Famous People with Name Abraham

Abraham Van Olst            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Abraham Van Olst: was a Dutch water polo player who competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics.He was part of the Dutch team in the 1928 tournament.

Abraham Torres            Origin/Culture/Country: South America

Abraham Torres: is a former Venezuelan boxer, who was nicknamed "Habran". At the 1988 Summer Olympics he lost in the third round of the men's bantamweight division (– 54 kg) to Thailand's eventual bronze medalist Phajol Moolsan.

Abraham Olano Manzano            Origin/Culture/Country: Spanish

Abraham Olano Manzano: is a Spanish Basque former professional road racing cyclist. His crowning achievement came in 1995 when he became World Road Champion. In 1998 he won the World Time Trial Championship.In 1993, Olano switched to CLAS Cajastur, which was later merged with M

Abraham Gancwajch            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Abraham Gancwajch: was a prominent Polish-Jewish Nazi collaborator in Warsaw Ghetto during Second World War and a "kingpin" of the ghetto underwold.[1]After the German invasion of Poland, he surfaced in Warsaw as a refugee from Lódz and as a person with connections to Sicherheitsdienst (SD)[7] and became a Nazi collaborator. In December 1940 he founded the Group 13 network, a Jewish Nazi collaborationist organization in Warsaw Ghetto, described by some as the "Jewish Gestapo".[5][7][8]

Abraham Joshua Heschel            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Abraham Joshua Heschel: was a Warsaw-born American rabbi and one of the leading Jewish theologians and Jewish philosophers of the 20th century.Abraham Joshua Heschel was descended from preeminent European rabbis on both sides of the family. [1]. His father, Moshe Mordechai Heschel, died of influenza in 1916. His mother Reizel Perlow, was a descendant of Rebbe Avrohom Yehoshua Heshel of Apt and other dynasties. He was the youngest of six children. His siblings were Sarah, Dvora Miriam, Esther Sima, Gittel, and Jacob.

Pierre Abraham            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Pierre Abraham: was a French journalist and encyclopedist and military figure in the French Air Force during the world wars. A graduate of the Ecole Polytechnique, he served during World War I from 1914-1918 as an aviator officer. After the war, his brother Jean-Richard Bloch encouraged him to write and he entered various literary circles. He began with criticism in newspapers and magazines. He worked on the magazine Europe since the magazine was founded and published several essays, and was noticed for his originality. In 1935, he led a research team in compiling the French Encyclopedia.

Attila Ábrahám            Origin/Culture/Country: Hungaian

Attila Ábrahám: is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from the late 1980s to the mid 1990s. Completing in two Summer Olympics, he won a complete set of medals (gold - 1988: K-4 1000 m, silver - 1992: K-4 1000 m, bronze - 1988: K-2 500 m).

George Dixon Abraham            Origin/Culture/Country: English

George Dixon Abraham: were brother climbers and photographers who lived in Keswick, Cumberland in the English Lake District. They made a photographic record of the exploits of many of the climbing pioneers, especially Owen Glynne Jones, with whom they formed a close climbing p

Ashley Perry Abraham            Origin/Culture/Country: English

Ashley Perry Abraham: One of their many first ascents in the Lakes was the 74 m "Keswick Brother's Climb" on Scafell crag on 12 July 1897, now considered "Very Difficult" in the British grading system. Another memorable first ascent was of "Crowberry Ridge Direct" (graded "Sev

Emile Abraham            Origin/Culture/Country: South America

Emile Abraham: is a professional male cyclist from Trinidad and Tobago. He won the silver medal in the men's individual road race at the 2007 Pan American Games, just behind Dominican Republic's Wendy Cruz.