ANCESTRY

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Sheldon Adelson	Business	1-Aug-1933		Las Vegas billionaire
Shmuel Agnon	Author	17-Jul-1888	17-Feb-1970	'Tmol Shilshom
Izzy Asper	Business	11-Aug-1932	7-Oct-2003	Founder, CanWest Global
Isaac Babel	Author	1-Jul-1894	17-Mar-1941	Soviet master of short stories
Hector Babenco	Film Director	7-Feb-1946		Kiss of the Spider Woman
Oksana Baiul	Figure Skating	16-Nov-1977		Olympic figure skater
Charlene Barshefsky	Diplomat	11-Aug-1950		US Trade Representative, 1997-2001
Herbert C. Brown	Chemist	22-May-1912	19-Dec-2004	Discovered organoboranes
Neko Case	Singer/Songwriter	8-Sep-1970		New Pornographers
Erwin Chargaff	Biologist	11-Aug-1905	20-Jun-2002	Biochemist at Columbia University
Kiran Chetry	Journalist	26-Aug-1974		CNN anchor
Cid Corman	Poet	29-Jun-1924	12-Mar-2004	Founder of Origin poetry magazine
Rick Danko	Singer	9-Dec-1943	10-Dec-1999	The Band
Mike Ditka	Football	18-Oct-1939		Chicago Bears Head Coach, 1982-92
Edward Dmytryk	Film Director	4-Sep-1908	1-Jul-1999	The Caine Mutiny
T. G. Dobzhansky	Scientist	25-Jan-1900	18-Dec-1975	Genetics and the Origin of Species
Erika Eleniak	Actor	29-Sep-1969		Shauni on Baywatch
Vera Farmiga	Actor	6-Aug-1973		Down to the Bone
Sam Fox	Business	1929		US Ambassador to Belgium
David Geffen	Business	21-Feb-1943		Music industry mogul
Duff Goldman	Chef	17-Dec-1974		Ace of Cakes
Raisa Gorbachev	First Lady	5-Jan-1932	20-Sep-1999	First Lady of the Soviet Union
David J. Gross	Physicist	19-Feb-1941		Deep structure of matter
Alexander Grothendieck	Mathematician	28-May-1928		Grothendieck topologies
Armand Hammer	Business	21-May-1898	10-Dec-1990	Soviet agent of influence
Dale Hawerchuk	Hockey	4-Apr-1963		NHL Hall of Famer
Jill Hennessy	Actor	25-Nov-1968		Crossing Jordan
H. Robert Horvitz	Scientist	8-May-1947		Genetic regulation of organ development
Alejandro Jodorowsky	Film Director	7-Feb-1929		El Topo
Philip M. Kaiser	Diplomat	12-Jul-1913	24-May-2007	US Ambassador to Austria, 1980-81
Eric R. Kandel	Scientist	7-Nov-1929		Signal transduction in the nervous system
Larry Klayman	Activist	20-Jul-1951		Founder, Judicial Watch
Lee Krasner	Painter	27-Oct-1908	19-Jun-1984	Abstract expressionist
Nikolai Krylenko	Government	2-May-1885	29-Jul-1938	Soviet prosecutor executed during the Great Purge
Anton LaVey	Religion	11-Apr-1930	29-Oct-1997	Founder, Church of Satan
Traci Lords	Pornstar	7-May-1968		We Love You, Traci
George Montgomery	Actor	29-Aug-1916	12-Dec-2000	Coney Island
Bronko Nagurski	Football	3-Nov-1908	7-Jan-1990	NFL Hall of Famer
Leonard Nimoy	Actor	26-Mar-1931		Commander Spock on Star Trek
Larisa Oleynik	Actor	7-Jun-1981		The Secret World of Alex Mack
Mollie Orshansky	Economist	9-Jan-1915	18-Dec-2006	Orshansky Index
Jack Palance	Actor	18-Feb-1919	10-Nov-2006	Performed one-handed push-ups
Grace Paley	Author	11-Dec-1922	22-Aug-2007	The Little Disturbances of Man
Nikolai Podgorny	Head of State	18-Feb-1903	11-Jan-1983	President of the USSR, 1965-77
Sidney Reilly	Spy	24-Mar-1874	5-Nov-1925	Ace of Spies
Randi Rhodes	Radio Personality	28-Jan-1959		Liberal talk show host
Mike Royko	Columnist	19-Sep-1932	29-Apr-1997	Syndicated Chicago columnist
Leopold von Sacher-Masoch	Novelist	27-Jan-1836	9-Mar-1895	Venus in Furs
Carl Sagan	Astronomer	9-Nov-1934	20-Dec-1996	Popular astronomer, host of Cosmos
Flip Saunders	Basketball	23-Feb-1955		Head Coach, Detroit Pistons
Terry Sawchuk	Hockey	28-Dec-1929	31-May-1970	Goalie, NHL Hall of Famer
Bob Schaffer	Politician	24-Jul-1962		Congressman from Colorado, 1997-2003
David Schizer	Educator	c. 1968		Dean of Columbia Law School
Selim II	Royalty	28-May-1524	15-Dec-1574	Ottoman Sultan, 1566-74
Iosif S. Shklovskii	Astronomer	1-Jul-1916	3-Mar-1985	Synchrotron radiation of the Crab Nebula
Mikhail Sholokhov	Author	24-May-1905	21-Feb-1984	The Silent Don
Elaine Showalter	Critic	21-Jan-1941		Lead alpha Gynocritic
Michael Showalter	Actor	17-Jun-1970		The State
Igor Sikorsky	Business	25-May-1889	26-Oct-1972	Helicopter magnate
Beverly Sills	Singer	25-May-1929	2-Jul-2007	Soprano at the New York City Opera
Yakov Smirnoff	Comic	24-Jan-1951		What a country
Arlen Specter	Politician	12-Feb-1930		US Senator from Pennsylvania
Otto Struve	Astronomer	12-Aug-1897	6-Apr-1963	Hydrogen in the interstellar medium
Stephen Timoshenko	Engineer	23-Dec-1878	29-May-1972	Mechanical engineering professor at Stanford
Jonathan Togo	Actor	25-Aug-1977		Ryan Wolfe on CSI: Miami
Georgy Voronoy	Mathematician	28-Apr-1868	20-Nov-1908	Voronoi diagram
Selman A. Waksman	Scientist	22-Jul-1888	16-Aug-1973	Streptomycin and other antibiotics
Mike Wallace	Journalist	9-May-1918		Veteran 60 Minutes correspondent
Jude Wanniski	Columnist	17-Jun-1936	29-Aug-2005	Supply-side theorist
Simon Wiesenthal	Activist	31-Dec-1908	20-Sep-2005	Nazi hunter
Adele Wiseman	Author	21-May-1928	1-Jun-1992	The Sacrifice
Yevgeny Yevtushenko	Poet	18-Jul-1933		Babi Yar

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