Famous People with Name Astor

Ástor Pantaleón Piazzolla            Origin/Culture/Country: South America

Ástor Pantaleón Piazzolla: was an Argentine tango composer and bandoneón player. His oeuvre revolutionized the traditional tango into a new style termed nuevo tango, incorporating elements from jazz and classical music. An excellent bandoneonist, he regularly performed his own compositions with different ensembles.

Astor Henríquez            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Astor Henríquez: is a Honduran football player that currently plays for Marathon as a defender. He made his debut for the 'Catrachos' in 2005.

John Jacob Astor            Origin/Culture/Country: British

John Jacob Astor: , was a military officer, statesman, a newspaper proprietor, and a member of the prominent Astor family. Note: Standard genealogies of the Astor family consider this man to also be known as John Jacob Astor V.

Brooke Astor            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Brooke Astor: was an American philanthropist and socialite who was the chairwoman of the Vincent Astor Foundation, which had been established by her third husband, Vincent Astor, great-great-grandson of John Jacob Astor. She was also a novelist and wrote two volumes of memoirs.

Francis David Langhorne Astor            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Francis David Langhorne Astor: was a newspaper publisher and member of the prominent Astor family.An extremely shy man, David Astor was greatly influenced by his father but as a young man he rebelled against his strong-willed mother. Educated at Eton College he went on to Oxford University where he suffered a nervous breakdown and left in 1933 without obtaining a degree. He was psychoanalysed by Anna Freud and during World War II he served with distinction and was wounded in France.

Mary Astor            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Mary Astor: was an Academy Award-winning American actress. Most famous for her role as Brigid O'Shaughnessy in The Maltese Falcon (1941) opposite Humphrey Bogart, Astor began her long motion picture career as a teenager in the silent movies of the early 1920s.

William Waldorf Astor            Origin/Culture/Country: British

William Waldorf Astor: was a British businessman and Conservative Party politician and a member of the prominent Astor family.Known as Bill Astor, he was the son of the 2nd Viscount Astor and the Viscountess Astor. He was educated at Eton College and at New College, Oxford. In 1932, he was appointed to the office of Secretary to the Earl of Lytton, League of Nations Committee of Enquiry in what was then known as Manchuria.