Famous People with Name Vrba

Ivan Vrba            Origin/Culture/Country: Czech

Ivan Vrba: is a Czech track cyclist. Vrba specialises in the sprint disciplines and won the bronze medal in keirin at the 2004 UCI Track Cycling World Championships.

Rudolf 'Rudi' Vrba,            Origin/Culture/Country: British

Rudolf 'Rudi' Vrba,: was a professor of pharmacology at the University of British Columbia. He came to public attention in 1944 when, in April that year, he and a friend, Alfréd Wetzler, escaped from the Auschwitz concentration camp and passed information to the Allies about the mass murder that was taking place there. The 32 pages of information that the men dictated to horrified Jewish officials in Slovakia became known as the Vrba-Wetzler report. It was the first detailed information about the camp to reach the Allies that they accepted as credible.

Stjepan Vrbancic            Origin/Culture/Country: Serbia, Europe

Stjepan Vrbancic: was a Croatian footballer. He played with Zagreb's top football clubs: with HAŠK from 1918 to 1926 and HŠK Concordia Zagreb from 1926 to 1935.