Famous People with Name Cohn

Mindy Cohn            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Mindy Cohn: an American actress[1] best known for her role as Natalie Green on the TV show The Facts of Life.[2] She currently resides in Beverly Hills.[3]Cohn was discovered by actress Charlotte Rae when Rae and other producers of The Facts of Life visited Westlake School in North Hollywood, California while doing research for the show.[4] She was cast in the role of Natalie and portrayed the character for the entire run of the series, from 1979 to 1988, as well in the reunion movie of 2001.[5] The impact of her work on The Facts of Life was honored when she was ranked 43 on VH1's List of 100 Greatest Kids Stars.[6]

Wilhelm Cohn            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Wilhelm Cohn: was a German chess master.He participated in some strong tournaments. In 1897, he tied for 13-14th in Berlin (Rudolf Charousek won). In 1898, he tied for 2nd-4th in Cologne (11th DSB Kongress; Amos Burn won). In 1899, he tied for 10-11th in London (Emanuel Lasker won). In 1900, he took 6th in Munich (12th DSB Kongress; Geza Maroczy, Harry Pillsbury and Carl Schlechter won). In 1902, he took 13th in Hanover (13th DSB Kongress; Dawid Janowski won).

Erich Cohn            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Erich Cohn: was a German chess master.He won or tied for 1st in several tournaments in Berlin (1902, 1905, 1906, 1909/10, 1914).[2] In strong tournaments, he tied for 11-12th at Berlin 1903 (Horatio Caro won). He took 10th at Coburg 1904 (the 14th DSB Congress, Hauptturnier A, Augustin Neumann won).[3] In 1905, he took 5th in Barmen (A tourn). In 1906, he took 6th at Nuremberg 1906 (the 15th DSB Kongress; Frank Marshall won). In 1907, he took 6th in Berlin (Richard Teichmann won), tied for 12-14th in Ostend (B tourn; Ossip Bernstein and Akiba Rubinstein won), and took 20th in Carlsbad (Rubinstein won).

Zinky Cohn            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Zinky Cohn: was an American jazz pianist.Cohn played in Chicago in the late 1920s, including in Jimmie Noone's Apex Club Orchestra (1928-30); he recorded with Noone extensively between 1929 and 1934, especially for Vocalion Records. Many of the tunes Noone recorded w

Tobias Cohn            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Tobias Cohn: was a Polish-Jewish physician of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He was born at Metz in 1652.He received his education at Kraków and the universities of Frankfort-on-the-Oder (at the expense of the great elector of Brandenburg) and Padua, graduating from the latter as doctor of medicine. He practised for some time in Poland, and removed later to Adrianople, where he became physician to five successive Ottoman sultans— Mehmed IV, Suleiman II, Ahmed II, Mustafa II, and Ahmed III, moving with the court to Constantinople. In 1724 he went to Jerusalem, where he lived until his death in 1729.