Famous People with Name Solon

Solon Michaelides            Origin/Culture/Country: Greek

Solon Michaelides: was a Cypriot composer, teacher and musicologist. He taught himself the guitar as a schoolkid. He was appointed guitar teacher in the Cypriot Conservatory, where he learned piano. He studied in the UK and France. After his studies he spend the next two decades in Limassol. He created a choir that survives today as Aris choir, with which he presented opera (Dido and Aeneas) and oratorio classics as well as choral works. He was a music teacher at Lanitio school. He moved to Salonika in the 1950s, where he continued teaching and created a symphony orchestra that was nationalised in the 1960s and is still active today. He wrote extensively, including books on the harmony of modern music, cypriot music, modern greek music and his Encyclopaedia of Ancient Greek Music.

Ewen Solon            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Ewen Solon: a New Zealand-born actor, who worked extensively in both the United Kingdom and Australia.Film credits include: The Dam Busters, Rob Roy, the Highland Rogue, 1984, Robbery Under Arms, The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Stranglers of Bombay, The Terror of the Tongs, The Curse of the Werewolf, The Yangtse Incident, and The Spaceman and King Arthur.

Yvonne Prettner Solon            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Yvonne Prettner Solon: is the 47th and current Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota. She is the sixth consecutive woman to serve in that capacity and is a member of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party. Prettner Solon was a member of the Minnesota Senate representing District 7, which

Sam George Solon            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Sam George Solon: was a Minnesota politician, and a member of the Minnesota Senate and the Minnesota House of Representatives. A Democrat, he served in the legislature for over 30 years, 28 of those years in the senate. He died of malignant melanoma in 2001. Solon was born

Anatoly Alekseyevich Solonitsyn            Origin/Culture/Country: Russian

Anatoly Alekseyevich Solonitsyn: was a famous Soviet actor.Solonitsyn is best known in the west for his roles in several of Andrei Tarkovsky's films, including Dr. Sartorius in Solaris (1972), the Writer in Stalker (1979), the pedestrian in Mirror (1975), and the title role in Andrei Rublev (1966). Indeed, it was Tarkovsky who "discovered" him. In his book Sculpting In Time, Tarkovsky calls him his "favorite" actor, and writes that Solonitsyn was intended to play the lead roles in each of his films Nostalghia (1983) and The Sacrifice (1986), but died before their production.