Famous People with Name Anastasia

Anastasia Baranova            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Anastasia Baranova: an American actress. She is perhaps best known for her starring role as Jennifer "Scout" Lauer in the Discovery Kids/NBC series Scout's Safari.

Anastasia Horne            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Anastasia Horne: is an American actress/singer who has appeared on television and in the theater. Her last television role was "Lori" on the MTV series Undressed. She also starred as "Lark Madison-Scanlon" on the daytime soap opera Port Charles from 1997 to 1999.

Anastasia Valeryevna "Nastia" Liukin            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Anastasia Valeryevna "Nastia" Liukin: is an American artistic gymnast. With nine World Championships medals, seven of them individual, Liukin is tied with Shannon Miller as the American gymnast having won the most World Championship medals.[

Anastasia Bucsis            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Anastasia Bucsis: is a Canadian speed skater. She competed at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver in the women's 500 metre competition.

Albert Anastasia            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Albert Anastasia: aka the Mad Hatter and Lord High Executioner, was a New York City Cosa Nostra boss remembered for his brutality and his role in running the contract killing gang known as Murder, Inc.In 1930, Luciano finalized his plans to take over the organized crime rackets in New York by destroying the two old-line Mafia factions headed by Masseria and Salvatore Maranzano. Luciano outlined his plot to Anastasia, who joined him and Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel in the plot. Anastasia assured Luciano that he would kill everyone for Luciano to reach the top. Anastasia knew that if Luciano ran the National Crime Syndicate, he would eventually get a "piece of the action." Anastasia therefore participated in the four-man death squad that gunned down Masseria in Nuova Villa Tammaro, a Coney Island restaurant, on 15 April 1931.