Famous People with Name Oury

Gérard Oury            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Gérard Oury: was a French film director, actor and writer. His real name was Max-Gérard Houry Tannenbaum. The son of Serge Tannenbaum, a violinist, and Marcelle Houry, a journalist, Oury studied at Lycée Janson de Sailly and at the National Conservatory of Dramatic Art. He became a member of the Comédie-Française, just one year before World War II, but fled to Switzerland to escape the anti-Jewish laws decreed by the Vichy government.

Anna Caroline Oury            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Anna Caroline Oury: was a German pianist and composer of French ancestry. Anna Caroline (Charlotte) de Belleville-Oury was born in Landshut, Bavaria, Germany. She was the daughter of a French aristocrat who was the director of the national Court Opera in Mannheim.[1] She studied with Czerny in Vienna between 1816 to 1820, where she met Beethoven and heard him improvise.[2] In 1829 she traveled to Warsaw where Chopin heard her play impressively enough for him to write about it in a letter, praising her "excellent" playing for its lightness and elegance.[3] Twelve years later, in 1841, Chopin dedicated his Waltz in F minor, Op. Posth. 70, No. 2, to Mme. Oury, though it went unpublished until 1855.

Granville Henderson Oury            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Granville Henderson Oury: was a nineteenth century politician, lawyer, judge, soldier and miner. He then moved to Tucson, Arizona in 1856 and began a law practice and was appointed a district judge for Arizona and New Mexico Territories in Mesilla, New Mexico. At the outbreak of t