Famous People with Name Dora

Dora Pavel            Origin/Culture/Country: Romanian

Dora Pavel: is a Romanian novelist, short-story writer, poet, and journalist.She is the daughter of Viorica (b. Pop) and of Eugen Voicu, both teachers. She graduated Decebal College in Deva (1964), and the Faculty of Letters of the Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj (1969). College professor of Romanian language in Alba Iulia and Deva, then researcher at the Institute of Linguistics and Literary History in Cluj; since 1990, she works as editor at the local Radio Station of Cluj, where she realizes successful broadcastings on topics of Romanian language and literature. Debut with poetry in the literary magazine Steaua (1972); editorial debut in the collective volume Alpha '84, published in 1984 at Dacia Publishing House. She publishes poetry and prose in literary magazines such as Tribuna, Steaua, Contrapunct, Apostrof, Contemporanul-Ideea europeana, România literara, Viata româneasca, Poesis, Familia, and Vatra. She also signs interviews in several cultural magazines.

Dora Nkem Akunyili            Origin/Culture/Country: Nigerian

Dora Nkem Akunyili: the Director General of National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) of Nigeria. She is a pharmacist, professor and governmental administrator who has gained international recognition and won hundreds of awards for her work in pharmacology, public health and human rights.Since Akunyili took over leadership of NAFDAC, she has established as a top priority the eradication of counterfeit drugs and unsafe food.[1] Before Akunyili assumed duty, Nigeria became a place where fake and substandard foods and drugs were being dumped without any form of regulations. She became angry because “so many of (her) countrymen and women (were) fighting killer diseases like malaria and tuberculosis with little more than sugar syrup and chalk tablets,

Dora Noemí Kerchen            Origin/Culture/Country: South America

Dora Noemí Kerchen: a model, actress, television host, and Argentine singer. Working first in Argentina and later in Miami. She was selected to appear on the cover of Playboy, representing The Sexy Ladies of Latin TV, in March 2003. She was a hostess of the Univisión Network, (the largest Spanish-language television network in the United States), television show Caliente from 2000 to 2006.[2]

Dora Gerson            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Dora Gerson: was a Jewish German cabaret singer and motion picture actress of the silent film era who was killed with her family at Auschwitz concentration camp.Gerson began her career as a touring singer and actress in the Holtorf Tournee Truppe alongside actor Mathi

Dóra Kisteleki            Origin/Culture/Country: Hungaian

Dóra Kisteleki: is a female water polo player from Hungary, who competed for her native country at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. There she finished in sixth place with the Hungary Women's National Team. A year later she was on the side that claimed the worl

Miki "Da Cat" Dora            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Miki "Da Cat" Dora: was an iconic Malibu surfer of the 1950s and 1960s. He had a unique style, in and out of the water, and was generally considered rather iconoclastic. He is featured in the seminal surf movie The Endless Summer, and is credited as a surfer in several beach