Famous People with Name Israel

Israel Albert Horowitz            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Israel Albert Horowitz: was a Jewish-American International Master of chess. He was clearly a grandmaster-strength player by present day standards, but he never got the title. He is most remembered today for the books he wrote about chess, many of which are still highly recommended for students of the game.

Israel Castro Franco            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Israel Castro Franco: is a Brazilian-Salvadoran footballer currently signed to Toledo Colônia Work.He became a Salvadoran citizen in 1996. He participated in 1998 FIFA World Cup campaign under the former, popular Serbian coach Milovan Djoric.

Sebastian Israël            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Sebastian Israël: is a former French-Israeli footballer.

Marinus ("Rinus") David Israël            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Marinus ("Rinus") David Israël: a former Dutch football player, manager and currently scout.During his career he played for DWS (1962-66), Feyenoord Rotterdam (1966-74), Excelsior Rotterdam (1974-75) and PEC Zwolle (1975-82). Israël achieved his greatest success at club level with Feyenoord, where he won three Eredivisie titles, a KNVB Cup, a European Cup and a UEFA Cup. He scored one of the two Rotterdam goals in the 1970 European Cup final against Celtic F.C.He also played 47 matches and scored 3 goals for the Netherlands national football team from 1964 to 1974, and played in the 1974 FIFA World Cup where the Dutch finished second. Nicknamed IJzeren Rinus (Iron Rinus) he formed a solid defence line at Feyenoord with Theo Laseroms

Edward Israel            Origin/Culture/Country:

Edward Israel: was an astronomer and Polar explorer.Israel left for Washington, D.C. on April 28, 1881 to join the Lady Franklin Bay polar expedition with 23 other men under the leadership of Adolphus Greely. The Lady Franklin Bay Expedition was commissioned by the US government to collect scientific information about the polar regions. Israel received the assignment of collecting astronomical, magnetic and meteorological data.The ill-fated expedition left Washington on June 9, 1881, reaching Newfoundland later in the month. From there, the crew boarded a special polar-equipped ship and went to Lady Franklin Bay, to a site far above the Arctic Circle. Israel and the rest of the crew spent two years at a camp they called Fort Conger.

Märt Israel            Origin/Culture/Country: Russian

Märt Israel: is an Estonian discus thrower.His personal best is 66.56 metres, achieved in September 2007 in Helsingborg.

Mione Elizabeth George Israel            Origin/Culture/Country: Jamaican

Mione Elizabeth George Israel: was the focus of one of the most widely publicized longevity claims of recent years. Israel was born in Dominica. Her birthdate of January 27, 1875, was attested by an entry in a baptismal register as reproduced after a 1979 hurricane, and by a birth certificate procured for her in 2000 based on the baptismal register. She was known by the name Mione "Minette" George for much of her life; Israel was her married name. She worked as a crew chief on a plantation into the late 1970s. In her old age, she became the focus of one of the most widely publicized longevity claims of recent years. In December 1999, she was publicly stated to be 124 years old and the world's oldest person. Disk jockey Alex Bruno was the initial advocate of this claim; Bruno established a foundation and promoted a play about her life, and sought to promote tourism to Dominica based on its being a haven for longevity. Attempted validation of her claim was called both "frenetic" and "barely attempted". Israel was disabled when she was first promoted as the world's oldest person, and did not promote herself. Her attested birthdate would have made her 128 years old at death. The Guinness Book of World Records rejected her longevity claim based on lack of evidence, while promoters made strongly worded demands that the claim be accepted on its evidence. The longevity claim was supported by the highest ranks of the government of her native Dominica. The observed life expectancy on Dominica, and the extremely high death rates among supercentenarians, were cited as requiring greater evidence than her promoters provided. The baptismal register was a third-generation copy; the entry cited was for "Elizabeth Israel", her married name; and no documents attesting to the birthdate and dating to the first century of her stated lifespan were ever produced.