Famous People with Name Juris

Juris Podnieks            Origin/Culture/Country: Russian

Juris Podnieks: was a Latvian film director and producer. He graduated from the Soviet VGIK film school in 1975, after which he started working at the Riga Film Studio. He became a director in 1979.

Juris Rubenis            Origin/Culture/Country: Russian

Juris Rubenis: is the most famous Latvian Lutheran pastor. Rubenis has written more than 20 original literature and theology books. More than 10 books have been bestsellers in Latvia, and many of his books have been translated in Lithuanian and German. He has published

Juris Varlejs Hartmanis            Origin/Culture/Country: Russian

Juris Varlejs Hartmanis: is a prominent computer scientist and computational theorist who, with Richard E. Stearns, received the 1993 ACM Turing Award "in recognition of their seminal paper which established the foundations for the field of computational complexity theory".

Juris Hartmanis            Origin/Culture/Country: Russian

Juris Hartmanis: is a prominent computer scientist and computational theorist who, with Richard E. Stearns, received the 1993 ACM Turing Award "in recognition of their seminal paper which established the foundations for the field of computational complexity theory".

Juris Ernštreits            Origin/Culture/Country: Russian

Juris Ernštreits: is a former Latvian football defender most notable for playing seven seasons with Zvejnieks Liepaja.Ernštreits was a solid and reliable defender who cemented the defence not only of the Zvejnieks squad but also of the Latvia national team in the 1979 Spartakiad. For many football fans in Liepaja his decision to leave the club in the spring of 1983 came as a big surprise, but Ernštreits considered that he was capable of competing on the top level any more.