Famous People with Name Gordan

Gordan Giricek            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Gordan Giricek: is a Croatian professional basketball player for the Phoenix Suns of the NBA. Previously, he played for the Memphis Grizzlies, Orlando Magic, Utah Jazz and most recently the Philadelphia 76ers. His nickname is Gira.The 6'6" (1.98 m) shooting guard started his career with the youth section of a small local club in Zagreb called Jedinstvo. Later on, he joined Zagreb club Cibona, and while playing there he was selected by the Dallas Mavericks in the second round (40th pick overall) in the 1999 NBA Draft and traded by the Mavericks to the San Antonio Spurs for Leon Smith. However, he never played for the Spurs, who traded his draft rights to the Grizzlies for a second-round pick in the 2004 NBA Draft. He stayed in Croatia until 2001, when he signed with Russian power CSKA Moscow, playing the 2001-02 season there.

Paul Albert Gordan            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Paul Albert Gordan: was a German mathematician, a student of Carl Jacobi at the University of Königsberg before obtaining his Ph.D. at the University of Breslau (1862),[1] and a professor at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. He was known as "the king of invariant theory"