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Greenburg (other)
Greenburg is a surname. Notable people with the name include: * Adrian Greenburg (1903–1959), American costume designer * Earl Greenburg (1947–2008), former head of NBC Daytime * Dan Greenburg (born 1936), American author and screenwriter * Jack Carl Greenburg (1909–1990), Los Angeles attorney * Jan Crawford Greenburg (born 1965), legal correspondent for ABC News * J. C. Greenburg, author of the Andrew Lost children's books * Jennifer Greenburg (born 1977), American photographer * Ross Greenburg (born c. 1955), president of HBO Sports * Zack O'Malley Greenburg (born 1985), American writer See also * Greensburg (other) * Greenberg Greenberg is a surname common in North America, with anglicized spelling of the German Grünberg (''green mountain'') or the Jewish Ashkenazi Yiddish Grinberg, an artificial surname.Beider, Alexander (1993). ''A Dictionary of Jewish Surnames from ... * Grünburg {{Surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adrian Greenburg
Adrian Adolph Greenburg (March 3, 1903 – September 13, 1959), widely known as Adrian, was an American costume designer whose most famous costumes were for ''The Wizard of Oz (1939 film), The Wizard of Oz'' and hundreds of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films between 1928 and 1941. He was usually credited onscreen with the phrase "Gowns by Adrian". Early in his career he chose the professional name Gilbert Adrian, a combination of his father's forename and his own. Early life Adrian was born on March 3, 1903, in Naugatuck, Connecticut, to Gilbert and Helena (née Pollak) Greenburg. Adrian's father Gilbert was born in New York (state), New York and his mother Helena in Waterbury, Connecticut. Both sides of the family were Jewish. Joseph Greenburg and his wife Frances were from Russia, while Adolph Pollak and Bertha (née Mendelsohn) Pollak were from Bohemia and Germany, respectively. In 1920 Adrian entered the New York School for Fine and Applied Arts (now Parsons School of Design). I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
