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Adelson
Adelson is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Edward H. Adelson, American neuroscientist * Jake Adelson, Australian professional footballer * Jay Adelson, American Internet entrepreneur * Merv Adelson, American real estate developer and television producer who co-founded Lorimar Television ** Andrew Adelson, American television producer, son of Merv Adelson, spouse of Orly ** Orly Adelson, American Israeli television producer, spouse of Andrew ** Gary Adelson, American television producer, son of Merv Adelson * Steven A. Adelson, American film director and television director * Michael Adelson, American orchestral conductor * Miriam Adelson, Israeli American philanthropist and doctor, spouse of Sheldon Adelson * Sheldon Adelson, American casino magnate, spouse of Miriam Adelson * Tom Adelson, American politician * Warren Adelson, American art dealer, art historian, and author See also * ''Adelson e Salvini'', opera by Vincenzo Bellini * Adelson Foundation, foun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sheldon Adelson
Sheldon Gary Adelson (; August 4, 1933 – January 11, 2021) was an American businessman, investor, political donor and philanthropist. He was the founder, chairman and chief executive officer of Las Vegas Sands Corporation, which owns the Marina Bay Sands in Singapore, and the parent company of Venetian Macao Limited, which operated The Venetian Las Vegas and the Sands Expo, Sands Expo and Convention Center before selling the properties in early 2022. He owned the Israeli daily newspaper ''Israel Hayom'', the Israeli weekly newspaper ''Makor Rishon'', and the American daily newspaper the ''Las Vegas Review-Journal''. Adelson created the Adelson Foundation in 2007, a private charity focusing on healthcare and support of Israel and the Jews, Jewish people. He was a major contributor to Republican Party (United States), Republican Party candidates and was often dubbed a "kingmaker" due to the size and frequency of his donations. He and his wife Miriam Adelson were Donald Tru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jay Adelson
Jay Adelson (born Jay Steven Adelson, September 7, 1970) is an American Internet entrepreneur. In 2014 Adelson co-founded Center Electric with Andy Smith. In 2013 he founded Opsmatic, a technology company that improves productivity on operations teams. In 2015 Opsmatic was bought by New Relic. Adelson's Internet career includes Netcom, DEC's Palo Alto Internet Exchange, co-founder of Equinix, Revision3 and Digg, and CEO of SimpleGeo, Inc. In 2008, Adelson was named a member of Time Magazine's Top 100 Most Influential People in the World and was listed as a finalist on the same list in 2009. Early life Adelson was born in Detroit, Michigan and lived in Southfield, Michigan as a child. He attended Cranbrook Kingswood School in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan until 1988. He graduated from Boston University, where he studied Film and Broadcasting along with a concentration in Computer Science, in 1992. Career In 1992, Adelson moved to San Rafael, California to pursue a career i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warren Adelson
Warren Adelson (born 1942) is an American art dealer, art historian, and author specializing in 19th and 20th-century American Painting as well as contemporary art. Biography Adelson was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, the son of Beaze (née Gellar) and Harry Adelson. He opened his first gallery in Boston in 1965 on Newbury Street, Boston. Adelson Galleries exhibited Boston Impressionists, 19th-century American landscape and figure painting, and contemporary art. In 1972, Adelson joined Knoedler Galleries in New York, where he worked on the development of their American paintings department for one year. In 1974, he joined Coe Kerr Gallery in New York and became a partner with the principal owner, R. Frederick Woolworth, the following year. There, he organized exhibitions and catalogues of American Impressionist painters including ''Mary Cassatt: An American Observer'', ''Maurice Prendergast: The Remembered Image'', ''John Singer Sargent: His Own Work'', and ‘’Sargent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miriam Adelson
Miriam Adelson (born 10 October 1945) is an Israeli American physician and billionaire. After her marriage to American business magnate Sheldon Adelson in 1991, she became a donor to conservative political causes in the United States and Israel. The Adelsons donated to the Donald Trump 2016 presidential campaign, his presidential inauguration, his defense fund against the Mueller investigation into Russian interference and the 2020 campaign. She is the current publisher of the newspaper ''Israel Hayom''. She is also a voting member on the board of trustees at the University of Southern California. Miriam and Sheldon Adelson were presented with the Woodrow Wilson Award for Corporate Citizenship by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars of the Smithsonian Institution in 2008. In 2013, she received honorary citizenship of Jerusalem. She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Donald Trump in 2018. As of June 2021, Adelson is the 44th-richest person, fifth- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adelson E Salvini
''Adelson e Salvini'' (''Adelson and Salvini'') is a three-act opera semiseria composed by Vincenzo Bellini from a libretto by Andrea Leone Tottola. The opera was based on the 1772 novel ''Épreuves du Sentiment'' by François-Thomas-Marie de Baculard d'Arnaud, and it draws on a previously performed French play of 1803 by Prospère Delamare. Composition history Bellini's first opera was written as his final project at the Naples San Sebastiano Conservatory, when the composer was 23 years old. It was the custom at the Conservatory to introduce promising students to the public with a dramatic work. Bellini styled his project an ''opera semi-seria'', and it was first performed at the Teatro del Conservatorio di San Sebastiano in Naples sometime between mid-January and mid-March 1825, although David Kimbell states 12 February 1825. Herbert Weinstock attributes the uncertainty as to the exact date to a series of deaths of several prominent people (including Bourbon King Ferdinand I), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Adelson
