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List Of People With Given Name Boris
This is a list of people with given name Boris, sorted by surname. A * Boris Alexandrovich Alexandrov (1905–1994), Soviet composer * Boris Aleksandrov (ice hockey) (1955–2002), Soviet and Kazakhstani ice hockey player B * Boris Barnet, Soviet film director * Boris Becker (born 1967), German professional tennis player * Boris Bede, French player of gridiron football * Boris Berezovsky (pianist) (born 1969), Russian pianist * Boris Berezovsky (businessman) 1946–2013, Russia's first billionaire businessman * Boris Berman (born 1948), Russian pianist * Boris Bizetić (born 1950), Serbian singer and songwriter * Boris Blank, Swiss artist and musician * Boris Böhmann (born 1964), German conductor and composer * Boris Bondarev (born 1980), Russian diplomat * Boris Brejcha, German DJ and music producer C * Boris Christoff, Bulgarian opera singer D * Boris Daenen, electronic music producer and DJ known as Netsky * Boris Davison, mathematical physicist * Boris Dia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boris (given Name)
Boris, Borys or Barys (Bulgarian Language, Bulgarian, Russian language, Russian, Serbian language, Serbian, ; ) is a male name of Bulgar language, Bulgar origin. It is most commonly used in countries in Eastern Europe. It is also used in Greece and countries that speak Germanic languages, Germanic, Baltic languages, Baltic and Romance languages. The spelling variant ''Borys'' is more common in Poland. Early history Early records of the name ''Boris'' are related to a ruler of the First Bulgarian Empire, Knyaz Boris I of Bulgaria, Boris I (). The name likely reached Rus' people, the Rus in the late 10th century, during the reign of Boris II of Bulgaria (), great-grandson of Boris I of Bulgaria, Boris I. In 967, the Byzantines instigated the Rus to attack the First Bulgarian Empire; it is probably around this military campaign that the marriage was arranged of Vladimir I of Kiev to a Bulgarian noblewoman, who is assumed to be a daughter of Peter I (i.e., sister of Boris II). As ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boris Diaw
Boris Babacar Diaw-Riffiod (born 16 April 1982), better known as Boris Diaw, is a French basketball executive and former player who is the president of Metropolitans 92 of LNB Pro A. Diaw began his playing career in Pro A and returned to that league after 14 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played mostly at the power forward position. In 2006, Diaw was named the NBA's Most Improved Player as a member of the Phoenix Suns. He won an NBA championship with the San Antonio Spurs in 2014. Diaw was a member and captain of the senior French national team. He won a FIBA World Cup bronze medal in 2014, a EuroBasket title in 2013, a silver medal in EuroBasket 2011, and two bronze in EuroBasket 2005 and EuroBasket 2015. He earned an All-EuroBasket Team selection in 2005. Diaw has served as president of Metropolitans 92 from July 2019 to April 2020. Professional basketball career Pau-Orthez (2001–2003) From 2001 to 2003, Diaw played for Pau-Orthez of the LNB ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aquarium (band)
Aquarium or Akvarium (; often stylized as Åквариум) is a Russian rock group formed in Leningrad in 1972. The band is considered one of the founders of Russian rock. Aquarium has had many line-up changes over its history, and lead singer and founder Boris Grebenshchikov is the only remaining original member. Former band members include Anatoly Gunitsky, Mikhail Feinstein, Andrei "Dyusha" Romanov, Vsevolod Gakkel, and Sergey Kuryokhin. Formation, first lineup (1972–1991) Aquarium was formed in 1972 by two friends: Boris Grebenshchikov, then a student of applied mathematics at Leningrad State University, and Anatoly (George) Gunitsky, a playwright and absurdist poet. The founding members were Grebenshchikov, George (drums), Alexander Tsatsanidi (bass), Vadim Vasilyev (keyboards), Valery Obogrelov (sound). The popular story behind the name "Aquarium" is that it was inspired by the Budapest street Leningrad pub "The Aquarium" and suggested by one of the band members. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boris Grebenshchikov
