Famous People with Name Shmuel

Shmuel Hazan            Origin/Culture/Country: Jewish

Shmuel Hazan: a Canadian-Israeli football player.Hazan was part of the Canadian team that played in its first Maccabiah Games. He set the record and was the first-ever goalscorer for Canada at the 2005 Maccabiah Games in a 1-0 win over defending gold medal champions, Argentina.

Shmuel Kozokin            Origin/Culture/Country: Jewish

Shmuel Kozokin: an Israeli footballer who currently plays for Beitar Jerusalem.With the youth team he won the 2005/2006 Israeli youth-teams-cup, and he was brought up to the mature team. He was part of the mature squad, and at the same time played for the youth team, with who he won the 2006-2007 cup and championship, and was chosen youth player of the year[3]. He was also part of the Israel national under-21 football team that reached the UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship (thought he didn't play in the tournment itself).

Shmuel Rosenthal            Origin/Culture/Country: Jewish

Shmuel Rosenthal: a former Israeli international footballer who was the first Israeli to sign with a European club when he joined Borussia VfL 1900 from Hapoel Petah Tikva.

Shmuel Yefimovich Plavnik            Origin/Culture/Country: Jewish

Shmuel Yefimovich Plavnik: was a famous Jewish Belarusian poet, prose writer, cultural worker, and political activist in the Belarusian independence movement.Zmitrok Biadula was born Shmuel Yefimovich Plavnik on April 23, 1886 in the small town of Pasadziec in the Province of Vilna

Shmuel Barzilai            Origin/Culture/Country: Jewish

Shmuel Barzilai: is the chief cantor of the Viennese Jewish Community (the "Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Wien", or in its acronym the "IKG"). Barzilai has a lyrical tenor voice, and studied under cantor Moshe Stern in the Tel Aviv Institute for Cantorial Art. He was in the first graduating class of the Institute, which was established under former Tel Aviv mayor Shlomo Lahat. Barzilai has served as the chief cantor in Vienna since 1992, and frequently tours throughout Europe.