Famous People with Name Count

Count Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola            Origin/Culture/Country: Italian

Count Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola: was an Italian Renaissance philosopher.[1] He is famed for the events of 1486, when at the age of 23, he proposed to defend 900 theses on religion, philosophy, natural philosophy and magic against all comers, for which he wrote the famous Oration on the D

Count Aurél Dessewffy            Origin/Culture/Country: Hungaian

Count Aurél Dessewffy: Hungarian journalist and politician, eldest son of Count Jozsef Dessewffy and Eleonora Sztaray, was born at Nagymihály, county Zemplén,Austria-Hungarian Empire.Carefully educated at his father's house, he was accustomed to the best society of his day. While still a child he could declaim most of the Iliad in Greek without a book, and read and quoted Tacitus with enthusiasm. Under the noble influence of Ferenc Kazinczy he became acquainted with the chief masterpieces of European literature in their original tongues. He was particularly fond of the English, and one of his early idols was Jeremy Bentham. He regularly accompanied his father to the diets of which he was a member, followed the course of the debates, of which he kept a journal, and made the acquaintance of the great István Széchenyi, who encouraged his aspirations.

Count István Széchenyi,            Origin/Culture/Country: Hungaian

Count István Széchenyi,: was a Hungarian politician, theorist and writer, one of the greatest statesmen of the Hungarian history.István Széchenyi's father, Count Ferenc Széchenyi, was an enlightened aristocrat. He founded the Hungarian National Museum and the Hungarian National Library. His mother was Countess Juliána Festetics. They had two daughters and three sons of which István was the youngest. He spent his childhood both in Vienna and on the family estate of Nagycenk, Hungary.

Count Carl Gustaf Mannerheim            Origin/Culture/Country: Finnish

Count Carl Gustaf Mannerheim: was a Finnish entomologist and governor of Viipuri province.From 1819 he served as the secretary to the Finnish Minister Secretary of State in Saint Petersburg. In 1833 he was appointed governor of the Vaasa Province and soon after of the Viipuri and Savo

Count Itagaki Taisuke            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Count Itagaki Taisuke: was a Japanese politician and leader of the Freedom and People's Rights Movement (??????, Jiyu Minken Undo?), which evolved into Japan's first political party.Itagaki Taisuke was born into a middle-ranking samurai family in Tosa Domain, (present day Kochi Prefecture), After studies in Kochi and in Edo, he was appointed as sobayonin (councillor) to Tosa daimyo Yamauchi Toyoshige, and was in charge of accounts and military matters at the domain's Edo residence in 1861. He disagreed with the domain’s official policy of kobu gattai (reconciliation between the Imperial Court and the Tokugawa bakufu),

John Counter            Origin/Culture/Country: American

John Counter: was a Canadian businessman and political figure. He served as the City of Kingston's first Mayor.

The Princess Margaret, Countess Of Snowdon            Origin/Culture/Country: British

The Princess Margaret, Countess Of Snowdon: was the younger daughter of George VI and Queen Elizabeth, and the younger sister of the current monarch of each of the Commonwealth Realms, Elizabeth II. She held the title Countess of Snowdon by marriage.Princess Margaret was always a controversial member of the British Royal Family. As a young woman, she was a figure of glamour in post-war Britain and the Commonwealth. However, her private life was plagued by romantic disappointments, including her politically thwarted love for a divorced older man in her youth, a subsequent, often unhappy marriage to a commoner, an acrimonious divorce beset with accusations of adultery, and, in her later years, a public affair with a much younger man. [1]

Mel Grant Counts            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Mel Grant Counts: is a retired American NBA player from 1965–1976. He was on the United States Olympic basketball team that won the gold at the 1964 Summer Olympics. He played in college for Oregon State University and was selected by the Boston Celtics in the 1964 NBA Draft. The Celtics won the NBA Championship in 1965 and 1966 with him on the team, but was traded for the 1967 season to the Baltimore Bullets. Halfway through that season he was traded to the Los Angeles Lakers, whom made it to the playoffs that year.

Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County: was an MTV reality show documenting the lives of several teenagers living in Laguna Beach, a seaside community located in Orange County, California. It differs from the usual reality show in that it is rather structured as a traditional narrative (seen more commonly in fictionalized television dramas or soap operas) than a straightforward observant documentary.