Boris Borisovich Grebenshchikov (; born ) is a prominent member of the generation which is widely considered to be the "founding fathers" of Russian rock music. He is the founder and lead singer of the band Aquarium which has been active since 1972. Grebenshchikov is frequently referred to as BG (; pronounced "Beh-Geh"), after his initials. Early years (1953–1979) Grebenshchikov was born on 27 November 1953, in Leningrad, now St. Petersburg. In 1972, he founded the band Aquarium with his childhood friend Anatoly "George" Gunitsky as a postmodern theatrical endeavor that included poetry and music. Grebenshchikov was accepted into Leningrad State University. Due to his musical activities, he started missing exams and failing classes. Grebenshchikov eventually received a graduate degree in applied mathematics. Inspiration from The Beatles and Bob Dylan transformed Aquarium into a low-fi electric blues band that moonlighted in acoustic reggae. The Communist Party of the S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boris M
Boris may refer to: People * Boris (given name), a male given name * *List of people with given name Boris * Boris (surname) Arts and media * Boris (band), a Japanese experimental rock trio * ''Boris'' (EP), by Yezda Urfa, 1975 * "Boris" (song), by the Melvins, 1991 * ''Boris'' (TV series), a 2007–2010, 2022–present Italian comedy series * '' Boris: The Film'', a 2011 Italian film based on the TV series * '' Boris: The Rise of Boris Johnson'', a 2006 biography by Andrew Gimson Other uses * Boris (crater), a lunar crater * Hurricane Boris (other), several cyclones in the Eastern Pacific * Boris, a tribe of the Adi people See also * Borris (other) Borris may refer to: Place in Denmark * Borris, Ringkøbing-Skjern Municipality, a small railway town in western Jutland Places in Ireland County Carlow * Borris, County Carlow, a village County Laois * Borris, County Laois, a civil parish ** Bor ... * Boris stones, seven medieval artifacts in Belarus {{dis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boris Gromov
Boris Vsevolodovich Gromov (; born 7 November 1943) is a Russian politician and former military officer. He was the Governor of Moscow Oblast between January 2000 and May 2012. Deployed thrice to fight in the Soviet–Afghan War, Gromov was the last Soviet soldier in Afghanistan on 15 February 1989; he commanded the 40th Army and oversaw the Soviet withdrawal as the last personnel retreated. Early life and education Born 7 November 1943 in Saratov, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union, he graduated from a Suvorov military cadet school, the Leningrad Military Commanders School and later from the Frunze Military Academy in Moscow, as well as the General Staff Academy. Military career During the Soviet–Afghan War, Gromov did three tours of duty (1980–1982, 1985–1986, 1987–1989), and was best known for the two years as the last Commander of the 40th Army in Afghanistan. Gromov was the last Soviet soldier to leave Afghanistan, crossing on foot the Friendship Bridge spanning ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boris Godunov
Boris Feodorovich Godunov (; ; ) was the ''de facto'' regent of Russia from 1585 to 1598 and then tsar from 1598 to 1605 following the death of Feodor I, the last of the Rurik dynasty. After the end of Feodor's reign, Russia descended into the Time of Troubles. Early years Boris was the son of Feodor Ivanovich Godunov "Krivoy" (, died c. 1568–1570) and his wife Stepanida Ivanovna. His older brother Vasily died young and without issue. There is a version according to which the Godunovs were descended from the Tatar ''murza'' Chet, who came to Russia in 1330 during the reign of Ivan Kalita. This version was included in later editions of the 16th-century '' Gosudarev Rodoslovets'', but historians have raised doubts about this version of Godunov's ancestry due to various chronological and genealogical issues. Godunov's career began at the court of Ivan the Terrible. He is mentioned in 1570 for taking part in the Serpeisk campaign as an archer of the guard. The following yea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boris Gelfand
Boris Abramovich Gelfand (; born 24 June 1968) is a Belarusian-Israeli chess player. A six-time World Championship candidate (1991, 1994–95, 2002, 2007, 2011, 2013), he won the Chess World Cup 2009 and the 2011 Candidates Tournament, making him challenger for the World Chess Championship 2012. Although the match with defending champion Viswanathan Anand finished level at 6–6, Gelfand lost the deciding rapidplay tiebreak by 2½–1½. Gelfand has won major tournaments at Wijk aan Zee, Tilburg, Moscow, Linares and Dos Hermanas. He has competed in eleven Chess Olympiads and held a place within the top 30 players ranked by FIDE from January 1990 to October 2017. Early years Boris Gelfand was born in Minsk, in the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, on 24 June 1968 to Belarusian Jewish parents. His parents, Abram and Nella, were engineers. His father bought him a book about chess, ''Journey to the Chess Kingdom'', by Averbakh and Beilin, when he was five years old ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boris Gardiner
