his roles in films such as ''Ordinary People'' (1980), '' Running on Empty'' (1988), ''Independence Day'' (1996), '' A Beautiful Mind'' (2001), '' Independence Day: Resurgence'' (2016), '' Uncut Gems'' (2019), and '' The Fabelmans'' (2022). Hirsch has twice won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series, has twice won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play, has won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy, and was nominated twice for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performances in ''Ordinary People'' (1980) and ''The Fabelmans'' (2022). Early life and education ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jorge E
Jorge is the Spanish and Portuguese form of the given name George. While spelled alike, this name is pronounced very differently in each of the two languages: Spanish ; Portuguese . It is derived from the Greek name Γεώργιος (''Georgios'') via Latin ''Georgius''; the former is derived from (''georgos''), meaning "farmer" or "earth-worker". The Latin form ''Georgius'' had been rarely given in Western Christendom since at least the 6th century. The popularity of the name however develops from around the 12th century, in Occitan in the form '' Jordi'', and it becomes popular at European courts after the publication of the '' Golden Legend'' in the 1260s. The West Iberian form ''Jorge'' is on record in Portugal as the name of Jorge de Lencastre, Duke of Coimbra (1481–1550). List of people with the given name Jorge * Jorge (footballer, born 1939), Brazilian footballer * Jorge (footballer, born 1946), Brazilian footballer * Jorge (Brazilian singer), Brazilian musici ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John A
Sir John Alexander Macdonald (10 or 11January 18156June 1891) was the first prime minister of Canada, serving from 1867 to 1873 and from 1878 until his death in 1891. He was the Fathers of Confederation, dominant figure of Canadian Confederation, and had a political career that spanned almost half a century. Macdonald was born in Scotland; when he was a boy his family immigrated to Kingston, Ontario, Kingston in the Province of Upper Canada (today in eastern Ontario). As a lawyer, he was involved in several high-profile cases and quickly became prominent in Kingston, which elected him in 1844 to the legislature of the Province of Canada. By 1857, he had become List of Joint Premiers of the Province of Canada, premier under the colony's unstable political system. In 1864, when no party proved capable of governing for long, he agreed to a proposal from his political rival, George Brown (Canadian politician), George Brown, that the parties unite in a Great Coalition to seek fede ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Hirsch
John Stephen Hirsch, OC (; May 1, 1930 – August 1, 1989) was a Hungarian-Canadian theatre director. He was born in Siófok, Hungary to József and Ilona Hirsch, both of whom were murdered in the Holocaust along with his younger brother István. Hirsch survived after spending most of the Second World War years in Budapest, and came to Canada in 1947 through the War Orphans Project of the Canadian Jewish Congress. Arriving in Winnipeg, Hirsch was taken into the home of Alex (Sasha) and Pauline Shack.''HIRSCH, John'', ''The Globe and Mail''. August 3, 1989. He remained close to the Shacks for the rest of his life, and although he lived in New York City and Toronto, maintained strong ties with the city of Winnipeg. Co-founder of Theatre 77 In 1957, Hirsch and Tom Hendry co-founded Theatre 77, which they combined with the Winnipeg Little Theatre in 1958 to form the Manitoba Theatre Centre (MTC) with Hirsch as artistic director and Hendry as manager. MTC became an influential mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Hirsch
Joe Hirsch (February 27, 1928 – January 9, 2009) was an American horse racing columnist and the founding president of the National Turf Writers Association. Biography He earned a degree in journalism from New York University, then served with the United States Army for four years. He joined the staff of the ''New York Times'' but remained only a short time before going to work at '' The Morning Telegraph'', then the companion paper of the ''Daily Racing Form'', with which he became associated in 1954 and retired from as its executive columnist in 2003. Often referred to as the "dean" of Thoroughbred racing writers, Hirsch is one of two American writers (the other is John Englehardt) to win both the Eclipse Award for outstanding writing and the Lord Derby Award in London from the Horserace Writers and Reporters Association of Great Britain. He also received the Eclipse Award of Merit (1992), the Big Sport of Turfdom Award (1983), and The Jockey Club Medal (1989), and w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Hirsch
Jack Hirsch (born ) is an American former college basketball player for the UCLA Bruins. He was the starting forward on the Bruins' national championship team in 1964, when he served as co-captain along with Walt Hazzard. Hirsch also earned all-conference honors that season. He later became an assistant coach in college, and served as the top assistant to Hazzard. Hazzard and Hirsch coached at UCLA from 1984 to 1988. Hirsch was inducted into the UCLA Athletics Hall of Fame in 2012. Early life Hirsch was born and raised in Brooklyn in New York City in an affluent Jewish family. His father ran a successful chain of bowling alleys. Hirsch attended a school of predominantly black students, and he played basketball on the asphalt courts of the Bedford–Stuyvesant neighborhood. His family moved to the Los Angeles district of Van Nuys when he was 14. In his senior year at Van Nuys High School, the center won All-City Co-Player of the Year honors. College career After high scho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helmut Hirsch
Helmut Hirsch (; January 27, 1916 – June 4, 1937) was a German Jewish artist and activist who was executed for his part in a bombing plot intended to destabilize the German Reich. While a full and accurate account of the plot is unknown, his targets were understood to be the Nazi Party headquarters in Nuremberg, and/or the plant where the antisemitic weekly propaganda newspaper '' Der Stürmer'' was printed. Early life Hirsch was the elder of two children of Marta Neuburger Hirsch and Siegfried Hirsch. In 1935, after the Nuremberg Laws excluded Jews from German universities, he moved to Prague, then capital of Czechoslovakia, where he enrolled as a student of architecture at the ''Deutsche Technische Hochschule'' (German Institute of Technology).Details of Helmut Hirsch's family, his life prior to his arrest, and subsequent efforts to save his life were obtained from his sister, Kaete (Katie Sugarman), through a series of interviews and an account she wrote in 1962. Document ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Hirsch (musician)
George Hirsch is an American musician who performs as a vocalist in the hardcore band Blacklisted and solo folk project under the moniker Harm Wülf. He was originally from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania but later moved to Chicago, Illinois. Music career When his previous band broke up, George Hirsch co-founded the hardcore punk band Blacklisted in 2003. After Blacklisted released the more experimental album '' No One Deserves To Be Here More Than Me'' in 2009—an album with lyrics born out of Hirsch's struggles with depression—the band entered an undeclared hiatus state as each member focused on their respective new families and lives. In this downtime, Hirsch launched his solo project Harm Wülf, a stripped down semi-acoustic act that's often described as "dark folk". He released his debut album as Harm Wülf titled ''There's Honey In the Soil So We Wait for the Till...'' in November 2013 through Deathwish Inc. Three years later, Harm Wülf released its second studio album '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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George may refer to: Names * George (given name) * George (surname) People * George (singer), American-Canadian singer George Nozuka, known by the mononym George * George Papagheorghe, also known as Jorge / GEØRGE * George, stage name of Giorgio Moroder * George, son of Andrew I of Hungary Places South Africa * George, South Africa, a city ** George Airport United States * George, Iowa, a city * George, Missouri, a ghost town * George, Washington, a city * George County, Mississippi * George Air Force Base, a former U.S. Air Force base located in California Computing * George (algebraic compiler) also known as 'Laning and Zierler system', an algebraic compiler by Laning and Zierler in 1952 * GEORGE (computer), early computer built by Argonne National Laboratory in 1957 * GEORGE (operating system), a range of operating systems (George 1–4) for the ICT 1900 range of computers in the 1960s * GEORGE (programming language), an autocode system invented by Charles Leonard Hamblin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