Tom Adelson is an American politician from Oklahoma. He was an Oklahoma State Senator representing the 33rd Senate District, located in Tulsa County, from 2004 to 2012. Adelson is a Democrat who was first elected in 2004. Prior to his election, Adelson served Governor of Oklahoma Brad Henry's first Oklahoma Secretary of Health from 2003 to 2004. Adelson was the Democratic nominee for mayor of Tulsa in the 2009 election, but lost the general election to Republican nominee Dewey F. Bartlett Jr. Adelson currently serves as the Vice President for Innovation at The University of Tulsa. Biography Before running for the state senate, Adelson served as Oklahoma's Secretary of Health under Governor Brad Henry. He is an adjunct teacher at Booker T. Washington High School in Tulsa, where he teaches political philosophy. He has four children: Emily, Andrew, Sam and Jack. His father is Dr. Stephen Adelson, a Tulsa pediatrician. He graduated from Edison High School, Stanford University a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Merv Adelson
Mervyn Lee Adelson (October 23, 1929 – September 8, 2015) was an American real estate developer and television producer who co-founded Lorimar Television. Early life Adelson was born to a Jewish family in Los Angeles on October 23, 1929 to Nathan and Pearl Adelson (née Swartz). His parents were the children of immigrants from Russia who had settled in Nebraska. When he was a child, he worked in a grocery store run by his family. Career In the 1950s Adelson established himself in Las Vegas where he first met Irwin Molasky and Moe Dalitz.Ed KochDesert Inn, Stardust chief helped integrate Las Vegas Strip '' Las Vegas Sun'', September 1, 2008 The trio were responsible for building the Las Vegas Country Club as well as what became Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center. Molasky and Adelson later opened Omni La Costa Resort and Spa in 1965. Adelson soon left the real estate industry and co-founded Lorimar Television with Molasky and Lee Rich in 1969. Personal life and death Adelson ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adelson Foundation
The Adelson Foundation is an American private charitable foundation founded by business magnate Sheldon and Miriam Adelson. The organization is based in Los Angeles. Background The foundation is divided into two branches, including the Adelson Family Foundation, which was established in 2007, and the Adelson Medical Research Foundation. The former works to strengthen the State of Israel and the Jewish people, while the latter focuses on healthcare. Noteworthy donations of the organization include: $50 million to the Dr. Miriam and Sheldon G. Adelson Educational Campus, another $67 million in total was donated to their Medical Research Foundation, and $33 million to the Birthright Israel Foundation, and $13 million toward paying for the promotional trips to Israel, Jerusalem and the Golan Heights that the nonprofit organizes for young Jewish people. In addition, the couple have pledged $3 million to Hebrew SeniorLife for housing facilities and a program to bring together older p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orly Adelson
Orly Adelson (born 1957) is an American-Israeli television producer who served as president of Dick Clark Productions and ITV Studios America. Biography Adelson was born in Israel and completed her education in sociology and musicology at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance, Hebrew University, and Tel Aviv University. She served as a lieutenant in the Israeli Army. In 1982, she moved to the United States after meeting her husband, Andrew Adelson, a Hollywood producer. In 1991, she produced and sold her first film to NBC, Shoot First: A Cop's Vengeance with the support of NBC executive Ruth Slauson. In 2002, she worked for television producer Michael Brandman as president for development focusing on adapting plays into television films. She later accepted a position with Roger Gimbel at Carolco-Gimbel (later Gimbel-Adelson) as an independent producer. Her production company, Orly Adelson Productions, produced over 40 made-for-television movies including such titles as Murder ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Adelson
Michael Adelson is an American orchestral conductor. Adelson is a staff and cover conductor for the New York Philharmonic—where he also leads regular clinics and workshops for the orchestra's Department of Education—as well as conductor of the Auros Group for New Music in Boston. Biography Trained as a conductor, composer, and cellist, Adelson studied at the New England Conservatory, Mannes College The New School for Music, and the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki. His conducting studies were primarily with renowned conducting pedagogue Jorma Panula, and he graduated summa cum laude from Panula's conducting class at the Sibelius Academy. Adelson has also studied conducting with Michael Tilson Thomas. Adelson's first major conducting appearance was in 1992, with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and he has since assisted many conductors including Esa-Pekka Salonen. His other engagements have included The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Norwegian Chamber Orchestra, Helsinki Ph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jake Adelson
Jake Joseph Clifford Adelson (born 11 January 1996) is an Australian professional footballer who last played as a right back or right winger for Newcastle Jets. Adelson played youth football in England with Everton before returning to Australia play for Western Sydney Wanderers' youth team. He made his professional debut for Central Coast Mariners in the A-League in 2015, before joining Newcastle Jets in 2017. Adelson has represented the Australian under-20 national team. Club career Adelson began his youth career with Blacktown City FC before signing for the Everton F.C. Academy as a sixteen year old. After playing for the U-18's and U-21's at Finch Farm, Adelson wasn't able to break into the first team or sign elsewhere in England (which included a trial at Huddersfield F.C. among others), so he decided to return to Sydney, signing with the Western Sydney Wanderers Youth squad. At season's end, Adelson trialled with Newcastle Jets FC before signing with Central Coast Marin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Adelson
Andrew Adelson (born July 28, 1954) is an American television producer. Biography Adelson is the son Lori (née Kaufman) and Merv Adelson. He has one sister and a brother: Ellen Adelson Ross and Gary Adelson Gary Adelson (born April 22, 1953) is an American television and film producer. Biography Adelson is the son Lori (née Kaufman) and Merv Adelson. He has one sister and a brother: Ellen Adelson Ross and Andrew Adelson Andrew Adelson (born Ju .... Filmography References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Adelson, Andrew American television producers Jewish American television producers American people of Russian-Jewish descent 1954 births Living people Adelson family ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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