Famous People with Name Sabu

Robert James Sabuda            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Robert James Sabuda: is a leading children's pop-up book artist and paper engineer. His recent books, such as those depicting the stories of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and Alice in Wonderland, have received wide popular and critical acclaim.

Serafeddin Sabuncuoglu            Origin/Culture/Country: Turkish

Serafeddin Sabuncuoglu: was a medieval Ottoman surgeon and physician.Sabuncuoglu was the author of the Cerrahiyyetu'l-Haniyye (Imperial Surgery), the first illustrated surgical atlas, and the Mücerrebname (On Attemption).The Cerrahiyyetu'l-Haniyye (Imperial Surgery) was the first surgical atlas and the last major medical encyclopedia from the Islamic world. Though his work was largely based on Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi's Al-Tasrif, Sabuncuoglu introduced many innovations of his own. Female surgeons were also illustrated for the first time in the Cerrahiyyetu'l-Haniyye.[1

Takagi Saburo            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Takagi Saburo: was a Japanese diplomat and businessman of the Meiji period, and the first Japanese Consul General to New York.The son of a samurai from Shonai Domain, Takagi entered naval training school in 1859, and after that studied abroad in the United States. Following his studies, he remained in the United States, and served as diplomatic secretary beginning in 1871. He resigned from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, however, in 1880, and became director of a silk company in Yokohama. His company was famous for its efforts to improve sericulture methods and techniques of the spinning industry.

Peter Alexandrovich Saburov            Origin/Culture/Country: Russian

Peter Alexandrovich Saburov: was a diplomat, collector of ancient Greek sculpture and antiquities, and a strong amateur chess player and patron of chess tournaments, as an honorary President of the St Petersburg Chess Club.