Famous People with Name Ferdo

Ferdo Rusan            Origin/Culture/Country: Serbia, Europe

Ferdo Rusan: was a Croatian reformer, composer and musician.Ferdo Rusan was the main recorder of renaissance movements in Varždin Military Frontier area and Bjelovar Military Commune.

Ferdo Šišic            Origin/Culture/Country: Serbia, Europe

Ferdo Šišic: was a Croatian historian, the founding figure of the Croatian historiography of the 20th century. He made his most important contributions in the area of Croatian early Middle Ages. In 1900 he obtained his Ph.D. at the Zagreb University with the work "Zadar and Venice from 1159 to 1247". In 1902 he earned his habilitation with the work "Miha Madijev de Barbezanis" and became the private assistant professor for Croatian history from the 12th to the 14th century (i.e. until 1409) in the Upper Town comprehensive school in Zagreb, where he earned his fame by 1906 by becoming suplent. For his newfound political beliefs, he was suspended in 1908, but rehired in 1909 as a casual university professor. In 1910 he became a member of the Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts. His success was mostly connoted to his alleged membership within the Free Masons. He worked continually a university professor until the summer 1937/1938 semester and went into volunteer early retirement in 1939. He died a year later in Zagreb, in 1940. As a scientist, Šišic was primarily interested in the history of the early and high Middle Ages in Croatia. His greatest work is History of the Croats Under Home Rule, while his most popular work is Overview of the History of the Croatian People, which was edited by Jaroslav Šidak and widely used for almost five decades. History of the Croats under the Arpad Kings (1102-1301), an unfinished compilation published after his death, is generally considered below the level of his magnum opus. Other notable Šišic's books are the important monograph on Hrvoje Vukcic Hrvatinic and a critical edition of Dukljanin's Chronicles. His compilations of Croatian history of later periods (from the 15th to the 19th century) are not as valuable as his epochal history of the Croatian early Middle Ages.

Ferdo Livadic (Wiesner)            Origin/Culture/Country: Serbia, Europe

Ferdo Livadic (Wiesner): was a Croatian composer. Livadic was born in Celje. A leader of the 19th-century Croatian national revival, he wrote the tune for "Još Hrvatska ni propala", the anthem of the Illyrian movement. He frequently invited many of the movement's most important members, together with such European celebrities as Franz Liszt, to his property at Samobor. He also composed numerous art songs in Croatian, Slovenian, and German, as well as marches, dances and scherzi for piano. Probably the best of these piano works is a Nocturne in F sharp minor. His work prepared the way for the nationalist Croatian composers Vatroslav Lisinski and Ivan Zajc. He died, aged 79, in Samobor.

Ferdoos Mohammed            Origin/Culture/Country: Egyptian

Ferdoos Mohammed: was an Egyptian actress, famous for playing the role of a mother or a motherly figure lady in Egyptian films in the 1940s and 1950s.