The most famous people of your city

Tehran (Rey):

The most famous religious reformer: Zoroaster (Founder of Zoroastrianism)
Of course it also is said Zoroaster was born in Azerbaijan, if it is true then -> Baha' Ullah (Founder of Bahai faith)

The most famous scientist: Rhazes (The greatest physician and alchemist of the Islamic world, discoverer of alcohol, sulfuric acid, ...)
The most famous king who was born in Tehran(Rey): Harun ar-Rashid (The Greatest Arab Caliph)
The most famous king who died in Tehran(Rey): Toghril Beg (Founder of Seljuk Empire)
The most famous General: Bahram Chubin (The Greatest Sassanid General who became the king for some years too)

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Abel Tasman, Carl von Rabenhaupt, Johan Huizinga

and Paramanga E. Yonli, the Prime Minister of Burkina Faso, he studied here


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Guillermo Gonzalez Camarena ( inventor of the first Thricromatic system used for colour television transmissions ).
http://www.spanisharriba.co.uk/GGC.htm

   Juan Rulfo ( writter of the books: Pedro Paramo and El LLano en Llamas ).

   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Rulfo

   Luis Barragan
Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureate
1980
http://www.pritzkerprize.com/barragan.htm#...about%20Luis%20 Barragan

Gerardo Murillo ( Dr. Atl )Painter
http://www.mexconnect.com/mex_/travel/tonysarticles/tbatl.ht ml

Jose Clemente Orozco
Muralist
http://www.mexconnect.com/mex_/history/jtuck/jtorozco.html

Rhode Island has a few to be proud of:

Roger Williams - founder of the state (1636) - first advocate of complete religious tolerance b. London

In addition to founding RI in 1636, Roger Williams also established the First Baptist Church in America

Anne Hutchinson - The first woman to establish a town in America - Portsmouth, Rhode Island

Nathanael Greene - Revolutionary War general, second-in-command to George Washington

Esek Hopkins - First Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Navy.

Gilbert Stuart - painter - painted the portrait of George Washington used on the one dollar bill,

Ambrose Burnside - Civil War General

Oliver Hazard Perry - naval officer,

Commodore Matthew Galbraith Perry - opened Japanese ports to world trade - 1854
Edgar Allen Poe - author - lived and wrote in Providence
H. P. Lovecraft - author

George M. Cohan - actor, dramatist, composer - wrote : I�m a Yankee Doodle Dandy," "Give my regards to Broadway," "You�re a Grand Old Flag," "Over There" �
Nelson Eddy - singer, actor - many films with Jeannette Mac Donald
Peter, Bobby Farrelly - writers, directors, producers "Dumb and Dumber" "There's Something about Mary" �

Spalding Gray - writer, actor "The Killing Fields"
Van Johnson - actor - over 90 films
Irving R. Levine - news correspondent

Ruth Buzzi comedienne - "Laugh In"

Richard Hatch - "Survivor" winner
James Woods - actor

Samos island has to be proud of:

Pythagoras the mathematician, (remember his theorem?)

Aristarchus the Astronomer (first to introduce the idea of Heliocaetric System)

Themistokles Sofoulis (several times PM of Greece in the first half of the century)

 

Admiral David G. Farragut.  Yes, I hate the punks in the High School named after him almost as much as I hate him.

Not sure if FDR counts since he was upstate, but if he does, than he's it, probably followed by Teddy.  Let's wait 2o years til Rudy's out of the news before we giver him a shot at this title.

Southampton, England, my original home, is more famous for ships than people, from the Mayflower through to the Queen Mary II. But we can lay claim to Isaac Watts ('Oh God our help in ages past', 'When I survey the wondrous cross", and so on) and some pretty well known tunes.

Luxembourg, where I live, hasn'r produced too many famous people, except maybe for John the Blind, the King of Bohemia who was killed at Crecy and whoe insignia and motto ('Ich dien') was taken over by the Prince of Wales.

However, Charlemagne would have been a Luxembourger if Luxembourg had been founded a couple of hundred years earlier.

 

 

The most famous person, from the place I come from?

It's the one and only Nena, the one with the 99 Red Balloons!

Beat that!

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The most famous person from my little town is the wife of Bing Crosby....who made the son "White Christmas" famous.   I bring this up because this year that same little town celebrated its very first white Christmas in recorded history. 

We had a blast in the snow!

Of course, I'd rather be known as the birthplace of Arthur Guiness....but you can't have everything.  LOL