Boris Gardiner (born 13 January 1943) is a Jamaican singer, songwriter and bass guitarist. He was a member of several groups during the 1960s before recording as a solo artist and having hit singles with " Elizabethan Reggae" (in 1970), " I Wanna Wake Up with You" and "You're Everything to Me" (both 1986). One of his most notable credits is bass on the influential reggae song "Real Rock". Career Born in the Rollington Town area of Kingston, Jamaica, Gardiner attended Franklin Town Government School and St Monica's College, dropping out of education after being diagnosed with tachycardia. In 1960 he joined Richard Ace's band the Rhythm Aces, which also included Delano Stewart, later of the Gaylads. With the group he recorded "Angella", and the local hits "A Thousand Teardrops" and "C-H-R-I-S-T-M-A-S" (written with his brother Barrington). The group split up and by 1963 Gardiner had joined Kes Chin and The Souvenirs as vocalist, and began learning guitar. He went on to join Car ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boris Furlan
Boris Furlan (10 November 1894 – 10 June 1957)Brecelj, Marijan. 1978. "Borut Furlan." ''Primorski slovenski biografski leksikon'', vol. 5. Gorizia: Goriška Mohorjeva družba, p. 394.Jevnikar, Martin. 1989. "Boris Furlan." ''Enciklopedija Slovenije'', vol. 3. Ljubljana: Mladinska knjiga, p. 162. was a Slovenian jurist, philosopher of law, translator and liberal politician. During World War II, he worked as a speaker on Radio London, and was known as "London's Slovene voice". He served as a Minister in the Tito–Šubašić coalition government. In 1947, he was convicted by the Yugoslav Communist authorities at the Nagode Trial. Early life and career He was born in a middle class Slovene family in Trieste, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (today in Italy). He attended private Slovene language schools in Trieste. As a teenager, he attended an intensive English course at the local Berlitz language school, where he was a pupil of the Irish novelist James Joyce. After f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boris Ford
Richard Boris Ford (1 July 1917 – 19 May 1998) was a British literary critic, writer, editor and educationist. Early life Ford was born on 1 July 1917, in Simla, India, the son of an Indian Army officer, Brigadier Geoffrey Noel Ford, and his Russian wife Ekaterina,MacKillop, Ian"Ford, (Richard) Boris (1917–1998)" ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, vol. 20, 2004: pp. 317–18; online edition, accessed 14 July 2014 Ford was a chorister at King's College, Cambridge, eventually becoming head chorister under Boris Ord. He was then educated at Gresham's School, and through his English master there, Denys Thompson, was introduced to F. R. Leavis under whom he studied at Downing College, Cambridge. Even before graduating, Ford's essay on ''Wuthering Heights'' was published by Leavis in ''Scrutiny'' in March 1939. Although he came to share many of Leavis's ideas, Ford could not follow Leavis in making "exclusion and exclusivity major features of eavi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boris Ebzeyev
Boris Safarovich Ebzeyev (; , ) is a Russian politician and judge. He served as a judge on the Constitutional Court of Russia from 1991 to 2008 and as president of Karachay–Cherkessia between 2008 and 2011. Biography Ebzeyev was born on February 25, 1950, in the village of Janga Jere, Frunze Region of the Kirghiz SSR, where his family, like other Karachays were expelled in 1944 (he returned home with his family in 1957). He graduated from high school in Karachayevsk, where he then worked there as a carpenter, later on as a concrete worker in a construction organization to earn some experience for admission to the Law Institute. In 1976 he fulfilled his military service. In 1972, he graduated from the Saratov Institute of Law with an honors degree, and later on, studied for a Doctorate in Legal Sciences. Although Ebzeev is a lawyer and judge by profession, he is the author of more than 200 scientific works, including 25 books - monographs, textbooks, scientific and practical ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
