Famous People with Name Berman

Bermane "B. WARE" Stiverne            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Bermane "B. WARE" Stiverne: is a Canadian heavyweight boxer of Haitian descent.Stiverne was Canadian superheavyweight silver medallist in 2005. In 2003 and 2004 he won bronze. In international competition he beat Robert Helenius (points) and David Price (boxer) (KO). His record was

David Berman            Origin/Culture/Country: American

David Berman: is an American poet, cartoonist, and singer-songwriter best known for his work with indie-rock band the Silver Jews.Upon graduation from the University of Virginia, the trio moved to Hoboken, New Jersey, where they shared an apartment and adopted the moni

Yitzhak Berman            Origin/Culture/Country: Jewish

Yitzhak Berman: is a former Israeli politician who served as Minister of Energy and Infrastructure from August 1981 until September 1982. He was also Speaker of the Knesset from 1977 until 1981.

Boris Berman            Origin/Culture/Country: Russian

Boris Berman: a Russian pianist and pedagogueHe was a student of Lev Oborin at the Moscow Conservatory. He made his debut in Moscow in 1965. He joined an early music ensemble, at the time the only one in Russia, as a harpsichordist. At the same time he worked with contemporary composers such as Alfred Schnittke and Edison Denisov. He played in the first Russian performances of works by Arnold Schoenberg, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Luciano Berio and György Ligeti.

Lazar Naumovich Berman            Origin/Culture/Country: Russian

Lazar Naumovich Berman: was a Soviet Russian classical pianist.Berman was born to Jewish parents in Leningrad. His mother, Anna Lazarevna Makhover, had played the piano herself until ear problems stopped her. She introduced the boy to the piano, and he entered his first competition at the age of three, and recorded a Mozart fantasia and a mazurka that he had composed himself at the age of seven, before he could even read music. Emil Gilels described him as a "phenomenon of the musical world". When Lazar was nine

Adolf Avraham Berman            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Adolf Avraham Berman: was a Polish-Israeli activist and politician.During World War II he was one of the leaders of the Jewish underground in the Warsaw Ghetto, and a member of the presidium of the Underground National Committee. He also served as general secretary of Zegota, the Polish Council for Jewish Aid whose aim was to rescue Jews from the Holocaust, and Tsetnum, a children's aid society in Warsaw.[1]After the war ended, he became a representative of the Sejm, and in 1947 became chairman of the Central Committee of Polish Jewry.